"Number Ones" First in the order of soldiers firing the cannons
"Spotted Papers" Playing cards
"Mud Heads" Mississippi boys
"Follow Me Lads" Shoulder length curls
"Army Graybacks" Lice
"Job's Turkey" Thin or badly fed
"Gloot" A green Raw recruit
"Bark Juice" Liquor
"Fimble Famble" A poor excuse"
"Skin Plasters" Muster or mud applied to the skin
"Kenning" The sound of the rebel yell
"Rib" Wife
"Hish Hash" Meal of edibles
"Pumpkin Rind" Union lieutenant
"Wet Goods" Whiskey
"Graveled" Sudden night blindness results of a bad diet
"Hunger Munger" Underhanded, Sneaking
"Fire Eater" Zealous Secessionist
"Smeller" A blow to the nose
"Bummer" Taking food and needed items from townspeople and farmers
"Saw Your Timbers" Get out of here
"Lay Downs" Knife and Fork
"Sheet Of Iron" Hardtack
"Fizzing" Stunning
"Barrack Hack" A soldier who avoided drill or a prostitute
"Rusty Gut" A bought of old yeller
"Hunger Munger" Underhanded or Sneaking
"Ace of Spades" The name given Lee for his skillful directions he gave his troop to dig trenches
"Pepper Box" Pistol
"Buttons with Hens" Buttons from a Confederate uniform were prized souvenirs for the Union soldier
"Bee hive" Soldier’s knapsack
"Bermuda Bacon" Contraband of Union pork taken to Bermuda and put on a blockade runner and sold in the South for huge profits
"Silent battles" An acoustic shadow phenomenon when battles were not heard – Perryville KY
"Toothpicks" Knives with blades four to eighteen inches long
"Black Terror" Dummy gunboat build by David Porter to test the Vicksburg fortress
"Leg Case" Deserter
"Yankee Chills" Confederate coward. They said he had a case of Yankee Chills
"Kepi" A Confederate soldier’s hat or cap
"Deadwood" Incompetents, Cowards
"Top Rail" First class – Number one
"Hireling" A southern soldier who only wanted a pay Check
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