Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-05-07
Tuesday, May z, 1918.
SPLENDID PALMETTO TROOPS
Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry
Makes Great Showing.


Cure -D1ud-nc- The YVfSsli- EuqIir"r
Camp Sewer. May south Caro-
lina's former First Regiment Of Ma
tiOnal Guard, now the llsth Infantry,
United States National Guard. went
on TcSimcntal ia!aG" and review al
Camp SEWER last Friday afternoon.
FOR th" last time Tor pnIt" while
at least. More than Il thousand men.
women and children, most OF them
being mothers, fathers, wives, broth
"rS. sisters and sweethearts OF the In
itntryu"n, looked on while the crack
Palmetto organization made It's hnal
march across the parade ground where
tor nearly twelve months IT has been
working 10 gam that excellent military
Efficiency that is now its own. II was
- grand spectacle. that parade and
cheer after cheer went up from the
visitors as platoon after platoon o1
splendid specimens OF physical man.
hood made almost perfect by days ana
months Of hard and steady military
practice. marched in perfect step anu
IN the straightest OF lines past the re-
,i,yyiny station where the reviewing
..frc.r yyus stationed. Though IN the
rn.,in the personnel Of the regiment as
,,,,,,,i,u,.J a, present is quite lie"
.,,,J h.,s Iccu recruited during 'h' I"'>
,.,,.,, largely bv draft induction one
r,. ,r loss familiar with the pcrsoii
ncI nf the regiment as a state orh"iI'
y,,ion during the past seNcrai ee",
,,,,ld r,CogniZc scores OF NV" -
,,''r,, ,nIdi,rs therein long before 'le
f-n;,.J states found il necessary W
,,k. :, hand in the World war
y,rk county has p"cuiiar
!, ,hc llsth regiment OF inlahus
ca,us,. OF the fact that lh'e ,,an-
,,",ri.s nf the organization were orsan
p'u'," p, an,, YORK county boys. VIZ
t.n,,,,'.,nv q; OF Fort Mill, captain
lindsay McFadden, commahainth,
'.,,.1v {; or Fort Mill. 'hTiail
s,,m w. Parks. commanding; anu IN
pcg,mcntal supply company WIN HsI,i
,vus organized among men OF roi' ,an,
md vicinity and which untii
months ago was commandcu US
,.,in Jnseph r.. Hart OF Yorkriilc. IA
addition to the volunteer pefs"'
,hcsn crnlanies from 1orh
which total several hundred qui"
E,rr, number OF York co"iltH u" ii;,,,,,.
b.,vc hccn inducted into the i,l''..s
',';,.n hv Jraft are included In the
,,.t,i,ucntal personnel ana ilosI "
,bnn are assigned TO one OF the 'hr''
,,,uuanics from their county mum
h,.r .r. scattered among other con'-
uanics of the regiment. ,
Among the well known YORK couh-
,y men who are officers oi lh' TIE.
m,nt are Lieut.. col. Thomas B. spru,t'
of Fort Mill and Capt. James w.
C.nrbcll of Glover. who IS sccond lu
command of the hospital corps "i '"e
regiment. ... o,,o
The First South Carolina was one
uf the first organizations 10 conic '"
,.nrnp Sewer after the camp was es-
,nhIishrd last spring and much OF 'hr
uiunc,.r work of building the camp an"
clearing IN. way for the other orsani-
z,,inus of the Thrticth division de-
yolyrd upon this regiment.
I'm SumShin" and III rain IN" iaii''''
to regiment has worked nara anu
faithfully and military authorities oi
long experience say that there Is no
National Guard or National Afli'H
regiment of infantry in the country
whose record for efficiency is superior
tu that of the llSth. That the regi-
mon, will more than hold It's own no
matter where, tn" path of duty hes
goes without saving.
The llSth infantry is no longer at
Cump SEWER.