under-workers

Updated: May 4, 2025

He knew his men the real men of influence; not men that have big reputations created by active but less widely known under-workers, but the under-workers themselves. Simon dealt with these, and he rarely mistook his men. Now I was well known in those parts kept on the right side of the boys, and the boys tried to keep on the right side of me, and Simon knew it.

William H. Armstrong - Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals: As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac