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ARTICLE
IV.
To
Mark Time, to March in Double Quick Time, and the Back Step.
109. The
company being in the direct march and in quick time, the instructor,
to cause it to mark
time, will command: 1.
Mark time. 2. MARCH.
110. To
resume the march, be will command:
1.
-Forward. 2. MARCH.
111. To
cause the march in double quick time, the instructor will command: 1.
-Double quick. 2. MARCH.
112. The
command march will be
pronounced at the instant either foot is coming to the ground. 113.
To resume quick time, the instructor will command: 1.
Quick time. 2. MARCH.
114. The
command march will be pronounced at the instant either foot is
coming to the ground.
115. The company being at a halt, the instructor may cause it to
march in the back step; to this effect, he will command: 1.
Company backward. 2. MARCH.
116. The
back step will be executed according to the principles prescribed in
the S. S., No. 256, but the use of it being rare, the instructor
will not cause more than fifteen or twenty steps to be taken in
succession, and to that extent but seldom.
117. The instructor ought not to exercise the company in marching in
double quick time, till the men are well established in the length
and swiftness of the pace in quick-time; he will then endeavor to
render the march of one hundred and sixty-five steps in the minute
equally easy and familiar, and also cause them to observe the same
erectness of body and composure of mind, as if marching in quick
time.
118. When marching in double quick time, if a subdivision (in a
column) has to change direction by turning,
or has to form into
line, the men will quicken the pace to one hundred and eighty steps
in a minute. The same swiftness of step will be observed under all
circumstances where great rapidity of movement is required. But, as
ranks of men cannot march any length of time at so swift a rate,
without breaking or confusion, this acceleration will not be
considered a pre-scribed exercise, and accordingly companies or
battalions will only be habitually exercised in the double quick
time of one hundred and sixty-five steps in the minute.
ARTICLE
V.
To
march in retreat.
119. The
company being halted and correctly, aligned, when the instructor
shall wish to cause it to march in retreat, he will command:
1.
Company. 2. About--FACE.
120. The company having faced to the rear, the
instructor will place himself in front of the directing file,
conforming to what is prescribed No. 84.
121. The instructor, being correctly established on the prolongation
of the directing file, will command:
3.
Company, forward.
122. At this, the directing sergeant will conform
himself to what is prescribed Nos. 86 and 87, with this
difference-he will place himself six paces in front of the line of
file closers, now leading.
123. The covering sergeant will step into the line of file closers,
opposite to his Interval, and the captain will place himself in the
rear rank, now become the front.
124. This disposition being promptly made, the instructor will
command: 4.
MARCH.
125. At
this, the directing sergeant, the captain and the men, will conform.
themselves to what is prescribed No. 89, and following.
126. The instructor will cause to be executed, marching in retreat,
all that is prescribed for marching in advance; the commands and the
means of execution will be the same. When marching in open order,
the captain will remain in the front, and the covering sergeant in
the rear rank.
127. The instructor having halted the company, will, when he may
wish, cause it to face to the front, by the commands prescribed No.
119. The captain, the covering sergeant, and the directing sergeant,
will resume their habitual places in line, the moment they shall
have faced about.
128. The company being in march by the front rank, if the instructor
should wish it to march in retreat, lie will cause the right about
to be executed while marching, and to this effect will command:
1.
Company. 2. -Right about. 3. MARCH.
129. At the
third command, the company will promptly face about, and recommence
the march by the rear rank.
130. The directing sergeant will face about with the company, and
will move rapidly six paces in front of the file closers, and upon
the prolongation of the guide. The instructor will place him in the
proper direction by the means prescribed No. 104. The captain, the
covering sergeant, and the men, will conform to the principles
prescribed for the march in retreat.
131. When the instructor wishes the company to march by the front
rank, be will give the same commands, and will regulate the
direction of the march by the same means.
132. The company being in march either by the front or rear rank,
and if the instructor should wish to face it about without
continuing the march, he will command:
1.
Company. 2. Right about. 3. HALT.
133. At the
command halt, the
company will face about, and the men will conform to what is
prescribed in the S.S., No. 355.
134. The instructor will cause to be executed in double quick time,
all the movements prescribed in the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th lessons of
this school, with the exception of the march backwards, which will
be executed only in quick time. He will give the same commands,
observing to add double
quick- before the
command march.
135. When the
pieces are carried on the right shoulder, in quick time, the
distance between the ranks will be sixteen inches. Whenever,
therefore, the instructor brings the company from a shoulder to this
position, the rear rank must shorten a little the first steps in
order to gain the prescribed distance, and will lengthen the steps,
on the contrary, in order to close up when the pieces are again
brought to a shoulder. In marching in double quick time, the
distance between the ranks will be twenty-six inches, and the pieces
will be carried habitually on the right shoulder.
136. Whenever a company is halted, the men will bring their pieces
at once to a shoulder at the command halt.
The rear rank will
close to its proper distance. These
rules are general.
LESSON
FOURTH.
ARTICLE 1.
To march by the Rank.
137. The company being in line of battle, and at
a halt, when the instructor shall wish to cause it to march by the
right flank, he will command:
1.
Company, right-FACE. 2. Forward.
