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They Called Them Soldier Guys offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas Country wide Guard's Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, voyage to France, battle, and their come back home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the 14 counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment's soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties weighed against all of those other state in conditions of political, cultural, and economic attitudes. In Sept 1917 the "Soldier Guys" trained at Camp Bowie, near Fort Worth, Texas, until the War Department put together the Seventh Texas with the First Oklahoma Infantry to create the 142nd Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division. In early Oct 1918, the 142nd Infantry, including more than 600 original members of the Seventh Texas, was allocated to the France Fourth Military in the Champagne region and gone into battle for the very first time on Oct 6. Ball explores the battle experiences of those Texas soldiers at length up through the armistice of November 11, 1918. The reserve is printed by University of North Texas Press.
