Coffee: The Civil War in Four Minutes

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Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world, and not much was different for Civil War soldiers of the 19th Century. Join historian Douglas Ullman, Jr. as he details the consumption of coffee and its substitutes in Union and Confederate camps from 1861-1865.
To learn more about how coffee shaped Revolutionary America, visit bit.ly/3uKUOGf.
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@AmericanBattlefieldTrust 2 года назад

Check out our In4 about Rations as well!: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LpACpzFdURc.html

@ComplexityComplex 2 года назад

Having properly caffeinated troops was probably the real reason the Union emerged victorious.

@peredavi 2 года назад

Better marksmanship and logistics.

@peredavi 2 года назад

Why yes, i am!

@rc59191 Год назад

If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and give the Confederate Army pervitan "meth" just to see what would happen lol.

@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 11 месяцев назад

Especially considering they didn't have enough tobacco to keep nicotine fits at bay. Ever been around an angry smoker fiending? I wouldn't want to fight them.

@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 11 месяцев назад

@@desertodavid "Good at youtube comments". What are 12 years old?

@davidsachs4883 2 года назад

An additional benefit of coffee drinking. Boiling the water to make the coffee kills bacteria in the water that can sicken or even kill soldiers not native to that area. Thats why the British army encouraged tea drinking and the us army pushed coffee

@Janetsfear 2 года назад

Bingo you nailed it. They may not have known why but they knew what kept the #1 cause of death away.

@Twitch760 2 года назад

It's also the reason people drank a lot of beer as part of the process involves heating the water up killing any pathogens.

@davidsachs4883 2 года назад

David Thompson there is an old saying In a third world country your usually better off with the local beer then the local water

@dsmonington 2 года назад

@@davidsachs4883 This is also part of the story why coca-cola is so popular is poor developing areas - won't kill you and it has cheap calories.

@andrewcombe8907 Год назад

It’s why the Royal Navy issued small beer and grog. The water in the butts was toxic.

@fieryweasel 2 года назад

In the field we'd sometimes just take the instant coffee in the MREs and chew it like tobacco, since fires are almost always banned in tactical situations.

@andrewcombe8907 Год назад

How did you heat water for coffee anyway? I know the Brit’s and Aussies still issue Hexamine stoves so they can brew up. But with FRH I could never work it out.

@soxbigdog 2 года назад

Can't imaging waking up and going to the kitchen, being out of coffee and thinking "wonder what I could make as a substitute that won't kill me"

@stacyvonn8036 2 года назад

Wow I did not know any of that..... What a very enlightening video....❤️

@georgiavanhouten9360 2 года назад

This is so interesting to me also have you covered the Sultana, I saw on PBS a documentary on the tragedy and at 62 years old ,I thought how I could have NEVER heard of this

@joecampbell606 2 года назад

I drink my coffee black with nothing in it because it's coffee. That's how it's supposed to be drank.

@lanced3256 2 года назад

A most outstanding, informative, and entertaining post, as I sip my morning cup ( Black no sugar of course) Gentlemen I believe I shall now refer to my traditional morning coffee as "Campaigner coffee" replacing the now former and less colorful colloquialism "cowboy Coffee" when asked how I take it. ☕ . Cheers

@seanbrittain2625 2 года назад

Same here

@snappers_antique_firearms 2 года назад

My time in the military made me really start to like black coffee with no sugar. I'm sure some of them were the same way.

@rc59191 2 года назад

Same I'm still a folgers soldier lol love those instant crystal packs.

@snappers_antique_firearms 2 года назад

@@rc59191 me to they were like gold.

@seanbrittain2625 2 года назад

Same here black and so strong you can float an anvil across it

@Rsama60 2 года назад

Carramel soy macchiato: those three words are already an insult for coffe lovers.

@richardglady3009 2 года назад

Thank you.

@lbarnes8207 2 года назад

Yaupon tea has more caffeine than coffee and it was widely used during colonial times. Yaupon grows everywhere down here. Pretty sure most Confederates were aware of how to make it since many of their grandpappies fought in the Revolutionary War and I highly doubt the Brits wanted to share tea. 😂The natives used yaupon, french and spanish soldiers(1600"s-1700's) down here learned it from the natives. A spanish monk wrote about how addicted the spanish soldiers were to yaupon tea to the point that they would suffer withdrawals if it was not available.

@FortunateJuice 10 месяцев назад

In the Ken Burns documentary, I believe the quote is, "coffee so strong and thick that you could float an iron wedge on it." Something like that.

@michaele5041 2 года назад

I became fond of the freeze dried MRE coffee while in.. something about appreciating the little things

@rc59191 2 года назад

Same still get those instant packs less hassle than using my coffee maker.

