The 1863 U.S. Infantry Tactics: Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and RiflemenWritten 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. |
Contents
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 |
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Common terms and phrases
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