The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-10
Men Who Took the Division
to France and Into Action
Held Positions Near Com
mander-in-Chief Forty
Seven States Represented
i'm the Parade-Great Ex-
hibitiOn of War Weapons
Flags Decorated With
CrOix de Guerre-HOrses
and Mules Were Deco
rated

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-Countless thou
sands of Americans, flushed with the
pride of victory, paid tribute here today.
in what probably was the eity's most i'm
pressive military spectacle to the nations
leader in the world war, General John j.
Pershing, eommander-in-chief of the Amer
lean expeditionary force, and of the far
famed first division
The sun-burned Missourian, looking as
fit as youthful Indian despite his 50
years-the soldier who said to the shade
of Lafayette at his tomb in .Picpus; La
fayette, we are herei" and whose army OF
| ,250Og0, the largest force of Americans
ever to fight on foreign soil. turned the
tide of possible allied defeat into victory
today led down Fifth avenue $4,000 men
| Of the first division in procession which
| stirred the blood of every spectator.
Ahead of the bronzed veterans, mostly
/ regulars" who had been abroad nearly
| two years and quarter, and whose. fight
| ing was the admiration of every poilu and
British Tommy, was General Pershing' s
guard of honor, a regiment of $500 men
picked from all seven of the American
regular army divisions in France This
| unique contingent, known as Pershing'
Own, and composed of two companies
from each regiment of the division repre-
sented, the companies in turn being
formed of one squad from each company
in the regiment, was special feature OF
the parade.
| Accompanying General Pershmg at the
head of the division rode Major General
Edward +. McGlachlin, commanding, and
with him two other former commander;
of the first, Major General William L. 81
bert, who took the troops to France anC
Lieutenant General Robert L. Bullard
who took them into action and later re
: linquished command to take higher post
With them were a host of other officers
including Brigadier General Frank Parker
, of Charleston, s. c., and other command
ers some of whom saw their first activ,
service with the division in France
. The troops in line represented AZ state
! of the union and several of the insula
E possessions and among the marchers wer
{ more than 1000 ''old time" doughboy
whose only recorded home is the Unitet
: States army. Trudging along under tn
t weight OF full combat equipment. ever
J., pack in place, rifles clean and bayonet
+ cleaning in the sun, the fighters presente,
a picture of aggressiveness and force
4 From 10th street, where the parade start
e ed, to the Washington Arch, where it dis
!. banded, the throngs along the curbs KEEP
!. up almost tumultuous cheering.
II There comes the Sixth field artillery.
someone shouted. A few moments late
. this famous organization Battery C c
i which on Oct %, 1917, fred the first sho
r. at, the Germans, came into sight and wa
+ wildly acclaimed
/ Delegations of home folks from Soutl
ern New York, Connecticut, New JERSEY
% Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania, who's
a 300 sons or kinsman were in the frs
10 division, were on hand to do them hone
At along with the men from other section
70 of the country. Many of these fighter
members of the 18th infantry, wore til
French fourragere. the red and green cor
signifying that the croiy de guerre wit
palm had been twice conferred for COZ
=, spicuous galantry in action. The fou
ragere was bestowed upon the 18th |
Brgader General Bracquet of the Frene
IS army, while officers and men were line
al up on decks of the transport Mobile iu
n before it sailed from Brest.
,n An epitome of Americas fighting M
hel chine in Europe the first division Or
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