Sentence:  Dangling his gaudy trinkets before them , he told of the <WSD>Rebel</WSD> losses in the mountains , at Cheat and Rich mountains both , and the Federal march on Beverly . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms