Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-09
SECOND DIVISION
GETS OVATION
Several Harrisburg Boys Are
Members of Famous Fight
ing Organization

Several boys of Harrisburg and
nearby towns figured in the parade
of the Second Division in New York
yesterday afternoon. The division is
composed of one brigade of marines
and one of doughboys, in addition to
their artillery brigade and engineers,
and they received a tremendous ova-
tion as they marched up Fifth ave-
nue. behind their leader, Major Gem
eral John \. Lejeune. himself a
'leatherneck."
Leroy Manbeck. of Hummelstown,
is sergeant in Battery e. Twelfth
Field Artillery, and has been in the
service for over four years. He went
through all the heavy fighting with
his battery and is now ready to get
out of the service. but as he is a
pre-war regular, must go to the
boarder with the Twelfth to-day, and
serve out his hitch" Sergeant Man
beck said he would not even be al
lowed a furlough for some time, but
will be stationed at Camp Travis,
Texas.
Harry W. Wilhelm, 1919 Market
street, is another local boy who
! fought throughout the campaigns
| with the Second. He was in Battery
A of the Twelfth Field all the
time, and says that though he
likes the life, he will be pretty
glad to see Harrisburg again and
expects to come home on Monday
His father and mother were in New
York to meet him and see the parade
yesterday. A. H. Stackpole is another
| local boy who was in "a" Battery.
4 Famous Unit
The Second Division is, with the
original American Division, the First
one of the best known of all the A
q. T. Going overseas in the winter
| of 1917, the division took the line fol
the first time in March, near Verdun
They had a quiet sector for a montl
or so. but were then moved in tC
stop the gap at Chateau Thierry, aat
thereafter were in it hot and heavy
until the armistice. a story is tolt
in connection with their first ap'
pearance in the line: The French hat
sort of an understanding with the
boche to let we'll enough alone and no
| stir up the sector. The marines tool
| over a section of trench, and immedi'
ately began sniping off a few boches
who were unaware of the change II
| force opposite them. In the midst oi
this a French officer came along ani
roundly berated one of the leather
necks" for firing; one of our owl
officers heard it and told the private
to go to 1t, then he said to the French
man: Where do you get this quie
stuff you don't think we came 5000
miles to sleep in your doggone trench
es, do you?" And the sniping con
tinued.
Mndc Wonderful Record
The division hung up numerous rec
ords for itself. 1t captured 22S boch,
officers, 11,738 men, 343 pieces of ar
tillery. and 1850 machine guns. 1t
loss in prisoners was only five of
ficers and 152 men. The total ad
vance against the enemy was 81 kilo
meters.
At the same time it's losses wer
heavy. Twenty-Five thousand, MIN
hundred and eighty-nine men is tn,
casualty list of the glorious second
one tenth of the entire total of Il
divisions in the A. f. F.
The division IS maze up OF th'
Fifth and Sixth Marines the Nintl
and Twenty-third Infantry, tn,
Twelfth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth
Regiments of field artillery th'
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Machine GuI
Battalions, and the Second Engineers
All of these regiments are regular
units and will be continued in the
| new Regular Army, although hun
dreds of the present members will b.
discharged.
Bri6adier General Manus Nc
Closkey, of Pittsburgh, now sta
tionad at Fort Leavenworth. wa!
colonel of the Twelfth Field Ar
tillery from the time of it's organi
zation until the middle of August
He was the only American general t
wear three wound stripes, once foi
a shrapnel cut and twice for gas
Many other A. e. F. generals wer'
, former colonels of the Second Di
| vision.
Many commented yesterday on th'
fact that practically every soldier II
line had one wound stripe, and many
wore two or three. D. s. C.'s anc
Croix de Queries were on many
breasts.