Savage's Station

American  

noun

1. a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.

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Example Sentences

Sunday found our troops feeling about the swamps for the retreating foe; and once more, late in the afternoon, distant thunder resounded from the severely contested field of Savage's Station, whence the enemy again retreated.

From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

Load every wagon you have," said the dispatch, "with subsistence, and send them to Savage's Station.

From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.

At three o'clock Sunday morning the 29th, the Sixth corps quietly evacuated its works and proceeded in the direction of Savage's Station.

From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.

He was particularly noted at the battle of Fair Oaks, Savage's Station, and Glendale.

From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.

At Savage's Station, too, the Commission had a valuable depot, where comfort and assistance was dispensed to the sick when changing from the ambulances to the cars.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.