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Hardtack and coffee ; 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 engineering corps, the signal corps, etc. /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Billings, John David, 1842-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : G. M. Smith & Co., 1887.
Subjects:	United States. > Army > Military life. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.

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