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10.0D0 men In camp by then, and the 3* peak reached 17,205 AUff. 11 when : the Fourth Artillery left for target practlc® at Pine Plain*.£ On June 16, the Forty-seventh and £Foriy-eighth Infantry were formed I'frora the Fishtlng Ninth. and as I recruits from Syracuse. Fort Slo-/cum and other points filled the tranks these became the first to .Crtaeh full war strength of 1.965.I Soon after the Fourth and Fifteenth I;Artillery were ready, the latter wJn-•'nlng honor abroad at Verdun. Cfca* £teau-Thierry. Solason*. St Aliblei jand Champagne. /*; From the Twenty-third Infantry Jennie the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth.“, But“ of ^ all . the organizations brought to full strength beta none ^brought the. city more pride than jthe Thirty-eighth Regiment, which Cns part of the Third Division fought -in the Battle of the Marae In May, 10is, and was the only , rejttment ^mentioned by name.and number In,J3cneral Pershing1* American Expe--dltlonary Force report. This was forrite stand, bearing'.the brunt, of tt*.^attack, la the first.Chateau Thierry; battle. With 200 Syracusans. it alsoiwon honors at Courboln and Mont-Ifaucon, and aided In the divisional'advance along the Mease to a pohJt^opposite Sedan at the thna'of thefarmlsiict.*•Memorial Erected Here• ' •; In February,* 1915. the regiment•decided to honor its 600 killed in mention with a monument In Syracuse, 'rather than on the battlefields of ^France. The memorial, unveiled July ;ll. 1520. stands in Billings part : Also formed here and boasting many local recruit* in its ranks was .the Seventh Machine Gun Battalion, /which at part of the Third Division .won equal mention in General Pershing's report with the Thirty-eighth, for its role In the Battle of the ;Marne-* Another honor waj done the city by the troops organized here when .the Ninth and Twenty-third, a» part cz the Second Division, of regular TJntled States Army troops, adopted the nickname of Syracuse Brigade when they reached France. The Syracuse Brigade captured the railroad station at Bourwehe*. near Chateau Thierry In the A21td counter-attack early In June. Later it proceeded against Vaux at nearby Refloats Wood. with equal success. When American troops relieved the French at Rhelms in October in tie tukirt of the American offensive in the Argtmne, the Syracuse Brigade played its role in the capture of BJanc Mount sad St*. Etienne.- Others of the Camp Syracuse tegimeau to reach the forefront ©I actios were tie Thirty-ninth and Forty-eeventh Infantry, brigaded1 PnwfOi a* MfiiU, !A month and a half later came the influenza epidemic.Four thousand soldiers—and twice that many drill as e in* tbc city—were treated in thi hospital before the epidemic ran Its course. Bight hundred women trained in first aid and nursing work by the Red Cross served *a volunteer nurse*, and still there -were not enough. Two hundred and six soldiers died, a mortality percentage of 8.$ that was one cf the lowest In any troop camps in the country. . This had no sooner cleared up before an outbreak of* measles struck the camp. On the day of the armistice. 200 men of the camp were In the base hospital at Os? wewo with this disease.. ______One week after-the end of the war. Col. B. G. Ruttencutter-then in command—put into effect the order that closed Camp Syracuse forever.•ttawlr Clelhes
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Syracuse Journal
Syracuse, New York, US
Mon, Mar 20, 1939
Page 59
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