From one end of the state to the other the land was infested by a vicious element left by the war,--Federal and Confederate deserters, and bushwhackers and outlaws of every description.
No doubt they thought that there was a party of ourbushwhackers upon them.
Lucy told the story of the various visits of the Federal bushwhackersto the house, and how she had narrowly escaped death for refusing to betray the Confederate officer who had come to the house for food.
Resuming our voyage, we passed into Cape Fear River by its mouth at Fort Caswell and Smithville, and out by the new channel at Fort Fisher, and reached Morehead City on the 4th of May.
We proposed to hold the citizens responsible for these cowardly assaults, and if they did not drive these bushwhackers from amongst them, we should make them more uncomfortable than they would be in hell.
Paint Rock has long been a rendezvous for bushwhackers and bridge burners.
But the whole place is alive with guerrillas and bushwhackers and you may bet there'll be some hurting done.
But the bushwhackers did not return during our tour of picket.
The bushwhackers would ride to within a few hundred yards of the stone wall, dismount and while one would remain with the horses another would crawl like a snake in the grass up behind the wall and pick off the Union cavalrymen.
After I fired I heard him run, and then there were voices, followed by the noise of horses' hoofs as the bushwhackers galloped away.
Lucy told the story of the various visits of the Federal bushwhackers to the house, and how they had narrowly escaped death for refusing to betray the Confederate officer who had come to the house for food.
It was the bushwhackers and raiders I was most in danger from, and more from the bushwhackers than the raiders.
The main portion of the Indian Expedition auxiliary white force had all this time been more or less busy, dealing with bushwhackers and the like, in the Cherokee Neutral Lands and in the adjoining counties of Missouri.
Guerrillas and bushwhackers were everywhere and Phillips's command was half-starved.
The bushwhackers rode past my camp this afternoon and I recognized Lightning in a minute.
Chapter Two Bushwhackers At a mad gallop, Slim and Lightning raced down the valley.
When I heard the bushwhackers galloping off on her I just saw red in about five different shades.
I thought last night it was all over for us when I heard those bushwhackers riding away.
It was getting along toward dark and looking plenty tough for yours truly when someone else voted himself a hand in the party and cut loose on the bushwhackers from behind.
He saw the glimmer through the bare boughs of the leafless locust-trees here and there still standing, although outside on the lawn many a stump bore token how ruthlessly the bushwhackers had furnished their fires.
The guerrillas an' bushwhackers tuk it out on the old hotel, sure!
While this noisy fusillade by the mob of truculent bushwhackers was going on, there were much more soldierly occurrences by the more soldierly men on both sides.
He is the fellow to cripple these saucy, French bushwhackers of the sea.
I knew that they were furloughed rebels, and professional bushwhackers by their appearance, and that they had just come down from the mountains, when they saw our men leave, in order to see what it meant.
Monks, a man who is not afraid of bushwhackers and thieves, into this county to arrest these bushwhackers, thieves and murderers and bring them to justice.
You don't hear these same men, that talked about Monks shooting Hawkins, say a word about Hawkins and his bushwhackers shooting Union men all over Howell county.
If these God damn bushwhackers haven't shed enough innocent blood and are still bloodthirsty, they will never have a better opportunity; so just let them come.
Small bands of bushwhackers and rebels kept up a continuous fire every day on the advance, and committed depredations by pillaging; claiming they were Federal forces, most of them being dressed in Federal uniforms.
They undoubtedly belong to the gang of bushwhackers that has hung upon our flanks and rear, and inflicted the injuries we have sustained for the past few days.
The bands of guerillas or bushwhackers which swept the country murdered in cold blood all who fell into their hands, and the Confederate soldiers often did the same.
This fact was at once transferred to the Northern newspapers, that "on --- a hundred and fifty bushwhackers passed over the Bole Jack road.
We had gone but a little distance when we saw two bushwhackers with guns, and gave chase, but they disappeared in the bushes, much to the grief of our men, who would have liked either to shoot them or to bring them in.
He barely escaped with his life at the sacking of Olathe, to be finally wholly deceived, surprised and shot down by a volley from Quantrill's bushwhackers at Baxter Springs, Oct.
On this march through Casey county, thebushwhackers were unusually officious.
In the Northern mind, bushwhackers and guerrillas are confounded together, an egregious error in classification.
In this county the deserters and bushwhackers had been committing terrible outrages.
Toward the latter part of the expedition, the bushwhackers became very troublesome, and wounded several men.
The flying bushwhackers set fire to the little village of Princeton and disappeared over the mountain.
There were many little bands of bushwhackers in the mountainous portions of the territory covered by the seat of war.
It was probably some time after these events that the bushwhackers came to our house and wanted Mother to cook a meal for a dozen men.
That night a large number of these bushwhackers entered our neighbor's house and stole bonds, notes, and clothing estimated to be worth $2000.
If the bushwhackers come down upon you, and things go against you, it will be easy to get out by one of these windows.
Any time a crowd of slaves gathered, overseers and bushwhackers come and chased them; broke up the crowd.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bushwhackers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
