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

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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, Nort...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ball, Gregory W.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Denton : University of North Texas Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
United States. > Army. > Infantry Regiment, 142nd.
Texas. > National Guard. > Infantry Regiment, 7th.
Texas. > National Guard. > Infantry Regiment, 7th > History.
United States. > Army. > Infantry Regiment, 142nd > History.
Regimental histories.
Military campaigns.
HISTORY > Military > World War I.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Histoire des unites > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Campagnes et batailles > France.
World War, 1914-1918 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > France.
United States.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781574415117

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