Monday, July 18, 2011

Hi Jim....













Loosely based on a Civil War soldiers' prank.

2 comments:

  1. You lost me there :-D How do they know his name is Jim or was it a sort of soldiers saying like Hi mate.?
    Cheers
    paul

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  2. Paul, you are right. It is confusing. I just made "Jim" a simple rustic who was too confused to speak up.


    Sometimes the gag was on a friend of a man in ranks, then the others in rank would join in. The story is either in Bell Irvin Wiley's Life of Billy Yank or Life of Johnny Reb books.

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