Author: Billings, John D.,
Title: Hardtack and Coffee.
Description: Old Saybrook, CT, Konecky & Konecky, nd. VG in VG DJ. Civil War enlisting, life in tens and log huts, Jonahs and Beats, offences and punishments, raw recruits, foraging, corps. and corps badges, wagon trains, army mule, the engineer corps, signal corps, etc. Illustrator Reed is a member of 9th Massachusetts Battery; Topographical Engineer in Gen. Warren's staff, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac. First published in 1888, author's unadorned style casrries the reader right into the everyday life of the soldier in the Union Army. Illustrator Reed offers many sketches of field life during the Civil War.

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