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 Posted: Fri Jan 13th, 2012 07:09 pm
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 I came across a regimental nickname that I liked the other day in E.H. Rhodes's journal: The 37th Massachusetts Regiment "is a new Regiment in our Brigade and is called the 'iron clads' because when they arrived every man had a steel plate in his vest..."

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