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MILITARY COLLECTION XI. WORLD WAR I PAPERS, 1903‐1933, MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS

III. MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS Box No. Contents [1‐22] Thirtieth Division 1 Calendar (typescript) of records of the 30th Division in

files of the Historical Section, U.S. Army War College, Washington, D.C.

Calendars of records of division units in files of the Historical Section, U.S. Army War College: 105th Engineers, 105th Field Signal Battalion, 105th Sanitary Train, 105th Train Headquarters, 113th Machine Gun Battalion, 115th Machine Gun Battalion, 119th Infantry, and 120th Infantry

Citations and congratulatory messages List of official photographs illustrative of activities

of the 30th Division Map: Southern Railway System map of Army, Navy, and

Marine cantonments, camps, and training stations, 1917 Newspaper clippings Newspapers: includes The Courier [Asheboro], July 31,

1919; three partial issues of The New York Times: July 27, 1919 (Magazine Section), August 10, 1919 (Editorial Section), and January 2, 1921 (Book Review and Magazine Section); The News and Observer, July 31, 1941; and nine issues of The Orphans’ Friend and Masonic Journal (January 16, 23, 30, September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 29, and November 5, 1920), containing articles by Fred A. Olds and Robert B. House re. the Thirtieth Division

Operations of the division: includes two copies of booklet, Operations Thirtieth Division Old Hickory; booklet, “Lest We Forget”: The Record of North Carolina’s Own; and typescript, “Operations 30th Division”

Photographs (9) of arrival of 30th Division at Charleston, S.C., 1919, aboard the Mercury (March 27) and the Huron (April 2), and cover letter from donor, Corsey C. Buchanan, to Fred Olds, 1921


Box No. Contents 1 (cont.) Regimental histories: hardbound volumes, The History of

the 105th Regiment of Engineers, by Willard P. Sullivan, comp. (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919); History of the 118th Infantry American Expeditionary Force, France (Columbia, S.C.: The State Co., Printers, 1919); and Official History of the 120th Infantry, by Maj. John O. Walker (Lynchburg, Va.: J. P. Bell Company, Printers, n.d.)

2 Reunions of the Thirtieth Division:

First reunion, Greenville, S.C., September 1919: includes official program; card with program; notes taken at the reunion; souvenir edition of The Piedmont (Greenville, S.C.), September 29, 1919; and newspapers: Greenville Daily News (September 29, 30, October 1, 1919), The News and Observer, December 6, 1919, and The Piedmont (September 29, 30, 1919)

Second reunion, Asheville, N.C., September 1920: includes official program; picture postcard; and newspapers: The Asheville Citizen (September 28, 29, 1920) and The Asheville Times (September 27, 28, 30, 1920)

[3‐19] Thirtieth Division, 113th Field Artillery Regiment Records of the 113th Field Artillery Regiment, formerly the

First North Carolina Field Artillery. The bulk of these files was apparently donated to the North Carolina Historical Commission by Col. Albert L. Cox, commander of the regiment. Other former officers may also have contributed copies of official documents. Capt. A. L. Fletcher, who prepared a history of the regiment in 1920, may have (re)arranged the papers while conducting his research. The arrangement is roughly chronological.

3 Subject files: (The numbers in parentheses are apparently

file numbers that were assigned to the records when created) (004.6) Life insurance

(008.) Colleges (014.32) Naturalization (017.3) Salvage


Box No. Contents 3 (cont.) (062) Rosters, commissioned officers; rosters,

excused lists (120) Disbursements (121.2) Allotments (121.3) Invoices (123) Company funds (132) Money vouchers (141.6) Property (unexpendable) (141.7) Property shortages (141.8) Property inspection and inventory (143) Property and surplus (150) Accounts (158) Regimental fund; bills (200) Personnel (201) Personnel files

Adams, Harvey B. Alcoke, William J.

Allen, Matt H. Allen, William H., Jr. Alligood, Leslie C. Armes, Arthur T. Ashcraft, Frank B. Austin, Fred Baker, Jesse Barber, Dedrick S. Basnight, James E. Batchelor, David C. Baugham, Seth B. Beaman, Robert P. Bellamy, Emmett H. Bennett, Horace C. Bentley, Joe Blake, Walter L. Bolt, John P. Borden, Frank K. Bowman, Wade V. Boyce, Erskine E. Breeden, Luther Brooks, Ben Brooks, Wilbur F.


