School of the Guides: Designed for the Use of the Militia of the United States

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D. Van Nostrand, 1862 - 60 Seiten
 

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Seite 51 - The color-bearer will step back into the line of file closers, opposite to his place in line of battle, and will be replaced by the corporal of his file who is in the rear rank; the corporal of the same file who is in the rank of file closers will step into the rear rank.
Seite 32 - The column, right in front, being halted, it is supposed that the colonel wishes to deploy it on the first division ; he will order the left general guide to go to a point on' the line of battle a little beyond that at which the left of the battalion will rest when deployed, and place himself correctly on the prolongation of the markers established before the first division.
Seite 51 - These dispositions being made, the colonel may, according to circumstances, put the column in march or cause it to form square; if he wish to do the latter, he will command: 1. Form square. 2. Right and left into line, wheel. 822. At the first command, the lieutenant colonel, facing to the left guides, and the major, facing to those of the right, will align them, from the front, on the respective guides of the fourth division, who will stand fast, holding up their pieces, inverted, perpendicularly;...
Seite 10 - Thus, in a column by platoon, there will be but one guide to each platoon; he will always be placed on its left flank, if the right be in front, and on the right flank, if the left be in front.

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