They drove the Confederates back. Grant then ordered the rest of his army to cross to the east side of the river.
VOA: special.2009.11.19
He invited a confederate, a graduate student who was working with him in his lab-- Psychologists--Social psychologists always call people " who are in the employ of the experimenter "confederates."
他邀请了一个助手,和他一起在实验室工作的研究生-,心理学家-社会心理学家总是称,在实验室任职的研究生“助手“
The plan seemed good. And after the first few hours of battle, the Confederates were close to victory.
VOA: special.2009.09.17
Cabinet members began to arrive, while wild reports spread through the city: the Confederates had declared war again!
VOA: special.2009.12.31
The Union commander,General Hooker, had to keep his army between Lee and Washington to prevent the Confederates from seizing the national capital.
VOA: special.2009.10.22
Still,the line moved forward. A few Confederates reached the Union line, but not enough to seize it.
VOA: special.2009.11.05
When the Union army got to Spotsylvania, the Confederates were waiting behind walls of earth and stone.
VOA: special.2009.11.26
They were forced to withdraw. The Confederates moved slowly, then more quickly as Union troops chased them.
VOA: special.2009.12.17
That was where the Union army had lost a battle to the Confederates one year before.
VOA: special.2009.11.26
He had told General Meade that driving the Confederates out of the North was not enough.
VOA: special.2009.11.05
He would leave the fort on April fifteenth if the Confederates made no hostile act against Fort Sumter or against the United States flag.
VOA: special.2009.08.06
Facing Cemetery Hill, the Confederates stood shoulder to shoulder in a line almost two kilometers long.
VOA: special.2009.11.05
He sent others to fight the Confederates blocking the road to the nearest Union supply center.
VOA: special.2009.11.26
After hours of fighting, the Confederates had pushed the Union soldiers back through the town.
VOA: special.2009.11.05
He said the Confederates must give up their weapons and promise to fight no more.
VOA: special.2010.01.14
The Confederates had placed cannon all along the sharp turn in the river.
VOA: special.2009.11.19
It was easier to march around the Confederates and force them to withdraw.
VOA: special.2009.12.03
The Confederates had moved up through Tennessee into the border state of Kentucky.
VOA: special.2009.09.03
At one point,the Confederates tried to break out of the fort and escape.
VOA: special.2009.09.03
General Grant decided that the Confederates had used the Shenandoah Valley long enough.
VOA: special.2009.12.03
His Union forces had kept after the Confederates for almost a week.
VOA: special.2009.12.24
The Confederates pushed Pope's army back across the Old Bull Run battlefield.
VOA: special.2009.09.24
Their engines were silent. The Confederates,however, had built fires along the river.
VOA: special.2009.11.19
They were shot down. Suddenly,the Confederates began racing down the hill.
VOA: special.2009.11.05
The Confederates were forced to withdraw to their earlier positions.
VOA: special.2009.09.17
The Confederates fought hard, but could not stop them.
VOA: special.2009.12.17
But the Confederates usually got into better defensive positions.
VOA: special.2009.12.03
The Confederates attacked both sides of the Union line.
VOA: special.2009.11.05
At first,the Confederates received some help from the weather.
VOA: special.2009.12.17
It was almost as costly to the Confederates.
VOA: special.2010.01.14
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