Marching at route step or at ease: 1. Company, 2. ATTENTION.
At the command attention the pieces are brought to the right shoulder and the cadenced step in quick time is resumed.
RULES FOR GUIDES
A guide is a noncommissioned officer or a private upon whom the company regulates its march.
It is not difficult for an inexperienced man learn, with a little practice, the duties and the correct positions of a guide. Remember the rule of thumb, The guide and the file closers are on the opposite flanks when the company is in column of squads. In squads right about it would be ridiculous for the file closers to move from one flank to another. Guides are permitted and supposed look around to see if they are in their proper places; most new men are timid about this.
The following general rules and examples will help you:
The guide of a company or platoon in line is right, unless otherwise announced.
The guide of a company or platoon in column of squads is toward the side of the guide, who places himself on the side of the company away from the file closers.
The guide of a deployed line (a skirmish line) is always center unless otherwise announced.