d
How to Salute--Usual Mistakes in Saluting--Respect to
Be Paid the National Anthem, the Colors and Standards.

PART VII

GUARD DUTY

Importance--Respect for Sentinels--Classification of 1576-1857
Guards--General Rules--The Commanding Officer--The
Officer of the Day--The Commander of the Guard--Sergeant
of the Guard--Corporal of the Guard--Musicians of the
Guard--Orderlies and Color Sentinels--Privates of the
Guard--Countersigns and Paroles--Guard Patrols--
Compliments from Guards--General Rules Concerning Guard
Duty--Stable Guards--Troop Stable Guards--Reveille and
Retreat Gun--Formal Guard Mounting--Informal Guard
Mounting.

PART VIII

MILITARY ORGANIZATION

Composition of Infantry, Cavalry and Field Artillery 1858
Units up to and Including the Regiment.

PART IX

MAP READING AND SKETCHING

CHAPTER I. =MAP READING=--Definition of Map--Ability to 1859-1877
Read a Map--Scales--Methods of Representing Scales--
Construction of Scales--Scale Problems--Scaling
Distances from a Map--Contours--Map Distances--Slopes--
Meridians--Determination of Positions of Points on Map--
Orientation--Conventional Signs--Visibility.

CHAPTER II. =MILITARY SKETCHING=--The Different Methods 1878-1893
of Sketching--Location of Points by Intersection--
Location of points by Resection--Location of Points by
Traversing--Contours--Form Lines--Scales--Position
Sketching--Outpost Sketching--Road Sketching--Combined
Sketching--Points for Beginners to Remember.

PRELUDE

THE OBJECT AND ADVANTAGES OF MILITARY TRAINING

=1. Prelude.= We will first consider the object and advantages of
military training, as they are the natural and logical prelude to the
subject of military training and instruction.

Object

=2. The object of all military training is to win battles.=

Everything that you do in military training is done with some
immediate object in view, which, in turn, has in view the _final_
object of winning battles. For example:

=3. Setting-up exercises.= The object of the setting-up exercises, as
the name indicates, is to give the new men the _set-up_,--the bearing
and carriage,--of the military man.

In addition these exercises serve to loosen