Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-25

during which they had nothing to do.
Camp Ordway tonight will have an
| open-air vaudeville show which will
! be staged in the clearing in front of
| Gen. Harvey's tent. The talent will
| come from the brigade. There will be
| comedy acts, singing and boxinS
matches.
Reds" Suffer Crushing Defeat.
| Battling with all the fight there was
in them, the red army, defending
force of the state of Virginia,
now in the throes of war with
the great power of Maryland, was
driven down to defeat and crushed by
the force of numbers and the superior
tactics of the invading army of blue. y
Vainly the little force. commanded by
Col A. who existed only in the
theory of the regular army officers in
structing the District troops in the
problems of attack and defense, tried
to hold back the powerful forces of the
invaders, who had well established
themselves on the Virginia shores be-
fore the outposts of the enemy dis
covered them.
1T was the Won Hindenburg tactics
that got Them said an officer of the
invading force. in commenting to a
near war correspondent on the laurels
won during the day.
Acclimated to the very cool weather
week of the encampment. the troops
took the field under a hot sun. The
country through which they operated
was thick with underbrush, and the
ground was somewhat soggy in spots.
While some of the movement was
along the road leading to Wiiker-
sons. g. point north of Colonial Beach.
| it was not long before the soldiers of
the blue" army were forced to take
to the fields. They kept to the roads
until they struck snag in the red
armys outposts lined across the road.
making further progress by that route
hazardous.
Twas "Theoretical" War.
The red" or defending, army was
composed theoretically of regiment
of infantry under Col. b. but in
reality was the LIST Separate Battalion
of Infantry, in command of Maj. James
E. Walker. The invaders composing
the blue" army, theoretical brigade,
was composed of the Sd Regiment of
Infantry, and was commanded by Lieut.
Col: Anton Stephan; who theoretically
Soon after the landing, however
from a long string of small boats
| which had not been spotted by the
defenders patrol because of the dark
night, Col Stephan was left to his own
| resources, being told generally to get
into contact with the reds and push
/ them back.
! To Col. Stephan's strategy the in
vaders owe the success of the battle
! and the fact that they are successfully
esta blished on foreign shores and are
pushing the enemy off its owr
ground. SO we'll was the work done
| that Maj. Joseph c. Cashier, L. S. A.
adjutant general of the District of Co
lumbia militia, highly complimented
the manner in which the District
was notable feature of the bloodless
| warfare, which ragged for hours. Aside
| from the sharp crack of the army
rifles as a paper wad from blank car
J fridge was sent Warningly in the di.
rection of an approaching outpost an(
the crackle of the underbrush as thu
| troA2s passed over it, hardly a sounC
could be heard All Commands were
given by means of hand and arm sig
! nails, and there were no sounds by
means of which one army could locate
the other.
Soon after Col. Stephan landed witt
his way map and decided to carry hi
men up the beach in an effort to ge
| behind the red" army. However, jus
as he was about to deploy his forces IL
+, that direction he received explicit
| orders from his superior to take tn.
road to Fredericksburg as far as thu
fork which led toward Wilkersons HI
was instructed to follow that road un
til his advance guard came in contac
with the troops of the defenders.
The main body of troops filed alonE
the Fredericksburg road, while patro
was sent along the beach to Bluff