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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 8 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 8 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 4 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 2 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gutting houses. (search)
Gutting houses. According to Worcester the word "gut," verb active, is defined "1. To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to draw; to exenterate; as 'to gut a fish.' 2. To plunder of its contents. "A troop of cut-throat guards were sent to seize The rich men's goods, and gut their palaces" Dryden This definition applies forcibly to the Yankee practice in this war, in the matter of houses. Toney Lumpkin, a well known shrewd observer, was of opinion that the "inside of a letter was the cream" of it. The Yankee, equally shrewd as to the main point of the value of a thing, is clearly of opinion that the inside of a house is the most important part, the very cream of that also. So he takes possession of that part of it the moment he reaches it. He takes out the bowels of it; eviscerates, draws, and exenterates it he plunders it, and generally, after Dryden's account, with a band of "cut-throats." There is no part of the war which is so agreeable to the Yanke