Recently, while looking through the monthly Muster & Roster Rolls for World War One on Family Search, I found three additional monthly Muster & Roster rolls for my great-grandfather, James Robert Dodge. Grandpa Jim was inducted on August 6, 1918 in Salida, Colorado. The next day, he was accepted for induction at For Logan, Colorado. For the couple of days at For Logan, he was assigned to the 19th Recruiting Company, General Service Infantry. He was transferred from Fort Logan on August 9th to Camp MacArthur, Texas, (at Waco, Texas) where he arrived on the 11th. Grandpa Jim was assigned to Co. K, 3rd Replacement Battalion. He spent the next month at Camp MacArthur, proceeding through basic training until September 16th, when he was transferred, this time to Hoboken, New Jersey, where he would be shipped over to St. Nazaine, France. He left Hoboken on September 23, 1918, just one week after leaving Camp MacArthur.
Below are the Muster & Roster Rolls for Grandpa Jim at Fort Logan, Colorado and Camp MacArthur, Texas. I'm glad that these records exist and help fill in the holes that exist in my great-grandfather's military service as well as help replace information that was lost in the 1973 National Archives fire at St. Louis.
August 1918 - Fort Logan, Colorado - 19th Recruiting Co., General Service Infantry
August 1918 - Camp MacArthur, Texas; Co. K, 3rd Replacement Battalion
September 1918 - Camp MacArthur, Texas; Co. K, 3rd Replacement Battalion
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