Picket duty on the 22nd requires vigilance, "Yank" and "Reb" exchange compliments whenever opportunity offers and Jonas P.
The weather, early in the month, is cold yet there are few breaks in regular routine, if parades, drills and inspections can be injected between the many calls for picket duty.
Four of the squad were sent on either side to do picket duty and to keep an especially sharp watch.
During the rapid work about the stronghold, Lieutenant Whitcomb had gone out on picket duty, choosing the valley side of the hill.
To defend this extended line General Grimes had only about two thousand two hundred men, and one-third of them constantly on picket duty.
The Articles of War, or instructions of officers as to picket duty, would not be remembered by him a minute after utterance, and not understood when uttered.
I was out on picket duty," rejoined the other, "yesterday.
This I enjoyed you know as I had marched all night and all day and then been put on picket duty for 24 hours, where no one dared to sleep.
We kept up picket duty, of course, and had fairly good rations, principally corn bread and pork with some beef.
One man who was found asleep on picket duty, was sentenced to be shot.
It would be possible for groups of submarines on station, or picket duty, so to speak, to be in constant communication with shore stations, either by submerged telephone stations or by wireless.
A clergyman-soldier writing upon this subject, briefly describes it: "Picket duty at all times is arbitrary, but at night it is trebly so.
If Hugh had only been able to communicate with his friends on picket duty!
Both Manson's and Pullen's regiments were encamped along the edge of a belt of pine woods, and after their creepy experience together on picket duty, they naturally sought each other as often as possible.
During the first part of the night I was on picket duty out on the old road above referred to back of the house.
The editor of the Baltimore American, whom we had become acquainted with when doing picket duty on the railroad near Annapolis Junction, in the autumn of 1861, was there to welcome us.
That was the first time I had been on picket dutyright in front of the enemy, and if I remember rightly, I kept very much awake that night.
Ordinarily, picket duty is not only of the very highest responsibility, but an exceedingly dangerous duty.
The following week our regiment was detailed for a ten-days' tour of picket duty, and was encamped some distance above Falmouth in a pretty grove.
He introduced himself as "Corps officer of the day" and my superior officer for this tour of picket duty.
The man who brought in the latter claimed that a rebel hive of bees attacked him whilst on picket duty, and he confiscated the honey as a measure of retaliation.
We went into camp and began to erect fortifications; for nearly a month we were engaged in that work, besides building corduroy roads and doing picket duty.
The monotony of camp life was relieved by details for three days’ picket duty.
Sunday morning, May 4, found the regiment on picket duty.
A heavy detail from the regiment was sent out on picket duty.
Picket duty at the White House on Folly River, was attractive as the cold weather approached, on account of the abundance of cluster oysters which lined the banks.
The weather was of a variety indescribable, except as Virginia weather--alternating periods of cold so severe as to freeze men on picket duty, and so warm as to make overcoats an insupportable burden.
Picket duty may be the most agreeable or it may be the most disagreeable of all the duties of a soldier, but it is always an important, and is often a dangerous one.
Just after the capture of New Orleans, one of our boys, on picket duty, as light dawned, discovered a rebel just lighting his breakfast-fire up a ravine.
A few weeks subsequently she was out on picket duty, when she received a shot in the arm that disabled her, and, notwithstanding the efforts of the surgeon, her wound continually grew worse.
Recruits always received a hearty welcome at the front--the less the old soldiers had to do in the way of picket duty, the better they liked it.
It seems that a part of the One hundred and twenty-fifth was sent on picket duty to the left, and a charge had been made by the men not included in the detail.
Her soldier boy inclosed a copy of the list of calls for our every-day existence in camp, and when we were not on picket duty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picket duty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
