"How Coffee Fueled the Civil War" Topic
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Tango01 | 13 Jul 2014 10:53 p.m. PST |
"It was the greatest coffee run in American history. The Ohio boys had been fighting since morning, trapped in the raging battle of Antietam, in September 1862. Suddenly, a 19-year-old William McKinley appeared, under heavy fire, hauling vats of hot coffee. The men held out tin cups, gulped the brew and started firing again. "It was like putting a new regiment in the fight," their officer recalled. Three decades later, McKinley ran for president in part on this singular act of caffeinated heroism. At the time, no one found McKinley's act all that strange. For Union soldiers, and the lucky Confederates who could scrounge some, coffee fueled the war. Soldiers drank it before marches, after marches, on patrol, during combat. In their diaries, "coffee" appears more frequently than the words "rifle," "cannon" or "bullet." Ragged veterans and tired nurses agreed with one diarist: "Nobody can ‘soldier' without coffee." Union troops made their coffee everywhere, and with everything: with water from canteens and puddles, brackish bays and Mississippi mud, liquid their horses would not drink. They cooked it over fires of plundered fence rails, or heated mugs in scalding steam-vents on naval gunboats. When times were good, coffee accompanied beefsteaks and oysters; when they were bad it washed down raw salt-pork and maggoty hardtack. Coffee was often the last comfort troops enjoyed before entering battle, and the first sign of safety for those who survived…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
OldGrenadier at work | 14 Jul 2014 5:04 a.m. PST |
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dBerczerk | 14 Jul 2014 6:10 a.m. PST |
Major Kendall (William Holden) to Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne]: "As usual, I'm just presenting the grim facts. Colonel Secord doesn't seem to understand that the coffee tastes better when the latrines are dug downstream instead of upstream. How do you like *your* coffee, Colonel?" -- The Horse Soldiers (1959) |
GamesPoet | 14 Jul 2014 6:36 a.m. PST |
We had a thread on this two days ago, and it seemed to have a decent amount of attention. ; ) TMP link |
20thmaine | 14 Jul 2014 6:54 a.m. PST |
Well….I missed the first one (don't TMP so much at the weekend) so glad for the second chance offer. off fer (it's the closest we have – so obviously coffee has fallen from favour these days…..) |
Tango01 | 14 Jul 2014 12:50 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it boys. Amicalement Armand |
Los456 | 15 Jul 2014 6:28 a.m. PST |
Coffee has fueled every war since it was invented… |
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