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Example sentences for "plank road"

  • Again they bore him along the Plank Road until a gun loaded with canister swept that road clear, and the litter-bearers fled, leaving General Jackson lying in the road.

  • We left the town by way of the old "plank road," batteries of Confederates on both sides.

  • Lee to the Rear" one mile west of Brock on Plank road, Sedgwick's monument near Spotsylvania Court House.

  • About the same time two men, sent out as spies, came in, and reported the enemy crossing the plank road on our right, in heavy columns.

  • Anderson formed line of battle on extreme right, and on right of plank road, with the purpose of sweeping round on the enemy's left.

  • As already stated, Williams' division struck Anderson in front on Birney's left, and Geary attacked McLaws across the Plank Road to the right of Hancock.

  • Before Berry went out, Warren had stopped several of the Eleventh Corps batteries, and had formed them across the Plank Road, behind the position of the infantry.

  • Plank road at Parker's Store, and pushed rapidly down it to where the battle had already begun.

  • The saving on the life of a pole or plank road by the use of rubber tires is also an item of considerable importance.

  • A plank road in England would be a curiosity indeed: here it is none: fancy rolling along a floor of thick boards through field and forest for a hundred miles.

  • Thamesville, where there is a dam and an extensive bridge, and altogether the preparation for the plank road is a very extraordinary work, embracing much deep cutting.


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