175. At the second command, the captains of the fifth and sixth companies will prepare to deploy the first platoons of their respective companies, the sixth on its right, the fifth on its left.
176. The captain of the fourth company will face it to the right, and the captains of the seventh and eighth companies will face their respective companies to the left.
177. At the command march, the movement will commence. The platoons of the fifth and sixth companies will deploy forward; the right guide of the sixth will march on the point which will be indicated to him by the lieutenant-colonel.
178. The company which has faced to the right, and also the companies which have faced to the left, will march straight-forward. The fourth company will take an interval of one hundred paces, counting from the left of the fifth, and its chief will deploy its first platoon on its left file. The seventh and eight companies will each take an interval of one hundred paces, counting from the right file of the company, which is immediately on its right; and the chiefs of these companies will afterward deploy their first platoons on the right file.
179. The guides who conduct the files on which the deployment is made, should be careful to direct themselves toward the outer man of the neighboring company, already deployed as skirmishers; or if the company has not finished its deployment, they will judge carefully the distance which may still be required to place all these files in line and will then march on the point thus marked out. The companies as they arrive on the line, will align themselves on those already deployed.
180. The lieutenant colonel and adjutant will follow the deployment, the one on the right, the other on the left; the movement concluded, they will place themselves near the colonel. The major, not in command of the reserve, will also be oar the colonel. In case the companies of skirmishers constitute a part of the battalion reserve, the junior major will be placed in command.
181. The reserves of the companies will be established in echelon in the following manner: the reserve of the sixth company will be placed one hundred and fifty paces in rear of the right of this company; the reserves-of the fourth and fifth companies, united, opposite the centre of their line of skirmishers, and thirty paces in advance of the reserve of the sixth company; the reserves of the seventh and eighth companies, also united, opposite the centre of their line of skirmishers, and thirty paces farther to the rear than the reserve of the sixth company.
182. The major commanding the companies composing the reserve, on receiving' an order from the colonel to that effect, will march these companies thirty paces to the rear, and will then ploy them into column by company, at half distance; after which, he will conduct the column to the point which shall have been indicated to him
183. The colonel will have a general superintendence of the movement; and when it is finished, will move to a point in rear of the line, whence his view may best embrace all the parts, in order to direct their movements.
184. If, instead of deploying forward, it be desired to deploy by the flank, the sixth and fifth companies will be moved to the front ten or twelve paces, halted, and deployed by the flank the one on the right, the other on the left file, by the means already indicated. Each of the other companies will be marched by the flank; and soon as the last file of the company, next toward the direction, shall have taken its interval, it will be moved on the line established by the fifth and sixth companies, halted and deployed.
185. In the preceding example, it has been supposed that the battalion was in order of battle; but if in column, it would be deployed skirmishers by the same commands and according to the same principles.
186. If the deployment is to be made forward the directing company as soon as it is unmasked, will be moved ten or twelve paces in front of the head of the column, and will be then deployed on the file indicated. Each of the other companies will take its interval to the right or left and deploy as soon as it is taken.
187. If the deployment is to be made by the flank, the directing company will be moved in the same manner to the front, as soon as it is unmasked, and will then be halted and deployed by the flank on the file indicated. Each of the other companies will be marched by the flank, and when its interval is taken, will be moved on he line, halted and deployed as soon as the company next toward the direction shall have finished its deployment.
188. It has been prescribed to place the reserves in echelon, in order that they may, in the event of a rally, be able to protect themselves  without injuring each other; and the reserves of two contiguous companies have been united, in order to diminish the number of the echelons, and to increase their capacity for resisting cavalry.
189. The echelons, in the example given, descend from right to left, but they may, on an indication from the colonel to that effect, be posted on the same principle, so as to descend from left to right.
190. When the color-company is to be deployed as skirmishers, the color, without its guard, will be detached, and remain with the battalion reserve.
191. In the deployments of the battalion, one or both, of the companies of skirmishers; can either constitute a part of the battalion reserve, or take their places in the line of skirmishers as the colonel may desire; in the latter case, they will take their appointed places previous to the commencement of the deployment.

192. When the colonel wishes to assemble the battalion, he will cause the assemble on the battalion to be sounded. The companies deployed as skirmishers will be assembled on their respective reserves, and then proceed to join the battalion reserve; they will take places in the battalion in their proper order.

193.   The colonel may cause all the various movements prescribed for a company, to be executed by the battalion, and by the same commands and the same signals. When he wish to rally the battalion, he will cause the rally the battalion to be sounded, and will so disposed his reserve as to protect this movement.
194. The companies deployed as skirmishers will be rallied in squares on their respective reserves; each reserve of two contiguous companies  will form the first front of the square, throwing to the rear the sections on the flanks; the skirmishers who arrive first will complete the lateral fronts, and the last, the fourth front. The officers and sergeants will superintend the rally, and as fast as the men arrive, they will for them into two ranks, without regard to height, and cause them to face outward.
195. The rally being effected, the commanders of squares will profit by any interval of time, the cavalry may allow for putting them in safety, either by marching upon the battalion reserve, or by seizing an advantageous position; to this end, each of the squares will be formed into column, and march in this order; and if threatened anew, it will halt, and again form itself into square.
196. As the companies successively arrive near the battalion-reserve, each will reform as promptly as possible, and, without regard to designation or number, take place in the column next in rear of the companies already in it.
197. The battalion reserve will also form square, if itself threatened by cavalry. In this case, the companies, in marching toward it, will place themselves promptly in the sectors without fire, and thus march on the squares.

View Plate No. 32 - To Rally on the battalion.
0-198. If the battalion column has time to form visions before forming square, the companies of skirmishers will take the position prescribed in the School of the Battalion.