A common shanty or tent.
1867. By common consent, if any one had complaints to make, he carried them to the “shebang” of Big Peter.—W. L. Goss, ‘The Soldier’s Story,’ p. 153 (Boston).
1871. Many a poor fellow, who enlisted to do hard fighting—but who was allowed to rot ignominiously in the camps along the James, the Rappahannock, the Tennessee, and the Mississippi—“lost the number of his mess,” and was carried out from his “shebang” to his long home.—Stephen Powers, ‘Picking Historical Marrow-Bones,’ Overland Monthly, vi. 279/2 (March). (Bartlett).