Box No. Contents 3 (cont.) Broom, Carl

Brown, James C. Bulwinkle, Alfred L. Burt, John R. Campbell, Archie Caroon, James T. Carpenter, Jesse E. Carson, Joe Chadwick, Floyd M., Jr. Chambers, Sidney C. Chandler, Richard Conner, Clifford R. Coop, Alfred Covington, Harry B.

Cox, Grover B. 4 (201 cont.) Personnel files Crabb, John H. Craig, Thomas J. Crayton, Louis B. Crick, Leonard D. Crosby, William Danieley, William F. Daves, Curtis W. Davis, George H. Davis, Ralph Taylor Davis, Thomas Dickson, Samuel W. Dixon, George S. Dodge, James P., Jr. Drummond, Frank C. P. [see Lewis M.

Smith] Dusenberry, Gowan, Jr. Dyson, Adam T. Earnhardt, Mack M. Ellington, Edgar E. English, Thomas J. Erexson, Dalton R.


Erwood, Charles W. Evans, Prentiss M.

Box No. Contents 4 (cont.) Fite, Giles Flautt, Stephen J. Fortune, Joseph C. Foy, Council L. Frady, George F. Fuller, Frank L., Jr. Fuston, Henry O. Gardner, Loris W. Garris, O. B. Gillespie, Luther Goulding, William Griffin, George A. Grist, J. W. Gwyn, Nathan H. Hailey, Norvell H. Hanes, Robert M. Hanson, Louis A. Hardison, Herman H. Harmon, Julius S. Harmon, William R. Harrington, Ronald J. Harwood (Harward), Willie L. Hassell, W. R. Hawkins, Samuel F. Haymore, Robert Luther Haynes, Edwin B. Heath, B. R. Hedden, Ernest M. Hefley, Harvey L. Hefner, Sherrell B. Henderson, Aaron D. Herndon, Leland L. Hicks, Theron M. [see Charlie

Widener]


Hill, Ernest W. Hinson, Walter G. Hodge, Edward Hoke, Edgar Holton, Church D. Horton, Alfred W.

Box No. Contents 4 (cont.) Howell, Harold F. Hughes, William O. Hunt, Benjamin H. Ingle, O. M. Isner, Willis (or William) Jenkins, Lester Johnson (Johnston), Andrew M. Johnston, Rufus M. Jones, Barney L. Jones, Eugene P. Jones, Harmon L. Jones, Van Joyner, William T. Kelton, William B. Klapp, William H. Klutz (Kluttz), Harvey L. Knapp, E. W. Kornegay, Leo W. Lacy, Benjamin R., Jr. Lamb, Sidney Lambertson, George Furrington Lawrence, Robert H. Libbey, John L. Lockamy, Eli Lockey, Clyde T. Lonergon, Joseph McBrayer, C. B. McBrayer, Eugene L. McCotter, William V. McCullers, Edgar W.


McGuirt, Charles M. McKinnon, Henry A. McLendon, Lennox Polk McNeely, Robert Lee Mack, Jacob A. Maltba, Rom L. Marley, James L. Marshall, Edgar Marshall, Roscoe F. Martin, Oliver

Box No. Contents 4 (cont.) Meadows, Charles Henry Melton, Darling J. Milton, George A. Mitchell, A. S. Mitchell, Jack

Monroe, Robert B. Moore, John W. Moore, Julian E. Moore, Milton N. Moore, W. H.

Morris, David R. Morrison, Reid R. Morrow, George A. Mosley, Lee Murphrey, Joseph W. Murray, Russell R. Nantz, Joseph P. Nathan, Simeon A. Neal, Jim Nelsen, Peter Oswald Newton, John Willard Norman, Henry E. Norman, Lee V. Norwood, Olive N. Osment, Eugene W.


