Turn Homeward, Hannalee Chapter 1-6 – Flashcards
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bluebelly
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Confederate name for a yankee soldier
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furlough
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a leave of absence
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skylarked
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played around
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hopping the twig
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Civil War term for getting married (from custom of jumping over a broom)
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jawin about
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talk at length
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don't run on all fours
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not a part of the group
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privy
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bathroom
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sowbelly
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salted pork consisting mostly of fat
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Secesh
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since southerners had seceded from the Union, it was a bad term used by Yankees to describe a southerner
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treason
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the crime of disloyalty to one's nation
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phrenology
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the long practiced study of head formation
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constitutional
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a regular walk taken as a form of exercise
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consumption
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a disease is what we know today as Tuberculosis. They called it consumption because the people who had this illness, their bodies would waste away.
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mawmouth
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Slang term for cotton textile workers, probably in reference to a Southern drawl, talking as if cotton is in the mouth
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guerrilla
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a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
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bushwackers
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another name for guerrilla; a term used in the Civil War usually for a confederate.
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snood
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a small netlike cap worn by women to keep the hair in place
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victuals
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supply of food
