Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "rebel battery"

  • Captain Thomas' battery had quite an action with a rebel battery, losing two men killed and several wounded.

  • Not being attacked, our line of march was resumed; but shortly afterwards, a rebel battery opened on our rear, directly from the town.

  • Pettit's Battery went in position on a hill opposite Fredericksburg, and had quite an action with a rebel battery.

  • Our right section, occupying Maryland Heights, fired into Bolivar and on a rebel battery on Loudon Heights.

  • Running a Rebel Battery on the Lower Mississippi.

  • Strange to say, though aground and on fire under a Rebel battery, the Black Hawk was saved.

  • The steamer Black Hawk was fired upon by a Rebel battery at the mouth of Red River.

  • One bright, intelligent boy belonged to Captain Dunnington, captain of the Capitol police during Buchanan's administration, and then commanding a Rebel battery.

  • Hooker advanced, drove in the Rebel pickets, found a Rebel battery on his extreme right, which, as soon as he came within its range began to plough him with a flanking fire.

  • A Rebel battery hastened up and unlimbered in the field.

  • The front was very narrow, and immediately opposite, at the base of the hills about three hundred yards from the bayou, was a rebel battery, supported by an infantry force posted on the spurs of the hill behind.

  • When abreast of Pine Mountain I noticed a rebel battery on its crest, with a continuous line of fresh rifle-trench about half-way down the hill.

  • One brigade of Logan's division was sent down the stream to occupy the attention of a rebel battery, which had been left behind with infantry supports to prevent our repairing the burnt railroad bridge.

  • They had suddenly awakened a Rebel battery, which opened upon them.

  • They were within range of a Rebel battery, which awoke the general and his staff every morning, by dropping shot and shell all about them for two or three hours.

  • How do you know there's a rebel battery on the hill out there?

  • His thoughts were distracted by a rebel battery on the hill sending a volley of shells at the fence.

  • There's a rebel battery on that hill there, and they shoot every time a match is lighted.

  • Some of the balls came through the ranks of the 10th, whereupon Company K opened fire without orders and a sad mistake it proved for it revealed our position and a rebel battery opened on us with shells.

  • In one place I saw more than twenty artillery horses, lying as they had fallen, to the rear of the position of a Rebel battery, showing the fierce and determined resistance of the Union soldiers.

  • Here the trees were literally cut down by cannon shots from a Rebel battery.

  • I began to think it was a rebel battery with a Union flag as a decoy, so I filed right until I got out of range.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebel 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:
    but simply; chaise longue; crushed stone; division was; electric motors; equal amount; general councils; glanced round; highly educated; killed them; little gesture; mighty lord; natural phenomenon; often omitted; passage through; rebel against; rebel battery; rebel cavalry; rebel force; rebel officer; rebel soldier; rebellious house; round shot; somewhat different; straight ahead; vous savez