Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-02
In Spite of Mud, CantOnment
Is Ready to Receive Thou
sands of New SeIeCtmen,
Many Negroes Among Them
BY WARD MoREHoUsE.

ATLANTA JOURNAL BUREAU,
CAMP GORDON, Ga. Sept. 29.-They're
filing the yellow buildings out here with
hghting men IN spite of the skidding
rink which separates the camp Of the
Eighty-second division from civilization,
and this week will see the Gordonites
with money IN their pockets, the COM
ing of thousands of new selectmen, tho
arrival OF an assistant TO the chief Of
staff, and the trial of a soldier on a
charge of desertion.
The officers and the selectmen have
solved the problem Of going to town
through the mud-they don't go.
September's training is over, but dur
ing the month Of October the different
organizations will continue TO devote
theeir attention to infantry drill. The
artillerymen, however, expect TO take
up standing gun drill very shortly with
the field pieces that are now on the res
ervation.
Figures on a little pad in the statis-
teal department showed late Saturday
that there were exactly 1884 officers and
1894 men now In camp, making a to-
tai of 1898. Assignments Of officers
and men to the different organizations
have been made as follows:
Division headquarters, % officers and
10. men; headquarters train, three Of
ficers and 104 men; Three Hundred and
Nineteenth machine gun battalion, rs
officers and Sal men; headquarters, One
Hundred Sixty-third infantry brigade.
3 officers and 10 men; Three Hundred
and Twentieth machine gun battalion.
81 officers and $50 men; Three Hundred
and Twenty-fifth infantry, IS officers
and 1881 men; Three Hundred and
Twenty-sixth infantry. 10S officers and
1.765 men; headquarters One Hundred
and Sivty-fourth infantry brigade, Of
ficers and 20 men; Three Hundred and
Twenty-first machine gun battalion, 81
officers and 241 men; Three Hundred and
REIMBURSEMENT infantry, 101 officers
and 1856 men; Three Hundred and
Twenty-eighth infantry, 1O1 officers and
1851 men; headquarters. One Hundred
and Fifthy-seventh field artillery bril-
gade, eight officers and Al men; Three
Hundred and Nineteenth field artillery
regiment 64 officers and 1,241 men;
Three Hundred and Twentieth field ar
tillery regiment, So officers and 961
men; Three Hundred and Twenty-frst
field artillery regiment, f1fty-nine Of
ficers and SSS men; Three Hundred and
Seventh trench mortar battery, three Of
ficers and So men; Three Hundred En-
gineer regiment, SO officers and 1.075
men; Three Hundred and Seventh en-
gineer train, officers; headquarters
train, military police. % officers and 81
men, ammunition train, Is officers;
Three Hundred and Seventh field sig
nal battalion, !. officer and 10T men.
In addition to these organizations
there are at Camp Gordon the One Hun
bred and Fifty-seventh depot brigade
which now has IT'S officers and 22b
men; the sanitary train, the ambulance
companies, No. /, No. 90 and No. 20;
the first provisional regiment which
will be composed of colored troops; the
quarterma ster corps detachment of 1856
officers, the camp quartermaster de-
partment, the constructing quartermas-
ter the cantonment hospital and the
Georgia cavalry, the school of bakers
and bakery company, the motor truck
company. ordnance supply depot, re-