Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at federals.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Federals.

Examples

  • Federals from the Zaragoza let us have it good and plenty.

    Our Adventurers in Tampico 1914

  • The Message, as regards the Federals, is all good words.

    London: Saturday, December 24, 1864 1864

  • General Pomberton, who surrendered Vicksburg to the Federals, is reported to have died at Selma, Alabama.

    Foreign and Colonial News 1863

  • The number of wounded on the side of the Federals is finally given, on the authority of the medical director, to be 7000 instead of 9000, as previously reported.

    Foreign and Colonial News 1863

  • General "Stonewall" Jackson, the hero of the recent rencontres with the Federals, is a native of Virginia, where he was born in 1825.

    Foreign Intelligence 1862

  • The loss of the Federals is set down at from 800 to half that number.

    The Civil War in America 1861

  • The former movement was rendered necessary by the approach of the Federals from the east, north, and west.

    The Civil War in America 1861

  • The only indication of the presence of any troops to oppose the Federals was the sight of an unemployed battalion of Southern artillery on a nearby hill.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • The one achievement of the Federals was the severance of the telegraph wires and the tearing up of more than 300 yards of railway track during the brief time they held it.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • The only indication of the presence of any troops to oppose the Federals was the sight of an unemployed battalion of Southern artillery on a nearby hill.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.