Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . lay ahead ofthem. Hundreds of men added them-selves to the ranks, day by dav. sothat they might take part in the fight-ing that thev believed surely , it was. that even in the summerof 1916, the Sixth Division, later the27th Division, was filled through andthrough with a war fervor and witha war spirit. In Texas the division was concen-trated at three small towns in thelower Rio Grande Valley— and McAllen. At the formerthere were the Second. 14th and 69thRegts. of infantrv; at Pharr therewere the Third, 23d and 74th Infantry,
Brooklyn and Long Island in the war; . lay ahead ofthem. Hundreds of men added them-selves to the ranks, day by dav. sothat they might take part in the fight-ing that thev believed surely , it was. that even in the summerof 1916, the Sixth Division, later the27th Division, was filled through andthrough with a war fervor and witha war spirit. In Texas the division was concen-trated at three small towns in thelower Rio Grande Valley— and McAllen. At the formerthere were the Second. 14th and 69thRegts. of infantrv; at Pharr therewere the Third, 23d and 74th Infantry, and at McAIlen therew-ere Division Headquarters, the FirstField Hospital, Cos. A and B of theSignal Corps, the First Cavalrv. theFirst and Second Regts. of Field Ar-tillery, the ~22d Regt. of A. and (he Seventh, 12ihfind 71st Regts. of infantry. Withthis line up there remained at home,of the major organizations, the Ninthand 13th Coast Artillery organia-tions. the Fir,st, Tenth, 47th and 63thRegts. of Commander of 27th Division throughout its service in the war. National Guard MadeUp of Scrappers. .Mmost all of the Xew York Na-tional Guard, it will be recognized,was concentrated at the border. ? ThisState had a representation there farlarger than any other State, and someof the men remained there longerthan the units of any other drilled and built roads andlaughed at discomforts until, as waswritten in a recent history of the 106lh the men developed sponta-neously from some source a peculiarpsychology. Reduced to words, itwas this: Were going to show those Regu-lars that ihe National Guard is mad^up of scrappers. They can laugh atus now but well show em when weget into action. This determination. onthe minds of all the Guardsmen, hadits origin, perhaps, in the mild ridi-cule to which they were .subjectedbecause, being new at the game, theydid not know how^ to make themselvescomfortable amid all the trial:; ofdesert
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