Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-06-09
FLAGS OF FIGHTING
UNITS TO COM ERE
Six Organizations conin Ban-
ners Carried IN France o
Mother State
IMPRESSIVE Ger NY

Impressive ceremonies fake
place At the state House the
! fllgs Of SIX of the fighting .3salliza &
lions ia which Mars handlers ssloni
mated, will he formally aeeeEfd by
tile state and placed III tha.iia ROOM.
containing already 4 colleeao war
Il banners unequalled Id iilferesslsy that
HID any other state.
The gem al the collection which
I the Six cnlors Will ! Z wortliy asa tes, is
sOll Glory carried l,y Mars lnaers
lin the Battle Of Cowpens. atIag the
Revolutionary War. and ifl#4lass Battle
j3sf North Point during the 1af ISL.
IIt IS believed that ibis is tf1e ssaiy m
tionai flag IN existence which as ear
rietl BY any state troops IN 81 eyoiu-
1tion,
Ii has been pointed out thai won
lcrfW chance MAS lost tlie s5lte q a,l-
4thoriiies when they oYerloo lle 81,
poftnnity of committing Dag To-
the 1I5th infantry. the q zation
composed Of Maryland snien.5 &
Who would have taken il rance,
and brought it back latheee new
flood III glory However. sonorea
banner Of the lI5th will ye pilc of
those committed ID the of its
mother state
There are other flags State.
House flag room which wee carried
bg Maryland troops in evofu-
tionary War the War Of 1S 2.sand on
10th sides during the CigI a
space remains, next to th tunda,
which will be taken BIZ which
is now being made for arslanti'
latest war banners. and tlisssill be
placed there with approp cere-
monies
Two az these flags tllaseof the
lI0th Machine Gun Battalie la the
3Istla Infantry. are already pos
session of AdjHslant Gsenera arilala,
and the former is actually 81 nnapo
lis
General Wartield has concasidsd that
under the War Department asaer re
qniring an organization eafnr to be
presented to lie State pos rgely
represented ii the ortsaniza t.la Mary
land will receive tile cpIass8of six
combat units that went over These
units represent combines ghting
strength Of more Than 120Oe nsan Who
tonight. or we're ready 10 9g with
hand grenaaes. rifles, baydTie1s. ma
chine guns and light artil Out
of this combined iighting arce of
12.A00 men whose colOrs AArand II
To treasure among her dear relics
lnot more than 5000 failed ttset into
the fighting These are nien of
Ethe Ono Hundred and TentIN Ielh All 1
stilery regiment of Tic ninth
(Isiue and Gray1 Divisions nd The
Three Hundred ahd Tenth ell Ar
ltillery of the Seventy y-ninfli ision.
The other 900 men III the flowing
organizations which Will des5er their
colors to the State saw so of the
hardest aghting any troops sss in The
war. and the battles they fosNht were,
I'M many cases, decisive Of portant
things:
The One Hundred and FfIeenth In
fantry. Col Milton 4 Regaei com
.manding
The Three Hundred and Airteenth
Infantry Col Claude 3. ey com
Emanding
The One Hundred and ntl Ma
chine Gun Battalion
The One Hundred and 1assalfth Ma
chine Gun Battalion.
-Four of the coIOrs are u to be-
presented To the State. III are the
Ecol0rs Of the One Hundred Twelfth
Machine Gunners, the OnS Hundred
and Fifteenth Infantry Three
Hundred and Tenth and On Hundred
and Tenth Field Artillery General
Warfie1d expects to receive enI some
time this week
The colors of the One Hn ared and
Tenth and Three Hundred nd Tenth
Field Artillery are expecte to come
no Maryland, and TO no otter State,
on the showing that there ere more
Maryland men In these Quilts than
from any other State when fe organi-
aati0ns we're first formed Bat Ii the
test laid down by the War n rtnent,
and when it III applied I'd hese two
field artillery units ALaryind wins
without question The Thre Hundred
and Tenth was first torm Of se-
lected men from all over the State, al
though there we're great many re-
placements in it from otlr States
when ii returned The Ons Hundred
and Tenth was formed oA National
Guardsmen from Maryland and the
District Of Columbia, one battalion
representing Maryland and he other.
the District. but the batt4lon from
1.-The District had 10 be broulht To full
strength by men from the slepOt bril-
gade III Camp Mcclellan. al many oe
these were old Fourth Regiment men.
Col washington Bowie. r. picked hl
stan largely from the Marland con