Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-07

was considered excellent from military
view.
A force from the brown line, consisting of
the LIST Vermont, 18th New York, Sth Mas
sachusetts, I'd Maine, moved over open
ground to attack a blue force, which in
Guided the 10th Virginia, 1st Maine and list
Alabama. The brown army lost heavily,
but in pushing forward to follow up the
repulse of this force the blue troops came
into an enfilading fire from the brown in
fantry and artillery and were forced to re-
tire and were ordered back by the umpires.
Between and o'clock the fight was re-
Sumed between the two forces near Bel
cher's place. Bell had by this time brought
the greater part of his division to help de-
fend the attack on his position, as he had
by this time become satisfied that the blue
force in front of him was the main attack
Ing force and that here was where the fight
OF the day was to be had. The troops en-
gagged on the brown side in this, the last
encounter of the day. and the sharpest of
all, included the I'd Maine, 1st Vermont,
Sth Massachusetts, 4th New Jersey, 9th
Massachusetts. a part of the 9th regular in
fantry, LIST North. Carolina and a regular
battery with the Connecticut machine gun
battery ~ +i4-
Opposed to these were the 10th Virginia,
list Maine and 1st Alabama The firing was
heavy and 1t is probable that some decided
movement would have occurred, but the
time was close to 3 O'Clock when the adj
vance was made by the browns, in attempt
ing to take ridge occupied by the blues
and the lighting was still going on over this
position, when the smoke bomb signalling
the close of the days work, was bursted in
the air directly over the press camp.
The situation summed up by the chief
umpire at the close of the engagement
was this: For the blue Wint's brigade had
not all been engaged, although portion of
1t had suffered heavily. Price took the
brunt of the fighting during the entire day
and suffered severely, while the brigades of
Frost and Bliss can hardly be said to have
had anything to do throughout the day be-
ing held in reserve and never getting into
the fighting: For the brown, Barry. Lee
Smith and Regan's brfgadeS were all en-
gagged and all suffered some losses. The
blue army was forced to fall back a short
distance from the position 1t had taken
earlier in the day, hut a pursuit by the
browns force was impracticable, owing to
the approach of nightfall g o'clock being
agreed upon as nightfall for the maneu-
vers) and because of the losses it had sus-
tanned
Results of the Days Work.
AS to the results of the first days maneu-
vers, they were manifold, says the chief UNI
pire Some of the regiments exhausted their
ammunition before they had been long in
the fight and could hold positions only as
long as they were not under fire. The minute
they came under fire their situation with
sderation by umpires such a condition
would produce in actual warfare and the
troops would have been ordered to fall
back There are several things that might
be said to have been developed during the
day however, which We're mos gratifying
to the officers in command. The fire con-
troll of the militia was excellent. The Of
ficers seemed to have good control over them
men and prevented them wasting ammuni-
ton or spending it except when there was