Cavalry Tactics, Or, Regulations for the Instruction, Formations, and Movements of the Cavalry of the Army and Volunteers of the United States, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1861 |
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1st regiment 2d regiment 30 paces alignment Attention brigade Brigadier General commands cavalry central squadron centre change front close column Colonel adds Colonel commands Colonel gives Colonel wishes column be trotting column of fours column of squadrons command the Captains commands and means deploy double column DRESS échelon field officer flanking squadrons Fours-LEFT Fours-RIGHT front into line gallop guide left guide right halted or marching horses inverse means leading Captain commands leading platoons leading squadron commands left front left guide Left into line left or right left--front into line Lieutenant Colonel line of columns mands marching in line movement is executed oblique open column platoon commanders platoon fronts Platoons left Platoons right rear regiment conforms regiment marching regiment-close regimental close columns regimental marker right front right into line right or left right squadron right-trot sabre second command sergeant major squad squadron columns squadron guides third command troopers turn walk-MARCH wing
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Page iii - Field Artillery, prepared under direction of the War department, having been approved by the President, is adopted for the instruction of troops when acting as field artillery. •* Accordingly, instruction In the same will be given after the method pointed out therein; and all additions to or departures from the exercise and manoeuvres laid down in the system, are positively forbidden.
Page 20 - ... unknown. If the defile is too narrow, the interval can be reduced to one pace, and the column reduced to fronts of fours and twos 462 — The regiment marching in double column, to reduce the front to a double column of fours, the Colonel commands : 1 Attention. 2. By fours. 3. MARCH. At the second command, the Captains of the left column command : By fours — trot ; the Captains of the right column command : By the left — by fours — trot. At the command, MARCH, the movement is executed...
Page 24 - The batteries being in close column, at a halt, to diminish the front of the column, the colonel commands : .1. Attention. 2. By section from the right (or left) of batteries— front into column.
Page 19 - Advance in double column. 3. MARCH. 4. Guide right, (or left ) At the second command, the Captain of the right centre squadron commands : Platoons left wheel — left platoon forward. The Captains to his right command : Platoons left wheel. The Captains of the left centre squadron command: Platoois riyht wheel — right platoon forward.
Page 8 - The two last commands are repeated by the field officers and by the captains commanding, and the movement is executed at the same time in each squadron, as it is prescribed, No.
Page 28 - Being at a halt, the major commands: 1. On third (or such) battery, 2. Right (or Left) front into line, 3. MARCH. At the second command, the captain of the fourth battery commands : 1. Forward, 2. Column right; the captains of the first and second batteries, Left into line, wheel; and all repeat the command march of the major, and the...
Page 15 - The right squadrons always go in front, no mutter the order in which they stood. 451 — The regiment marching in line, to form close column without changing front and without halting, the Colonel commands: 1. Attention. 2. On right (or left) squadron — Close column. 3 MARCH. The named squadron continues to walk. (If the line is trotting, its Captain commands, walk - MARCII ) The Captains of the other squadrons command, at the second command: 1.
Page 1 - HALT, he at the game instant raises his right arm and sabre vertically to their full extent. The commands, ATTENTION and FRONT, are not repeated. The preparatory commands are immediately repeated by the field officers. The field officers superintend the due execution of the evolutions, and of commands generally, in their wings, or under their observalion ; correct errors, carelessness, etc.
Page 4 - ... or breaking. To change the gait of the regiment marching, the Colonel commands it by trumpet signal. The regiment draws the sabre, returns it, or presents it, at the command of the colonel, which is not repeated. In a formation in line or in a deployment, when one or several fractions of the troop cannot find room to enter the line, these fractions remain, or pass in rear of the line. When the Colonel wishes the regiment to march, either in line or column, he gives the point of direction if he...
Page 9 - DRESS. The squadron being aligned, the first captain commands: FRONT. The squadron being in line, it is broken by the left to the rear to march to the right, on the principles prescribed, but by inverse means, at the commands — 1. Platoons break by the left to the rear — to march to the right ; 2. MARCH. The squadron marching in column with distance, left in front, to form it in line on the prolongation and in advance of its left flank, follow the principles...