Life In Tents: How Soldiers Passed the Time
A Massachusetts veteran describes what it was like to live with twelve other men in a Sibley tent and how soldiers passed the time.
from Hardtack and Coffee, or the Unwritten Story of Army Life , 1887
Life in Log Huts
From the mundane to the morose, John Billings’ day to day account of what life was like for the Civil War soldier is still a fascinating read.
By John D. Billing (1888)