Coffee was a hot commodity in the Civil War . Before the war , a pound of beans would have set you back around 20 cents in Yankee dough . Union troops had it for breakfast , lunch , dinner . And sometime ground it into beans . They kept coffee had to get for Confederate soldiers .
Coffee was a hot commodity in the Civil War . Union troops had it for breakfast , lunch , dinner . And sometime ground it into beans . They kept coffee had to get for Confederate soldiers .