Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-05-27
REGIMENT WITHOUT
{. CROUCH IS LANDED
Col. Clinnin's 130th Infantry Gay
Iy Comes Ashore.
WILL PARADE IN CHICAGO
old Fourth Illinois National Guard,
/ Made Up of Men From Many
F; Towns of the State, Fought
f. Like Americans.

Like Americans.
New York, May PA regiment
without a grouch-it was and is the
One Hundred and Thirtieth infantry.
iUngrudgingly year ago the boys who
compose it put the ocean between them
and their Illinois homes and families
ito fight for their nation in far coun-
try; they came back, not all of them,
but hard fighting regiment still, and
with smiles and cheers provoked by
sheer happiness in the knowledge of
a task well done and the certainty
that they were ever so welcome back.
They galloped joyously down the gang
planks from the United States trans
port Siboney, which delivered them
from Brest at 8 80 o'clock in the morn
ing at Hoboken.
They had had ample evidence that
their joy in the homecoming was
shared by the state they fought for,
because Governor Lowden's welcome
committee sailed down the bay with
a band and lots of shouting by rela-
tives who had come on from Illinois
to greet the outfit. Governor LOwden
himself did not sail forth on the well
come boat. He had TO return to his
executive duties, but some of those
who came from Chicago with him to
greet the Mount Vernon with the fore
runner units of the Thirty-third divi-
sion remained over and will stay in
New York to meet the rest of the
PrairieS as they come in this week on
the Leviathan and the Kaiserin Au-
guste Victoria, which are due Thurs
day-the last-named vessel with the
One Hundred and Thirty-first infantry
and the Charleston, ImperatOr and
Amerika, which are racing toward New
York.
Parade in Chicago Next Week.
From those on the governors noisy
little reception vessel the returning
soldiers first learned that they are to
go to Camp Mills and will be sent to
Chicago the last of the week for pa
rade in which nearly 10000 Prairie di-
vision men will participate early next
week.
The following units will reach Chi
cago at nearly the same time: Thirty
third division headquarters troops,
One Hundred and Thirty-second infan-
try, One Hundred and Twenty-second
machine gun battalion, One Hundred
and Twenty-fourth machine gun bat
TALON, Thirty-third railhead detach-
ment, One Hundred and Eighth mobile
repair shop, One Hundred and Tween
ty-third machine gun battalion, One
Hundred and Thirtieth infantry.
The One Hundred and Twenty-third
machine gun company, rs strong,
came home with Col John v. Clinnin's
regiment of infantrymen on the ST.
honey. 1t was Colonel Clinnin who
called the One Hundred and Thirtieth
infantry "the regiment without
Crouch"
"IIIinois May Well Be Proud"
There were 6S officers and 2,S74 men
of the old Fourth Illinois" on board,
and a hit-or-miss canvass among them
indicated that the colonel was alto
gether right when he said: "They
haven't any grievance; they fought
like true Americans. Their morale
has been splendid throughout all the
hell they have gone through. Illinois
may we'll be proud of these sons of
hers"
The One Hundred and Thirtieth
came home complete except for two
officers who were detained at Brest
for duty. One of these, Capt. Ned Civ
ems of company G, is the most deco
rated man in the regiment. He won
the D. S. G. and the croix de guerre
with two citations for the brilliant
performance of his company in hold
ing the line during one of the fiercest
of German assaults November 10, the
day before the fighting ended. The
Iother officer left behind was Lieut..
Clyde Austin, who had also won the
French war cross. ee.t Il ,es.a
; The regiment is made up of men
from a number of Illinois towns,
among them being Champaign, Shell
byville, Paris, Benton, Casey, Sullivan,
Newton, bingham, Vandalia, Olney
and Cairo. Many Chicagoans are in
the roster and these were assigned to
the unit chiefly as requirements. The
machine gun company of the regiment
lis composed of One Hundred and fifty
third men, who are nearly all of Ger
man extraction, commanded by Capt
GRADY OsHair, who is not. ,ss
| Colonel Wears a Wound Stripe.
: Colonel Ginning spoke in terms, Of
deepest sorrow for the relatives of the
i126 men of the regiment who were
killed in France. For those who re-
turn" he said, there should be places
lin civil life into which they may step,
and from what / have seen of them |
know they will make good citizens
when they settle down again TO work
at home. The experience they have
had has developed these lads in way
that will make capable and useful men
of them"
Colonel Clinnin himself was one of
the 537 wearers of wound stripes in
the One Hundred and Thirtieth. He
was gassed and temporarily blinded in