The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-12-14

equipment and pll> W
period. ~
i TO marshal no ~ so
late step in the
them for the II, -
for II division
another Ii of tAa se4alt.a Ill., n
regulars bring vol -
divisions 10 upu
a division in b.. T.
comparatively aa IL M.,..l
rarely did it exceed m i II
division IN the aaY a.. AS e VA
able to any army corps "a tie W
1t numbers, at I'M stlsl tn,
men. In camp it makes good &
city-full Of men-a city as large /,
Colorado Springs, or GAINESVILLE, I !
Poughkeepsie, or Shreveport. III
| Or if all the new army should &
brought together in a single camp 4
would form, with the auxiliary forces
that would be Immediately necessary
to its support, city nearly as large
and doubtless quite as lively, as Phi
adelphia.
To move these divisions, one afte.
another, across the Atlantic man}
new ships are being built. To move
them up to the front from their port
of debarkation hundreds of miles Of
heavy railway track must be laid
And to enable the division to move on
us own feet after the railway has
set it down, a huge transportation
equipment is provided. The most
, mobile part of an infantry division is
the infantry itself Yet the 1920
| men of tho four infantry regiments re
! quire for their own purposes, 1926
, draft mules, 1853 bicycles, and sixty
.. four rolling kitchens There must
also be 236 riding horses, motor
cars, and s motor cycles with side
cars. The 5000 Field Artillerists
need a much greater equipment Of
animals and vehicles. And there ia
. an ammunition train of 962 with its
.. scores of trucks, and sanitary train
of 949 with its dozens of ambulances
. The first thing to be done for the
new army was to provide them with
shelter and clothing, food an(
I warmth That large undertaking il
! all but accomplished. Equally grea
: is the task of providing arms. Tt
: arm an infantry division in the Civi
] War meant to provide as many mus
! kets and as many bayonets as taer'
were men in the command. In thu
4 present war the job is more compli
2 Gated There are rifles and bayonet
: to be furnished now as formerly. Blu
= there are also grenades and gas mask
! and helmets and trench mortars to b
Z seen to. Each of the four infantr
u regiments in a division must have AZ
q trench knives, 1872 automatic rifle!
n and three che FOUNDER cannon.
n The 763 men of the machine gu
= battalion and the 5,06S men of til
4 Field Artillery brigade must have m
- chine guns and three inch guns
=: numbers that would stagger an Art
n lerist even of SO recent a period
10 the war with Spain.
Two hundred and seyentyfive tho
sand troops were made ready
- fight Spain in 1896, though only 600
~ of them were actually engaged.
" There were 100000 enlistments
the Federal Army in the Civil w;
an Many of this number were re-enl
les ments. The highest total engaged
rtl any one time was reached in the la
year of the war On March 81, 1S'
100000 men were fighting for the
&C. ion. The Confederate Army reach
he the height of it's strength in IS,
= Something less than 100000 men we
pa under arms in the South at that tin
~. Both armies in the Civil War foug
~ their battles unaided. The new arr
y will fight alongside of French arr
'i' of 100000, and British Ove2se
- forces amounting to another 3,O00,0j
Here is a united and firmly co-or
" nate Grand Army of 100000 W
ia the Victories wo by that great 70"
III in 1918 be decisive?
ID If the are not, America has t
100 NON on maobinorv 70 naLo
still great,.- -.fort