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Browsing named entities in John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life.
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1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1
Houghton (search for this): chapter 1
Oliver Wendell Holmes (search for this): chapter 1
Charles W. Reed (search for this): chapter 1
1881 AD (search for this): chapter 1
Preface.
During the summer of 1881 I was a sojourner for a few weeks at a popular hotel in the White Mountains.
Among the two hundred or more guests who were enjoying its retirement and good cheer were from twelve to twenty lads, varying in age from ten to fifteen years. When tea had been disposed of, and darkness had put an end to their daily romp and hurrah without, they were wont to take in charge a gentleman from Chicago, formerly a gallant soldier in the Army of the Cumberland, and in a quiet corner of the spacious hotel parlor, or a remote part of the piazza, would listen with eager attention as he related chapters of his personal experience in the Civil War.
Less than two days elapsed before they pried out of the writer the acknowledgment that he too had served Uncle Sam; and immediately followed up this bit of information by requesting me to alternate evenings with the veteran from the West in entertaining them with stories of the war as I saw it. I assented to the p
March 30th, 1887 AD (search for this): chapter 1
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Preface.
During the summer of 1881 I was a sojourner for a few weeks at a popular hotel in the White Mountains.
Among the two hundred or more guests who were enjoying its retirement and good cheer were from twelve to twenty lads, varying in age from ten to fifteen years. When tea had been disposed of, and darkness had put an end to their daily romp and hurrah without, they were wont to take in charge a gentleman from Chicago, formerly a gallant soldier in the Army of the Cumberland, and in a quiet corner of the spacious hotel parlor, or a remote part of the piazza, would listen with eager attention as he related chapters of his personal experience in the Civil War.
Less than two days elapsed before they pried out of the writer the acknowledgment that he too had served Uncle Sam; and immediately followed up this bit of information by requesting me to alternate evenings with the veteran from the West in entertaining them with stories of the war as I saw it. I assented to the
Cambridgeport (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Abraham Lincoln (search for this): chapter 2
1812 AD (search for this): chapter 2