provost guard

Units of the provost guard came trotting out of several side streets in disciplined formations.

Besides, we have parties out with the coast survey, and on the provost guard.

F, were detached as provost guard in the city.

There were hundreds of men skulking in the swamps and the mountains, defying the provost guard to drag them back to the army.

The regiment was assigned as the provost guard for Fort Smith.

During the Gettysburg Campaign it was left at Winchester as provost guard.

The small regiment was instead withdrawn to Washington shortly after Lee's surrender and served as provost guards in the capital.

They cursed and reviled him as his provost guards routed them from their homes.

But he seemed more interested in quarreling with the woman than in arguing with the provost guard.

As the flames took hold and spread, the provost guards stopped having to order people to abandon the burning Marthasville.