Hardtack and Coffee or the Unwritten Story of Army Life - Tapa dura

Hard Tack and Coffee

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Wagon Tongue Books
(Linden, AB, Canada)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. B/W Drawings Ilustrador. Reprint. SUBTITLED : ` The Unwritten Story of Army Life ' . A 408 page reissue of the original 1887 George M. Smith (Boston) edition. A beatiful reproduction of what almost seems to be a training manual. I was fascinated by the variety of punishments desribed for (p. 145) disobeying orders. Deserters were shot - see diagram on page 158. Section on the army mule. The Charles W. Redd illustrations are worth the price of admission. Cond : Black cover has gilt lettering and is embossed. Part of the Collectors Library series. End-papers are patterned. Page edges are gilt. Comes with its own ribbon page-marker. Brilliantly clean, correct and collectible ! Quote (p. 202) : " In the later years of the war, when large bounties were being paid by town, city, and State governments, to encouragement enlistments, these recruits were often addressed as `bounty-jumpers' by the evil disposed among the old members. But that term was a misnomer , unless these men ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. Nº de ref. del artículo: 008311

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