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.
By JOHN D. BILLINGS
AUTHOR OF “the TENTH MASSACHUSETTS BATTERY”; PAST DEPARTMENT COMMANDER
MASSACHUSETTS G. A. R. ; FORMERLY OF SICKLES’ THIRD AND HANCOCK’S
SECOND CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC