Robert March Hanes papers (#4534)
Subtitle: Diary, 30 April-2 December 1918
Contributors: Hanes, Robert March, 1890-1959; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Diaries; Soldiers; Officers; Military life; World War, 1914-1918; Campaigns; American Personal narratives; United States. Army; United States. Army. Field Artillery, 113th. Battery A.
Other titles: Diary, 30 April-2 December 1918; North Carolinians and the Great War.
Description: A short diary documenting Hanes's activities at the front during World War I. He served as Captain of Battery A, 113th Field Artillery, 30th Division, and recorded in the diary his journey across the Atlantic, training for combat in France, and actual fighting conditions along the front. He included descriptions of several military maneuvers, among them the Argonne Drive against the Germans, detailing the use of infantry, camouflaging of guns, endless marching at night through rain and mud, the use of spy balloons, and other details of combat at the front.
Notes: Title from TEI Header (viewed June 10, 2002)

Includes images of the handwritten pages from the diary.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection North Carolinians and the Great War.

Diary transcribed by Amy Davis. Page images scanned by Harris Henderson. Text encoded by Melissa Meeks and Natalia Smith.

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Transcribed from: Robert March Hanes papers, 1908-1919. Transcript of the manuscript. Call number SHC #4534 (Manuscripts Dept., Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the electronic publication of this title.

Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web.

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Robert March Hanes (1890-1959) was a North Carolina banker, legislator, government official, and business and civic leader.