America at War : The Common Cup
不仅仅是一杯饮料 。 提供了几个关于内战咖啡的视频链接 。 提供这些链接是因为视频的高质量和作者的信念 — 即这样的 视频是变革 ( 21 世纪历史呈现方式的变革 ) 的重要部分 。
关键词 : 基督教委员会 “ 咖啡车 ”, 南方的咖啡替代物 , 《 硬饼干和咖啡》 ( Hardtack & Coffee ), 夏普斯卡宾步枪 ( 伴 有 “ 咖啡研磨 ” 功能 ), 以咖啡换烟草 , 联邦封锁 , 视频博 客
America may have begun as a tea-drinking collection of colonies , but that did not last long . “ Boston Harbor Sun Tea ” never caught on , but coffee did . Even John Adams called for the universal adoption of coffee . “ Tea must be universally renounced !” 1 And so coffee it was , except in the military , which got a daily ration of alcohol . Until October 1832 , that is . In response to complaints from officers and the public about injuries and insubordination , President Andrew Jackson substituted coffee and sugar for the daily military allotment of rum and brandy . 2 This caused the average importation of coffee to rise from twelve million pounds a year to over thirty-eight million pounds . By 1840 , New Orleans became the second-largest importer of coffee beans due to proximity to Brazil and public demand . By 1860 , America imported over 182 million pounds of the unroasted bitter green beans . New Orleans gained fame for its careful roasting and blending of coffee , although it also shipped green ( unroasted ) beans to the South , the North , and the Midwest . Then came the Civil War and the Anaconda Plan . 3
To many , Union General-in- Chief Winfield Scott ’ s far-reaching “ Anaconda ” plan to encircle the seceded Confederate states seemed like a purely economic approach instead of a plan of action that would get the North ’ s blood in a boil . The blockade of southern ports appeared passive . A noisy faction of Union generals who wanted a more vigorous prosecution of the war widely derided Scott ’ s idea . They likened the plan to the coils of a snake suffocating its victim . The image caught on , giving the proposal its popular name . The Union generals proved to be shortsighted in the extreme .
But back to coffee .... The capture of the port of New Orleans early in the war cut off most of the available coffee beans in the South . Union General Ben Butler was able to reroute coffee ships up the coast to Boston and New York . The North never had a problem getting coffee or paying far too much for it . The South was another matter .
For Confederates — soldiers and civilians alike — real coffee was in very short supply . President Jefferson Davis ’ s commissary did not even attempt to
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