Hardtack and coffee : $b 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.Billings, John Davis
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Hardtack and coffee : $b 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.
Billings, John Davis
Billings, John Davis, 1842-1933; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century
99. At the Grain Pile 170
100. “Fall in for your Quinine” 175
101. The Picket-Rope 176
102. Going to Water 188
103. Stockaded Sibley Tents 192
104. Taps 197
105. A Raw Recruit 198
106. A Wood Detail 203
107. Recruits in Uniform 205
108. A Spare Man with Spare Horses 207
109. Drilling the Awkward Squad 208
110. Drafted 215
111. Indifferent to Consequences 216
112. Opening a Box from Home 217
113. A Wagon-load of Boxes 220
114. We Drank from the same Canteen 223
115. A Sutler’s Tent (from a war-time photograph) 225
116. Cooking Pancakes 226
117. Serving out Rations at the Cook’s Shanty 228
118. Departed Joys 230
119. Vis-a-vis 231
120. A Discovery, Act I. 233
121. A Discovery, Act II. 233
122. Going to Army Headquarters 236
123. A Corn-Barn and Hayrick 238
124. Tobacco Drying-Houses 239
125. Scene at a Wayside Farm-House 243
126. No Joke 246
127. The Turkey He Didn’t Catch 247
128. A Dilemma 248
129. The Soldier’s Friends 249
130. Logan’s Corps Badge 250
131. A Color-plate of Corps Badges, opposite 258
132. St. Andrew’s Cross 259
133. A Color-plate of Corps Badges, opposite 260
134. An original Ninth Corps Badge 261
135. Eleventh and Twelfth Corps Badges combined 261
136. A Color-plate of Corps Badges, opposite 262
137. First and Fifth Corps Badges combined 263
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