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 | | A typical Union army marching ration of 3/4 pound of pork or bacon, and 1 pound of hardtack,.6 ounce of salt, 1.28 ounces of coffee, and 2.4 ounces of sugar supplied roughly 3,294 calories. |
 | | Pork, or Bacon, 1/2 pint Pease, or Beans, one gill of Whiskey or Spirits. |
 | | Soldiers generally put their coffee and sugar together in one bag, their pork or bacon into a paper, and then what hard bread they can put into their haversack, the rest into the knapsack; but as bread in the knapsack gets broken and much wasted, some... |
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