Kansas and Kansans in World War I : Service at Home and Abroad / Blake A. Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Blake A., 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Kansas.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Kansas.

World War, 1914-1918--War work--Kansas.

World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States.

Kansas--History, Military--20th century.

Kansas.

Kansas. National Guard--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2024]

Summary:

"According to the American Battle Monuments Commission, approximately 80,000 Kansans served in the US armed forces during World War I. In Kansas and Kansans in World War I, Blake Watson helps readers understand how World War I affected Kansas and its residents, and how Kansans in turn had an impact on the outcome of the Great War. Through thorough and extensive use of letters, newspapers, and other documents, Watson brings individual soldiers' service to life, using their own words to describe their attitudes and experiences. Watson also looks at Kansans' service and support on the home front, chronicling Kansans' participation in initiatives such as Liberty Loan bonds, newspapers' publication of military service honor rolls and soldiers' letters from abroad, and the xenophobia and hysteria that confronted Mennonites--who were pacifists--and German Americans"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

1916

1. The President Comes to Topeka

2. Oskaloosa Forms a National Guard Company

3. The Kansas National Guard at the Mexican Border

1917

4. "Today We Stand behind the Nation's Chosen Leader"

5. The Army Draft and "Fatal Number 258"

6. Kansas "Rainbow" Guardsmen

7. Camp Funston

8. Camp Doniphan

9. The Kansas Home Front, 1917

10. First in France

1918

11. Victory at Cantigny

12. Belleau Wood

13. Rocks of the Marne

14. Death in the Trenches

15. Saint-Mihiel and the Eighty-Ninth Division

16. Meuse-Argonne and the Thirty-Fifth Division

17. Meuse-Argonne and the Thirty-Fifth Division

18. Meuse-Argonne and the Eighty-Ninth Division

19. Black Kansas Soldiers

20. Medals of Honor

21. The Kansas Home Front, 1918

22. Prisoners of War and the YMCA

1919-2024

23. The Kansas Home Front after the War

24. The Boys of Company B: William Davis, Victor Segraves, Ralph Nichols, and Samuel Gutschenritter

25. The Boys of Company B: William Smith, William Kimmel, Theodore Blevins, and Melvin Dyson

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780700637423

0700637427

OCLC:

1430660725