bluecoats

Me an 'grandpa scrouged down behind the chimney so as not to git struck an' watched the trap the bluecoats was a-layin 'fer you - uns.

Northern Georgia sketches, 1900

They were so intent in watching the "bluecoats" that they got all around them to laughing.

How it was : four years among the Rebels, by Mrs. Irby Morgan 1892

Since shooting was out, on my part at least, I took them bluecoats southeast to Monument Valley and started weaving in and out of them cracks and gorges.

Wounded Knee Jason W. Stuart 2011

The black people in South Carolina would have been better off if the bluecoats had not been withdrawn.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Deacons for Defense and Justice 2010

The bluecoats will stay, because if it ain't broke, you don't fix it.

Pontin's rescuer Alex Langsam plans to bring Disney-style resorts to Britain 2011

After all, history proved a phrase that usually portends a faulty history lesson that Plains Indians dispersed in the summer, that the grass and food supply in an area could not sustain a large population, and that when Indians saw bluecoats they fled.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

After all, history proved a phrase that usually portends a faulty history lesson that Plains Indians dispersed in the summer, that the grass and food supply in an area could not sustain a large population, and that when Indians saw bluecoats they fled.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

The bluecoats had nearly perished in a storm that, nevertheless, did not prevent the Indians, young and old, from traveling to safety.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

The bluecoats were now, as the über-warrior Grant put it simply and bluntly, “to subdue all Indians who offered resistance to constituted authority.”

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

How many got away is not known, just as it is not known how many were in the camp when the bluecoats attacked.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010