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...Hungarian antifascist, Habe enlisted in France's 21st Foreign Volunteers at the outbreak of the war. In May 1940 his regiment, stationed in Alsace, was ordered west. In Ardennes they held the front entrusted to them for three weeks, then joined the general retreat. A little south of Domrémy, on June 21, they received orders to lay down their arms; France had sued for armistice. Habe was then captured by Germans, was imprisoned with 22,000 other troops at Dieuze, escaped in August into Unoccupied France...
...Harvard regiment, open to any student, was formed to 1916 under the direction of Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., who was detailed to Cambridge at the urgent request of President Abbot Lawrence Lowell. He supervised the first R. O. T. C. courses given here, but most of the actual instruction was by regular Harvard professors, such as Professor Julian Lowell Cooldige '95, who retired a year ago as Master of Lowell House. These professors had received training during the previous summer at Plattsburg, and were considered qualified to give military instruction...
Said Lincoln to the Sixth Massachusetts, who had fought their way through Baltimore: "I don't believe there is any North. The Seventh Regiment is a myth. You are the only Northern realities." Next day reinforcements began to pour...
...Soldiers Come to Town. The War Department did not know what to do with them. "Every regiment was greeted like an unexpected guest." Tents, cots, blankets, clothing, stoves, were immediately needed on a scale "beyond the wildest imagination of the functionaries." The War Department had almost no arms, issued modernized Revolutionary flintlocks...
...Washington's prayers for soldiers had been answered with a vengeance." The Fire Zouaves, a regiment of New York firemen, just took what they wanted. When they met a pig in the streets, they ate it. They bought shoes at a fashionable bootery, charged them to President Lincoln. Dinner, transportation, cigars they charged to President Davis. They also chased secessionists and old ladies...