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The Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah: the Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer choose

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[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and Yankee Hurrah 54: Thanksgiving. While our friends at home suffer through roast turkey, mince pie, and plum pudding, we cram ourselves on air pudding.
at air pudding (n.) under air, n.
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 112: I must indulge in a trifle of ‘gush’ over the natural beauty of this place.
at gush, n.2
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 108: One old female sauerkraut [...] cut a loaf into twelve slices.
at sauerkraut, n.
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 201: The teamsters make more noise than all the rest of the army. Their command of ‘army Latin’ is absolutely astounding.
at army Latin (n.) under army, n.2
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 210: Some of our men have been treated to ‘a clout in the head’ or a ‘belt in the gob’.
at belt, n.
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 45: Too much chin of his kind has more than once improved the market for rope.
at chin, n.2
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 210: Some of our men have been treated to ‘a clout in the head’.
at clout, n.2
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 207: There are in the North a lot of dough-faces.
at doughface (n.) under dough, n.
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 118: After dinner we were ordered to ‘dust out of this’ and we moved down the road about four miles.
at dust, v.2
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 250: He was a cheap buffoon and the very prince of gasbags.
at gasbag, n.
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 250: Hayden was a Baptist of the hard-shell persuasion.
at hard-shell, adj.
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 207: There are in the North a lot of dough-faces who are never happier than when a chance is offered to them to get down on their marrow bones.
at marrowbones, n.
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 276: We tried to fill up on slops, but call it soup because that title makes it seem more filling.
at slop, n.1
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 226: Having put ourselves outside a couple of hardtack and a dipper of slosh.
at slosh, n.1
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 278: Sherman’s army passed through our ‘sweat box’ on their way to Bladensburg to camp. There isn’t room enough for both armies on this side of the Potomac.
at sweat-box, n.
[US] J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 274: His ears were saluted with a yell of ‘hardtack!’.
at hard tack (n.) under hard, adj.
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