Muster Day

noun

, U.S. History.

1. the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.

Example Sentences

Quarterly training or muster-day became an occasion more noted for the rum then consumed than for the drilling done.

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As a child, I loved to see the colors of the holiday-soldiers flapping in the wind and flaunting in the sun on "muster-day."

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Another great day in the colonies was muster-day when the militia came together for drill.

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She could not, with propriety, be present herself, as it was the annual muster-day of the militia in that locality.

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It is Sunday, and muster-day, and the Alabama has once more been put in perfect order.

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