The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-17
NATIONAL GUARD
CALLED ABROAD
GUARD TROOPS FROM TWENTY
SIX STATES TO SERVE
IN EUROPE.
KY. BOYS LEFT OUT
Indiana and Tennessee Will Furnish
Part of First Quota While
kentuckians Stay.

Washington, Aug. 15.-Plans for
sending the first National Guard
troops to France have been perfected
by the War Department with the or
ganization of a division which will
include troops from twenty-six
States and the District of Columbia.
The States from which the Ma
tional Guard troops are to be assem-
bled are: Louisiana, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, Georgia,
Alabama, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Min
nesota, Maryland, South Carolina,
California, Missouri, Virginia, North
Carolina, Kansas, Texas, Michigan,
New Jersey, Tennessee, Oklahoma,
Nebraska, Colorado, Oregon. The
others come from District of Colum-
bia.
The commanding officer of the d.
vision will be Brig. Gen. w. A. Mann.
of the regular army, now chief of the
division of militia affairs of the War
Department.
Following is the War Departments
announcement, under the heading
Composite National Guard Divis-
ion:"
"The following organizations of the
National Guard have been selected
to compose the Forty-second Divis-
ion. The following numerical desig-
nations have been assigned:
division headquarters troop to
consist of the Second separate troop,
Louisiana Cavalry.
1.-THE Division Machine Gun Bat
TALON No. 149, to be composed of the
Third Battalion, Fourth Pennsyl-
vania Infantry.
1.-THE infantry brigades to be num-
bsred SO and "a.
"The Eighty-third infantry brigade
to comprise the One Hundred and
Fiftieth Machine Gun Battalion
composed of Companies E, F and
G, Second Wisconsin Infantry): the
One Hundred and Thirty-fifth infan-
try (Sixty-ninth New York Infant
ry), and the One Hundred and Sixty
sixth Infantry (Fourth Ohio Infan-
try
THE Eighty-1ourIn infantry Bril-
gade to comprise the One Hundred
and Fifty-frst Machine Gun Bat
TALON Companies B, c and F, Sec
ond Georgia Infantry, One Hundred
and SiXty-seventh Infantry (Fourth
Alabama Infantry and the One
Hundred and Sixty-eighth Infantry
| (Third Iowa Infantry)
"The Artillery Brigade, to be num-
bered eth, comprises:
1.-THE One Hundred and Forty
ninth Field Artillery (First Illinois
Field Artillery; the One Hundred
and Fiftieth Field Artillery First
Indiana Field Artillery, the One
Hundred and Fifty-frst Field Artil-
lery First Minnesota Field Artil-
lery) and the One Hundred and Sew
teenth Trench Mortar Battery, to be
composed of the Third and Fourth
companies, Maryland Coast Artillery
/ Corps.
1.-THE engineer regiment of the di-
vision will be numbered 117th. The
First Battalion will be formed from
, the first separate battalion, Engin-
GERS, South Carolina, and the Second
Battalion will be formed of the first
separate battalion, Engineers Cali
fornia.
1.-THE divisional field battalion, sig
nal troops, will be organized from the
Missouri National Guard. The head
quarters train and military police
will be organized from the coast ar
tillery corps, Virginia. The engineer
train will be organized from the
North Carolina troops. The ammu'
milton train will be organized from
the Kansas troops. and the supply
tram from the Texas troops. They
will be known respectively as the
,ll7th field battalion, signal troops
the nth headquarters train and
military police, the 117th engineer
train. the 117th ammunition train, and
the nth supply train.
"The sanitary train, to be known
as the nth sanitary train, will bf
comprised of the First, Second, ThirC
and Fourth ambulance companies
being respectively, the first ambu