Life in the camp was monotonous, only slightly preferable to the long tours of outpost duty, and a bathe in the river, varied by a walk round the lines, formed the only amusement.
The night-work at this time was very hard, as everybody not actually onoutpost duty had to work at the trenches from 6.
The General ordered the regiment to take possession of the hill, which was done without any further fighting, two companies being left onoutpost duty on its summit.
That night the whole Regiment was on outpost duty.
The head-quarter companies of the Regiment were engaged onoutpost duty at the foot of the pass, where the army had bivouacked, almost all the men being on duty.
From this time until the army evacuated Manassas, in the spring of 1862, the cavalry was almost exclusively engaged in outpost duty.
The seven days' battles were fought behind intrenchments, and in swamps which afforded no opportunity for the use of cavalry except in guarding the flanks of the infantry and the minor operations of outpost duty.
While I was a private in Stuart's cavalry, I never missed but one tour of outpost duty, and then I was confined in the hospital from an injury.
Guard duty, outpost duty, patrolling, scouting and target practice, train both the eye and the mind to observe.
Outpost duty is about the most exhausting and fatiguing work a soldier performs.
We can now turn to the method of training the company in outpost duty, making use of the same system of demonstration.
He had his share of outpost duty to do, and when not engaged in that he was in the trenches under continual fire, for the batteries on either side thundered all day long.
Phil and Tony bore no small share in the battle, for, on the very evening before, it fell to the former's lot to be on outpost duty.
It was while we were there on outpost duty, that the troops experienced the inconvenience of short rations, caused by General Van Dorn's cavalry raid into Holly Springs.
A'n't you the lady that sent Colonel Slemmens the boquet last summer, when he was on outpost duty, with his regiment, at Cold Water?
I had found out, by this time, that the regiment was the 2d Arkansas Cavalry, and was there on outpost duty.
You are under General Fortescue, and to-night were placed on outpost duty.
It will be some men on outpost duty," he thought; "at any rate, I will have a try.
This was probably why, a few days later, Bob was placed in command of a number of men to dooutpost duty in the direction of the enemies' lines.
The piquets were strengthened and pushed forward, affording another opportunity for a useful lesson in outpost duty.
I invariably accompanied him in his rounds, and in after-years I often felt that I owed Hope Grant a debt of gratitude for the practical lessons he gave me in outpost duty.
Footnote 10: The expedition was an admirable school for training men in outpost duty.
They smoked their pipes that evening feeling thankful that as they lay behind Champigny there was no occasion for them to turn out on outpost duty.
During the day the companies took turn at outpost duty, but when night fell the line was strengthened, half the men being under rifles, while the rest lay down with their arms by their side, ready to fall in at a moment's notice.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outpost duty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
