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player enters with his whole heart (team work) will often 

 win, while, on the other hand, the best play in which some of 

 the players are skulkers and shirkers will probnbly fail. 



Second. Never lose touch with your section. Every individ- 

 dual, as well as every unit, should always be acting under the 

 control of some higher commander. This is necessary if there 

 is to be any unity of action. Therefore if you lose your sec- 

 tion, or it becomes broken up, join the first section you can 

 find and obey your new section leader as loyally and as cheer- 

 fully as you did your own. 



While yet several miles from the enemy's position the troops 

 may come under artillery fire. On green men entering upon 

 their fight, the sound of the projectile whistling through the 

 air, the noise, flash, and smoke on the burst of the shrapnel, 

 and the hum of the various pieces thereafter, all produce a very 

 terrifying effect, but old soldiers soon learn to pay little at- 

 tention to this, as the danger is not great. 



The Mounted Attack. 



the tkoop acting alone. 



639. When the troop acting alone charges it is ordinarily 

 divided into two parts, viz, the attacking line and the reserve, 

 but a platoon is never kept in rear except when tlie captain 

 so directs. 



If the attacking line, or reserve, consists of only one platoon, 

 it is led by its chief ; if it consists of two or more platoons, it 

 is led by the senior chief of platoon or by the captain. 



When a chief of platoon takes post as leader of two or more 

 platoons, his place as platoon leader is taken by the corre- 

 sponding file closer. Whenever the rally or assembly is or- 

 dered, the captain may cause the guidon to be displayed at the 

 rallying or assembly point indicated. 



640. In instruction exercises the enemy must always be out- 

 lined or represented by troopers, who may carry flags, under 

 command of an officer or noncommissioned officer. In the 

 beginning of this instruction these men will occupy fixed posi- 

 tions ; later they will be instructed to ride so as to represent 

 tlie movements of an aggressive enemy. The captain will ex- 



