Sentences with phrase «union army soldier»

So begins a letter from Union Army soldier Daniel Parker to his parents, written on March 23, 1862.

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This is surprising, since more than 140,000 soldiers of Irish birth served in the Union armies (with perhaps 40,000 on the Confederate side), the vast majority of them Catholic.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, kogi state polytechnics chapter has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai to institute a high powered investigation into the alleged invasion and brutalization of students and staff of the institution by some soldiers on the order of the state government.

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.

Black soldiers served in the Union ranks, black laborers did much of the Army's heavy work, and «for big projects like the Dutch Gap canal they would dragoon people from wherever they could get them — voluntarily if they could, and if they could not, by forced impressment.»

After World War II, the Soviet Red Army adopted kettlebells as a means of training its soldiers, and in the 1970s, kettlebell lifting had grown to become the official sport of the Soviet Union.

Times are difficult, that's to be sure, but the three women find their home being threatened when a small group of Union soldiers who have broken off from the army to pillage their way through the countryside discover their farm.

The movie follows three Southern women — two sisters and one African American slave — who, left without men in the dying days of the Civil War, are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a band of soldiers who have broken off from the fast approaching Union Army.

Before going off to Romania to shoot his next film, The Keeping Room, about a Civil War soldier who has broken off from the Union Army encounters a group of women who have been left to fend for themselves, Collider...

Earlier in the day, Hailee and Brit stopped by the Variety Studio at Holt Renfrew to promote the film, which is about three Southern women — two sisters and one African - American slave — who must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast - approaching Union Army.

Newton Knight did not defect to the Union Army but took arms against other Southern soldiers together with a small army of both white radicals and enslaved African - AmericArmy but took arms against other Southern soldiers together with a small army of both white radicals and enslaved African - Americarmy of both white radicals and enslaved African - Americans.

After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides.

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Caim is a soldier fighting for the Union army, which is currently engaged in a war with an empire of zombie - like humanoid creatures who take their orders from entities known as the «Watchers».

Whitman originally came to Washington, DC to look for his brother, a soldier in the Union army, but ended up staying until 1873.