In one enormous rank the veteran trees stood shoulder to shoulder, but in the attitude of giants over mastered,-forced backward towards the marsh,-made to recoil by the might of the ghostly enemy with whom they had striven a thousand years,-the Shrieker, the Sky-Sweeper, the awful Sea-Wind!
"Chita: A Memory of Last Island"
Lafcadio Hearn
The reply was: "We don't permit any praying here for a damned Union-Shrieker."
"Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot"
William Gannaway Brownlow