Alice Williamson Diary

As defined in the Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1981, the millitary definition is

• a: a detached body of soldiers serving to guard an army from surprise and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy-called also outlying picket
• b: a detachment kept ready in camp for such duty- called also inlying picket
• c: sentinal
• e: the duty of serving as a picket

Alice Williamson Diary - Table of Contents

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