grayback

Note the "grayback" shirt which I mentioned in The Moonlight Mistress.

Researching WWI Uniforms - Linkgasm #5 Victoria Janssen 2010

The rasp of his own 'grayback' shirt and the squeak of his boots seemed to bring him to himself.

Soldier Stories 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.

How a one-legged rebel lives : reminiscences of the Civil War, 1898

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

The Drummer Boy 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.

The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army A Story of the Great Rebellion 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.

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

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.

"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

As soon as that was discovered, we had them cut off, but it was too late -- the little grayback would not eat.

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

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.

Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

The silence that followed the words of the boy was broken by Quantrell's old grayback.

A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912