Food And Coffee!

The most fascinating thing about a Civil War soldiers diet would be how soldiers would be satisfied with a cup a coffee. Coffee became a part of them. They would drink some before going to war and after. It seems that coffee really does give you a boost of energy because until this day people drink coffee because they think that it gives them energy. Coffee became a big deal during the Civil War. Union troops were fascinated with coffee that they began making their coffee everywhere and with everything; from canteens and puddles, brackish bays and Mississippi mud and the list goes on.