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Hardtack and Coffee

Hardtack and Coffee

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Number of Chapters: 21

Length: 11 hours and 42 minutes

Language: English

Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Hard Tack and Coffee is not about battles, but rather about how the common Union soldiers of the Civil War lived in camp and on the march. It covers the details of regular soldier life, including enlisting, how soldiers were sheltered, Army rations, offenses and punishments, a day in camp, boxes from home, foraging , the army mule, hospitals and ambulances, clothing, breaking camp and marching, and other similar topics. Billings has been described as a skillful writer, both humorous and informative. The historian Henry Steele Commager called the work "one of the most entertaining of all civil war books". - Summary by Wikipedia

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Introduction and Chapter 1 - The Tocsin of War (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 2 - Enlisting (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 3 - How the Soldiers Were Sheltered (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 4 - Life in Tents (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 5 - Life in Log Huts (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 6 - Jonahs and Beats (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 7 - Army Rations (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 8 - Offences and Punishments (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 9 - A Day in Camp (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 10 - Raw Recruits (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 11 - Special Rations - Boxes From Home - Sutlers (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 12 - Foraging (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 13 - Corps and Corps Badges (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 14 - Some Inventions and Devices of the War (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 15 - The Army Mule (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 16 - Hospitals and Ambulances (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 17 - Scattering Shots (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 18 - Breaking Camp - On the March (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 19 - Army Wagon Trains (Greg Giordano)
Chapter 20 - Army Road and Bridge Builders (Maria Kasper)
Chapter 21 - Talking Flags and Torches (Maria Kasper)
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