Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics (Volume 2 ) - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1863. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... RIFLE v J AND. ' INFANTRY TACTICS, REVISED AND IMPROVED Lieut. Gen. W. J. HARDEE, C. S. ARMY. NINTH EDITION. Vol. II. SCHOOL OF THE BATTALION. MOBILE : S. H. GOETZEL. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM IRE BEQUEST OF 1911 'v . i Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by S. H. GOETZEfc & CO., Ia the Clerk,s Office pf the' District Court of Alabama, for the Confederate States of America. NOTICE. fST So many editions of 'my " INFANTRY AND RIFLE TACTICS " having lately been published, I think it due to both the Public and Publishers to state: That the COPYRIGHT EDITION of my INFANTRY and RIFLE TACTICS, published by S. H. GOETZEL & CO., in Mobile, is the only COMPLETE, CORRECT and REVISED EDITION, and This Edition I ONLY contains the improvements and changes which I have recently made, adapting the manual to the use of the arms generally in the hands of the troops in the Confederate States. W. J. HARDEE, Colonel Confederate States Army. Fort Morcan, June 18th, 1861. ^ RIFLE AND INFANTRY TACTICS. TITLE FOURTH. SCHOOL OF THE BATTALION. Formation of the Battalion. 1. EvVlr colonel will labor to hahituate his battalion toTbrm line of battle, by night as well as by day, with the greatest possible prdnj|titude, 2. The color company will generally be desigutited as the ,i.-octing company. That, as soon as formed, will be 'p&Md on the direction the colonel may have determined for the line of battle. The other companies will form on it, to the right and left, on the principles of successive formations which will be herein prescribed. 3. The color-bearer may have received the color from the hands of the colonel; but if there be daylight, p«»d time, the eolor will be produced with due Composition and march of the color escort. 4. When the battalion turns o...