If grain is to be transported, two more six-mule teams will be required. Battalion commander and staff, one four-mule team. Medical department, one ambulance and possibly one four-mule team. A good six-mule team in the best part of the season will haul a load of 4000 pounds, marching with troops. It will haul 1400 short rations of provisions--bread, coffee, sugar, salt, and soap--and eight days' rations of forage for the six mules. REMARKS ON PACKING WAGONS. The reserve rations should be placed in first, as they are not required to be taken out unless specially ordered. Then should come the tools and any heavy packages, and on top the men's and officers' baggage. The blankets should be rolled up together by tent-loads or section-bundles. All grease, oil, and dubbing should be slung under the wagons. The packing of the supply-wagons depends upon the nature of the supplies. Care must be taken that bags containing grain or biscuits are properly secured, and that, if fresh meat is carried, it is not exposed to the sun on the march. Tents are kept in separate wagons if possible, in order that they may be left behind when ordered without disarranging the other stores. In packing tools care must be taken to prevent their rattling on the march. The following information obtained from orders of Army Commanders during the Civil War may prove useful: General McClellan, August 10, 1862, allowed three wagons to each battery, and they carried nothing but forage for teams, cooking utensils for the men, hospital stores, small rations, and officers' baggage. At least one half of the wagons carried grain. Captains and lieutenants were allowed a shelter-tent each, and to every two enlisted men a shelter-tent. Men carried no baggage except blankets and shelter-tents, and officers' baggage was limited to blankets, a small valise or carpet-bag, and a reasonable mess-kit. General Rosecrans, November 20, 1862, allowed each battery as many wagons as there were guns in a battery. General Sherman while marching from Atlanta to Savannah allowed each battery one wagon. General Grant, February 23, 1865, for each battery: for personal baggage, mess-chests, cooking utensils, desks, papers, etc., one wagon; two wall-tents for officers; shelter-tents, one for every two enlisted men. The allowance of forage was: horses, 6 lbs. hay, 14 lbs. grain; mules, 6 lbs. hay, 12 lbs. grain. On a march the grain ration was 10 lbs. The following extract gives the minimum allowance with which the commands in the Department of the Missouri were equipped and supplied in 1885 for 20 days' field service: Transportation for field-and staff-officers' baggage and supplies, medical supplies, engineer and signal equipments and appliances to be according to strength of command or nature and importance of service. To a battalion of two companies, 1 four-mule ambulance. The allowance of transportation per company is as follows: