These rations are 16 ounces of bully beef, two hardtack biscuits, some tea and sugar in small wax envelopes.
We were just packed as close as the squares of hardtack in the bread barrels, closer than sardines in a box.
We halted, stacked arms, atehardtack and raw pork, and rested.
We had ten hard miles to go, and no supper, for thehardtack had disappeared ere we were half-way up the mountain.
With all ceremony I made preparations, gave more presents of leaf tobacco and hardtack and composed myself for the palaver.
From moment to moment I stuffed my mouth with hardtack and pork.
There is plenty of tobacco here and the way we get it is to give one hardtack for a cigar.
A box of hardtack and a piece of fat bacon thrown on the ground has been considered enough for the soldiers and officers who are in the trenches.
In the only room of the church we found a representative of the Red Cross Association dealing out hardtack and flour to the hungry multitude.
An election board was duly appointed, consisting of commissioned officers of the regiment; they fixed up under a big tree some hardtack boxes to serve for a table, and the proceedings began.
We get half rations of coffee, and quarter rations of hardtack and bacon.
Jake Hill, of my company, had covered the top of a big army hardtack with sugar in a cone-like form, piling it on as long as the tack would hold a grain.
For some reason or other the supply of hardtack became practically exhausted, and we had but little in the line of flour bread, even for some weeks after Hood retreated from Nashville.
And my supper had consisted of hardtack and raw sow-belly, with river water for a beverage, of the vintage, say, of 1541.
I munched a hardtack occasionally, which was far better than the soup.
I never thought I'd see the day when army hardtack would be in such demand that they'd have to be counted out to the soldiers as if they were money, but that's what's the matter now.
We had brought some bacon and hardtack with us in our haversacks, and at noon built a fire and had an army dinner, with nuts and fruit for dessert.
Since leaving Stevenson on the morning of the 14th, we had had no opportunity to cook anything, and had eaten nothing but some hardtack and raw bacon.
But with us in the west the hardtack was generally our standard bread diet, and nothing could beat it.
The hardtack is so precious now that the orderly sergeant no longer knocks a box open and lets every man help himself, but he stands right over the box and counts the number of tacks he gives to every man.
Also the moisture in common bread will freeze so use unleavened bread or that ready made hardtack or ship’s biscuit as the staple.
After my hardtack supper I could have climbed the mountain again and got back before sunrise, but dragging the sled tires me.
A barrel of good hardtack stands always open in the forecastle.
One and all, from the cook to Buckwheat, they swear they have no knowledge of any food for'ard, save the small supply in the galley and the barrel of hardtack in the forecastle.
It was a queer Christmas Day indeed, bright and warm; no snow, no turkeys nor mince pies, no wine, but just hardtack and bacon and foaming brown water.
Both sides were starving, the one for tobacco and the other for hardtack and bacon.
Hard Bread's," an odd name for a hotel, was so called because the old widower that kept the place fed his patrons on hardtack three times a day.
Here Bobby feasted to his heart's content, while for me it was the same old story--hardtack and cheese, with a small allotment of dried venison.
That afternoon we had just enough to allow each man for his supper two hardtacks, and one hardtack extra for every four men.
When the hardtack came up that afternoon I felt much sympathy for the hungry unfortunates in the trenches and hated to condemn them to six hours more without food; but I did not know how to get food into them.
As soon as I was able I accumulated for my own regiment about forty-eight hours' hardtack and salt pork, which I kept so far as possible intact to provide against any emergency.
We got enough salt pork and hardtack for the men, but not the full ration of coffee and sugar, and nothing else.
After the cessation of the three days' fighting we began to get our rations regularly and had plenty of hardtack and salt pork, and usually about half the ordinary amount of sugar and coffee.
But bacon and hardtack make poor food for men toiling and fighting in trenches under the midsummer sun of the tropics.
One bullet, however, passed through the case of hardtack just before he disappeared with it into the trench.
As for the sick in the hospital, unless we were able from outside sources to get them such simple delicacies as rice and condensed milk, they usually had the alternative of eating salt pork and hardtack or going without.
Under these circumstances the men lost strength steadily, and as the fever speedily attacked them, they suffered from being reduced to a bacon and hardtack diet.
He simply took a case of hardtack in his arms and darted toward the trenches.
We had now exhausted our supply of rations, and at a temporary halt wagon-loads of hardtack and pork were driven along our company lines and boxes of the bread and barrels of pork dumped out, and the men told to fill their haversacks.
The dish consisted of hardtack broken up and thoroughly soaked in water, then fried in pork fat.
During this time we had no cooked food, nothing but hardtack and raw pork and coffee but once.
The salt pork was usually good for pork, but it was a great trial to us all to come down to camp fare, "hardtack and pork.
I was faint for want of food, for I had only a cup of coffee in the early morning, and was favored with a hardtack by one of the men, who were always ready and willing to share their rations with us.
Stacy took a piece of hardtackwhich he tossed to the waiting colored man, and the hardtack instantly went into Chops's mouth.
I had one last hardtack when I got to Vicksburg that I saved and carried for several days, and it looked like a medallion off a prize cook stove.
The luster arising from the sweat and grime on that hardtack was too dazzling for anything.
Inside I have a fine big room with a comfortable bed of shredded wood.
But more often it is on the surface of the ground--a huge pile of sticks and thorns in the very middle of which is his snug, soft nest.
But whatever his size and wherever he is found, Grubby's habits are the same.
With careful march this force gained the flank and rear of the enemy at Verst 455, and camped in a hollow square, munched on hardtack and slept on their arms in the cold rain.
I'll bet a hardtack against a prune we haul off at four bells.
They were hungry now, and ate the ration of tinned corned beef and hardtack from their pockets.
As corned beef and hardtack were distributed, the hungry campers thought they had never tasted anything so good in their lives.
We remained at Camp Nelson; drew clothing, ate hardtack and drank coffee to our heart's content and were as happy a lot of mortals as ever walked the earth.
What a treat to have a meal of good fresh hardtack and a cup of good coffee again.
To break the monotony of our meals, different methods of treating hardtackwere devised--like toasting, moistening and frying, etc.
If near the enemy thus being unable to have any fire with which to cook a cup of coffee, having nothing to drink but cold water and nothing to eat but hardtack with perhaps a slice of salt pork.
Then he remembered the hardtack which Ken kept in the bow locker to refresh himself with during trips.
He crouched under the tarpaulin, and presently he ate another hardtack biscuit.
We find that soaking the hardtack in tea for fifteen minutes will bring most of the weevils to the top so that they can be skimmed off.
That evening we fed them hardtack and tinned salmon, which they washed down with good old Holland gin.
Part of the contents he swallowed as it was, the balance he diluted with water and broke hardtack up in it.
I suppose it has got to be bacon and hardtack again.
But we haven't had any hardtack yet," complained Albert Russell, a youth somewhat finicky as to dress, and who had ambitions of becoming a doctor.
You can't draw a ration of hardtack but they know it, and they're looking down your throat while you're eating it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hardtack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: biscuit; cracker; sinker; wafer
