Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-01
GEN. MORTON BACK
ATCAMP MCCLELLAN
Strenuous Work Now for Blue
and Gray Division Com
mendation Cards Issued

Special Dispatch 10 the EVenin0 Public Ledger
Headquarters Blue and Gray Division.
Camp Mcclellan, AnnlstoH, Ala.
April !.
Back from Washington, where he sue
cessfully passed all physical tests given
him under a re-examination as TO his
physical condition and where he was
notified that he is fit for any kind of
service, Major General Charles g. Nor
ton, commanding the Blue and Gray
Division, has again taken hold OF the
command and has outlined a strenuous
schedule of work for the coming month
Extended hikes and field maneuvers will
be held, and virtually every organization
in the division will be given an oppor-
tunity for this kind of instruction.
During the month OF April the two
infantry brigades will take hikes that
will combine field work of all kinds
The Maryland-Virginia brigade, COM
manded by Brigadier General Harry
Bandholtz. will be the first brigade to
CO. It is likely that it will leave
here on April 8, returning the follow
ing Saturday. The infantry brigade will
be accompanied by a regiment of light
field artillery, half of the engineer regi-
ment. half of the sanitary train, the
motor supply train, part of the ammuni-
ton train. a detachment from the mill
tsry police and part of the 1O4th Field
Signal Battalion. The New Jersey
brigade commanded by Brigadier Gen
eral Barber, will go probably the third
week in April
Virtually the entire command VIII
have a share in this field work, with
the exception of the 112th Heavy Field
Artillery, the New Jersey regiment Cen
eral Morton plans to give them sepa-
rate schedule Of work better fitted TO
their needs than the duty they would
get II they accompanied the infantry
brigades. Therefore 1t Is likely that
the Maryland District of Columbia ar
tillery win go with the Fifty-eghth
Brigade and the Virginia regiment with
the New Jersey brigade.
The first of the engraved cards of
cCmmendation have been issued to men
of the division by General Morton. Yes
terday before the high officers who at
tend the daily conference at the d.
vision headquarters General Morton per-
sonally complimented Private Louis II.
Bonn, of Newark, upon being the sec
Cnd man to whom one OF these cards
was issued. Private Bonn several days
ago shot a deserter when the latter tried
to escape arrest in Birmingham. where
Bonn is doing special duty with the
military police. The first card of COM
mendation was given to Private George
A. Ramsay, of Company B, 1ltth Ma
chine Gun Battalion, whose home is in
Camden. He recently won the three
mile cross-country race fer men Of this
division. He has been transferred to
another camp, but the commendation
will follow him.
Another man who may receive COM
mendatlon for pluck is Charles f. Scott
of Bellville, n. j., a member of the
engineer train, who stuck to a team OF
mules after brake beam On the wagon
had broken. He was injured when the
wagon broke after a wild ride down
the side of a mountain. Scott was with
Charles F. Gather, of Baltimore, mem
ber of the same organization, when the
accident occurred. He injured his ankle
when the wagon broke down.