While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While he cultivated a cavalier image ( red-lined gray cape, yellow sash, hat cocked to the side with an ostrich plume, red flower in his lapel, often sporting cologne ), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of Robert E. Lee's army and inspired Southern morale.

While delivering Lee's written surrender ultimatum to the leader of the group, who had been calling himself Isaac Smith, Stuart recognized " Old Ossawatomie Brown " from his days in Kansas.

While Lee's synthesizers had been featured instruments ever since the late 70s, keyboards were suddenly shifted from the contrapuntal background to the melodic front-lines in songs like " Countdown " and the lead-off track " Subdivisions ".

) While Burnside began assembling a supply base at Falmouth, near Fredericksburg, the Lincoln administration entertained a lengthy debate about the wisdom of his plan, which differed from the president's preference of a movement south on the O & A and a direct confrontation with Lee's army instead of the movement focused on the city of Richmond.

While Chen did not explicitly reject Lee's two states theory, he did not explicitly endorse it either.

While Lee's army was enduring strong attacks by the Army of the Potomac outside Sharpsburg, Maryland, Hill's Light Division had been left behind to process Union prisoners at Harpers Ferry.

While he confronted General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the eastern part of the state, Grant ordered Major General Franz Sigel's army of 10, 000 to secure the Valley and threaten Lee's flank, starting the Valley Campaigns of 1864.

While Lee's army was bottled up in the Siege of Petersburg, in January 1865, Hampton returned to South Carolina to recruit additional soldiers.

While Big was running away from Lee's pursuit, he saw a police dog and has visions of the dog's previous life.

While Major General George B. McClellan's 87, 000-man Army of the Potomac was moving to intercept Lee, a Union soldier discovered a mislaid copy of the detailed battle plans of Lee's army.

While writing multiple Punisher and Batman comics ( and October 1994's Punisher / Batman crossover ), he also found time to launch Team 7 for Jim Lee's WildStorm / Image and Prophet for Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios.

While most of Lee's army had an effective one day head start on their flight from Richmond and Petersburg, the advance Union Army cavalry and infantry corps under the command of Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan were able to keep Lee's forces to their north by pursuing them on a parallel course to their south.

While not a biographical film of Lee, the film instead showcases the spirit in Lee's Jeet Kune Do.

While observing the operations of our Government in various parts of the world, I have felt that in many situations where our policies were good we have tended to ignore minor problems which spoiled our main effort.

While many tokens point forward, the main achievements stand as a culmination of the simple patterns of the Dark ages.

While the other main characters believe there is no rational explanation for the outbreak of plague, Paneloux believes there is.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

While the emperor's palace no longer exists, the church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city.

" ( Acts 28: 14-15 ) While Walton agrees that Luke ’ s main concern is apolitical, he believes that “ there is too much politically sensitive material for this view to be tenable when Luke-Acts is read in its first-century settings, both Jewish and Greco-Roman .”

While tanks are seen as being integral to armoured warfare, in forces with a remit of power projection deployability has always been a consideration, which conventional main battle tanks cannot provide.

While his work on deciphering the Maya script gained some support from Alfred Tozzer at Harvard, the main authority on Ancient Maya culture, J. E. S.

While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

While often simplistically summarised as " aboutness " or the relationship between mental acts and the external world, Brentano defined it as the main characteristic of mental phenomena, by which they could be distinguished from physical phenomena.

While there were victims from many groups, Jews were the main targets.

While the main usage is religious, the term is also used to characterize a movement that has great commitment.

While cod was formerly the main catch, today the industry centers on cold-water shrimp and Greenland halibut.

While the use of layers much later became one of the main typical features of a contemporary GIS, the photographic process just described is not considered to be a GIS in itself – as the maps were just images with no database to link them to.

While " glasnost " is associated with freedom of speech, the main goal of this policy was to make the country's management transparent and open to debate, thus circumventing the narrow circle of apparatchiks who previously exercised complete control of the economy.

While their main force had constructed siege works and was close to taking the cities of Thessalonica and Cassandreia, it retreated to the Balkan interior at the news that the emperor was advancing.

While the main feature, the seven transmembrane helices, is conserved, the relative orientation of the helices differ significantly from that of bacteriorhodopsin.

While the majority of his films lost money at the box office ( the main reason for Santana's end ), at least two of them are still remembered today ; In a Lonely Place is now recognized as a masterpiece of film noir.

While the comb material does have a slight influence over the sound of the harmonica, the main advantage of a particular comb material over another one is its durability.

