Friday

Army Crackers

December 1861
Feeling the necessity of writing (but with no chance for) a seat at the table I stirred about and got another candle and made a candlestick out of a hard cracker & set it on the stove and myself beside it with with a knapsack & part of a bed for a seat...


Hard Crackers Come Again No More*
Let us close our game of poker
Take our tin cups in hand
While we gather round the old cooks door
Where dry mummies made of crackers
Are given to each man;
Chorus: Oh, hard crackers come again no more!
Hard crackers, hard crackers, come again no more!
Many days have you lingered upon our stomachs sore,
Oh, hard crackers, come again no more.
*Civil War era lyrics set to a common tune, also known as Hard Times.
Hard to believe, but the cracker pictured here is Civil War hard tack issued 150 years ago!

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