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Common meanings * Johnny Reb, personification of a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War * Reb (Yiddish), an honorific title for a teacher People * Reb Anderson (born 1943), American Zen Buddhist teacher and writer * Reb Beach (born 1963), American rock guitarist * Reb Brown (born 1948), American actor * Reb Russell (1889-1975), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Reb Spikes (1888-1982), American jazz saxophonist and entrepreneur * Lafayette Russell, American football player and actor * REB, web handle of Columbine massacre shooter Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris Food chemistry * Rebaudioside compounds from the stevia plant, used as sweeteners REB * Relativistic electron beam, streams of electrons moving at relativistic speeds * Revised English Bible, a 1989 English language translation of the Bible * Research ethics board, or institutional review board, type of committee that applies research ethics * Rural Electrification Board, in Bangladesh - see Electri ...
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Johnny Reb
Johnny Reb is the national personification of the common soldier of the Confederacy. During the American Civil War and afterwards, Johnny Reb and his Union counterpart Billy Yank were used in speech and literature to symbolize the common soldiers who fought in the Civil War in the 1860s. The symbolic image of Johnny Reb in Southern culture has been represented in its novels, poems, art, public statuary, photography, and written history. According to the historian Bell I. Wiley, who wrote about the common soldiers of the Northern and the Southern armies, the name appears to have its origins in the habit of Union soldiers calling out, "Hello, Johnny" or "Howdy, Reb" to Confederate soldiers on the other side of the picket line. Johnny Reb is often pictured as a Confederate Soldier in gray wool uniform with the typical kepi-style forage cap made of wool broadcloth or cotton jean cloth with a rounded, flat top, cotton lining, and leather visor. He is often shown as well with his w ...
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