bummers

• “But some so-called "bummers" are unavoidable, even accidental.”

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• “Union soldiers, especially the "bummers" who followed”

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• “Coffin received permission to post a guard to protect the campus from the notorious "bummers" following”

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• “They forced their way into the surging, fighting crowd of greasy and tattered negroes, of dark-faced "bummers" and "loyal" residents -- and they received small rations of cornmeal and codfish; bearing them home to be eaten with what bitter seasoning they might of tears from pain and humiliation.”

  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

• “For the deserted women of Richmond dreaded not only the presence of the victorious enemy, but also that of the drunken and brutalized "bummers" and deserters who stayed behind their own army.”

  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

• “No doubt, many acts of pillage, robbery, and violence, were committed by these parties of foragers, usually called "bummers;" for I have since heard of jewelry taken from women, and the plunder of articles that never reached the commissary; but these acts were exceptional and incidental.”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

• “He laughed over some of the stories Sherman told of his "bummers," and told others in return, which illustrated in a striking manner the ideas he wanted to convey.”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

• “The uncle was not cordial, by any means, to find his nephew in the ranks of the host that was desolating the land, and Spelling came back, having exchanged his tired horse for a fresher one out of his uncle's stables, explaining that surely some of the "bummers" would have got the horse had he not.”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

• “He was full of curiosity about the many incidents of our great march, which had reached him officially and through the newspapers, and seemed to enjoy very much the more ludicrous parts-about the "bummers," and their devices to collect food and forage when the outside world supposed us to be starving; but at the same time he expressed a good deal of anxiety lest some accident might happen to the army in”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

• “The skill of these men, called by themselves and the army "bummers," in collecting their loads and getting back to their respective commands, was marvellous.”

  Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

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