HOME GUARD • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Home guard

... pledged distinctly and explicitly the opposite course of action, unless, indeed, the Indian consent were first obtained.[41] The Indian troops, however and wherever raised under the provisions of those treaties, were expected by Pike to constitute, primarily, a home guard and nothing more. If by chance it should happen that, in performing their function as a home guard, they should have to cross their own boundary in order to expel or to punish an intruder, well and good; but their intrinsic character as something resembling a police patrol could not be deemed ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

... who understands the dangers is thrice armed, and is trained and entitled to enlist in the home guard to protect the health ...

— Euthenics, the science of controllable environment • Ellen H. Richards