. The service of security and information. e distances and intervals between the different parts of the advance guard are less. A strong patrol jreconnoiters and enters a village in the same manner as the advance guard of a larger force. In considering the details relative to the reconnaissanceand attack of villages, most writers on minor tactics have inview the conditions presented by European villages, whosestreets are generally narrow and crooked, and whose houses(usually built of stone or brick) are well adapted to broad streets of American villages, and the inflammablematerial
. The service of security and information. e distances and intervals between the different parts of the advance guard are less. A strong patrol jreconnoiters and enters a village in the same manner as the advance guard of a larger force. In considering the details relative to the reconnaissanceand attack of villages, most writers on minor tactics have inview the conditions presented by European villages, whosestreets are generally narrow and crooked, and whose houses(usually built of stone or brick) are well adapted to broad streets of American villages, and the inflammablematerial of which their houses are mostly constructed, makethem much more difficult to defend than European villages,and an advance guard might, consequently, enter them withless risk. By way of illustration of the manner of reconnoiteringand entering a town, let us suppose that an advance guard isapproaching Franklin, Tennessee, from the south, on theColumbia Pike. (See Plate XI.) The advance guard halts from a half to a quarter of a CAVALRY PATROLS. 153 mile from the town, and two patrols are detached from thesupport to the right and left respectively. The advanceparty continues its march to the edge of the town, where ithalts, the point continuing to advance. The point movingup Main street to Indigo street, signals that all seems well,and the advance party follows it up Main street, the flankersadvancing along Church street and Bridge street. The rightpatrol from the support reconnoiters the railroad cut, andproceeds along the railroad. The left patrol reconnoiters thevalley of the brook west of the town, and advances alongNorth Margin street. The advance guard takes up its march,the reserve halting at the edge of the town. The patrols com-municate as they pass Indigo, Main, Cameron, and East Mar-gin streets. If any one of the patrols fails to be seen, theothers halt until communication is established, the advancebeing as expeditious as possible. On passing through thet
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