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Updated: May 17, 2025
It may be said, before quitting the subject, that as an order of sailing, corresponding to the route-step of an army in march, a loose group formation has some advantages; maintaining some order without requiring that rigid exactness of position, to observe which by day and night must be a severe strain on captain and deck-officers.
The country is like a vast disorganised undisciplined army, leaderless, uninspired, going in route-step along the road to they know not what end. In the prairie towns of the West and the river towns of the South from which have come so many of our writing men, the citizens swagger through life.
"By cable, little comrade," he said, with a shaky gaiety that betrayed the tension of his nerves. "So pack up and route-step once more!" He turned and looked at her and his face twitched: "You wonderful girl," he said, "you beautiful, wonderful girl! We'll live to fly our pigeons yet, Yellow-hair, under the very snout of the whole Hun empire!"
The easy, open, but orderly route-step of the Regulars was alluded to their occupying the road alone, and not spread out and straggling like a drove of cattle. A stranger seeing our Volunteers upon the march would not give them credit for the soldierly qualities they really possess.
"Carrying a rifle and marching the lock-step -the route-step, I mean -has dulled your brain," growled Tom Reade. "Is Greg in Gridley?" "What scoundrel is taking my name in vein?" demanded Holmes, coming upon the trio. Then there were hearty greetings, all over again. But in the end Reade looked Greg over from head to foot. "Do they make you sleep on a stretcher at West Point?" Tom wanted to know.
The men marched at the route-step in two straggling files along either side of the road, thus leaving the central space free for the officers, and Maurice could not help noticing their anxious, care-worn air, in striking contrast with the jollity and good-humor of the soldiers, who were happy as children to be on the move once more.
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