Davis and myself protested, and I stated that I believed a portion of Van Dorn's force was then in our rear.
During the day of the 6th of March, while Siegel was joining us and we were preparing for the battle, some of these scouts came to me and told me that Van Dorn proposed to move to our rear by this Little Cross Timber road.
I did not want to take the chances of having an enemy lurking in our rear.
In all our moves, up to this time, the left had hugged the Big Black closely, and all the ferries had been guarded to prevent the enemy throwing a force on our rear.
In addition to this, having an enemy at Canton and Jackson, in our rear, who was being constantly reinforced, we required a second line of defence facing the other way.
The enemy also had cavalry operating in our rear, making it necessary to guard every point of the railroad back to Columbus, on the security of which we were dependent for all our supplies.
Weiss, "the scoundrels have got around to our rear.
Church had established a little field hospital under the shoulder of the hill in our rear.
They came through our lines and for the most part went to El Caney in our rear, where we had to feed them and protect them from the Cubans.
After a little manoeuvring we found our trenches, and as the Germans began shelling the highway immediately in our rear, following the transport waggons along the road, it did not take us long to dig in.
First four shells fell about fifty yards apart about five hundred yards away to the right looking to our rear.
I was very anxious but soon learned that the German attack had been beaten off, for their artillery as usual began working off their spite on the farm houses in our rear.
The remainder of the brigade had left the trenches in our rear to reinforce some other point in the line and the pickets were holding the fort alone.
On the following day the remainder of Sherman's army came up and two divisions secured a position in our rear, but were driven back.
The ground through which our trenches ran sloped upwards in our rear and as we were in range of the Federal skirmish line, the balls that missed the breastworks would strike the soil 20 or 30 feet back of them.
With McPherson in our rearwe were apparently “in a box.
But when we had reached the foothills on the east side, there was a commotion in the ranks and we were ordered to countermarch, while the word passed down the line that Grierson was in our rear.
That line was abandoned and the enemy made a fierce attack on our rear guard of cavalry at Oxford.
In the meantime, the river rapidly rose and there was a rushing current through Reelfoot Lake in our rear.
The prisoners were directed to move out to our rear, and as their intrenchments had now come under fire from the crest, they went with alacrity, and without guard or escort, toward Chattanooga.
Crawford, and Crook taking up a position in our rear at the junction of the Keezletown road and the Valley pike.
Stuart, with his cavalry, was in our rear; Chambersburgh was burned, and other towns sacked.
Among the causes of discouragement and anxiety for the safety of our army, was the notorious raid of General Stuart in our rear.
It was high time too, for before noon of the next day Forrest's cavalry forded the river a few miles above us and began pushing back our own horse toward Spring Hill, ten miles in our rear, on our only road.
Duck River was directly in our rear; I suppose both our flanks rested on it.
But there was a very pretty line of dead continually growing in our rear, and doubtless the enemy had at his back a similar encouragement.
Looking across the fields in our rear (rather longingly) I had the happy distinction of a discoverer.
As we were all very tired with our run, which must have carried us six or seven miles, we were proposing to rest, when again we heard the cries in our rear.
Kendo and several of the other blacks accompanied us, but kept well in our rear, ready to take to flight should we fail to kill the beast.
Our pursuers seemed to think that they might have to pay too dearly for the attempt to recover us, and we were now allowed to go on without molestation, we could still hear them, however, shouting in our rear.
Our losses are light, and, not-withstanding the repeated breaks of the road to our rear, supplies are ample.
The enemy's cavalry was also busy in our rear, compelling us to detach cavalry all the way back as far as Resaca, and to strengthen all the infantry posts as far as Nashville.
Besides, our position, with a river in our rear, gave him the chance of vastly greater results, if his assault were successful, than could be hoped for by any attack he could make after we had crossed the Harpeth.
But the Sandtown Road leading to our rear, on which Cox's division had been posted until Johnston's attack made it necessary to close him up on Hascall, was now less strongly guarded.
On our way back the rebs hung in our rear, but did not molest us.
Wolf River a quarter of a mile to the front of us, 12th Battery to our left, and the 15th Army Corps came in late in the evening to our rear.
The timber all felled on the mountains in our rear.
They had crossed the river some distance below our pickets and had placed themselves directly in our rear, cutting off our retreat.
In reply, hundreds of hands pointed toward the enemy on our left, and some voices said, "They're getting in our rear.
About 6 o'clock in the morning we heard a few shots in our rear.
This night our regiment went on picket on the bridge over the river in our rear.
Our army by this time had fallen back out of sight; and the Forty-fourth Virginia (Rebel) cavalry was close on our right and in our rear.
While the fighting was going on wagons were heard driving rapidly down the Valley on the road crossing the Berryville pike just to our rear.
The next day on the way down the Valley, 400 Rebel cavalry charged on our rear guard at Woodstock; but some well directed shots from a section of artillery sent them back flying.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our rear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
