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Uncle Joe

noun

United States general who commanded the Allied forces in China and Burma and India during World War II (1883-1946). Synonyms: Joseph Warren Stilwell, Stilwell, Vinegar Joe Stilwell.

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... Oh, yes, I have, lots of times. When Aunt Sally was sick and when Uncle Joe died, ...

— The Southern Cross - A Play in Four Acts • Foxhall Daingerfield, Jr.

... Gardner didn't do any of the whippin' but every few months he sent to Mississippi for negro rulers to come to the plantation and whip all the negroes that had not obeyed the overseers. A big barrel lay near the barn and that was always the whippin place." Uncle Joe remembers two or three professional slave whippers and recalls the death of two of the Mississippi whippers. He relates the story as follows: "Mars Gardner had one of the finest black smiths that I ever saw. ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives • Works Projects Administration

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