6/26/2023 0 Comments Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life by John Davis Billings![]() ![]() This book covers everything from food to pontoon bridges to signal corps to tent building to engineering marvels to mules, horses and most of the behind the scene aspects of a war. The most surprising issue about this Civil War classic was the authors dry sense of humor which often after a sense of confusion, left me laughing. If you dipped your bread in the coffee it killed anything. ![]() I also know that the Union soldiers soon learned how to deal with both. I know there was normal Hard Tack and I know there was soggy hard tack which came in two varieties, normal and flavored with maggots. I know more about the staples of the Civil War than I thought possible. The name of the book tells you more about the book than anything. ![]() I was intrigued by the name of the book because a sense of humor is unexpected in Civil War memoirs. I have a fetish for Civil War stories and have read many soldier memoirs and diaries. This is a difficult book to review because of the subject and because of the author. ![]()
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