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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 0 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 12 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 12 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 10 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 10 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 6 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Drafting the "Solid Men." (search)
Drafting the "Solid Men." The opinion was formerly expressed by many in the South that we had not yet encountered the most formidable fighting men of the North, but that when they had exhausted their "riff raff"--their Dutch, Irish, and city rowdies — they would come down upon us with their "solid men" and crush us to the consistency of Jelly. We confess that we always entertained doubts of the truth of this proposition. We remembered that Washington had a grievous time in stirring up these "solid men" in the days of the Revolution. They were so "solid" that no moral or physical lever seemed capable of moving them. We have seen the original of an old revolutionary document, in which the writer, a recruiting officer, complains most bitterly that, neither for love nor money could he induce any one in Massachusetts to enlist in the war. The truth is, there is a great deal of gammon and humbug about the "solid men," at the best. What is meant by the term, is, we suppose, m