68 MILITARY COMMISSION TO EUROPE. 



The inspector of each barrack is a retired non-commissioned officer ; he is responsible for the 

 furniture, bedding, &c., of the officers and men living in that barrack, and reports to the 

 inspector of the post, who is a retired officer ; the latter is under the orders of the intendant. 

 Tables, sofas, chairs, bureaus, bedsteads, and bedding, are furnished to every officer ; they paper 

 their own quarters, and paint them if the ordinary government allowance is not sufficient. 



FIELD SERVICE. 



The organization of an army cprps in the field, and its allowance of transportation, have 

 already been given. 



Each captain of infantry is allowed a horse ; he is only permitted to ride on the march ; no 

 lieutenant is, under any circumstances, permitted to ride. 



The ordinary march is 14 miles in five hours, sometimes 23^ miles in eight hours. Usually 

 a short halt is made about fifteen minutes after starting, and in the middle of the march a halt 

 of about an hour ; if the march is a very long one, (more than 20 miles, for instance,) two halts 

 of an hour each are made. On the march the piece is carried at will, on either shoulder. No 

 tents or shelter tents are used ; the men hut themselves as best they can. 



The normal camp of a regiment is in six rows of huts, perpendicular to the front of the camp; 

 two companies being in each row, and there being one street for each battalion. 



Each platoon has its stacks of arms at the head of its row of huts ; the huts of the officers are 

 in the middle of those of the men of their companies, in the same row. 



The latrines are in rear of the whole camp. 



The bivouac is essentially the same as the Eussian. 



In regard to the landwehr, it is worthy of mention, that in the landwehr arsenals complete 

 sets of clothing, arms, and accoutrements are kept on hand, so that a few minutes will suffice 

 to supply the men, who are already drilled. A close study of the landwehr system is well 

 worthy of the attention of our own officers ; the adoption of some similar system would go far 

 towards rendering our own country unassailable. 



I would again call the attention of our officers to the rich and interesting field of study 

 offered by the Prussian military works ; any one who will provide our service, and the country, 

 with such valuable aids as "Witzleben, Mims, Kalkstein, Schamhorst, &c.," will at least have 

 the satisfaction of knowing that he has conferred incalculable benefit upon the service. 



THE SARDINIAN INFANTRY. 



This consists of 20 regiments of infantry and 10 battalions of bersaglieri, (rifles.) 



Each regiment of infantry has 4 battalions, of 4 companies each ; the staff of a regiment 

 consists of 1 colonel, 4 majors, 2 adjutants, 1 paymaster, 1 clothing officer, 1 chaplain, 3 sur- 

 geons, 2 staff quartermasters, 1 drum major, 1 quartermaster, and 3 sergeants of the train ; 

 3 corporals, 4 battalion clerks, 3 battalion drummers, 1 chief trumpeter, 1 master carpenter, 

 1 band master, 2 armorers, 1 master tailor, 1 master shoemaker, 26 musicians, 8 carpenters, 

 and 2 sutlers. 



Each company of infantry consists of 1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 1 orderly sergeant, 4 sergeants, 

 9 corporals, 2 drummers, 8 lance corporals ; in time of peace 52, and on the war establishment 

 126 privates. 



The corps of rifles consists of 10 battalions and 1 depot company, each battalion having 4 

 companies. 



The staff of the corps consists of 1 colonel, 1 lieutenant colonel, 10 majors, 1 intendant 



