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"I wish a few of you would notify me the brand of whiskey that Offer drinks. I would like to send a barrel than it to my other generals." (President Abraham Lincoln, when confronted about General Ulysses Grant's extreme drinking) Bloodstream, gunfire, and whiskey: they will be the three things that described Civil Battle battlefields. In this fascinating, booze-drenched background of the battle that almost tore America apart, historian Make Will-Weber (writer of Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt) weaves mutually lighthearted tales of drunken generals and out-of-control troops with the gritty simple fact of battlefields where whiskey was the only drugs - and sometimes really the only food. Muskets and Applejack paints a complete, sophisticated picture of the surprisingly large role alcoholic beverages performed in the Civil Battle: how it helped recover physical and emotional wounds, form friendships, and cause strife. Interspersed between tales from the battlefield are authentic recipes of troops' favorite beverages - from both sides of the Mason-Dixon range.
