Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successfully lie about their age in '98, but did get in the Army, Navy or "Volunteer Regulars" in 1899 or some time before July, 1902, when the Philippine Insurrection was finally and officially finished. All men you saw with bands on their hats showing service in any infantry regiment from the 26th to 49th (U. S. Vol. Infantry) or 11th Vol. Cavalry were of the 25 Vol. regiments called for in 1899, a year after the Battle of Manila Bay, to relieve the volunteers from the state organizations then serving in the Philippine Insurrection. They were enlisted...
...People. The exhibition had been directed by Edward Hungerford, journalist, magazine writer. The drum major of the centenary band was one F. E. Czarnowsky, who for 31 years was drum major of the 5th regiment Maryland National Guard, which he joined as drummer-boy in 1868. Chief Two Guns White Calf, an Indian whose avaricious profile appears on all U. S. five-cent pieces, was brought to the fair with some of his tribesmen in a special historic coach. One Gladys Miller, a member of the treasury department of the B. & O., who acquired, in a recent beauty contest...
...Stillwater, Mass., the Last Man's Club was holding its last dinner. There were really three Last Men-Peter Hall, 89; Charles Lockwood, 86; John Goff, 85. Sixty-six years ago they had marched off to the Civil War with Company B of the First Minnesota Regiment. Many soldiers of Company B fell at their first battle-Bull Run-many at Antietam, at Gettysburg, at other battles that are history to almost everyone today but are memories to the old men of the Last Man's Club. In 1886 there were only 34 Company B members surviving...
...example, one destroyer may have a constructive strength of a destroyer division- in which case, for the duration of the game, this destroyer is accepted as representing an entire division of its kind. In the same way, a company of infantry may have a constructive strength equal to a regiment. Thus the 75,000 troops with the Black fleet were largely constructive. In the second place, the results of an action are decided by umpires. In the New England game, for instance, the cruiser Concord was "sunk" by the battleship Pennsylvania. What happened was that the Concord, lightly armored, chanced...
...overseas battalion who was caught filching food from another outfit's mess. He finds that the hardboiled lieutenant to whom he is brought for discipline hails from Galveston, Tex. So does the Negro. They chat together for a few minutes. Months later the officer learns that the black regiment has been destroyed...