Sentences with phrase «union army officer»

That task fell to his son, Josiah Quincy, who later became mayor of Boston and president of Harvard University, and his grandson, Samuel Quincy, a Union Army officer who eventually transcribed the reports while serving on the front lines of Civil War battles.

Schumer quoted at length from a letter Union Army officer Sullivan Ballou penned to his wife during the Civil War, a week before his death at Bull Run.

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The phrase has its origins in the American Civil War, originally used to describe US Army officers who abandoned the Union to join the Confederate Army.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

In his acceptance remarks, General Buratai, thanked the Union for the award and said he was very elated and deeply humbled to be associated with the name and virtues of the highly revered African leader, the late Doctor Kwameh Nkurmah Prime Minister of Ghana as manifested in the Award and dedicated it to all the Officers and Soldiers of the Nigerian Army for their selflessness and commitment to duties that brought about this and may other accolades.

Present during the investiture were some Principal Staff Officers of the Army headquarters, Corps Commanders and Directors, as well as members of the All African Students Union delegation.

Bound by duty and honor to wear the Union blue, a Southern - born West Point officer fights his own desires and the need to protect the woman he abandoned, he disobeys his orders to find her, as the Army of the Potomac marches toward her family's home near Richmond.She has the guts and willpower to protect her home from the hated Yankee aggressors, but when that traitor to the South appears at her door, she's torn between wanting to shoot him and to be held in his arms again.