choke-up

Updated: August 11, 2026

These Senators seem to have ventured nearer to the front than did Trumbull and Grimes, and were a little later in the retreat At a "choke-up," still on the far side of Centerville, their carriage passed the carriage of the four Congressmen who, by the way, were also armed, having among them "four of the largest navy revolvers." All these men, whatever their faults or absurdities, were intrepid.

Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson - Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War