5 (201 cont.) Personnel files Parrish, Percy Jasper Pearson, June E. Peppard, J. G. Perry, Ervin H. Perry, Percy B. Petty, _____ Philemon, Clarence L. Pollard, Hugh C. Poole, Alvin H. Poole, Gilbert F. Popelin, T. [French adviser] Porter, Neal C. Potter, Baker

Box No. Contents 5 (cont.) Powell, Joseph Clement Pritchard, James M. Propst, Clarence Ramsey, Claude S. Reed, John A. Rice, Jesse R. Richards, James S. Richardson, Sanford A. Robertson, Owen S. Rockett, Carl Rodman, Wiley C. Salem, Shikery Sanford, Reuben W. Scott, L. A. [see William P. Whitaker

Jr.] Scott, Paul B. Seals, Fred M. Shelton, Howard L. Sites, Lester V. Sizemore, G. D. Skiles, William F. Sloop, William A.


Smith, Bernard D. Smith, Lewis M. Smith, Royce C. Spoon, Thomas L. Stackpole, Albert H. Stirewalt, Verner B. Sugg, James Sutton, Don S. Talbert (Tolbert), William A. Taylor, Clarence D. Teague, Daniel R. Thompson, Joseph H. Threadgill, Lacy L. Touchstone, Chester H. Travis, Frank Turpin, Willie Tyndall, Charlie Vairin, Nugent B., Jr.

Box No. Contents 5 (cont.) Webb, James C. Weddell, John H. Westfeldt, Gustaf R. Wetherington, Amos D. Whitaker, Lee G. Whitaker, William P., Jr. White, Ezra L. Widener (Widner), Charlie Willett, Phy. Williams, Buford F. Wilson, Jesse F. Winnett, John L. Wood, Charles Hayes Yancey, Clarence W. Zeigler, J. H. (201.1) Service records and correspondence

concerning, September 1917, April 1918‐February 1919, n.d. The first folder contains


service histories of Heber E. Alligood, Irving M. Baker, Norman F. Beck, Floyd C. Best, Alex Bloomberg, Albert Carlson, John Celbusky, John J. A. Corey, Fred E. Corlee, Edward J. Erwing Jr., Alphonsa J. Fischer, Claude E. Fortune, Mont A. Fowler, Walter M. Heiss, Ernest M. Hill, Charlie L. Ipock, Samuel Jenkins, Robley C. Killian, Andrew W. Lee, John S. Lehman, Edward J. McCafferty, Eugene R. McCarrell, Andrew G. Marines, Robert C. Markey, James L. Marley, Thomas J. Maroney, Charlie M. Mizzel, Earnest L. Moore, Henry C. Morris, William Myers, James H. Nickel, Hugh A. Norwood, Jesse J. Pratt, William J. Rohloff, Ernest Rosso, William E. Rush, Wyatt H. Sellers, Jesse E. Simpkins, Ulysses V. Thrift, Wiley Truitt, John Wesley Warren,


Box No. Contents 5 (cont.) Fred H. Williams, and George

Franklin Winberry. (201.1) Examinations; qualification records;

physical efficiency 6 (210) Commissioned personnel

(210.1) Commissions; physical examinations (officers), including Erskine E. Boyce, Alfred L. Bulwinkle, Albert L. Cox, Alfred W. Horton, Benjamin R. Lacy, and Thaddeus B. Stem

(210.2) Promotion of officers (210.3) Assignments (210.4) Duties and services (officers); detached

service (officers) (210.6) Detail (officers); Officers' School

(O.C.S.) (210.7) Absences; officers' leaves of absence (210.8) Resignations (220) Enlisted personnel (220.2) Promotions (enlisted men); reductions

(enlisted men) (220.3) Requests for transfers; assignments of

enlisted men 7 (220.4) Detached service (enlisted men)

(220.6) Miscellaneous details (220.7) Absences of enlisted men: sickness;

absences from classes; ranks and substitutes; furloughs and passes

(220.8) Deaths; discharges, general; discharges, disability; discharges, minority

(221.3) Interpreters (221.27) Horseshoers (221.28) Observers (221.33) Chauffeurs


(221.36) Grades and pay (230.43) Peddling (230.56) A.W.O.L. (230.82) Discharge certificates

Box No. Contents 7 (cont.) (231) Classified personnel

(231.5) Printers (231.22) Inspections (231.24) Draftsmen (232.2) Distinguished Service Cross (241) Officers’ pay

