provost-marshal's

In the provost-marshal's department at Richmond, shortly after surrender, was the neatest and most irrepressible of youths.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

As soon as they started arriving, Jerry Rivas hurried down to the old provost-marshal's headquarters and came back with a lot of rubber billy-clubs, which he issued to his gang-bosses, regular and temporary.

The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

The court being sworn, Captain Tremayne was brought in by the provost-marshal's guard and given a stool placed immediately before and

The Snare Rafael Sabatini 1912

"It's a hard case, Major, that a veteran colonel of the Army of Northern Virginia is bearded in this way by a beardless boy of a provost-marshal's clerk, and that he cannot have even the poor satisfaction of slapping his jaws as he is entrenched behind this partition."

Four years under Marse Robert, 1904

Bull-Run there has been much straggling in the army, and not a little desertion; and though a fortnight has passed since Antietam was fought, the provost-marshal's men have not yet finished scouring the country, and a sharp lookout is kept for deserters.

A War-Time Wooing A Story Charles King 1888

Calle Real and why one or two assertive officers lately connected with the provost-marshal's and secret-service department concluded that it might be well for them to try regimental duty awhile.

Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila Charles King 1888

I'm going straight to the provost-marshal's to tell them what I know, and explain away this whole thing.

A War-Time Wooing A Story Charles King 1888

The provost-marshal's eyes are glittering, and his face is set and eager.

A War-Time Wooing A Story Charles King 1888

Accordingly I went at once to the provost-marshal's office, where I found an old friend, Lieutenant-Colonel

The story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom, March 30, 1863, 1885

* The captors of Archer were released as having acted ignorantly under the civil law, not knowing that he held a provost-marshal's permit.

The story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom, March 30, 1863, 1885