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Title: The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Fort Sheridan Association Girton, Fred
Subjects: Fort Sheridan (Ill.). Military training camp World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Chicago?) : The Fort Sheridan Association
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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busi-ness men were afraid to get far away from their business. Another handicapdue to the call of troops to the Border was the resulting shortage of regularofficers who were available to act as instructors. The new membership tothe training camps association, resulting from the 1916 camps, gave an in-creased impetus to the recruiting and other activities of the association, andwhen we entered the war in 1917 the stage was set for a very much largerattendance in the 1917 camps than had been had in all the previous campsput together. As soon as it was ascertained that we were to enter the war, the membersof the training camps association began to plan how they, as an organization,could best help the country, and it w^as due to their efforts that the first seriesof Officers Training Camps w^ere inaugurated at such an early date, and withsuch a large attendance. A Survey of Three Months,Bein^ the History of The First OfficersTraining Camp By WALDO M. ALLEN of the First Battery, First Camp
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COLONEL NICHOLSON Commanding First R. O. T. C. at Fort Sheridan, Illinois Headquarters Staff First Officers Training Camp AT FORT SHERIDAN, ILL. May 15, 1917 to August 15, 1917 COLONEL WILLIAM J. NICHOLSONMAJOR HARRY KAVANAUGH -MAJOR WALLACE B. SCALESCAPTAIN E. H. WARNER McCABE Commsmder Senior Instructor - Adjutant Assistant Adjutant COLONEL JAMES A. RYAN - Commanding 10th Provisional Regt.MAJOR JAMES PARKER - Commanding 11th Provisional Regt. THE United States of America need fear no war. If the sacred soil ofthat Nation is threatened with invasion, or her glorious name and honordefamed, a million men will spring to arms overnight to overthrow themost powerful and designing of invaders. Why be afraid? Have the armiesof America ever been defeated by a foreign foe? Shortly after the Civil War the germ of such reasoning took root and, asthe country prospered, the more deeply did it become imbedded. Nor didthe Spanish-American War halt this train of thought. It seemed to convincea multi

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