Author: BILLINGS, John D.
Title: Hardtack and Coffee: 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.
Description: Old Saybrook, CT, Konecky & Konecky, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 408pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. A tight and sharp facsimile reprint of the scarce 1887 George M. Smith & Co. edition of this classic whose subtitle tells it all. James I. Robertson describes this book as "The best source for the army life and feelings of a Federal soldier; this delightfully written and humorously illustrated work has rightfully become a classic." NEVINS I, 59. .

Keywords: Civil War


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