The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-06-08
WAR STORIES.
Will Fight the Third Bull Run.
New \ ork Herald.


sGhird battle of Bull Run. The gen
-eral staff Of the army is now engaged
upon improving the strategy of Gen.
"Stonewall" Jackson in what is re-
..garded by military strategists as the
snost mastery campaign Of the Civil
war.
From Portland, Me-, which never
came nearer to war than seeing in the
"offing Spanish fleets which never ex
e.sted, the army manoeuvrcs will be
transferred this year to Manassas, Va,
which still bears the marks of the
,heavy blows dealt by blue and gray -
years ago.
For the first time an opportunity
will be afforded for effective compari
-sons between the old army which
Fought and the new army which is be
ing trained to fight. Can the modern
teortation which have developed 40
years from the days when Pope and
Lee raced from their respective bases
UC the battle ground change the re-
Dalt of their manocuvres2 Twenty
Gwo thousand modern soldiers will be
sGsed to test the prowess of the ancient
.armies of the rebellion and prove what
would have happened hao the com
nsnders whose names made history
possessed Krag Jorgensen rifles,
Dougherty wagons and the new army
Geld gun.
It Is probable that no field of any of
the great Southern conflicts could have
'been selected which has suffered so
little change as the low lying land in
the valley of Northern Virginia be-
tween Thoroughfare Gap and the Po-
,tomac.
There have been few alterations in
the makeup and characteristics Of
Manassas since the rear guard of Gen.
Pope's army fell back to Washington.
Railroad lines and roads which afford
ed the old combatants their only
methods of transportation other than
uthat afforded by the country roads
ehave not changed. The lines shown
upon the map Of 1862 are still un-
changed, except that upon what was
cths left flank of the Northern army
sthere has been constructed road be-
.4ween Alexandria and Fredericksburg,
and line across what was the base Of
athe Southern army from Fredericks-
burg to Charlottesville, These latter
dimes would 80 materially have affected
ahe operations of the Civil war that it
ds probable, if the general staff follows
its plan of reproducing the campaign
of 1862, they will he barred by the
umpire.
Eighteen thousand regular army
troops and 1000 militiamen from va
rious Eastern States will participate
IN the operations, which will continue
from September to 90. This is the
largest body of regulars and militia
gathered for manoeuvres in the his.
aory of the United States. The fields
of Bull Run, Bristol Station, Milford
and Manassas junction will again be
&rod by armed soldiers. The same
@tragetio points which played such q
uital part in the contest Of military
soieace waged between Gen. John
Pope, the Federal leader, and Gen.
robert E. Lee, Confederate. stand the
same to-day as in 1867.
Major Gen. Henry G. Corbin, com.
rnsn4;ns The 1:=-::ss;:c== &c Tho Atlantic,
will be in supreme command. Lieut..
Gen. Adpa r. Cnaffee, chief of staff,
whose actual fighting service in Cuba,
the Philippines and China, in the last
few years, is fresh in mind, will OBJ
serve the manoeuvres. Military at
taehes of foreign Governments will
witness the evolutions. Convenient
=as the scene Of fighting will be to
Washington and Baltimore, and even
TO Philadelphia and New York, thou
sands Of onlookers are expected to
8 anf their way thither. Already in
!: auiries that pour in upon the war de-.
partmeot show that many an old vet
eran who fought in the campaign of
August 1862, Intends to see how the
soldiers of to-day will handle them
selves un the fighting ground.
To this day, wherever the veterans
Of the campaign Of the great rebellion
gather and stories are told, cred Vir-
ginia mud" Aas prominent place.
1t is declared there is no "stiokier"
m1S-a the world and no time when it
IS ''stickier" than the last rainy har-
Eest months.