A Short History of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. Soldiers in World War I (1. In researching the history of. Brookline soldiers in the First World War, old editions of the Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh. and Western Pennsylvania soldiers in that Great War. It is a revealing. It is a part of Pittsburgh history that has. It has been. recreated here after so many years in hiding. The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan, 1917, complete HTML text, English literature, novel. Lest We Forget Anzac Gallipoli WWI World War One war careers Bert, Vern, Percy and Viv Smythe describing their experiences from 1914 to 1919. PHOENISSAE, 1 TRANSLATED BY FRANK JUSTUS MILLER DRAMATIS PERSONAE. OEDIPUS, late king of Thebes. ANTIGONE, daughter of Oedipus, constant to him in his misfortunes. The SACP is a partner in the Tripartite Alliance consisting of the African National Congress and the Congress of South African Trade Union. A Very British Civil War; 4Ground; A Fistful Of Kung Fu. The documentary covers the work of. Pennsylvania National Guard's 2. Keystone Division and the infantry regiments and artillery. SENECA THE YOUNGER was a Latin playwright and philosopher who flourished in Rome in the late C1st A.D. New International Version They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem's house and left. New Living Translation including Hamor and his. Read the full text of The Times article or other headlines from the day. WORLD IN FLAMES, 6TH . Includes 5 maps, countersheets 1-6. Pittsburgh men. It also follows the 8. Blue Ridge Division, made up of men drafted into service from. Western Pennsylvania area, the 1. Engineer Battalion, raised and trained in Pittsburgh. Base Hospital No. University of Pittsburgh. The story takes the reader from the. United States to the battlefields of France. Pittsburgh soldiers were instrumental in several. Second Battle of the Marne, the Battle of Soissons and the Argonne- Meuse Offensive. At the time of America's entry into World. War I, Pittsburgh was the eighth largest city in the United States. It was. an unrivaled industrial giant. From factory output at home, to the foot. Army hospitals. Pittsburgh did as much as any other city or state in helping to bring the. Great War to a successful conclusion for the Allies. When the guns ceased firing and the. Pittsburgh came home, 5. Many of our Pittsburgh boys remained in France, buried. United States of America to help preserve freedom and rid the world of. This story, written by John V. Hanlon. of the Pittsburgh Press, documents these achievements and is presented below. Sunday Press a century ago. There were four missing. The gaps in the text are unfortunate. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. There are some additions and images. Mount Washington nurse that served in. France and a Somerset native that spent four months in German captivity. Yohn(Copyright, 1. Pittsburgh Press)Sources And References< > < >. Additional Reading on Western. PA Troops during the War. Such a history would have its opening. Emperor of the Germans. Long before the United States. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania were bleeding and dying on the. Hun. Turn where you would in stricken Belgium and bleeding, torn. France; in the plague- ridden Balkans; along the cold, barren wastes of. Russia or on the hot sands of far- off Egypt, wherever the crimson tides. They. pressed the cup of water to the fevered lips of Serb and Cossack and. Poilu and Tommy. When sudden death and destruction would pour from the. Pittsburgh. man was frequently at the helm of that battleship or in the. UNTOLD DEEDS OF HEROISMIt is very likely that some of. Many of. these deeds were unobserved and those who performed them made the. Their lips are forever sealed in the silence of. Perhaps had they lived the stories would have remained. And although many of these sons. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania had fought and died, winning for. Columbia unloosed the mighty hurricane of her wrath, nevertheless they. Anything. further would not be right for it could not give them that measure of. For this reason this resume of. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania soldiers in the. United States into the conflict. When the United States declared. Imperial German Government there. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania serving. There was hardly a unit of any size. ONE OF THE FIRST THREEOne of the first three men to. Uncle Sam and the enemy was a Pittsburgh lad, Private. Thomas Enright, of 6. Premo Street. He, together with Privates. James B. Graham, of Evansville, Indiana, and Merle D. Hay of Glidden. Iowa, headed the first honor roll of casualties which came home to. America from overseas. Private Enright had enlisted. Regular Army eight years before and had been assigned to. Company F, Sixteenth United States Infantry. The Germans had learned. Americans were holding this salient. Pershing’s forces then in France. It is recorded. in the data on that first fight that 2. Germans rushed the forty. Americans after the artillery preparation and in the hand- to- hand. Americans gave a good account of. It was a fight worthy of the best. The American casualties were. The German casualties. When the story of this first. Washington and was made public. The news brought. America the first distinct appreciation that her part in the. Thomas Francis. Enright. BURIAL OF PITTSBURGH HEROAnd this appreciation of. Pittsburgh, the home of one of. November day. They buried the three heroes. American troops and French. From the lines there. France wearing the insignia of a general. With tears streaming down his. Private Enright, Private Gresham and Private. Hay, and then in a voice husky and choked with emotion. In the name of France I. In the name of France I thank you. May God. receive your souls. Farewell.”Then he asked in the name. France that the mortal remains of these three young men be left. Here lie the First United. States Soldiers to Fall on French Soil for Liberty and. Justice.”As he finished there was a. French 7. 