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Example sentences for "wagon train"

  • A heavy guard was placed along the wagon train, and sappers were sent in advance to examine the woods along the route.

  • Who ever heard of a General skirmishing with a wagon train?

  • Every fire was put out and a guard was stationed all around our wagon train.

  • We remained until Sherman's army returned to Canton, Mississippi, when the second brigade was ordered to guard a wagon train of prisoners through to Sherman, whose command had come to a halt and was awaiting supplies.

  • Moving in the enemy's country he travelled with a wagon train to carry his provisions and munitions of war.

  • When the movement from Bruinsburg commenced we were without a wagon train.

  • Our cavalry charged in upon a body of theirs which was escorting a wagon train in order to get it past our left.

  • Moffatt of Company G of the Twelfth, struck tents and started for Winchester with a wagon train of supplies for Cluseret's command, leaving Moorefield the 28th.

  • From there we guarded a wagon train of supplies up to Cedar Creek reaching there about sun down, just as our army was driving Early's from Fisher's Hill, in sight from the creek.

  • On the afternoon of the 15th, we started to the front again with a wagon train arriving at Winchester the next day, at which place we were told to pitch our tents, as we were likely to remain there for a few days.

  • Evans, who came to the west by wagon train.

  • I'll not have it said Jim Bridger led a wagon train into a massacree.

  • Wingate turned away and led the wagon train a half mile up the stream, pitching camp above the ford where the massacre had occurred.

  • He had seen the world change in six short years, since the first wagon crossed yonder ridges, where now showed yet one more wagon train approaching.

  • Inside the hour the silent gray wagon train held on, leaving the waters to give shriving.

  • Jine a wagon train at St. Joe, an’ when you reach Fort Kearney, stop thar.

  • He must know all about life on the frontier, of course, and perhaps he could give some information concerning the wagon train of which Sanders had spoken.

  • He wants to jine a wagon train, if he can find one.

  • In 1848 they made the long journey across the plains by wagon train, that being the only means of travel, and Mr. Eastham took up a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres near Salem, Oregon.

  • In 1864 they determined to try their fortune in the west and made their way to Walla Walla county, Washington, crossing the plains with ox teams in a wagon train of forty wagons.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wagon train" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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