The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-08
MILITARY MATTERS.
ANOTHER INsTALLMENT OF AMEND
MENTs TO UPTON TACTICS.
The Montgomery Guards Select n Beau.
tinul Uniform-Gos From Various
Armories-A Handsome Donation to
the Menken Rifles.

The instalment OF amendments to Up
toms Tactics this week touches upon re-
views and is of highly interesting char
acter.
TheCommanding Officers at Review Who
do not Return Swords, etc.-Generals OF
brigade and their staff and Colonies COM
handing battalions do not return swords
when they take place on right Of review
ing officer after leaving the column.
The form ''oi dress parade" prescribed
by the Tactics is applicable to mixed
battalion of different arms Of the service
dsmountcd.
Equalizing Companies Before Review
A battalion being in line may be equallzed
before review rs prescribed In paragraph
3S2, Upton's Infantry Tactics. In this
case, II there is an inspection after the re-
view, the Colonel should, before wheeling
into column, notify the captains to reform
their companies The captains should
then cause their first sergeants, or right
guides, 10 take their places on the right OF
their permanent companies 10 that in col
umn Tor inspection or muster each perma-
nont company would be by itself. Letter
A. G.. o., September /, 1883.
Place Of Stall Officer at Review, etc.
"lnasmuch IN the tactics and regulations
arc silent on the subject, We must refer
10 the usages Of service. The officers OF
the general staff, serving at military posts,
do not belong 10 regiments and battalions
but constitute the staff OF the commanding
officer. They will attend him on all re-
views and inspections, will form In line
three PAGES 10 the rear OF the command
ing officer, who may ut his discretion re-.
quiro them 10 stand fast when lac proc eds
10 make the inspection, or he may instruct
one or more to accompany him aud the re-
mandcr 10 retain their position at the post
for review.
"But with nOn-commissioned officers no
distinction In made ns 10 whether they are
rogimental or OF the general stall--all
taking post as prescribed In tactics.
Acting rank coniors no position prejudi-
cial to actual rank" Letter A. q. o.,
May 81, 1881.
Post OF Troop Commanders When Pass.
ing In Review. troops are
marched In review in columns OF either
companies or plntoons, differing in this re-
speot from infantry, In which the line is
broken only into column Of companies.
When In column OF companies the captain
il In front OF the center OF bis company
(lroop), Ms prescribed In paragraph 53i,
Cavalry Tactics and when In column OF
patoons the captain is, ~ prescribed In
paragraph 56j, abreast of the leading pn-
toon, on the side OF the guide four yards
from tho flank, and there Is no exception
90 this. Letter A. q. o., December 20,
1882.
Proper Time for Commanding Officer TO
Return Sword, Etc: Qucstion-When
should the commanding officer, at review
OF battalion, return his sword, and when
should ho draw IL after he has accom-
panied tho reviewing officer In inspecting
the battalion before marching In review
Answcr-All things being In readiness
for the review, the reviewing officer adj
vanccs few PAGES toward the Colonel,
aud halts when the Colonel faces about
and commands present arms" inccs ~
the front aud salutca. The reviewing oih-
Ger acknowledges tho salute, etc, after
which the Colonel faces again TO the front.
lilo will then return his sworl aud Join
the reviewing officer who has started Tor
the right ofthc line. When about joining
the reviewing oniccrth Colonel viii salute
by touching his hat, aud will take his
place on the right OF tho reviewing officer
and accompany him around the battalion.
On reaching the right OF the line tho
Colonel will press TO tho rear and take his
place on tho left OF the reviewing officer.
After accompanying him some fifteen or
twenty PAGES, he will salute by touching
his hat, and move direct 10 his post la
front OF the battalion. face Il, draw sword.
and command CLOSE order. march, let
ter TO editor Army aud Nary Journal, jan.
| 10, 1880.
Reviewing Officer Passing Around Bat
TALON at Bcyiow.-lt IA entirely optional
| whether the reviewing officer pnascs be-.
tween the band or drum corps aud IN,
right Of the regiment at review or not
Whcn mounted he Will pass 10 lhc right
OF the baud. Decision Of Con. Upton
See ArHy uHd Nary journal, March 3
1873