greyback
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                `Johnny'' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback'' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
                
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                a dowitcher with a grey back
                
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            a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere