Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — American Forces Now Six Times as Large as in Spanish-American War [ARTICLE]

American Forces Now Six Times as Large as in Spanish-American War

There were 1,428,650 enlisted men and 110,856 officers in the United States Army at the opening of 1918, more than one and a half times as large as any force ever before mobilized by this nation, according to a statement by Secretary of War Baker. During the war with Spain the Army of the United States at its maximum strength aggregated 272;000 men and officers. The army in the field and in training now is practically six times as great as the maximum number under arms in the Spanish-American war. About 45,000 officers were commissioned from civil life in the two series of training camps, eight times as many as the number of officers in the regular army April 1, 1917.