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Definition of Haversacks
1. haversack [n] - See also: haversack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haversacks
Literary usage of Haversacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Boys' Life of General Grant by Thomas Wallace Knox (1899)
"Three days' rations in haversacks. — Grant's movements on the battlefield.
— Terrible weather for campaigning.—John B. Floyd and his escape. ..."
2. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons: Giving a Complete History of the Inhuman by Robert H. Kellogg (1865)
"They had been robbed of almost everything in their possession— coats, blankets
and haversacks—leaving them utterly unprepared to stand the hardships of ..."
3. Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War by Judith White Brockenbrough] [McGuire (1868)
"they burned; filled their haversacks with West India fruit, which had been brought
on for Federal consumption; then went on towards Charles City Court-House ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"... their arms were also of every pattern and caliber; and they were so loaded
down with overcoats, haversacks,'knapsacks, tents, and baggage, ..."
5. Down the Great River: Embracing an Account of the Discovery of the True by Willard Glazier (1892)
"Notwithstanding the fact that we were now con* fronted with empty haversacks and
nearly depleted cartridge boxes, my companions were still eager to follow ..."
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