I shall send for the provost marshal and have you put in prison until your parents can come and get your enlistment annulled.

There was no provost guard to spur on the stragglers; and when, late in the afternoon, the way-worn columns spread themselves on the western slope of the hamlet of Centreville, at least a third of each regiment was far in the rear.

Any white man found on the highway is questioned, and if he can't give a clear account of himself is sent to the provost prison.

For a long period after the capture of Delhi executions by hanging were of common occurrence in the city, and the hands of the old provost-sergeant were full.

[Footnote 142: #cour prévôtale#, provost court, or "court martial," "a criminal tribunal temporarily established, and judging without appeal" (Littré).]

Military discipline and provost vigilance were at their slackest stage in the rebel lines at this triumphant epoch in the fortunes of the Confederacy.

On the evening of our arrival a transport steamed into the bay, having on board the First Kentucky Volunteers, who for some weeks afterward were quartered in the town, doing provost duty and breaking hearts.

When it is found out we shall be in Richmond, and, if the provost folk get hold of me afore I've been home and planted my haul, then I'm a Yank.

Then he visited the provost headquarters, and was shown the complete list of names recorded in the books there; but Barney's was not among them.

A provost corporal stood on the threshold, a file of men behind him: "I have an order for the arrest of Sergeant John Sprague.