How To Use Sutler In A Sentence
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Let me think, let me think. Even now, orders are being shouted into telephones...and men with guns will soon be on their way. - It's Chancellor Sutler. - Damn it!
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Among the sutlers ' stores captured by the Confederates at Manassas Junction (a major Union supply base) on August 26-27, 1862, were quantities of canned oysters.
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She is the first who has redeemed the name of sutler from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness and plunder, and I trust that England will not forget the one who nursed her sick and who sought out her wounded to aid and succor them and who performed the last office for some of her illustrious dead.
World’s Great Men of Color
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Then I began to enquire into it, and found out that a sutler was a sort of liquid peanut stand, and that his rank in the army was about the same as a chestnut roaster on the sidewalk here at home.
Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883
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The sutler was the authorized merchant of the post, and in order that his monopoly might not lead him to demand unreasonable sums for his wares, the prices were fixed by a "council of administration" composed of three officers.
Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858
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On the 18th he struck out at surplus women hanging around the army, a particular gripe with him; on the 21st he fixed the liquor ration per the standing regulations, threatening to confine any sutler who sold extra spirits.
George Washington’s First War
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Though the sutler was a young and attractive man, neither his golden looks nor his overly gallant manner moved me.
The Haunting
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Repros of these are now available through several sutlers and are preferred over straight wood ‘plug’ type tampions.
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Sutlers - those merchants authorized to peddle provisions in camp - sold such merchandise as soap, thread, and liquor.
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For example, re-enactment societies may importune their members to prepare for upcoming events by ‘going to their history books’ and contacting an authorized sutler to be properly kitted out.
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And in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace...and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
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By and by I noticed his nostrils, and then found out to my rage that I, a Regimental Sutler, accustomed to drive good nags, was leading a glandered horse in a country where horse flesh was cheap as dirt.
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac
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Essentially a sutler was a camp follower who sold provisions to the soldiers, part of early logistics.
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She is the first who has redeemed the name of "sutler" from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness, and plunder; and I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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The middle section consists of two long poems about soldiers and war, the second of which gives the collection its title: a sutler was a camp-follower who sold provisions to soldiers - provisions often taken from the dead.