3. MARCH.
138. At the
first command, the company will face to the right, the covering
sergeant will place himself at the head of the front rank, the
captain having stepped out for the purpose, so far as to find
himself by the side of the sergeant, and on his left; the front rank
will double, as is prescribed in the S. S., No. 363;
the rear rank will, at
the same time, side-step to the right one pace, and double in the
same manner; so that when the movement is completed, the files will
be formed of four men aligned, and elbow to elbow. The intervals
will be preserved.
View
Plate No. 18 - Company Right Face
139. The
file closers will also move by side step to the right, so that when
the ranks are formed, they will be two paces from the rearmost rank.
140. At the command march, the company will move off briskly in
quick time; the covering sergeant at the head of the front rank, and
the captain on his left will march straight-forward. The men of each
file will march abreast of their respective front rank men, heads
direct to the front; the file closers will march opposite their
places in line of battle.
141. The instructor will cause the principles of the march by the
flank to be observed, in placing himself, pending the march, as
prescribed in the S. S., No. 368.
142. The instructor will cause the march by the left flank to be
executed by the same commands, substituting left
for right;
the ranks will
double, as has been prescribed in the S.S., No. 365; the rear-rank
will side-step to the left one pace before doubling.
143. At the instant the company faces to the left, the left guide
will place himself at the head of the front rank; the captain will
pass rapidly to the left, and place himself by the right side of
this guide; the covering sergeant will replace the captain in the
front-rank, the moment the latter quits it to go to the left.
ARTICLE
II
To change direction by
file.
144. The
company being faced by the flank, and either in march, or at a halt,
when the instructor shall wish to cause it to wheel by file, lie
will command:
1.
By file, left (or right). 2. MARCH.
145. At the
command march, the first file will wheel; if to the side of the
front-rank man, the latter will take care not to turn at once, but
to describe a short are of a circle, shortening a little the first
five or six steps in order to give time to the fourth man of this
file to conform himself to the movement. If the wheel be to the side
of the rear rank, the front-rank man will wheel in the step of
twenty-eight inches, and the fourth man will conform himself to the
movement by describing a short are of a circle, as has been
explained. Each file will come to wheel on the same ground where
that which preceded it wheeled.
146. The instructor will see that the wheel be executed according to
these principles, in order that the distance between the files may
always be preserved, and that there be no check or hindrance at the
wheeling point.
ARTICLE
III.
To
halt the company marching by the flank, and to face it to the front.
147.
To effect these objectives, the instructor will command:
1.
Company. 2. HALT. 3. FRONT.
148. The second and third commands will be
executed as prescribed in the S. S., Nos. 370 and 371. As soon as
the files have undoubled the rear rank will close to its proper
distance'. The captain and covering sergeant, as well as the left
guide, if the march be by the left flank , will return to their
habitual places in line , at the instant the company faces to the
front.
149. The instructor may then align the company by one of the means
prescribed No. 100.
ARTICLE
IV.
The
company being in march by the flank, to form it on the right (or
left) by file into line of battle.
150. If the company be marching by the right
flank, the instructor will command:
1.
On the right, by file into line. 2. MARCH.
151. At the command march, the rear-rank men
doubled, will mark time; the captain and the covering sergeant will
turn to the right, march straight-forward, and be halted by the
instructor when they shall have passed at least six paces. beyond
the rank of file closers; the captain will place himself correctly
on the line of battle, and will direct the alignment as the men of
the front rank successively arrive; the covering sergeant will place
himself behind the captain at the distance of the rear rank; the two
men on the right of the front rank doubled, will continue to march,
and passing beyond the covering sergeant and the captain, will turn
to the right; after turning, they will continue to march elbow to
elbow, and direct themselves toward the line of battle, but when
they shall arrive at two paces from this line, the even number will
shorten the step so that the odd number may precede him on the line,
the odd number placing himself by the side and on the left of the
captain; the even number will afterward oblique to the left, and
place himself on the left of the odd number; the next two men of the
front rank doubled, will pass in the same manner behind the two
first, turn then to the right, and place themselves, according to
the means just explained to the left, and by the side of, the two
men already established on the line; the remaining files of this
rank will follow in succession, and be formed to the left in the
same manner. The rear rank doubled will execute the movement in the
manner already explained for the front rank, taking care not to
commence the movement until four men of the front rank are
established on the line of battle; the rear-rank men, as they arrive
on the line, will cover accurately their file leaders.
View
Plate No. 19 - On the Right by File into Line
152. If the company be marching by the left
flank, the instructor will cause it to form by file on the left into
line of battle, according to the same principles and by the
same commands, substituting the indication left
for right. In this
case, the odd numbers will shorten the step, so that the even
numbers way precede them on the line. The captain, placed on the
left, of the front rank, and the left guide, will return to their
places in line of battle, by order of the instructor, after the
company shall be formed and aligned.
153. To enable the men the better to comprehend the mechanism of
this movement, the instructor will at first cause it to be executed
separately by, each rank doubled, and afterward by the two ranks
united and doubled.
154. The instructor will place himself on the line of battle, and
without the point where the right or left is to rest, in order to
establish the base of the alignment, and afterward lie will follow
up the movement to assure himself that each file conforms itself to
what is prescribed No. 151.
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