What is "bluecoats"

Usage examples of "bluecoats".

Many bluecoats would come, and this time they would come onto the llano and press the fight until there were no more free Comanches left to kill.

The bluecoats in the lead fired at the Confederates who were slaughtering them.

The bluecoats came to a ragged halt when they saw what had happened to the first attacking party, but then moved ahead all the same.

A deep column of bluecoats, their bayonets fixed, stormed up the Brock Road at the double-quick.

He'd been shooting at bluecoats the whole day long-forever, it seemed.

When men at the head of the column began dropping, the bluecoats behind them hesitated.

A couple of bluecoats stood where they were, their empty hands high in the air.

A few minutes later, he discovered why: the bluecoats were fighting from behind a breastwork of their own.

Captain Thorp sent the bluecoats who had surrendered north over the barricade and into captivity.

Sure enough, a thin line of bluecoats, tiny as insects in the distance, was approaching the thin gray-clad line of which he was a part.

Caudell was grateful no moonlight betrayed his comrades to the bluecoats with field glasses and telescopes who were surely peering out at their foes.

Three bluecoats dashed out of the house, as terrified as any ordinary Washingtonian.

As he pressed toward the White House with his comrades, his feeling that the world had turned upside down deepened further, for out among the bluecoats came a tall, thin figure dressed in funereal black.

The black folk of Richmond, he suspected, would sooner have come out for a parade of bluecoats through their city's streets.

By the brink of the river, in the shadow of a monstrous factory, he saw that a group of bluecoats had pinned an old man against the wall and were slowly and surely beating him to death with their truncheons.