8.—On the 6th of January, 1930, you are Brigadier General Hitt in command of the first Brigade, first Division. You are at Ode, Missouri. You defeated the enemy the day before. You have since heard that he is occupying the line which extends from Baldwin to the hill south of Eppley’s Farm. You have an advance guard for your Brigade and you decide to take up an attack formation which will not necessitate the use of an advance guard any longer. The trains you feel should not be moved from where they are located, but the ambulance company ought to move toward, and take a suitable position near, Ode. You decide to attack immediately, and you are going to do so in a way which will cause the enemy’s left to be enveloped. You issue the 61st field order of the campaign at half past nine in the morning. You understand from reliable sources, in fact from officers’ patrols, that there is a large convoy of the enemy parked somewhere in Farley. You decide that the first infantry ought to take up the main advance against the enemy, and you think it ought to go in a general direction along the road which runs past Square Corners and Eppley. After the 1st Infantry has launched its attack it ought to support the attack of the 2d Infantry. The 3d Infantry is going to send the 2d Infantry a machine gun company, which you think you will have attached to the 2d Infantry. The 2d Infantry, you have figured out, ought to advance, keeping the ravine near Meas between itself and the enemy. After it strikes the ravine, it ought to go along it until the first part of the column approaches and comes up to a point where the ravine starts to bend south. When it has exactly reached that point where the ravine does bend south, it ought to start out on the enemy’s left in an attack. The 2d Infantry ought to push this attack with all its might. The 3d Infantry will be known as a reserve, and it will be under your orders; until further orders it ought to take up a position in some sheltered place to the west of Square Corners. Before it starts out, however, it ought to send its machine gun company, without further delay, so that the company may report to the commander of the 1st Infantry as soon as practicable. You give all this order to your regimental commanders after they have been assembled—in fact, you read it off to them. With the regimental commanders have been assembled also Major Black of the 7th Field Artillery, and the officers in charge of the ambulance company, and the officers of your staff. You are going to send a copy of this order by the aide to your Division Commander. You are going to have a station at the reserve where you will be in touch with any messages that might come in—in fact, all the messages ought to be sent there. You want the cavalry to cover your left flank, and you want a strong patrol sent in the general direction of the west and also of the south. Before you finished writing this order you found out that the