Si Klegg
Corporal
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2018
- Location
- Bedford UK
Frequently used in Soldier's letters and diaries, it means 'courage'.
I was reminded of it's usage in the Jacob Miller 9th Indiana thread:
I got in a car and lay down. I had gained my point so far--and how. As the soldiers term it with lots of sand, but the sand had run out with me for the time being.
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/pv...ana-survived-a-chickamagua-head-wound.125576/
It's frequently used in the Si Klegg books, a letter home to his sweetheart illustrates this:
'You tell Square Jones boy that he haint got sand enuff to jine the army, and if he don't keep away from you Ile bust his eer when I get home, if I ever do.'
I was reminded of it's usage in the Jacob Miller 9th Indiana thread:
I got in a car and lay down. I had gained my point so far--and how. As the soldiers term it with lots of sand, but the sand had run out with me for the time being.
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/pv...ana-survived-a-chickamagua-head-wound.125576/
It's frequently used in the Si Klegg books, a letter home to his sweetheart illustrates this:
'You tell Square Jones boy that he haint got sand enuff to jine the army, and if he don't keep away from you Ile bust his eer when I get home, if I ever do.'