@tommymitchell2306 Год назад

I drink the "Chuck Norris " brew! No cream, no sugar! Real man's coffee!

@Damacles9 2 года назад

I wonder what the total production of tobacco was for the Union? I live near Lancaster County, PA and the Amish grow it.

@kriskeen6739 2 года назад

It can't have been enough for the needs of hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers. But somebody had to keep Grant in cigars ...

@alexhatfield4448 2 года назад

I'm in Hershey near by!

@zippymufo9765 Год назад

@@kriskeen6739 Union soldiers didn't receive any tobacco rations, they had to buy it from sutlers if they wanted it. Or trade with Rebel pickets.....

@mojo9291 Год назад

Even in a war people don't stop trading. That's pretty powerful.

@javierruiz9774 2 года назад

Love this channel 👍

@richardjohnson4238 2 года назад

Growing up as a kid in the 50's, I thought chickory was just a part of coffee. I can still see the red and white bags of "Gills Hotel Special Coffee with Chickory" on the kitchen counter. I

@csdude35 2 года назад

Thanks for the interesting video. This channel is great.

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@LeeHoFooks 2 года назад

That led to Starbucks today.

@martindriver6026 2 года назад

Awesome narrative. For some reason I am thinking there coffee back then was probably more potent than we get today. I dont know just thinking.

@concretecowboy8174 2 года назад

Awesome

@PhillipGWhite 2 года назад

Those camp fires are very inefficient. Didn’t they build stone circles works so the heat would be constrained upwards?

@heavensgate4925 2 года назад

I think this video was made just for me, right as I have cowboy coffee making as we speak......

@jimik89 Год назад

I can only imagine how dehydrated the Union armies where after drinking all that Coffee! 😂 not to mention the digestive effects 😮

@brndnwilks 2 года назад

"Think about that the next time you order your caramel soy mocchiato." 🤣 An earned Like if I've ever heard one!

@paghal11 2 года назад

Given the choice, I'd rather have black coffee.

@brndnwilks 2 года назад

@@paghal11 Manhood intact.

@desertodavid 2 года назад

When I was active duty in the US Marines '76 to '97 everybody drank their mud black.

@pastorgarymcmanu2107 2 года назад

I still want to know. . .did they simply import coffee beans from Haiti? Central America, South America? Or did they bring coffee beans all the way from Africa?

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust 2 года назад

Thanks for that question. The French and Spanish had been producing coffee in the Caribbean and Central America since the late 1600s. Most of what was coming into the US is from this region in the mid-1800s. Though, coffee is coming in from Africa, too. It really took the Civil War to boost coffee's popularity to what it is today.

@pastorgarymcmanu2107 2 года назад

@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust Thank you, very much. --Trust member, coffee inhaler although I have standards.

@angeloreyes357 8 месяцев назад

Some confederate soldiers wanted their coffee strong enough to float iron wedge..read it once..

@twoedgedsword8397 Год назад

Cream sugar, and flavors are for people who don't like coffee.

@stringfellowbalk2654 2 года назад

I put a pat of butter in mine.

@carlalorch8650 2 года назад

That's keto coffee.

@alpha13dylan 2 года назад

Who needs sugar?

@yojis 2 года назад

Jesus saves, God bless

@dianenorkus9906 2 года назад

I like my coffee black. Why dilute it with milk?

@user-cf7pk2ne7j 6 месяцев назад

erm. this is skibidi rizz!!! only in ohio

@mattmatt2096 2 года назад

I always have my coffee like I have my women....... dark, strong, hot, and bitter....

@diggingthewest7981 2 года назад

Add a little cream and it sweetens right up

@seanmoore9713 2 года назад

Dang, there wasn't a single advantage the Confederacy had going for them.

@kriskeen6739 2 года назад

Homecourt advantage for most of the war- that's a pretty significant one. In the very early going, the Southern state militias (having been scared into whipping themselves into some kind of shape by John Brown) were (somewhat) better trained than the Union ones. However, as the war drags on, the Union advantages (manpower, materiel) became more and more preponderant.

@seanmoore9713 2 года назад

@@kriskeen6739 having your home destroyed and raided by soldiers is not an advantage at all.

@kriskeen6739 2 года назад

@@seanmoore9713 It's a major military advantage to fight on your own territory, where you know the ground better than the enemy does. It's also easier to inspire soldiers to fight when they are defending their homes, than it is to inspire soldiers to go and conquer someone else's. Of course, there is the downside of fighting on your own territory, in that your land is the one that is ravaged by war. As the war dragged on longer and longer, that downside becomes more and more heavy. This is, of course, speaking almost entirely about armies in the field. Civilians in war zones suffered as they always have.