Federal soldier


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a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War

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Wikipedia currently says Taylor was the last man Forrest killed, but Wills says this happened instead shortly thereafter in Selma, where "In this fighting, Forrest killed the last Federal soldier attributed to him--the 30th man he killed in personal combat during the war" (Wills, p.
(32) Moreover, the presence of a Federal soldier at the far right in The
Nine trucks, carrying close to 200 armed Mexican federal soldiers, prepare to leave Morelia, a small community in Chiapas, Mexico.
"Richard Moore was whipped by some unknown persons," the Observer thundered, "though not unmercifully, and not for being a Federal soldier, for he never was one, but for conduct that would have brought the same or worse punishment to a white man." The paper continued:
(214) The Act was passed in direct response to "[s]outhern anger over this use of federal soldiers to uphold the laws of carpetbagger governments." (215)
"In front of me, the very first wave of federal soldiers was given the command to go into the cornfield.
Federal soldiers were immediately alerted and raced to the infirmary.
After Federal soldiers burned the Marshall County Court House at Holly Springs, the Methodist Episcopal Church was confiscated and used as a military court until the end of the war.
Shiite militias, federal soldiers, Kurdish troops and Sunni Arab tribes have been battling IS for weeks in some areas but have been unable to clinch a decisive victory.
Washington did not immediately confirm the raid.Shiite militia, federal soldiers, Kurdish troops and Sunni Arab tribes have been battling IS for weeks in some areas but have been unable to clinch a decisive victory.An offensive launched on Tuesday against Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit was presented as a major push to liberate the city, but it appeared to have stalled a few hours later.Shellfire periodically hit the city on Wednesday while Iraqi security forces remained positioned outside it, police and witnesses said.In north Iraq, the UN refugee agency meanwhile said it has begun a "massive 10-day operation" to provide assistance to the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by violence.
Kurdish forces moved into areas vacated by Iraqi federal soldiers, putting them in control of disputed areas that they have long wanted to incorporate into their three-province autonomous region, a move Baghdad strongly opposes.
It sailed into the brick wall, punching a clean hole near a window and shattering glass, as down in the streets below Federal soldiers retreated from a horde of onrushing Confederates.
The clash of these two giant armies began when Federal soldiers under Major General John Reynolds rushed to repel a Confederate attack on the morning of July 1, 1863.
In the final two chapters, Faust details postwar efforts to find and retrieve the bodies of all Federal soldiers buried in the South and the subsequent fluctuation in the official lists of Union fatalities.
They are not subject to the UCMJ, receive no federal protection, and can exercise no command over federal Soldiers.
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