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diary Mar. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 4: Then he said, ‘you are sap heads’.at sap-head, n.
diary Mar. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 4: Then he said, ‘you are sap heads’. diary Mar. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 4: H.M. and I played hookey one day and went down in the woods. When we got back to school the teacher wanted to know where we had been.at play hooky, v.
diary Apr. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 9: The President will soon fix them. He has called for 75,000 men and is going to blockade thier [sic] ports.at fix, v.1
diary 9 Apr. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 9: Jonathan the Rebels have fired upon and taken Fort Sumpter.at Jonathan, n.
diary Nov. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 30: Some of the boys josh them about showing the white feather.at josh, v.
diary 4 Jan. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 39: It seems that General Grant had a full supply of ‘hard tack’ and ‘sow belly’.at sow-belly, n.
diary 27 July in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 63: With the rest of the troops we pushed right on after the Johnnys.at johnny, n.1
diary 10 Mar. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 49: We did not stay for tea but lit out for camp.at light out (v.) under light, v.1
diary 4 Jan. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 40: We need the ‘hard tack’ and ‘s.b.’ (sow belly) oh so much.at s.b., n.
diary 29 May in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 110: The skirmishers came running in and then begun the aufulest [sic] musketry firing I ever heard.at awful, adj.
diary 22 Dec. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 143: I am all broke up. It just seems as though the bottom was falling out of everything.at broke up, adj.
diary 29 May in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 115: Possum (Sam Allbright) and I bunk together.at bunk, v.2
diary 29 May in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 113: He gave me some dog leg tobacco.at dog-leg (n.) under dog, n.2
diary 17 May in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 108: I was hit on my belt buckle with a spent ball which knocked me out for a while. The boys thought I was done for and dragged me behind a tree.at done for, adj.
diary 1 Jan. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 92: ‘We hear the French have come over into Mexico.’ [...] He said, ‘We don’t want any of thier [sic] help—d--n thier [sic] frog eating souls.’.at frog-eater, n.
diary n.d. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 99: Chorus : There is fi(gh)ting Bob who is sure to flunk.at flunk, v.
diary 29 May in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 112: One said , ‘Jo Johns(t)on has got old Sherman fixed now, and he will soon have to fall back for want of supplies as we have burnt all the bridges as we fell back.’ ‘Gaunnou (go on now),’ said the other, ‘Sherman had duplicates of all those bridges before he started [...] and he can soon replace them’.at go on!, excl.
diary Aug. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 26: Someone started the story that it was full of gray backs [...] in other words body lice.at grayback, n.
diary 29 May in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 115: He was hit with a shell [...] but is on duty again and is chuck full or sand (or pluck).at sand, n.1
diary in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 99: Chorus: There is Shorty Jones, just six feet six.at shorty, n.
n.d. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 99: I must say I am getting all swelled up. We have a few boys who depend upon some to write and read thier [sic] letters. They mostly come to me now.at swelled, adj.
diary 27 July in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 62: The Johnnys would say, ‘Come to my house Yank when the war is over and I will give you a good square meal.’ [Ibid.] 27 Dec. 88: The Jo(h)nnys yelled ‘Go it Yanks’ and fired but few shots.at Yank, n.
diary 18 Jan. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 148: His mule lost its footing, and someone yelled to him to grab a root and the boys took it up and you could hear ‘Grab a root’ in evry [sic] direction.at grab a root (v.) under grab, v.
diary 11 Mar. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 153: I think the Johnnys are getting rattled; they are afraid of our repeating rifles.at rattled, adj.
diary 11 Mar. in Winther With Sherman to the Sea (1958) 158: We have plenty of coffee and hard tack again and some S.B.at s.b., n.
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