Get to know Marye better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Marye meaning
A female given name, variant of Mary.
Using Marye
- The main meaning on this page is: A female given name, variant of Mary.
Context around Marye
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Marye
- In this selection, "marye" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, reinforce stand out and add context to how "marye" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include known as marye s heights and angel of marye s heights. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "marye" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with marye
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Confederate losses at Marye's Heights totaled around 1,200. (10 words)
The Union army suffered almost 8,000 casualties at Marye's Heights, Longstreet only 1,000. (16 words)
Eicher, p. 403, attributes this remark to Lee in the context of the Marye's Heights front. (17 words)
By November 23, all of Longstreet's corps had arrived and Lee placed them on the ridge known as Marye's Heights to the west of town, with Anderson's division on the far left, McLaws's directly behind the town, and Pickett's and Hood's to the right. (50 words)
Stationed at the stone wall by the sunken road below Marye's Heights, Kirkland had a close up view to the suffering and like so many others was appalled at the cries for help of the Union wounded throughout the cold winter night of December 13, 1862. (47 words)
Although the results varied in different parts of the line, the overall repulse of the Union advance resulted in the most lopsided casualties since the assault on Marye's Heights at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. (37 words)
Example sentences (16)
Additionally, Longstreet positioned his men behind a stone wall at the foot of Marye's Heights and held off fourteen assaults by Union forces.
Although the results varied in different parts of the line, the overall repulse of the Union advance resulted in the most lopsided casualties since the assault on Marye's Heights at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.
By November 23, all of Longstreet's corps had arrived and Lee placed them on the ridge known as Marye's Heights to the west of town, with Anderson's division on the far left, McLaws's directly behind the town, and Pickett's and Hood's to the right.
By this time, Maj. Gen. George Pickett 's Confederate division and one of Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood 's brigades had marched north to reinforce Marye's Heights.
Confederate losses at Marye's Heights totaled around 1,200.
Confederate Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws initially had about 2,000 men on the front line of Marye's Heights and there were an additional 7,000 men in reserve on the crest and behind the ridge.
Edwin V. Sumner and Joseph Hooker to make multiple frontal assaults against Lt. Gen. James Longstreet 's position on Marye's Heights, all of which were repulsed with heavy losses.
Eicher, p. 403, attributes this remark to Lee in the context of the Marye's Heights front.
General Burnside, who by this time was focused on his attacks on Marye's Heights, was dismayed that his left flank attack had not achieved the success he assumed earlier in the day.
Kirkland was nicknamed the " Angel of Marye's Heights " for these actions, and is memorialized with a statue by Felix de Weldon on the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park where he carried out his actions.
Marye's Heights was defended by Barksdale's Mississippi brigade and Early ordered the Louisiana brigade of Brig. Gen. Harry T. Hays from the far right to Barksdale's left.
Skirmishing and artillery duels continued until dark, but no additional major attacks took place, while the center of the battle moved north to Marye's Heights.
Stationed at the stone wall by the sunken road below Marye's Heights, Kirkland had a close up view to the suffering and like so many others was appalled at the cries for help of the Union wounded throughout the cold winter night of December 13, 1862.
The Union army suffered almost 8,000 casualties at Marye's Heights, Longstreet only 1,000.
Union troops prepared to assault Confederate defensive positions south of the city and on a strongly fortified ridge just west of the city known as Marye's Heights.
While Humphreys was still attacking, Hooker reluctantly ordered the IX Corps division of Brig. Gen. George W. Getty to attack as well, but this time to the leftmost portion of Marye's Heights, Willis Hill.