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Nov 13, 2018 · Recruits receive instruction at Camp Gordon, Georgia, on March 4, 1918. / U.S. National Archives. The armistice declaring the end of World War I, on the "11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" of 1918, was signed 100 years ago. Georgia contributed more than 100,000 men and women to the war effort, according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- War Sentiment in Georgia
- The Declaration of War and The Selective Service Act
- Federal Installations and War Camps
- The Otranto Disaster
- Influenza
- Remembering The War
As newspaper headlines around the world reported the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, Georgia papers paid very little attention to the news. The assassination provoked an immediate response from several European countries, however, all of whom were concerned about the growing politica...
On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany, thereby entering World War I. For about two years, Georgia’s newspapers had been writing against the war because of its negative impact on the state’s economy, yet almost overnight the media changed their tune, becoming anti-German and strongly patriotic. War fervor in Georgia sometimes r...
The state had five major federal military installations when the United States entered the war in 1917. The oldest garrison was Fort McPherson, located south of Atlanta, which opened in 1889; the newest was Fort Oglethorpe, constructed near the Tennessee border just a few years after the Spanish-American Warin 1898. Fort Screven, a large coastal ar...
On the morning of September 25, 1918, about 690 doughboys (infantrymen), mostly Georgians from Fort Screven, boarded the old British liner Otranto, which set sail with a large Allied convoy bound for England. The Otranto was a medium-sized, prewar passenger liner that, like so many others, had been pressed into military service by the British Royal...
In late September 1918, new draftee replacements for the Fort Screven Coast Artillery units began reporting to the infirmary seriously ill. Within a few days, it became clear that the men had contracted the dreaded Spanish flu. On October 1 the number of ill at Augusta’s Camp Hancock jumped from 2 to 716 in just a few hours. The next day, Camp Gord...
Though the war would not officially end until belligerent nations signed the Treaty of Versailles the following year, hostilities ceased on November 11, 1918, when an armistice was reached between Germany and the Allied nations. In the months and years that followed, Americans attempted to commemorate the war in a variety of ways, establishing a na...
Paget was part of an Anglo-French expeditionary force now besieging the Russian naval base at Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula. Lord George was also brevet colonel and the head of the 4th Light Dragoons. It was about an hour before daybreak, and as usual the whole British Cavalry Division turned out and were standing by their horses.
Georgia was home to more training camps than any other state and 100,000 Georgia men and women contributed to the “War to End All Wars” after American entry on April 17, 1917, Today in Georgia History. When America entered World War I, Georgia entered a new era in which the military began to loom large in our state.
Georgia Memorial Database. This interactive database represents the latest effort to develop a comprehensive listing of those from Georgia that died in the service to their country during The Great War. The core of this listing is the original Georgia State Memorial Book, published in 1921. It contains the names and information for ...
Tsar Nicholas II Biography. Born on 18th May 1868 at Alexander Palace in Russia, Nicholas was related to several monarchs in Europe, including being cousins with King George V of Britain and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Nicholas and George looked uncannily similar. In 1894, Nicholas married Princess Alix of Hesse, one of Queen Victoria’s ...
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Aug 5, 2016 · Extensive military training activity took place in several camps around Georgia during World War I (1917-18). The state’s most important cantonment, or temporary training camp, was Camp Gordon near Atlanta, where war hero Alvin York of Tennessee trained. Troops from Camp Gordon and Camp Hancock in Augusta also played critical roles in the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive, […]
