Sentence examples for confederate in from inspiring English sources

Shelby instantly became the most famous Confederate in the west.

One confederate in the firings, Jeff Eller, said "I don't remember" or its variant 200 times during two hours before the grand jury.

The Yankees charged the outnumbered rebels, but the rebels "gallantly met the onset, falling back slowly to a narrow lane, stubbornly contesting the ground," reported an unidentified Confederate in a pamphlet published during the war.

In her study, test subjects were led to believe that they were participating in a simple learning task with a partner who was, unbeknownst to them, a confederate in the study.

One of the points that "Uncivil" wants us to understand is that there were patches of Union and Confederate in both regions — it wasn't solid blue and gray but was "Swiss cheese," as Hitt put it.

As for his equally polished confederate in that play, Kate MacCluggage, here she gets to trade teasing banter with a child as Lady Macduff and to croak — quite literally — as the First Witch.

Confederate commander-in-chief Joseph E. Johnston fended off McClellan's repeated attempts to take the city.

He briefly worked in Confederate prisons in Danville, Va., and Salisbury, N.C., then returned to Richmond.

He questioned Mr. Ashcroft's sensitivity to racial issues, citing an interview he gave to Southern Partisan, a magazine often described as a neo-Confederate, in which he said it was important to let future generations know that the South did not fight the Civil War for "some perverted agenda".

"Confederates in the Attic," by Tony Horwitz (1998).

The author of "Confederates in the Attic" recreates Capt.