A Confederate soldier.
1867. There lay one of the enemy dead, with his gun cocked ready to fire at his Johnny; but another Johnny was too quick for him. The fellow was shot as if the muzzle of the gun had been placed to his head.—J. M. Crawford, ‘Mosby and his Men,’ p. 223.
1867. Jackknives; the last-named being temptations against which the most obdurate of Johnnies was not proof.—W. L. Goss, ‘The Soldier’s Story,’ p. 34 (Boston).
1876. To some of us he was uniformly polite, but he had his pistol out on any occasion when dealing with the majority of the “Johnnies,” and would fly into a passion over the merest nothing.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ i. 264.
1885. “By the Widow Perkins,” cried another, “if Johnny Reb hasn’t taken their rudders away and sent them adrift!”—Admiral D. D. Porter, ‘Incidents of the Civil War,’ p. 170.
