Selection of Camp Meade Site--Cantonment Construction
Building Progresses--Home Leaving Preparations.

CHAPTER III.

"YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW"
Officers at Fort Niagara--Assignment of Officers
Barrack org.--New Soldiers Arrive.

CHAPTER IV.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Description of Barracks--A Day's Routine--Getting
Catalogued--Inoculations and Drills--Soldiers Arrive
and Leave.

CHAPTER V.

LEARNING TO BE A SOLDIER
First Non-Commissioned Personnel--Effects of
Transfers--Schools--Hikes--Athletics--Idle Hours.

CHAPTER VI.

FLEETING HOURS OF LEAVE
Holiday Season Approaches--Thanksgiving Feast Practice
Marches--Barrack 0103--Christmas 1917.

CHAPTER VII.

WELL GROOMED BY DETAIL
Stable Police--Inspections--Staff Changes.

CHAPTER VIII.

BATTERY PROGRESS
Formal Retreat--Quarantine--Celebration--Rumors. Baltimore
Parade--West Elkridge Hike.

CHAPTER IX.

FAREWELL TO CAMP MEADE
Getting Ready--Advance Detail--Departure.

CHAPTER X.

ABOARD THE S. S. MORVADA
Set-Sailing--Coastland Appears--Halifax Harbor--Convoy
Assembles.

CHAPTER XI.

DODGING SUBMARINES
Ocean Journey Starts--Transport Life--Sub Scares. Destroyers
Delayed--Battle With Subs.

CHAPTER XII.

A ROYAL WELSH RECEPTION
Barry, South Wales--Parade--His Majesty's Letter. English
Rail Journey.

CHAPTER XIII.

A BRITISH REST CAMP
Crowded Tenting--English Mess--A Rainy Hike. Off for
Southampton--Flight Across the Channel.

CHAPTER XIV.

"SO THIS IS FRANCE!"
Cherbourg--A Battery Bath--Side-Door Pullmans. Montmorillon.

CHAPTER XV.

WHITE TROOPS INVADE MONTMORILLON
Racial Difficulties--French Billets--Impressions. The
Gartempe.

CHAPTER XVI.

ACTIVE TRAINING AT LA COURTINE
To La Courtine--French Artillery Camp--Russian Revolt--Life
on the Range--Sickness--Casualties.

CHAPTER XVII.

NOVEMBER 11th AT LA COURTINE
November 7th--November 11th--Celebration--Farewell
Banquet--Ville Sous La Ferte--Fuel Details--Delayed Departure.

CHAPTER XVIII.

MUD AND BLANCHEVILLE
Mud and Rats--Historic Monteclair--Thanksgiving 1918--Candle
Mystery--Sick Horses Arrive.

CHAPTER XIX.

AN ADVENTUROUS CONVOY
Belgian Trip Proposed--100 Volunteers--Remount 13--Convoying
Mules--Christmas 1918.

CHAPTER XX.

ON THE ROAD TO BENOITE VAUX
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