A System of Exercise And Instruction of Field-Artillery: Including ...
A System of Exercise And Instruction of Field-Artillery: Including ...
United States. War Dept
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To break into Column of Half-Batteries from the Right, to march to the Left, {PI. XXIII.) The captain commands, 1. Attention, 2. Hdlf-hattcrxes — break from the right to march to the l^. 3. March. At the second command, the line of caissons closes on the line ofpiecet. The chief of the right half-battery orders. Right half-battery-^forward — guide Irft, At the word March, repeated by the chief of the right half-battery, the movement is executed as has been prescribed for the same formatioD by s...ections, substituting the word half-battery for section. To break from the left,' to march to the right, is performed in like man- ner, and by similar words of command. 13. 4th. To break into Column of Half-Batteries, in Retreat. The captain intending to execute this movement must ftrst (as in N« 4 and 9) bring the whole battery to the left-about. {PL XXIV.) Thi being accomplished, he commands, 1. Attention, 2. By half-batteries — in retreat — into column, 3. March. At the second command, the chiefs of half-batteries close the pieces on the caissons, and wlien they have arrived within the length of a piece, the chief of the right half-battery commands, Half-battery — in retreat^-guide right ; and the officer of the train immediately orders.
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