Rabia Batool….Food and Coffee in the Civil War

Both articles were very detailed on Civil war soldiers’ difficulties. It’s hard for anyone to live the life they lived. Fighting in cold and not having enough to feed themselves or having uncooked, hard or not cooked at all food.  Only the soldiers can understand the difficulties and hardships they went through. Diet is very important for fighting soldiers in coldwinter war yet that was one of the main things they were unable to have. They were not eating to feed themselves rather to survive. It’s fascinating for me that union soldiers used anything they could find to turn it into something eatable. I think when you are not given the choice to eat your favorite food but the choice to either live or die….you cant think of anything but to live as long as can and do the work such as fight in war. Their lives can only be written, explained, analyzed but can never be felt of how soldiers felt back in civil war in cold winter. One thing find hard to live without is brown bread….