Not all of us. From The Daily Picayune newspaper of Feb 27, 1864:
Omnibusters - The editor of the Richmond Examiner proposed that, since the repeal of the substitute law has forced into the army both fat and lean, the very heavy men, whose size incapacitates them for the infantry and artillery exercises, and whose weight would prove fatal to their horses should they join the cavalry, should raise a company of men weighing 250 pounds and over, to take the field in iron-clad omnibuses, and to be called Omnibusters. He argues that the size alone would have a very demoralizing effect on the enemy...
And part of another piece, in the vernacular (March 27, 1864):
At this juncture, in cums Mrs. Snittle, who kin lift 600 with old Podhammer on the top uv it, and it wuz no time afore she diskivered wat hiz bizniz waz. She turned read in the face. She said:
"Yoor goin to taik my furnytoor?"
"Certingly."
"And we air yoor slaivs?"
"Uv coarse."
"And you ken sell my children?"
"Natterally."
"And you kin maik me yoor conkebine?"
"If you wish."
"You old beast," shreckt the infooriated feemaile chattel, forgetin her normal condichun, "yu sell my babys, yu taik my furytoor; drat yu, I'll give yu sum uv it now." whereupon she hurled a chare, which laid him prostrait on the floor, when she pickt him up and slung him out the dore."