Grayback

Note the "grayback" shirt which I mentioned in The Moonlight Mistress. ❋ Victoria Janssen (2010)

The rasp of his own 'grayback' shirt and the squeak of his boots seemed to bring him to himself. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

I don't mean any disrespect to anybody - but am a little like the old "grayback" who, after the surrender, went to the Provost Marshal, at Charlottesville, to be paroled. ❋ Unknown (1898)

And the "grayback" (as the boys termed the rebels) could hear the ominous click of the gun lock in Frank's hands. ❋ Unknown (1871)

He stepped back to one of the two windows on the front of the house, where he discovered an officer and two "grayback" soldiers. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

It would have been heartbreaking to have been obliged to come away without finding that little grayback, and perhaps never know what became of him. ❋ Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (N/A)

The rains, and sleet, and snow never ceased falling from the winter sky, while the winds pierced the old, ragged, grayback Rebel soldier to his very marrow. ❋ Sam R. Watkins (N/A)

As soon as that was discovered, we had them cut off, but it was too late -- the little grayback would not eat. ❋ Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (N/A)

Here I had the table all set fur breakfast, an 'ye put' er inter a grayback afore I could hold on to anything; and smash goes the hull mess on the floor -- plates, forks, vittles. ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)

The silence that followed the words of the boy was broken by Quantrell's old grayback. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

We shipped one old grayback that ripped off a strip of the lee rail jest the same as you'd rip the edge off the cover of a pasteboard box -- never made no more fuss about it, either. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

Then a grayback cleared us out, then the skipper laughed; ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

"Who mought you be?" demanded the grayback, exhibiting more curiosity than of fear in his dirty face. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

The grayback, chagrined at this movement on the part of his victim, whom he had evidently intended to intimidate by his coolness and his ferocious words, rose from his seat in the long grass, and moved towards the tree behind which Somers had taken refuge. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

The grayback had evidently found the clothes, and suspected the purpose for which they were concealed. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

The grayback looked as cool and impudent as though he was perfectly assured of his prey, and intended to torture his victim with his tongue, as he would with his knife or his rifle if occasion required. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

"I intend to die by neither," said Somers resolutely, as he discharged his pistol in the direction from which the voice of the grayback came; for he dared not take aim, lest the bullet of the ruffian should pierce his skull. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

The grayback, with a wholesome regard for the pistol, had retired beyond the reach of its ball, while he was still a long way within rifle-range of his doomed enemy. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

The rebels were nearer than he had supposed; for, as he turned from his men, he discovered a wiry grayback, with the chevrons of a sergeant on his arms, trying to stare him out of countenance. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)