Quotes About Skedaddle

firing weapon had a devastating effect on the Southerners.18 The 5th Michigan's Pvt. William H. Rockwell wrote to his wife a few weeks after the battle about the weapon's effect. "We are put in all of the worst places on account of [the] seven shooters," he boasted. "The rebs call us the seven devils for they say we can load in the morning and fight all day. If they find the 5th [Michigan] is after them they skedaddle.

Okay, kids,' Dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle.

ABSQUATULATE To flee, abscond, or boogie. This facetious frontier slang combines the notion of speculating with squatting or camping. An example of America's "barbaric brilliancy