The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-08
STATE TROOPS HAVE
 TASTE OF HARD WORK
EAFTRo DAYS NATIONS IN ONE
 ATMANASSAS.

Have to Go Hungry the Second Day.
 Regulars Set Them a Good Example
 in This Respect-south Carolina Reg
 iment Cleans Out Provision Store
 First ManeuverProblem over.
 Corps Headquarters. Gainesville. Ga. Sept. 7.-The first manoeuvre problem closed at noon to-day with General Grants force pushed through the left wing of General Bell. This put the blue force within two miles of Thoroughfare Gap, the objective point. However. General Bell had Smiths brigade on the right and Barry's brigade on the left of this breach in his line. and Colo mel Wagner, chief umpire. draws no conclusion as to what might happen had not hostilities ceased under the command issued by General Corbin to cease hostilities at noon so that the tired troops might be given relief. This attack on the part of the blue force was made by General Wint with Prices brigade, consisting of the Seventh Vir- ginia, the First Maine, First Alabama and Sixteenth infantry. Previous to this there had been severe fighting on the line to which General Bell had fall- en back during the night. This line, the Antioch road was within two miles of the western limit of the manoeuvre 1a1 la Axrax Af ,o width of the zone. While General Bell was falling back to the new line from the Carolina road, which had been the scene of conflict the day before. General Grant occupied the hours between mid might and daylight in concentrating his forces for an attack on the brown left He withdrew all of his cavalry from the southern portion of his line, their position on the first day, and threw two full brigades and sixteen guns to the point indicated. His artillery was so well placed that 1t had unobstructed lplay for an hour on the brown line. The effect Of this fire was not taken into account by decision rendered by the umpire on the field early in the bat tile. when the blue force was required to fall back, but was taken into account ilater and credit given accordingly.
 Every spectacular featureAof a battle lin full progress was prodl ed in the manoeuvres, and the field Vas viewed from near and far by many spectators. General Corbin went among the troops of both armies and made close observa- tion of the progress of the battle. Mrs. Corbin, Mrs. Grant and Miss Patton viewed the manoeuvres from an auto- mobile During the afternoon the troops returned to their respective camps to rest until 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, when the problem will be reversed and the brown army will take the field against the blue in the effort to strike lat Washington
 The militia troops displayed the usual disadvantage of inexperience in the field. Many of them ate their two days raticns the first day and went hungry l to-day. The regulars set them q good example in this respect, dividing their supplies equally between the two days.
 Complaint of depredations by militia men came to headquarters to-day from Wellington, where it was claimed that the First South Carolina regiment had cleaned out a provision store absolute ". The loss will be reimbursed to the proprietor and the amount deducted from the pay of this regiment. General Corbin and both division commanders unite in praising the conduct of the militia. They have been tired out, but their fighting qualities have not been impaired.
 Corps Headquarters, Gainesville, Sept. sl7G General Corbin issued an order late tonight postponing the second prob ilem of the manoeuvres until g o'clock to- morrow morning. This postponenent lis made that the troops of both diyi- sions may secure much needed rest before taking the field for another for- lty-eight hour manoeuvre.