Union Fare: Main foods they eat.
- Hardtack, Hard”crackers” made from flour, salt, and water. also, known as Worm Castles.
- Meat, Salted Pork, Bacon or beef, soaked with porass
- Four, rarely
- Cornmeal, rarely
- Molasses, not as often
- salt and pepper, rarely
- coffee and tea, once and awhile
Confederate Fare: main food they ate.
- Cornmeal, for Johnnie cakes, and cush: beef and cornmeal fried with bacon grease.
- Meat, Salted beef, bacon soaked with potassium nitrate.
- Dried Peas
- Molasses, often
- Hardtack, not to often because of flour shortages
- coffee or tea, not at all,almost because of the blockades.
- The Williams Guns- 1862 , a rapid firing gun
- Sabers
- Bainets
- Pistols