Union Civil War Tents
Historic Military Tradecraft
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14m
“In cold or rainy weather…they are most unwholesome tenements, and to enter one of them of a rainy morning from the outer air, and encounter the nights accumulation of nauseating exhalations from the bodies of twelve men was an experience which no old solder has ever known to recall with any great enthusiasm.” What John Billings was writing about in Hardtack in Coffee is the Civil War soldiers' smelly life living inside canvas tents together. In this program, join Will in exploring the different types of tents that the men called home during their years in service.
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