half-disbanded

Updated: May 2, 2025

That "change of front" looked ominous. A few read the secret at once that heavy reinforcements had come into Richmond from the half-disbanded rebel army Halleck had checked but not defeated at Corinth; and coupled with strange rumors of this came hints about "Stonewall Jackson," which indicated to the same persons that that rebel officer had advanced from the North-west and made an attempt to take McClellan's right wing in flank, necessitating a retrograde movement of that wing to bring him in front.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862