Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "Unconventional Foods People Ate During the Civil War" video.

  1.  @dguy0386  "Looks like rain" "Yeah, but the mess sergeant says its coffee" Some lines to an old marching song - "They say that in the Army, the coffee's mighty fine. Looks like muddy water and tastes like iodine"
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  2. Speaking as a retired soldier, there's an ancient Army cavalry song that has the line, "Forty miles a day on beans and hay". Dried beans for the troops and hay for the troops. Andthe Army still issues hardtack - they just call the MRE variety "crackers"
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  3. Sorry hay was for the horses, of course
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