Hartack and Coffee
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BILLINGS, John D[avis]. 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. Boston: George M. Smith & Co., 1887. 1st ed. vi, 408 pp. Illus. Orig. pictorial cloth. A near fine copy. "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, p. 59.
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