Now, I'd like to know what the eternal thunders we was marched into these woods for anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot shot at us.
We came in here and got our legs all tangled up in these cussed briers, and then we begin to fight and the rebs had an easy time of it.
The box-cars are empties being sent to Chattanooga for supplies which the rebs are storing in Atlanta.
What we'll do from here on," he said, "depends upon whether the Rebs come through that bridge.
The exulting rebs were pouring into town in steady pursuit.
Carmichael soon had his men thrown out, but the rebs had left and the boys returned to finish their meal.
He deserved to have been cashiered, but Grant ordered him North, gave him another command, and the rebs soon after captured him.
Although she was terribly anxious lest the rebs should find a soldier secreted on the premises, Mrs. Garlach did not forget that the general might be hungry.
I was in the tent, when the rebs came and told me to crawl out.
The rebs to the number of fifty or so, threw down their guns and came forward and surrendered.
Next day the second brigade went to the front and stirred up the rebs a little.
The night at Potato Ferry the rebs fired upon the picket of the 157th and Lieut.
Two miles from Hagerstown the rebel rear-guard was encountered and a lively skirmish followed, but the 157th got the rebs started and kept them going until they were checked by a battery planted on the hights beyond the town.
The rebs are being re-enforced; we can see troops coming down by Pageland.
My daddy, Jim Walters, then lived in Nashville, where my mammy carried me when she ran away from the Mistress after the Rebs and Yanks started to fight.
Right across the road from where we stayed was a vacant block used by the Rebs as an emergency place for treating the wounded.
Now, as this was not the first time Tom Weir (as he was familiarly called) had invaded the sanctity of that village, the rebs had a special eye to his movements, and lay in wait for him.
A few yards from where we halted, was an abandoned field piece with its caisson, which the rebs had left behind in their flight.
Illustration] While being actively engaged upon the river bank, our own artillery had come up, and commenced pelting at the rebs in glorious style.
But the rebs didn't get Newbern, although they captured Plymouth and its brave commander (Gen.
We've no pontoons and I am not going to have my men slaughtered while they swim, but you fellows come with me and we'll drive those Rebs out of there before dark.
You know if the Rebs catch you fightin' in citizens' clothes, they'll hang you sure.
Rebs lay massing for a charge across the slope, upon the crest of which our army was posted.
For eight hundred yards the hill sank in easy declension to the wood, and across this smooth expanse the Rebs must charge to reach our lines.
Rebs had run like tuckies, an' deir line is furder off dan it eber was afore!
From the Major's actions, we all supposed that a large force of rebs were about to attack us.
At the time of my arrival, the rebs had erected a battery on a flat near the river, which they flattered themselves would do immense execution upon the Yankee fleet.
I started on a run, and fairly flew as I went; but before I could get out of range, the battery opened on the rebs with double charges of grape and canister, which came howling and tearing the ground all about me.
In September General Grierson sent me alone to the Upper Colorado, a distance of four hundred miles, with instructions to see whether the rebs were concentrating a force or fortifying at any point along the river.
The rebs fired but a very few scattering shots, and not a man of the Federals was injured.
I hurried them up, and had hardly got them into the church when a party of rebs made their appearance.
The rebs then took to their horses, evidently bent on intercepting our retreat on the cross-road.
The rebs then broke and run, leaving six of their guns to fall into the hands of the 32d Ohio.
I said to the boys, "Grab the sausage, kick over the table, and be off, for the rebs are on us.
I told him that if he undertook to go on the rebs would gobble him up.
From there I had nothing of particular interest to do until the rebs were driven to the Kenesaw Mountain.
Boys," said I to the squad, "if you had rather the rebs would have that tobacco than to have it yourselves, let it alone.
He fell pretty bad about everything sometimes, but ah reckon dey wuz mean Rebs an southerners at had it all cumin' to em; ah allus heard tell dey had it comin' to em.
Buell give Bragg a chance to get away, when he should have found out what de Rebs were doin' an a tuk him prisoner ah heard tell about dat.
I don't know much about it," said Jack, "but it seems to me that the rebs could make it very lively for us if they wanted to.
