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in Hardtack and Coffee 72: Next came General Meade, a slow old plug, / Hurrah! Hurrah! / For he let them get away at Gettysburg.at plug, n.3
in Hardtack and Coffee 72: Next came General Meade, a slow old plug, / Hurrah! Hurrah! / For he let them get away at Gettysburg. (con. 1861–5) Hardtack and Coffee 189: ‘Back talk,’ [...] which, interpreted, means answering a superior officer insolently, was a prolific cause for punishments.at back-talk, n.
(con. 1861–5) Hardtack and Coffee 95: The original idea of a beat was that of a lazy man or a shirk who would by hook or by crook get rid of all military or fatigue duty that he could; but the term grew to have a broader signification.at beat, n.3
(con. 1861–5) Hardtack and Coffee 132: He would instantly hurl it across the camp and break out with such remarks as [...] ‘always his blank luck’.at blank, adj.
(con. 1861–5) Hardtack and Coffee 207: By dint of bulldozing, and an abundance of hard service, most of them got their fine sentimental notions pretty well knocked out before they had been many weeks in camp.at bulldose, v.
(con. 1861–5) Hardtack and Coffee 52: A Marblehead man called his chum his ‘chicken’, more especially if the latter was a young soldier.at chicken, n.
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