_- _ _ -- ------- __ _---___ _- --_--
__- _- --- _--_ _-_ _ -_ __ ___- -- ----- ___-- -
---- - - _ _ --_ __- -_ - _- __ -_- _- -_ -_-- _ --_
_ --_ _-__ __-__-_------ -_-_- _-_- -_-- __--_ _--
2 8
5 3
7 B1 6
4
O
Diagram 666a
Mediocre battalion in column of companies with negligent Color Guard and/ or Battalion Commander
|\
________
________
1B2
354
687
________
________
Diagram 666b
Battalion with Color Guard that is listening to unauthorized persons, not pushing back, or not concentrating.
|\ 1 B 2
LG RG
______ ________ 354 ________ ________
________ ________ 687 ________ ________
Diagram 666c
Battalion with too few Color Guard members
|\
LG 1 B 2 RG
________ ________ 5 ________ _______
________ ________________ ________
William Gilham, Manual for Instruction of Volunteers and Militia, p. 36; W. O. Hardee, Hardee�s Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics, p. 8
Dal Bello, Camp Chase Gazette, October 1994
Dal Bello, Camp Chase Gazette, October 1994
Civil War Times Illustrated, Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861, p. 475
Gilham, p.130
Ibid., p. 130
Scott, p. 139
Gilham, p.299; Ibid., p. 133
Scott, p. 19
Scott, p. 98
Washburn, Camp Chase Gazette, October 1994
Hardee, p. 21
Gilham, p. 294; Scott Washburn, School of the Battalion for Reenactors, (citing Casey�s Infantry Tactics) p. 32
Gilham, p. 295
Gilham, p. 296
Gilham, p. 298
Dal Bello, Camp Chase Gazette, October 1994
Washburn, Camp Chase Gazette, October 1994
Dal Bello, Camp Chase Gazette, October 1994
In the reenacting community in Virginia, this is the universal call for a company-sized death.