The men were organized for defense against Indians, and must do picket duty.

From time to time different regiments were sent forward to do picket duty.

After this one regiment at a time was sent out to do picket duty.

The Seventy-seventh was sent to do picket duty on the ground occupied by the First corps the night before.

If we take it in succession to do picket and outlook duty, the enemy will be less able to harry us.

The remainder of 1861 saw him doing picket duty in Fairfax County.

Our men were employed in doing picket duty, and in building corduroy roads and bridges.

A regiment which does picket-duty faithfully will often avoid the need of duties more terrible.

Dorothy and Arthur, and sometimes Abram, did picket duty to give seasonable warning of their approach.

He'd done picket duty with Drew.

For some weeks we had been very busy doing picket and guard duty, and acquiring the use of fire-arms.

It was impossible that the king should be there, he said, doing picket duty at the head of a company.

"Still," said he, "I prefer not to do picket duty again.

If soldiers contracted pneumonia doing picket duty on cold nights, in their summer blouses, that was but an unfortunate incident of war.

It was a dark, cold, and windy night, in December, when Tom found himself doing picket duty near the mouth of Chickamoxon Creek.

Two miles up the road from the village of Champaubert, Karl Biedenkopf, a native of Hesse-Nassau and a private of artillery, was doing picket duty.