During the US Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee referred to the Union soldiers as this.
- The bluecoats
- Those people
- The Unionists
- The Yankees
Those people. Lee was a legend in the pre-war army known as the Marble Man. He fought without animus toward the Union soldiers, praying for them every night.
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