Cimbal remarks that German data show that home furloughs should be avoided in every instance where possible.
The demand for furloughs became so popular that troop specials to the leave centers came into being and opportunity of individual travel was curtailed.
This quarantine kept Battery D from sharing in the Easter furloughs to visit home.
The gloom was not shattered until December 20th, when announcement was made at retreat formation that half of the battery would be allowed Christmas passes and the other half would be given furloughs over New Year's Day.
These furloughs are also needed to keep the {222} missionary in touch with the life of the home churches.
Aix-les-Bains," furloughs which will never be forgotten by the men who went there.
Then the furloughs were limited to five or seven days, and in that way almost all of the men were able to visit the home folks for a few days before leaving for overseas service.
Such was the case in January and February, 1862, when the enemy eagerly pressed his immense advantage while the process offurloughs and reenlistments was in progress, and the army almost completely disorganized.
General Hood had been pretty well informed of what was going on in Sherman's army, and was disposed to take advantage of the reduction of our forces by furloughs and the absence of numerous officers on leave.
A liberal issue of furloughs to enlisted men, especially convalescents in hospital, was made, so that we might get them back in robust health and good spirits when the fall campaign should open.
He was quite wrong as to the morale of our troops, though we were depleted by furloughs and were nearly immovable for lack of train animals.
He ordered that the re-enlisting veterans should have their furloughs as soon as possible, and that men and animals should have all the rest they could get, preparatory for early operations in the spring.
I wish it could be done quicker; but the promise of those thirty-days furloughs in the States of enlistment, though politic, is very unmilitary.
To meet this condition of facts, Colonel Mason ordered that liberal furloughs should be given to the soldiers, and promises to all in turn, and he allowed all the officers to draw their rations in kind.
For the maintenance of confidence between officers and men the soldiers' councils have advisory powers in matters relating to provisioning, furloughs and the infliction of military punishments.
At first they were manned by volunteers, and there had been a surplus of volunteers, for the men of the submarine crews received special food, more pay, liberal furloughs and the Iron Cross after the third trip.
The time of the last furloughs has run out, but not any of them seen yet.
Very warm and dull until it was broken at noon by the intelligence that "the furloughs were coming", and sure enough, they did come direct from home.
Cold weather had now commenced and rainy days were frequent; furloughs were granted the men from ten to twenty days, large numbers visiting their homes.
Furloughs were granted the men, five from each company, as all could not be furnished at once.
Furloughs were now granted the men for ten days, some two hundred going each day.
The armies must again be recruited for the spring campaign; great inducements were held out to the men, and furloughs suddenly stopped.
Any soldier that would re-enlist for three years would receive three hundred dollars bounty and thirty-five days furlough; all other furloughs were stopped.
There was some dissatisfaction among the men on account of heading our column toward the rising sun, as they had been promised furloughs on the first opportunity, and this looked like an indefinite postponement of the promised boon.
Here orders were issued for thirty-day furloughs to one officer and three men of the company.
As I have already remarked, while we were on duty at the Convalescent Camp, time hung heavily upon our hands, and quite a number of the members of the regiment who had "influential friends" in Washington obtained furloughs to visit home.
Treville, and permitted him to distribute furloughs for four days, on condition that the favored parties should not appear in any public place, under penalty of the Bastille.
The first four furloughs granted, as may be imagined, were to our four friends.
He applied for a furlough, but was told that no furloughs would be granted then--which then meant that work was expected.
Many of the men got furloughs when they were in winter quarters, and sometimes in summer, too, from wounds, and went home to see their families.
Their furloughs were equivalent to a full discharge, for on the 3d of September the definitive treaty was signed, and the country was at peace.
Leaves of absence and furloughs were limited as closely as possible, and I set the example of remaining without interruption on duty, though there were many reasons why a visit home was very desirable.
Morton, I’m going in for furloughs and a lieutenant-colonelcy.
All furloughs have been stopped these last three days.
Fellows, we'll have to get furloughs and take the girls around.
A regular guard was stationed at the entrance of the building, and there we had to stay throughout the day, short furloughs of an hour or two being occasionally granted.
We poor soldiers who were blessed with occasional furloughs to visit the great centre of attraction, were sometimes honored by an humble seat in the bow, for which we were duly grateful, being thereby saved a long and dusty walk.
There is reason to fear, however, that during the week spent in the hall a good many private furloughs were taken by way of the windows and spouts, but as we were only on duty at night, it mattered but little.
The last day or two was full of bustle and confusion and all who could obtain furloughs were at home, leave-taking and making their final arrangements.
Munford that we were under arrest, and to send thefurloughs on.
When our furloughs expired, I took my valuable gray horse back, that I had captured, about 2 months before I had been captured.
He told us to go home for our horses and he would send our furloughs as soon as he could.
Furloughs are the stubbornest things in the world, Mrs. Evelyn; there is no spirit of accommodation about them.
In order to encourage re-enlistment amongst the men, furloughs were liberally granted by the authorities at Richmond, and for a short season the din of arms was unheard on the Shenandoah.
The summer months went by without further fighting on the Potomac; but the camps at Fairfax and at Centreville saw the army of Manassas thinned by furloughs and by sickness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furloughs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
