Evening star., 1923-09-21

BY staff Correspondent.
CAMP COOLIDGE, Fort Defiance,
IVA, September 21.--Having written
their names large in the history of
the Shenandoah valley as victors In
the second battle OF New Market"
the Quantico marines marched off to
Lexington this morning. There to-
morrow afternoon they will fight
more deadly conflict when their grid
iron warriors match brawn with the
Virginia Military Institute eleven for
foot ball .honors. -.r.5
Whatever 1aurels. may fall to the
Quantico marines In future years
none Will surpass the fame they won
for themselves in these parts yester-
day, when, with the assistance OF the
Virginia Military Institute cadet regi-
ment they re-enacted in an impress
sively realistic manner the real battle
that was fought there by the Blue
and the Gray nearly half century
ago.
10000 See Spectacle.
Cabinet officers, high officials of the
Army and Navy, the governor OF
Virginia and the military and naval
attaches of many foreign nations
were part of a crowd of more than
$4,000 persons who witnessed the
spectacle. BY automobile alone there
came to the scene of the sham con-
fict people from every state in the
Union. careful tab having been kept
by marine police on the license tags
of machines that parked in and
around Newmarket. Fifteen thousand
automobiles were parked during the
day, a group of distinguished officials
from Washington arrived by airplane.
antique buggies and long retired
hearses were pressed into service by
the, scores. and several special trains
were run to Newmarket by the South
Southern railway. b.,
Air Chiefs Arrive.
Gov. E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia
and his official party reached the old
battlefield about noon, travelling in
twenty-five AUTOMOBILES. Secretary
of the Navy DENLY, Assistant Secre-
tary Theodore Roosevelt, Maj. Gen.
John A. Lejeune. commandant of the
Taylor and Rear Admiral H. E. Long
preceded them by an hour.
The arrival of Maj. Gen. Mason
Patrick, chief OF the Army air serv-
ice; and Rear Admiral w. A. Moffett,
chief of the naval air service, created
a sensation, accompanied by a guard
of honor of marine airplanes, COM
mahded by Lieut.. Col Thomas c..
Turner, chief of the Marine Corps
aviation service, they arrived on the
field in big airplane about noon.
They alone, of all the guests. were
not subject to the stringent trafic
rules laid down by the military
police.
The sham fight was staged on the
same field that the confederate and
federal armies fought over sixty
years ago. 1t was located between
former of which was occupied by the
Gray soldiers and the latter by the
blue. The 1000 marines and Virginia
Military Institute cadets were divided
into two groups, all of the latter
being assigned to the confederate
army, since the cadets OF that acad-
emy actually participated in the real
battle during the civil war on the side
of the southern forces.
'Federals' Open Fire.
1t was just q few minutes after 1
o'clock when the federal army,
dressed in blue uniform, opened fire
with their artillery from behind
Bushongs Hill. A moment later the
confederate batteries answered from
positions on ShirSeys Hill. For the
next two hours the lofting mountain
that surrounded Newmarket echoed
once more to the crashing symphony
of wars deep-throated orchestra.
AS the rattle of rife fire added it's
rat-tat-tat to the bedlam and the
bombardment reached : its fiercest
point, the Virginia Military Institute
Cadet regiment. dressed in the same
kind of uniforms IL wore back in Ca
appeared from the center of the Con-
federate left wing, marching just as
though they were on dress parade"
as the cadets did nearly half CEN
tury ago. when real bullets swept
their path. They moved gayly for
ward, the stars and bars of the Con-
federacy floating at their head.
1t was tense moment. In a spe-
cial grandstand, erected close as
possible to the path the cadets would
tread, were a dozen survivors of that
regiment that threwsftsel direct from
its classrDon1s into the breach at
sOvercor7e by. the romance of the,
scene that was being re-enacted be-