GDG- Fish-hook line

Brian Bennett bbenn at rochester.rr.com
Thu Mar 15 17:32:49 CDT 2007


Does anyone know the first source to use "fish-hook" as a descriptive 
term of the shape of the Union line? Samuel Wilkeson used "horseshoe" 
in his New York Times dispatch and that seems to be the most popular 
descriptive term in the immediate post-war.

Brian Bennett



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