Title: Great and Noble Work
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.
Subjects: History, Hospitals, Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.), American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01351658