He lay still and let Lee alone while the greater part of Lee's army was detached upon the mission of driving Sedgwick across the river and recapturing the heights at Fredericksburg.
Then the Federals, under General Miles, rallied and made a counter assault, recapturing a part of the works, but suffering terribly in the encounter.
McCook with his cavalry division, moving rapidly from Bridgeport, overtook Wheeler on the 2d, and drove him with great loss in a sabre charge from the trains, recapturing some eight hundred mules.
He reached the position opportunely and aided in driving back the rebels, Bradley's brigade recapturing the Eighth Indiana battery previously taken by the enemy.
Our patrols again returned from a successful pursuit after marauders, recapturing one hundred sheep and seventy head of cattle, with a loss of three on the side of the enemy.
From this ridge (AAA) General Foch had been repulsed, and the Germans had pushed forward in the hope of recapturing the city.
Our illustration shows the French recapturing a trench and meeting a determined counter-attack of the Germans.
The Indians welcomed them and shielded them from bands of slave hunters that made sallies into the Spanish territory for the purpose of recapturing them.
They were also pledged to assist in recapturing fugitive slaves, who in the future should seek refuge among them.
She would have been carried away to the savage towns, and there would have been forcibly married to some warrior, but for the perilous attempt, and improbable success of her father in recapturing her.
It will naturally be supposed that foes less wary and intelligent, than those from whom Boone had escaped, after they had abandoned the hope of recapturing him, would calculate to find Boonesborough in readiness for their reception.
It afterward, as I have said elsewhere, rallied and defeated the rebels, recapturing three guns of a battery which had been temporarily lost.
As soon as the fight of July 20 was won, Osman Pasha made all his preparations for recapturing Lovtcha by a surprise.
We were ordered to go in pursuit, and away we went at a gallop, with the object of intercepting the Russian cutting-out party and recapturing the precious supplies.
The same result would follow if a thrust from the Bukowina succeeded in recapturing Lemberg.
They were under full sail, and were apparently making for Fort Penn, with the probable intention of recapturing Barry's prizes.
America had no commerce on which they might prey, and they looked forward only torecapturing those British vessels that had been taken by Yankee privateers and sent homeward.
A prize court of his own country would have decreed restitution of the vessel to the original owner so the recaptor has conferred no benefit by recapturing the vessel.
Haley stood there in very ill humor, having ridden hard the night before, and being not at all pacified by his ill success in recapturing his prey.
The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice.
The English perceived the impossibility of recapturing the Santa Ana when, besides the three ships already mentioned, two other Frenchmen and a frigate came up to her assistance in the very thick of the fray.
A fleet of ironclads had been prepared, with the special object in view of recapturing Fort Sumter.
They fell like a thunderbolt upon Gordon's front line, taking eighteen hundred prisoners, forcing the enemy out of the fort, and recapturing the guns.
But the remainder of the Ninth Alabama, with other regiments, came to the rescue, succeeded in recapturing a portion of their comrades, and forced Russell and Bartlett to retire.
The Germans succeeded after a hard fight in recapturing the village, and another in the neighborhood, but they were unable to hold their gains.
The job of recapturingthe village was given to the Australians who had made a brilliant record in carrying out night attacks and rarely failed of success.
It is vastly more important to prevent Glendower from recapturing his house, by surprise, than it is to take prisoners two or three fellows making their escape.
But this is an entirely different thing from recapturing the likeness of the man from the nine hundred and ninety-nine anecdotes that are told of him.
Mr. Kipling's Recessional, with its sombre imaginative glow, its recapturing of Old Testament prides and fears, commands the praise of thousands to whom much of the rest of his poetry is the abominable thing.
This contains two letters, one from the master of the Sabine, and the other from her owners; and they give a flattering history of the part I took in recapturing the brig.
He was vigilant, and would not allow the brig's crew to get together for fear that they might hatch up a plan for recapturingtheir property.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recapturing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
