Jefferson Barracks Citizens Military Camps - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Lemay, MO)

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1 X9 f l CMTC STUDENT HEADED FOR WEST POINT if THE JFEFFERSONIAN O From CMTC to West Point! training camp season tolls around 0 .When the 1927 it will find DeLoss H Miller of Com an UI 7 . ' n 7 p Y , CII- fOllCCif?i1a cadet IH the Un1ted.States NIilitary Academy. , d1h?f, Whose home is in Bloomington, Ill., re- Slve 13 3Pl201f1fII1entC from United States Senator 19312iCi1fEiX2tEncJ2luvIKll.l enter The Point with the class of This .Fall he started his sophomore year at YVent- WOfQh M1l1t3fY AC21ClCmy, Lexington, Mo. In this Year s camp at Jefferson Barracks he was enrolled as 3 Blue course student, and his work with Company I demonstrated to the regular arm ofhcers of that . . Y outfit .that he-has the qualifications to fit him for a commission. I 'During the World War, his father, F. A. Miller . g qvvv I- was general divisional superintendent of the Y. M. C. Ai in Paris. Miller is a sandy-haired, clear-eyed young- DELoss H. MILLER , ster, keenly interested in military work and he has M j C ' . chosen the army for his life's career. 7 Yes, I ll be doing it' at West Point a year from now he admitted modestl when he was questioned about his plans for entering the United7States Military Acadeiiiy. He is now 19 years old. ' p CMTC FATHER LAUDS CAMP Followinga visit to his son,David H. Snell, Ir., of Washington, IQl., Mr. David H. Snell wrote the following letter tothe Editor of the Washington Reporter. ' In a letter to Colonel Falls he extended his thanks to the ofhcers of the CMTC for the courtesies which he received upon his visit to the camp. He added that he was also writing his congressman to commend the work of the camp. ' Editor Reporter, Dear Sir: A Last week I made a trip to see ourWashington boys at the CIWTC for this dis- trict,and if any of the folks think our national training system is not efficient a trip to Jefferson Barracks will surely change their mind. The dining or mess hall handles about 3ooo boys in thirty minutes. and they all come away satisfied. I I expect every mother of a growing boy realizes what that means. These kitchens are as clean as any home-could be kept, all food is cooked under high' pressure steam, and a boy who does not come away from the camp a better prospective American citizen is surely a hopeless case. We found the oflicers courteous and willing to explain any of our questions and the patience they show in training our boys is a revelation to anyone who has heard of the hard boiled regular army officer. ' . l The idea of these camps is not so much toward the military. goose stepuas to create a conscientious body of better American citizens with the' rudiments of military tactics, in order to have a starting point for good military organizations in case of war. ' The boys are allowed to go to St. Louis for algood time. when off duty, but. the places they can go are restricted and there are hlilitary Police at all danger points, physical or moral, to see that these restrictions are observed, in fact, the average boy is far better guarded in all respects than. he could be at home. v If you folks could just see the workings of these camps run byUncle Sam,places in them would be at a premium. You would want your boy to get this training, physical and mental, for which many of our wealthy people pay tuition and board in private camps and get a whole lot less in every way, but to the boys who can gp to these I camps, maintainence, medical attention, uniform and transportation are ree. l The nucleus of an army is not a threat of War but the best insurance against War, we do not want a war, any more than we want a fire but we carry hre insurance. Respectfully, DAVID H. SNELL, SR. Page Om' Hzuzdred N1'm'tfw1 vvvv' Yv 'V v i I 'han:0.10.44ooA44annunAasanuVnVoYA ovnvavavfovpvuvtvovsvivnVHa'A'nva'a'o'u'Avh'Avnvovavl'b! . . . U

