Sentence examples for the union force from inspiring English sources
The Union force drove off the Confederates.
The Union force lost 24 percent of its command in the battle, while Confederate losses totaled 12 percent.
After Robert E. Lee crossed into Maryland on Sept. 4, the unit was part of the Union force that pursued him.
Smith's cavalry was at the forefront of Mormon efforts to prevent the Union force, led by Col. Albert Sidney Johnston, from reaching its destination.
Following the "horror of Fredericksburg" (December 13 , 1862, the Confederate army of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Union force under Gen. Joseph Hooker had spent the winter facing each other across the Rappahannock River in Virginia.
At Cabin Creek, on the Santa Fe Trail, the Union force drove off an attack on the train by Confederate Indians under Stand Watie – the first engagement in which blacks and whites found alongside one another in battle.
The Union forces were walking right into Bragg's trap.
The Union forces, advancing against reinforced rebel breastworks through swamp and tangled woods and underbrush, took a severe beating.
More important, Mr. Brown said, the union forced the public to focus on the issue of inadequate staffing, which the union says shortchanges patients and overworks employees.
The Union forces declared Quantrill's Raiders to be outlaws; the Confederates made them an official troop in August 1862, giving Quantrill the rank of captain.
Lincoln didn't enter office bent on freeing the slaves, and his early performance as commander in chief of the union forces was hardly auspicious.
