Haversacks, Hardtack and Unserviceable Mules: the Civil War Journey of a Union Quartermaster in Tennessee Elementary & Secondary Women in traditional clothing pose

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Published: 04/20/2021

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Haversacks, Hardtack and Unserviceable Mules: the Civil War Journey of a Union Quartermaster in Tennessee Elementary & Secondary Women in traditional clothing poseIn April 1861, Private Webster Colburn enlisted in the Union infantry for three months. President Lincoln believed the war would end within that time. Five years later, with a few more stripes and thousands of miles behind him, Major Webster Colburn, a Union Quartermaster mustered out of the Army in June 1866. Haversacks, Hardtack, and Unserviceable Mules is the true story of one man's private war to survive a year in the infantry and artillery, and