Great and Noble Work
Subtitle: The Volunteer Refreshment Saloons of Philadelphia During the Civil War
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781365002663
Description: In the 19th Century a saloon was any establishment that provided food or drink. The Volunteer Refreshment Saloons served no alcohol. What they did dispense was coffee and heaping plates of food as good as the best hotels to the passing Union soldiers.