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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... feet in diameter and twelve feet high , and is supported by a single pole , which rests on an iron tripod . This pole is the exact radius of the circle covered by the tent . By means of the tripod the tent can be tightened or slackened ...
... feet in diameter and twelve feet high , and is supported by a single pole , which rests on an iron tripod . This pole is the exact radius of the circle covered by the tent . By means of the tripod the tent can be tightened or slackened ...
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... feet high by some regiments during the war , and thus arrang- ed they made very spacious and com- fortable winter quarters . When thus raised they accom . modated twenty men . The camp for convalescents near Alexandria , Va ...
... feet high by some regiments during the war , and thus arrang- ed they made very spacious and com- fortable winter quarters . When thus raised they accom . modated twenty men . The camp for convalescents near Alexandria , Va ...
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... feet long , which is supported on two upright posts of about the same length . It covers , when pitched , an area nearly seven feet square . The name of these tents is undoubtedly derived from the fact of the ends having the pro ...
... feet long , which is supported on two upright posts of about the same length . It covers , when pitched , an area nearly seven feet square . The name of these tents is undoubtedly derived from the fact of the ends having the pro ...
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... feet two inches long by four feet eight inches wide , and . is provided with a single row of buttons and button - holes on three sides , and a pair of holes for stake loops at each corner . A single half- shelter , it can be seen ...
... feet two inches long by four feet eight inches wide , and . is provided with a single row of buttons and button - holes on three sides , and a pair of holes for stake loops at each corner . A single half- shelter , it can be seen ...
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... feet , according to the taste or work- ing inclination of the intended occupants . Oftentimes an excavation was made one or two feet deep . When such was the case , the walls were not built so high . a hut was warmer than one built ...
... feet , according to the taste or work- ing inclination of the intended occupants . Oftentimes an excavation was made one or two feet deep . When such was the case , the walls were not built so high . a hut was warmer than one built ...
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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.