(242) Pay of enlisted men (242.3) Errors on payroll (242.4) Transportation charges (enlisted men) (243.4) Nonpayment and allotment (243.5) Discontinuance of allotments; Liberty Loan (246) Allowances (250) Discipline; general court martial (250.1) Drinking on duty

(251) Deserters; deserters, descriptions of; deserters, vouchers for apprehending

(253) Military prisoners; remission of sentences (254) Detention (300.4) General orders; general orders, division

(33rd); general orders, regiment 8 (300.4 cont.) Embarkation and transportation orders;

field orders; special orders; special orders, division (33rd); guard orders; administrative orders, division (33rd)

(300.6) Memoranda, general 9 (300.6 cont.) Memoranda, camp regulations;

memoranda, division (33rd); memoranda, instructional

(300.7) Bulletins ‐ 33rd Division (300.8) Training circulars ‐ 33rd Division


(300.9) Miscellaneous ‐ 33rd Division

(311.1) Mail (311.2) Telegrams; radio messages (311.6) Signaling (311.9) Homing pigeons (314.7) Organizational history (319.1) Reports; morning reports

Box No. Contents 9 (cont.) (320.2) Returns [company rosters] 10 (321.1) Embarkation

(321.9) Strength of regiment (322.3) Veterinary Corps personnel

(322.6) "Manning Table"; bands, field artillery; noncommissioned officers, surplus

(322.9) Overseas detachment; casual detachment (324.1) Volunteer enrollment (325.6) Training, National Guard (325.7) National Guard call to U.S. service (326.33) Officers’ transfers (327.2) Exemption boards, calls and quotas (327.3) Drafted men (327.7) Miscellaneous reports and records (330.2) Returns (monthly) (330.3) Miscellaneous returns (331.4) Officers’ mess (333) Inspections; inspections, 2nd Battalion;

inspections, Sanitary Detachment [see also 721: Sanitary Inspection]

(334.4) Efficiency Board (335.2) Reviews, Saturday; muster (342.2) Enlistment (343.2) Assignment of recruits (344.1) Fingerprints

11 (350) Typography; observation

(350.5) Illiteracy


(352) Schools; signal school detail; gas school (352.1) School for cooks (353.1) Marksmanship qualifications (353.4) Firing reports – June‐November, 1918, n.d.

(353.5) Guard duty; practice marches (353.7) Concerts (354) Field camp (354.1) Criticisms (360.03) Aviation Corps (370) Troop movements

(370.2) Guards, reports on

Box No. Contents 11 (cont.) (371) Field operations

(371.3) Field operations, orders (376.6) Military Police (field) (384) Aviation (386.1) Destroyed property (400) Equipment (400.6) Replacements (400.7) Unserviceable property (400.31) Requisitions (400.73) Thefts (412.2) Greases (413.1) Tools, reports on (413.2) Fire extinguishers (413.4) Telephone supplies (413.5) Typewriter (413.7) Telescope; field glasses (413.15) Miscellaneous division (413.68) P1otting boards (414.2) Utensils (414.4) Cleaning equipment (414.5) Lights (420) Clothing (421) Chevrons, wounds and service; helmets;

identification tags; overcoats; shoes (422) Prisoners


(424) Tarpaulin (426) Personal equipment; scabbards (430.2) Rations (435) Tobacco (438) Disinfecting supplies (441.1) First Aid packets

(446) Veterinary equipment (451) Automobiles

12 (454) Animals – horses, mounts and remounts

(454.2) Mules (455) Harness (456) Grooming kits; halters (461) Books, requests for

(463) Fuel

Box No. Contents 12 (cont.) (470) Ordnance stores

(470.6) Smoke bomb practice; gas masks (471) Ammunition and ammunition allowances (472.1) Guns (472.8) Guns, spare parts; guns, covers (474) Small arms (483) Telephone service (483.1) Telegraph service (484.3) Veterinary reports and inspections (485) Sanitary services (485.2) Collection of garbage (513) Transportation of prisoners (524) Baggage (531.6) Shipments (537) Auto and motor truck transportation (552.2) Requests for transportation (579) Miscellaneous (600.92) Maps (602.2) Disposal of real property (631) Y.M.C.A. (633) Kitchens


