Feeding Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

by Michael C. Hardy

Carlton McCarthy, a former artilleryman with the Richmond Howitzers, noted after the war that historians would only write about big battles and campaigns, not how the common soldier fried his bacon and baked his biscuits. McCarthy was correct. Save for a few small references in scattered books, no one has set out to document how an army was fed, or the daily eating habits of Confederate soldiers until Michael C. Hardy's Feeding Lee's Army of Northern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611217318
• ISBN13: 9781611217315
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Savas Beatie
• Length: 192 Pages