land Infantry. The Sanitary detachment was formed from the Sani-
tary detachments of the District of Columbia Field Artillery, Cavalry
and Maryland Field Artillery. When it was formed the Regiment was
commanded by Colonel Washington Bowie, Jr., who was the commanding
officer of the Fifth Maryland Infantry, and Captain Barnes C. Graham,
Adjutant of the Fifth Maryland Infantry, as Adjutant. Of the so....
called District of Columbia National Guard, over one-half were actual
citizens of Maryland who lived in the vicinity of Washington; hence, the
organization was to all intents and purposes a Maryland organization.
The personnel was of unusually high type, with the result that this
Regiment furnished over one hundred officers, as well as three hundred
enlisted men who were specialists of various kinds, all of these being
transferred to other organizations and were replaced chiefly by trans-
fers from regular army units.

The Regiment Bailed overseas on the 28th of June, 1918. It landed
at Liverpool, England, on the 5th of'July, 1918, proceeded to Southamp-
ton, there crossed the English Channel on the night of July 16th at
Cherbourg, France. It proceeded to Poitiers, France, arriving on July
20th, 1918, and remained until August 27th; in the meanwhile having
been equipped with French horses, harness and the French 76 MM
guns. The unit then proceeded to Camp DeMeucon, where its training
in firing the French cannon was completed, and on the 12th of Oc-
tober, 1918, was ordered to the front for the Meuse-Argonne operation.

The Regiment was part of the artillery reserve of the Fifth Corps
in the attack of November 1st, 1918, which broke through the German
lines and which was the immediate cause of the armistice.

The commanding officer, operations, and intelligence departments
of the Regiment were detached on October 28th and assigned for duty
with the 7th Field Artillery, which supported the Second Division in
the attack of November 1st to 7th.

After the armistice the unit immediately rejoined the 28th Division
and returned from France on May 23rd, 1919, and was mustered out of
service on June 2nd, 1919. It was one of two units in the entire 29th
Division whose commanding officers did not change during the entire
war.

In an efficiency teat conducted at Camp DeMeucon Battery E, com-
manded by Captain Gustavus Ober, Jr., was selected to fire the first
shot from the 54th Field Artillery Brigade.

NOTE.A sketch of the 110th Field Artillery was inadvertently
omitted from the 1921 Manual when the other World War units were
presented and hence is included in this edition.