Johnny Reb
NATIONAL PERSONIFICATION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF THE UNITED STATES, OR LESS GENERALLY, THE CONFEDERACY DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Johnny Rebel
Johnny Reb is the national personification of the common soldier of the Confederacy. During the American Civil War and afterwards, Johnny Reb and his Union counterpart Billy Yank were used in speech and literature to symbolize the common soldiers who fought in the Civil War in the 1860s.