galvanized yankee造句

• Shanks was recruited as a " Galvanized Yankee " in 1865.
• Leavenworth was used to convert captured Confederates into " Galvanized Yankees ."
• Most Galvanized Yankees probably enlisted in such units to escape the grim conditions in prison camps.
• Also, the Galvanized Yankees could expect no respect back home in the south for joining the Union Army.
• They marched to Fort Leavenworth, where they mustered out on November 13, the last of the " galvanized Yankees ".
• These Galvanized Yankees were Confederate prisoners organized into new Union companies used to man frontier forts deep in Indian-traversed territories.
• Also, since all troops who could be spared were sent to fight Confederates, galvanized Yankee units were used to strengthen some garrisons.
• Based on the historical service of " Galvanized Yankees ", the film tells the story of a company of imprisoned Confederate Army cavalry troopers given such amnesty.
• Later in the war, some of the soldiers who served at Fort Kearny were former Confederates who had changed their allegiance to the Union, thus becoming " galvanized Yankees ".
• A detachment of Company H of the 5th U . S . V . I . escorting a wagon train in June 1865 is the only known unit of Galvanized Yankees to venture into New Mexico.
• Although Fort Thorn was likely not occupied after that time, the 5th Infantry remained in New Mexico throughout the Civil War, and in theory its forces could have been augmented by " Galvanized Yankees ".
• The 1965 film " Major Dundee " starring Charlton Heston and Richard Harris featured Union cavalry ( supplemented by Galvanized Yankees ) crossing into Mexico and fighting French forces towards the end of the American Civil War.
• The only officer commissioned from the ranks of the " Galvanized Yankees " was John T . Shanks, born in Texas, who had been a supply captain of the Tennessee Volunteers captured with Morgan's Raiders.
• After being taken prisoner at Shiloh, he was recruited at Camp Douglas, Illinois by its commander Colonel James A . Mulligan as a " Galvanized Yankee . " He joined the Union Army on 4 June 1862 but was discharged 18 days later because of severe illness.
• Companies A, F, G, and I of the 1st U . S . V . I . mustered out at Fort Leavenworth on May 22, 1866, after 25 months of active service, the longest service of any of the " galvanized Yankees ."
• During the 1960s, he completed eight more including " The Galvanized Yankees ", which Brown described as requiring more research than any of his other books, and " The Year of the Century : 1876 ", which he described as his personal favorite.
• He was replaced in command by Lt . Col . Thomas L . Mackey, former captain of Company C . Members of Companies E and K, both units of " Galvanized Yankees ", accompanied the column of Brigadier General Patrick Edward Connor on the 1865 Powder River Expedition and saw action in the Battle of the Tongue River.