OR

The Unwritten Story of Army Life

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.

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BY JOHN D. BILLINGS

AUTHOR OF THE TENTH Massachusetts BATTERY"; PAST DEPARTment commanDER
MASSACHUSETTS G. A. R.; FORMERLY OF SICKLES' THIRD AND HANCOCK'S
SECOND CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC

Illustrated

WITH SIX ELEGANT COLOR PLATES; AND OVER TWO HUNDRED
ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY

CHARLES W. REED

MEMBER OF NINTH MASSACHUSETTS BATTERY; ALSO ASSISTANT
ENGINEER ON GENERAL WARREN'S STAFF, FIFTH