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THE'jEFFERSONIANI Black Hawk and his principal lieutenants were taken as hostages and brought to Jefferson Barracks. Most historians, though not all, say that the detachment that con- ducted him was in charge of Lieutenant Jefferson Davis, whose name, equally with Lin- coln's, was in the mouths of all not very many years later. . In'1836 the Sixth Infantry left the Barracks to take part in the Seminole War, and in 1842 the entire regiment returned from Florida, having lost ten officers and one hundred twenty-nine men out of two hundred twenty-one. The survivors went to Fort Towson, Chockaw Nation, and, after a lapse of over half a century, are now again at the old post which the unit helped to establish. After the close of the war in 1835, a regiment of dragoons was added to the army for service against the western Indians and it was organized here at Jefferson Barracks. Since 1861, it has been known as the First Regiment of Cavalry. Its first adjutant was Jefferson Davis. f'Among the many other units that have been stationed here are the Fourth Infantry, also fresh from the Seminole War, one of whose oflicers was Lieutenant Longstreet, after- wards a general in the Confederate army, and the Third Infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel Hitchcock, which was brigaded with the Fourth and organized into a school for brigade drill under command of Colonel Stephen W. Kearney, gaining the reputation of being the best-drilled troops in the United States army. During the Mexican War, many troops were fitted out here, including the 1,200 volunteers asked from the State of Missouri and the so-called 'Kangaroo Regiment', a humorous designation of a regiment of mounted rifiemen now known as the Third Cavalry. Un its next appearance at the Barracks, July 24, 1848, it had left eighteen officers and four hundred twenty-two men in Mexico. It was atjefferson Barracks that Captain Braxton Bragg, afterward a general in the Confederate army, reorganized his famous battery that virtually saved the day at Buena Vista. This was where General Taylor is said to have said, 'Give them a little more grape, Captain Bragg', although the old general afterwards remarked that what he really did say was 'Captain, give them helll' Here also, was organized the Second Cavalry, known as fjefferson Davis' Peti, under command of Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston. It is now the Fifth Cavalry. The roster of officers read like a history of the Civil war, embracing Robert E. Lee, lieutenant colonel, William Hardee, W. T. Thomas, Earl Van Dorn and E. Kirby Smith, majors. In April, 1861,when it was feared that Missouri would secede, all arms and equip- mentin the St. Louis arsenal were removed here for safety. In Nfay of the same year, the Old Thirteenth Infantry was reorganized here with Ivilliam T. Sherman as its colonel, and Philip H. Sheridan asone of the captainsf' Mr. Bostwick tnen traced the history of the post on through the post war period up to the Spanish war, when part of the Eleventh Infantry, the Twelfth Infantry and parts of the First and Third Cavalry regiments were stationed here. In 1906, use of the post as a recruit depot began. In 1917, on our entry into the Great War, thousands of recruits were assembled here and a special cantonment was constructed to provide shelter, he added. In 1921, when recruiting ceased, the post was abolished as a recruiting center and the Sixth Infantrv was ordered to garrison the Barracks, the regiment, minus four companies, marching overland from Camp Jackson, S. C. - 1 i It is an interesting fact, Mr. Bostwick concluded, Hthat almost all the great names of American history have been in some way connected with Jefferson Barracks. General U. S. Grant, as a subaltern, was stationed at Jefferson Barracks at some time between 1840 and 1850. Generals Brull, Hancock and Fremont were also here at that period. Among the Confederate leaders we have such names as Longstreet, Ewell, Pope and Hood. Page One Huvzdrfd Eiglztemz .v.v.vmv.v.vmv.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v v v v v v v 1 ,M,,,.,.,.,.wwwvwyvalvmnvmvmvwimmmnwvA 0 0

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Q THE JEFFERSONIAN L if CHOW TIME Chow time -and what memories! First, the great gray stone building into which three times each day poured the long lines of hungry youth, a building so large and so commodious that all of the one thousand five hundred boys could be seated at one time. And what a sight it was at mess time! Row after row of freshly polished tables, cups, plates, pitchers, and all the other tableware in orderly array, lined up in true soldierly fashion, dressed in ranks and covered in file . Approximately 135,000 meals were served in that spacious dining hall during the CMT Camp,and served so rapidly and efficiently that it seemed no task at all. This meant the planning, preparing and serving of some 4,500 meals each day-seven days a week- and only those familiar with such an undertaking can realize what an enormous job it was. Eight big ranges, six huge triple-section warming ovens, a 200-pound dough machine for rolls, a potato-peeling machine, and a battery of refrigerators and big coffee urns con- stituted only part of the equipment required of the kitchen, which was in charge of two chefs aided by twelve assistant cooks. You remember, fellows, how we were seated: thirty boys at each table, with four tables for Battery CH, four for each of the advanced companies- A , HE , and I , and six tables for each of the Basic companies with 250 men. There was one waiter for each thirty boys, and you recall what a busy young chap he was trying to keep us all supplied with chow. ' You recall, too, how we used to march into the big mess hall and take our places at the tables, awaiting the word which opened the general offensive on the steaming stacks of food. And boy, weren't we ready for the command to be seated! Every dish, every knife, fork and spoon every pot and pan used in that huge culinary plant was washed and sterlized without being touched by human hands. The dishes wecrledpilegl in stacks and placed in a sterlizing machine, fromiwhich they emerged washed an rie . rFHE Mnss GANG Page Om' Hundred Twenty ' ' vvvmmmvvwvmvsvvnvivvnnngqgywmy sfo 'svn' vovtvuvc A A o nv 'V B . . . . . A A A Q A O 0