Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blenker v.

[US Brigadier-General Louis Blenker (1812–63), whose troops, starving for lack of proper rations, plundered civilian homes near Warrenton, Virginia in April 1862]

(US) to plunder.

Yankee Volunteer’s Songster 71: His knapsack with chickens was swelling; He’d ‘Blenker’d’ those dainties, and thought it no wrong.... (Note. ‘Blenkered,’ . . . a term quite common, just now, in the army for anything stolen, which came into use soon after General Blenker’s division passed down the Shenandoah Valley.) [DA].
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.