Last night I was one
of those detailed for guard, and was put at one of the gates. This morning at
8.30 was what they call "guard mount." The men so detailed are
divided into three squads, called first, second and third reliefs. The first
goes on at 8.30 and remains until 10.30. Then the second relief goes on and
stays until 12.30, when the third relief, to which I belong, takes the place
until 2.30. This goes on until each relief has had four turns of two hours each
on duty, and four turns each of four hours' rest, when 8.30 A. M. again comes around
and a new guard is put in place of the old. The next day after being on guard,
no duty is required of them. Nothing very hard about that so far as I can I
begin to like it, and I am glad it is so, for there is no such thing as calling
the boss up to settle.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 8-9
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