[the OlLine Rebel]

Seems you’ve missed a few articles in the Harper’s and the NYT. Wherein these issues are discussed.

Don’t make so much out of one glib comment yelled out in the rage of battle.

In this case, maybe it’s because it seemed so many Yankees cried on about slavery as BLM does today, so in a defiant, mocking cursing manner that’s what he called them.

[BroJoeK]

theOlLine Rebel: "In this case, maybe it’s because it seemed so many Yankees cried on about slavery as BLM does today, so in a defiant, mocking cursing manner that’s what he called them."

Understood, I'm simply noticing that what the Confederate cavalryman did not call Sherman's skirmishers included:

• "You d____d Morrill tariffers!"
• "You d____d fishing smackers!"
• "You d____d money flow-ers from Europe!"
• "You d____d northeastern power brokers!"
• "You d____d Federal power grabbers!"

None of that.
No, the Confederate cavalryman threw at Sherman's skirmishers the word which meant the most to him: he called them "d____d abolitionists".

It's worth noticing, I think.