I asked some Federals who she was; one told me she was the wife of Citizen Eudes, a member of the Commune, and another that she was a newspaper seller in the Avenue des Ternes, whose child had been killed in the Rue des Acacias the night before by a fragment of a shell, and that she had sworn to revenge him.

By skilful disposition of his forces across the lines of connection between Chattanooga and the base of supplies, General Bragg brought the Federals almost to the point of starvation, and there was grave risk that through the necessary falling back of the army to secure supplies, the whole advantage of the previous year's campaign might be lost.

Moreover, by bruising the Federals there he delayed them, getting ample time for ensconcing his army on the Rappahannock front for the winter.

" "Did both Confederates and Union troops win the battle of Bull Run?" "The Confederates defeated the Federals," said the Doctor; "but the defeat will prove profitable to the defeated.

Their first rush had dislodged the Federals from the log church, but had been halted just below in the hollow.

We should have driven the Federals into the river.

He found the Federals still in possession of the place.

The concierge rubbed his hands and winked at the bystanders, while another was saying, "They respect nothing those Federals; during the battle they came in to steal.

In the Avenue de Marigny the gendarmes have shot twelve Federals who had surrendered; their bodies are still lying on the pavement in front of the tobacconist's.

This ties the Federals to the railroads, as they can not carry enough ammunition and food for any length of time.