The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
TWO Combat Dfyfs5oas Contained che
Largest Groups Of keo&uk Men
ard One Of Them suf-
fered Heavily.
RAINBOW WAS HARD BIT
IL Stands Second in Number Of Killed
In Acton, and Many keokuk
Soldiers Were IN ITS Fa-
mons Regiment

The ssth division o. the national
army. IL which KsGkuk had the most
soldiers. had only ztK,y-sEx major
casualties during the war.
The I'D division, better known as
the Rainbow division. II which ksO-
kuE had about seventy soldiers. had
major casualties numbering 1880.
Major casualties include nen killed
in sction. dying from wounds. miss
ing In action. and taken prisoner by
the enemy.
Ths ssth division. modified at
Camp Dodge, into which went the
bulk OF the first selecttve draft men
fgom Lee county, saw only about six
months service overseas, and most of
that time was spent IN training
camps in France before the arms
tice stopped the fighting. 1t was at
Camp Dodge about year before II
went across the pond
The Bravest Of the Brave.
The Rainbow division contained
the famous 18Th regiment Of infan-
try into which sixty-eight Keokuk
men were transferred early in the
game. They were men of the old
CO. L, Of the First regiment Iowa
national guard, which was modified
as soon zs We declared war on the
Hun
Many Of the Keokuk national
guardsmen were transferred very
soon into the old Third regiment
Iowa national guard. belonging in
and around Des Moines. which later
became the famous 1ssth and made
q splendid record on half dozen
great battle grounds in Europe from
Chateau Thierry to Argonne wood.
1t was part of the z2d division.
The war department has issued a
statement that the total number OF
war was $3.50 This shows that out
Of divisions Of troops, the Rainbow
division lost about one-nineteenth of
the total of the army, although only
one-thirtieth IN number of men
Casualties by Divisions.
The figures for each of the thirty
combat divisions included show the
following totals of major casualties:
First (regulars), 5.24s; second
fregulars). 1865; third (regulars),
3.s17; fourth tregulars), 2,s06; fifth
(regulars). 1904; sixth (regulars).
122: seventh tregulars), 326; twenty
sixth Irrational guard New England).
1854: twenty-seventh New York
national guard), 2.194;t twenty-eighth
pennsylvania national guard). 1880;
New Jersey, Virginia.
Delaware and District of
Columbia national guard), LIT;
Tennessee, North Carolina
and South Carolina national guard),
1,772; thirty-second (Michigan and
national guardD, 3,213;
minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska, North and South Dakota ma
tional guard), LII; thirtylifth (Mis-
souri, and Kansas national guard).
| ,T33; thirty-sixth tTexas and Okla
homa national guard, 269; thirty
seventh (Ohio and West Virginia ma
tional guard), 1850; forty-second
(Rainbow), 1880; seyenty-seyenth
{New York Metropolitan national
army, 2,062; seventy-eighth (New
York and northern Pennsylvania. ma
tional army, 1925; seventy-ninth
(southern Pennsylvania national
army. 1889; eightieth New Jersey,
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and
District Of Columbia national army,
1855; eighty-frst Tennessee, North
Carolina and South Carolina national
army, 370; eighty.second Georgia,
Alabama and Florida national army,
| SOP; eighty-eighth minnesota.
Iowa. Nebraska. North Dakota and
South Dakota national army. Sc;
kansas, Missouri and
Colorado national army, 1925;
1inetieth (Texas, Arizona, New Mex
co and Oklahoma national army,
.,585; ninety-frst washington. Ore
,on, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho.
Montana and Wyoming), 1,702; nine
y-second Irrational army negroes),
III; ninetythird (national army
iegroes), 400.
First Had Most Killed.
In killed in action the First regu-
ar division leads the list with 1908.
other divisions with more than 1000
men killed in action, stand in the
ollowing order:
Third. 1901; And. 1.7o2; s2nd, /.
1894; 2Sth, 1.544: 4th, 1900; 10th. |
1888; End, 1888; 9th, 1902; nth,
Pts; and 30th, 1904.
The only division to lose more
han 1000 men died OF wounds was
he First, with 1000. Only three d.
risions had more than 1000 missing
n action, the First, with 1888; 2Sth
With LIZA. and the 10th with 1.142. :
The heaviest loss in prisoners was
n the 18th division, with 691 men
aiken by the enemy. The 26th was |
econd with 354 taken prisoner, and |
he nth third, with 336.