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Or 1 pound 4 ounces of cornmeal. And if it was in season they could have contemporary carrots onions turnips and potatoes. Pin On Super Hero Lovers Union Officer October 1863. Food union soldiers ate during the civil war . One pound and six ounces of soft bread or flour or one pound of hard. Union soldiers also received a hard unsavory cracker-like biscuit that the soldiers dubbed hardtack while Confederate soldiers were lucky if they received a good supply of cornmeal. During battles and when food was scarce a Union soldiers primary source of substance often came from hardtack. There were several issues that affected the food that was supplied to the Civil War soldiers. Food items included rice peas beans dried fruit potatoes molasses salted pork vinegar and salt. It was said that some of the hardtack used during the Civil War was left over from the Mexican American War. The Union army were given green coffee beans and they roasted them and crushed them with the ...