Johnny Reb is the national personification of the common soldier of the Confederate States Army. During the American Civil War and afterwards, Johnny Reb and his Union counterpart Billy Yank were used in speech and literature to symbolize the common soldiers who fought in the conflict.
Johnny Reb is the national personification of the common soldier of the Confederate States Army. During the American Civil War and afterwards, Johnny Reb and his Union counterpart Billy Yank were used in speech and literature to symbolize the common soldiers who fought in the conflict.
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