gulgin

Updated: June 19, 2025

Like Major Simon Suggs, in depicting the horrors of an apprehended Indian war, I wanted to see blood flow in a "great gulgin' torrent, like the Tallapoosa river." Well, it was simply a case of pure, intensely ardent boy-love, and I was hit, hard, but survived.

Leander Stillwell - The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865