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(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 180: If they git us whar the hair is short this nip, it is all up with us.at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 180: If they git us whar the hair is short this nip, it is all up with us. (con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 228: They were going to put me on a stretcher, but I told them to take up the reb and I’d walk, with a little help, up to the doctor’s butcher shop.at butcher shop (n.) under butcher, n.1
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 180: They’ll be cutting up like mad down in Boston.at cut up, v.1
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 293: One time, when we were ‘going it’ hot and heavy, a reb stuck up his gray or white hat on his bayonet.at go it, v.
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 229: She took a lot of goodies out of her gripsack, an orange and other things.at goodies, n.
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 240: Gosh dang it, you tarnel fools!at gosh-ding (v.) under gosh, n.
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 225: Johnnie Reb has got all he wants of fighting this time!at Johnny Reb (n.) under johnny-, pfx
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 342: The battle must be fought on the jump! We’ve got to smash ’em before sundown!at jump, n.
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 228: This darned soft-headed, lunkheaded Joe here wanted to take me up and carry me like a baby!at lunkheaded, adj.
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 260: Thousands of crows, sleek, fat and noisy, were constantly seen around the camps [...] The citizens had no ammunition, and we were not allowed to waste it on ‘nigger crows,’ as Pat Quin called them.at nigger, adj.
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 8: We were marched to barracks, dignified by the name of ‘Soldiers’ Retreat,’ where a half loaf of ‘soft-tack,’ as we had already begun to call wheat bread, was issued with a piece of ‘salt junk.’.at soft tack (n.) under tack, n.1
(con. 1860s) Recollections of a Private 230: I’ve been totin’ round all over this doggoned Yankee country.at tote, v.1
Army of the Potomac 150: [A] hard-fighting, distinguished soldier who just has to blow off at the mouth every now and then.at blow off at the mouth (v.) under blow off, v.2
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