What is "southerners"

Usage examples of "southerners".

Blue-coated Yankees would be rampaging all across Virginia, and John Pope, the wretched John Pope who so passionately hated Southerners, would be the tyrant of all he surveyed.

Hetherington thought that the Southerners did not look very much different from Northerners, except that they were generally thinner and a good deal more raggedly uniformed, but he did not want to contradict the eminent preacher, and so he agreed that the captured rebels did indeed display low foreheads and feral teeth.

Joseph Galloway owned property just outside Manassas itself, and that farm was now the depot for a regiment of Northern cavalry exclusively recruited from Southerners loyal to the government in Washington.

Yankee officers seemed more reluctant than Southerners to abandon their swords and glinting rank badges and bright epaulettes.

Lieutenant Coffman hunkered down beside Starbuck, his small face showing bewilderment because his beloved Southerners were being whipped, because the North was winning, and because nothing in his world made sense.

The doctors in Boston were convinced that such mental weaknesses were inherited traits, and the more the Reverend Elial Starbuck saw of these Southerners, the more persuaded he was of that medical truth.

So far the only resistance to the Northern attack had seemed haphazard and futile, but now the rifle fire swelled into the full intensity of battle, to which the screams of the attacking Southerners added an unearthly descant.

Northern gunner sent a shell spinning south toward the smear of fires that marked where the Southerners tried to rest amidst the horrors of a field after battle.

South and a mighty pleased North, and when that day comes we want to make sure that we loyal Southerners get our just rewards.

He had obeyed that stern conscience when he had abandoned the South to fight for the North, but the logic of that choice meant not just fighting against fellow Southerners but against his own father, and a lifetime of love and filial obedience struggled against the inevitability of that logic.

The Southerners could not see just where the bridge head was and their cannon must fire at random through the heavy darkness.

But the Southerners, in the shelter of the cellars and pits, held their ground.

But the charge was beaten back, and the Southerners, following, were repulsed in their turn.

The Southerners, with their ranks thin--woefully thin--were falling back slowly and sullenly.

The Southerners had not encountered such resistance in any other great battle, and the ground, moreover, was against them.