[PW] Re: "Bring the Jubilee" question

[Michael J. Lowrey]

On 10/17/06, Roberta Gerber <rgerber at rockfordpubliclibrary.org> wrote:
> The first sentence of the third paragraph of the first page in the paperback version published by [Del Rey] Ballentine Books, New York, 1997 (c. 1953, 1981) reads as follows:
>
> "Grandpa Hodgins, after whom I was named, perhaps a little grandiloquently, Hodgins McCormick Backmaker, had been a veteran of the War of Southron Independence."


Thanks, Roberta; that's exactly what I needed. (Some officious Yankees
have "corrected" this fine pretentious old Southernism twice now on
Wikipedia.)

-- 
Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
born and bred anti-secessionist Southerner