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Hardtack and Coffee Or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life

Hardtack and Coffee Or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:John D. Billings, William L. Shea (Introduction by)Publish date:1993-08-01Pages:413
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803261112ISBN-10:080326111XUPC:9780803261112Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:7.98 x 5.31 x 1.03 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC4Q7PP2P5

Hardtack and Coffee Or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life

Includes six color plates of corps badges and more than 200 black and white illustrations

Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day--in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803261112ISBN-10:080326111XUPC:9780803261112Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:7.98 x 5.31 x 1.03 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC4Q7PP2P5
Contributing an introduction and index to this Bison Books edition is William L. Shea, a professor of history at the University of Arkansas, Monticello. His books include The Virginia Militia in the Seventeenth Century and, with Earl Hess, Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West.
Publisher: Bison Books

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