Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1918 — Speak of 100,000 Army as Sort of Corporal’s Guard [ARTICLE]

Speak of 100,000 Army as Sort of Corporal’s Guard

The war has blunted the old meaning of figures and we speak glibly of an army of 100,000 men or more, General Pershing’s offer to General FoCh, as though it were only a sort of corporal’s guard. Late reports hint at a larger figure than that equaling Kitchener’s first army. Never before in our history have 100,000 men fought under the Stars and Stripes in any one battle. The Army of the Potomac, with which drant and Meade fought the campaign of 1864, had an aggregate strength of less than 120,000, and only a part of them were used in any single engagement. Earlier there had been rather more than 70,000 federal troops at Gettysburg, about 65,000 at Chattanooga. Sherman started from Atlanta with some 66,000. Napoleon had 72,000 men at Waterloo and the Britta** numbered 68,00tt,