in position

• “Our trains and everything was safely crossed to the S. side of the North Anna & we have since Monday noon been here in position -- our line extending nearly parallel to the Va.”

  Augusta County: Jedediah Hotchkiss to Sara A. Hotchkiss, May 26, 1864

• “Anderson was to side-slip to the right until he touched the left of Hoke, whose division would be in position before daylight.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “The very day he took up his new line he received the disconcerting information that only three guns were in position at Drewry's Bluff.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “Walker reported he had six rifled guns in position on Loudoun Heights.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “Second, east of the Massanuttons Jackson was in a great covered way, secure from observation by the enemy and in position to move secretly on Front Royal.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “I have made one more ash folly a few yards away from the bower, bending three slender ten-foot coppice poles into a spiral, lashing them to ash stakes driven into the ground to hold them in position until, as I hope, the tree adapts and eventually grows into a corkscrew.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “By placing his troops at Conrad's Store, just west of the gap, Jackson would be in position to meet any force coming south through Luray Valley.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “All ten of us on the U.S. short-track team went home with a medal—testament to Jae Su, to Jimmy, to Laurent, and to the others who had worked so hard to put us in position to shine.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zero Regrets

• “Not long after dark a courier returned to report Walker in position on Loudoun Heights.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “Tyler and Grant were in position at the seventh-level landing.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Ark

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