Captain George W. Dulany, Batter F, 126th Field Attillery (1st Iowa), Camp Cody

He was a member of the Minnesota National guard for five years, as a private. He was successively sergeant, second lieutenant and first lieutenant in the First Minnesota Field artillery, now part of the Sandstorm division. He was made captain of Company H, Fifty-third Infantry, National guards. This company became Battalion A, First Iowa Field artillery to be formed in Iowa since the Civil war. Captain Dulany was not with the battalion on the border last year, as he resigned in 1915 on account of the heavy demands being made upon him by his large business enterprises. This battalion eventually became the 126th Field artillery of Camp Cody, and Captain Dulany offered his service to the adjutant general of his state when the last call came, and was placed in command of Battery F. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Monday, November 5, 1917

Captain George W. Dulany – Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico – 1917

Lieutenant M. J. Sweeney Heads Camp Cody Quarter Master Detachment

During World War One Lt. Sweney supplied the army soldier at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, with clothing, food, and oversaw laundry supplies for bathing and disinfection. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Wednesday October 9, 1918

Lt. M .J. Sweeney Heads Camp Cody QM – Deming, New Mexico – 1918

Camp Cody vs El Paso District Army Team

Wanted – – – 14,999 People to Attend the Grand Foot Ball Carnival

In behalf of Soldiers Welfare and Recreation Committee

3 Hours of Solid Sport

El Paso High School vs Roswell High School and Camp Cody vs El Paso District Army Team

Thanksgiving Day, November29, 1917 Beginning at 2:00 pm

High School Stadium – Seating Capacity 15,000 – Smokes For the Boys in France

Boy Scout Organization & United Charities and High School

Admission 50 cents – School Children 25 cents

El Paso Herald Newspaper – November 24-25, 1917

Grand Foot Ball Carnival – Camp Cody vs El Paso Dist.

Guardsman Major Bitzing Heads Regulars’ Law Office In Camp Cody, Deming, NM

Major Henry R. Bitzing, judge advocate of the 34th division in Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico has the distinction of being the only national guard officer at the head of one of the regular military departments of this division, the rest of the department having regular army officers in charge.

Major Bitzing is a lawyer by profession, but along with his general practice in private life at his home in Mandan, North Dakota, he paid much attention to military affairs, having been judge advocate in the national guard of his state for years. On August 22 this year he was ordered to report to Camp Cody for his present position. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Friday, November 16, 1917

Major Bitzing Heads Regulars Law Office Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico 1917

Camp Cody’s Major Robert K. Alcott now with 134th infantry Overseas

News has been received by M. E. Alcott, of Alamogordo street, El Paso, of the safe arrival of his brother Major Robert K. Alcott, with the 134th infantry, overseas. The major’s wife is in California. She was with him at Deming, New Mexico when he was there with the 34th, “Sandstorm” division, organized at Camp Cody.

Major Alcott is a lawyer when he is at home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but he is a Spanish war veteran, with a Philippine record of two years and had the reputation of commanding the best drilled company of “dough boys” at Camp Cody, a unit of the old First Minnesota infantry, which was picked for all unusual military shows and escorts. This company, with the then Captain Alcott. Demonstrated tactics and drills to the officers’ training school at Camp Cody early this year. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – November 8, 1918

Major Robert K. Alcott – Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico 1917-1918

Sergeant Russel Ramange From Camp Cody Visits Mother Here

First Class Sergeant Russel Ramange, of motor School training unit number 326, stationed at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, who spent the last week end with his mother, Mrs. J. W. Ramage, on Louisville Street in El Paso, Texas. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – August 3, 1918

Sergeant Russel Ramange – Camp Cody,Deming, New Mexico

Jack Yellen, Camp Cody Minstrels and Uncle Sam’s Fighting Face

Jack Yellen

“I began writing songs when I was still in knickerbockers,” Mr. Yellen went on, “I usually got about $5 for a song. About five years ago I hit upon my first real success, “All Aboard for Dixie,” and sold it for $40/ The man who bought it from my partner and myself subsequently sold it for $5,000 to a publisher who had rejected the manuscript.

Uncle Sam’s Fighting Face

Drawing in El Paso Newspaper using WW1 aircraft to make Uncle Sam’s Face. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – September 19, 1917

Jack Yellen – Camp Cody Minstrels
Uncle Sam Fighting Face

The Sammies’ Sisters Visit Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico

Alberta and Lorene Davis, America’s girl buglers, “Heralds of Patriotism and Mercy,” commissioned by the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. to visit the camps throughout the country to bring cheer to the soldiers and sailors who have affectionately adopted them as “Sammies’ Sisters.” They arrived in El Paso Friday from Camp Cody and will appear at the base hospital, Y. M. C. A. and the army “Y” building at Fort Bliss today, Saturday and Sunday. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Friday, November 16, 1917

The Sammies’ Sisters After Visit To Camp Cody, NM

Brig. General Frank G. Mauldin is Now In Command at Camp Cody, Deming, NM

Brig. Gen Frank G. Mauldin, commanding Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico in the absence of Major General A. P. Blocksom, division commander. General Mauldin is a coast artilleryman and a soldier with a splendid record in the regular army. His Permanent command is the 59th field artillery brigade, now brigaded at Camp Cody. He is the ranking brigadier of the camp. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Monday, October 15, 1917

Brig. Gen Frank G. Mauldin,

Chaplain H. H. Kline is the Only Salvation Army Officer With Troops is at Camp Cody, New Mexico

Philippine Veteran; “Man Renovator”; Writer of Epigrams; Recruiter

When the 6th Nebraska Infantry came to Camp Cody it had the special distinction of having for the chaplain the only Salvation Army Army man ever made a chaplain in the United States army, so far as known here. This man is Lieutenant Harry Hollister Kline, as erect, virile, active man with gray hair and mustache, but now almost an orphan from a military point of view, for the old Sixth was broken into bits in the recent reorganization of the division, leaving its chaplain and some other officers temporarily adopted by the headquarters of the 59th depot brigade.

He served 14 months as a private and non-com. In the 1st California Infantry in the Philippines and for nearly four years in the quartermaster’s department there. He took the first boat up the Pasig river in the face of the fire of the insurrection. – El Paso Herald Newspaper – Monday, October 22, 1917

Chaplain H. H. Kline At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917