Winston-Salem Journal

Civil War buffet includes hardtack - Winston-Salem Journal

You have to wonder about a name like “hardtack.” It sounds like something that goes in a toolbox or in a fishing tackle box. It doesn't sound like something that you eat. In the 1800s, hardtack was ...
The Washington Post

Hardtack Is Easy to Make, Hard to Eat

I have always wondered whether hardtack, the food staple that Union soldiers called jawbreakers and worm castles, was really all that bad. Historian William C. "Jack" Davis has tried to answer that ...
LancasterOnline

Hostess gift of Yankee hardtack

This is a story of hardtack and heartburn. On July 27, 1863, the day before the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge burned, a group of Union soldiers passed by the Ulmer farm just outside Columbia. Amelia ...
The Roanoke Times

Re-enactors capture students' imaginations

Fifth-graders Alex Sullivan (left) and Tyler Neeble try to eat hardtack, a Civil War-era food. Jerry Harris (left) takes aim at a blank spot on a wall while Matt Utt helps present a program on Civil ...
insider.si.edu

Raw pork and hardtack : a Civil War memoir from Manassas to Appomattox / [edited by] Walbrook D. Swank

Confederate States of America Army Virginia Infantry Regiment, 13th Company A siris_sil_520143 ...