OCR Text |
Show Camp Cavalcade .us.r CIIADOWT figures in a cava iadc I of American history such u . the -1 men behind the names of the real StatJ army cantonments scattered all for sqil over the United Stales, where iung cially I Americans are learning to b sol- come I diers in order to defend their Dun- may ll try when the need arises. markc l produil If, for many years. Uncle F m's each il soldiers have been the best c red- food J for of any ii the about I x ; world, muc of diool j. .,: the credit foi that I j " ; fact belong to Thel 1 " ithemantor geons I -n whom Camp Hoi- whihl abird near Bal- Wlth I . timore, Md is Publlc ' ' : named. S luel ment I V " ' B- Holabird, na- upon 1 V live of Con, .cti- Carmj , cut, was gra nat- mer ' I i. ed from lest 4,118 I S. B. Holabird Point in 1!H! d I after sev ral I years' service on the frontier was w"lclll -appointed captain and assi tant ounc'l quartermaster soon after the Dut- a'l hreak of the Civil war. Mui i of It i 1 his service during that conflict was growl in Maryland and West Virgin as ed pi chief quartermaster in variou di- breeel visions and corps of the Union a my. ords I After the war he was chief qu; ter- anteil master of the military departn ents HATil of Dakota, Texas and California and phi in 1883 he was appointed qu: ter- geon master-general of the United S atcs an eil army, a position which he held intil ays I he was retired as a brigadier ;en- an(j I eral in 1890. At that time it was me I said of him: "General Holabird was Sincil ever alert to the needs of the : 'my 0theil and while occupying the positi- l of fiqUa quartermaster - general he tro- 0 I luced many reforms to improv the jt A condition of the enlisted men.su ply- nestJ ing them with comforts and coi jen- mml iences which soldiers could sea ;ely (jevel have dreamed of 25 years earl ;r." turDl Camp Guild near Wakefield, J' iss., FEI1 is named for a journalist and sol- I 3ier, Curtis Guild, (1860-1915) who g00( was born in Boston and succc ded gCOI his father in the ownersh p o the ra(jj Boston Commercial Bulhiun. He 0j a was brigadier-general of tie M ssa- inSt I chusetts militia at the outbre : of I the Spanish-American wart an'1 . .1 er being mustered into tne n- A . I teer service was inspectrir-g I I of the department of II iva n j I Cuba. General Guild wa i c ' I lieutenant-governor of I t is, i I ( I setts in 1902 and served t io I ; : s. I I Camp Michie at Del Rl, 1 ' I honors the memory of Vir,; uia I Robert E. Lee Michie (U'64- I . ! I who was graduated from V.'.-st i 'i ; I in 1885 and served in the ci va . at i I various posts in the West. D i the Spanish-American war he : ; 1 I adjutant-general of the dep.'..r! , . - I f Havana in Cuba and servid i the ancil Philippines in 1903-04. At the .ut- eg(l break of the World war he was eral made a brigadier-general o:! ti na- foil I tional army and was comm'tni. : of I the Fifty-third infantry brig.'u at r.1 Camp Wadsworth, S. C. I Camp Callan, near San I.' :go, l Calif., bears the name of Mi), ten. 1 Robert Emmet Callan, bo in I Maryland in 1874 and now n red. cl He saw his first active scivi I in cl the Puerto Rican campaign it 898. H As chief of staff of the army rtil- lery of the First army of the A. .F., I he won the D.S.M. for having 'de- I veloped the heavy artillery egi- I ments under his command into 3m- "1 bat units of remarkable effici ncy ly I which proved to be of the ut lost w'l value during the St. Mihiel and eel Meuse-Argonne offensives." fr'l ly I Heroes of World War I, both 3ffl- I cers and enlisted men, have pro- I vided names for m. J numerous train- ; m l ing camps. There t s N thl is Camp Sibert I A brl near Boulder i ' f ,c City, Nev., which r 'It w! recalls the serv- ' '1 u ices of Maj. Gen. f ' f t 1 c William Luther f ; 1 del Sibert (1860-1935) f ' , tel the Alabama en- : of I gineer who built i , S A the Gatun locks ' ' . I . , W. L. Sibr t and dam m the Panama canal, for which he re- s) I ceived the thanks of congress, and I who commanded the First div lion sjl of the A.E.F. in France under ren- J eral Pershing. .1 There is Camp Edwards near ''or- q I estdale, Mass., named for Maj. ren. 0J Clarence E. Edwards (1860-1 31), til commander of the Twenty-: ixth c l ("Yankee") division of the A I.F. a l . who was awarded the Distingu hed hi Service Medal for having orgai zed s I that division and commandii it t: with distinction during all bi 18 I days of its active service at the 1 1 front from February 4 to Novei ber J 11, 1918. jl National Army Spirit ( "A visit to one of the ca on- I ments is unforgettable. The g eat- jj ness of this superb effort to rah an 1 1 army that will be truly nat mal I floods the heart with fire and p Ide. I These molten pools of manhood ave j I been poured into the crucible. The ( I dross is being purged, the hai len- A ing metal tempered and weki I. I A think it will be the finest arm the (l world has ever seen, because it s a l true cross section of a natiot " A Christopher Morley, writing 1 on I Camp Dix, October 24, 1917. ,1 |