1. Enemy (sub-paragraph neither numbered nor lettered). Your own troops (sub-paragraph neither numbered nor lettered). 2. Plan (single paragraph). 3. (a) Task of the leading, or the most important, fraction of command. (b) Task of next, or next important, fraction of command. (X) Anything which applies to all fractions of command. 4. Trains. 5. Location of commander or place to which messages are to be sent (sub-paragraph neither numbered nor lettered). Location of lines of information (sub-paragraph neither numbered nor lettered). The Body of a field order would appear thus: 1. The enemy’s cavalry patrols have been seen north of KICKAPOO. His infantry and artillery are reported at ATCHISON. Our division is 8 miles south of LEAVENWORTH. 2. This detachment will march tomorrow to KICKAPOO. 3. (a) The independent cavalry will start at 5-30 a. m., covering the movement. (b) The advance guard will clear the northern exit of LEAVENWORTH at 6 a. m., marching by the ATCHISON CROSS-FRENCHMAN road. (c) The main body will follow the advance guard at 1,200 yards. (d) The signal troops will establish a line of information along the line of march between the independent cavalry and LEAVENWORTH, one of the stations being at FRENCHMAN. 4. The field train, escorted by one company 4th Inf., will follow the main body as far as FRENCHMAN. 5. The detachment commander will be with the main body until 7 a. m., and thereafter with the advance guard. THE ENDING.—“The ending contains the authentication of the order and a statement of how it is communicated to the command. This statement is an important feature of a field order and is made by the officer signing the order, he being responsible that it is properly distributed.”[12] The ending then would appear thus: By order of Brig.-Gen. Forse: