Sentence examples for first regiment from inspiring English sources

According to the regimental historian, the 21st Massachusetts was the first regiment to mount the earthworks of the fort; however, the honor was also claimed by the 9th New York.

For the chance to lead the nation's first regiment of former slaves.

Shaw, 26 years old, was the son of prominent Boston abolitionists, but he only reluctantly accepted the colonelcy of Massachusetts's first regiment of black soldiers.

He later left the Second and became the colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first regiment of African-Americans raised in the state.

When Bob Stewart, who commanded the first regiment of British peacekeepers in Bosnia, was asked by the BBC for his reaction to the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic, he responded with one joyous word: "Hallelujah".

Dickinson's relationship with Higginson, the abolitionist and later commander of the Union Army's first regiment of freed slaves, is the subject of this "lively, thoughtful and admirable book," as Miranda Seymour described it in the Book Review.

All three regiments had white colonels, but the line officers in the First and Second Regiments were black, while the Third Regiment had both black and white officers.

Still, the first regiments of the reserve army of the unemployed had made their appearance.

All three soldiers were assigned to the Third Battalion, Seventh Infantry Regiment, Fourth Brigade Combat Team, Third Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.

Seventy-first Regiment called special drill so Communists couldn't use the place.

The Seventh Regiment restrained them.