Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe was a slang term used by U.S. Army soldiers near the end of the Second Great War. It refered to fellow soldiers who had escaped from Confederate P.O.W. camps but were stuck behind enemy lines, usually with black guerrillas, for lirerally years. The reference is to a novel by Daniel Defoe whose protagonist was shipwrecked and cut off from civalization for decades.

When Spartacus' band made contact with advancing U.S. forces, the soldiers refered to Jonathan Moss and Nick Cantarella as Robinson Crusoes or Crusoes for short.