provost-guard

Hotel, established a good provost-guard, and excellent order was maintained.

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

The same high wind still prevailed, and, fearing the consequences, I bade him go in person to see if the provost-guard were doing its duty.

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

Here Sam Lyle and Joe Chester, of the College company, detailed as a provost-guard, cared for me until the next day, when another stage-ride of thirty-six miles brought me to Lexington and home.

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore

He at once commanded the party to stop pillaging, and left a man in charge of the house, to protect her until the regular provost-guard should be established.

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

In due time, however, Rhett was passed over by General Slocum to his provost-guard, with orders to be treated with due respect, -- and was furnished with a horse to ride.

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

On these recent marches, the major, weary of inaction, had taken command of a body of men who acted as additional provost-guard to the division.

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

Then came rules about "congregations of rebels," and three Confederates could not stand a moment on a corner, without dispersion by a provost-guard.

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

I immediately ordered a lot of rebel prisoners to be brought from the provost-guard, armed with picks and spades, and made them march in close order along the road, so as to explode their own torpedoes, or to discover and dig them up.

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

The Twelfth Georgia Regiment was ordered into camp near my home to do provost-guard duty and to watch the gaps in the Blue Ridge, through which the enemy might come to cut off the retreat of Jackson by way of the Shenandoah

The valley campaigns : being the reminiscences of a non-combatant while between the lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the war of the states, 1914

At that very hour Richard Hunt was leading his regiment around the Ashland woods where the enemy lay; another regiment was taking its place between the camp and the town, and gray figures were slipping noiselessly on the provost-guard that watched the rebel prisoners who were waiting for death at sunrise.

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox 1891