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
176. Packing Up 332
177. Waiting for Marching Orders 335
178. Color-plate of Second Corps Flags, opposite 340
179. A Footsore Straggler 343
180. “Headquarters” in Trouble 345
181. The Flankers 347
182. A Halt of the Column 348
183. A Wagon Park 350
184. A Mule-Driver 352
185. Wagon Train on a Pontoon Bridge 359
186. Commissary Depot at Cedar Level 365
187. A Mule-team under Fire 367
188. The Bull Train 369
189. General Meade and the Quartermaster 373
190. Old Cronies 376
191. Present Badge of Engineer and Pontonier Corps 377
192. Corduroying 378
193. A Trestle Bridge, No. 1 379
194. A Trestle Bridge, No. 2 380
195. A Large Gabion 381
196. Fascines 381
197. Chevaux-de-frise 381
198. Abatis 382
199. The Fraise 382
200. A Canvas Pontoon Boat 384
201. An Angle of Fort Hell 385
202. A Wooden Pontoon 387
203. A Pontoon Bridge at Belle Plain, Va. 389
204. Poplar Grove Church 392
205. Bridging the Rappahannock under Fire 393
206. Signalling 394
207. A Flagman, Plate 1 396
208. A Flagman, Plate 2 397
209. A Flagman, Plate 3 397
210. A Signal Tree-Top 402
211. A Signal Tower, before Petersburg, Va. 403
HARD TACK AND COFFEE.
CHAPTER I.
THE TOCSIN OF WAR.
A score of millions hear the cry
And herald it abroad,
To arms they fly to do or die
For liberty and God.
E. P. DYER.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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