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[US] Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 542: He [...] ‘dug up’ some items of much interest to the Union cause.
at dig up, v.1
[US] Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 61: ‘General, you are leading a hard life,’ we remarked [...] ‘Yes, rather hard, and if this life were all, it would be a wretched drag.’.
at drag, n.1
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 520: The Feds are coming!
at Fed, n.
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 543: Colonel Truesdail established a special ‘grape-vine’ mail for Nashville and vicinity rebeldom.
at grapevine, n.1
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 519: Moore and Blue, who had become fast friends, separated, the latter going into Missouri on several jayhawking expeditions.
at jayhawk, v.
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 606: We will knock those cities cold as a wedge.
at knock cold (v.) under knock, v.
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 609: The language he used respecting the Federal troops was, ‘Kill ’em! Plant ’em out! Manure the soil with ’em!’.
at plant, v.1
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 585: Inquiries [...] disclosed the fact that Stewart was a rebel of the deepest dye and had been ‘playing off’ all the time.
at play, v.
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 535: He says you are a great sis.
at sis, n.
[US] Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 638: A lady of Northern birth and education, but a bitter rebel, was reading to a mixed company [...] and embracing an old negress, calling her ‘sister,’ &c..
at sister, n.
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 602: He ran off at the time of the general ‘skedaddle,’ and is now a fugitive.
at skedaddle, n.
[US] Army Police Record in Annals of the Army of the Cumberland 602: He declared the true policy to be to attack the city, and, if necessary, ‘to make Nashville ash-ville.’.
at -ville, sfx1
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