Back of Card:
“Hard Tack.”
There is no necessity to tell the “boys” what this is; they all remember the old chorus of the old army song about “Hard Tack:”
“Many days we have crunched you until our jaws are sore,
Oh! “Soft Bread” come again once more.”
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Stereograph showing Union Captain J. W. Forsyth, the Provost Marshall, sitting on a crate of hardtack, a cracker like bread served to soldiers, at Aquia Creek, Virginia. Crate says “50lbs. net. Army Bread from the Union Mechanic Baking Company, 45 Leonard St.”
Library of Congress image.
