He's been proposing some scheme or other and has crawled into the enemy's picket line at night.
Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies.
At twelve o'clock on the thirteenth the regiment, now but a handful of men, were moved by the right flank some three or four hundred yards, and ordered to establish a picket line in front of this new position.
Merriman had been ordered to take a detail of twenty-five men from the regiment and establish a picket line at a point not before fully covered.
There was occasional firing along the picket line.
During the night there was such firing that I got up to ascertain if they were driving Loring's picket line in, on my right over the valley.
Ector came to me for permission to move a regiment to his front in the woods, from where he had swung back, so as to attack the enemy when they came out to establish a picket line.
The diary is too full of detail to record here, so I will merely remark that the everlasting fire continues on my picket line, and their guns shell my redoubts.
Six companies from our regiment sent out on picket line.
Seven companies and a detail of 47 men from the Oglethorpes sent out from the regiment on picket line.
The former had volunteered for service on the skirmish line that day and while driving in the enemy's picket line received a wound in the head, which caused him to spin around like a top.
They had not long to wait, for soon the crack of a rifle was heard, and from a tree in the edge of the woods back of the enemy's picket line rose a telltale puff of smoke.
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