The South was in tears, terror stricken--the Confederacy surely and rapidly was reeling to her doom.
Had the Federals only known it, they had our retreating column cut in two and could have made a finish of the day's work and probably the Confederacy as well.
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Here at Jonesboro ended my service to the Confederacy and my experience as a soldier in the field.
He had rightly concluded that it was time to bring the war home to a people engaged in raising crops from a prolific soil to feed the country's enemies, and devoting to the Confederacy its best youth.
Here we trace one of the early causes of the limited confederacy originally existing between man and the animal--a compact forgotten by our ungrateful pride, and without which, nevertheless, the existence of man had been impossible.
I could give more than a wedding dress if the Confederacy called for it, my dear," she answered.
I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together.
For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it?
It was he who in August could point to the three thousand and eighty-one new made graves for that month, and exultingly tell his hearer that he was "doing more for the Confederacythan twenty regiments.
It was as remote a point from, our armies, as they then lay, as the Southern Confederacy could give.
The country through Georgia is undulating, well cultivated, and moderately covered with trees; and this part of the Confederacy has as yet suffered but little from the war.
In this part of the country the prospects of the Confederacy appeared to be very gloomy.
He spoke to me of Grenfell, who, he said, seemed to be serving the Confederacy in a disinterested and loyal manner.
And you ain't had no goings on with the rebels up the river to bring back the Confederacy here?
How does the Swiss confederacy govern itself at present?
How does the Swiss Confederacygovern itself at present?
Lewis showed signs of vexation and resentment, but did not think it politic to draw on himself the hostility of such a confederacy in addition to that of Spain.
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That there is in the present Engagement a confederacy and association in war with such of the English who according to the solemn League and Covenant and Declarations of both Kingdoms, 1643.
To yield to the notice thus served, was a practical admission by the United States Government that the Confederacy had become a power among the nations.
The vote against disfranchising citizens for serving under the Confederacyduring the war was almost unanimous.
I had also been credibly informed that numerous other officers of the army of the United States within the Confederacy had been guilty of felonies and capital offenses, which are punishable by all laws human and divine.
All were allowed to vote who had not held office under the State government or the Confederacy during the war, after they had taken the amnesty oath.
The change was so important and so prejudicial to the interests of the Confederacy that, after a vain attempt to obtain satisfactory explanations from that Government, I directed a solemn protest to be made.
Perhaps it may not be out of place here to notice a correspondence between the Cabinets of France, Great Britain, and Russia, relative to a mediation between the Confederacy and the United States.
Hindu states, like the Maratha confederacy and Rajputana, asserted themselves.
After half a century the power of his successors passed into the hands of their Brahman ministers, known as Peshwas, who became the heads of a confederacy of Maratha chiefs, including the Rajas of Gwalior, Berar and Orissa, Indore and Baroda.
Louis, as is highly probable, betrayed this project to the Dutch government; and thus frightened them into that hasty signature of the treaty of Nimeguen, which broke up the confederacy and accomplished the immediate objects of his ambition.
This confederacy was formed with such secresy and dispatch, that, before it reached the Governor's ears, almost the whole inhabitants were concerned in it.
Indeed every Indian tribe, from Florida to Cape Fear river, had joined in this confederacy for the destruction of the settlement.
His father had fallen on the field at Antietam, and left him utterly alone in the world, but he had fought on grimly to the end, until the last flag of the Confederacy had been furled.
Urry, the pupil of Dean Aldrich, and the friend of Bishop Atterbury, appears to have been one of that galaxy or confederacy of wits called "the Wits of Christ Church.
The interests of the printers had coincided with the designs of government, in limiting the number of presses; for the policy of their narrow confederacy was, the fewer printers the more printing!
But, although this sympathy does undoubtedly exist, I do not imagine that many Englishmen are of opinion that a confederacy of Southern slave States will ever offer to the general civilization of the world very many attractions.
And as for those rivers and that sea-board, the Americans of the North will have lost much of their old energy and usual force of will if any Southern confederacy be allowed to deny their right of way or to stop their commercial enterprises.
But she did not wish to belong to a confederacy of which the Northern States were to be the declared enemy, and be the border State of the South under such circumstances.
A less formidable confederacy has, within our own memory, subjugated a still mightier empire, and abased a still prouder name.
A less formidable confederacy had compelled Louis the Fourteenth to bow down his haughty head to the very earth.
A less formidable confederacy had in a week conquered all the provinces of Venice, when Venice was at the height of power, wealth, and glory.
They charged forward, seized the cannon, and now rode without resistance into the capital of the state, from which the President of the Confederacy hailed, though by birth a Kentuckian.
They and men of less rank dreamed of a triumph which should restore the fortunes of the Confederacy to the full, but Bragg was cautious.
If there were any strong hand to draw together the forces of the Confederacy they could surely crush him.
Moreover, this was the heart of the Confederacy and other unknown forces might be gathering.
He knew that it would be most welcome, and he could not calculate how many hundreds in Confederacy currency it was worth.
Now it was fulfilling its titanic role again, and the Union fleets upon its bosom were splitting the Confederacy asunder.
Fortune was launching two thunderbolts upon the Confederacy at the same moment.
Nor had the vigilant eyes of the Confederacy in the East failed to note the situation.
By a huge victory in the West the Confederacy would redress the loss of Gettysburg in the East.
This attack deep into the flank of the Confederacy appealed to them with its boldness, and created a certain romantic glow that seemed to clothe the efforts of a general so far from the great line of battle in the East.
He could readily pass as a soldier of the Confederacy unless they chose to ask too many questions.
Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet had formed an Indian confederacy which was believed to embrace not merely the tribes of the Northwest but also the Creeks and Seminoles of the Gulf region.
The defeat of Burr dashed the hopes of the Federalists of New England; the bubble of a Northern Confederacy vanished.
As the confederacy shaped itself in Pickering's imagination, it would of necessity include New York; and the chaotic conditions in New York politics at this time invited intrigue.
Lee was even then planning that wonderful strategy which was to halt a victorious army, turn it away from the beleaguered capital of the Confederacy and send it stumbling back North in a series of defeats.
There were not men enough left in the Confederacy to replace Lee's army.
By December, 1864, Wilmington, South Carolina, was the only port left through which the Confederacy could receive provisions from outside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confederacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
