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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What do the Roman Soldiers eat?
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
The starving Confederates allegedely ate the rations that were cooking on the Union fires in the camps they had just captured.
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.
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See the question: What did the soldiers in World War 2 eat?
A battle is not a living thing and as a result, does not eat.