What is "bluebelly"

Usage examples of "bluebelly".

They generally saved their bullets for Bluebellies, but didn't mind using their fists and boots on each other.

Lawrence is forty miles inside the border, and the Bluebellies are likely to be as thick as flies on a dead possum.

He had fired countless shots at Bluebellies, but always at a distance or in the dark.

After you've done that, you can help me count Bluebellies, Red Legs, and Lawrence Home Guards, if we can find out who they are.

He was counting Bluebellies too, but it had turned out that there weren't many Bluebellies to count.

To assure himself of that, Sam wanted to see how active or inactive the Bluebellies were at this time of morning.

It was the building on Grand Avenue where the Bluebellies were holding the women they suspected of aiding bushwhackers.

So we could have General Ewing's Bluebellies down on us from Kansas City, and some from Leavenworth as well.

Because he said the Bluebellies have started sending fifty cavalrymen out between five and six every morning to scout the plain between here and Mount Oread.

All of the Bluebellies in the escort were white, and Sam suspected that this was their punishment for failing to chase the bushwhackers with as much vigor as their Negro counterparts.

They generally saved their bullets for Bluebellies, but didn't mind using their fists and boots on each other.

Lawrence is forty miles inside the border, and the Bluebellies are likely to be as thick as flies on a dead possum.

He had fired countless shots at Bluebellies, but always at a distance or in the dark.

You and I are to count the Bluebellies in the garrison, and -- " "I know what a spy does, Fletch," Sam said.

After you've done that, you can help me count Bluebellies, Red Legs, and Lawrence Home Guards, if we can find out who they are.