----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Beckwith" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Tom Gilmore" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Transcriber Needs Help > Just a guess -- if not a curse word, could it be "fox hole cutters"? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Gilmore" <[log in to unmask]> > 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" > ... who are within 50 miles of us." I imagine it to be some vile > reference > to the Yankees, but although I've broken the word down, used a digital > magnifier and every other trick in my experience as a transcriber, I still > can't make sense of it. > > When I went to UNC I looked specifically at "fauksokutters". In the > original, it was spelled just like that. Does anyone have any ideas? Was > there such a word used at the time, or could it have been just a family > code-word? > > Tom Gilmore > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html