picket-guard

When the recall was sounded, our men came in loaded down with plunder in the shape of hats, haversacks, blankets, pistols, and shotguns, in a quantity which amply repaid for the surprise of the morning, but did not excuse the delinquent commander of our picket-guard, who a few days later was brought to a realizing sense of his duty by a court-martial.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

He would have come himself, only that he was on picket-guard and could not leave; but he wanted us to know that our mission was not in vain.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

Tunnel Hill, driving off a mere picket-guard of the enemy, and I was agreeably surprised to find that no damage had been done to the tunnel or the railroad.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

One night, twenty young farmers residing near the camp, resolved to capture the enemy's advance picket-guard.

A Brief History of the United States

I only wish he would come; his picket-guard at St. Helena amuses itself hunting cattle on the Fripp

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

On the 13th of May, the Rebel picket-guard was driven from the bridge, and all the Government property was taken possession of by a detachment of two companies from the Fourth Regiment, accompanied by a dozen regulars with a field-piece, acting under the orders of Colonel

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

A number of prisoners were captured, among them the officer of the picket-guard.

Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens

The soldiers stationed about four miles from the main body, near the bay that separated the continent from Staten-Island, forming an advance picket-guard, were chosen from a southern regiment, and were continually deserting.

The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 Henry C. Watson

From this place Bustos constantly caused alarm to the British troops, who once had to retreat before a picket-guard sent to carry off the church bells of Quiapo.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Blowing the ashes of the slumbering fire, I placed upon it the little pot containing a piece of venison for my breakfast, and, relieving my four-footed sentries from their picket-guard, sallied down to the stream, the edges of which were still thickly crusted with ice, for the purpose of taking a luxuriously cold bath; and cold enough it was in all conscience.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916