Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-12
THE ErYMoLoGr OF Yaykr.
A EngIish Oflcer said II W..
rived from the Cherokee "E.n. "e-
Correspondence of the Charlot,o -, Se'

| An English Onlcer said n W.
rived from the Cherokee .E. De-
Correspondence of the CharIot,o -, Ne"
i--< Observer) W. %
Major w. A. Guthrie. OF D,,,h
addition to being an able la.,'a IN
astute politician. and an alrnirabio an
tleman otherwise. Is fond OF I,,a,s gen
Of the best class. He likes 10 fs
through rare books and papers area
years ago at the sale Of the ON. 'Dins
some aged citizen no bought too 80
looking volumes for a mere tr,eo 10y
with other books. On exapInin, s
books ne found them 10 be ..rr Is
Through the Interior Parts OF Ar,e.,'
In series or Lectures by an Oa,o.a
the British Army" They are the to,,
OF Lieutenant Thomas Auburev. IL
taken prisoner at the battle OF Sac
during the Revolutionary war IA
there ne was sent as prisoner ~ p~N
ton. and later was marched WITH
other prisoners OF the British arm, a,y
had been captured at various ria,, VINO
Charlottesville. Va. Mr.. Jones - 70
planter OF Virginia. and a merntI ''se
the Continental Congress. had -, "
his plantation and negro uuarters Isd
Congress for n prison camp. F-o,,. ,Ai
plantation Aubrey wrote man, as
letters. Ali the prisoners were -, us
This officer spent his time ~ sa'
about the country around Charlo,t...,..As
The letters were TO a friend ~ ms
England. Later the letters Uo,. ~
lished in two volumes. and We t4o-
Gated to the Earl OF Hsrringto, N.ai'
count Retersham, and colonel n, IS
Twenty-ninth Regiment Of Foot ia rue
begin August s. 1776. and run 10 oo,.ay
30. 1871. V0'ooec
The letters are full OF interes,,,. 49,.
instructive reading. But Il is Of ~. ,'
ter In Volume H., page IS. write, ~. ~
Cambridge, New England, Noyemha. ~
lH1. that L wish to write. Thai 80
gives a history OF the word Yanls, ''''s'
Before the Revolutionary war the VI
ginians called the New FneI,., ~
Yankees; from then TO tho civn -
everybody that was not OF the Ns.- va, var
land States called the New Eng,,. ',.s'
Yankees, and during the civil war a,..,l
body north Of the Mason and NV, w
was called Yankee. ms
AS to the word Lieutenant ,rt
wrote in IN: THE lower class ., . ,sy
Yankees-apropos, IL may NOT bo u'
here just 10 observe to you the e,,.,, 1i'''A
of this term Is derived from a cb,.,eN
word, Eankke, which signifies coward 80
slave. This epithet OF Yankee was ~.
slowed upon the inhabitants OF Nouy r.
land by the Virginians for not assls,is.
them in war with the Cherokees s~3
they have always been In derislon Nv, \.
But the name has been more ursvoi,..
since the commencement OF hos,lli,ias.
the soldiers at Boston used IL as ,s,-,
of reproach; but after the affair AZ Rr.
ker Hill, the Americans glorled In I,
Yankee Doodle is now their paean = .,
orite Of favorites. played in their ARM
esteemed as warlike as the GrenadiS,i
March. 1t is the looms spell. the nursas,,
lullaby.
After our rapid successes We held m.
Yankees in great contempt; but II was no,
little notifying TO hear them plav MI,
tune when their army marched down 4,
our surrender"
Such is his story OF the etymologv q,
the word Yankee"
II. Z. {. BRYANT