ards, rear-guards,
flankers, and all detached bodies, and preparing good instructions
for their guidance. Providing all the means necessary for the
performance of their duties.

7. Prescribing forms and instructions for subordinate commanders or
their staff officers, relative to the different methods of drawing
up the troops in columns when the enemy is at hand, as well as
their formation in the most appropriate manner when the army is to
engage in battle, according to the nature of the ground and the
character of the enemy.[33]

8. Indicating to advanced guards and other detachments well-chosen
points of assembly in case of their attack by superior numbers, and
informing them what support they may hope to receive in case of
need.

9. Arranging and superintending the march of trains of baggage,
munitions, provisions, and ambulances, both with the columns and in
their rear, in such manner that they will not interfere with the
movements of the troops and will still be near at hand. Taking
precautions for order and security, both on the march and when
trains are halted and parked.

10. Providing for the successive arrival of convoys of supplies.
Collecting all the means of transportation of the country and of
the army, and regulating their use.

11. Directing the establishment of camps, and adopting regulations
for their safety, good order, and police.

12. Establishing and organizing lines of operations and supplies,
as well as lines of communications with these lines for detached
bodies. Designating officers capable of organizing and commanding
in rear of the army; looking out for the safety of detachments and
convoys, furnishing them good instructions, and looking out also
for preserving suitable means of communication of the army with its
base.

13. Organizing depots of convalescent, wounded, and sickly men,
movable hospitals, and workshops for repairs; providing for their
safety.

14. Keeping accurate record of all detachments, either on the
flanks or in rear; keeping an eye upon their movements, and looking
out for their return to the main column as soon as their service on
detachment is no longer necessary; giving them, when required, some
center of action, and forming strategic reserves.

15. Organizing mar