obscurely-worded

Updated: May 28, 2025

From the most vague and obscurely-worded hints, given by a Secessionist, I inferred that such a movement was expected. The Rebels were arranging a cavalry force to strike a blow somewhere upon our line of railway, and there was no point more attractive than Holly Springs.

Thomas Wallace Knox - Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and: Residence on a Louisiana Plantation