Camp Cody, New Mexico

Unable to accommodate the 30,000 troops that served at the camp it was necessary to build 120 mess houses and 1,200 bathhouses.

607 for 113 recruits to entrain from Hughes county for Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, between the 24th and 29 June.

During the 34th Division's mobilization in the summer of 1918, a controversy arose when Frederick Emil Resche, commander of the 68th Infantry Brigade, was accused of anti-American sentiments.

[1] Resche, a native of Germany who was a naturalized U.S. citizen and longtime resident of Duluth, Minnesota, had proactively attempted to prevent accusations of disloyalty by taking no actions that could be considered anti-American, including forgoing a visit to his aged, ailing father in Germany.

[3] The members of his brigade demonstrated their support for Resche by cheering him as he left Camp Cody.