Mimic War on Bull Run Field
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lASimraTON, D. C, Aug. 25.
(Special.) Over the historic field
of Bull Run in Prince William
county, Virginia, where the forces
of Beauregard, Johnston and Mc
Dowell met In sanguinary combat In July,
1861, and where a year and a month later
Jackson, Longstreet, Lee and Tope tried
conclusions to the discomfiture of the
southern arms 30,000 soldiers made up of
the flower of the regular establishment nnd
militia organizations of states cast of the
Mississippi will participate In a scries of
ham battles which promise to be educa
tional and noteworthy to the highest de
cree. The maneuvers will begin at Manassas)
the last days of August and continue to
the middlo of September. The regular
troops will arrive on the ground August
28 and leave September 15. The militia will
arrive during September 3 and 4 and depart
September 11 and 12. Every state In the
Atlantic division except Mississippi will
bo represented.
Major General Henry C. Corbln, former
adjutant general of the army and now la
charge of the Military Division of the At
lantic, with headquarters at Governor's
island, will be in supreme command anil
tho two divisions of the force, to be known
as the Blues and tho Browns, will be com
manded by Brigadier General J. Franklin
Bell and Brigadier General Frederick D.
Grant, son of the famous soldier-president.
Brigadier General Theodore J. Wint. In
command of the Department of tho Mis
souri ; Brigadier General Tasker II. Bliss,
former collector of customs in Cuba, now
of the war college; Colonel Butler D. Trice
of the Sixteenth Infantry and General Rus
sell Frost of the Connecticut National
Guard will command the First, Second,
Third and Fourth brigades, respectively,
of the First division, and Brigadier Gen
eral J. M. Lee, Brigadier General Thomas)
II. Barry and Colonel F. A. Smith of tho
Eighth cavalry will be in charge of the
Second division.
The First division, under General Grant,
will occupy Maneuver Camp No. 1, near
Manassas, and will wear the old-style blue
flannel blouses, while the enemy, the Sec
ond division, under General Bell, will be
encamped at Thoroughfare, more than ten
miles away, and will wear khaki uni
forms. During the five days that the actual
maneuvers will last, problems of vital im
portance in modern warfare will be worked
out, and in order that the regular and
militia troops engaged may derive the most
lasting good from the operations conditions
of actual armed conflict will be approxi
mated to the nearest possible degree.
Sentiment over memories of tho great
civil war had nothing whatever to do with
the selection of the old Bull Run battlo
ground. There has been an Impression In
some quarters that tho sham engagements
are to be in a large measure a repetition
of the first great battles of the civil war.
Nothing of the sort. It Is the new style
of fighting, not the old, that the regulars
and militia will be drilled In.
Congress, at Its last session, appropriated
a round million dollars to be expended this
summer and fall in sham battles by the
regular troops and picked militia from tho
various states. Of this sum, $400,000 Is di
vided between Generals Funston and Mac
Arthur for maneuvers west of the Missis
sippi river. Tho remainder, $000,000, goes
to General Corbln for the operations of
the Atlantic division, the field of Bull Run
having been chosen for the first really east
ern gre.it e-'inp of Instruction since the
firing upon Fort Sumpter.
The maneuvers will not Include very
much of the usual spectacular sham battle
display of fireworks and smoke. The gen
erals of the opposing forces will bo given
Intricate problems of modem warfare to
solve, and will be Judged by the manner in
Which they handle them. The tests made
with from 10,000 to 25,000 troops at West
Point, Ky., and Fort Riley, Kan., last year
will be carried out on a much more ex
tensive scale. The maneuver camps, as
shown In the map, will be ten miles apart.
Major General Corbln's headquarters will
be at Gainesville, which Is almost directly
between them.
There Is no fault to be found with the
sanitary conditions of the camp ground.
Tho strip Is about ten miles long and five
miles wide, through an undulating country,
neither too hilly nor too level. Army of
ficers sny the scone has not changed much
since tho battle of Bull Run was fought
there. Some of the houses still have frag
ments bf shot and she'll sticking in them
as reminders of that famous engngement.
Many of the farms are In the hands of the
same owners. Muddy little Bull Run creek
still flows from the mountains to Aqula
creek. The opposing camps are drained Into
different streams. Wells abound with good
drinking water.
The transportation of so many troops, to
say nothing of visitors. Is a great under
taking for any one railroad. So far as
Camp Manassas Is concerned, the Southern
railway has a monopoly. No other road
goes near the place. Section gangs have
been at work for weeks laying miles nnd
miles of sidings nnd additional tracks. It
will require more than 500 paHsenger cars
to convey the troops, and as many more
freight cars for the artillery, ammunition
and commissary supplies. Sidings hava
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BRIGADIER GENERAL THEODORE J. WINT, tT. S. A., COMMANDING TTIM
DKl'AKTMENT OF TMK MISSOURI, WHO WILL TAKE PART IN THE
ARMY MANEUVERS AT THE OLD BATTLEFIELD OF BULL RUN.
been built to keep these cars In camp, birt
out of the way of the soldiers. Spurs hav
been constructed connecting the t wa
camps. Tho railway will be taken ad
vantage of In tho mimic war. Just as in
real war, and the military problems to b
worked out will give tho citizen soldiery A
better understanding of tho requirements oS
modern military standards than could ros
sibly be gleaned In years of practice at
state enmpd. The interest In tho forth
coming army maneuvers Is an unmistakable
nianlfewtatlon of the appreciation of our
people lu our military institutions.
E. c. a
Reminded Her
Businesslike Suitor-Miss Blllmore. I hava
como to notify you that after consultation
with my friends and much deliberation on
my own part I have decided to ask you II
you will consent"
Miss llnklo BUImnro (Interrupting) Mil
W'ollup, do you think the right way to pro
pose to a girl Is to talk to her as If you
wero offering her a nomination for the vlc
presidency ? Chicago Tribune.
Vest's Idea of Age
On a certain occasion Mr. Vest had re
turned to tho Bonato after ono of his brief
absences. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts,
four years his senior, met him In tho lobby;
and chlded him good-naturedly for not at
tending strictly to business when vital
incitsurcs were being debated. "You're a
fine young man," said Mr. Hoar, "to absent
yourself at such a time and leave us old,
fellows Cookrell and me and tho rest ta
bandlo theso matters."
"You'll never bo as old ns I." said Vest,
"If you live fifty years longer."
"Bless you, I was born In 1S20 and was
preparing for college beforo you camo into
tho world," said tho Massachusetts man.
"If you wero born In 176 you wouldn't bs
as old as I," s;Ud tho Mis.sourkui. "You and
Cockrcll will see years, but you will never
see age. You haven't lived as lively ns X
have; and I am wishing sometimes that X
hadn't, ho said with a weary smile. Kaika
sas City Star.
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