ARTICLE XXVIII. HOURS OF SERVICE AND ROLL-CALLS. 220....In garrison, reveille will be at 5 o'clock in May, June, July, and August, at 6 in March, April, September, and October, and at half past 6 in November, December, January, and February; retreat at sunset; the troop, surgeon's call, signals for breakfast and dinner at the hours prescribed by the commanding officer, according to climate and season. In the cavalry, stable-calls immediately after reveille, and an hour and a half before retreat; water-calls at the hours directed by the commanding officer. 221....In camp, the commanding officer prescribes the hours of reveille, reports, roll-calls, guard-mounting, meals, stable-calls, issues, fatigues, &c. 1. To go for fuel-poing stroke and ten-stroke roll. 2. To go for water-two strokes and a flam. 3. For fatigue party-pioneer's march. 4. Adjutant's call-first part of the troop. 5. First sergeant's call-one roll and four taps. 7. Corporal's call—one roll and two taps. 8. For the drummers-the drummer's call. 223....The drummer's call shall be beat by the drums of the police guard five minutes before the time of beating the stated calls, when the drummers will assemble before the colors of their respective regiments, and as soon as the beat begins on the right, it will be immediately taken up along the line. ROLL-CALLS. 224....There shall be daily at least three stated roll-calls, viz., at reveille, retreat, and tattoo. They will be made on the company parades by the first sergeants, superintended by a commissioned officer of the company. The captains will report the absentees without leave to the colonel or commanding officer. 225....Immediately after reveille roll-call (after stable-duty in the cavalry), the tents or quarters, and the space around them, will be put in order by the men of the companies, superintended by the chiefs of squads, and the guard-house or guard-tent by the guard or pris oners. 226....The morning reports of companies, signed by the captains and First Sergeants, will be handed to the Adjutant before eight o'clock in the morning, and will be consolidated by the Adjutant within the next hour, for the information of the Colonel; and if the consolidation is to be sent to higher authority, it will be signed by the Colonel and the Adjutant. ARTICLE XXIX. HONORS TO BE PAID BY THE TROOPS. 227....The President or Vice-President is to be saluted with the highest honors-all standards and colors dropping, officers and troops saluting, drums beating and trumpets sounding. 228....A General commanding-in-chief is to be received-by cavalry, with sabres presented, trumpets sounding the march, and all the officers saluting, standards dropping; by infantry, with drums beating the march, colors dropping, officers saluting, and arms presented. 229....A Major-General is to be received-by cavalry, with sabres presented, trumpets sounding twice the trumpet-flourish, and officers saluting; by infantry, with three ruffles, colors dropping, officers saluting, and arms presented. 230....A Brigadier-General is to be received-by cavalry, with sabres presented, trumpets sounding once the trumpet-flourish, and officers saluting; by infantry, with two ruffles, colors dropping, officers saluting, and arms presented. 231....An Adjutant-General or Inspector-General, if under the rank of a General officer, is to be received at a review or inspection of the troops under arms-by cavalry, with sabres presented, officers saluting; by infantry, officers saluting and arms presented. The same honors to be paid to any field-officer authorized to review and inspect the troops. When the inspecting officer is junior to the officer commanding the parade, no compliments will be paid: he will be received only with swords drawn and arms shouldered. 232....All guards are to turn out and present arms to General officers as often as they pass them, except the personal guards of General officers, which turn out only to the Generals whose guards they are, and to officers of superior rank. 233....To commanders of regiments, garrison, or camp, their own guard turn out, and present arms once a day; after which, they turn out with shouldered arms. 234.... To the members of the Cabinet; to the Chief Justice, the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States; and to Governors, within their respective States and Territories—the same honors will be paid as to a General commandingin-chief. 235.... Officers of a foreign service may be complimented with the honors due to their rank. 236....American and Foreign Envoys or Ministers will be received with the compliments due to a Major-General. 237....The colors of a regiment passing a guard are to be saluted, the trumpets sounding, and the drums beating a march. 238....When General officers, or persons entitled to salute, pass in the rear of a guard, the officer is only to make his men stand shouldered, and not to face his guard about, or beat his drum. 239....When General officers, or persons entitled to a salute, pass guards while in the act of relieving, both guards are to salute, receiving the word of command from the senior officer of the whole. 240....All guards are to be under arms when armed parties approach their posts; and to parties commanded by commissioned officers, they are to present their arms, drums beating a march, and officers saluting. 241... No compliments by guards or sentinels will be paid between retreat and reveille, except as prescribed for grand rounds. 242....All guards and sentinels are to pay the same compliments to the officers of the navy, marines, and militia, in the service of the United States, as are directed to be paid to the officers of the army, according to their relative ranks. 