Hardtack and Coffee: Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life, Including Chapters on Enlisting, Life in Tents and Log Huts ...G.M.Smith, 1888 - 408 páginas Anecdotes of a soldier, richly illustrated, including facsimilies of enlistment forms etc. Details all aspects of army operations and the life of soldiers of the era. |
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... allowed to say so . This class of people suffered great indignities during the war , on account of their loyalty to the old flag . Many of them were driven by insult and abuse to take up arms for a cause with which they did not ...
... allowed to say so . This class of people suffered great indignities during the war , on account of their loyalty to the old flag . Many of them were driven by insult and abuse to take up arms for a cause with which they did not ...
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... allowed a shrubby , straggling growth of hair and beard to grow , as if to conceal them from the enemy in time of battle . Many more carried their own kit of tools and shaved them- selves , frequently shedding innocent blood in the ...
... allowed a shrubby , straggling growth of hair and beard to grow , as if to conceal them from the enemy in time of battle . Many more carried their own kit of tools and shaved them- selves , frequently shedding innocent blood in the ...
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... allowed to remain there long , however , ere a summons reaches him from the same post , to which he responds with excusable ill - humor and mutterings at the duplicity of the guardsman in question . This time the patient has happened to ...
... allowed to remain there long , however , ere a summons reaches him from the same post , to which he responds with excusable ill - humor and mutterings at the duplicity of the guardsman in question . This time the patient has happened to ...
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... to consider the other bread ration — the loaf or soft bread . Early in the war the ration of flour was served out to the men uncooked ; but as the eighteen ounces allowed by the government more than met the needs of ARMY RATIONS . 119.
... to consider the other bread ration — the loaf or soft bread . Early in the war the ration of flour was served out to the men uncooked ; but as the eighteen ounces allowed by the government more than met the needs of ARMY RATIONS . 119.
Página 120
... allowed by the government more than met the needs of the troops , who at that time obtained much of their living from outside sources ( to be spoken of hereafter ) , it was allowed , as they innocently supposed , to be sold for the ...
... allowed by the government more than met the needs of the troops , who at that time obtained much of their living from outside sources ( to be spoken of hereafter ) , it was allowed , as they innocently supposed , to be sold for the ...
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ambulance artillery battery battle beat blankets blue bridge brigade bunks caissons called camp camp-fire campaign cannoneers canteen captain cavalry centre charge City Point clothing coffee colors command commissary cook corps badges division drill driver enemy enlisted Faneuil Hall fatigue duty feet field fire flag forage furnished Gettysburg campaign guard guns hand hardtack haversack headquarters horses hospital hour hundred Hurrah inches infantry issued Jonah knapsack large number letters Ludington Massachusetts McClellan ment mess military militia Mud March mule muskets never night officers old soldiers once organization party perhaps pitched ponton Potomac quartermaster rank and file rations Readville rear Rebel recruits regiment seemed seen sent sergeant shelter tent Sibley tents side signal sometimes soon station stockade supplies surgeon sutler sweet little tion took train troops Union Union army usually veteran wagons wall tent wounded
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Página 332 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Página 200 - I will bear true faith and allegiance to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever ; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the Rules and Articles of War.
Página 200 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and Articles of War.
Página 200 - March, l 863, to serve as a soldier in the Army of the United States of America for the period of three years, unless sooner discharged by proper authority.
Página 382 - Xerxes commanded two other bridges to be built, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of burden.
Página 224 - With my blood flowing fast, and but little to hope Upon which my faint spirit could lean, Oh, then I remember you crawled to my side, And, bleeding so fast it seemed both must have died, We drank from the same canteen.
Página 296 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Página 143 - They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small; They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins; — Oh, never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins.
Página 296 - Longstreet's lines, Into the Georgia troops Stormed the two hundred. Wild all their eyes did glare, Whisked all their tails in air, Scattering the chivalry there, While all the world wondered.