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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1918
Page
2
A wartime field dispatch describes American troops in heat at the front mobilizing with grit. Soldiers strip coats and suspenders, wading rivers to shoulder depth, praised for physical force and morale. The correspondent notes Germans fled at the sight of such vigor and youth.
A list of Umatilla and Cayuse Indians and mixed heritage individuals from the county enlisting or drafted into U.S. Army Navy and Marine service. Names include Percy Wilson Isaac Patrick Samuel Litem Cale Poindexter Miles Pound Norman Page Guy Rowe Walter Heiford Wittum Moody Avtar Wilford Minthorn Lovie Van Pelt and many others. Some are stationed at Fort Lewis Camp Lewis Camp Taylor and Fortress Monroe with multiple entries noting corps such as infantry artillery and naval service.
More than 1100 applications pave mean in this note about center offices and entrants. Corenine Joie 26 reports that govern mental officers survey the field as people apply to enter the program.
Fragmentary notes indicate several recruits slated for military training: infantry at a camp near Louisville Kentucky, artillery at a camp near another location, and machine gun training at a Georgia facility. The text references Goep Pike and Little Hert in Arkansas and unknown centers in Kentucky and Georgia.
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