Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... having been already taken, the Volunteers will take up each his first position for action. He is then to understand that from that moment he will receive no orders from any one--only information--that his business is simply to kill an enemy, shift his position when he thinks it necessary, and never to expose himself to any risk; that with regard to every change of position he makes--all of which are to be left entirely to his own individual discretion, whether to advance, to move sideways, or to retreat--he is to give notice on his whistle to his two sidesmen--but that finally he is to recover as nearly as he can some point in the perpendicular drawn from the point on which he first took his station, to the straight line drawn through his particular district, parallel to the line of the enemy's advance. The whole are to understand that the single and simple principle of their mode of fighting is to be this, viz., that they are never individually or collectively to make any stand; never to engage in any reciprocating fire with the enemy, in the nature of a skirmish; never to defend any position against an approaching attack of the enemy; always to recede as each man, at his own discretion, may think expedient, from one point to another, without any orders; that the point of honour for each man is to endeavour to bewilder, deceive, and amid the enemy,--always to fire when he thinks himself sure of hitting an enemy, if he can do so at little or no risk to himself; never to fire unless he believes himself to have true aim at one--and throughout to consider himself bound in honour to his neighbours and to his cause never to expose himself to any risk that he can possibly avoid in performing these simple duties. It will now be seen that the discipline which I p...
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