Civil War soldiers would refer to hardtack as "jawbreakers" and "worm castles"—it often arrived at camps infested with worms or other insects. This object is in the collection of the Smithsonian’s ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

during the American Civil War, soldiers dipped their hardtack in coffee; those serving in the U.K.'s Royal Navy dunked their ...

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American photographer Rahim Fortune has collaborated once again with publishers Loose Joints, this time on a new monograph titled Hardtack. His previous work ... given to soldiers during the American ...