805. The colonel, wishing the battalion to march by the flank, will command:
1. Battalion. 2. Right (or left)—FACE. 3. Forward. 4. MARCH (or double quick—MARCH).
806. At the second command, the captains and covering sergeants will place themselves as prescribed in the S. C., Nos. 138 and 143.
0-807. At the same command, the companies of skirmishers will face to the right or left, and the chiefs will place themselves as above indicated.
808. The sergeant on the left of the battalion will place himself to the left, and by the side of the last file of his company, covering the captains in file.
809. The battalion having to face by the left flank, the captains, at the second command, will shift rapidly to the left of their companies, and each place himself by the side of the covering sergeant of the company preceding his own, except the captain of the left company, who will place himself by the side of the sergeant on the left of the battalion. The covering sergeant of the right company will place himself by the right side of the front-rank man of the rearmost file of his company, covering the captains in file.
810. At the command march, the battalion will step off with life; the sergeant, placed before the leading file (right or left in front), will be careful to preserve exactly the length and cadence of the step, and to direct himself straight-forward; to this end, he will take points on the ground.
811. At the same command, the companies of skirmishers will step off, the chiefs abreast with the captains of the first and last battalion companies respectively, and they will march parallel to them.
812. Whether the battalion march by the right or left flank, the lieutenant-colonel will place himself abreast with the leading file, and the senior major abreast with the color-file, both on the side of the front rank, and about six paces from it. The junior major will hold himself as prescribed No. 94.
813. The adjutant, placed between the lieutenant-colonel and the front rank, will march in the same step with the head of the battalion, and the sergeant major, placed between the senior major and the color-bearer, will march in the same step with the adjutant.
814. The captains and file closers will carefully see that the files neither open out, nor close too much, and that they regain insensibly their distances, if lost.
815. The colonel wishing the battalion to wheel by file, will command:
1. By file right (or left). 2. MARCH.
816. The files will wheel in succession, and all at the place where the first had wheeled, in conforming to the principles prescribed in the school of the company.
817. The battalion marching by the flank when the colonel shall wish it to halt, he will command:
1. Battalion. 2. HALT. 3. FRONT.
818. These commands will be executed as prescribed in the S. C., No. 148.
819. If the battalion be marching by the flank, and the colonel should wish to cause it to march in line, either to the front or to the rear, the movements will be executed by the commands and means prescribed in the school of the company.