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letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 167: I invited my companions to assist me in Emptying 3 canteens of ‘Oh! be Joyful’.at o-be-joyful, n.
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 167: I invited my companions to assist me in Emptying 3 canteens of ‘Oh! be Joyful’. letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 323: Thum-thur Dagoes jes maneuvers-up like Hell-beatin’-tan-bark!at dago, n.
q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 323: Thum-thur Dagoes jes maneuvers up like Hell-beatin’-tan-bark .at hell beating tanbark under hell, n.
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 272: [A] shore-nuff Sweetheart [...] with $50 thousand dollars, a lady of fine sence and education.at sho’ ’nuff, adj.
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 342: I wood rather be a corporal in company F of the Texas Rangers tha to be the first Lieu in a flafoot company.at flatfoot, n.
letter in Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 314: You damn cowardly Scoundrels [you can’t] face the music you blue bellys.at bluebelly, n.
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 311: Quite a number of Northern bums, called U.S. soldiers passed out camps.at bum, n.3
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 207: Tell Bob he need not quit writing I can guess at his dutch if i cant read it.at Dutch, n.2
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 167: It [i.e. whisky] was such villainous stuff that only the old soakers could stomach it.at soaker, n.1
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 131: We are done gon up the Spout the Confederacy is done whiped.at up the spout under spout, n.2
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 313: Jo Hooker [...] with his army of white livers.at white liver, n.
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 167: The Capt and myself had a regular concert, winding up in a stag dance.at stag, adj.
diary entry 2 Jan. quoted in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 278: Attended a ‘storm’ at Miss Cuny’s last evening.at storm, n.
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 212: The people [that] speakes slack about me may kiss my —.at kiss my arse!, excl.
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 148: I have a profound contempt for all men croakers who are hunting easy places a home to avoid the dangers of the battlefield.at croaker, n.1
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 66: We [...] visit the Theaters may be get on a big Whope & Paint the thing red.at paint the town red, v.
letter quoted in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 212: The people [that] speakes slack about me may kiss my —.at slack, adv.
letter q. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 66: We [...] visit the Theaters may be get on a big Whope & Paint the thing red.at whoopee, n.
(con. 1860s) Life of Johnny Reb 343: As for fighting, few full-fledged Rebs expected that of ‘Bob-tail militia’ [...] ‘they ain’t worth a low country cow tick’.at bobtail, n.3
(con. 1861-5) Life of Johnny Reb 70: Very rarely an officer or private sneaks a swig of ‘How Come You So’ to bolster his spirit.at how came you so, phr.
(con. 1860s) Life of Johnny Reb 302: Canister consisted of a large group of small balls inclosed in a cylindrical tin cover, or ‘can’ [...] they rained death upon the advancing foe.at can, n.1
(con. 1861-5) Life of Johnny Reb 268: The Confederate surgical corps was made up wholly of ‘culls’ novices and quacks.at cull, n.2
(con. 1861-5) song in Life of Johnny Reb 155: He always makes the Yankee cowards run hog or die.at root, hog or die, v.
(con. 1860s) Life of Johnny Reb 343: The feeling that such officers used family influence to get soft positions caused then to be designated by some as yellow sheep-killing dogs, which term was soon shortened to ‘yaller dogs.’.at yellow dog, n.
(con. 1860s) Life of Johnny Reb 342: I wood rather be corporal in company F of the Texas Rangers than to be first Lieu in a flat foot company.at flatfoot, n.
(con. 1861-5) Life of Johnny Reb 320: Now and then the parley would end with a generous snort of ‘tanglefoot’.at tangle-foot, n.
(con. 1860s) Life of Johnny Reb 319: At Vicksburg the Federals would yell out, ‘Haven’t you Johnnies got a new general – General Starvation?’.at johnny, n.1
(con. 1860s) Life of Johnny Reb 342: I wood rather be corporal in company F of the Texas Rangers than to be first Lieu in a flat foot company.at looie, n.
(con. 1861-5) Life of Johnny Reb 104: The most frequently mentioned [dish] was a concoction known as cush - dubbed ‘slosh’ by one of its less admiring partakers.at slosh, n.1
(con. 1861–5) Life of Johnny Reb 43: Rebs referred to contraband liquor as ‘bust-head,’ ‘pop-skull,’ ‘old red eye,’ ‘spill skull,’ and ‘rifle knock-knee’.at spill skull (n.) under spill, v.
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