They Called Them Soldier Boys : a Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I.

By:

Ball, Gregory W

Material type: Text

TextSeries: War and the SouthwestPublication details: Denton : University of North Texas Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781574415117
1574415115
157441500X
9781574415001

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: They Called Them Soldier Boys : A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I.DDC classification:

940.41273

LOC classification:

UA474 .B35 2013

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Contents:

List of Illustrations; List of Maps and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Recruiting the 7th Texas Infantry; Chapter 2 -- A Portrait of the 7th Texas Infantry; Chapter 3 -- Camp Bowie and France; Chapter 4 -- "Fit to Get Down to Serious Business"; Chapter 5 -- The Western Front, October 6-13, 1918; Chapter 6 -- The Western Front, October 13-30, 1918; Chapter 7 -- "Bad Enough at the Best"; Chapter 8 -- Coming Home and the War's Legacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: They Called Them Soldier Boys offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas National Guard's Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, journey to France, combat, and their return home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the fourteen counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment's soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties compared with the rest of the state in terms of political, social, and economic attitudes. Through the use of Selective Service Registration cards, a sample of 1,096 members of the regimen.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

They Called Them Soldier Boys offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas National Guard's Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, journey to France, combat, and their return home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the fourteen counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment's soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties compared with the rest of the state in terms of political, social, and economic attitudes. Through the use of Selective Service Registration cards, a sample of 1,096 members of the regimen.

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