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Example sentences for "operate against"

  • I learned through Confederate sources that Johnston had already sent two divisions in the direction of Mobile, presumably to operate against Sherman, and two more divisions to Longstreet in East Tennessee.

  • To guard against this danger, Sherman left what he supposed to be a sufficient force to operate against Forrest in West Tennessee.

  • Smith can reach his destined point, but this I can hardly expect; yet I want him to reach by the Yazoo a position near Grenada, thence to operate against Forrest, after which to march across to Decatur, Alabama.

  • As this expedition up Deer Creek was but one of many efforts to secure a footing from which to operate against Vicksburg, I add the report of Brigadier-General Giles A.

  • The army destined to operate against Kentucky, was to consist of six hundred Indians and Canadians, to be commanded by Col.


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