To: Freedom4US
“You’ll have to point me to those articles, because I just don’t believe it”
I have decided to let you keep your beliefs:)
To: Cold Heart
Facts are stubborn things. Good try, though! LOL
To: Cold Heart
I did find some excellent, extensive articles, btw, about coffee and the civil war, with letters from home, and issued amounts, (about 1.6 oz a day was the ration) and the problems on both sides obtaining it. It was absolutely crucial by all accounts. I've found no mention whatsoever about any dried coffee or any other form of it other than bean coffee or sometimes roasted and ground. That's not to say it didn't exist, it just had to wait for later wars. It still sucks even today, coffee is one of those things that doesn't handle freeze drying very well at all.
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