The civil war.
1868. That cuss cum back here, doorin the late onpleasantniss, kernel of a rigiment, wich he campt on my farm and subsisted em off it.—David R. Locke, ‘Ekkoes from Kentucky,’ p. 23 (Boston).
1888. The Louisiana Tigers, a corps of sharpshooters during the late unpleasantness.—Chicago Inter-Ocean, March 7. (Farmer).
