roomance

Updated: May 10, 2025

He had adopted ostrich tactics, had buttoned himself up in the tent, and was in there keeping as still as a mouse, thinking, perhaps, that as he could see nobody, nobody could see him. That cannon ball must have been a rude surprise. In order to have plenty of "han' roomance," we tore down the tent at once, and then proceeded to appropriate the contents.

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