- Joined
- May 12, 2010
- Location
- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
whirl-a-gust. A wirlwind or other fast destructive force. The Confederate veteran Sam Watkins recalled a brigade that "swooped down on thos Tankees like a whirl-a-gust of woodpeckers in a hail storm".
From "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright page 323.
From "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright page 323.