Hardtack and coffee, or the unwritten story of Army life [electronic resource] / by John D. Billings.

ISBN:

9781582186276

Title:

Author:

Billings, John Davis, 1842-

Personal Author:

Billings, John Davis, 1842-

Publication Information:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 406 pages) : illustrations

General Note:

Reprint from the 1887 edition published by George M. Smith & Co.

Includes chapters on enlisting, life in tents and log huts, Jonahs and beats, offences and punishments, raw recruits, foraging, corps and corps badges, the wagon trains, the army mule, the engineer corps, the signal corps, etc.

Local Note:

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Personal Subject:

Billings, John Davis, 1842-

Corporate Subject:

United States. Army -- Military life.

Geographic Term:

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2001

1887

Publication Information:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.

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Summary

First published more than 100 years ago, Hard Tack And Coffee is John Billings? absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War. Illustrated with over 200 sketches by C.W. Reed.