Evening journal., 1904-09-10
WAR MANEUVERS
ARE NOT At END
Grand Review Follows Fight
ing at Bull Run.
GRANT AND BELL QUIT GAME EVEN

The Former Declared VICTOR ln TTet
Problem and the Latter In the Second
Event-Final Days Movements Ex-
Q citing and Spectacular.
Galpesvlle, Va. Sept. 10-The war
game maneuvers have ended and today
after the grand review the armies Of
the blue and the brown will depart FOR
tEeir homes. When the order of Gen
eral Corbin came General Bell, with
his broken arSly, had advanced across
the stone bridge pushing General Grant
1nck and also had swung a large part
of his force from the loft wing to the
entire right flank Of General Grant
and put them across Bull run at Sud
ley Springs
The umpire awards victory 10 the at
tacking force IN each Of the two prob
lens ana makes General Grant the
irst victor and General Bell the see
ond. as far as results can be estimated
without bullets.
The maneuvering and fighting Of the
final day was fnr the most spectacular
and exciting Of the campaign The
first day Of the second problem had de-
vclOped nothing but rear guard ac-
ton on the part Of General Grant,
while General Bell had spent his time
endeavOring 10 make a demonstration
on the left wing or TO the south of the
blue line During the night the situa-
ton was changed General Grants
main position remained the same, be-
hind or to the east Of Bull run. lie
withdrew his first brigade under Gen
cral Wlat, who had fought the rear
guard action the day before, to the IA
nous stone bridge across Bull rum
along whose eastern shores the trench
es dug by the federal troops still re-
main and in which General Grant post
ed General Wints line after IT had
been driven across the bridge with the
loss of one brigade
General Bell executed magnificent
march with the forces which the day
before were on the left Of his enemy
He threw them during the small hours
OF the night from the left to the right
Of Grants position When daylight
came they wee put across Bull run
at Sudley, or to the extreme north Of
the maneuver scene. His center re-
manned practically the same and fought
Il brigade action at the stone bridge. 1t
was at the point here that the fighting
Of the day began.
Charge Thrice Repeated.
The brown forces charged up TO the
I Ii.
up, but were repulsed ana ordered
back. A second charge likewise did not
meet the approval of the umpires, but
the third Sbs accompanied by a most
brilliant acuOp. A part of the brown
force, section of the Ninth infantry
had deployed up on the east bank and
got in position not twenty yards be
hind the blue defenders. when the
Eighth Massachusetts and Twelfth
New York, who were making the
charge on the west side, came up the
third time
1t did not take the umpire second
to rule out the entire blue force at this
point, and the brown army crossed the
run at will. In the meantime the force
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ley had heen coming down toward tho
pike They struck Grants line to tn,
rear and the maneuver ended wher
this force appeared in a fanklng move
ment on blue line, which was facine
a brown line that had crossed at tn,
stone bridge.
In relinqulshlng command of the ma
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general order expressing his approva
Of the work done by each commando
and the force under him.
The militia will be paid after the re
view, which is 70 be held at Wellng
ton this afternoon. After the review
5000 Of the eastern militia will he en-
tertained and started for home.