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Hardtack and Coffee: 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 Engineer Corps, The Signal Corps, Etc.
de BILLINGS, John D
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- ISBN 10
- 1568524439
- ISBN 13
- 9781568524436
- Librería
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 408pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. A tight and sharp facsimile reprint of the scarce 1887 George M. Smith & Co. edition of this classic whose subtitle tells it all. James I. Robertson describes this book as "The best source for the army life and feelings of a Federal soldier; this delightfully written and humorously illustrated work has rightfully become a classic." NEVINS I, 59.
Sinopsis
Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life is a memoir by John D. Billings. Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888, Hard Tack and Coffee quickly became a best seller, and is now considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran.
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- Librería
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 42153
- Título
- Hardtack and Coffee: 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 Engineer Corps, The Signal Corps, Etc.
- Autor
- BILLINGS, John D
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1568524439
- ISBN 13
- 9781568524436
- Editorial
- Konecky & Konecky
- Lugar de publicación
- Old Saybrook, CT
- Fecha de publicación
- n.y.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Books; Civil War;
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