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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
One night, twenty young farmers residing near the camp, resolved to capture the enemy's advance picket-guard. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
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. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
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. ❋ Laura S. Haviland (N/A)
I only wish he would come; his picket-guard at St. Helena amuses itself hunting cattle on the Fripp ❋ Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson (N/A)
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 ❋ Various (N/A)
A number of prisoners were captured, among them the officer of the picket-guard. ❋ George T. Stevens (N/A)
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. ❋ Henry C. Watson (N/A)
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. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (1916)
At midnight, several days later, Mr. Harrison, who with two teamsters (old soldiers) constituted the picket-guard, heard the soft tread of horses approaching their camp on the sandy road. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Others have such confidence in the strength of their virtue, such commanding arrogance of integrity, that, like a captain who underestimates the force of an enemy and overrates his own, they neglect to place a picket-guard on the outskirts of their moral camp, and in such an hour as they think not they are surprized and lost. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)
He was in command of a detachment of men constituting a picket-guard. ❋ Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? (1909)
A picket-guard had been stationed a couple of miles below to signal the first approach of the enemy. ❋ Unknown (1903)
About sunrise, Colonel Morgan drove in a picket-guard, soon after which that division commenced its march to Amboy. ❋ Schroeder, J. F. (1903)
They seemed to have been sent on before as a sort of picket-guard for the main body, which soon came in. ❋ Unknown (1879)
The cause of his perturbation of spirit was this: during the previous night he had served on the picket-guard, and had been posted as a sentinel in this very forest. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)
