The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-06-27
MANY HEARTS
MADE 6LAD BY :
BOYS RETURN

GICidtd las DSeH more real nearly
| handshakes and congratulations dur
| ing the past few days than any one
! time during the past two years. When
the statement is made that nearly
all the boys who volunteered soon
after a state of war was declared and
who went out with the Company that
was mustered in at Grenada on Sun
/ day, May 6, 1917, are back, it will
| be understood why SO many families
and friends are happy and glad.
These boys landeF New York
about three weeks md after a
short detention at Upton were
ordered to Camp A,y where they
began to be diY 5ed few each
day early LAST -. The irst con-
tingent got n sV,n Thursday night
of last week. Siearly all were here
by Saturds lSsht.
Lieuteps - slount, who went out
with the ada Company was pro-
NOTED to y e rank of Captain and
placed in charge of another Com
pany. Mr.. L. L. Hodges, who was
elected Captain by the boys, was re-
| lieved at Jackson.
The boys began coming home
in one or two at time few weeks
after the armstice was signed but
this is the first and will be the last
contingent to come in such large
numbers.
The Grenada company went over
seas the latter part of last Septem-
Der and since the signing of the arm
stice have been stationed at Camp
Valdahon, France. Had the war not
ended when it did, the Grenada boys
woul have been in the thick of the
vght within ten days.
The following letter from Claren-
ce Deems, Jr., Colonel of F. A. and
Commandant Direct or at Camp Val
dahon, is splendid testimony to the
vdelity and soldier spirit of the Gren-
ada county boys:
| ITO: Commanding Officer l40th
| Field Artillery.
"Subieet: Work Of the i40th Field
Artillery at Army Artillery School.
q. Upon thesrelief Of your or
ganization from duty with the Army
Artillery School, wish to inform you
that it is with great pleasure that
have noted the constant improve
nent in your command as Il School
Regiment. both in regard to Field
discipline and in actual Fire discip-
line.
II fully realize the difficulties of
keeping a command of troops from
civilian life up on that state of dis
cipline and instruction demanded at
hies school, after the partial cessa-
ton of hostilities when ever one is
eager to once more take up his civil
pursuits. Your troops thereforev IN
my opinion, deserves commentator
for the work that they have accom-
plished at this station and the fact
that in spite of disappointment of
, never having gone to the Front, their
good spirit has ever been manifested
by their constant improvement.
'In conveying any message TO your
command, kindly make it clear that
the commentator that l intend to
transmit is particularly and fully for
your enlisted personnel on whom spec
tally arduous duties fall in perform
ing their heavy school work in
climate such as this has been.
''To your Officers, please make it
equally clear that / realize the con-
stantly improving results obtained
from your units has been directly
due to the guidance Of these officers
under whom the men have served,
and that the concerted efforts of
all-in other words, interior co-Ordi-
nation-have been responsible for
the marked improvements, all this
has been to the credit of all concern
ed since the difficulties in changing
your regiment from being "portee"
to horsed Regiment with one Bat
talon motorizedl have naturally in
terfered with its rapid development
tactically.
Il wish you all pleasant and
quick trip back to the United States"