105th Field Signal Battalion Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: 105th Field Signal Battalion Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: 105th Field Signal Battalion, Major S.C. Van Deuse, commanding, Camp Sevier, S.C., March 1st, 1918
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105th Field Signal Battalion Camp Sevier, South Carolina, 1918
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Camp Sevier sat on the edge of Greenville, South Carolina, in 1918, when the Army used it as a training cantonment for soldiers drawn largely from the Carolinas and Tennessee. The 30th Division, a National Guard formation nicknamed "Old Hickory," trained there before shipping to France, and the 105th Field Signal Battalion was one of its support units, learning to lay telephone wire and carry messages under battlefield conditions. Greenville was a textile and railroad town, with cotton mills along the Reedy River and rail lines carrying goods and troops through the Piedmont. Many young men from nearby mill villages and farms passed through the camp that year, and the war reshaped city life through Liberty Bond drives, rationing, and the influenza outbreak that swept through crowded army camps in the autumn.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | richards film service |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,550 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | 105th Field Signal Battalion, Major S.C. Van Deuse, commanding, Camp Sevier, S.C., March 1st, 1918 |
| Reference | SC 1918 105th Field Signal Battalion Camp Sevier |
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