Existing comment:
Guards:
Each day's guard reported here [at the parade ground] for inspection, a short drill, and the daily parole and countersign. From here they relieved the previous day's guard.
The camp guard -- 27 men from every 2 regiments -- surrounded Jockey Hollow with a chain of sentinels. A picket guard -- 2 officers and 50 men -- assembled daily and "lay on their arms" waiting for orders. |