1. Imagine signed interviews on "The Hardtack that Made Me an Explorer. " No, it is much better this way.

2. Here, they sleep in bedrolls or in canvas tents, and eat hardtack and sip coffee heated over an open fire.

3. After complaining to their battalion officers, the men were allowed to chew on a type of hardtack, but this only made them thirsty and they guzzled water at every break.

4. When he tried to force the hook into a piece of hardtack, it bent.

5. In his diary he writes of a time when the company's food supplies were almost gone. One last ration of hardtack was distributed to each person.