ute step or at ease the captains repeat the command of execution, if
necessary. Captains do not repeat the major's commands in executing
the manual of arms, nor those commands which are not essential to the
execution of a movement by their companies, as _column of squads_,
_first company_, _squads right_, etc.

In giving commands or cautions captains may prefix the proper letter
designations of their companies, as _A Company, HALT_; _B Company,
squads right_, etc.

264. At the command _guide center (right_ or _left)_, captains
command: _Guide right_ or _left_, according to the positions of their
companies. _Guide center_ designates the left guide of the center
company.

265. When the companies are to be dressed, captains place themselves
on that flank toward which the dress is to be made, as follows:

The battalion in line: Beside the guide (or the flank file of the
front rank, if the guide is not in line) and facing to the front.

The battalion in column of companies: Two paces from the guide, in
prolongation of and facing down the line.

Each captain, after dressing his company, commands: _FRONT_, and takes
his post.

The battalion being in line and unless otherwise prescribed, at the
captain's command _dress_, or at the command _halt_, when it is
prescribed that the company shall dress, the guide on the flank away
from the point of rest, with his piece at right shoulder, dresses
promptly on the captain and the companies beyond. During the dress he
moves, if necessary, to the right and left only; the captain dresses
the company on the line thus established. The guide takes the position
of order arms at the command _front_. (_C.I.D.R., No. 2._)

266. The battalion executes the _halt_, _rests_, _facings_, _steps_
and _marchings_, _manual of arms_, resumes _attention_, _kneels_,
_lies down_, _rises_, _stacks_ and _takes arms_, as explained in the
Schools of the Soldier and Squad, substituting in the commands
_battalion_ for _squad_.

The battalion executes _squads right (left)_, _squads right (left)
about_, _route step_ and _at ease_, and _obliques_ and resumes the
_direct march_, as explained in the School of the Company.

267. The battalion in column of platoons, squads, twos, or files
changes direction; in column of squads forms column of twos or files
and re-forms columns of twos or squads, as explained in the School of
the Company.

268. When the formation admits of the simultaneous execution by
compa