(634) Stables

(652) Camp buildings (654) Stockade (658) Bath houses (662) Battery emplacements (671) Water supply (676) Telephone school (680.3) Billets (701) Medical attendancy (702) Medical examinations; disability, enlisted

men's examinations (703) Dental treatment (704) Casualties: includes seventy‐seven

“Immediate Report of Casualty” slips, September‐November, 1918

(705) Admission to hospital (710) Measles (720) Medical inspection

(720.2) Water purification

Box No. Contents 12 (cont.) (720.7) Disposal of garbage

(720.8) Disposal of excreta (721) Sanitary inspection [see also 333:

Inspections, Sanitary Detachment] (724) Sanitation (724.6) Baths (724.9) Ventilation (726.1) Venereal disease (727.1) Body cleanliness (727.2) Bathing facilities

13 National Guard, Southeastern (U.S.) Department

Headquarters: memoranda and messages, 1917 Reports on National Guard strength, August‐September,

1917 War Department [copies received by Colonel Cox; removed

from notebook]:


bulletins, 1917‐1918 general court‐martial orders, 1918

miscellaneous publications, 1918 War Department: memoranda and orders, 1917 30th Division Headquarters: memoranda and orders,

September 1917‐January 1918, February 1919 55th Brigade Headquarters: memoranda and orders,

August 1917‐March 1918 113th Field Artillery: memoranda and messages, September

1917‐February 1918, n.d. Appointments, enlistments, and transfers, July‐October,

1917 Commissions accepted, August‐September, 1917 Noncommissioned officers’ warrants, September‐October,

1917 Draft notices, enlistees, September‐October, 1917 Buglers, September 1917 Cooks and bakers, September 1917 Firefighters, September 1917

Box No. Contents 14 First Battalion: memoranda and messages, August‐

September, 1917 Battery A: special orders received, July 1917‐May 1918

[removed from notebook] Battery A: memoranda and messages, July‐December, 1917

Battery B: memoranda and messages, July‐December, 1917 Battery C: memoranda and messages, July 1917‐January 1918 Battery D: memoranda and messages, July 1917‐January 1918 Battery E: memoranda and messages, July 1917‐January 1918 Battery F: memoranda and messages, July 1917‐January 1918 Supply Company: memoranda and orders, July 1917‐January

1918 Ordnance Corps: memoranda and orders, September 1917


15 Roll call reports, Camp Sevier, S.C., September 1917‐May

1918 Regimental Statistical Section, September 1917 Payrolls, Third Field Artillery detachment, 1918 Personal correspondence of Col. Albert L. Cox, 1917‐1919,

n.d. Files of Maj. Alfred L. Bulwinkle, 1917, n.d. “Personnel Work in the Army”: notebook kept by Lt. Alfred

W. Horton and handouts from School for Personnel Officers, Camp Meigs, 1918

Investigations, 1918 Embarkation to France, June‐November, 1918

16 American Expeditionary Forces, General Headquarters

[copies received by Colonel Cox; removed from notebook]: bulletins, 1918‐1919 general orders, 1918‐1919

113th Field Artillery: memoranda and messages, October 1918‐January 1919, n.d.

Operations: orders, memoranda, firing reports, correspondence, August 1918‐March 1919

17 Rounds of ammunition used, July‐November, 1918

Regulations on the artillery information service, August 1918

Box No. Contents 17 (cont.)Intelligence reports, plans of defense, codes, and

signals, September‐November, 1918, n.d. Terrain exercises: plan of communications, December 1918

Field message books (2), October 10‐11, December 4, 1918, January 5, 1919

Table: gun range German artillery "Gun Book"

Embarkation instructions and preparations for return to America, January‐March, 1919

Return and demobilization, final roster and daily camp


routine, March 1919

War diary, February‐March, 1919 [notes for narrative of operations]

18 Family allowances and allotments: printed materials

concerning Miscellaneous forms Miscellaneous: includes six pen‐and‐ink sketches by Sgt.

