- Joined
- May 12, 2010
- Location
- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
every mother's son. A common expression that, from the military standpoint, meant every soldier. Confederate prisoners captured at the battle of Chancellorsville were told by one of their captors that "We'll have every mother's son of you before we go away".
From "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright page 105.
From "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright page 105.