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Corn was one of the biggest crops in the south, which had a corn and hogs farm economy. The northern farmers were more wheat and beef. It was mostly the southern troops that ate cornbread and corn dodgers (we call them hush puppies today), and they ate that because that was what they had to eat. They would have welcomed white bread baked from wheat flour, but what they had was corn ground into meal, to make flapjacks or hoecakes, or cornbread, if any of them knew a recipe from home.

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