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To the Line of Fire!: Mexican Texans and World War I, is currently the only book-length study on this topic. Author José A. Ramírez utilized samples of Spanish surnames from draft registration cards in RG 63, Records Relating to Registrants, Records of the Selective Service System, to estimate that of the approximately 36,000 Mexican-origin men who registered for the draft, 5,000 of them served.The draft registration card below from Private Epigmenio G. Garcia of Headquarters Company, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Division, illustrates some of the details of soldiers’ backgrounds available from these primary source documents.
Private Garcia appeared to the local draft board in Cameron County, Texas, on the first registration day for World War I — June 5, 1917. He reported that he was “natural born” in Raymondville, Texas. Garcia was thus not eligible for an exemption in this draft round as he was a U.S. citizen, reported no dependents, and did not have any disqualifying disabilities. His job as a “Traveling Salesman,” for the “Great [sic] State Patrolmen’s Association,” suggests literacy in reading and writing. Indeed, Pvt. Garcia signs his own name (other conscripts could only place a mark [x] for their names), and his signature also matches that of his well-written account only four months later about the battlegrounds of France.
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Draft Registration Card of Epigmenio G. Garcia. RG 63, Records Relating to Registrants, Records of the Selective Service System
The U.S. military posthumously recognized David Barkley with its highest distinction, the Medal of Honor. He was the only soldier of Mexican origin from the Great War to receive such an honor. While he was serving, however, David Barkley did not mention his mother’s Mexican heritage or surname (Cantú) to avoid discrimination. One of Barkley’s descendents revealed in 1989 that his mother was Mexican. While some brief histories of Hispanic veterans mention the few who received awards from the U.S. and France, this essay focuses on showcasing documents illuminating the everyday and virtually unknown soldiers and few noncommissioned officers who fought on the front lines and trenches in France. They were gassed, wounded, shell-shocked, and killed alongside over one million U.S. soldiers who served abroad, one-fifth of whom were foreign-born. Their stories merit inclusion in the narratives of World War I history.
We have constructed Towards a history of Mexican American participation in World War I in two parts. In Part One, we draw from the almost two dozen written accounts signed with Spanish surnames, and confirmed as Mexican Texan origin through other sources, to reveal how linking them with census, draft registration cards, transport ship passenger lists and other federal records from the National Archives can flesh out richer profiles of these doughboys.
“Over the Top” Experiences of Texan Mexicans in the Trenches
When President Woodrow Wilson declared war in 1917, the U.S. military force barely numbered 100,000 men – mostly concentrated in the state-level National Guard Units. Among the hundreds of thousands of men who registered for the first round of the draft that year were immigrants from all corners of the world, particularly Europe. Historian Nancy Ford recounts how the War Department was “shocked” to discover that approximately one-fourth of the draftees were either illiterate in their native language and/or functionally illiterate in English. War Department rules required volunteers or conscripts to read or write English in order to serve. In response, the War Department created the Foreign-speaking Soldier Subsection (FSS) in January of 1918 to quickly devise a means to teach recruits basic English and engage in Americanization programs. In Americans All!: Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I, Ford details how a successful English language curriculum developed at Fort Gordon, Georgia was exported to several camps as “the Gordon Plan.” Most soldiers only received three months of training, resulting in many achieving only functional literacy. An indication that the brief training was insufficient is evident in the personal account of Private Pablo Cortez, Company M, 141st Infantry, which combines broken Spanish and some phonetic English.
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German Americans-Usually treated with caution and disgust.
Jewish Americans-Treated with pity and bye few with blame over World War Two.
Asian Americans-Treated with caution and blame for the pacific side of world war 2
Hispanic Americans-Mostly treated normally but with some caution because South America was regarded as a axis spy hotspot.
Women- Compared to previous years they were treaded a little better, this was because America was forced to recognize their usefulness outside of the home when they provided most shoulders with their weapons, machinery, clothes and food.
Dissenters-They were treated with disgust bye the citizen but as in the case of Desmond Doss he became a war hero.(you should check this guy out he was awesome)
Jewish Americans-Treated with pity and bye few with blame over World War Two.
Asian Americans-Treated with caution and blame for the pacific side of world war 2
Hispanic Americans-Mostly treated normally but with some caution because South America was regarded as a axis spy hotspot.
Women- Compared to previous years they were treaded a little better, this was because America was forced to recognize their usefulness outside of the home when they provided most shoulders with their weapons, machinery, clothes and food.
Dissenters-They were treated with disgust bye the citizen but as in the case of Desmond Doss he became a war hero.(you should check this guy out he was awesome)
