Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life.

BILLINGS, John D.; Charles W. Reed

Boston: George M. Smith & Co, 1887

Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good cover. Binding shaken. Clean, unmarked pages. vi, 408pp. First Edition. 6 color plates and over 200 sketches by Charles Reed. Gilt and black stamped pictorial cloth (soldiers eating hard tack and coffee). "The best source on the army life and feeling of a Federal soldier; this delightfully written and humorously illustrated work has rightfully become a classic." - Nevins, Vo1, 59p. Dornbusch I, 46.