What did soldiers eat in the civil war 1861-1865?

They ate corn, bacon, collected berries, hard tack, and once in a while they ate beef stew and plain Irish stew, corn meal, water, coffee, hoe cake, baked beans, goober peas (boiled peanuts), sometimes dried beef, occasionally salted pork, and biscuits.

ur welcome! oh and the kids ate the same as adults (more or less) and the soilders ate the same thing.