Sentences with phrase «head of the union armies»

If Lee's refusal to accept the appointment as head of the Union armies was one pivotal moment in the Civil War, so was his decision to send Pickett's division across the fields of Gettysburg.

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Lord Dannatt, the former head of the army and Vice President of the Armed Forces Christian Union says he understands that they have chosen that way of life but many will return home, needing to reintegrate in society.
The head of the Port Authority police union says Governor Andrew Cuomo is treating the state police as his own private army.
Blair was a loyal Lincoln man — one of his sons served as the president's postmaster general, and another was a general in the Union Army — but in the movie he informs the president that a peace delegation is heading north to Washington.
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