If War Is Hell, Then Coffee Has Offered US Soldiers Some Salvation – NPR

If War Is Hell, Then Coffee Has Offered US Soldiers Some Salvation
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In April 1865, at the bloody, bitter end of the Civil War, Ebenezer Nelson Gilpin, a Union cavalryman, wrote in his diary, "Everything is chaos here. The suspense is almost unbearable." "We are reduced to quarter rations and no coffee," he continued.

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