The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-17
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American mRnpowor to cross the SUB.
marine Infested seas was in marked
reported departure, and the men and
women along the way seemed to feel
the significance OF the spectacle. They
RECALLED the days when the nation
waited IN worthless anxiety to hear that
these same smiling, free -stridinE boys
those other days when the first word
filtered back that the boys had begun
70 prove their courage in action and
the slow -comtng lists that carried the
names of>the men who sleep forever In
To one regiment OF long, trim "7Es'
Sixth field artillery was placed be-
tween the two Infantry higadss In
stead OF marching with the rest OF the
artillery brigade behind the Infantry,
for Y was Battery c, Of the Sixth, which
Tired the first shot at the Germans,
Oct, Is, 1917, A standard told the on
guns whose thunder had carried that
ranks,
Throughout the long line markers
we're frequent telling what the strange
implements Of war over which they
floated were used for, Among the
watchers were thousands upon thou
sands OF government clerks who have
dealt for months with endlAss streams
Of papers talking OF bomhs and guns
and mortars, OF motor machine shops,
pontoon bridges, machine guns, gas
throwers, flame projectors apd all The
Eether complicated war equipment ol
tho troops. Never before have these
workers at home seen all these tools
Of warfare In their own wariike set,
tins, however, and tho parade was III
education for them,
Many Officers.
Up the avenue at the head Of the
division rode MAI, Gen, Edward y, Mo,
Glachlin, commanding, and with hln
rode two former commanders Of thS
division the first to go and the last Of
the divisions ton come home, They
We're Maj, Gen william l.. Slbert, whS
took II TO France, and Lieut., Gen. Rob,
ert L, Rullard, who took Il into actor
and surrendered command only to TAXI
a higher post, Marching ahead Of thS
formations, also, came a host OF off,
GERS and men who saw their, first serv,
ice with the First division In France
later to 70 to other units as Instruct,
orS.
Then came the First infantry brigade
marching in the French mass forma,
ton, "a man abreast the avenue, led by
the Third machine gun battalion. Will
Its motorized guns, The infantr.
marched in column. OF feura, four com.
panies abreast Snd. with officers an'
file closers ahead, leaving the men Il
form a solid hleck Of bayonets 10
each battalion. The 18TH Infantry
veterans OF the bitter fighting III Can
tigny, where France learned In wha
fashion America could and would ftgh
and breathed free again after month
Of strain, led the way, After It's tire
battalion blocks had passed came tn
18th Infantry In similar formation, fol
lowed hX the First machine gun bat
talon Of the brigade,
The Sixth. field artillery came nest
followed BY the Second infantry brigade
composed of the 26th and 2Sth infantrI
and the Second maehipe gun battalion
the Fifth and the seventh field artillery
The horse drawn gums and limhers o
the FIFTH rolled by tire columns abreas
and the Seventh putfed and pantet
along With ITS heavier guns In the saIe,
The. regular trains Of the divisions fol
lowed, the First engineer regiment lead
ing the way with The First angineel
train behind II to be succeeded by tn
Second signal battalion. Then cam
almost endless wagon and truck train
OF the ammunition, supply and sanltAJi
TRAINS and the First company OF mill
Itary police, and, finally the hosplta
ambulance companies ana field hospi
tails.