Ironsides

a name applied to the famous regiment led by Cromwell in the Civil War. The name was extended to the entire Puritan army. They were men of prayer and godly lives--chiefly yeomen farmers.

They prayed before battle and then charged with the old Hebrew battle psalms upon their lips.--W. M. West.

If ever there were men who laid down their lives in the cause of all mankind, it was those grim old Ironsides, whose watchwords were texts from Holy Writ, and whose battle-cries were hymns of praise.--John Fiske.