What is "militiamen"

Usage examples of "militiamen".

Everything's pretty confused right now, what with the Thirty-ninth and the militiamen milling around on this side of the peninsula and the Cherokees starting down by the river.

So were a thousand Red Stick warriors hemmed in behind their barricade on a horseshoe bend in the Tallapoosa, with about two and a half thousand white soldiers and militiamen facing them.

You heard about the time a company of militiamen tried to march back to Tennessee—it happened last November—because their term of enlistment was up?

And I can tell you there wasn't a single one of those militiamen who doubted for a minute that Andy would pull the trigger.

He'd sidled over a few paces, clearly ready to hurl himself at the militiamen once Houston fired the pistol.

Whether or not any of them had been deliberately massacred— and, given the temper of militiamen after Fort Mims, Sam was quite sure that some of them had—many had died as the village caught fire and burned.

Still, if he thinks we're militiamen, Riall might just think he could rout us easily.

Still, after hours of it, Brown was annoyed enough to order Porter to take his Third Brigade of militiamen and their Indian allies, and clear the skirmishers out of the woods.

Sam could see a few signs left of the depredations committed by the marauding Georgia militiamen, but not many.

Even with militiamen and civilian volunteers, you can accomplish wonders so long as you are confident.

Before long, they found streets that were full enough, to be sure—but with soldiers, mostly militiamen, in full and furious retreat.

But when the militiamen who were supposed to be guarding their flank ran away after firing not more than two ragged volleys, the artillerymen and marines had been overwhelmed.

They hadn't retreated until the militiamen guarding their flank had broken, and Barney himself had been badly wounded.

But that wouldn't do much good with the militiamen who surrounded them.

Most of the militiamen who'd been gathered at the president's house had chosen to join them.