“Our popular Government has often been called an experiment…”
Category: Period Texts
Hutchinson: “The Story of the Hutchinsons (Tribe of Jesse)” (1896)
Invaluable insights into one of the most famous singing families of the Antebellum era.
Library of America: The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It
Library of America: The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It “Hundreds of selections from scores of eyewitnesses, both North and South, in the heat of battle and at the home front, from November 1860 to June 1865.”
Billings: Hardtack and Coffee (1887)
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. …
The Hardtacks 