Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 9:53 PM

Katie, if I knew the sentence in which it is referenced it would help. Off the
top of my head with just the word, I cannot grasp it. 

Although Chris and I think it was a misspelling on the behalf of the solider in
which perhaps he was writing something like fauxso (it is French). 

Now, after we have done a little research, we think it could be the word
faucheuse -meaning machine that cuts, or a combination of words like fou
(crazy), soco (muscadine - grape used for wine) refering to crazy drunks. 

We can continue to speculate, but you can forward these to whomever and see if
it fits the text. We would like to know the outcome of everyone's
speculation.
Jenn


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Katie Holland <[log in to unmask]>
> can you sound this out and figure what was said?f  fauksokutters
> 
> --- On Wed, 9/24/08, Westview <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Westview <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Transcriber Needs Help
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 7:01 PM
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I agree with Don about it being written phonetically --- you mention New
> Orleans, was the family Cajun?  I know the Cajuns have some
> "interesting" expressions.
> 
> kathy
>  
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Tom Gilmore 
>   To: [log in to unmask] 
>   Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:58 PM
>   Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Transcriber Needs Help
> 
> 
>   In transcribing a letter written by a Civil War soldier to a relative in
New
>   Orleans, I'm stuck on a sentence in which he  refers to "the
> fauksokutters"
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