Labor Companies

Colored troops attached to the Quartermasters' department for special service. Laborer — In a military sense, any direct and concentrated effort which is made to destroy a fortification. It likewise applies to the working of a bomb or shell, which excavates, plows up and scatters the earth about wherever it bursts. A name, formerly given to an old French militia. The word is found among the public documents which were kept by the Treasurers belonging to the Dukes of Britt any in the 15th century. mans.i,— The short woolen military cloak worn by the Ro.n opprobrious term which is frequently used among the French, and applied in all instances of cowardice, and want of spirit.