Arizona republican., 1906-08-26
THE ARTS OF WAR
 iTAUGHI IN FIELD
First Military Instruction Camp Es-
 tabIiShed at Fit. Gretna, Pa.

Camp Roosevelt, Mt. Gretna, Penn., Aug. 25.-UncIe Sam is making here his first experiment in teaching the arts of war to regulars and state militia to- gethtr on the vast plane of actual cam paigning.
 Maneuver camps are nothing new, either here or abroad. But Camp Roosevelt is more than a maneuver camp. It is a camp of instruction as well. It is a gathering of federal troops and national guardsmen from various states on an equal footing to be taught problems of war, not merely to participate in spectacular battles with blank cartridges. In this respect it is q departure from the methods hitherto undertaken at military en- campments in the United States and in foreign countries as we'll. It is @ step far In advance of any that has ever been taken heretofore by the armies of the world.
 The selection of a camp site for the Department of the East was the all important question that confronted the war department when congress author ized this instruction camp. Without much hesitation it was decided to try Mt. Gretna as an experiment, with a view to selecting permanent camp. Pennsylvania has for several years held its annual encampments here.
 Mt. Gretna is half nights ride from New York city, headquarters of the Department of the East. It is located on the Cornwall and Lebanon railroad which travels through the beautiful Lebanon valley of Pennsylvania. One steps from the train and gets the first glimpse of the camp through the dense foliage of great white oaks and chest nut trees.
 As far as the eye can see the beaut!- ful green hills, one rising above the other like great terraces. are dotted with tents of khaki brown. or canvas white. Regimental flags here and there mark the headquarters of regu- lars and national guards alike Far over these camp grounds of the infan- try are the log lines of horses on a slope below the cavalry and artillery quarters. Just above these on the sum init of another great terrace-lfke hill the signal corps and engineers are en- camped, and from the top of d giant oak tree comes the chatter of the wire less telegraph, used here for the first time in the signal service.
 Away above ali is the highest point of the camp where General Frederick
 GQs From his threshold he can sweep the entire camp with field glasses.
 General Grant at camp headquarters gave a comprehensive statement as to the plans. scope and purpose of the camp.
 This is d camp of instruction" he said, and is the first we have ever had that brought troops of the regular army and the state troops together to learn i real warfare.
 There have been, and are now ma neuVer camps in the country. but they are not camps of instruction in the i S"hse mean. We take up the sd- | Vanced drills here, going just beyond | what troops in garrison are supposed lo learn. and then we make a progres- sive drill lasting one week. each nhase1 'sadlng to another phase, forming what l may be termed q campaign, and end- ing on Friday in a problem. which must | ne met and fought out r the opposing | forces which we cal the blues and inc 'browns.'-"
 These forces are distinguished bv 1 having some of the soldiers wear their | Dlue shirts and the others their brour piouses. The settlement of The nrob- | lem at the end of the week. whether It De a sham battle five or six miles | rom camp, or whether it be a midnight | dlLack upon the camp itself is what | may De termed maneuver. The pro- | gressive drill during the week Ieading up to the problem of maueuver coI,ors | lIeId service regulations, and is in tbs | end what might be termed a camnaipn |
 Tn many respects" continued Gen eral Grant, Mount Gretna is an idea, spot Tor an encampment on such vast pldhe as this has been pitched. One heeus put to look at the rolling hills oHdued as they are here and there bv 1 eIeat oaks and chestnuts. to sec that ! rom typographical standpoint ,Ua nave here perfect place. The water runs on by as perfect a system of nat. uraI drainage as anybody could desire mat ls' in my opinion. a great advan- tage.
 For all lines of instruction we are 1' rapiy located here at Mount Gretna. The ground is fashioned b,, | nature for a camping place in reaarS ! 10 Ihe pitching of tents and fitting mn 1 me settlement generally. It is much | better to be in rolling country like tlls than to be on d wide-stretchinp plain or to be in wild. mountainous country"
 When General Grant was directed to | oring out troops from the various gar Ilsors and forts in his department. and | gather them at Mount Gretna. he | marched the infantry the first 200 miles | Of its Journey and then the rest of the | way by train. The cavalry and artil- | Iery marched 300 miles of the tourney | before boarding trains for the Penn | sylvania camp.
 Here was something new in the way or going from garrison to garrison. and l It served to reveal the fact that the united States soldiers are "soft." many | Of them falling out of line on the long |