I found an army site about the 1898 war. Https://www.spanamwar.com/foodarmyrecipes.html interesting that in the nearly 40 years since the Civil War, the Government supplied food for troops hadn't changed one jot. These descriptions could be word for word from letters written in the Petersberg Lines, or at Chatanooga.
These are "advanced" tank prototypes that were being designed and evaluated in anticipation of mass manufacture in US factories in an effort to send massive numbers to France in support of Haigs enormous Plan 1919 offensive.