While data reduction ( compression, be it lossy or lossless ) is a main goal of transform coding, it also allows other goals: one may represent data more accurately for the original amount of space – for example, in principle, if one starts with an analog or high-resolution digital master, an MP3 file of a given size should provide a better representation than a raw uncompressed audio in WAV or AIFF file of the same size.

While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa.

While the majority of plutinos have low orbital inclinations, a substantial number of them follow orbits similar to that of Pluto, with inclinations in the 10 – 25 ° range and eccentricities around 0. 2 – 0. 25, resulting in perihelia inside ( or close to ) the orbit of Neptune and aphelia close to the main Kuiper belt's outer edge ( where objects have 1: 2 resonance with Neptune ).

While the main business activities of a pawnshop are lending money for interest based on valuable items that customers bring in, some pawnshops also undertake other business activities, such as selling brand-new retail items that are in demand in the neighborhood of the store.

While working as the main bartender at Barrachina ( a restaurant in Puerto Rico ), Ramon mixed pineapple juice, coconut cream, condensed milk and ice in a blender, creating a delicious and refreshing drink, known today as the Piña Colada.

While still under the domain of the Mongol-Tatars and with their connivance, Moscow began to assert its influence in the Central Rus ' in the early 14th century, gradually becoming the main leading force in the process of the Rus ' lands ' reunification and expansion of Russia.

While swimming at Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera, July 1, 1928, he suffered a heart attack and died.

While the attack on Taviers went in the Earl of Orkney launched his first line of English across the Petite Gheete in a determined attack against the barricaded villages of Offus and Autre-Eglise on the Allied right.

While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.

While Constantius was away from the eastern frontier in early 337, Shapur assembled a large army, including war elephants, and launched an attack on Roman territory, laying waste to Mesopotamia and putting Nisibis under siege.

While the kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria were under attack, other Viking armies were active in the far north.

While serving as First Sea Lord, his primary concerns dealt with devising plans on how the Royal Navy would keep shipping lanes open if Britain fell victim to a nuclear attack.

While light, highly maneuverable aircraft did have some advantages in fighter-versus-fighter combat, those could usually be overcome by sound tactical doctrine, and the design approach of the Italians and Japanese made their planes ill-suited as interceptors or attack aircraft.

While preparing for the Invasion of Russia, Hitler decided to attack Greece in December 1940 to prevent a British attack on his southern flank.

While under attack by his fellow comrades Northstar and Aurora-under mind control, Bobby was essentially blown up in his human form.

While the Emperor received detailed reports from Sugiyama and Nagano about the operations in Southeast Asia and the attack of Pearl Harbor, Prime Minister Konoe made one last desperate attempt to avoid war.

While most of the shelter's inhabitants considered a racist motivation for the attack obvious, the police and the local court have been accused of having ruled out racism as a possible motive before even beginning preliminary investigations.

While this action was interpreted as an attack upon leftism, Sokal, who was a committed supporter of the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua during the 1980s, intended it as a critique from within the Left.

While writing that the series fulfills the norms of mass-market fiction, as mentioned above, magazine writer Michelle Goldberg characterized the books as an attack on Judaism and liberal secularism, and suggested that the near-future " end times " in which the books are set seem to reflect the actual worldview of millions of Americans, including many prominent conservative leaders.

While the acquisitions of Tarkenton and wide receiver John Gilliam improved the passing attack, the running game was inconsistent and the Vikings finished with a disappointing 7 – 7 record.

While pikemen usually grouped together and awaited a mounted attack, the Swiss developed flexible formations and aggressive maneuvering, forcing their opponents to respond.

While vacationing in Tahiti in early 1978, he suffered a transient ischemic attack.

While doing so, other teams would attempt to fire at the target in order to overwhelm the Russians ' ability to effectively counter the attack.

While Spock makes it clear that the events during the period of Surak are well documented (" The Savage Curtain "), he is completely uncertain in regard to the origin of the Romulans: " If the Romulans are an offshoot of my Vulcan blood -- and I think this likely -- then attack becomes even more imperative.

While protected, anyone outside of settlements is required to carry a rifle to kill polar bears in self defense, as a last resort, should they attack.

While Miami's main offensive attack was passing, they still had a trio of great running backs: Tony Nathan, Woody Bennett, and Joe Carter.

While accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning, there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash.

" While the details of the attack are disputed — Michigan claimed it fired no shots and had only discharged a few musket rounds in the air as the Ohio group retreated — the battle further infuriated both Ohioans and Michiganders and brought the two sides to the brink of all-out war.

While on a trip to Washington D. C., Marshall was struck by a heart attack while reading his Bible in bed on the night of June 1, 1925.