3-Days of Marching Rations

[Sean Manning]

Obviously some meat was handed out to soldiers, how did they carry it? How did Napaleonic soldiers or ECW soldiers carry theirs?

One common solution was driving livestock with the army and slaughtering them as needed. I don't know of a neat and healthy way for soldiers to carry individual rations of meat, but some kinds of salt, dried, or smoked meat or fish might be tidier than others.