Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — ARE HOME FROM OVERSEAS [ARTICLE]

ARE HOME FROM OVERSEAS

Two Regiments, Mostly Indiana Boys Reached New York Monday. Two Indiana regiments, the 139th and 137th, lacking two batteries of field artillery, arrived in New York Monday on the George Washington, the boat on which President Wilson recently went to France. The five units of the, 137th field artillery came in Tuesday on the La France. Quite a number of Jasper county, boys who were with old company M at Hattiesburg, are with the 137th and will soon be home. The regiments are now at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and will be brought to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, to be mustered out in a few days. Following are some of the Rensselaer and Jasper county boys in the 37th: “Casey” Hemphill, Hurley Ramey, William Holmes, Jqfrnes Eldridge, Harvey Myres, Laban Wilcox, Parker Childers, Guy Crowder, Harold Stiers, Bert Blackman, Allen Bowsher, Glen Burns and Ardis Cornwell. The Indiana men in these units were mostly national guardsmen when war was declared and were mobilized at Fort Benjamin Harrison. They were sent to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where they remained for over a year before being sent overseas on October 5, and had been away from the United States just seventy days. When the armistice was signed these regiments were about two weeks from the firing line, therefore they saw no fighting whatever. The George Washington made a quick trip having started December 15.