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battalions regiments and brigades under such
2.—That the General-in-Chief be authorized to organize the said Slaves into companies, battalions, regiments, and brigades, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and to be commanded by such officers as the President may appoint.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Building roads and bringing up supplies
Building roads and bringing up supplies, he waited there for Wilkinson to set his own undertaking in motion.
— from The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine

behind rocks and bushes until suddenly
So when they moved on, he followed them, slipping along behind rocks and bushes, until suddenly they disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them.
— from The Swiss Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

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