----- 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
>
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