The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-09
GRANT HIDDEN BEHIND BULL RUN
AWAITS ATTACK OF BROWN ARMY.
Continued from First tage.)

oeuvers Artillery played an important
part iii The days fmarvoeuvcring and the
roar of the guns, the rattle OF inusketry
and the charge ofasquadrons Of dust-e,l-
veIoped cavalry, combined to make FREE
quent brave Observation-Disclosures Of war
with It's horrors eliminated.
The programme to-day was an attack
BY tile army OF the browns from near.
Thorougi1fare on the blue army encaml,.
ed near Manassas. The umpircs do not
Indicate whether the blue or the brown
wins, but 1t appeared to the spectator
when hostilitics we're suspended at 3
Io'clock, tint tho brown was about to
succeed IN turning the blue left, soutl,
of Groyeton. "
Nearly all Sthc fighting to-day was be-
tween the left Of q eneral Grants line
under General whit and the brown brig
|. adc under General Barry. When the
fighting ceased at 8 10 clock, General Bar
|Ery's left rested on the old railroad cut
which stoncwall jackson held all day
ohthc second day of the second battle of
Mana ssas. and where some Of the most
severe fighting known III war occurred.
A portionfof tho ground fought over to-
day Is within the limits of the field on
which occurred the greater part Of the
In Fine Fettlc.
Although General Corbin interviewed last
night To change The programme Of to-
days smlnocuycrs, SO q s to make the hour
for moving the troops 6 q clock this morn
Ing instead OF midnight, late last night
he went further and ordered that,sncithcrs
side make any inovcH cnt until 81 clock
a. NJ. The result was the men went
Jtrf... <x,ts III
not lose their spirits throughout tho day.
This was tho garmcst day OF Iie week.
and &thcgdnst In tllcropd round sandgabout
Gainesville is ankle deep everywhere.
However, tho country Is largely wooded
cast Of Gainesville, where were tho chief
manoeuvcrs Of the day, and the shade
vas grateft) IL 81 I'm q, & Ell n
The first sign5of war seen from corps
llcadq,1arters i4this morning was at OBS
o'clock when three troops Of the Fifth,
Cava Try came along he road from Hay
market at IA swi tstro =. crossed the rsidl-
road Il and disappeared Sin woods half a
mile away to the right OF the Warren
ton Turnpike. a half hour later, there
tenE minutes a battery OF five guns OF tine.
-Four, h e Artillery ind ~ Captain Footes
came clattering along the Haymarket:
road !. and going down the 1Narrenton5
pike disappeared In The woods, where the,
cavalry was last seen. The smusketrysflrei
was still lin Spro gross when the Infantry.
Began TO file past. & wa s within a lial 6
mile of Foote's bat ferry. when he cavalry
retired from I the ~ GODS at "a ga Hop. and
the footsorc sol Tiers were taken forward
at The run. 81 80
II The infantry at This point consisted or
General Barry's bril- ga dc. 81 comp posed 5ofi
three companies Of the Fifth Infantry
the First North Caro- lima, the ~ Second
Georgia and the Second Texas. The men
were sdeployed III he woods on lthers side
of the Warrenton pike a mile cas- &
Gainesville. y ana, n 4 r41,ced In cS tended
order. The men advanced rapidly Trough
tile woods and scrub pines. Just before;
the brown line reached an open fieId,y
lying on both sides of the pike Ca plain.
Fcotc opened fire Will, lis battery on 4 q
blue line and advancing hrouglt he