109. The company being in the direct march and in quick time, the instructor, to cause it to mark time, will command:
1. Mark time. 2. MARCH.
110. To resume the march, be will command:
1. Forward. 2. MARCH.
111. To cause the march in double quick time, the instructor will command:
1. Double quick. 2. MARCH.
112. The command march will be pronounced at the instant either foot is coming to the ground.
113. To resume quick time, the instructor will command:
1. Quick time. 2. MARCH.
114. The command march will be pronounced at the instant either foot is coming to the ground.
115. The company being at a halt, the instructor may cause it to march in the back step; to this effect, he will command:
1. Company backward. 2. MARCH.
116. The back step will be executed according to the principles prescribed in the S. S., No. 256, but the use of it being rare, the instructor will not cause more than fifteen or twenty steps to be taken in succession, and to that extent but seldom.
117. The instructor ought not to exercise the company in marching in double quick time, till the men are well established in the length and swiftness of the pace in quick-time; he will then endeavor to render the march of one hundred and sixty-five steps in the minute equally easy and familiar, and also cause them to observe the same erectness of body and composure of mind, as if marching in quick time.
118. When marching in double quick time, if a subdivision (in a column) has to change direction by turning, or has to form into line, the men will quicken the pace to one hundred and eighty steps in a minute. The same swiftness of step will be observed under all circumstances where great rapidity of movement is required. But, as ranks of men cannot march any length of time at so swift a rate, without breaking or confusion, this acceleration will not be considered a prescribed exercise, and accordingly companies or battalions will only be habitually exercised in the double quick time of one hundred and sixty-five steps in the minute.