Word: funston
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been stated by a military expert that the 89th division, trained at Camp Funston by General Wood, made the best record of any national army division in France...
General Wood left last night for Camp Funston, Kansas, where he is now in command...
...transfer of General Wood from Funston to San Francisco, that is to say, from the line to an office position, is an aggravating bit of news to all University...
...affections, first, by his establishment of the Plattsburg Camps and his propaganda for national service for all; second, by his winning personality; and third, by his interest in all Harvard activities and more especially in the Harvard regiments of the last few years. When the General was sent to Funston we were chagrined; we had expected that he would be one of the first to lead American troops in France. We were disappointed there; instead of going abroad with one of the Regular Army divisions General Wood was given command of Camp Funston and charged with training forty thousand civilians...
Gorgas reports the plumbing often defective, no base hospitals completed except at Funston, and winter overcoats issued to only a small number of men. The report reads like an account of the Spanish-American War camps, where so many thousands were killed by disease. A repetition of those days seems impossible, but we must see to it that our camps are clean, that men are not sent in herds of six thousand to places where no one is ready for them, as recently occurred at New Rochelle. The nation is willing to give its manhood up to face bullets...