George Graham and Sgt. Liston L. Mallard (or possibly Lt. John B. Mallard of the 52nd Pioneer Infantry), and personal correspondence of Lt. A. L. Fletcher

Magazines: issues of Everybody’s Magazine, January 1919, and The Literary Digest, May 31, 1919

Newsletter: issues of “The Tar Baby,” shipboard publication of the USS Santa Teresa, March 11, 12, 13, 15, and 17, 1919

Newspapers: issues (some partial) of Biblical Recorder, November 26, 1919; The New York Herald (European edition), November 10, 12, 1918; Virginian‐Pilot, March 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23, 1919; and The Washington Daily News, March 22, 29, 1919; and clippings from The New York Times (June 27, 1919) and The Raleigh Times (December 6, 1918, and October 17, 1919)

Photographs and postcards: includes 10 group (by company) photographs of the 113th Field Artillery in France; 6 photographs of homecoming parade in Raleigh, March 24, 1919; and 5 picture postcards of European scenes

Box No. Contents 19 Calendar of records of the 113th Field Artillery in the

files of the Historical Section of the Army War College Rough drafts and notes re. history of the 113th, written

by Capt. A. L. Fletcher Correspondence re. compiling history of the 113th Typescript of regimental history by Lt. Col. Sidney C.

Chambers History of the 113th Field Artillery, Thirtieth Division,


by A. L. Fletcher (Raleigh: The History Committee of 113th F. A., 1920)

Thirtieth Division, 114th Field Artillery Regiment

Results of officers’ examinations, November 1917 Thirtieth Division, 115th Field Artillery Regiment

Results of officers’ examinations, November 1917 Thirtieth Division, 115th Machine Gun Battalion

Historical sketch of Company A, in unsigned letter (typescript, 2 copies) to Mrs. A. A. McLean, 1918 [from Capt. Robert G. Cherry?]

Roster of Company A, February 1918 Thirtieth Division, 119th Infantry Regiment Booklet: “Rough Rhymes of a Soldier,” by Sgt. Leo T.

Brinson, n.d. Postcard on which are recorded the postings of Cpl.

Harvey C. MacNair of Company K [20‐22] Thirtieth Division, 120th Infantry Regiment 20 Historical sketch, titled "Calais," by Col. Sidney W.

Minor, regimental commander Rosters (annotated), by company, March 1919 War diary, May 12 – August 15, 1918

Box No. Contents 21 War diary, August 16 – November 30, 1918 22 War diary, December 1918 – February 1919 23 Eighty‐first Division


Newspaper clippings, 1918 Newspapers: issues of The Columbia [S.C.] Record,

September 20 and 21, 1920, and The State [Columbia, S.C.], September 19, 21, and 22, 1920, reporting on the reunion of the 8lst Division; three issues of The Wildcat, May 10, 17, and 29, 1919, division newspaper published in France; and souvenir edition [for homecoming of 81st Division] of The Jacksonian, Camp Jackson, S.C., n.d.

Program from 81st Division reunion at Columbia, S.C., September 20‐21, 1920

Miscellaneous: includes report re. division operations, November 7‐11, 1918; General Orders No. 50, re. operations of the division, November 9‐11, 1918; typescript of remarks of Maj. Gen. Charles J. Bailey to his officers prior to leaving France, 1919; draft of remarks by Col. Harry Lee at division reunion, September 22, 1920; biographical sketch and photograph of Col. Charles D. Roberts; two complementary tickets to New York theaters, September 20‐21, 1920; miscellaneous correspondence, 1921; and copy of Final Report of Gen. John J. Pershing (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920).

Eighty‐First Division, 306th Engineer Regiment

Book: Roster and History: 306th Regiment of Engineers and

306th Engineer Train Eighty‐First Division, 324th Infantry Regiment Booklets: The Officers and Enlisted Personnel of

Headquarters Company 324th Infantry, and Narrative

Box No. Contents 23 (cont.) History of Company K, 324th Inf. 81st (Stonewall) Div., by John H.

