James Carl Nelson - The remains of Company D : a story of the Great War

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

ABM RG 117, Entry 31Records of the American Battle Monuments Commission, Correspondence with Former (First) Division Officers, U.S. National Archives, College Park, Maryland.

MWW Monographs of World War series, Donovan Research Library, Fort Benning, Georgia.

ROQC Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Cemeterial Division, 19151939. U.S. National Archives, College Park, Maryland. Record Group 92. Cited as ROQC.

WWR United States. Army Division, 1st. World War Records, Basic Maps and Overlays / First Division, A.E.F., vol. 1. Washington, D.C. 23 vols.

Adams, Ranzie. Emma Mayos interview ran in the Paragould (Ark.) Weekly Soliphone, June 27, 1918.

Aldridge, Merton L. Aldridges letter to Robert Livick is in the Rollin Livick Papers (see Livick, below).

Angell, Jerome. Angells exhortations ran in the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette (undated clip provided by the Kalamazoo Public Library. Biographical information from the Hastings (Mich.) Banner, July 11, 1918. Account of Angells death from his burial file, Record Group 92, Entry 1942, ROQC.

Anslow, George. Account of Anslows death, ROQC.

Austin, Raymond B. Austins wartime letters from the World War I Veterans Survey Collection, U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Babcock, Conrad Stanton. Much of Babcocks account of the Battle of Soissons found in the Conrad Stanton Babcock Papers, pp. 50552, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University. Used with permission of Babcocks granddaughter, Barbara Babcock. Also, two after-action reports written by BabcockReport on Operations South of Soissons, July 1918 and Report of Offensive July 18July 22 1918can be found in WWR 13: Operations Reports 28th Infantry.

Babson, Roger. Babsons casualty statistics from Myron E. Adams and Fred Girton, The History and Achievements of the Fort Sheridan Officers Training Camps.

Barnes, Lynn. Barness account of Marvin Staintons actions and death found in the Marvin Stainton Papers (see Stainton, below).

Baucaro, Ben. Information on Private Ben Baucaro from author interview with Baucaros son, Robert Baucaro.

Beard, Otto. Letter from George Butler to Sam Pool, January 28, 1919, graciously provided to the author by Beard family historian Robert Beard. Also, Otto Beard, ROQC.

Beck, Frank L. Account of Becks death, ROQC.

Bernheisel, Ben H. Bernheisels account of Soissons comes from his unpublished memoir Foot Soldiers, Robert R. McCormick Research Center, Museum of the First Division, Wheaton, Ill. Used with Permission.

Bertrand, Georges Etienne. His letter on the attractions of war comes from Myron E. Adams and Fred Girton, The History and Achievements of the Fort Sheridan Officers Training Camps.

Boyd, Leonard. The source of information is Boyds postwar monograph The Operations of the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry in the Second Phase of the Meuse-Argonne, MWW.

Bronston, Jason Lloyd. Letters graciously provided to the author by Lloyd Bronstons grandson, Jason Bronston. Used with permission. Material about Bronstons assignment overseas was found in the Garnett (Kan.) Review, January 24, 1918; an account of his return home ran on June 5, 1919. Bronstons account of the conditions at Cantigny comes from Box 184, ABM. Bronston scared at Soissons from WWR 15: Field Messages All Units.

Brunst, Otto. Information on Brunst, ROQC.

Buchanan, Max C. Buchanans letter on the verge of heading overseas ran in the Brockton (Mass.) Daily Enterprise, November 10, 1917. His account of training with a Canadian regiment found in the same paper, January 12, 1918. Also Max C. Buchanan, ROQC.

Buck, Beaumont. Bucks description of the Cantigny sector from the San Antonio (Tex.) Sunday Light, February 22, 1931. His discussion of immigrant soldiers, and his account of the attack on Berzy-le-Sec, from his Memories of Peace and War. Bucks fears of a counterattack at Berzy-le-Sec from WWR 13: Operations Reports Second Brigade.

Bullard, Robert Lee. Getting the First Division ready and opinion of French cavalry from Bullard, Personalities and Reminiscences of the World War (see separate entry in Bibliography section).

Butler, Charles E. See entry in the Bibliography section of the notes.

Butler, George E. Biographical information regarding Butler comes from author interview with Butlers son, the late George E. Butler Jr., and grandson, Tom Butler. Letters cited ran in the Arkansas City (Kan.) Daily News: the account of Butlers arrival overseas, December 22, 1917; his letter about the Battle of Cantigny, June 27, 1918; letter on the armistice, December 2, 1918; his November 28, 1918, letter on December 20. Butler letters to Sam Stainton found in the Marvin Stainton Papers. Butlers postwar paper The Battle of Cantigny found in MWW.

Caldwell, Edgar N. Caldwells account of Soissons ran in the Janesville (Wisc.) Daily Gazette, September 7, 1918; earlier letters and interviews come from the Daily Gazette as well: his plea for volunteers, April 10, 1917; his sadness at the breakup of Company M, June 12 and August 23, 1918; his descriptions of the front lines, July 13, 1918.

Campbell, Stuart. Campbells account of the Battle of Cantigny taken from Report of Company E, 18th Infantry, July 5, 1918, in WWR 13: Operations Reports 18th Infantry Regiment.

Carns, Whitelaw Reid. Information on Carns comes from author interview with Norma Carns, Carnss daughter-in-law.

Church, John Huston. Churchs letters regarding Cantigny, his attempts to be classified as fit for duty, and from the Coblenz Bridgehead found in The Charles Crispin Scrapbook of John H. Church During World War I, 19181919. Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, New York. Used with permission of Ann Cooper, Churchs granddaughter. Letters dated July 27 and July 30, 1918, from the August 21, 1918, Flushing (N.Y.) Daily Times. Also WWR 15: Field Messages 28th Infantry Regiment. Churchs letters about Marvin Stainton found in the Marvin Stainton Papers. Also The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 44.

Cibulka, John. Cibulkas account of the Battle of Soissons ran in the La Crosse (Wisc.) Tribune and Leader-Press, January 12, 1919.

Cook, George Dwight. George D. Cook, ROQC. Biographical material from Ellenville (N.Y.) Journal, Sept. 12, 1918.

Cox, Paul Greenwood. Biographical material from Adams and Girton, The History and Achievements of the Fort Sheridan Officers Training Camps.

Dacus, Herman S. Dacuss 1984 reminiscences about the battles of Cantigny, Soissons, and the Meuse-Argonne come from letters to Ed Burke, executive director of the Society of the First Division, copies of which were provided to the author by Colonel Stephen L. Bowman, author of A Century of Valor. Used with permission of Dacuss niece, Marianne Moriarty. Further Dacus material comes from The World War 1 Veterans Survey Collection, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.