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Hardtack and Coffee
« on: January 15, 2011, 01:11:55 AM »
Here's a great CW book that you can read online.

http://www.archive.org/stream/hardtackandcoff00billgoog#page/n6/mode/2up
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Re: Hardtack and Coffee
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2011, 06:12:31 AM »
A very good read.  Another, which I have not been able to find online, is Norfolk Blues: The Civil War Diary of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues
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Re: Hardtack and Coffee
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2011, 09:42:15 AM »
"Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the Book?" Sogoyewapha, "Red Jacket" - Senaca

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Re: Hardtack and Coffee
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 03:49:33 PM »
I just finished hardtack and Coffee a couple of weeks ago. Very good read. I have read three books on soldiers lifestyle during the 19th century lately. Not CW but western campaigning was, Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay, by Don Rickey Jr.

 Interesting reading about the daily living trials of 19th C soldiers. There are alot of books out there isn't there?  ;)