Confederate soldier
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- noun
- /kənˈfɛdərɪt ˈsoʊldʒər/
- US
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soldado confederado
- I am known as Harry T Buford, Confederate soldier, but I am not who I appear.
- many Confederate soldiers
They served as guards to Confederate soldiers, military convicts and prisoners of war.
- They served as guards to Confederate soldiers, military convicts and prisoners of war.
- It might be Argentina, but I think it's Brazil where Confederate soldiers left after the Civil War and fled to South America.
Examples
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The James brothers, the Youngers, and the other Rangers ride down a dirt road toward a ragtag column of Confederate soldiers.
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As Paul Foos has stated, "The Confederate soldier maintained the spirit and rationales of the Mexican War volunteer much more than his northern counterpart."
Academic text (2018) -
My father was a Confederate soldier.
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The city government received notice overnight on May 1-2, 1862, to establish hospitals for hundreds of Confederate soldiers and a prison for federal troops.
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The shortage of metals became so serious that Confederate soldiers scavenged battlefields for copper and lead.
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Follow O'Brien's story to its conclusion, and you find a modern parallel for the Confederate soldier who fights not for the Cause, but to save face.
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In offering tribute to the Southern woman, Vardaman came as well to "eulogize the Confederate soldier" (Holmes 1970, viii).
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Historian wrote a book about the sacrifices made by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.
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At the museum, we learned about the daily lives of Confederate soldiers in the 1860s.
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Many letters written by Confederate soldiers reveal their thoughts and experiences on the battlefield.
Synonyms
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A soldier from the southern states in the American Civil War
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A name for a soldier from the southern states during the American Civil War
A name Union soldiers used for soldiers from the Southern states during the American Civil War
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'Confederate soldier' is fully compositional: 'Confederate' (a supporter or member of the Confederacy) plus 'soldier' (an army member) yields the meaning 'a soldier who fought for the Confederacy'. While the entry adds historical detail (the American Civil War), the basic referent is directly inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words and similar compounds occur cross-linguistically.
Etymology
Confederate soldier names a soldier who fought for the group of southern states called the 'Confederate States of America' during the American Civil War. The word Confederate means people or states joined together and soldier means a person who fights, so the phrase simply means 'a soldier of the Confederacy' today.