Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . ce and safety of the otherBKi<n »f the division. They namedtheir product \anderhilt inhonor of their commander. .Shortlyafterwaid. now the lf)2d andrebuilt into a unit of approximately1,600 men. they began laying out atrenih system for the other units ofthe division and took up the especial forms of training which German war-fare made necessary for the instruc-tion of military engineers. The infan-ay units were called uponto devote their time in the main tolong marches, much rifle practice,trench digging, machine gun hand-ling, bayonet d
Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . ce and safety of the otherBKi<n »f the division. They namedtheir product \anderhilt inhonor of their commander. .Shortlyafterwaid. now the lf)2d andrebuilt into a unit of approximately1,600 men. they began laying out atrenih system for the other units ofthe division and took up the especial forms of training which German war-fare made necessary for the instruc-tion of military engineers. The infan-ay units were called uponto devote their time in the main tolong marches, much rifle practice,trench digging, machine gun hand-ling, bayonet drill, extended orderdrill and a variety of other spite of the revolutionary changeill the character of the former Na-tional Cuard regiments, -which hadvirtuallv eliminated some and madeseemingly overgrown monstrositiesof the others, the infantrymen gotdown to work speedily. Although ittook some time for them to get usedto their companies of 250 men each,their battalions of roughly 1,000 meneach, and their regiments of 3,700. -/ LT. COL, MOf?i?IS S& Acting commander of 105th Inf.,killed by direct shell hit August 7. men, they found themselves withsurprising quickness. They had been made into strangely-assorted mixtures. In the casting ofthe 10,jih Inf., for instance, there wasa union of youiig farmers and woods-men with men esseiitially living andbreathing of the city through theamalgamation of the old Second andtlie old 71st. .-^gain. in the makingof the 107th, there was the union ofthe dandy Seventh and the rough-neck 12th, Still again, in the crea-tion of the 106th, there was the unionof two units between which therehad always existed a keen and healthyrivalry. That they got to w^orking so well together in so short a time is worthy of even more extended comment than can be given here, and it should be even worth while to endeavor to Analyze the factors that caused the j smooth-working relations that soon I appeared. One reason i)n)bal)ly could 1 be found in the way
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