Billings, John D.

Hardtack and Coffee, or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Collector's Library of the Civil War) [Hard Tack]

New York: Time Life Books, 1983. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2195029
ISBN: 0809442086

Publisher's insert laid in, owner bookplates on front endpaper. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

vi, 408 pp. 1983 reissue of 1887 original. 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 Potomac and survived the conditions he recorded. The authenticity of his book is heightened by the many drawings that a comrade, Charles W. Reed, made in the field.

Price: $10.00