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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 8 (search)
m jingle sung to the music of The sweet by and by, in which some old veteran conveys the affection he still feels for this edible of precious memory:-- The Army Bean. There's a spot that the soldiers all love, The mess-tent's the place that we mean, And the dish we best like to see there Is the old-fashioned, white Army Bean. Bean. chorus.--'Tis the bean that we mean, And we'll eat as we ne'er ate before; The Army Bean, nice and clean, We'll stick to our beans evermore. Now the bean, in its primitive state, Is a plant we have all often met; And we en cooked in the old army style It has charms we can never forget.--chorus. The German is fond of sauer-krautBean, nice and clean, We'll stick to our beans evermore. Now the bean, in its primitive state, Is a plant we have all often met; And we en cooked in the old army style It has charms we can never forget.--chorus. The German is fond of sauer-kraut, The potato is loved by the Mick, But the soldiers have long since found out That through life to our beans we should stick.-chorus. Boiled potatoes were furnished us occasionally in settled camp. On the march we varied the programme by frying them. Onions, in my own company at least, were a great rarity, but highly appreci
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, Index. (search)
idge, Mass., 44 Old Capitol Prison, 162 Olustee, Fl., 270 Ord, E. O. C., 264 O'Reilly, Miles, 223 Parke, John G., 260-61 Patrick Station, Va., 351 Pay, 97-99, 215,225 Peace Party, 16 Peach Tree Creek, Ga., 308 Peninsular campaign, 52, 155,198, 303,356-59,378 Perryville, Md., 355 Petersburg, 57-58, 120, 159, 177, 238,286,320,350,381,393,403 Pickett, George E., 407 Pine Mountain, Ga., 404 Pittsfield, Mass., 44 Pleasant Valley, Md., 346 Poems: The Army Bean, 137-38; The Army mule in time of peace, 297; The charge of the mule brigade, 295-97; The substitute, 216; The sweet little man, 26-28; We've drank from the same canteen, 223-24 Point of Rocks, Va., 392 Polk, Leonidas, 404 Pontoons, 381-91 Poolesville, Md., 244,404 Pope, John, 37, 71 Poplar Grove, Va., 393 Port Gibson, Miss., 370 Prentiss, Benjamin M., 301 Preston, N. D., 139 Rations, 108-42,206,226,291,320 Readville, Mass., 44-45 Reams Station, Va., 208,325-27