Examples of using Steuart in English and their translations into Russian
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The regiment was brigaded under Generals Armistead,Barton, and Steuart.
However, Steuart was severely injured in the shoulder by grape shot, and had to be carried from the battlefield.
After this episode, an offended Hancock then left Steuart to march to the Union rear with the other prisoners.
George Hume Steuart was born on August 24, 1828 into a family of Scots ancestry in Baltimore.
Rivalries between the various state regiments had been a recurring problem in the brigade andLee hoped that Steuart would be able to knit them together effectively.
On May 24 Jackson gave Steuart command of two cavalry regiments, the 2nd and 6th Virginia Cavalry regiments.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1982, and was on the verge of retirement when theCommandant General Royal Marines, Lieutenant General Sir Steuart Pringle, was badly injured by a bomb planted by the IRA.
Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement.
Steuart led his North Carolina infantry against two New York regiments, causing Union losses of almost 600 men.
During the thick of the fierce hand-to-hand fighting that followed, Steuart was forced to surrender to Colonel James A. Beaver of the 148th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Steuart attended the United States Military Academy between July 1, 1844 and July 1, 1848, graduating 37th in the class of 1848.
Soon afterward, at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House(May 8-21, 1864), Steuart was himself captured, along with much of his brigade, during the brutal fighting for the"Mule Shoe" salient.
Even though Steuart had fought bravely under extremely difficult conditions, neither he nor any other officer was cited by Johnson in his report.
He sent scouts from Turner Ashby's cavalry on the Strasburg-Front Royal Road and two regiments of cavalry from Ewell's division, commanded by Brig.Gen. George H. Steuart, to Newtown, hoping to intercept the vanguard of Banks's column.
Receiving word from Steuart that the Federals had indeed begun a retreat down the Valley Pike, Jackson began directing forces to Middletown.
The Second Division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, consisted of the brigades commanded by Col. W.C. Scott(replaced by Brig. Gen. George H. Steuart), Brig. Gen. Arnold Elzey(replaced by Col. James A. Walker), Brig. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble, Brig. Gen. Richard Taylor,and Brig. Gen. George H. Steuart an all-Maryland brigade known as the"Maryland Line.
Steuart was brought to General Hancock, who had seen Steuart's wife Maria in Washington before the battle and wished to give her news of her husband.
During Five Forks General Pickett had been distracted by a shad bake, and Steuart was left in command of the infantry, as it bore the brunt of a huge Union assault, with General Sheridan leading around 30,000 men against Pickett's 10,000.
Steuart was exchanged later in the summer of 1864, returning to command a brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, in the division of Major General George Pickett.
On May 14 the brigades of Walker,Jones, and Steuart were consolidated into one small brigade under the command of Colonel Terry of the 4th Virginia Infantry.
Steuart was welcomed by the Confederacy as"one of Maryland's most gifted sons", and it was hoped by Southerners that other Marylanders would follow his example.
At the Battle of Cross Keys(June 8, 1862), Steuart commanded the 1st Maryland Infantry, which was attacked by, and successfully fought off, a much larger Federal force.
Steuart was promoted to brigadier general on March 6, 1862, commanding a brigade in Major General Richard S. Ewell's division during Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign.
According to Major W W Goldsborough, who served under Steuart at Gettysburg:"… it was not only his love for a clean camp, but a desire to promote the health and comfort of his men that made him unyielding in the enforcement of sanitary rules.
Beaver asked Steuart"Where is your sword, sir?", to which the general replied, with considerable sarcasm,"Well, suh, you all waked us up so early this mawnin' that I didn't have time to get it on.
At the Second Battle of Winchester(June 13-15, 1863) Steuart fought with Johnson's division, helping to bring about a Confederate victory, during which his brigade took around 1,000 prisoners and suffered comparatively small losses of 9 killed, 34 wounded.
The others, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, returned to the Midwest in the 1930s due to Wood's encouragement and assistance with locating teaching positions for them at colleges in Wisconsin and Missouri.
After the battle, Steuart was sent as a prisoner of war to Charleston, South Carolina, and was later imprisoned at Hilton Head, where he and other officers were placed under the fire of Confederate artillery.