Oh, yes. The 'informal cultural exchanges,' shall we say?
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YEP- at Petersburg, a rebel corporal traded a complete set of MS buttons to a yank for a used,but warm, overcoat. when the "ceasefire" was over, the same corporal hit the same yank with a minieball in the shoulder, killing the soldier.
the rebel was heard to say, "that's a hell of a note-now somebody else will have my buttons, i reckon".
for dixie,sw