As he walked over the battlefield, he saw where rains had washed away the earth covering many of the fallen soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

The human remains were moved from other places on the battlefield and put into graves in the new cemetery.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

He refused to believe reports that Lee had arrived on the battlefield with thirty thousand more southern soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

In such a war,he said, the North would break the chains of the black man on the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

People could now see battlefield deaths as captured by a camera rather than an artist's pen or paintbrush.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

He plans to work to improve the legal system so that competing groups can settle their differences in court instead of the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Soon after the war began in eighteen sixty-one, military commanders started to send battlefield reports by telegraph.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

The terrible job of clearing the battlefield fell to the Union soldiers who had won the battle.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

One of the first battles took place at what is now Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Ceremonies were held there to honor the dead at a burial place on the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Army rules would not permit anyone except male soldiers to be on the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

To others,this monument is nothing less than a monument to freedom on a battlefield."

VOA: special.2009.11.06

He looked out across the battlefield and the crowds that now covered it.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Union troops who fell were buried in separate graves all over the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

For four days, the wounded lay on the battlefield crying for help,for water.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

The Confederates pushed Pope's army back across the Old Bull Run battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

On the second night, Santa Ana's army withdrew from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

They believed Virginia would be an important battlefield in the war.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

General Lee permitted northern medical wagons to return to the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Lee left behind a battlefield covered with Confederate dead.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Finally,the sun went down, and the battlefield became dark.

VOA: special.2009.09.24