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...among them especially in the 101st Engineers, the old First Corps Cadets, and in the 101st and 102nd Field Artillery, having been transferred from the old Battery A. They were not less spirited than their senior officers. A good example is Captain H. Frothingham, commander of Co. F, 104th Infantry. An old football player, he used to go into battle as if he were going into a Yale game. For gallant conduct while under fire, he was promoted to a captaincy. He would have made a success in any army, and there were many other Harvard men just like...
...Before this country entered the war, he was a first lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of the National Guard. This regiment was called into national service on March 25, 1917, and later, in August, it was combined with the Eighth Massachusetts to form what is now the regular 104th United States Infantry, of the 26th Division. This division left for France soon afterward, and was assigned to the Chemin-des-Dames sector. It bore the brunt of all the fighting in the vicinity of Chateau-Thierry, and was later transferred to the Toul sector...