Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-26
FOR war GAME.
Something Concerning Plans
for Manassas Maneuvers.
Troops From Maine Will Be In Oppos-
ing Divsions-No Signal Corps
Description of Camps.

All Maine National Guardsmen and
Civil War veterans, as well, are inter-
ested in the Forthcoming war maneu-
Vers at Manassas, Va. Col. H.O. S.
Heistand and Capt. James A. Moss, u.
S. A., have just returned from that
battlefield, where they have been en-
gagged in laying out the plan of CAM
paign, as it will be fought in Septem-
Der.
The manoeuvre field includes fifty
square miles of territory in Prince
William county. Virginia, extending
from the hamlet of Thoroughfare east
to Bull Run. Headquarters will be es-
tablished about a mile southwest of
Gainesville, Va. The forces partici-
pating will be divided into two main
camps each TO contain 12,tOO troops,
consisting of regulars and all kinds of
National Guardsmen.
Manoeuvre camp No. 1 will be locat-
ed about 21a miles northwest of Ma
nassas. Camp No. 2 will pe about one
mile west Of Thoroughfare Brig. Gen.
F. d. Grant, U. S. A.. will be in COM
mand of No. 1 and Brig. Gen j. Frank
i lin BEL, u. -. "a, VI NO. Z. JULIET S''t'-
cr.u officers taking part in the ma
noeuvres will be Generals Barry, Bliss
and Wine. Col. A. L. Wagner will be
chief umpire.
The two officers, who visited the ma
noeuvre ground, anticipated much OPP
position from the property owners to
having large armed bodies moving
about over their land but they were
happily disappointed. They were able
to assure the people that their rights
| would be carefully safeguarded by the
soldiers and that surprisingly little
damage would be done.
A strategy board consisting of Cen
erals Grant, Barry and Bliss have
been on the field. planning the prob
lens to be worked out.
The roster of troops to be engaged
in this campaign as at present ar
ranged is as follows:
Corps headquarters, near Gaines
ville-One troop. 7th g. S. Cavalry:
one-half siege battery without guns
Division near Manassas. Va.-Com-
ranies U. S. engineers and band; eight
troops It'll U. S. cavalry headquarters
and band; one troop Connecticut cav
airy; one troop New York cavalry
(suuadron Al; 23d and 9th batteries
field artillery, n. S. A., II guns; one
battery Massachusetts field artillery;
eight companies 9Th U. S. infantry.
Headquarters and band; eight compa-
MES u. S. infantry headquarters ana
band; eight companies 9th U. S. IN
fantry, headquarters and band; 1st
Maine infantry; 1st and I'd Connectl-
cut, infantry; Sd Connecticut infantry
| and Connecticut separate company;
staff Connecticut infantry; 5th Mas
sachusetts infantry; LIST Tennessee IN
fantry; oath Florida infantry, proVi-
sional regiment; 14th and 74th New
York infantry; 5th New Jersey infan-
try: 10th Virginia infantry: South
Carolina infantry: Georgia. Alabama
and Texas infantry, one provisional
regiment each: two troops Georgia
j cavalry; Georgia brigade headquarters;
battery A, list Virginia artillery. Total
of 772 officers, 12,579 neil and LAOS
horses.
Division near Thoroughfare. Na.-one
company L. S. engineers: eight troops
18th L. S. cavalry. headquarters ana
| hand one troop New York cavalry; one
troop Maryland cavalry; Sd and 4th bat
teries U. s. field artillery, one battery
Connecticut field artillery. one battery
Connecticut machine guns: three COM
panies. 1st U. S. infantry; companies
Sth U. S. infantry and band; 20 companies
18th U. S. infantry, headquarters ana
ba nd; I'd Maine infantry; I'd Vermont IN
fantry and band; Sth and 9Th Massa-
chusetts infantry and brigade stan:
list North Carolina infantry; two bat
talions, West Virginia infantry; Sd
Tennessee infantry; I'd New York IN
fantry; 18th New York infantry; 4th
New Jersey infantry: list Maryland IN
fantry; South Carolina infantry; I'd
Georgia infantry; Texas infantry; four
companies Delaware infantry; one troop
Georgia cavalry.
Total of second division: 146 officers.
,54 men and 1,225 horses. In ad-
dition there will be a total of Il officers.
1Oi men and So horses unassigned, making
grand total of 1.533 officers. 2i,eSi men
and 2.64i horses involved in both sides of
this sanguinary struggle.
Amongst the unassigned troops Is
reckoned the Maine signal corps and the
Maine ambulance corps. but the first
named has been disbanded so that 1t will
not be in the campaign this fall.