243....It is equally the duty of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, at all times and in all situations, to pay the proper compliments to officers of the navy and marines, and to officers of other regiments, when in uniform, as to officers of their own particular regiments and corps. 244.... Courtesy among military men is indispensable to discipline. Respect to superiors will not be confined to obedience on duty, but will be extended to all occasions. It is always the duty of the inferior to accost or to offer first the customary salutation, and of the superior to return such complimentary notice. 245.... Sergeants, with swords drawn, will salute by bringing them to a present with muskéts, by bringing the left hand across the body, so as to strike the musket near the right shoulder. Corporals out of the ranks, and privates not sentries, will carry their muskets at a shoulder as sergeants, and salute in like manner. 246....When a soldier without arms, or with side - arms only, meets an officer, he is to raise his hand to the right side of the visor of his cap, palm to the front, elbow raised as high as the shoulder, looking at the same time in a respectful and soldier-like manner at the officer, who will return the compliment thus offered. 247.....A non-commissioned officer or soldier being seated, and without particular occupation, will rise on the approach of an officer, and make the customary salutation. If standing, he will turn toward the officer for the same purpose. If the parties remain in the same place or on the same ground, such compliments need not be repeated. SALUTES. 248....The national salute is determined by the number of States composing the Union, at the rate of one gun for each State. 249....The President of the United States alone is to receive a salute of twenty-one guns. 250....The Vice-President is to receive a salute of seventeen guns. 251.....The Heads of the great Executive Departments of the National Government; the General commanding the army; the Governors of States and Territories, within their respective jurisdictions, fifteen guns. 252... .A Major-General, thirteen guns. 254. Foreign ships of war will be saluted in return for a similar compliment, gun for gun, on notice being officially received of such intention. If there be several posts in sight of, or within six miles of each other, the principal only shall reciprocate compliments with ships passing. 255....Officers of the Navy will be saluted according to relative rank. 256....Foreign Officers invited to visit a fort or post may be saluted according to their relative rank. 257....Envoys and Ministers of the United States and foreign powers are to be saluted with thirteen guns. 258....A General officer will be saluted but once in a year at each post, and only when notice of his intention to visit the post has been given. 259.... Salutes to individuals are to be fired on their arrival only. 260. sary of the Independence of the United States, at each military post and camp provided with artillery and ammunition. ESCORTS OF HONOR. 261.... Escorts of honor may be composed of cavalry or infantry, or both, according to circumstances. They are guards of honor for the purpose of receiving and escorting personages of high rank, civil or military. The troops for this purpose will be selected for their soldierly appearance and superior discipline. 262....The escort will be drawn up in line, the centre opposite to the place where the personage presents himself, with an interval between the wings to receive him and his retinue. On his appearance, he will be received with the honors due to his rank. When he has taken his place in the line, the whole will be wheeled into platoons or companies, as the case may be, and take up the march. The same ceremony will be observed, and the same honors paid, on his leaving the escort. 263....When the position of the escort is at a considerable distance from the point where he is expected to be received, as, for instance, where a court-yard or wharf intervenes, a double line of sentinels will be posted from that point to the escort, facing inward, and the sentinels will successively salute as he passes. 264....An officer will be appointed to attend him, to bear such communications as he may have to make to the commander of the escort. FUNERAL HONORS. 265....On the receipt of official intelligence of the death of the President of the United States, at any post or camp, the commanding officer shall, on the following day, cause a gun to be fired at every half hour, beginning at sunrise, and ending at sunset. When posts are contiguous, the firing will take place at the post only commanded by the superior officer. 266....On the day of the interment of a General commanding-inchief, a gun will be fired at every half hour, until the procession moves, beginning at sunrise. 267....The funeral escort of a General commanding-in-chief shall consist of a regiment of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and six pieces of artillery. 268....That of a Major-General, a regiment of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and four pieces of artillery. 269....That of a Brigadier-General, a regiment of infantry, one company of cavalry, and two pieces of artillery. 270....That of a Colonel, a regiment. 271. 272. That of a Lieutenant-Colonel, six companies. 273....That of a Captain, one company. 274....That of a Subaltern, half a company. 275....The funeral escort shall always be commanded by an offi |