The people of the battle of the bull run ate hardtack- a hard type of bread and also soups Diets were prett awful by today standards- salt pork, chicoree(like coffee) soda crackers, corn if they were lucky maybe a chicken they could procure
they eat a pice of brad with a banna each day for breakfast lunch and dinner so each day they got to eat 3 bannas and 3 peices of bread
Irish potatoes, chickens, molassas, wheat bread
Hardtack also know as "sheet-iron crackers" or "teeth dullers"
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instead of bread, union soldiers often ate hardtak it is a REALLY hard cracker and it should easily not go out of date for at least 50 years.
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The Union's forces ate horses, dogs, and anything else that they could find, including mice.
the food that the soldiers had during the battle was not enough.they received very little, the only thing they had was corned beef and it was very hard to eat considering the fact that it was the only thing they had.
It wasn't the Confederates who were starving at Chattanooga. It was the besieged Union army, until Grant managed to find a way to get supplies across the Tennessee river. (The Cracker Line, the hungry troops called it.) Later in the war, it was the Confederates who were starving, after Sherman destroyed the rich Georgia farmland.
Sounds like Confederates at the siege of Vicksburg. Could also have been the Army of the Cumberland, besieged at Chattanooga, and living on half-rations.
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The starving Confederates allegedely ate the rations that were cooking on the Union fires in the camps they had just captured.
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The Union soldiers primarily ate hard tac and fatback.
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They ate rice and salt pork mainly (Source: Civil War Reenactor present at the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sumter)
The black Union soldiers of the Civil War ate what everybody else ate, one of the meals were stewed donkey meat.
water and flour roasted over a fire