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bummers
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n. (plural of bummer English)
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Bummers was a nickname applied to foragers of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Union army during its March to the Sea and north through South Carolina and North Carolina during the American Civil War. The designation "bummers" was used, both by soldiers and civilians, to describe Sherman's soldiers, official and unofficial, who requisitioned food from Southern homes along the route of the Army's march. Often highly destructive in nature, bummers became notorious among Southerners for looting and vandalism, and they did much to shatter the illusion that the Confederate Army was successfully defending its territory on all fronts. The bummers' activities in Georgia and the Carolinas helped ensure that the South would be unable to sustain its war effort; additionally, bummers' destruction of industrial property rendered the garrisoning of southern cities largely unnecessary by destroying most, if not all, of those facilities in their path that replenished the Confederate war effort (such as cotton gins, farms, foundries, lumber mills, etc.).
One southern family's encounter with bummers was recorded by North Carolina resident and Civil War diarist Jane Evans Elliot:
Usage examples of "bummers".
We hoped you would be on the square, but we couldn't be sure you were not bummers lying in ambuscade.
Most recently, since that damned Sheridan pulled out, we've had bunches of bummers come looking to sack anything that the regulars might have left.
The latest bummers had used the remains of the tar that had earlier been daubed on the Furfew family portraits.
It had to be spaded and forked deep, to accommodate their detritus of dead bummers, and then firmed flat again before the curbing could be heaped up around it.
He whistled for a Slovak and sent him to saddle and fetch the three horses acquired so long ago from the ambushing Virginia bummers.
He's already cleaning and loading for me two of the revolvers we scavenged from those bummers back in Virginia.
Outside the gate officers, men, and bummers divided even, share and share alike, the piles of plunder.
But her husband had strengthened the Lord's hands, and for the glory of God, doubtless, invested some thousands of dollars in New York, where Confederate moth did not corrupt nor Yankee bummers break through and steal.
Joe and bummers from Omaha— all are here, each one a part of a strange and on the whole a very undesirable community.
Later, the Bummers found out he had a felony record and noted it accordingly.
He had just started to develop the idea that Quahal was one of the most tedious bummers that he had ever come across, when things began to happen up on the dais.