Usage examples (29)

• The rasp of his own 'grayback' shirt and the squeak of his boots seemed to bring him to himself.
• He stepped back to one of the two windows on the front of the house, where he discovered an officer and two "grayback" soldiers.
• I don't mean any disrespect to anybody - but am a little like the old "grayback" who, after the surrender, went to the Provost Marshal, at Charlottesville, to be paroled.
• As soon as that was discovered, we had them cut off, but it was too late -- the little grayback would not eat.