Civil War Food

Civil War Hard Tack
Hartford, Conn. : The War Photograph & Exhibition Co., No. 21 Linden Place, [1863 February]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

The rations for the Civil War consisted of shelf stable products that were sometimes cherished or despised out on the field.  Here is a blogpost from the Library of Congress illustrating what the food was like for our soldier heroes........

Thanksgiving Food for the Civil War Soldiers