Word: flank
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...march was the splendid 7th Regiment, the New York National Guard, in which Robert Shaw served as a private. "As it swung out from Union Square into Broadway it was greeted with a roar which lasted all the way to the Battery, where it embarked, and Robert Shaw, the flank man of his platoon, was seized and kissed by man after man as they marched down Broadway." He was young, graceful, and handsome; every one liked him, every one trusted him implicitly. He was neither sentimental nor ostentatious, and did his full share of the new and severe work...
Next morning Thomas in turn attacked. Again the Union charge was invincible. Though ordered to pause at the first line, the troops swept on to the very top of Missionary Ridge, in a resistless wave. Hooker took the enemy in the flank, and on the distant left, Sherman completed the victory...
...campaign through its wildly picturesque and beautiful surroundings, but in the military ability displayed by the great leaders, and in the reckless courage of the troops, Chattanooga has become a monument to the defenders of the Union. Its strategie results cannot be overestimated. Grant, having crushed one flank and the centre of the Confederacy, was now called to crush the one vigorous point of resistance, Lee in Virignia...
...whole months Grant strained every nerve to find or make a water passage to out-flank Haines's Bluff, or get the transports past the batteries. It was all in vain. Canals were cut; bayous explored; passages forced through countless narrow channels; but to no purpose. The North was out of patience; the people clamored for Grant's removal...