The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-09
State Soldiers viii Do Bat
tie With Regulars
ATTACK STARTS EARLY
Beginning Long Before Daylight the
Troops VIII Maneuver in Their
Attack Upon Fortfficntions
of Chattanooga

Chattanooga, July ESPECIAL Five
thousand citizen soldiers are sleeping on
their arms tonight, awaiting the bugle
call which will be sounded at O'Clock
Saturday morning to summon them for
duty in the first problem of the war
game in which militiamen have partic-
ipated All along historic Chckamauga
the boys in khaki will turn out before
daylight, just as the boys in blue and
gray did in the late September of 1863,
but the warriors of tomorrow will use
bullets of paper and paraffine to replace
the canister and grape of the former
days
Although the tragedies of tomorrow will
consist principally of sore feet and blis-
tered hands, the preparations on the eve
of battle were almost as extensive as II
thousands of souls were at stake. Mount
ed orderlies and secret message bearers
were Fastening to and fro, exposing
themselves to a volley of paranine pui-
lets or the umpire's decision that they
were dead 1t was indeed ghastly
sight.
victors of Thursday
The umpires of the problem between
the Red" and Brown armies. con-
sisting entirely of regular troops, en-
gagged Thursday, announced today that
the Brown" army under command of
Col Van Orsdale. was the victor OF the
battle The Brown artillery, stationed on
Snodgrass Hill. would have annihilated
the Red forces In tho opinion OF the
umpjres. The problem Thursday was
for the Red army to capture and de-
stroy the supply depots of the Brown
army. 1t was unsuccessful.
The problem scheduled for Saturday is
entirely different, and will execute an
entirely different feature of warfare IL
will also be the first of the problems IN
which the militiamen will take part, and
there is general interest among the mill
itary men to see how the guardsmen
perform under fire.
The Brown army Will be detach :
ment from larger amry, supposed 10
be stationed at Chattanooga, while the
Red army will be detachment OF
another large army. supposed to be
stationed at Rome. The Red army Will
start out on raid naVlng TOT Ns
purpose the capture of Chattanooga
and the annihilation of the Brown
army.
New orders Received
The orders received by the Brown
army are that the Red army has
reached a point near Wilder's monu-
ment At the time the Reds Will have
reached the vicinity of the monument
the Brown army will be near Fort
Oglethorpe This situation Will pre-
vail at daylight Saturday morning and
the fighting will occur somewhere be-
tween the fort and the monument, at
what exact point the two command
ers and the movements of the two
armies will determine.
The Brown army, which will be COM
posed entirely of militiamen. will pro-
ceed as far as possible toward VIII
der's monument, and after putting out
scouts in advance, will throw up en-
trenchments at place where the bat
tie will most likely take place. They
will there's wait the enemy. If the Red
army p1erces the line of entrench-
ments of the Brown and reaches the
limits of the park toward Chattanooga
they will win. If the Browns capture
or destroy the Reds they will win.
The Brown army will be in COM
mand of Gen. Arthur Fridge of Mis-
sissippi. with Col. Cary F. Spence Of
the Third Tennessee, next In CON-
mand. 1t will be composed of the Sec-
ond and Third Mississippi infantry, the
Third Tennessee infantry. the First
Florida infantry; Troop B, Tennessee
cavalry; Troop A, Mississippi cavalry;
one battery of field artillery from the
regulars and a detachment of six men
from the signal corps. The artillery
of the Red army will be stationed on
Snodgrass HILL while no place is
designated for the position Of the
Brown artillery