| The southern army began its retreat to Virginia late on 4 July, its wagon train of wounded soldiers stretching for seventeen miles. |
| Here status preservation came through absorption into the expanding state bureaucracy and army. |
| The inner life of a nation is linked with the modern mass army in a way it could not have been with the absolutist armies of the earlier period. |
| By 1700 an army of 60,000 men needed 45 tons of bread a day, the product of 60 portable bread-ovens and 200 wagonloads of fuel. |
| Once General Sully's army reached Fort Union, the civilian wagon train, safely beyond Sioux country, continued west on its own. |
| Hughey was left with the prospect of fighting for an army waging a war that he believed was illegal, or running. |
