Saturday. April 17th, 1915. THE IRISH VOLUNTEER 5

D ay PARADES, Tlw specimen Time Tables for Day Parailes published this week are intended as models for VICTORIES OF IRREGULAR TROOPS. Company Commandors who can devote some 2A hours to open-air training, say, on a Sunday IV.—BULL RUN. Beauregard decided to hold Manassas Junction mom*'*" or afternoon. They aim at end .raving The American Civil War arose out of against Alexandria at the mouth of the everything that is really essential, and in disputes between the Northern and Southern Polomae, which was used as a base by the maintaining an interesting variety in ilk* States, principally on the question of Negro, North, while Johnston retired on Winchester succession of the items. Occasionally, of In the autumn of r8fio South Carolina and before superior numbers under Patterson. _ course, a simple operation will take the pla2,000 troops Every Company should know the possibilities fnr piiqmses of defence of villages and other positions in its district, and also the lines of retreat from such positions. Now that fine weather is at hand, such open-air work should lie our main concern. Skeleton programmes of simple operations suited to small forces will be published by the Director o f Organisation in an carlv number o f the “‘Irish Volunteer."

Cork County Board.

A meeting to establish a board for Countv Cork was held at the Cork City Headquarters un Sunday, April 4th. Delegates attended from Cork City, Castle Ivons, Ballinhassig, Cove, Fertnoy, Courtbrack, Blarney, and Ballinadce (Bandon). The Commandant of the Cork Corps was unanimously selected as chairman. The meeting was occupied for some time in discussing the means of thoroughly organising the County, and a scheme was agreed upon. It was decided to ask the Cork Corps to march to Carrigaline on next Sunday, with a view to stirring up that and the surrounding districts. The following full parades were fixed:— kl idle ton anti adjacent companies at Midleton on Sunday, April i8lh. watching the 1,500 remaining Confederates Mallow and other North Cork Companies at officers trained at West Point, and at the two under Magruuder. Mallow on Sunday, April 25th. capitals, Washington and Richmond. The two In order 10 prevent Johnston from joining Handon, llallinadee, Ballinhassig, Kinsale, armies recruited and drilled almost in sight of his colleague, MacDowetl decided to turn Ballingeary, Hallyvourney, at Preceding E vents. Richmond, the Confederate capital, was Railway. The plan was sound, but he managed UMlingeary on Sunday, May 9th. defended by two armies -one, under General to waste several days, while Johnston, losing The Cork City Cycling Corps will attend at Johnston, in the Shenandoah Valley ; the other, no time, arrived with half his force at tin’ each of the places named, under General Beauregard, along the Potomac. moment when a reconnaissance of MacDowell's A meeting of the North Cork Hoard will be The Commander-in-Chief of the armies in had brought on an engagement at Blackburn's held ut Mallow immediately after the parade Ford on the little river Bull Run. The result (>n AprU 25th, and the next meeting of the Virginia was General Robert E» I,ec* ionvinix;d MncDowell that, small though the County Hoard will be held on the same The Northern forces were under the supreme command of General M'Cletlan, whose plan it stream was, the difficulty of its banks made a occasion. Any Company or District not yet frontal attack impossible, and .onsequentiy he represented on the Board should communicate was 10 take the offensive against Beauregard with one army, while Johnston was held in resolved to send two divisions to make a turning at once with the County Secretary, Cork City cheek by another. In opjmsition to this. movement round the Confederate left, while a Headquarters, 20 Shearcs Street, Cork.