Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-17
REORGANIZATION PLANS
OF ARMY ARE ANNOUNCED
Composition of Each Division
Will Conform to General
European Standard

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.-The com
plete plan Of reor SANITATION Of the army
is disclosed in general orders made pub
j." TO-DAY prescribing the formation for
all tactical units from divisions to
armies. The composition of each divi-
SIGN on the European standard is pre-
scribed and provisions made for organi-
zation of all additional troops into train
ing battalions of 612 men. to be used
in any way found necessary.
Designation of divisions by number
begins with the regular army division
now in France which has already been
reorganized on the basis of 10000 men
and additional battalions of attached
troops That is the First division,
United States army. Other regular d.
visions are numbered up to and includ-
ing the Tewenty-ffth. This does not
mean that twenty-five regular divisions
are to be created Immediately, but that
the numbers from one to twenty-five in
elusive have been reserved for the regu-
lars.
National guard divisions will be num-
bered from the twenty-sixth to the
seventy-fifth inclusive. National army
divisions will be numbered from seven
ty-six.
Today's order provides the organiza-
ton of sixteen national army divisions,
designated from the seventy-siXth to
the ninety-first inclusive and succeed
ing divisions will be numbered in order
after them.
All divisions provided for will be in
fantry divisions, composed of division
headquarters detachment; one machine
gun battalion of four companies; two
infantry brigades of two regiments and
a machine gun battalion of three COM
panies each; one field artillery brigade
of three regiments and a trench NOR
tar battery each; one engineer regi-
ment: one field signal battalion; one
headquarters train and military police;
one ammunition train; one engineer
train. without ,pontoon and searchlight
sections; one supply train and one sani-
tary train of four field hospitals and
four ambulance companies.
Each army corps will consist of an
army corps headquarters force and three
infantry divisions, supplemented by
necessary attached troops to be desig-
mated as army corps troops. Each army
will consist of an army headquarters,
three or more army corps, and such adj
ditional army troops as may be advis-
able.
The order directs that the national
guard proceed to it's training camps under
it's present divisional organization. 1t
will be recognized at the camps, how
ever, on the new divisional basis and
the excess troops formed into training
battalions with a brigadier general in
command of the group of training bat
talions at each camp.
COMPLEXION OF DIVISIONS.
The divisions of the new national
army follows:
Seventy-siXth division, Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts.
Rhode Island and Connecticut; Seventy
seventh. Metropolitan portion Of New
York; Seventy-eighth. remainder of New
York and northern Pennsylvania; Sew
enty-ninth, southern Pennsylvania;
Eightieth, New Jersey. Virginia, Mary
land Delaware, District of Columbia;
Eighty-first, Tennessee. North Carolina
and South Carolina; Eighty-second,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida; Eighty
third Ohio and West Virginia; Eighty
four. Indiana and Kentucky; Eighty
fifth. Michigan and Wisconsin, Eighty
sixth. Illinois; Eighty-seventh. Arkan-
sas. Louisiana and Mississippi; Eighty
eighth, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska
North Dakota and South Dakota. Eighty
ninth. Kansas. Missouri and Colorado;
Ninetieth. Texas. Arizona, New Mexico
and Oklahoma; Ninety-first, Washing
ton, Oregon. California, Nevada, Utah,
Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
NATIONAL GUARD.
National guard divisions will be num-
bered as follows:
Twenty-siXth division, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island and Connecticut; Twenty
seventh. New York; Twenty-eighth,