Typical fare during the Civil War was very basic. Union soldiers were fed pork or beef, usually salted and boiled to extend the shelf life, coffee, sugar, salt, vinegar, and sometimes dried fruits and vegetables if they were in season.
varus - a deformity in which part of a limb is turned inward to an abnormal degree. deformity, malformation, misshapenness - an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed. valgus - a deformity in which there is an abnormal displacement of part of a limb away from the midline of the body.
conceptus - an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life. fertilized egg, embryo. animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement.