Hardtack and coffee
- Subtitle
- 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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1. Front matter2. DEDICATION.3. PREFACE.4. CHAPTER I. THE TOCSIN OF WAR.5. CHAPTER II. ENLISTING.6. CHAPTER III. HOW THE SOLDIERS WERE SHELTERED.7. CHAPTER IV. LIFE IN TENTS.8. CHAPTER V. LIFE IN LOG HUTS.9. CHAPTER VI. JONAHS AND BEATS.10. CHAPTER VII. ARMY RATIONS: WHAT THEY WERE.—HOW THEY WERE DISTRIBUTED.—HOW THEY WERE COOKED.11. CHAPTER VIII. OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS.12. CHAPTER IX. A DAY IN CAMP.13. CHAPTER X. RAW RECRUITS.14. CHAPTER XI. SPECIAL RATIONS.—BOXES FROM HOME.—SUTLERS.15. CHAPTER XII. FORAGING.16. CHAPTER XIII. CORPS AND CORPS BADGES.17. CHAPTER XIV. SOME INVENTIONS AND DEVICES OF THE WAR.18. CHAPTER XV. THE ARMY MULE.19. CHAPTER XVI. HOSPITALS AND AMBULANCES.20. CHAPTER XVII. SCATTERING SHOTS.21. CHAPTER XVIII. BREAKING CAMP.—ON THE MARCH.22. CHAPTER XIX. ARMY WAGON-TRAINS.23. CHAPTER XX. ARMY ROAD AND BRIDGE BUILDERS.24. CHAPTER XXI. TALKING FLAGS AND TORCHES.