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Labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on)
fatigue
1
An immense amount of picket and
fatigue
duty
had to be done.
2
They did
fatigue
duty
in every department of the Union army.
3
He raised his fist, Captain, saying that
fatigue
duty
like that was worth double.
4
These did
fatigue
duty
in cloth or undress.
5
He wanted to fall in the heat of battle, not in the heat of inglorious
fatigue
duty
.
6
This they did, after sending to the barracks for a party of fifty men for
fatigue
duty
.
7
Two days we were on
fatigue
duty
picking up the bodies you sent down to us, and burying them.
8
Some soldiers, in their shirt-sleeves and wearing foraging caps, busy with
fatigue
duty
,
went hither and thither amongst the prisoners.
9
Two platoons of "A" Company, under Captain Montgomery, had been left on the beach for
fatigue
duty
there.
10
It was an experience marked by brutality, contempt, corruption and oppression,
fatigue
duty
like slave labour, rations filched or sold on.
11
The offer reached me, very much belated, one day when I was half dead, after having performed some humiliating
fatigue
duty
.
12
Gen. Butler advised Gen. Phelps to employ "contrabands" for mere
fatigue
duty
,
and charged him not to use them as soldiers.
13
Any one who took one of these courses was exempt from all
fatigue
duty
,
and they did not report so early in the morning.
14
A naval officer engaged in transport came up to Tom Strachan, who was in charge of half his company on
fatigue
duty
,
and said-
15
At Roanoke Island, a certain tall, lank, athletic private had been detailed for
fatigue
duty
at the landing, when the steamer from the inlet arrived.
16
Except for sanitary
fatigue
duties
,
prisoners have the whole disposal of their own time.
fatigue
duty
fatigue