Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Rosecrans at length advanced, driven on by Northern impatience. Here there was no navigable river to make the advance easy, but, by skilful manoeuvering, Bragg was forced back into Chattanooga without a battle. By July 3, 1863, Rosecrans had determined to drive the Confederates still further back...
...force was scattered; Pemberton, bewildered, tried to cut, at Grand Bluff, a line of communication which never existed. Soon he, too, was overwhelmed by the triumphant Federal advance. At Champion's Hill he was routed and again at Black River Bridge. The remnants of the force were hurled back into their fortifications, and Haines's Bluff, outflanked, surrendered. Here Grant established the base which he had dispensed with for the famouse eleven days campaign...
Nevertheless, the name of the House has made it difficult for many people to appreciate the liberal attitude in which the House really has stood. We know positively that young men who would otherwise have been likely to offer themselves as resident or associate workers, have been held back by the feeling that the house was in the hands of a particular group of persons representing special religious or academic attachments. Men who have actually joined us, have not seldom done so only after careful inquiry upon these points. And after coming into residence, some of the residents are occasionally...
...opponent's right. Rosecrans, however, was so intent upon this purpose that he failed to strengthen his own right, and as Bragg struck his blow first and luckily found this one weak spot, the rebels came within an ace of winning a decisive victory. The Union right was forced back and routed, but Sheridan and Thomas stood firm in the centre and, by magnificent firmness, repelled
...letter of explanation and retraction offered by a Boston firm for their inexcusable attack on the character of a Harvard man does perhaps as much as can be done towards undoing a despicable act. But the taking back of such a charge as was made in this case, never receives the prominence of the charge itself. Every man has the power of inflicting immeasurable injury on others by even the most groundless imputations. A careless use of this power is morally unpardonable, if it is not absolutely criminal...