Instruction for Field Artillery, Horse and Foot by United States War Dept United States War Dept

Author:United States War Dept, United States , War Dept
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joseph Robinson
Published: 1845-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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1. Battery — hy the left flank,

2. March.

3. Forward.

4. Cruide right.

(PL 21.) In 7wrse artillery the flank march is executed according to the same principles, and by the same commands. The line formed by the flank movement is established, and the carriages aligned in each rank, with distances of five and intervals of fourteen or twenty-one yards, according to the relative position of the pieces and caisson^. The detachments wheel in the same direction as their pieces; and, after following them during a part of the movement, place themselves by their sides, two yards from the wheels, with the heads of their leading horses on a line with the axle-trees of the limbers. In marching by the left flank they are on* the left of their pieces, and the reverse when marching by the right. When sufficient ground has been gained to the flank, and the battery resumes its formation in column by marching in the original direction, the detachments wheel in the same direction as their pieces and place themselves in their rear. But when the march in column is in the opposite direction, they resume their places by allowing their pieces to pass them and then falling in their rear.

The flank march, to gain ground to the right, is executed according to the same principles and by inverse means.

In each case the captain and the chief of the line of caissons change their direction to the left or right, and conform to the movements of the battery.

OBLIQUE MARCH.

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146. The battery being in column, in march or at a halt, to cause it to march obliquely to gain ground to the femt and left, the captain commands:

1. Column — lefl ohliqtie,

2. Marcs.

3. Guide right 8»

(PI. 22.) TBe chiefs of secliom repeat the commands. Left obliquc'^MAVicn — Chiide rights At the command March, all the carriages oblique at ence to the left (No. 116) and march direct to the fiotit in the new direction; movinff in parallel lines, dressing by the right, and preserving tneir intervals from that ilank.

In obliquing, the beads of the horses in each rank are on a line parallel to the original front of the column. The interval between the carriages is fourteen yards, measured parallel to the front; and only ten if measured perpendicularly to the oblique direction. Each carriage of the right file marches in the prolongation of the left carriage of the rank which precedes its own, and at a distance of nine yards.

The officers conform to the movement and preserve their relative positions. ^

To resume the original direction the captain commands:

Forward.

" This command is repeated by the chiefe of sections, and the carriages resume the original direction by obliquing to the right.

If the captain wishes to halt the column for the purpose of rectifying its alignments, intervals, or obliquity, he commands:

1. Column,

2. Halt.

And to resume the march in the oblique direction :

1. Column,

2. March.

3. Guide right

The commands, Halt — MAUCH-^Guide right, are repeated by the chiefs of sections.

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