[19]Sec. 29. First method.
The battery being formed in line, at full intervals, the horses are picketed, and the tents pitched in rear.
Prepare to encamp, and picket.
At the word Prepare to Encamp, and Picket, the drivers dismount and unhook; the markers take up an alignment twelve yards in rear of the battery, and facing it, for the line of pickets; the marker of the centre division in the centre; the others extend from him the number of yards there are horses in each half battery. One staff serjeant ten yards in rear of the centre marker indicates the alignment for the men’s tents. The second staff serjeant twenty yards in rear of the other, to mark the spot for the captain’s marquee. Nos. 1 and 6 unlash tents; 4 and 5 of each sub-division are told off for the marquee; 2, 3, 7, and 8 take a picket each, 9 a maul, and the wheel drivers a picket line.
Encamp, and picket.
At the word Encamp, and Picket, the numbers with the pickets form on the centre marker, facing to the front, the numbers with the mauls in front of and facing them.
The start’ officer gives Outwards Face—Quick March, when the men with pickets extend outwards, dividing themselves at equal distance along the alignment taken up by the markers.
The staff officer dresses them, and gives the word Steady, when the numbers with the mauls commence to drive the pickets.
The markers dismount, and assist the wheel drivers in making fast the line from centre to flanks, taking two half hitches round each picket, above and below the hook.