The firing was something like the firing of a skirmish line?
A skirmish line of two hundred and seventy-five enlisted men and three officers was established as soon as practicable under the command of Maj.
I wondered when I saw him so far in front of his column why he didn't have a skirmish line in his front.
Although it was dark we threw out a skirmish line, forced the enemy back, captured several prisoners, camped and commenced to throw up breastworks having joined our line with the Second Corps on our right.
With a detail from each regiment, Captain McKibben, of General Potter's staff, rode into the woods to establish a skirmish line.
When the squad is acting alone, skirmish line is similarly formed on No.
The guide of a deployed line (a skirmish line) is always center unless otherwise announced.
The repulse was but momentary, however, for soon another line appeared so heavily re-enforced that it was more like a line of battle than a skirmish line.
The infantry marched in several parallel columns on either side of the pike, and a line of cavalry, followed by a skirmish line of infantry, led the way.
Again, the rebels, disgusted at being repulsed by a skirmish line, came up in several lines of battle and charged upon the Vermonters and they again went to the rear in confusion.
An instance of a skirmish line, a mile and a half from any support, resisting repeated attacks of troops in line of battle, is rarely found in the history of armies.
But for fighting, which after all is our real purpose, the close order must be discarded in favor of extended order, which you will understand better if I call it skirmish line formation.
As the proper method of moving sideways, when in skirmish line, is to roll, I rolled away from the latter position, not to the betterment of my poncho.
The captain sent us headlong into the field on the right, where soon we were part of a skirmish line, and for a minute were blazing away at a fence in front of us, behind which I glimpsed a single white hat-band.
The whole brigade was deployed, as if in skirmish line, on either side of the Warrenton turnpike, converging as it moved on to the crossing at the Stone Bridge.
Stepping behind a tree to load (he was on skirmish line) he would pass out from this cover in plain view, take deliberate aim, and fire.
As soon as the line was formed the order of advance was given, with never so much as a skirmish line in front.
If there is any sport or amusement at all in battle, it is while on skirmish line, when the enemy is pressing you.
Here the 32d was detailed to form a skirmish line, to protect the extreme flank of the army.
Long rushes facilitate an advance, and quickly place a skirmish line close to the enemy's position, where its fire will have more effect.
Barlow had advanced with Von Gilsa's brigade, had driven back Ewell's skirmish line, and with the aid of Wilkinson's battery was preparing to hold the Carlisle road.
Archer's rebel brigade, preceded by a skirmish line, was crossing Willoughby's Run to enter them on one side as the Iron Brigade went in on the other.
Colonel Hamblin, who was in charge of Newton's skirmish line, left a few of his men to open an energetic fire in front, while he assembled the others and made a charge which took the bridge and secured the right of way.
Early, in the rear, deployed Gordon’s brigade and fought back the longskirmish line of the pursuing blue.
A regiment, after advancing a skirmish line, moved over broken and boulder-strewn ground to occupy a yet defended position.
Having given the command for forming skirmish line, the captain, if necessary, indicates to the corporal of the base squad the point on which the squad is to march; the corporal habitually looks to the captain for such directions.
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