“One cup of coffee each (which is the staff of life for a soldier), two pieces of fried pork (the last we had) and four crackers a piece and each cracker contained from ten to thirty worms varying in length from 1/8 to 1/2 an inch . . . We broke them into our coffee to scald them and dipped them out with a spoon as they came squirming to the top.”
~ Perry Mayo, Union soldier, describing his Thanksgiving dinner, December 1, 1862