The 1863 U.S. Infantry Tactics: Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and Riflemen

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Stackpole Books, 2002 - 450 páginas
  • The authorized book for the instruction, exercise, and maneuver of U.S. Infantry during the Civil War
  • Includes articles of war, an extensive dictionary of Civil War military terms, and sheet music for military bugle calls
  • A must-have book for historians, researchers, reenactors, and writers

    Written in 1861 at the direction of the War Department and copiously illustrated, this was the book used to train, lead, and maneuver U.S. Infantry units on Civil War battlefields. It contains the school of the soldier, the company, and battalion or fielded regiment, along with all-important instructions for skirmishers. Over 15 pages of field music, the articles of war in use at the time, and a dictionary of Civil War military terminology completes this extensive work.

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    Instruction of the battalion
    		12
    Facings Nos 88 91
    		21
    Manual of arms Support arms No 133 Present
    		27
    To load in four times and at will No 44 97
    		44
    Firings Direct fire No 261 Oblique firings
    		48
    Bayonet exercise
    		55
    To fire by the rear rank No 68 100
    		68
    To advance in line of battle No 84 103
    		84
    Fix bayonet
    		208
    Double quick time
    		209
    Deploy as skirmishers
    		210
    Halt
    		211
    Cease firing
    		212
    Rise up
    		213
    Rally on the reserve
    		214
    Formation of the battalion No 1
    		215

    To halt the company marching in line
    		99
    To mark time to march in double quick time
    		109
    To march in retreat No 119 109
    		119
    Firings No 106 Fire at a halt No 107 Fire marching
    		120
    To march in column No 195
    		123
    To halt the column No 231
    		129
    To break files to the rear and to cause them
    		137
    ARTICLE IITo change direction by file No 142 112
    		142
    Countermarch No 334
    		145
    Formation of a company from two ranks into single rank
    		149
    The company marching by the flank to form
    		153
    General principles and division of the instruction
    		155
    March in column at full distance No 164
    		164
    March to the front No 71 March in retreat No
    		167
    To break into column by platoon either at a halt
    		171
    Rally No 127 Rally by sections No 132 Rally by platoons
    		174
    Manual of the sabre for officers
    		190
    The general
    		196
    Column in route No 198 249
    		198
    Tattoo
    		201
    To extinguish lights
    		202
    Orders for orderly sergeants
    		203
    Officers call
    		204
    Dinner call
    		205
    Church call
    		206
    School call
    		207
    To break by company to the right No
    		225
    Break to the rear by the right or left of compa
    		229
    Change of direction in column at full dis
    		231
    Ploy the battalion into close column on
    		234
    Halt the column No 239 257
    		239
    ARTICLE VClose the column to half distance or in mass
    		273
    March in column at half distance or closed
    		281
    Change direction in column at half distance
    		287
    Formation in line of battle by two move
    		299
    Change direction of a column closed
    		306
    To advance in line of battle No 587
    		316
    Oblique march in line of battle No 623
    		323
    To bait the battalion marching in line of battle
    		325
    To march in retreat in line of battle No 664
    		330
    To pass a defile in retreat by the right or left
    		338
    To form the battalion on the right or left
    		342
    To ploy the battalion into column doubled
    		348
    march the square in retreat a greater distance than thirty
    		356
    March by the flank No 351 March by
    		368
    LESSON IVGeneral Principles of wheeling No 377
    		377
    The rally No 974
    		381
    STREET FIRING
    		391
    DICTIONARY OF MILITARY WORDS AND PHRASES
    		411
    tance No 351 Countermarch of a column closed
    		448
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    alignment ARTICLE battalion bayonet break breast butt captain will command centre change direction change of direction chiefs of platoon colonel shall wish colonel will command color-bearer command march conform continue to march court-martial covering sergeant deployment double quick double quick-MARCH file closers front rank geant Guide right half distance instructor shall wish instructor will cause instructor will command intervals left file left flank left guide left hand left in front left or right lieutenant colonel line of battle line of skirmishers load mand MARCH or double march straight forward marching flank marker move movement non-commissioned officers oblique odd number officer paces in rear pany pass places in line position principles prescribed rally rammer rear rank reserve right company right flank right guide right hand right or left route step second command Second motion second platoon shoulder arms side soldier squad stand fast subdivision third third sergeant wheel wish to cause

    Información bibliográfica

    TítuloThe 1863 U.S. Infantry Tactics: Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and Riflemen
    Civil War Reference and Reenactors Guides
    AutorUnited States. War Department
    Ediciónilustrada, reimpresa
    EditorStackpole Books, 2002
    ISBN0811700216, 9780811700214
    Largo450 páginas
      
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