Sentence examples for federal lines from inspiring English sources
Gen. John S. Bowen approached the federal lines under a white flag.
The growing number of contrabands reaching federal lines necessitated the establishment of dozens of impromptu contraband camps.
Ellsworth escaped and served the Confederacy on missions behind federal lines to tap telegraph wires and listen in to military communications.
I will go within the Federal lines tomorrow night, dance with those Yankee officers, and bring each of you one of Uncle Sam's best cavalry horses.
They poured into contraband camps or set up makeshift shantytowns close to federal lines when they were not welcomed within them.
Chamberlain, a revered figure in Maine, was the Bowdoin College professor who prevented the flanking of Federal lines on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and who might, as a result, have single-handedly saved the Union.
Representative Bill Pascrell, on the other hand, is running on his own federal line.
About 40 guns each from the north and south end of the federal line smothered the rebels in a deadly cross-fire.
Wood's brigade shifted from the Union right to reinforce the federal line in the center that was giving way under vicious assaults, fighting until they expended all their ammunition.
The C.B.O.'s new approach is not without controversy, as it can easily move families previously classified as below the federal poverty line above that line.
Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest into west Tennessee to destroy federal supply lines, then feeding Maj.
