Bummers

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Bummers was a nickname applied to foragers of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Union army during its March to the Sea and north through North Carolina and South Carolina during the American Civil War.

Also a UK slang term for a homosexual -bummer.

[edit] References

• Adams, James Truslow, Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940