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...Landshut, the 16th Infantry Regiment posted a rogues gallery of all German women in the vicinity known to be infected with venereal disease. Reason: the V.D. rate for the Army in Germany had soared to 305 cases for every 1,000 soldiers-a new high...
...Brigade. Among the first was Cornelius Krieghoff, adventuring son of a Dutch wallpaper manufacturer, who fought for the U.S. in the Indian wars and then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company...
...Annihilation. His message was soon clear enough. The dashing young general, hoping to envelop Crazy Horse, had split his regiment into three parts. But there had been a "sad and terrible" mixup. One part of the 7th had been attacked before the others joined it. It had been annihilated. The other two had then been heavily engaged, until the Sioux broke off and retreated victoriously toward the Big Horn Mountains...
...regiment's vanguard, 500 strong, was shipped back to the U.S., the men had no idea what sort of welcome they would get. Fellow-soldiers knew they had proved themselves the hardest way of all, but would the folks at home know-or care...
Taking their risks with the rest were a regiment of ex-servicemen. They had joined companies in force, and they had established at least three companies of their own:1) the Bridgeton (Maine) Playmakers, who brashly announced that they would have a Broadway hit this fall -Take a Treaty, a "political comedy" by "an official connected with the United Nations"; 2) The New York 54th Street Theater Company, a nonprofit experimental playhouse which announced an eight-week classic repertory season in Noroton, Conn, (first bill: Moliere's Georges Dandin and Goldoni's Mistress of the Inn); 3) Griffin...