In garrison the first sergeant, quartermaster-sergeant, stable and veterinary sergeants, and chiefs of section are armed with the sabre, and the caisson corporals, trumpeters, guidon, and drivers also, when specially directed.
In the field the first sergeant, quartermaster-sergeant, stable sergeant, and chiefs of section are armed with the sabre and revolver; all other men are armed with the revolver and knife.
In preparing for a march or field service the kinds and quantities of supplies required will depend on the duration and character of the work. Having determined what is required, divide the work of preparing for service among the officers and non-commissioned officers immediately in charge, and then carefully superintend the work yourself.
Attention is called to the following points:
Rations, forage, medicines, veterinary medicines, instruments, and bandages, leather and spare parts for repairs to harness, carriages, etc., horseshoes, horseshoe-nails, blacksmith's, saddler's, and carpenter's tools (if there be no battery-wagon and forge), field-desk, with a supply of blanks, paper, envelopes, pens, ink, and pencils, the necessary company-books, and a book of telegraph blanks, ammunition (shell, shrapnel, canister, cartridges, fuzes, fuze-cutters, friction-primers, lanyards), oil for harness, cosmoline for guns, equipment and clothing for each man, number and kind of tents, Sibley stoves, axes, hatchets, mauls, scythes, sickles, buckets, spades, shovels, pickaxes, wagon-tongues, coupling-poles, hame-strings, open links, odometer, rope, axle-grease, picket-rope, light jacks, lanterns, matches, cooking utensils, personal outfit.
COOKING UTENSILS.
| PACK IN BOX A. | ||
| Article. | 75 Men. | 150 Men. |
| Dishpans | 2 | 3 |
| Coffee-mill | 1 | 1 |
| Bread-knives | 2 | 2 |
| Meat-knives | 2 | 2 |
| Steel | 1 | 1 |
| Cleaver | 1 | 1 |
| Saw | 1 | 1 |
| Forks, carving | 2 | 3 |
| Forks, spit | 2 | 2 |
| Spoons, long | 2 | 2 |
| Can-openers | 2 | 2 |
| Ladles | 2 | 2 |
| Frying-pans | 2 | 2 |
| Small rations | ||
| PACK IN BOX B. | ||
| Article. | 75 Men. | 150 Men. |
| Coffee-boiler | 1 | 2 |
| Camp-kettles | 4 | 6 |
| Water-buckets | 2 | 3 |
| Dipper | 1 | 1 |
| Hash machine | 1 | 1 |
| 1 axe, 1 spade, 1 shovel, tied together and fastened to outside ofbox. | ||
| Put the camp-kettles inside the coffee-boilers. | ||
Vinegar-keg, 1, Dutch ovens, 2, or Buzzacott oven, 1, for 75 men; double the number for 150 men.
One of the boxes may be large enough to contain the Buzzacott oven. In order to pack it put in the top inverted, and then invert the body of the oven and set it inside the top.