Workman, 1919

Panoramic photograph of Headquarters Co., 324th Infantry [removed and filed as MilColl.WWI.Panoramas.1]


24 Second American Corps

Reports, field orders, intelligence reports, battle instructions, and maps reflecting the operations of the Second American Corps, September‐October, 1918, bound and submitted to the N.C. Historical Commission by W. G. Peace in 1922

Booklet, Operations of the 2d American Corps in the Somme Offensive, August 8 to November 11, 1918 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920)

U.S. Army Signal Corps Catalogue of Official A.E.F. Photographs Taken by the

Signal Corps, U.S.A. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919), and typed lists of official photographs illustrating activities of the Thirtieth and Forty‐second Divisions

U.S. Army Tank Corps, Three Hundred and Fifth Battalion

“Completion Report, U.S. Army Tank School, Raleigh, North Carolina,” by Capt. E. H. Dignowity, February 1919, containing maps, blueprints, and photographs of Camp Polk and the temporary site at the State Fairgrounds

Photographs (ten) Miscellaneous: includes program for "A Day in Camp,"

presented at Raleigh City Auditorium, September 21, 1918; invitation to First Battalion Hop, City Auditorium, December 3, 1918; Camp Polk stationery; and booklet, The “Tanks”, by Col. E. D. Swinton (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918)

Box No. Contents 24 (cont.)U.S. Marine Corps

Recruiting booklet Article: “The American Marines at Verdun, Chateau

Thierry, Bouresches and Belleau Wood,” by Harrison Cale (clipped from Indiana Magazine of History)


25 Base Hospital Number Sixty‐five Historical sketches by Wilburt C. Davison and S. W.

Hoffmann Reminiscences by May Greenfield Watson and Odessa

Chambers Typed list of professional staff and enlisted personnel,

n.d. [postwar] Photographs (three), donated by Wilson Pierce, Walkertown

Scrapbooks of Odessa Chambers and Rosalie A. Ferguson, both of Asheville

26 Other Divisions First Division Typescript historical sketch of Souvenir booklet: Victory Parades of the First

Division, United States Army, 1919

Second Division

Typescript historical sketch of Typescript copy of The Indian, weekly publication of

the Second Division, Army of Occupation, April 15, 1919

Third Division Typescript historical sketch of

Book: History of the Third Division United States Army in the World War, 1919

Box No. Contents 26 (cont.) Booklet: The Story of the Thirty‐eighth, by C. E.

Lovejoy, 1919


Twenty‐sixth Division

Typescript historical sketch of Article from The Literary Digest, May 17, 1919 Booklet: 103rd U.S. Infantry, 1917‐1919, 26th Div.,

A.E.F., 1919

Twenty‐seventh Division

Typescript historical sketch of Newspaper clippings from The New York Times, March

2, 7, 9, 23, 1919

Thirty‐second Division

Typescript historical sketch of Remarks of Col. Chester B. McCormick, 119th Field

Artillery, to his regiment on the return from France aboard the USS Frederick, April 29, 1919

Forty‐first Division

Typescript historical sketch of Booklet: Record of Service of 147th Field Artillery

in France

Forty‐second Division

Typescript historical sketch of Correspondence, citations, and calendar of records

in the Army War College re. the 117th Engineer Train

Seventy‐seventh Division

Typescript historical sketch of

Box No. Contents


26 (cont.) Newspaper clipping from The New York Times, March 9,

1919 Seventy‐ninth Division

Typescript historical sketch of Orders and memoranda, October 1918 Other divisions

Typescript historical sketches of Unattached units 156th Depot Brigade: letter and historical sketch Fifth Artillery Brigade, First Provisional Platoon:

menu for Thanksgiving dinner at Camp Bagley, Raleigh, 1919

27 North Carolina Naval Militia

Correspondence and financial records of E. H. Baker, paymaster and supply officer of the N.C. Naval Militia, 1913‐1918, n.d.

“Report of Special Board on Naval Militia Affairs” [the Gill Board report], January 1915

North Carolina National Guard Pamphlets: “History and Roster of Company D (Hornets Nest

Riflemen) First N.C. National Guard,” n.d., and “Roster North Carolina National Guard and Naval Militia,” June 1, 1917

Typescript: “Reorganization of the National Guard for North Carolina,” [1917]

Note: Three boxes of maps, formerly numbered 41‐43, have been removed and filed as MilColl.WWI.Maps.418‐511.

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