Title Hardtack and coffee, 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. / by John D. Billings ; illustrated by Charles W. Reed ; introductions to the Bison Book edition by William L. Shea.