| Title | : | Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | John D. Billings |
| Release | : | 2024-09-15 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs |
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| 1 | Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Sto | John D. Billings |
| Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, who was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888, the book quickly became a best seller, and is today considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran. The subject matter of Hard Tack and Coffee is about the details of army life - how the common Union soldiers of the Civil War lived. The book is divided into twenty-one chapters that examine the origins of the Civil War, enlistment, daily life in tents and in log huts, marches and army rations. |
