The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-10
BULL RUN AGAIN
WHAT 80, 900 TROOPS WILL DO
At MANASSAS. .-.

Been Changed Very Little since the
Days of the Civil War.
The army maneuvers to be held in
Prince William county. Va, on. the
historic battlefield Of Bull Run in the
early days of September, and in which
the entire National Guard Of this state
is to take part, viii be on much more
elaborate scale than has ever been at
tempted heretofore. Regular troops
and militia organizations to the number
of thirty thousand will be assembled at
the camps in the vicinity Of Thorough
fare and Manassas and will come from
almost every state in the Union east Of
the Mississippi river.
Great benefits to both the regular es-
Establishments and the militia organiza-
ton are expected to result from the OPP
erations. The actual maneuvers will
last from eptember to September TO-
but the greater part Of the regular
troops and some of the militia will be
on the ground before the former date
and will remain for some time after the
last of the sham engagements haa been
fought and the set problems of mimic
warfare have been satisfactorily solved.
Majors General Henry G. Corbin, for
Imer adjutant general Of the army, and
now in charge of the military division
!of the Atlantic, with headquarters at
Governors Island, New York, will be in
supreme command, and the two divi-
sions of the force under him will be
commanded by Brigadier- General ].
Franklin Bell and Brigadier- General
Frederick D. Grant, son of the famous
soldier resident.
Brigadier- General Theodore j. Whit,
Brigadier- General Tasker H. Bliss, Col
onel Butler D. Price of the Sixteenth
infantry and General Russell Frost of
the Connecticut National Guard, will
command the First, Second, Third and
Fourth brigades, respectively of the
First division; and Brigadier- General
Thomas H. Barry, Colonel James Re-
gan OF the Ninth infantry and Colonel
F. "a. Smith Of the Eighth infantry will
be in command Of the brigades of the
Second division.
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The First division, u nder General
Grant, will occupy Maneuver camp. No.
|, near Manassas, and win wear the old
style blue flannel blouses, while the en-
envy, the Second division, under General
Bell, will be encamped at Thoroughfare
more than ten miles away, and will be
uniformed in khaki.
During the FIVE days that the man
euvers are in progress, problems of vi
be worked out. and in order that the
regular and militia troops engaged may
derive the greatest and most lasting
good from the operations, conditions of
actual armed conflict will be approxi-
mated to the nearest possible degree.
During the engagements between the
Blues and the Browns, as the opposing
forces will be designated for purposes
of breyity, the spectacular features that
distinguished the graphing OF armies
iii former times. the dash OF cavalry
against artillery. the bayonet charge in
close order against the infantry In
trenched, the rush across the shot
swept open, will all be sacrificed. to the
busfness-like features of the present
day warfare.
The army of thirty thousand men will
not be sent to the maneuver camps for
purposes of military display, nor to
work out problems of warfare that be-
came practically obsolete with the adj
vent of the small bore, high powdered
arm, the deadly machine gun
and the powerful long range siege gun
in use by all armies at the present time
They will be sent to work out essential
W modern problems of war that take
into consideration all Of the modern en-
gines Of destruction and the change in
military operations necessitated by
their use.
The army officers who have been de-
to serve as umpires during the
have received their instruc-
tions along this line. and the military
commander who, during the manuevers,
shall lead his command in gallant
charge or desperate assault, according
to the old standard, viii find that
and his men have probably advanced
through a zone of theoretical destruc-
ton, and that. on paper, his command |
has been annihilated.
RESULTS EXPECTED.
The high officers Of the army who are
now engaged in working out the details |
Of the rlaneuvers are satisfied that
when, after five days of fighting, Of |
march and of countermarch, of night |
attack and armed surprise, the regu-
lars and thte militia rest on their arms, |
they will have a better idea Of the gem
eral scheme Of war than they could |
possibly obtain in any other way. And |
they believe, too, that the men Of the |
Blues and Of the Browns, after they |
have listened for days and nights to |
The roar OF artillery bombardment, the
crash of infantry volleys and the Vi |
ctous drumming of the machine guns, |
will return to their posts or to their |
homes with a very wholesome respect |
for the Instruments of modern war and !
vastly increased knowledge Of how to
use them.
The area OF operations of the Union
and Confederate forces before and dur !
ing the Bull Run engagements was
bounded by Centerville on the east,
Groveton on the west, Sudley Springs |
IN the north and Manassas on the |
south, and it is to this famous square |
that the maneuvers will be confined.
Officers of the army who have been
Ut Manassas and Thoroughfare recent