The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-03-27
wild CATS" HAD
THE RIGHT NAME
s1ST DIVISION TRAINED Al
CAMP JACKSON.
Put On Original Show.
Division With Many South Carohh-
ians Goes Into Theatr1cals
in France.


Now that the Wild Cats, insignia
bv which Mai. Gen. Charles J. Bal
ley's Eighty-first Division is recog-
nized have courageously performed
what Uncle Sam asked of them on
the Meuse-Argonne front in the VI
cinity of Verdun-and performed IN
a manner that will never be forgotten
nv the Fifth Prussian division and
Third Bavarian division of the Ger
man army-they are executing
training schedules, filling the time
nrior TO the return to America, in an
area known as the Chatillon-sur-
Seine.
Mussy-sur-Seine is the location OF
tht division headquarters, with va
rious branches of the service in the
division scattered out in some half "a
hundred villages adjoining Mussy.
It is not my duty to write about
army achievements in this letter 10
your valuable paper, which is read,
am positive, due to familiarity
with YOUR circulation gained While
visiting your city as press agent Tor
Cohan and Harris attractions IN
homes abounding in interest in the
welfare of the Eighty-frst division.
The army achievement will be duly
tabulated through military channels
for the attention of mothers ana
fathers, who have centered their low
ing and devoted interest in this dl-
vision. But, without infringing up
on army regulations, I may tip on
the fact, as a doughboy of the divis-
ion, to mothers and fathers of sons
in the Wild Cat division that they
may anticipate splendid news in the
army report-news that will make
them feel proud their sons were en-
rolled under the emblem of the Wild
Cat.
It is for me to relate what is ab-
sorbing the attention and spare mo-
ments of the men while they remain
on foreign soil, abiding with the
wishes of Uncle Sam toward the full
fillment of the armistice conditions
and awaiting the big word" to start
for America.
Since December 8, the date on
which the Eighty-irst division COM
pleted it's triumphal hike from the
SPOT in the Meuse-Argonne sector,
where the Wild Cats put the finish
ing touches to the ambitions of the
Huns, and arrived in this area, light
training schedules have been the or
der of things hereabouts. These
schedules were organized with a
view of maintaining the health OF
the men, and in this respect they
have answered the purpose. The
health of the Eighty-frst division at
this writing is superb. This news,
mind you, is from the pen of a
doughboy in the division, pessimists
can't say it is exaggerated, due to
hearsay. The men are thinking and
dreaming and guessing of the hour
they will hear the word to go home,
being so completely occupied in these
thoughts that they haven't got time
to become i'll. . Of course there is ill
ness of ''trifle" nature, as is to be
expected in any big body of men,
but the health, the. fighting health
of the division, is today 100 per cent.
This is an item the writer is fully
aware will be pleasing to the anxious
ones back home.
Want to Go Home.
Naturally, the men want to go
home! They want peep at the
Statue of Liberty. Or will it be
Charleston harbor or Newport
News? There's another guess the
men are making-the exact location
where the division will land in
America. The men find interest in
laying wagers between themselves
as to where the division will land.
It's an official topic to be decided,
but all can rest assured that the hap
piness will be supreme wren the or
der is given to start for America. On
February II the Eighty-frst division
will have registered the duration of
the overseas service that will entitle
each soldier in the division to the
first gold stripe.
Entertainment is what is serving
as the big attraction to fill the
thoughts of the men, while the
training schedules are ightened in
comparison to what they we're while
the men were preparing to clash
full swing throughout the A. E. F.
as the result of a general order de-
clarins that the men be awarded a