All 8 Uses
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What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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- Exactly a year later, an Alabama corporal who had just been captured at Gettysburg nevertheless expressed confidence that, fighting for "the same principles which fired the hearts of our ancestors in the revolutionary struggle," the South would ultimately win the war.†
p. 10.1 *nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Yet as much as they wanted to return to their families, many of these soldiers would have echoed the words of a Texas officer who wrote to his wife in 1863 that even though "I am sick of war" and "no gratification could exceed that of my being safe at home with you," nevertheless "were the contest just commenced I would willingly undergo it again for the sake of ...our country's independence [so I can] ...point with pride your children to their father as one who fought for their liberty & freedom."†
p. 14.3
- If these phrases seem like clichés, they nevertheless had real meaning to those who wrote them.†
p. 19.9
- Nevertheless, he wrote to his mother in 1862, "I joyfully embrace it as a means of repelling a dastardly, plundering, oppressive, and cowardly foe from our homes and borders....And cheerfully I determine never to lay down my rifle as long as a Yankee remains on Southern soil."†
p. 21.1
- Nevertheless, immigrants are clearly underrepresented, and those least enthusiastic about northern war aims—Irish and German Catholics—are the most underrepresented, despite my quotation earlier of an Irish soldier.†
p. 37.3
- A Kansas lieutenant who had spent more than a year in prison after capture at Chickamauga longed for release but, he wrote his fiancée, nevertheless did not want the war to end short of unconditional victory, for otherwise "the hope of the freedom of Nations and Millions in Europe and elsewhere [will be] driven back and obscured for ages."†
p. 45.7
- Nevertheless, during that year some soldiers predicted that the war must also become a fight to abolish slavery.†
p. 57.8
- Nevertheless, the evidence indicates that proemancipation convictions did predominate among the leaders and fighting soldiers of the Union army.†
p. 64.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(nevertheless) despite thatBased on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 was just stated, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrast and but.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)