Weldon

Examples

• This advanced Warren's position on the Weldon Railroad very considerably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I rescinded my orders for the troops to go out to destroy the Weldon Railroad, and directed them to embark for Washington City. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From our left, near the old line, it was about three miles to the Weldon Railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• General Wright, with the 6th corps, was ordered by a road farther south, to march directly for the Weldon road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the meantime Meade had sent Wilson's division on a raid to destroy the Weldon and South Side roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This would have given us control of both the Weldon and South Side railroads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Butler was in position by the 6th of May and had begun intrenching, and on the 7th he sent out his cavalry from Suffolk to cut the Weldon Railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By the 7th of February, our lines were extended to Hatcher's Run, and the Weldon Railroad had been destroyed to Hicksford. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But the Weldon Railroad never went out of our possession from the 18th of August to the close of the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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