depredates

Updated: July 28, 2026

"It is my business, as an officer of the United States, to see that no soldier strays from camp unauthorizedly, or depredates upon private property. I will take your names, and report you, first for straggling, secondly for insolence!" "Put to it, Bill!" said the speaker of the foragers; "run, Bob! go it hearties!"

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War