5s. manned by American artillerymen who sent a salvo of shells. German lines and with every shell there went a. And the names of Privates. Enright, Gresham and Hay will have a special and distinguished. The French will see to that for they already. Hun first met the men of that nation which was. The remains of Private. Thomas Enright were eventually brought back to the United States. He. is buried in Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery, Lawrenceville. A WAR OF METAL AND METTLEAnd this is where. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania was first brought to a true. The story. of Private Enright and his comrades but strengthened that grim. As there was scarcely a. Regular Army which did not carry the. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania men upon its. Republic, so it is. Uncle Sam has. created, for Pittsburgh brains and brawn and bravery were found. War or Navy departments carried on their. Thousands of the most. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania to do for. For instance, it was. Pittsburgh chemists who strove night and day in gas research work. Germans with all their boasted. MAN LOCAL MEN COMMISSIONEDThrough every ramification of. Pittsburgh and. Western Pennsylvania toiled through all the weary months when our. Central Empires with fear, internal dissensions and. Hundreds of highly trained. They were searched out and summoned to the most important tasks. Federal government. But it was not alone in. Pittsburgh. and Western Pennsylvania helped to make the world safe for. The Pittsburgh. district became the Arsenal of America in many respects. To this. great manufacturing section where steel is king the nation looked. Here was. planned the huge ordnance plant which was to have furnished the. Berlin. To those who served in the. The thousand glares which light the skies of night. Giant of the. Occident. Then it was that Pittsburgh. Western Pennsylvania resolved to drain the blood of manhood to. The lids of the treasure chests and strong. Columbia’s coffers. Then it was that the call went. Washington for men as well as munitions and money, and our. Pennsylvania Alleghenies depart for their training stations to secure. Hun from the very gates. Paris; to confound and demoralize and annihilate the very flower. German Soldiery; to break the armies of the Kaiser in twain at the. Argonne, and thus force the early ending of the Great War. Later came the selective. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania draftees the. Hun who ever wore the uniform of his overlord. And. the accomplishments of the selective service men who left the plow. Europe; who left peaceful homes for trenches. They were men with iron in their blood. The German horde. Grim. Destroyer. PRAISE FOR PITTSBURGH MENIt has always been the policy of. War Department since Columbia threw down the gage of battle to. This policy, no doubt, is a commendable one. Nevertheless, it has recently come to notice and from. Pennsylvania were. A great military leader of a foreign. The 2. 8th Division (Pennsylvania. National Guard) and the 8. Division (selective service men mostly. Western Pennsylvania) both became “Red” divisions - divisions. The 2. 8th Division is known to have. National Guard division in the United States. The casualties of. Western Pennsylvania regiments. Likewise, the 8. 0th Division became. But these facts will not surprise Western. Pennsylvanians, for their section of the state has given to our armies. Although ordinarily. William the Murderer was proud to boast of as his. The Gunners of an American. Battery, though reduced to two wounded men,keep their gun in action through a gas attack. UNSURPASSABLE MORALEThe spirit and morale of the. Western Pennsylvania soldiery in this war was characterized by the. The traditions of their. They were accustomed. America. They went to their training. German machine gun bullets was. They knew no such word. Keystone state had. In their creed to die was one. The folks at home already. Pennsylvania regiments. Hun. This statement does not mean. Americans who refused to face the. It does show, however, that those from Pittsburgh and. Western Pennsylvania lived up to every cherished tradition of their. In addition to the two. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania sent. The Marines claimed. Soldiers of the Sea”. The Navy and. Merchant Marine claimed other hundreds while the dangers of the. Tanks and Aviation tempted many more to forsake the ways of peace. A GLORIOUS CONTRIBUTIONAnd hundreds of men from this. Most of them passed. Army, Navy and Marine. Corps. The 7. 9th Division which. Camp Meade carried the names of about 3,0. Pittsburgh. and Western Pennsylvania men on it's muster rolls and the 8. Division. which trained at Camp Sherman, Ohio, also received men from the. Butler, Beaver, Lawrence and Washington. The Fifth (now the Fifteenth). Engineers which trained at Oakmont and which were one of the first. Pittsburgh, and. Pittsburgh likewise contributed the University of Pittsburgh Base. Hospital No. 2. 7, which included an Allegheny Hospital Unit, known as. Unit L. Taken all- in- all it was a. Pittsburgh and Western. Pennsylvania in stalwart manhood and it is predicted that when it.
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