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Hardtack and coffee : or, The unwritten story of Army life, including chapters on enlisting, life in tents and log huts ... / by John D. Billings ... ; illustrated with six elegant color plates; and over two hundred original sketches by Charles W. Reed ...

Title
Hardtack and coffee : or, The unwritten story of Army life, including chapters on enlisting, life in tents and log huts ... / by John D. Billings ... ; illustrated with six elegant color plates; and over two hundred original sketches by Charles W. Reed ...
Author
Billings, John Davis, 1842-1933
Publication
Boston : G.M.Smith, 1888.

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vi, 408 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.); 22 cm.
Summary
Anecdotes of a soldier, richly illustrated, including facsimilies of enlistment forms etc. Details all aspects of army operations and the life of soldiers of the era.
Subject
  • Billings, John Davis, 1842-
  • United States. Army > Military life
  • 1861-1865
  • American Civil War
  • Ambulances
  • Hospitals, Military
  • Military hospitals
  • United States > Personal narratives. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Southeastern United States
Genre/Form
  • Personal Narrative
  • History
  • Personal narratives
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
OCLC
  • 4335947
  • SCSB-10619953
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Harvard Library