Hardtack and coffee : or, the unwritten story of Army life, including chapters…
"Hardtack and coffee : or, the unwritten story of Army life" by John D. Billings is a memoir published in 1887. A veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery, Billings offers an intimate look at everyday Union soldier life during the American Civil War—not the battles, but the camps, marches, rations, and routines. Enhanced by Charles W. Reed's pen and ink drawings, the book combines humor with vivid detail, revealing
what it truly meant to be a common soldier in America's defining conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Billings, John Davis, 1842-1933 |
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| Illustrator | Reed, Charles Wellington, 1841-1926 |
| LoC No. | 02008524 |
| Title | Hardtack and coffee : or, the unwritten story of Army life, including 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. |
| Original Publication | Boston: George M. Smith & Co., 1887. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Tack_and_Coffee |
| Credits | Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865) |
| Subject | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives |
| Subject | United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century |
| Subject | Billings, John Davis, 1842-1933 |
| Subject | United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 72532 |
| Release Date | Dec 28, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 474 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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