Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-09
BLUE LINE PIERCED
Brown Army Succeeds in It's
Attempt.
TURNS ENEMY'S RIGHT
WASHINGTON THEORETICALLY
DEFFNsELESs FROM ATTACK.
Close Of the Second Military Problem
at Manassas This Morning-Troops
Prepare for Review.
TURNS ENEMY'S RIGHT
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.

Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
PRESS CAMP. GAINESVILLE, Va, Sep
tember 9-The brown army under Gen Bell
has pierced Gen. Grants blue line and theo-
retically Manassas is hello by the browns
and Washington is at he mercy of its ene-
mics.
The last problem o. th1 maneuvers was
brought to close this morning at about
o'clock, with the browns having a very de.
clded advantage. The work of the browns
today is considered excellent in every sense.
as they had the disadvantage this morning
of not knowing the situat ton of the enemy's
main line and were forced to find II before
they could successfully orerate against Il,
The troops under Gen. Grant occupied a
strongly intrenched position on the east
sioe of Bull Run. The line extended from a
point near the Sudlay mansion almost all
the way to the Manassas camp
The movement of the browns began at
midnight last night, when the troops that
had olvouacked in the vicinity of Gainesville
moved, to their positions Some of these
troops were four or FIVE miles in the rear OF
their lines and some feavy marching was
done in order to arrive at the proper DO.
sition in time for beginning the engage.
ment.
Located the Blue Line.
The cavalry of the brown division scout.
and after some little skirmishing managed
to locate the blue line In its position. Gen.
sGrant spent the early morning hours in per.
fecting his position, as-two of the regiments
oroered to the line had not arrived when the
maneuVer was closed yesterday
WIN the addition of Gen Wint's brigade
whlch mad been used rear guard yes.
teroay In or near the center of the line at
the Stone bridge, just beyond the old first
Euil Run field. the main blue line was
greatly strengthened.
Hoshlities HOS began as soon as Gen. Bell
cSuid brlng his troops into action. The
Drown right center lay below the Stone
bridge and appeared to mass much of its
force AGAINST this point. but from subse-
quent action it appears that thfs WAC
simply ruse while the main force of the
brcwn line crossed the run alta ford to the
left of the bridge and proceeded through.
the blue line.
Blue Right Turned. 4.
On the left the extreme end of the hne
managed to turn~the blue right aad the
naneuver for. the day was brougia to a
Corbn.
The reason given for this early terrojna,
ton of the operations was that the sroIns
manding officer did not want the troops to
pe TOO worn out today. Many of them will
EaVe a long distance to march tomorrow
when they come to attend the review, and
ie was the desire to have them as fresh as
possfbleAfor this event. the only show per.
romance of the entire week.
The condition of the troops today seemed
lar superior to their condition Wednesday,
Inc ofhcers handled the men better and the
men seemed to take better care of them,
selvs as individuals. There were no casea
OF exhaustion today and only a few men felI
out of ranks from fatigue
An Excellent FeatureI
Another feature of the exercise\ whicK
showed the excellent training of the>neH
was the total absence of unnecessary Nrt
ing. There was less firing by all arms toA>
day than on any other day of the maneuver.
At least there was less firing heard at the
center of the line than on any previous day,
and the center has heretofore been good
point from which to hear the voIleys
The troops all returned to their camps
after the work today. and by o'clock all
will be in their positions again. They wilt
move out early tomorrow morning for tho 4
review, and it is understood that the arr
rangements that were to have been maQd
for the entraining of some of the soldiHd
for home directly from Wellington have
fallen through, and that all troops VIII re.
t1irn to their camps directly after TIE reA
view and will there entrain. Az. +.