Crossword-Solution: ALABAMANS 9 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Heading his troops on the march, watching the thousand baleful fires of the enemy at night, when friend and foe go down in the thundering crash of battle, Valois, amazed, asks himself, "Are these sturdy foes the Northern mudsills?" For, proud and dashing as the Louisiana Tigers and Texan Rangers prove, steady and vindictive the rugged Mississippians, dogged and undaunted the Georgians, fierce the Alabamans--the honest candor of Valois tells him no human valor can excel the never-yielding Western troops.

Both the New Yorkers and the Alabamans had a mutual hatred for the German but, in addition to that, each of them was possessed with a mutual dislike for the other.

The Forty-second was composed of former National Guardsmen from the various states, the Seventy-seventh recruited chiefly from New York City, and the Eighty-second, composed of Georgians, Tennesseeans and Alabamans.

Joined the advance on the left, Pettigrew leading and Trimble, Regiments grim and seared with the scorch of the two days’ battle, Bleeding and torn with loss, but prompt to the fiery renewal: Mississippians fierce, and the undismayed Tennesseans, Valorous Alabamans, and soldiers of North Carolina.