Coffee all out and no where to straggle to

Title inscribed left margin.
Inscribed right margin: The Veteran Coffee boiler Now they are going to have another fight I ain't spoiling for a fight But I don't see any help for it, I've boiled coffee till I have got no more, my rations are about played out and I never see sich a mean country a chip bird might starve if he did not move out quick. Weel I'll go and fire off these cartridges.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.658)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.