Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 455
d-working mechanics, from whichsoldiers could be drafted. The planters sons wereready to be officers, but they did not care aboutbeing privates. The better men in the ranks weredrawn from the hardy backwoodsmen, whose lifewas a free, self-reliant one. In fact, the stubbornBurgesses and independent… … while endeavoring to bring his panic-stricken troops into order, braddock was mortally wounded. (see page 438.) these people to understand this at the time, butwe can see that his troublesome soldiers were thestuff out of which the fighting armies of the warfor independence were made. The old…
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