Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-10-14
BLUES AND BROWNS.
Carloads Of Blank Cartridges
Used i'm q Sham Battle.
Surrounding Hills Reverberated to tie
Pounding Cannon and the clat.
terin9 Roll Of the krao Rifles
During Enaaqement

Camp Young. West Point. Ky. Oct.
9.-More spectacular and hotly con.
tested. but lacking one or two of the
finer points brought out in previous
maneuvers, was the engagcment par.
ucipated in Thursday by practically
the entire number OF regular soldiers
and national guardsmen in canrp.
When recall was sounded after two
hours OF hot fighting the result was
practically a dog fall. the Blue army
inhicting the heaviest loss as tailed
by the umpires. burt the Browns large
iy making up for this by greater
readiness to seize tactical advantage
or position. The firing was the heayi-
est yet witnessed by tire observers
here. Car loads oe bIanE cartridges
were expended by infantry. cavalry
and artillery and from the time tn,
opposing forces met until the game
was over the hills reverbcratcd 20
pounding cannon and the clattcring
roll OF the krags frequently rose to
the crash Of heavy voiley firing
The Blue division OF the army. com.
manded by Col. Anderson, was com
posed OF the first brigade Qseven bat
taiions representing the 1st. 81, anu
10Th United States infantry and the
LIST. Wisconsin reSimenD: second br;.
Sade nst. I'd and Sd Indiana infantry.
tho 9TH cavalry. two squadrons. and
the 18th battery. field artillery
The Brown division. commanded by
Brig. Gen. Bliss. u. 3. A.. was COM
posed of the third brigade 1st, 2d and
Sd Michigan fourth brigade cd aud
3D. Kentucky. Sth Ohio and Kentuully
light artillery battalion used as infant.
ry); seven troops OF cavalry, the 2lS-
battery. field artillery, LIST battery In
diana field artillery.
The battle was precipitated at the
entrance to long and tortuous dc.
cline in the hills. two guns from thc
21st tattery and two troops OF cavalry
being sent on the run to take and hold
IT before the Blues came up. Tho
Blues had. however. already gained q
position from which they could turn
the dcfile so the Brown force was com.
PEELED to retire. This move on the
part of the Brown commander threw
the original plans of the Blues into
confusion and forced them to strike at
the Brown left and left center. Ac.
cordingly the Indiana brigade deliv-
cred hard blow for the Blues the
firing during their attack on the Brown
left wing being the hottest OF the day
The Indiana guardsmen who have al
ready gained an enviable record an
HANGED il still further by capturing
three companies of the 9Th Ohio and
inhicting losses on the Sd Kentucky
and Sth Onio. estimated by the um.
pires as 100 killed"
Camp Young. West Point Ky. oct
1O.-Thousands OF men i'm khaki and
blue. with the October sun shining
athwart company alignments. with
arms at port. passed in front of Mai
Gen. Bates and his staff in the pres
ence of large crowd Friday. The
twice deferred review of all the troop,
at Camp Young was a most brilliant
event and practically brought 10 a close
the combined mancuvers of the rcgu-
lars and national guardsmen. which
have been in progress for ten days.
All the national guards were paid Off
Friday. The average for each private
without regard to states is about s. 20
FOR the ten days work