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The following are the sources for Lt. Robert Howard Gamble During the Great War:

Portrait of Lt. Robert Howard Gamble and 1918 photograph of him in front of Vosges dugout; Lt. Gamble's letter from France to his sister Nell; Captain Randall Alexander's letter regarding Gamble's grave; condolence letters to Lt. Gamble's parents [cited in Sherman Genealogy--the officers were not named]--courtesy Gamble descendants family collection c/o the author.

St. Mihiel American Cemetary website: http://www.usabmc.com/sm.htm; Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, newspaper clippings [microfilm, Alderman Library, U. Va., Charlottesville VA.] Author's note: Gamble's grave marker, the newspaper report, and records of the Graves Registration Service show Gamble's date of death as September 13, 1918. This conflicts with acccounts of the battle and eyewitness reports saying he died in the first charge on September 12. The mistake may have originated in an overworked chaplain's burial report after the battle. A memo of J.D. Van Horn, Chaplain 11th Infantry dated February 1919 to the Chief of the Graves Registration Service indicates that a "Chaplain Mantle, now with the 121st F.R. who buried this man left no further records of burials of men under this command."

Official History of the Fifth Division (Society of the Fifth Division, Washington D.C. 1919)[Alderman Library, U. Va., Charlottesville VA.] The 5th Division Red Diamond insignia, and photos of artillery firing, a chuckwagon on a muddy road, soldiers picking cooties, Vieville-en-Haye, the 5th Division monument, and all the maps, as well as the bulk of the quotes, came from this book. Captions on the photos are reproduced verbatim. See also Society of the 5th Division website at http://www.societyofthefifthdivision.com

James H. Hallas, Squandered Victory: The American First Army at St. Mihiel (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995)(excellent overview of the St. Mihiel operation written in compelling journalistic style. Some quotes as noted are from this writer, including one account of Lt. Gamble's pistol charge against the machine gun nest).

St. Mihiel: Excerpts from the Final Report of Gen. John J. Pershing (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919), 38-43 http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Pershing.html

The account of German machine gun nest tactics at St. Mihiel is from the Regimental History of the 91st Division, at http://members.nbci.com/jweaver300/ww1/91divaef.htm.; photos of the Maxim machine gun and German MG-08, from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmaxim.htm

The photo and information on the Colt Model 1911 are from http://www.m1911.org/history.htm

George H. Nettleon, Yale in The World War (New Haven:Yale University Press 1925)[Special Collections Alderman Library, U. Va., Charlottesville Va.](confirming details of Lt. Gamble's death).

Albert H. Ely, Jr., History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred & Fifteen (New Haven: Yale University Press 1915) [courtesy Yale University Library].

My thanks to Christine Weiderman, Archivist at the Yale University Library, for bringing some out-of-the-way biographical materials to my attention, and to Paul Camp of the University of South Florida Library for materials on the Gambles and their plantations in Florida, and to Michael B. Terry for information concerning Col. John Bradbury Bennet, who commanded Gamble's regiment, including his transcriptions of handwritten orders on the day of the St. Mihiel attack.

My thanks to Aaron E. Baldwin of San Francisco for his astonishingly thorough Gamble genealogy, back through Eatons and Seldens and Spencers and Roger Sherman of Revolutionary War fame, and before him to Myles Standish of the Mayflower; forward through Whites, Rogers, Evarts, Sloanes, Thachers, and of course, the distinguished family of Baldwins. Mr. Baldwin is generous with his encyclopedic genealogical research. To contact him, e-mail me.

Thanks also to Johnny and Jody Perkins of Darien, Connecticut for additional materials including some of Lt. Gamble's letters home, and information about Col. Henry L. Stimson.

Also of interest:

There is an excellent website in French and in English translation by a French prosecutor who was born near St Mihiel and lives in the town of Pont à Mousson: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jmpicquart/gbSommaire.htm

The Great War Society website, http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/

Air Force Magazine, account of Billy Mitchell assembling the largest air fleet ever for the St. Mihiel Salient [by Walter J. Boyne] http://www.afa.org/magazine/0200salient.html

Post-battle analysis of St. Mihiel by Captain Joseph H. Giese, US Army, for the 89th Infantry account of St. Mihiel attack http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/stmihiel.htm

A statistical summary of the Great War with Germany, http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/docs/statistics/stats8on.htm

Lowell Thomas, Woodfill of the Regulars (Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929).

Alexander Woollcott, The Command is Forward (New York: Century Co., 1919).

Ernest L. Wrentmore, In Spite of Hell (New York: Greenwich Book Pub., 1958).

Claude M. Fuess, Phillips Andover Academy in the Great War (New Haven: Yale University Press 1919) (stories of life at the front, and telling of Lt. Gamble's death.)

The Gamble coat of arms, and further information about the Gamble family of England and Ireland is available courtesy James K. Gamble at http://www.mizar.freeserve.co.uk/gamble/