Re: Civil War-era slang

spunkanado (tomwhore@interport.net)
Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:54:12 -0400 (EDT)

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> http://genie.esu10.k12.ne.us/~dmahalek/Slang.html
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> CIVIL WAR SLANG
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Some of these still are in the vocab I use and the vocab of those around
me. Easily 25 of these phrases are something I might have said or heard
within the month.

Good phrases stay on. Of civil war things I reffer always to Shelby
Foote's tomes. There in is a flavor of the time.

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