113th Field Artillery Regiment Roster, WWI 118

Abstract

The 113th Field Artillery Regiment Roster collection is composed of one 40-page typed list containing the names and addresses of all of the members of the 113th Field Artillery Regiment, 30th Division, U.S. Army, during World War I. The majority of the members of this unit were from North Carolina, as the 113th was before WWI a North Carolina National Guard unit. The list is organized by geographically, beginning with all of the North Carolina members listed by county. The North Carolina counties are in alphabetical order, but the names within the counties are not alphabetical. After the North Carolina members, the remaining non-North Carolinians are organized by state name, with the state names organized alphabetically. The last page contains a listing of 113th members native to other countries who were attached to or foreigners in the United States who signed up for service with the 113th Field Artillery.

This list was created as part of the North Carolina Historical Commission's attempt to document North Carolinians' service in World War I. The list was either collected or compiled from official records by the North Carolina Historical Commission's World War Records Collector and staff sometime between 1919 and 1921. The exact origins of the list are unknown, as is the completeness of the list. It is also not known if the list includes those who were killed in service or just those still serving in the 113th Field Artillery at the end of WWI.

Descriptive Summary

Title: 113th Field Artillery Regiment Roster
Call Number: WWI 118
Creator: North Carolina Historical Commission
Date: Undated
Extent: 0.010 cubic feet
Repository: State Archives of North Carolina

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Preferred Citation

Folder 1, 113th Field Artillery Regiment Roster, WWI 118, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.

Collection Overview

The collection is composed of one 40-page typed list containing the names and addresses of all of the members of the 113th Field Artillery Regiment, 30th Division, U.S. Army, during World War I. The majority of the members of this unit were from North Carolina, as the 113th was before WWI a North Carolina National Guard unit. The list is organized by geographically, beginning with all of the North Carolina members listed by county. The North Carolina counties are in alphabetical order, but the names within the counties are not alphabetical. After the North Carolina members, the remaining non-North Carolinians are organized by state name, with the state names organized alphabetically. The last page contains a listing of 113th members native to other countries who were attached to or foreigners in the United States who signed up for service with the 113th Field Artillery.

This list was created as part of the North Carolina Historical Commission's attempt to document North Carolinians' service in World War I. The list was either collected or compiled from official records by the North Carolina Historical Commission's World War Records Collector and staff sometime between 1919 and 1921. The exact origins of the list are unknown, as is the completeness of the list. It is also not known if the list includes those who were killed in service or just those still serving in the 113th Field Artillery at the end of WWI.

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Contents of the Collection

113th Field Artillery Regiment Roster, Undated

Folder 1

Acquisitions Information

The collection was formerly part of the Robert B. House Collection, Private Collections, World War I Papers, 1903-1933 (presently, WWI 82 Robert B. House Collection). It was removed from that collection as the amount of and significance of the materials warranted being in its own collection.This collection was created by the North Carolina Historical Commission (subsequently the State Archives of North Carolina), apparently sometime between 1919 and 1921. Staff with the Historical Commission were working during this period to compile lists of North Carolina service individuals for various purposes-such as those whom had received the Distinguished Service Cross. The typeface and formatting of the list is comparative to other such wartime compiled lists created by the Historical Commission. When the new North Carolina War Records Collector Robert B. House was hired in June 1919, he and his small staff were responsible for such efforts.Notations indicate that a roster for the 113th Field Artillery came to the Historical Commission between 1918 and 1920, according to the 1918-1920 North Carolina Historical Commission Biennial Report. Though it is unclear if that was this roster, or an official U.S. Army roster was given to the Historical Commission (from which this roster, that has been organized by location, was created by House and his staff). Whatever the origins of this collection's roster, the 113th Field Artillery Regiment Roster was in the possession of the Historical Commission by 1922.All of the materials in this collection were acquired or collected as part of the North Carolina Historical Commission's on-going World War historic materials collection project, which was authorized by Sections 3 and 4 of Chapter 144 of the North Carolina Public Laws and Resolutions in 1919.

Processing Information

During the 1920s, the North Carolina Historical Commission worked on arranging the World War I Papers in groups of common themes or creators. In 1964, Maurice S. Toler and John R. Woodard of the North Carolina Department of Archives and History prepared a finding aid for the "World War I Papers, 1903-1933," which consisted of thirteen series of records. This was the first known formal organization of the World War I materials, and a basic finding aid for these papers completed to the box and item level was finalized on June 30, 1964. The House Collection was included in the series formerly titled as "Private Collections."

This collection was reprocessed in 2018 to better reflect the original intent of the records' creators. Robert B. House left his position as North Carolina War Records Collector in 1921, and deposited his college, military, and War Collectors materials as an archival collection at the State Archives. House's materials included typescripts of soldiers' letters, documents, compiled rosters and lists, and other information that House never finished adding to the WWI Papers before he left his War Records Collector position. The House Collection was reprocessed in the summer of 2017. It was determined at this time that placing the 113th Field Artillery Regiment Roster in its own collection matched the original intentions of House, and that that materials would be more discoverable by researchers if they were removed from the House Collection. This collection is now entitled Robert B. House Collection, and is numbered "WWI 82" in the WWI Papers.

The collection was organized in an acid-free archival file folder, with the roster kept in its original page-number order. The roster was originally stored in a three-ring binder by House or later State Archives of North Carolina staff sometime between 1919 and 1965, and had three holes punched in it. It appears this roster was removed from the binder at some point in the 20th-century prior to 1996, by which time Robert House's collection materials were largely organized as they were discovered in 2017.