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Three months after the November 11, 1918 cease-fire, on January 29, 1919, Base Hospital No. 116 ceased operating and turned over its patients and plant to Base Hospital No. 79. Its staff returned to America in March sailing from St. Nazaire March 28, 1919, on the Turrialba; arrived at Hoboken, N. J., April 13, 1919, and were demobilized shortly ...
American Base Hospital No. 1 was organized in Bellevue Hospital, NYC in September 1916. After the United States entered the war in April 1917 its soldiers, as part of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), began to arrive France later that year. To deal with casualties the AEF would take they set a series of hospitals throughout Europe.
General of the Armies John Pershing, served as Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France, of which over 2 million American soldiers served. The first American troops arrived to Europe in June 1917 at a slow rate, but by the Summer of 1918, the rate had skyrocketed to 10,000 soldiers arriving each day.
Note: an asterisk (*) denotes a civilian hospital temporarily commandeered by the Union Army. Baxter General Hospital, Burlington, Vermont (1865) Brown General Hospital; Freedman's Hospital; Camp Letterman, an extensive field hospital used to treat the wounded after the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863; McDougall Hospital, Westchester, New York ...
Base Hospital No. 20, located in Châtel-Guyon, France, was one of the hundreds of Base Hospitals created to treat soldiers wounded during the First World War. It was created in 1916 by the University of Pennsylvania and served the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) until 1919.
At age 19, answering the call for soldiers after Fort Sumter was attacked in 1861, he enlisted in the Massachusetts Infantry, "unaware of what was to come," as Ryan writes in a brief summary.
The soldier's barracks totaled 611 two-story buildings in which 60 men could reside in. Camp Merritt had 165 mess halls, 40 military officer’ quarters, 27 administration buildings, 4 fire stations, 93 hospital buildings, and many more. [13] Also on the camp were four YMCA buildings and American Red Cross buildings. In the spring of 1918 the ...
After the war ended and the soldiers returned home, tensions were very high, with serious labor union strikes involving black strikebreakers and inter-racial riots in major cities. The summer of 1919 was the Red Summer with outbreaks of racial violence killing about 1,000 people across the nation, most of whom were black.