Fully half of the group exhibited unmistakable signs of alarm; half a dozen edged toward home and were summoned back by the stauncher members.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour
With the sole assistance of a sergeant, of stauncher mettle than the rest, he was loading and firing his solitary field-piece, rejoicing, as became the son of a warrior race, in the hot breath of battle, and still more in the isolation of his perilous position.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
The position was strong, and the men who held it were of different calibre from Blenker's Germans, and the leaders of stauncher stuff than Fremont.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson