Meanings of fatigue duty in английском

An immense amount of picket and fatigue duty had to be done.

They did fatigue duty in every department of the Union army.

He raised his fist, Captain, saying that fatigue duty like that was worth double.

These did fatigue duty in cloth or undress.

He wanted to fall in the heat of battle, not in the heat of inglorious fatigue duty.

This they did, after sending to the barracks for a party of fifty men for fatigue duty.

Two days we were on fatigue duty picking up the bodies you sent down to us, and burying them.

Some soldiers, in their shirt-sleeves and wearing foraging caps, busy with fatigue duty, went hither and thither amongst the prisoners.

Two platoons of "A" Company, under Captain Montgomery, had been left on the beach for fatigue duty there.

It was an experience marked by brutality, contempt, corruption and oppression, fatigue duty like slave labour, rations filched or sold on.

The offer reached me, very much belated, one day when I was half dead, after having performed some humiliating fatigue duty.

Gen. Butler advised Gen. Phelps to employ "contrabands" for mere fatigue duty, and charged him not to use them as soldiers.

Any one who took one of these courses was exempt from all fatigue duty, and they did not report so early in the morning.

A naval officer engaged in transport came up to Tom Strachan, who was in charge of half his company on fatigue duty, and said-

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.

Except for sanitary fatigue duties, prisoners have the whole disposal of their own time.