hardtack
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Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Wartime museums display the bland hardtack that sustained Civil War fighters, and the canned meats, breads and fruit of World War II, known as C rations.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2021
He made a tidy sum selling the government hard, dry bread and biscuits - known as hardtack - for Union soldier rations.
From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2020
In the first they sample decades old corn chips, century-old Civil War hardtack and then freshen up with 100-year-old tooth powder.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2020
Kilrain brought some hardtack and bacon and he ate with obvious hunger, but his teeth were bad; he had trouble chewing the hardtack.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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The American Civil War
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