Jackson has been engaged in a heavy battle for nearly an hour, when suddenly in our front tens of thousands of "blue coats" seemed to spring up out of the earth and make for our lines.
Some were trying to drag away their caissons and light pieces by hand, while thousands of "blue coats," with and without arms, were running for cover to the rear.
You know what the others are, men in blue coats mostly, who prate about the honour of the army, and have no honour to spare for their friends.
In the wood at the bend of the road they could distinguish between the trees the red trousers and blue coats of infantrymen.
It is the slaughter-house full of devils in blue coats.
Them 'Blue Coats' come in and steal your chickens and cook them over your fireplace and eat them right 'fore your eyes.
De soldiers had on blue coats, and when dey came we would be switching off de flies with a long pole with paper on the end.
He observed a number of blue coats on the opposite side of the stream and saw a number lying motionless on the ground.
As he was in the act of mounting his horse, he cast a glance down toward the ford, where the mass of Union troops were forming and beheld the Stars and Stripes streaming above the long line of blue coats.
Soon a long line of blue coats could be seen on the opposite side of the small stream; fire belched from their guns, and a shower of leaden hail fell among the regiment of Colonel Scrabble.
His company was the last to descend the hill, and the rear was not half way from the summit when a line of blue coats appeared on the brow of the hill and quickly fell in line.
The ground was literally covered with blue coats dead; and, if I remember correctly, there were eighty dead horses.
We could see all over Chattanooga, and it looked like myriads of blue coats swarming.
He called them his "blue coats," and found they served and obeyed him, better than the rest.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blue coats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
