Hardtack and Coffee
by John Davis Billings
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About this eBook
- Author
- Billings, John Davis, 1842-1933
- 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.
- 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)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)
- Subject
- United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 72532
- Release Date
- December 28, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.DEDICATION.
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 6.HARD TACK AND COFFEE. — CHAPTER I. THE TOCSIN OF WAR.
- 7.CHAPTER II. ENLISTING.
- 8.CHAPTER III. HOW THE SOLDIERS WERE SHELTERED.
- 9.CHAPTER IV. LIFE IN TENTS.
- 10.CHAPTER V. LIFE IN LOG HUTS.
- 11.CHAPTER VI. JONAHS AND BEATS.
- 12.CHAPTER VII. ARMY RATIONS: WHAT THEY WERE.—HOW THEY WERE DISTRIBUTED.—HOW THEY WERE COOKED.
- 13.CHAPTER VIII. OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS.
- 14.CHAPTER IX. A DAY IN CAMP.
- 15.CHAPTER X. RAW RECRUITS.
- 16.CHAPTER XI. SPECIAL RATIONS.—BOXES FROM HOME.—SUTLERS. — THE ARMY SUTLER.
- 17.CHAPTER XII. FORAGING.
- 18.CHAPTER XIII. CORPS AND CORPS BADGES. — CORPS BADGES.
- 19.CHAPTER XIV. SOME INVENTIONS AND DEVICES OF THE WAR.
- 20.CHAPTER XV. THE ARMY MULE.
- 21.CHAPTER XVI. HOSPITALS AND AMBULANCES. — AMBULANCE CORPS.
- 22.CHAPTER XVII. SCATTERING SHOTS. — THE CLOTHING. — ARMY CATTLE. — THE ARMY HORSE.
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII. BREAKING CAMP.—ON THE MARCH.
- 24.CHAPTER XIX. ARMY WAGON-TRAINS.
- 25.CHAPTER XX. ARMY ROAD AND BRIDGE BUILDERS.
- 26.CHAPTER XXI. TALKING FLAGS AND TORCHES.
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