Union Army
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈjuːnjən ˈɑːrmi/
- Archaic
:
Ejército de la Unión
- Like many in the Union Army, Bierce blamed the protraction of the war and the profusion of the bloodshed largely on poor leadership.
- command of the Union Army
- Union Army soldiers
- regiments in the Union Army
When war loomed, Lincoln offered Lee to be the commanding general of the Union Army, and Lee refused.
- When war loomed, Lincoln offered Lee to be the commanding general of the Union Army, and Lee refused.
- His father had run a school in New Haven that trained young officers for the Union Army.
- He sat in an office most of the time and then he worked the streets recruiting black men into the Union Army.
- We don't know if they got drunk or fell asleep, but they didn't see almost a third of the Union army.
Examples
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An artillery officer with the Union Army, Captain Coulter is ordered to silence a Confederate battery positioned near a plantation house.
Fiction book (1998) -
Nathaniel enlists in what will become the famous Iron Brigade of the Union Army.
Blog text (34) -
So I came to America during the Civil War and served in the Union Army.
Fiction book (1992) -
And was watching the Union Army advance, reporting on it.
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You told us later that President Lincoln had asked you to take command of the Union Army from General Grant.
Fiction book (1997) -
Some of the individuals have Union Army caps and coats that they probably picked up along their way.
Blog text (20) -
Now, if the Union Army took your plantation, who owns that?
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He was a soldier in the Union Army right at the end of the war.
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Eventually, 180,000 blacks were performing military duty in the Union Army.
Academic text (1999) -
Many brave soldiers fought bravely in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Synonyms
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3.2
The United States acting as one nation during the Civil War
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the army of the northern states (the Union) during the Civil War' is directly compositional from 'Union' (the United States/Civil War North) + 'Army' (land military force). This noun+noun possession/association pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Union Army comes from the word Union, which meant the United States kept together, and Army, meaning a fighting force. It named the soldiers who fought for the Union in the American Civil War, so it's used to mean 'the army of the northern states'.