Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-10
COMM c MANEUVERS
Preparing for Army Move
ments in Kentucky.
SELECTION OF UMPIRES
NATIONAL GUARDsMEN TO TAKE
PART IN EXERCISES.
Announcement Of the Plans of the War
Department-Maj. Gen. Bates to
Be in Command.
SELECTION OF UMPIRES


yet completed all details connected with
the proposed maneuvers near West Point
KY, it has been arranged that the maneu-
vers shall begin Friday, September 70, ana
continue until Sunday, October 1S. They
will be participated in by troops from Camp
George H. Thomas. at Chickamauga; Jel-
ferson Barracks Missouri: Fort Sheridan,
ILL.,; Fort Wayne, Mich; Fort Porter. N.
Y; Fort Brady, Mich; Fort Thomas. KY;
Columbus arsenal, Tennessee; Columbus
Barracks Ohio: Fort Myer. Va. and Wash
ington Barracks as we'll as by three regi-
ments Of infantry and a battery of field ar
tillery from the Indiana National Guard
two regiments Of infantry and a battalion
Of artillery, acting as infantry, from the
Kentucky State Guard. three regiments ana
one battalion of infantry from the Mlchl-
gan National Guard and one regiment or
infantry from the Wisconsin Natonal
Guard
The Organization.
The troops participating in the maneu-
vers are to be organized as follows:
Provisional division-Major General John
c. Bates United States army. commanding.
Hospital Corps, Company Of instruction,
No. l. Company B, United States Signal
Corps
First Brigade-Brig. Gen. William A.
Kobbe, United States army, commanding.
First United States Infantry (nine COM
panies), Sd United States Infantry eleven
companies), Goth United States Infantry
-four companies), 1st Infantry, Wisconsin
National Guard.
Second Brigade-Brig Gen. Will ]. Nc
Kee, Indiana National Guard, command
ing. First Infantry, Indiana National
Guard; I'd Infantry, Indiana National
Guard; Sd Infantry, Indiana National
Guard.
Third Brigade-Brig. Gen. William T.
McGurrin, Michigan National Guard, COM
manding. First Infantry. Michigan Ma
tional Guard: "a Infantry. Michigan Ma
tional Guard; Sd Infantry. Michigan Ma
tional Guard; 1st Independent Battalion.
Michigan National Guard.
E'our.I. Br1sade-Rsis Gen. Tasker H.
Second Infantry. Kentucky State Guard;
Sd Infantry. Kentucky State Guard 1st
Battalion Artillery, Kentucky State Guard.
acting as infantry.
7th United States Cavalry, commanding.
Second United States Cavalry (two troops),
4th United States Cavalry Uwo troops), 7th
United States Cavalry (nine troops), Sth
United States Cavalry -four troops).
Divisional artillery-Major Charles G.
Woodward. Artillery Corps, United States
army commanding. Fourteenth United
States Field Battery, 21st United States
Field Battery, Field Battery, Indiana
National Guard.
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Organizations participating in the maneu-
vers are required to have the maximum
number of men available present for duty;
all available hospital corps men to accom-
pany the commands; all available trans
rortation and horses available for mounts
to be taken with troops; all organiza tons
participating to bring with them the regu-
lation allowance of tents. Troops of the
organized militia will be transported by
rail or water by the United States from
the home stations of their companies to
the place of maneuver and return, and paid
and subsisted from the date Of departure
to the date Of return to their home sta
tions, inclusive. The United States will
transport brigade, regimental and company
property necessary for use in the field, also
the field allowance of officers and men 8
baggage, the horses and the baggage wag-
onS.
Under the law no per diem allowance or
forage for horses and mules of any kind be-
longing to the organized militia can be fur
nished by the government, but purchases
can be made for cash at contract rates for
forage and all other supplies issued by the
army.
The Site Of Maneuvers.
West Point. Kentucky. the site of these
maneuvers. is on the Illinois Central rail-
road, eighteen miles from Louisville 1t
fronts for four miles on the Ohio river, and
Is bounded on the north by the Ohio on the
east. by Salt river and Milk creek, on the
west by Otter creek, and extends south to
Tip Top, station on the Illinois Central
railroad, fifteen miles from West Point. It
contains 2s,OOO acres and is rectangular In
shape with one end narrowed down, meas
uring four miles by fifteen miles The tract
consists of bottom land along the Ohio
river and plateau elevated 300 feet above
the bottom land; back Of the bottom land
rises great plateau about four miles wide
and Six miles long, which runs back to the
town OF Vine Grove and is traversed from
end to end by the Illinois Central railroad
and the Hendersonville pike, these two
roads being from one to two miles apart:
the plateau then descends more or less
abruptly to the bottom lands of the Ohio
on the south, Salt river on the west and
Otter creek on the. east. The climate and
sanitary conditions of the tract are excel
lent. 1t has plenty Of timber and many
fine springs running the year round.
To Act as Umpires.
The following named officers have been
named to act umpires during the ma
neuvers at West Point. to report at once by
telegraph to Major General Bates for as
signment to duty: Colonels Stephen c. Mills.
inspector general, and Joseph H. Doorst Sd
CavalryI Lieutenant Colonels Louis ". Ca
ciaro Artillery Corps; Walter s. Schuyler.
"a Cavalry, and Edgar B. Robertson 9th
Infantry; Majors Thomas L. Casey Corps
OF Engineers, Alfred c. Sharpe, United
states Infantry. assistant adjutant general;
George A. Zinn. Corps of Engineers; Chas.
St: y Chubb. 10Th Infantry; willis o.
clark. 9th Infantry, and Lloyd g. McCor-
nick, 1th Cavalry; Captains William L.
Slbert Coorps Of Engineers; Samuel .. Al
len, Artillery Corps; Albert c. Blunt ArtiI-
lery Corps; Ernest Kinds. Artillery Corps;
Lawson III. Fuller, ordnance department:
Oscar J. Brown, LIST Cavalry; Francis J.
Herman. I'd Infantry: Chase W. Kennedy.
sth Infantry; Andrew s. Rowan. 10th In
fantryi BENJAMIN A. Poore, 9th Infantry:
g. McAlexander, 18th Infantry: Mark L.
Hersey, 9th Infantry; George w. Read, 9th
Cavalry; Willard A. Holbrook. 9th Cavalry:
Moss. oath Infantry; Julian r. Lindsey.
18th Cavalry. and John w. Furlong. eth
Cavalry.