Nothing had been heard from us for such a long time that they were afraid we'd been lost and could n't get back again, or perhaps the rebs had killed or captured us all.
De rebs dey comes up and stops at der house, and den me and Jake lit out for camp.
We threw up rifle pits but our division was so far in advance of the other two of our Corps, the rebs had a cross fire on us.
We are camped on the same ground the rebs were on last night; should judge we were making for Manassas Gap by the course we are taking; made an easy march to-day.
We followed the rebs about five miles, returned about half way to camp, and bivouacked.
However, the nervous shock of both wounds was too great to think of rising at once, and almost immediately the rebs were running for dear life all branches of the service mixed together in confusion--a perfect jumble.
It was a good thing the Third Division was 'round to drive the rebs away, otherwise they might have more "frightfully thinned" Col.
I have no doubt but what Grant intends to hold this line, but I think it far from his intentions to attack the rebs here again.
We'll teach these rebs that it isn't healthy to go prowling about here at night.
I hope there are norebs in there," said Archie; "but I'll keep dark for awhile.
This fact probably accounts for the rebs always keeping the officers and enlisted men in separate prisons.
When the company of rebs fired, every negro dropped at once, as one man.
A great excitement prevailed among the rebs all night, which was aggravated by those in their bunks calling out every little while--"Corporal of the guard post number fo.
Some of the rebs were not satisfied, and insisted upon loosening the floor again at once, and despite all I could do, they persisted in doing so.
I found on the hearth the dying embers of a fire and quite a number of egg shells, showing that the school house had been occupied the previous night and assuring me that there were rebs in the vicinity.
Between ourselves, the Johnny Rebs are getting ready for us.
We fight the Johnnie Rebs for the land, but we have the water already.
We must outnumber the Johnny Rebs at least two to one.
I hears voices, and turning my head so softly that the bushes don't move, I peeps out and sees a party of rebs a-coming down the path.
The rebs laugh, and eat his persimmons and take him prisoner and march off; Jim allowing that he was so hungry that he'd stolen off by his lonesome to get something to eat.
Good-bye, Jim, don't let therebs get that horse from you while you are sparking.
The Rebs told us that the man who was caught in the hole had been shot where he stuck.
The orderly that came with me took the Captain to one side and had quite a long talk in an undertone and finally came back to me, reached out his hand and bade me good-bye and told me not to let the rebs get me.
Another of the Rebs said, "I know them Yanks are over there.
Well, sergeant, we were about to send a company out to look for you, as we began to think that the rebs had got you.
One of the Rebs spoke to the captain and said, "Let's make them Yanks come down and see how quick the dogs will get away with them.
One day, when the Rebs brought in our meal, an old prisoner managed to steal one of the meal sacks.
I see dere wuz no chaince fer me ter do any ting but git away en lil chaince fer dat, fer two Rebs on horses come tarin' arter me.
The Rebs were so near when they fired, and he fell off his horse sudden.
De Rebs so neah w'en dey fiah, en Marse Scoville sut'ny did go off he hoss sudden.
The rebs are after us, and we'll lose every steer we have," the foreman said to Tom Grant, who rode beside him.
It must have been kind of disheartening to the boys after lying 'round a place a month to have the rebs move out just as they were getting ready to go in, and find they had left a lot of wooden guns behind.
So as to give the rebs a chance to lay us out, or be laid out themselves.
Boys, we have missed the rebs ensconced in these houses, but we can prevent their using them again.
You're going out and surrender with the rest of the garrison; and no doubt the whole lot of you will soon be paroled, for I don't believe the rebs will want to carry a crowd of prisoners very far.
If it's orders, it means that we're whipped and the court house is being burned to keep the rebs from getting the arms.
Well, last night therebs shot up the town, but no one was hurt.
The rebs run; two or three are caught, perhaps, as prisoners, two or three of ours are carried to the rear on stretchers, and on we go again for a little way.
Out run the rebs in confusion, and forward with a rush and a hurrah go our men over the open, getting a volley from the other side.
Lyin' right acrost the path with two dead men in front of him; for he'd kep 'em off like a lion till the firin' brought up a lot of our fellers and the rebs skedaddled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
