From Unpuzzle Finance "Slang from the Civil War was even more absurd than we knew."
1. TENNESSEE QUICKSTEP
If you had to run off to use the toilet facilities very fast, you were doing either the Tennessee or Virginia Quickstep.
2. LUCIFERS
A brand of matches. Excellent for starting small fires.
3. SAWBONES
Doctors. Wonder how they came up with that one.
4. BALDERDASH
Putrid cocktails mixed out of random. Whatever liquors were available.
5. DOGROBBER
People without war skills, but could help in other ways. Sent off to be cooks, perhaps. Low level servants or people who would steal from dogs.
--Old Secesh
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