Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . k C. Jewell. 302d Engineers—Col. Clarence OSherrill. Trains and Military Police— Howard. 302d Field Signal Battalion— N. .Vlillikcu. Adjutant—Maj. William N. Haskell. Chief of StatT—Lt. Col. E. E. Booth. Slartiug the Organization. This, of course, was before the 77thDivision had come into being in anyother form than a paper it was still in this unformed .Male,some 1 iOO of its junior officers cameinto ciVmp on .\ugust 27. 28 and were graduates of the Iirst Offi-cers Training Carnp at Plattsburg, andthey Inrlud
Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . k C. Jewell. 302d Engineers—Col. Clarence OSherrill. Trains and Military Police— Howard. 302d Field Signal Battalion— N. .Vlillikcu. Adjutant—Maj. William N. Haskell. Chief of StatT—Lt. Col. E. E. Booth. Slartiug the Organization. This, of course, was before the 77thDivision had come into being in anyother form than a paper it was still in this unformed .Male,some 1 iOO of its junior officers cameinto ciVmp on .\ugust 27. 28 and were graduates of the Iirst Offi-cers Training Carnp at Plattsburg, andthey Inrludcd the veritable cream ofthe countrys manhood. There was notone of them that wasnt a collegegraduate: there were few of them whohad not left positions ot importance invarious communities to answer theiicountrys call; and there wasnt onewho hadnt a heart white-hot withpatriotism. They were men. accordingto their , of superior Intel-ligence and of superior spirit andcourage. BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND IN THE WAR. 27 O. 28 BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND IN THE WAK. Attention is paid to them here at somelength because it has been asserted bymilitary critics of standing that the 77thDivision found its being in its juniorofHcers. They made it what it became,assert the critics; they were its bacl<-bone and Us heart. Those who sawthem at Camp Ipton, those who weretheir superiors In rank, assert thatthere never had been assembled at anyone place a finer body of junior ofBcersthan those who came to the 77th Divi-sion at this time. A few days after their arrival, Myers, construction quarter-master, announced that sixty barracltswere ready to house the first contin-gents of drafted men, shortly to September 10, this first contingentcame into camp— men, of assortedBhapos and sizes, 757 of them fromiJrooklyn. JJearly every form of in-ilustry in the great city from whichIhey came was represented amongUiem. U was September 10, 1917, and theyWere just
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