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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
SOME ACCOUNT 
OF A 
PRUSSIAN DIVISIONAL MANOEUVRE 
IN’ THE 
RHINE PROVINCE, 
SEPTEMBER 1868. 
BY MAJOtt W. H. GOODENOUGH, R.A. 
I aueived in Coblentz on tlie morning of the 7tli September, and heard 
from a Staff Officer at the Head Qrs. Office that a divisional manoeuvre 
was then going on near Saarlouis. The officer very kindly gave me the 
name of a village, lebach , near St Wen del, where the Divisional Head Qrs. 
were that day, and also a note to a brother Staff Officer who had proceeded 
two days before with General ITerwarth v. Bittenfeldt, who commands the 
Coblentz corps d’armee , to be present at the manoeuvres. 
I arrived at Lebach too late that night to see any one. The Head Qrs. Staff 
were quartered in various houses round about as in war. Early in the 
morning, having first been to the officer to whom I was recommended, I 
presented myself at General Herwarth's lodging and was received by him 
without any ceremony, not even the intervention of an aide-de-camp— 
(personal staff seems unknown in Prussia). The ordonnanz simply announced 
me as an English officer. I was of course in uniform. The General was 
most kind, he ordered a Hussar horse for me, and bade me mount and 
ride out with him at eight o'clock. 
The weather was splendid, and the country beautiful—a fine rolling 
upland, well wooded and well peopled. I passed the next three days 
most enjoyably, my reception continued to be most kind, my horse was 
brought for me every day, and my baggage was carried with that of the 
Head Qrs. wherever we marched. An reste, I was relieved to find that I 
was able to live at my own charges at the country inns. 
Independently of the military interest attaching to it, such a trip would 
be most enjoyable for its own sake, 
