10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICKET DUTY»
Discover the use of
picket duty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
picket duty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On
Picket Duty and Other Tales
Louisa May Alcott. 0n. Picket. Duty,. and. ()ther. Tales. A TIMELESS CLASSIC.
Louisa. May. Alcott. On Picket Duty, and Other Tales By Louisa May Alcott. Front
Cover.
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Kamikazes, Corsairs, and
Picket Ships: Okinawa, 1945
MILITARY HISTORY. This is the previously untold story of one of the most ferocious and prolonged air/naval battles in history: the battle at the radar picket stations during the American assault on Okinawa in the spring of 1945.
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The Boy Scouts on
Picket Duty
In the wake of an easterly squall the sloop Arrow, Lemuel Vinton master and owner, was making her way along the low coast, southward, from Snipe Point, one of the islands in Florida Bay about twelve miles northeast of Key West.
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The 2nd North Carolina Cavalry
However, apparently it was not possible to rest all the cavalrymen, because the
North Carolina regiments were on picket duty the morning following the Battle at
Reams's Station. Hampton notified R. E. Lee's headquarters that his pickets were
...
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U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History
This role became, if anything, more important postwar as the consequences of
enemy penetration of task force air defenses became more severe — thus, the
conversion of destroyers for picket duty and the provisions for picket duty in some
...
Soldiers on picket duty were referred to individually and collectively as pickets,
sentinels, or sentries. Mounted pickets were called videttes. Wayne's camp had
four established picket posts during the day of September 20; that evening the ...
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Civil War
Picket Duty Orders
Orders to Capt. J.S. Arnold, Commanding Sharpshooters, containing day and night signals for challenges and replies, by command of Major General Peck, signed by Aide de Camp James D. Outwater.
James D. Outwater, J. S. Arnold, 1863
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Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in ...
Soldiers detested picket duty even more. Alone or in small groups, soldiers were
commanded to stand watch for up to twelve hours at a time. Unable to make even
a crude shelter, for fear any disruption of the landscape might make the enemy ...
Steven Elliot Tripp, 1997
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Double
Duty in the Civil War: The Letters of Sailor and ...
Given the scarcity of eyewitness testimonies to navy life and life in African American regiments, this book is a rarity indeed.
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The Civil War Papers of Lt. Colonel Newton T. Colby, New ...
During August, the 23rd Regiment took its turn doing picket duty and
reconnaissance in the areas of Falls Church and Ball's Cross Roads. These
duties were much preferred to chopping wood. Regimental Return For the month
of August, 1861 ...
Newton T. Colby, William E. Hughes, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PICKET DUTY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
picket duty is used in the context of the following news items.
SF Nursing Home Calls Cops on Union
... the front lobby area to exchange waves and smiles with their favorite nursing assistant now unaccustomedly out of reach and on picket duty. «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
KapStone millworkers to vote on 'unfair labor practice strike'
Members are required to attend training to serve picket duty and receive benefits during a strike. Local 153 and KapStone's bargaining board ... «Longview Daily News, Jul 15»
Tragedy and Triumph out of a Strike
I did picket duty and attended strike meetings, but I couldn't overcome the piercing sense of loss, almost like a death. The job I loved, at the ... «WDET, Jul 15»
Picket Duty
Jim Rhineburger, right, puts a coat of white paint on a picket fence in his yard on Friday at E.19th Street and Prince Avenue as his son, Randy ... «messenger-inquirer, Jun 15»
WWII vet Bob Ryan: Louisville's Smiling Irishman
We called it picket duty, two destroyers, one LSMR and one LCI. Four of the LSMRs were sunk, two badly damaged and the causalities were ... «The Courier-Journal, Jun 15»
Visiting Our Past: A. Jackson's land grab from Cherokee
Inskeep does not mention, as some sources do, that Wood was on picket duty, but he does note that the charge that Wood had committed his ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jun 15»
Kamikaze survivor shares vivid memories
"We were one of 148 destroyers that had picket duty. Our job was to intercept Japanese planes before they could attack the bases at Okinawa. «Lansing State Journal, May 15»
May 22, 1861: Thornsberry Bailey Brown Becomes First Union …
... the war, Thornsberry Bailey Brown and another member of the Grafton Guards surprised three of Letcher's Guards, who were on picket duty. «West Virginia Public Broadcasting, May 15»
Cork strikers say bus plan 'privatisation by stealth'
Around a dozen or so NBRU and Siptu members were on picket duty on a deserted Bus Éireann terminal at Parnell Place as the public ... «Irish Times, May 15»
When the Soldiers Went Home
Nearly three years of campaigning and picket duty, from the rifle pits of Mississippi to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, had exacted great physical ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
