"Home guard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who understands the dangers is thrice armed, and is trained and entitled to enlist in the home guard to protect the health ...
— Euthenics, the science of controllable environment • Ellen H. Richards
... companies, most of the men of F company loading their muskets, as they expected that the mob, which by this time had largely increased in numbers, would make an attack. At this juncture Colonel Burnside rode up and was about to issue some order to our officers, when a squad of city police, or home guard, appeared upon the scene and dispersed the mob, after which we resumed our march, soon arriving at the depot, where we took a train for Washington, reaching that place at daylight the ...
— History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861 • Charles H. Clarke
... come to-night, they never will; and there will be time enough for the home guard to scour the woods, and arrest ...
— Within The Enemy's Lines - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic
... by seizing all the horses within reach,[7] leaving none for the militia or for General E.H. Hobson, which enabled him to gain on his pursuers, and he would then have left Hobson far out of sight but for the home guard, who obstructed the roads somewhat, and bushwhacked his men from every hedge, hill, or tree, when it could be done. But the trouble was that we could not attack him ...
— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various
... pledged distinctly and explicitly the opposite course of action, unless, indeed, the Indian consent were first obtained.[41] The Indian troops, however and wherever raised under the provisions of those treaties, were expected by Pike to constitute, primarily, a home guard and nothing more. If by chance it should happen that, in performing their function as a home guard, they should have to cross their own boundary in order to expel or to punish an intruder, well and good; but their intrinsic character as something resembling a police patrol could not be deemed ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel |
