[253]. To deploy platoon or squad columns: 1. As skirmishers, 2. MARCH.
Skirmishers move to the right or left front and successively place themselves in their original positions on the line. (216)
[254]. Being in platoon or squad columns: 1. Assemble, 2. MARCH.
Assembly Made On Right Platoon.
Assembly Made On Right Squad.
The platoon or squad leaders signal assemble. The men of each platoon or squad, as the case may be, advance and, moving to the right and left, take their proper places in line, each unit assembling on the leading element of the column and re-forming in line. The platoon or squad leaders conduct their units toward the element or point indicated by the captain, and to their places in line; the company is reformed in line. (217)
[255]. Being in skirmish line, to advance by a succession of thin lines: 1. (Such numbers), forward, 2. MARCH.