In the campaign of 1806 and 1807, Walter, then only nineteen years old, describes in detail how he requisitioned food from a nearby village after being given orders to do so. For example, after Mr. Walter found a Jewish man, he had to chase after him and finally caught up to him in an attic of a house in which there were many women and children. In Walter's own words he said, "I took him, dragged him down the two flights of stairs, and had to hold him by the coat and kick him forward for two hours, threatening him if he should fail to lead me the right village" (pg. 6). Although Mr. Walter did not gain any food from the Jewish man, he forced the man to help him find a village in which he could obtain food. .
As Mr. Walter's journey continued, he and a few fellow soldiers found another village in which they stayed with a Jewish family. "The meals were usually attended by violence on account of stinginess and uncleanliness; and, since clean chinaware was always set up for the Jews, [they] took over all that chinaware and ate with it, causing such an uproar in the house that a crowd of people gathered in front of the house to listen" (pg. 8). These two passages inform the reader of how Napoleons soldiers did not have any concern for other people when they were searching for food and lodging for themselves. The soldiers did not even have any concern when they requisitioned a couple of horses that were hitched to a carriage outside of a church. As the search for food became harder, Mr. Walter and his companions began using harsher treatments toward the common people. In one specific instance, a Jewish man was taken into custody in order to force the wife to bring the soldiers food (pg. 10). In another instance, the soldiers spent eleven weeks in a poor peasant village in which they ate all of the potatoes, beans, and mutton. Because of their hardy appetites, the soldiers also buttered all of the peasant's sheep (pg.