How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?

[Witchking]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

<shrug> I can't say whe canned hard tack was first issued for exercises but it's generally accepted that US troops in the Civil War were issued hard tack stocked for the Mexican-American War and troops in the Spanish-American War were still working on the back log from Civil War stocks. Nothing mentioned about Spanish-American War stocks.

Before WWI hard tack was baked twice (and sometimes baked 4 times) and left to air-dry for as long as 6 months. The weevils got into it then

Fair enough.

It would likely be a doctorate worthy dive into multiple archives (federal and multiple states) to get a comprehensive idea of exactly what the multiple Committees, Commissions, and Divisions of Supply (State and Federal) were doing. (With multiple organizations in many of the States and certainly at the Federal level I am pretty sure THEY did not really know in 1860-5)

Then there arises the fact that significant portions of what troops got caloric intake from came from private sources, suttlers and care packages from home.

I know some of the vast aggregation of above sources provided canned goods, but I am too old to pursue a doctorate now, so I am not going to try to point at a specific time and item.

I think we have provided a few ideas to the OP though.