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Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings. Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888; Hard Tack and Coffee quickly became a best seller; and is now considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran. "Hard Tack and Coffee" is not about battles; but rather about how the common Union soldiers of the Civil War lived in camp and on the march. What would otherwise be a mundane subject is enlivened by Billings' humorous prose.