7.—You, on September 1, 1922, are at Kolpatrick School House. You are in command of the 28th Brigade 3d Division, and you issue to your assembled officers by word of mouth the twenty-ninth field order of this campaign at ten minutes after nine in the morning. You send a copy to the Chief of Staff of your Division by an aide. You have just decided to attack a hostile detachment which has just been reported by an officer to be near you and to be about half your strength. In fact this detachment has taken a position on a ridge of long mountains about two and one-half miles straight to the south of you. You wish to communicate to your troops, also, that the entire army of which your brigade is a part is engaged in a fight with the enemy; and that the right of the line of the army is near Two Taverns. You do not want the field train to move out and to accompany you in your movement. The third infantry you have decided to make your reserve. It ought to take up some kind of position to the right of the second infantry and in rear of it. The first infantry should move out and should follow the road leading south, and before any of the others of the troops it ought to attack the enemy in front. You want the first infantry to begin their movement right off and then later on to support the enveloping attack. The enveloping attack you have trusted to the second and third infantry regiments. The second followed by the third is to move out with the artillery on their left. The whole body is to march along Brush Run under cover of a ridge of mountains on which you are located until it comes opposite to the Brush Run School House. The artillery, as you plan it, is then to go into position west of Brush Run School House, and to open fire on the enemy. The second infantry is then to deploy, and it is to deploy so that its right will be about five hundred yards to the left of the artillery’s position. The second infantry is then to go right off into an attack on the enemy’s right flank. While this body of troops is on the march (the second, and third infantries and the artillery), the commanding officer of the second infantry should see that the necessary precautions are taken against surprise or attack by the enemy. You have decided to be during the attack at the head of the column on the extreme left until it deploys. After that you are going to be with the reserve. The first squadron of the fourth cavalry under your command is going to cover your left in this movement. It should send out strong patrols to the right besides sending them to the left and get in touch with the right of the main army. The ambulance will go along with the third infantry. But when the third Infantry gets to Cedar Ridge, the ambulance company will not proceed any further.