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Definition of Bushwhackers
1. bushwhacker [n] - See also: bushwhacker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bushwhackers
Literary usage of Bushwhackers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Under Both Flags: A Panorama of the Great Civil War, as Represented in Story by George Morley Vickers (1896)
"A NIGHT WITH bushwhackers. * FROM A SOLDIER'S DIARY. ATLANTA having been captured
by General Sherman's army, and my three years' service having expired, ..."
2. Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865: With an Introductory Chapter on the by Theodore F. Lang (1895)
"bushwhackers and their Methods.—Western Virginians Allied to Northern Sentiments
and Institutions.—Gov. Letcher Assembles Legislature in Extra Session. ..."
3. South-western Methodism: A History of the M. E. Church in the South-west by Charles Elliott, Leroy M. Vernon (1868)
"A volume would scarcely contain the records of loyal citizens, especially loyal
Methodists, murdered by rebel bushwhackers. The following is one case of a ..."
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