Work each forenoon from 7 to 11-30 in what, by careful observation, the colonel finds is most needed.
No work in the afternoon except as follows:
Each man to have gallery practice once, ten shots. Each man to estimate distance once. Companies to have bayonet work for at least two half-hour periods each week and pointing and aiming drill once for some length of time.
Dress parade by regiment three times during week.
Regimental review and inspection Saturday.
School as usual.
Results of training
This regiment can be used at the end of this three months. It will not be completely nor even well trained but it is believed to be the best that can be done in that time.
Can we have even this much time without great sacrifice and loss? It is very doubtful, and yet it is not believed practicable to use volunteers with less training except in fortifications.
The work has been very strenuous for all; the weaklings will have been eliminated. Any one fit for a soldier in war could have stood the strain, and the others had better be eliminated before taking the field.