what I found out fascinating was how little the soldiers had to eat. plus the food wasn’t tasty and it wasn’t healthy either. coffee played A very big part in the civil war. It fueled all the soliders and kept the fighting going. in the article “how coffee fueled the civil war” the writer stated that the word coffee was used more than the word bullet or rifle in their diaries that they the soldiers had kept throughout the war. The soldiers on both sides could’nt live without coffee, they drank before anything. coffee helped soldiers refuel they’d be ready to fight when it was time. the used different methods to make coffee and different objects. Me personallly, I would pick food over coffee if I had to chose one. I’ve never been a coffee person. the one food I can’t live without it pizza 
