Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-17
MANY STATES GAVE
MEN TO STOP HUNS
Force Engaged in Great Drive
Came From Coast-to-
Coast Cities.
FIGHTING IRISH REGIMENT
Infantry Of New York. Connect
cut. Ohio and Wisconsin
Faced Foe.
FIGHTING IRISH REGIMENT

wASHlNGToN. July ls.--ln the
fighting of the past two days. America
that tho dghting spirit Of the men Of
the United States had been dissolved in
sordid lust and mercenary greed. When
the marines swept the p.ckad Bavarians
from the woods near Chatcau-Thicrry,
when the militia OF Connecticut took
Scichcprey and the gallant New York
crs ovcrran Cantigny. the German pro-
pagandsts took up the cry that Amer!-
ca had used picked troops. and that
for the most part the men sent across
the seas from the North American re-
public were UNFIT and unframed to
match bayonets with the Prussian le-
sions.
In reply no word came from the lead
crs OF the American forces. Daily re-
ports from the spondents told in
cryptic sentences how the wounded
fanks. lying in beds OF pain in the
american base hospitals. smiled in re-
mcmbranc- Of tasks we'll done and
prayed for quick recovery. so that we
can go back and take another crack at
those birds"
But after the fighting of July Is and
l6. no man can reason that Americas =
army Is not OF the breed worthy to
fight in the high cause to which their
country called them. The hating OF
the Germans came when the first army
corps OF the American expeditionary
force barred the way-thc first army
corps being fighting machine welded
from the mon OF every state and OF
every infantry organization: body
where race. color creed stands for
naught.
SIX DIVISIONS SHARE
GLORY OF GREAT SMASH
Six divisions share the glory of ST.
lencinE for all time the charges OF in
competence which the Germans have
hurled. The divisions. with their COM
mandcrs. are:
First Division. regulars. Major-Gen-
oral Robert L. Bullard.
Second Division. regulars. Major
General Omar Bundy.
Twenty-sixth Division. New England
National Guard. Major-General Clar-
cnce n. Edwards.
Forty-second Division. Rainbow
Major-General Charles T. Manohar
For,yhrst Division. National Guard
T'acihc Coast. Major-Gencral Hunter
Lggc,t.
Thirty-sccond Division. National
Guard, Michigan and Wisconsin. Ma
ior-General W. q. Ham.
II cannot be said that the Pacific
Coast men are more representative than
are the men from New England, or the
men from Wisconsin and Michigan.
l6ut it can be said that the first army
corps. in its lighting strength truly
reflects the courage and skill to be
found in the men of its keystone di-
vision. the y-sccond-known from
coaS, to coast as the Rainbow Division
because 1t is made up of National Army
and National Guard units gathered from
every State in the Union.
WHERE FIGHTING FORCES
WE'RE BROUGHT FROM
AS a clear exposition of the wide
spread character of this division il is
we'll to enumeratc the unNs in its char
ter roll: Second separate troop of cav
airy from Louisiana, third machine gun
battalion from the Fourth Pennsylvania
Infantry, Companies T., + and G, of the
Second Wisconsin Infantry. National
Guard. the One Hundred and Sixty-hfth
Infantry of New York, consisting of the
SiXty-ninth New York Infantry, Nation
nj Guard long known as the "FightinE
Irish Regiment" and the One Hundred
and Sixty-sxth Infantry, which is the
Fourth Ohio Infantry. National Guard
Besides these units there are machine
gun men from Georgia. Alabama and
Iowa artillerists from Illinois. In
diana and Minnesota and trench
mortar battery from Maryland There
are engineers from South Carolina and
from California and signal troops from
Virginia and North Carolina The men
OF the ammunition trains come from
Kansas and from Texas, while the sani-
tary train is composed of the men from
Michigan. New Jersey, Tennessee. Okla
homa. District of Columbia, Nebraska.
Colorado and Oregon
By no other force in the field could
the fighting strength of the army which
General PershinE led to France be bet
ter judged