Battalion-Men

All the soldiers belonging to the different companies of an infantry regiment are so called, except those of the two flank companies. Camp-Color MEN . Soldiers under the immediate command and direction of the quarter-master of a regiment. Their busine is to a ist in marking out the lines of an encampment, . to carry the camp colors to the field on days of exercise, and fix them occasionally for the purpose of enabling the troops to take up correct points in marching, . So that in this respect they frequently, indeed almost always, act as guides, or what the French call Jalonneurs . They are likewise employed in the trenches, and in all fatigue duties. Drag-rope MEN . In the old artillery exercise, the men attached to light or heavy pieces of ordnance, for the purpose of advancing or retreating in action, were so called; the drag rope being exploded for the bricole, the term is preserved merely for explanation. The French servans à la prolonge are of this description.