Citizens Military Training Camp - Sentinel Yearbook (Fort Sheridan, IL)

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THE SENTINEL CAMP IIo1.1.1DAx' IN 1028 EARLY CAMPS AT FORT SHERIDAN Fort Sheridan is an historical center of voluntary military training. Camps of this kind for students were held at Gettysburg, Pa.,and at the Presidio of Monterey, Cal., in 1913. Similar camps were administered at Ashville, -N. C., Burlington, Vt., Ludington, Mich., and again at Monterey in 1914. In the following year special provision was made for business and professional men at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., at Ludington, Mich., at American Lake, Wash., at the Presidio of San Francisco, and at Fort Sheridan. The latter camp was held from September 2O to October 17, 1915 under the command of Colonel lVm. bl. Nicholson, and enrolled many men who are now prominent in the social, business and professional life of Chicago and the Middle West. Graduates of these camps and of others which were held the following year at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., Fort Terry, N. Y., Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and Fort Douglas, Utah, in addition to those named above, formed the Military Training Camps Association and im- mediately developed far-reaching plans for voluntary military training throughout the country. lt effected a wide-spread organization with local representatives and secured the favor of Congress to a program of training centers in 1917 under the supervision as heretofore of the War Department. When this country was drawn into the Wiorld lVar, these plans were found most useful in the inauguration of officers' training camps through- out the United States. The First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan had a program of three months, from the middle of May to the middle of August in 1917. Like the earlier camp of IQIS, it was under the command of Colonel Nicholson, assisted by a staff of Regular Army Officers. The roster shows the presence of ten Infantry companies, three batteries of Field Artillery and one troop of Cavalry in the Ioth Provisional Regiment, and the same units for the Illll Provisional Regiment, together with two companies of lfingineers, who after five weeks at Fort Sheridan were transferred to Fort Leavenworth for the rest of their training. The Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan was under the command of Colonel James A. Ryan, and this period of training was from August 27th to November 27tl1, 1917. It is interesting to note tl1at many OHTICCFS who helped in the administration of these two training camps at Fort Sheridan in IQI7 have had intimate connection with the Citizens' Military Training Camps of the past eight years. Young men of the CMTC who have the good fortune to enroll at Fort Sheridan may take just pride, not merely in the delightful site of their training center, its excellent equip- ment and personnel, but perhaps to an even greater degree in the historic and sacred association of this place with the high sense of patriotism and service which inspired the men who were trained here years ago. Pagf N1'r1r'ly-111'm' . . -1. . . . . . . .v.v.v.v. . . . .v. . . . . . .vs .v.v.v.v.v.vvv.vvvvv.v.v.v.v- .v.v.v.v.vvv. .n

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THE SENTINEL MAJOR GENERAL CHASPSUMMERALL MAJOR CHIEF OF STAFE ADDRESSING THE CHIEF OF INFANTRY WITH COLONEL CANDIDATES AT CAMP HOLLIDAY SHAW INSPECTS THE C M T C COLONEL NOBLE B. JUDAH, U. S. UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO AMBASSADOR TO CUBA, MAKES A COMMITTEE .SPENT A DAY WITH PERSONAL TOUR OF THE CAMP DR. Gfn. GARNSEY, cIvaL WAR VETERAN, AT THE. c M T C Review HELD IN Hls HONOR 1g0 -11 1'1