52 examples of magruder in sentences

The saddle-bags proved a windfall, for in them were orders to proceed to Yorktown and report to General Magruder.

" Inside the men were laughing uproariously, mingling accounts of love and war in a confused medleyhow a sweetheart in Petersburg was only waiting for the stars on her lover's collar to make him happy; how the Yankees would be wiped out of the Peninsula as soon as Jack Magruder got his nails pared for fight; how three Yankees had been gobbled that day, and how others were in the net to be taken in the morning.

The divisions of Magruder and Huger, supported by those of Longstreet and D.H. Hill, were opposite McClellan's left, on the Williamsburg and York River roads, directly east of the city.

From Magruder's left, extended the division of General A.P. Hill, reaching thence up the river toward Mechanicsville; and a brigade, under General Branch lay on Hill's left near the point where the Brook Turnpike crosses the Chickahominy north of Richmond.

Of the young and ardent Virginian, General Magruder, the brave and resolute North-Carolinian, D.H. Hill, and other officers who subsequently acquired great reputations in the army, we have no space at present to speak.

Meanwhile Richmond was to be protected by General Magruder with his twenty-five thousand men, on the south bank; if McClellan fell back down the Peninsula, this force was to cross and unite with the rest; thus the Federal army would be driven from all its positions, and the fate of the whole campaign against Richmond would be decided.

The divisions under Generals Huger and Magruder will hold their positions in front of the enemy against attack, and make such demonstrations, Thursday, as to discover his operations.

He might cross a heavy force to the assistance of General Porter, thus enabling that officer to assume the offensive; or, finding Lee thus checked, he might advance on Magruder, crush the small force under him, and seize on Richmond, which would be at his mercy.

General Magruder, who commanded this force of twenty-five thousand men left to guard the capital, expressed afterward, in his official report, his views of the danger to which the city had been exposed.

" To this portion of General Magruder's report General Lee appended the following "Remarks" in forwarding it: "General Magruder is under a misapprehension as to the separation of troops operating on the north side of the Chickahominy from those under himself and General Huger on the south side.

" To this portion of General Magruder's report General Lee appended the following "Remarks" in forwarding it: "General Magruder is under a misapprehension as to the separation of troops operating on the north side of the Chickahominy from those under himself and General Huger on the south side.

General Lee, as his observations on General Magruder's report show, did not regard Richmond as exposed to serious danger, and was confident of his ability to recross the Chickahominy and go to its succor in the event of an attack on the city by General McClellan.

It was possible, certainly, that he would mass his army, and, crushing Magruder, march into Richmond; but it was not probable that he would make the attempt.

The small amount of force under General Magruder was a secret which he could not be expected to know.

That General Lee took these facts into consideration, as General Magruder intimates, may or may not have been the fact; and the whole discussion may be fairly summed up, perhaps, by saying that success vindicated the course adopted.

The records now show that at the time of the slow advance of McClellan's army by the Williamsburg Peninsula, General Magruder had been able, with a few thousand men and with dummy guns made of logs, to give the impression that a substantial army was blocking the way to Richmond.

McClellan's advance was, therefore, made with the utmost "conservatism," enabling General Johnston to collect back of Magruder the army that was finally to drive McClellan back to his base.

Cases on the law of partnership and other unincorporated business associations, selected and annotated by Judson A. Crane and Calvert Magruder.

R81659, 27Jul51, Judson A. Crane & Calvert Magruder (A) CRATHORNE, A. R., joint author Introductory college algebra.

R85740, 5Sep51, Genevieve Maisonneuve (NK) MAGRUDER, CALVERT, joint ed.

Minnie Magruder Gibbs (NK); 12Dec73; R565078.

Minnie Magruder Gibbs (NK); 6Jan75; R596663. R596664.

R73544, 26Jan51, Lucy Foster Madison (A) MAGRUDER, MARY LANIER. Wages, a novel.

R75641, 19Mar51, Mary Lanier Magruder (A) MANFRED, MAUDE E. Practical Spanish grammar.

R85740, 5Sep51, Genevieve Maisonneuve (NK) MAGRUDER, CALVERT, joint ed.

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