"Turpentine State" Quotes from Famous Books
... the first drink, but all were willing enough, if somebody else would just "try it." It was the first and only time I ever saw whiskey go begging among a lot of soldiers. At last a long, lank, lantern-jawed son of the "pitch and turpentine State" walked up and said: ... — History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert |