The same rule is applied to troops, stragglers from Winchester not being permitted to enter their lines.
They were not stragglers in the true sense of the term; and in an army broken to discipline straggling on the line of march is practically unknown.
When the stragglers were eliminated their stauncher comrades proved themselves true as steel.
You will go to your respective commands, strengthen your lines; send two officers from each brigade towards the ford to collect your stragglers and get them up.
Hundreds of stragglers were picked up, and one of the most gallant of the Northern brigadiers* (* General Reynolds.
Many of the regiments had been broken by the hard fighting on the mountain; men had become lost in the forest, or had sought safety to the rear; and the number of stragglers was very large.
Stragglers from the retreating army were picked up at every step.
The enemy has flung away everything, and their stragglers fill the mountain.
Seeing that he was in a peculiar mood, I determined to make the best of my trouble, sent my adjutant back, and made him halt the stragglers and form my men as they came up; and with what I had, determined to give him no cause for complaint.
When darkness fell the army was but six miles from its morning bivouacs; and it was not till late the next day that the stragglers rejoined their regiments.
Not all the stragglers had their faces turned towards the enemy, not all were incapacitated by physical suffering.
For, on taking possession of this place, we saw many stragglers about in the far distance, apparently part of a large body of Bedouins.
This, as he afterwards learned, proceeded from Gilfillan's party, who had now assembled, the stragglers in front and rear having joined the others.
Next came the noble army of stragglers and bummers with the question, 'Hello, Yank, have you got any Yankee notions about you?
He had some hopes that his countrymen would halt as soon as they had cleared the unfavourable ground from which they had retreated, and either wait there for stragglers to rejoin them, or return and inflict a defeat on the Zulus.
Insensibly they left their troop behind them, without being sensible of it; for the road was strewed with stragglers and men marching at their pleasure, the idea of keeping whom in order had been abandoned.
When some degree of order was restored, or rather when the officers had organized this marauding as a regular system of forage, the great number of these Russian stragglers then attracted notice.
That general had orders to stop the enemy in the rear of that town, to drive before him the numerous stragglers who had taken shelter there, and to rejoin Victor before the close of the day.
The explosion of the mines scarcely blew up the outside of some of the walls, and was only of use on the last day, in driving out of the town the stragglers whom we had been unable to set in motion.
He had orders to make the artillery saw the trunnions of the cannon left behind, and bury them; to destroy the ammunition, to drive all the stragglers before him, and to blow up the towers which surrounded the city.
During the whole of the night, he pushed the mass of the stragglers before him, by dint of cries, of entreaties, and of blows.
She gave this information to the landlord, to the servants, to the guests, and the innumerable stragglers about the courtyard.
How do we know whether that attitude is an humble effacement, or whether the rank of that martyred ancester exalts her too greatly to allow equality with white stragglers of the range?
What hindered me to use my remnant like hounds to cut off thestragglers of the Plate Fleet?
French's and Meagher's brigades now appeared, driving before them the stragglerswho were thronging toward the bridge.
The day following their defeat only 1,500 of the British contingent mustered at their head-quarters, but stragglers shortly came dropping in.
Major Anderson of the Third Maryland regiment, who had collected a number of fugitives not far from the field of battle, proceeded toward Charlotte by easy marches in order to give stragglers time to join him.
It is true that they were stragglers and had no business there; but it was an abominable act.
The stragglers were hurrying back at the top of their speed with the Persians in hot pursuit.
Major Brand, of Queensland, carried messages personally under heavy fire on many emergency occasions, and gathered groups of stragglers into a band which, under his command, attacked and disabled three guns.
These devoted little bands found more than stragglerson that high plateau.
Both the man and his prisoner were gazing off towards the tote road down which the stragglers of the chase were just disappearing.
There was a lot of hallooing going on from one to another, while loud voices and laughter marked the return of stragglers who had dropped out of the chase.
There probably were as many as four or five thousand stragglers lying under cover of the river bluff, panic-stricken.
Sherman, like others, gave ground, but still held his men together, except for the stragglershe could not control.
The Army of the Valley moved within a charmed circle of cavalry which prevented any one from going forward, ahead of the advance, and swept before it all stragglers through whom the news might leak out by the rear.
The Confederate effectives, reduced by heavy losses and by as many stragglers as the Federals, were now faced by five thousand fresh men on guard at the Landing.
Back and still back the blue lines went before the encroaching gray, each losing heavily by sheer hard fighting at the front and streams of stragglers running towards the rear.
In the whole of the first long summer's day, the sixteenth of July, the army only marched six miles; and it took the better part of the seventeenth to herd its stragglers back again.
But Confederate stragglers rejoined the better of the two; and in downright desertion the Federals were the worse, simply because their own peace party was by far the stronger.
Your job is to take off stragglers on Saturday and Sunday nights--those are the two nights of the evacuation.
He admonished the stragglers for having left the line of march, and told them to go and join their regiments and not transgress again.
The Dragoons came up with the enemy's rear-guard and took fifty stragglers encamped near the village of Alvisera.
This morning we had accounts from near Salamanca; the people say that the guerrillas destroyed several deposits of stores to a vast extent, and killed numbers of stragglers from the French army.
I was ordered to pick up all stragglers and to take care that no baggage was left by me upon the road.
On the 17th and 18th we continued marching after the enemy, taking occasionally a few stragglers and sick.
We took a number of stragglers this day who had been suffering sadly from starvation and disease.
The stragglershad returned, but, luckily for them, their outlying pickets gave the alarm in time, and enabled them to escape in hot haste.
General Fetherstonhaugh and Colonel Kekewich continued to hunt dismounted stragglers of Kemp's force south-west of Olifant's Nek.
A large quantity of stragglers were driven up into the hills, and there seized by the 12th Mounted Infantry of Colonel Dawkins' column, who displayed considerable prowess in the achievement.
Only a remnant of stragglers stopped short of the pitfall and regained the canoes.
I imagine that in place of desperate assaults upon fortified strongholds, as in Tonga and New Zealand, the Niuean warrior contented himself with cutting off defenceless stragglers and slaying individuals by ambush.
At Semlin some stragglers of Walter's army were attacked and plundered by a portion of the inhabitants, and the arms and crosses of the men who had thus been despoiled were placed as trophies upon the walls of the city.
Some historians have asserted that the English raised a number of French standards, which they took, on an eminence; which thus attracting stragglers of the French army, they were butchered as they arrived.
On the hill overlooking the Norman camp a number of the natives were assembled, and during the conference they attacked a few stragglers from the camp.
The Fifth Corps was sent to join the army in the field; within a fortnight, a full army corps of able-bodied stragglers followed; the fortifications were completed; ample garrisons of instructed artillerists were provided.
A mile beyond, the usual rabble of camp followers and stragglers was encountered, and soon the road was filled with the swollen stream of fugitives, crying that the day was lost.
This leaves out Crook's men bodily, and calls for 5,500 unrepentant stragglers from the ranks of Emory and Wright --one man in three.
As the men instinctively turned toward the sound, they were seized with amazement to see the tide of stragglers setting strongly toward the south.
This must be ascribed to the fact that immediately after entering Opelousas the most stringent and careful orders were given for the regulation of future marches, and the punishment of stragglers and marauders.
Crook was endeavoring to re-form the stragglers on his colors behind Merritt.
The stragglers of this camp are over on the other side helping Manilla, and catching fugitives and goats.
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