Sentence examples for union brigade from inspiring English sources

At 4 p.m., a Union brigade slammed into Jackson's ranks while they were still forming.

The Irish Brigade suffered the third-highest number of battlefield casualties of any Union brigade.

At the Battle of Chickamauga, a Union brigade under Col. John Wilder, all equipped with Spencers, held off and virtually destroyed a much larger Confederate regiment of Gen. John Bell Hood as it breached the Union lines and threatened to collapse the entire northern flank of the Union line's southern branch.

The city was the scene of an engagement (October 25, 1863) during the American Civil War when a Confederate force under General John S. Marmaduke was repulsed by a Union brigade under Colonel Powell Clayton, later a governor of and then U.S. senator from Arkansas.

Gen. Lysander Cutler's Union brigade opposed Davis's brigade; three of Cutler's regiments were north of the Pike, two to the south.

The Union Brigade lost heavily in both officers and men killed (including its commander, William Ponsonby, and Colonel Hamilton of the Scots Greys) and wounded.

Shortly after four o'clock, a number of Union brigades, including those led by future army commanders William Tecumseh Sherman and Oliver Otis Howard, withdrew toward Sudley Ford and Stone Bridge (see Map 5).

Both Union brigades conducted a disorderly retreat to the south.

Gen. John W. Frazer, the Confederate commander, refused to surrender in the face of two Union brigades and Burnside arrived with a third, forcing the surrender of Frazer and 2,300 Confederates.

But a chance encounter between a Union infantry brigade and a brigade of Brig.

But they met serious resistance: Col. Robert H. G. Minty's Union cavalry brigade and Col. John T. Wilder's Lightning Brigade of mounted infantry, armed with Spencer repeating rifles, yielded ground grudgingly, and by nightfall only one Confederate division stood on the west bank of the creek.