Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the Twenty-Ninth Division, "Blue and Gray," 1917-1919: Prepared Pursuant to G. O. S. Headquarters 29th Division A. E. F. January 10th, 1919, at the Request of the Division Historical Committee
Discipline in the division from the first was of the sternest kind. Officers and men alike were ruled with an iron hand, but I came to love them as a father loves his children.
The division was composed of men from practically every state in the Union and represented all of the strains which have contributed to the greatness of our country - in a word, a cross section of the American republic. The sturdy independence and individualism so characteristic of the American youth had to be curbed in order that a fighting unit might be created. The task was to create and develop an organization, and in this deve' op ment the individual must Deeds subordinate his will and his freedom of action to the common good.
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