provost-marshals

“Be it so,” said Charles; “I think the Low Countries can find food for the beef-consuming knaves for a few weeks, and villages for them to lie in, and officers to train their sturdy limbs to war, and provost-marshals enough to reduce their refractory spirit to discipline.”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Your military governors and their provost-marshals override the laws, and the _echo of the armed heel rings forth as dearly now in America as in France or Austria.

Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams

Speaking for them I predicted that their laws would be made by major-generals and executed by provost-marshals until the last man present would fall into his grave before the North would admit the state into the Union under a constitution which did not recognize that all men were equal before the law.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

That no countenance or encouragement shall be given to provost-marshals, or others in military authority, in any proceedings against the property of citizens, slaves included, upon the ground of its being liable to confiscation; but the confiscation shall be executed by the civil officers of the United States, as is directed by the authorities at Washington.

Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

There were attempts by the higher officers -- which proved abortive -- to discountenance gambling; and the most stringent efforts of provost-marshals to prevent the introduction of liquor to camp reduced the quantity somewhat, but brought down the quality to the grade of a not very slow poison.

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

The North should know that oaths taken by Southerners before provost-marshals, in recovered cities such as Memphis, Nashville, &c, are not taken to be observed, as a general rule.

Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South William G. Stevenson

A practice had grown up of appointing provost-marshals to take private property for public use, and every little post commander exercised the power to appoint such officials.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

I had settled down to the practice of law, I was several times arrested by provost-marshals stationed at the court houses where I went on the circuit.

The memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, 1917

It was his business, through provost-marshals in a number of districts, each divisible into sub-districts as convenience might require, to enroll all male citizens between twenty and forty-five.

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

Dr. Wu Ting-fang to act during the interim period in his stead, at the same time placing the metropolitan districts under four trustworthy Generals who were vested with provost-marshals 'powers under a system which gave them command of all the so-called

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903