Western Reserve Volunteer
Sergeant
- Joined
- May 12, 2018
I've been pondering this, since I have just gotten my lovely new (to me) tea pot\boiler up and running, having cleaned the probably decades worth of soot and tar off of it, and made the knob on the lid look a little nicer thanks to some cutting board oil. We know that Civil War soldiers got a ration of tea, in substitution for coffee. According to regulations, for every hundred me there was to be issued 1 pound and 8 ounces of tea daily. I think that works out, on an individual basis, to .24 oz of tea? I assume that's something like a tea bags worth of tea...
Anyways, I know from previous reading that the tea in question would probably be some kind of Green Tea, likely imported from China... does anyone have any information on what tea specifically this might be? Also, I seem to recall that the first ever contract to supply the Army with tea was letted to a company from Cincinnati, Ohio, but cannot find the source or the recall the company's name for the life of me! It would be interesting and useful to try and get a hold of contracts to supply the army with tea, to get a better idea as to what they were purchasing at the time.
Anyways, I know from previous reading that the tea in question would probably be some kind of Green Tea, likely imported from China... does anyone have any information on what tea specifically this might be? Also, I seem to recall that the first ever contract to supply the Army with tea was letted to a company from Cincinnati, Ohio, but cannot find the source or the recall the company's name for the life of me! It would be interesting and useful to try and get a hold of contracts to supply the army with tea, to get a better idea as to what they were purchasing at the time.