The Fourth Regiment was the left rear echelon; the Third was the next; then the Second; then the First.
"Notes of a staff officer of our First New Jersey Brigade on the Seven Day's Battle on the peninsula in 1862"
E. Burd Grubb
In forming the echelon, all the brigade passed over the crest of the hill.
"Notes of a staff officer of our First New Jersey Brigade on the Seven Day's Battle on the peninsula in 1862"
E. Burd Grubb
They fly, it is true, in some sort of order, but those that come to the mere here travel rather in a row, or line, slanting forwards, something like what military men call in echelon.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies