Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-02
.L|EUT.-COL. MCGUIRE
REACHES RICHMOND
War Hospital Chief Says Vir-
ginia Buzzards Look Better
Than Airplanes.
TREATED MANNED THOUSANDS
Wounded From Argonnc Forest
and St. Mihiel Brought to
Units Quarters.

1T was good 20 sec the buzzards OF
Old Virginia as VIC came down from
Washington this mornipg-thcy looked
better 20 me than any' flying machine
saw over the battle fields Of France"
This remark prcfaccd Lieutenant
Colonel Stuart McGuire's brief story
of Richmonds hospital unit which had
modified at Camp Lee for service
overseas just one year to the day be-
fore Colonel McGuire's return TO Rich
mond yesterday
Great things had transpired in that
brief year since the men and women
under Colonel McGuirc's command
went from civil life to take UP the
@ndea Of fd m he f0r the S5gk T Ipd
unit had been trained in the discipline
Of; army life u had boon taught the
rules of war. il had embarked on tho
torpedo infeStcd seas 10 carry succor
to France: had arrived, last July at
Autun, and three weeks later had per-
manently established itself at Toul.
UNIT ALWAYS NEAREST
TO ZONE OF FIGHTING
into the battle zone Always it was
received the human wrecks caught be-
tween the millstoncs Of war, cascd
their suiferings and nursed them back
attentions which smoothcd the rough
road 10 the little mounds that dot the
countryside OF france.
said Colonel Mcclure. lis the marvel
Of the world. Shot. gassed. sick.
us By the ,housa uSd- AiWay ysn the 70
TOO weak ,;hey would Sing. Never
suffering, was beyond human cndur-
ance. Always, too, they we're confident
that they had the Hun licked"
Did you treat many VirGinians
Col9nel?"
TO pick men from any. especial state.
as SUCH"
NEGRO SOLDIERS FROM
virginia WE'RE TREATED
Captain Joe Gcisingcr. who accom-
i ihst week so,e WAS present. He recalled
had .o6 See nj treated at d in the hospital.
sood to see their smiling faces and to
.! khow that they came from home,
had fought valiantly, many had beef,
wounded W., some had been kiiied-bnt
Seventeen thousand patients passed
tire sht.oug q the the units hands during its
sick and gassed
Over a thousand gas patients came
u
We could not have handled so many
had they not used our base as an cyac-
uation hospital at that time"
me patients would come receive
trea tment for thirty-siN hours. and
then those that could be moved would
be sent further TO the rear
ARGONNE AND MIHIEI,
WOUNDED CARED FOR
Wounded and gassed from tho
severe lighting in Argonne fores, and
Guire hospital. 1t was during these
battles that the stress OF work was
greatest And it was wonderful TO
our men and women did nobly; we
are proud of them.
one OF our first Virginia patients
was my cousin. Lieutenant Archie
honertSon' the colonel said. "a little
later lieutenant Stetinius, who mar
came to US"
Colonel Mcclure left his command
IN Ioul last month. Major w T.
rcpie, Captain Geisenger Captain
-: n. wright Captain James Smith.
Lieutenant Is. l.. Eckels and lieutenant
{. j. Corcoran were ordered home NJ
the same time. Part of the partv loft
france on one boat and arrived sew.
eral days ago. Colonel McCiuire's
uG ;t. however encountered storm in
inldoceaH and ran across the disa bled
steamer Polar Bear. which il stood bv
until it's damag es were repaired This
delayed his arrival several DAYS lie
ocean my
Thursday he arrived at Camp Dix
Wnere ne was discharged from service
After a brief rest he Will resume his
surgical work here. ~
nc thinks those of the unit left i'm
france arc already on their way home