Word: damyank
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...Permit me to point out that your account of the bequest of the late H. G. Woodward for damyank-tutored schools left a very false impression...
When I first read of this bequest it pleased me to think that here was really an example of a wealthy and influential Southerner who was willing to forget the unfortunate Civil War and make the people of the South realize that the damyank folks of the North were really as kind, as generous, as truly human as the "old South" folks themselves were. In my mind I was already attaching the label of true liberalism and tolerance to the memory of this would-be benefactor...
IHAVE tried to be accurate without being tiresome and technical, and I have tried to be as unprejudiced as is possible to a grandson and nephew of Confederate officers and soldiers, but I learned fairly late in life that Damyank was a compound word. What I have attempted is not a history of a war, but a portrait of a splendid human soul, expressed through the profession of arms...