Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 420
pening the ends, and planting them firmly in RECOLLECTIONS OF A DRUMMER-BOY 397 the ground in a long row, the sharpened endspointing toward the enemy, the whole being soclose and so compacted together with telegraph-wires everywhere twisted in, that it was impossiblefor a line of battle to get… … Fifty yards in front of the abatis the pickets werestationed. When first the siege began, picketingwas dangerous business. Both armies were benton fight, and picketing meant simply sharp-shoot-ing. As a consequence, at first the pickets wereposted only at night, so that from midnight tomidnight the…
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