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Eye Of The Storm : A Civil War Odyssey choose

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[US] Eye of the Storm 30 Nov. 167: Up all night cooking scouse.
at scouse, n.
[US] Eye of the Storm 26/27 Nov. 147: The Sanitary Commission camp at a half demolished house known as ‘The Shebang’.
at shebang, n.
[US] Eye of the Storm 3/5 May 225: ‘Great Scott,’ who would have thought that this would be the destiny of the Union Volunteer in 1861–2 while marching down Broadway to the tune of ‘John Brown’s Body,’ etc!
at great Scott! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] Eye of the Storm 20 Dec. 296: At the sinks, which are a long way from the barracks, many men were ‘mugged’ and robbed.
at mug, v.1
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