Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-05


high land half mile south of the Co.
lumbia pike and a quarter of a mile west
of the little stream-Long brancl-whicl
ripples down Green valley
My regiment was the LIST Connecticut
Heavy Artillery. the first siege train or
ganized after European models on this
continent. My company, G. was recruited
at the Wesleyan University. Middetown
conn. and information of the knowledge
of mathematics which number of the
men in this company had coming to the at
tention of the regimental and other high
ofhcers L. among others, was taken out
OF the bitches and set at the work nj
computing ranges by triangulation to all
prominent or possibly important points
wllhh range of the guns of this fort
The soldier. little stopped and gray
puIied from his pocket a large notebook
al yellow paper that once was white II
was written over with ink lines that had
Iaded until they We're very pale This
book contained the original data. Here
was Jotted down the distance to about
every piece of land that could be reached
from Fort Richardson and the problem
as ii was worked out.
II used a hand sextant and these
formulate. which are familiar To a man
at college, but which soon get out of
mind If they are not kept there by prac-
uce' ana rev men ever Keep them in
practice if they do not use them i'm thei,.
business:
The sides of a plain triangle are pro-
portional to the sines of their opposite
angles: and
"In any triangle the sum of two
sides containing either angle is to
their difference as the tangent of half
the sum OF the two other angles to the
tangent of half their difference and.
In any plane triangle. if a line is
10
pendicular To the base. dividing it into
TWO segmentS. then the whole base or
sum OF the segments. is to the sum of
the two other sides the difference
OF those sides TO the difference of the
Segments; and
I'm any right-angled plane triangle.
the radius is TO the tangent of either of
the acute angles as the side adjacent
TO the side opposite
Pointing out over the rolling fields
TO the south of Richardson-land lead
ing gently down to the junction of
Long branch with Four Mile run not
quite mile away, the soldier said:
The great convalescent camp was
spreau over these fields. and at one
time there were $4,000 men in that
camp just getting strong again after
being in hospital with wounds or sick
ness. over there pointing to the west
ward in the direction of Fort Berry
and Fort Barnard was the distribu-
tion camp. Thousands of men We're
there. Having graduated from the
hospitals and the convaiescent camp
they We're now in the distribution
camp awaiting reassignment TO their
former commands assignment to
other organizations. That big brick
house down there in Green valley was
the home of Anthony Fraser, ana ms
children and grandchildren are LIVING
there now l remember Anthony Fraser
because many times / went down TO that
fine old house for milk or water. Fort
Richardson and the convalescent camp,
think were on Fraser's land. and Fort
Berry Fort Barnard and the dlstrlDu-
ton camp We're on Corbetts land, the
Corbett house having been torn down
because il occupied part or the site
needed for Fort Berry.
"A great deal of artillery target prdc-
tice was carried on from these 1orts'
especially from Fort Richardson, Where
there was organized and conducted TOT
about three years an artillery school-
Much of the shooting was at targets IN
the hills south of Four Mile run. After
I had triangulated about everything
that could be reached by gun hre from
Richardson Berry and Barnard was
engaged in similar work for the gun
ners in Fort Reynolds. Battery Ga
resche Fort Ward and Fort Worth. L
was spotting shots south OF HununS
creek for gunners in the forts nofth