The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-06-08


beyond Thoroughfare Gap at points
fifteen miles of red clay apart and won
the strategy of the game Of 1862.
Cooperation of militia with regular
troops, which forms the basic princi-
pie Of the national scheme Of defence,
will be afforded thorough operation in
these manoeuyres. Gen. Corbin re-
ceutly went to Virginia to make ar
rangements for obtaining permission
to operate upon the land desired as
fighting ground. Property owners
told him the army could begin to
operate there the first week in Sep.
tember, when the harvest will have
been completed and there will be no
danger to crops from the march Of in
fantry, cavalry or artillery.
But this date, although it has the
advantages Of being comparatively
cool and is convenient to Virginia
farmers, has its drawbacks. Most Of
the national guard organizations go
into camp and have their manoeuvres
in July and August. The militia
men, with whom soldiery is an occu-
patton secondary to that by which
they make their living, are better able
to leave their Offices and shops during
the dull summer months. When the
wheels of commerce and industry be-
gin to Timber up in September it is
not so easy for them to absent them
selves from the city.
Thus the militia rcpresc ntation will
be smaller than if the manoeuvres
were held in July. That month, if
made the period for this mimic war
fare, would undoubtedly result in not
few fatalities from sunstroke. Vir-
ginia is an extremely hot place in the
middle OF summer, almost too tropical
for military operations Of this charac-
ter.
Gen. Corbin believes that, although
the militia will not be able to remain
throughout the fifteen days to be de-
voted to the manoeuvres, regiments
from New York, hardened by their
work in the summer encampments at
Peekskill, would be able 60 leave New
York on fast troop trains Friday night
OF each week and be in Manassas be-
fore daybreak, thus obtaining Satur-
day and Sunday for work in the field,
and they would be again in New York
for Monday.
In order to fight the famous battle
over again, the military authorities
have consulted a woman to get his
torical data. This woman, who lives
at Groveton. is Mrs. Lucinda Dogan.
She watched the course of the battle
of Bull Run, July 81, 1866.
She heard tie guns of Tyler's di-
vision when they opened on Beaure-
CARDS left flank at the Stone Bridge.
She saw the columns Of Hunter and
Heintzelman as they swept south from
Sudley to turn the Confederate rear
and seize the Manassas Gap Railroad.
She saw the Confederate brigades of
Bee and Barlow driven back from
along Bull Run. This old woman saw
the three divisions of Mcdowell q
army and the armies Of Beauregard
and Johnston come together, and she
saw the crimson struggle on Henry
hill. She saw the Union troops give
way late in the se.sTaoon Of that sui
try, bloody Sunday. Her vantage
ground was hill at Groveton, q hun.
ared yards east of her dwelling and
one mile west of the Henry farm, the
local point Of the first battle Of Bull
Run.
Her farm-Peach Grove farm,
Groveton-was the central field cf the
second battle of Bull Run, August %,
90 and 80, 1862. The old woman kept
her house while the fighting went on
at GAINESVILLE, two and half miles
west, bu: on the second day, August
~, was ordered from the field during
the artillery overture to the engage
ment at Groveton. With three chill
dren she found refuge at the Lewis
house, mile away, listened to .he
crash Of the fight and lodged stray
shells. She returned to her home at
Groveton as soon as Pope withdrew
toward Centreville in his retreat from
the Rappahannock to the Potomac,
and she saw the field of Groveton in
its CORY horror.
Mrs. Dogan is 81 years old, deeply
wrinkled, but fright spry." Her
memory is faithful. She talks thus
Of the battle:
"When the troops come down here