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letter 4 Oct. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 49: The orderly [...] says in a bedoozling sort of way, ‘Front.’ [Ibid.] 26 Jan. 1863 105: Fred says you are so far bedoozled as to suspect me of being adjutant of the 9th. [Ibid.] 11 May 1864 180: I picked the enclosed flower to send to the girls as a momento of the ‘bedoozling’ occasion. letter 1 Oct. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 48: Ain’t the old bugger lean? letter 12 Sept. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 30: Is she a buster, too? letter 12 Sept. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 30: He’s a bustin’ ole feller, ain’t he? letter 21 Oct. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 66: I put the letters in my pocket [...] and, crawling into my dog-house, leaned on one elbow and ruminated. letter 8 Oct. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 58: Golly! didn’t we grunt! letter 3 Jan. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 97: If an ‘old member’ loses an overcoat or a blanket, he ‘brizes’ one from some ‘green hams’. letter 28 Oct. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 70: Salt pork, raw onions and crackers made a ‘jam-up’ supper. letter 3 Jan. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 99: Of the dissentions among the soldiers the most savage come from the abuse of recruits by ‘old members’ [...] The ‘old men’ are ‘patriots’ who sprang forward at the first call of the Government. letter 29 Sept. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 46: We have little nigs (under 12 years). letter 14 Dec. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 91: The sneaks in the army are named Legion, and they are shameless enough to proclaim their cowardly practices openly. letter 27 Jan. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 106: Are the chuckle heads in Washington beside themselves: Will they never be done with their awkward bungling? letter 3 May in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 132: A tempest of bullets from the pieces of our sharpshooters shattered the gray backs like chaf(f). letter 3 May in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 132: I [...] had quite a confab with a ‘Johnny Reb’ who had laid aside his piece. letter 16 June in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 191: General[s] Grant, Hancock, and Baldy Smith are on the same hill. letter 25 June in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 196: Rebs and Yanks were ballygogging around with hands in their pockets and staring at each other. letter 23/26 Dec. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 224: A white flag fluttered [...] and one hundred and fifty ‘gray backs’ surrendered themselves. letter 11 May in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 176: Sock it to em, my hardies. [Ibid.] 21/24 July 203: Our motto should be that emphatic though vulgar one of rank and file, ‘sock it to em’. letter 1–2 June in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 186: Bring me four loaves of ‘soft tack.’. letter 1 Jan. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 227: I am well and ‘chirp as a cricket’.