Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-05-15
Jbs Semi Weekiy Sfapearo.
,c ,yTzATION AND PARTS OF THE ARMY

G. ma1lersons, macquainted with the organi-
.,tion my, are making inquiries upon that
DLS InI;sci he copy from an exchange the follow
;"r outfne - its elements, as recognized in the
T.Ssncb school and in our own, so far as we have
bsi armies:
used to average, on the war basis, one hundred
rsn officers included. The general rule for the
-.-,nization of such company gives one captain,
E0 Leutenants, five sergeants and four corporals
nd eighty-fve men. Formerly each company had
- ensign. who carried the flag; but his place is
-or supplied by the color sergeant There is one
orp sergeant than corporals the first sergeant be-
mo called the orderly sergeant and is, next to the
r,nan, the most important man in the company
rrring the books of the company, and calling the
r,Il morning and evening. The company is formed,
when in column, into two platoons and four Sec
nons. each platoon commanded by Lieutenant and
each section by sergeant.
regiment is regularly composed of ten compa-
MES or two battalions battalion being half regi
nent composed of five companies-one of them
called light or rout company, intended in regular
service to operate outside of the heavy columns as
Hanklng parties, guards etc.
The officers of a regiment independent Of CON-
psny officers, are colonel, lieut.. solonel, two ma
iOrs adiutant quartermaster, and commissary.-
Each separate body of troops must have commits
sary and quartermaster but in large army they are
anportioned to regiments or brigades. A regiment
when constituted will be formed thus: l colonel,
lieut. colonel, adjutant, quartermaster. commits
sarv, majors, 10 captains, 20 ieutenants, 80 SER
geants 10 corporals, and $50 private Matchmaking
s75 but in reality there are some others; each COM
paw has drummer and fifer, which make reg-
mental band Of 90 besides the drum ma or. Then
the regiment, when full, is made up regularly to
1000 men.
brigade should be composed of two regiments
squadron Of calvary and corps of field artillery
If these were all full complete brigade operating
alone would, in our service, or in the French make
9400 men.
A division is composed of two brigades, with addi-
tOna corps of calvary and artillery making in our
army including the whole staff and music, about
5000 men. This is the highest element of organiza-
ton in service; but in France, they organize
immense armies, there is no other.
The corps is composed of two or more divisions,
frequently of four or five. The corps is, in the
French service, properly commanded by field mar
shal-an officer unknown to our country and the
corps is properly a complete army in itseL.
In Napoleon's march on Russia, he had eight or
ten of these corps in active service-mskng field
army of from 250.0OO to 800, 900 men. From the
clements we have given, it will be seem that how,
ever large the army may be- it is so organized to
be perfect in all its parts, and moves with exact
order and discipline. In the field all orders and op-
eratlons are carried on through the staff of the
army and when come to active service, the staff
is the most important part Of the army; for, this
being vast machine of which each part is perfectly
obedieut to and directed by the head it is evident
that all must depend the skill, ability and dis
cernment of the staff through which IT acts. 1t is
in vain that Scott or any great general command,
if the staff officers are incompetent
The staff consists of the aids, the adjutant gen
eral, the quartermaster, and commissary generals.
Through the adjutant general orders are conveyed
to each particular part. By the quartermaster gen.
eal all transportatons and vehicles, and horses are
furnished; by the commissary all supplies; by the
engineer the topography of the country is thorough
y examined, the praccability of passes determined
Ortifcations built or attacked. Then the staff o
an army becomes its eyes, and its faculties the gen.
eral simply deciding the movements Of the army on
the facts and elements thus furnished. In the
grand French armies there was chief-of-the-staff
or head of the active military bureau. In Napo
Icons time, the chiefoft the-staff was Marshal Ber
thier deemed of the ablest officers of the French
army. Napoleon knew the value of a good staff
and had abler men in it than were at the head o.
divisions. ...