Hellmira! Execution-Retribution-or War Crimes?

[Bill Richter]

Craig is correct, shebang was a common Civil War word for a shelter of some sort, usually rigged out materials at hand. I first ran into it in the mid-1950s, I think from MacKinley Kantor's Andersonville. It was used in POW camps on a regular basis, as Herb implies

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FYI, There are 74 references to shebang as a prisoners' shack in Kantor's Andersonville