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Hardtack and coffee, or the unwritten story of Army life /
First published more than 100 years ago, Hard Tack And Coffee is John Billings? absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War. Billings attended a reunion of Civil War veterans in 1881 that brought together a group of survivors whose memories and sto...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Scituate, Mass. :
Digital Scanning,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""DEDICATION.""; ""PREFACE.""; ""CONTENTS.""; ""CHAPTER I.""; ""THE TOCSIN OF WAR.""; ""The Four Parties""; ""Their Candidates""; ""Freedom of Speech Abridged""; ""Secession Decreed""; ""Lincoln Elected""; ""Oh, for Andrew Jackson! Exit Buchanan""; ""“Long-heeled Abolitionists� and “Black Republicans�""; ""“Wide-awakes� and ""Rail-splitters""""; ""Copperheads""; ""The Misunderstanding""; ""Northern Doughfaces""; ""Loyal Men of All Parties Unite""; ""The First Rally""; ""Preparation in the Bay State and in Other States""; ""Her War Governor""; ""Showing the White Feather""
- ""The Memorable Fifteenth of April""""""The Sweet Little Man�""; ""Parting Scenes""; ""The Three-Months� Men.""; ""CHAPTER II.""; ""ENLISTING.""; ""The President�s Error""; """"Three Years Unless Sooner Discharged""""; ""How Volunteer Companies were Raised""; ""Filling the Quotas""; ""What General Sherman Says""; ""Recruiting Offices""; ""Advertisements for Recruits""; ""A War Meeting in Roxbury""; ""A Typical War Meeting in the Country""; ""A Small-Sized Patriot""; ""Signing the Roll""; ""The Medical Examination""; ""Off for Camp""; ""The Red, White, and Blue""; ""CHAPTER III.""
- ""HOW THE SOLDIERS WERE SHELTERED.""""The Distinction Noted Between the Militia and the U. S. Volunteers""; ""The Oath of Muster""; ""Barracks Described""; ""Sibley or Bell Tents""; ""A or Wedge Tents""; ""Spooning""; ""Stockading""; ""Hospital or Wall Tents""; ""Dog or Shelter Tent Described""; ""Chumming""; ""Pitching Shelters""; ""Stockaded Shelters""; ""Fireplaces""; ""Chimneys""; ""Door Plates""; """"Willard�s Hotel�""; """"Hole in the Wall�""; ""Mortars and Mortar Shelling before Petersburg""; ""CHAPTER IV.""; ""LIFE IN TENTS.""; ""Life in a Sibley""; ""The Stove""
- ""The Pastimes""""Postage Stamps as Money""; ""Soldier�s Letter""; """"Nary Red�""; ""Illustrated Envelopes""; ""Army Reading""; ""The Recluse""; ""Evenings of Sociability""; ""Pipe and Ring Making""; ""Home Gossip""; ""Music and the Contrabands""; ""War Song Revived""; ""The “Mud March� Prayer""; ""CHAPTER V.""; ""LIFE IN LOG HUTS.""; ""The Plan of a Camp""; ""Inside a Stockade""; ""The Bunks""; ""The Arrangement of the Furniture""; ""�sthetic Dish-washing""; ""Lighting by Candles and Slush Lamps""; ""Candlesticks""; ""Night-Gowns and Night-Caps""; ""The Shelters in a Rain""
- """"I. C.� Insect Life""""Pediculus Vestimenti, the Old-time Grayback""; ""Not a Respecter of Rank""; ""The First Grayback Found""; ""(K)nitting Work""; ""“Skirmishing�""; ""Boiling Water the Sovereign Balm""; ""Cleanliness""; ""The Versatile Mess-Kettles""; ""No Magee Ranges Supplied the Soldiers""; ""Washerwomen""; ""No “Boiled Shirts�""; ""Darning and Mending""; ""Government Socks""; ""Cooks""; ""Green Pine as Fuel""; ""Camp Barbers""; ""Future Tacticians""; ""CHAPTER VI.""; ""JONAHS AND BEATS.""; ""The Jonah as a Guardsman""; ""A Midnight Uproar""; ""Put him in the Guard-house""