Grateful acknowledgment is due to those who aided in the verification of all material used. Many of the battery members made suggestions that have been embodied in the text.
To A. Ernest Shafer, D. C., and Conrad A. Balliet, of Hazleton, Penna., belongs credit for information supplied covering periods when the author was on detached service from the battery. To Dr. Shafer acknowledgment is also due for the use of photographs from which a number of the illustrations have been reproduced.
From Prof. Fred H. Bachman, C. A. C., of Hazleton, Penna., who read over the manuscript, many valuable suggestions were received.
SOURCES OF THE DELTA World Events--The Nucleus--Declaration of War. U. S. Joins--Selective Service Plans.
A CAMP BELCHED FORTH Selection of Camp Meade Site--Cantonment Construction Building Progresses--Home Leaving Preparations.
"YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW" Officers at Fort Niagara--Assignment of Officers Barrack org.--New Soldiers Arrive.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS Description of Barracks--A Day's Routine--Getting Catalogued--Inoculations and Drills--Soldiers Arrive and Leave.
LEARNING TO BE A SOLDIER First Non-Commissioned Personnel--Effects of Transfers--Schools--Hikes--Athletics--Idle Hours.
FLEETING HOURS OF LEAVE Holiday Season Approaches--Thanksgiving Feast Practice Marches--Barrack 0103--Christmas 1917.
WELL GROOMED BY DETAIL Stable Police--Inspections--Staff Changes.
BATTERY PROGRESS Formal Retreat--Quarantine--Celebration--Rumors. Baltimore Parade--West Elkridge Hike.
FAREWELL TO CAMP MEADE Getting Ready--Advance Detail--Departure.
ABOARD THE S. S. MORVADA Set-Sailing--Coastland Appears--Halifax Harbor--Convoy Assembles.
DODGING SUBMARINES Ocean Journey Starts--Transport Life--Sub Scares. Destroyers Delayed--Battle With Subs.
A ROYAL WELSH RECEPTION Barry, South Wales--Parade--His Majesty's Letter. English Rail Journey.
A BRITISH REST CAMP Crowded Tenting--English Mess--A Rainy Hike. Off for Southampton--Flight Across the Channel.
"SO THIS IS FRANCE!" Cherbourg--A Battery Bath--Side-Door Pullmans. Montmorillon.
WHITE TROOPS INVADE MONTMORILLON Racial Difficulties--French Billets--Impressions. The Gartempe.
ACTIVE TRAINING AT LA COURTINE To La Courtine--French Artillery Camp--Russian Revolt--Life on the Range--Sickness--Casualties.