A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

1,000 Men For Border.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 9, 1912:
The Thirteenth Cavalry Receives Definite Orders to Go There.
JUNCTION CITY, Kan., Sept. 8.— Final orders directing the Thirteenth Cavalry to proceed to the Mexican border were received to-day by Col. Charles Hatfield, commander of the regiment. The regiment will leave Fort Riley on Thursday for El Paso in a special train. The entire regiment will go, including headquarters, three squadrons of cavalry, a machine gun platoon, and the regimental band, in all nearly 1,000 men.
The men are hardened for service, having returned to Fort Riley only a few days after having taken part in the manoeuvres in Kansas.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, September 9, 2012

1,000 Men For Border.

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