The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-12-28
MANDAN. BOY :.
TELLS 0F0UR
TROOPS PART
Mighty Tasks and Brave Deeds
Performed by Flicker
tails Are Recorded. !,
THE OLD FIGHTING FIRST
Regiment Which Made Such
Splendid Record in 1898
Hits the Ball Again..

Writing from the office Of the Stars
and Stripes, the Yank newspaper III
Paris, for which he has been field cir
culatiOn manager for several months
Earl II. Tostevin, son of the publisher
of the Mandan Pioneer, and one OF the
Slopes best known young newspaper
men who during the war has developed
into a magazine writer Of prose and
poetry, tells in the Mandan Pioneer
the following story of our boys over
there:
Perhaps in the course Of the future
when the cataclysmic days OF the re-
cent past shall have lost their SAVIOR
of gore, when the blood which has been
she'd in the caIl> G Of humanity, Justice
and right shall lave washed rs did the
blood of Christ, the soul of The mod
ern world; when the present days of
suffering and the recent weeks of valor
indcscribable shall by the lncthmorpho-
sis of inc changed into q peaceful OK
istcnce for all men, made peaceful by
the eradication for all time of the
power of the Hun and his menace ;
when the historians shall have record
ed in glowing phrases and words the
and Won; then it may be possible for
YOU TO read and pick out of the great
volumes the names of those you know.
And interSpersed through all the
chapters of the American part In the
conflict will be little notations of deeds
of men from the northwest.
Censorship is still in force, but the
time for the breaking Of silence has
come and l shall try to note briefly
the history of the regiment once called
the First North Dakota, then the 1G4th
infantry Of the Sunset division.
As unit, the 10th never entered
action. However. the story Of the vol
llnteers from North Dakota is story
identical with that Of the famous First
division comprising the 10th, 18th, Goth
and 2Sth infaptry regiments. and the
Second brigade machine gun battalion.
Scattered now from one end of
France to the other. full need Of
their precious life taken to enrich the
soil Of France at such tremendous cost
in mental anguish and suffering to the
folks back home, scattered as the birds
in fall. the North Dakota boys look
forward to the day Of their migration
homeward. jf$a-i5f-.E ..s..r 81. ,,;& {.
The old 41st division, the, Sunset.
was selected upon arrival in France
as a replacement division. There is
n melancholy pride to be derived from
that dubious honor. 1t was significant
that the men from that division should
have been sufficiently trained as sol.
diers to be made a parcel Of the vet
eran division OF the regular army TO
be made comrades in arms Of the men
who followed Pershing into Mexico.
The old First North Dakota left Fl.
Lincoln, MfnOt, Grand Forks and Viii
liston on Sept. 80. 1917. and arrived
at Camp Greene, Charlotte. n. c.. on
Oct. 18th. What transpired there you
know. We left Camp Greene on Nov
II and arrived at Camp Mills. Hemp
stead. l.. l., on Nov. H. Then the next
move took us to Camp Merritt Tenafy
\. J., ON Dec. g. For eight days we
knew well heated barracks. comfort
able spring cots. mattresses and hot
shower baths. Then on Dec. II We
packed up barrack, bags. slnng the