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Example sentences for "light battery"

  • Captain Howard’s Light Battery, largely made up of detailed members of the regiment, arrived here on the 4th.

  • The army division, commanded by Colonel Pennington, included the Second Artillery band, four batteries of artillery armed and equipped as infantry, and a light battery.

  • He pointed out to me on the opposite side of the river the only enemy he had seen, and which was evidently a light battery.

  • At the beginning of the formation of the Confederate States, he organized and equipped a light battery, known as the Beaufort artillery, of which he was commissioned captain.

  • Walker to the command of brigades, with a light battery attached to each, and directing them to report to General Pemberton.

  • This regiment accompanied the force as far as Deep Bottom, where, with the 7th United States Colored Troops and one light battery, it was left to defend the post, under command of Colonel Wooster.

  • The work was held by a regiment of cavalry and a light battery.

  • Ascending, with proper precautions, the wooded hill, we soon found ourselves in the deserted camp of a light battery, amid scattered equipments and suggestions of a very unattractive breakfast.

  • At the utmost, I had asked for the addition of four companies and a light battery.

  • For further instruction of the first class the following part of the personnel of a light battery is detailed from that class, viz.

  • The privates of the first class do duty as officers of the guard, as company officers at company and battalion drills, at light battery drills, and at other drills and ceremonies.

  • There was a light battery in park near by, and through this, aided by the gloom, the officer of the day managed to pass unobserved along, but not on the sentinel's post.

  • The battalion of artillery was commanded by Captain Frank Thorp of Light Battery "D," my own outfit.

  • A quarter of a century has passed away since the scarlet plumes of Light Battery "X" were last seen dancing along the levee below New Orleans.

  • And in a moment the huge bulk of the senior lieutenant of Light Battery "X" was being boosted through a window opening from the gallery into the bachelor den of the junior second lieutenant.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "light battery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    light and; light blue; light brownish; light buff; light color; light colour; light cream; light cruisers; light down; light from; light gray; light grey; light infantry; light manufacturing; light railway; light soil; light soils; light thing; light weight; light yellowish; lighted candle; lightning discharge; lightning flash; lightning rods; only thought; will mark