The North and South
By; Rasheed & Jarrett

The North and the South is a great depiction of the event leading up to the Clivil War.
The Southern sympathizing Northerner, The sadistic Southern slave owner, The Southern Loyalist, just to list a few. The Southern Loyalist, just to list a few.

There are many differences between the miniseries and the 3 volume books by John Jakes (North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell).
Unlike their literary counterparts, the actors and actresses who portray these historic figures are all very good looking and bigger than life on screen. The dresses worn by the women are impeccable. They ate salted meat, coffee beans, and sugar is stacked next to crates of hardtack. Hardtack was a buiscut made of flour with other simple ingerdients, and issued to Union throughtout the war. Large factories in the north baked hundrends of hardtack every day, packed them in wodden crates and shippedthem by wagon or rail. Usually, the hardtack did not get to them until mouths after it was made. Soldiers would crumble tooth dullers into coffee or sofen them in water and fry the hardtack with some bacon grease. One faviorite soidiers dish was salted pork fried with hardtack crumbled into the mixture. Soldiers called this '' skillygallee '' , and it was a common and easliy perpared meal.                                  

                                         Union Hardtack Recipe

                                                2 cups of flour
                                            1/2 to 3/4 cup water
                                   1 tablespoon of Crisco or vegetable fat
                                                 6 pinches of salt