Kemper's brigade was leading and his advance soon became a charge, the enemy being posted on the farther side of an open field.
Beyond the College the column filed to the right into an open field, piled baggage, and then in battle line moved forward into the timber, receiving as we entered therein a shower of balls at close range, wounding a number of men.
The First Michigan especially made a charge across an open fieldin the face of a terrible fire from behind breastworks, going half way across before they were repulsed.
In the picture of agriculture which is given by the surveyors one can see the open field system of cultivation at almost every stage of completeness and disintegration at different places.
From the admirable maps of these two manors, which were made in 1597, no one could even guess that the open field method of cultivation had ever existed there.
The ground was well adapted by nature for a battlefield, and as the attacking party always has the advantage of maneuver and assault in an open field, each commander was anxious to get his blow in first.
As we came upon it, it was just moving out from a thicket into an open field under a heavy skirmish fire and a fierce fire from a battery in our front.
Burnside did not attempt to follow us closely, as he was rather skeptical about leaving his strong positions around Knoxville with the chances of meeting Longstreet in open field.
Each commander seemed willing and disposed to give his opponent an open field and a fair fight.
Here, with an open field in front, he was not further molested, and here he bivouacked for the night.
Successive messengers bringing no satisfaction, General Johnston rode to the rear with his staff, till he found Ruggles' division standing still, with its head in an open field.
From this place we moved some distance to the left, where the tents were erected in an open field.
The fence by which I had lain down had disappeared, and I was alone in an open field.
Passing through woods, we came to an open field, where line of battle was formed.
Again I see a line of battle stretching out across an open field, the men resting lazily in their ranks.
Gaining the brow of the hill, it was ascertained that they had fallen back over a mile to an open field, where their battery was again stationed, and the enemy in force, formed in line.
The whole division was called out and formed in two lines across an open field in the valley, to witness the great show.
But, to tell the truth, I would rather the enemy would stay in Dalton two more days, when he may find in his rear a larger party than he expects in an open field.
On the 21st of October I reached Gaylesville, had my bivouac in an open field back of the village, and remained there till the 28th.
I was near the head of column at the time, trying to get a view of the position of the enemy from an elevation in an open field.
At Gettysburg the Confederates had comparatively an open field.
The battle of Malvern Hill, from an open field, may tell the result of an attack upon the four corps in their fortified position had the attack been made upon them from the Richmond front.
It was to give him an open field, with superior numbers and appointments, and when successful was to give him the approach to the base line of his adversary with fine prospects of cutting off retreat.
A real flash of light was struck when German students perceived the connexion between the widely prevalent common or open field system of husbandry, and the village community which for centuries had used it as a shell.
Twice he met the enemy in open field at Pocotaligo, where his guns put the invaders to flight.
In his wheel through an open field, and before the brigade could touch Anderson's, on its right, it was taken in flank by artillery and the fire of the force it had driven.
Let us go to some level place--a meadow or an open field.
When night came on, they took refuge beneath a tree in an open field.
A horse when first turned out into an open field, may be seen to trot with long elastic strides, the head and tail being held high aloft.
One day my horse was much frightened at a drilling machine, covered by a tarpaulin, and lying on an open field.
But when a horse throws up both hind-legs in play, as when entering an open field, or when just touched by the whip, he does not generally depress his ears, for he does not then feel vicious.
At this moment an immense bull burst out of one of the corrals and made a wild dash across an open field.
It was as Olive said, they were moving toward an open field.
To one side was an open field, where a herd of wild horses was munching the dried buffalo grass; on the wooded slope of the ravine on the further bank of the creek, cattle were leading their calves to drink.
A few yards distant, in an open field, a party of officers were suddenly startled by two shells which dropped very near them.
This enormous disparity is explained by the sheltered position of one party behind a breastwork, and the terrible exposure of the other in its march, by solid columns, of half a mile over an open field, without protection of hillock or tree.
Reaching an open field, a mile from the prison, we crouched down upon the soaked ground, in a bed of reeds, while Davis went to find a friend who had long before promised us shelter.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open field" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
