The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-17
TO ATTACK THE CAMP.
Two Regiments Will be There to De

Two Regiments Will be There to De-
 fend it-Plans for Mantle.
 The orders from the adjutant-g general regarding the encampment of the Ma tional Guard next month require that | the First and Second regiments shall | disembark at Lyme and march over to | Mantle, reaching there the following day, Tuesday, when they are to at | tack the camp, as previously told, l The orders further provide that Briga- | dier- General Frost shall detail an off, | and he may assume command of the defense himself, or detail an officer to command the troops in camp which are | to repel the attack, if possible. The | only regimental commander who out
 ranks Colonel Schulze is Colonel Hem drie of the Fourth, who will probably be in camp with the regiment, and there is some curiosity to know whom General Frost will detail to command the First and Second regiments, the at- tacking force.
 The two regiments will leave the cars
 at Lyme, and will march as far as
 deemed necessary before bivouacking
 for the night The quartermaster-gen
 eral has made requisition on the secre-
 tary of war for large number of shell
 ter tents, each of which will cover two
 men. They are so arranged that two men carry each a part and they are not
 burdensome. Colonel Schulze's plan
 if he receives no more definite instruc- tions, Is to send all the baggage he can on to the camp by wagons or train, and incumber the men with as little as possible He will bivouac over night and march as seems best to attain his object.
 The uuartermaster-ge will ar range for sufficient wagons to transport the necessary baggage from Lyme with the column, and arrangements are be- ing made by the adjutant- general to obtain a camping ground east of Lyme for the night. This is necessary, as it will not do to let the troops bivouac oil any field the commanding officer might select on the march, because of the pos sible resulting claims for damage to crops, etc.
 Adiutant-G General Cole said that the regiments to be attacked would not be obliged to make their defense on the camp grounds but could go out and look up some strategic point of vant- age; in fact some such movement is just what is desired. It is argued that the camp grounds themselves are poor strategic position and that it would be very difficult to defend them General Cole said that he knew of a spot about three miles from Camp Me- Lean which would be easily defended The Third and Fourth regiments will be aided by Light Battery A, which this year will be armed with modern breech loading guns. This programme will be repeated Wednesday and Thursday, the attacking parties being reversed.
 A committee of unprejudiced regular army officers will decide which suc- ceeds in obtaining the best position. Not d shot will be fired, therefore the smoke of battle and the noise which go to make real warfare picturesque will be lacking. ,
 There is now every reason to believe that the cavalry troop will be ordered | out for a tour of duty at the state mili- ] tary rendezvous in August with the | rest of the brigade. The quartermas- | general has ordered equipment for | the new troops and it is expected that | the new equipment will be delivered to | the troop within two weeks. It will in ,lude besides the saddles, etc, carbnes, | revolvers and the full uniform of the | United States cavalry.