AtDTDA1: run, Yankee, run

[Dave Monroe]

--- Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:

> "run, Yankee, run" (8)
> 
> Is this from the Civil War or was it used already by
> the British during the Revolution wars?

Mea culpa, mea culpa ...

  "Run, Yankee, run!" they scoffed. "John Benjamin
will score up your rebel hide finely to-morrow." 

--C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne, The Escape Agents, Ep. 3, "The
Yellow Galley-Full" (1910)

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/escapeX3.htm

Here, the phrase seems to be assumed to have been in
use at least between the two conflicts.  Note the
reference to "Emperor Bonaparte's armies" in the first
installment of the series ...

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/escapeX1.htm

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/escpmenu.htm

It's assumed, at least, to be of Civil War, if not
coinage, currency, at any rate, here ...

It ended with the rebels shouting "hoozahs," and "Run,
yankee, run" ...

http://www.hypertxt.com/parker/clips/olustee/olus1f.html

And maybe one of our Danish friends can help us with
context here (obviously Civil War, likley fictional,
but ...) ...

"You'd better run Yankee, run or die!"

http://www.krigsspil.dk/perioder/acw/slag/avis-kamp-2/rpmay13.html

"Let’s go help Jackson[']s boys, sing with me: you’d
better run Yankee, run or die."

http://www.krigsspil.dk/perioder/acw/slag/avis-kamp-2/rpmay23.html

But--though I don't think this was your question--the
word "yankee" itself goes way back ...

http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50288716

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Yankee

http://www.bartleby.com/61/60/Y0006000.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#Linguistic


 
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