Download or read book The Men Stood Like Iron written by Lance J. Herdegen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of how the backwoods frontier boys of Indiana and Wisconsin became soldiers of an "Iron Brigade," a unit so celebrated that General George McClellan called it "equal to the best troops in any army in the world."