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Who are the Yankees and the rebels?
The Union soldiers in the Civil War were sometimes called "yankees" or "yanks." The Confederate soldiers were sometimes called "rebels" or "rebs."
What where confederate soldiers sometimes called?
Rebels, Johnny, Johnny reb, reb and greyback were some names given the Confederate soldiers by the Union troops.
What were the 2 colors of the civil war?
Soldiers fighting for the Union (sometimes called the North), who wanted to abolish slavery, wore the color blue. Soldiers for the Confederacy (sometimes called the South), who preferred to keep slavery, wore the color gray.
What were the soldiers in the southern called?
Union
What were the confederate soldiers sometimes called?
The confederates were known as rebels in the war and were often referred to with the nickname "Johnny Reb". Alternatively, the Union soldiers were nicknamed "Yankees", "Yanks", "Billy Yank" and sometimes, "Butternuts" due to the coloration of their uniforms.
Were the union soldiers or conferate soldiers ever called the redcoats?
No, that was in the Revolutionary War where the British were called Redcoats.
What were Confederate soldier sometimes called?
Rebels, Johnny, Johnny reb, reb and greyback were some names given the Confederate soldiers by the Union troops.
Why were the union soldiers called blue bellies?
During the Civil War, Union soldiers wore blue uniforms and were thus Blue Bellies by the Confederate soldiers.
What did the union soldiers call the gray uniformed Confederate soldiers?
They called the Confederate soldiers the Rebels or "Rebs"
What were union soldiers sometime called?
yankees
How else are British enlisted soldiers known?
British soldiers are sometimes called 'Tommies'.
What were the nothern soldiers called?
They were called Union Army or Yankees, but preferly they refer to them as Yankees.
