Hickory People On Hand When 105th Engineers Landed in Charleston, April 1919

From the Hickory Daily Record, April 22, 1919

Hickory People Saw Troops Land

Those Hickory people who left here last week for Charleston and Columbia are back home after having seen the local members of the 105^th engineers land at Charleston and having been with them at Camp Jackson where they will be demobilized the latter part of this week, probably Friday. The Hickory people had a good view from the docks at Charleston and saw the Zeelandia come sweeping into the harbor, greeted the boys for a couple of hours in the city and hastened to Columbia, where they again saw them. Mrs. Geo. L. Lyerly was the only member of the party who remained.

The Hickory boys were looking good, considering the 14 days they spent on the water. Forty of them will be assigned for the parade in Winston-Salem tomorrow, but the regiment will not be demobilized until these five squads are back at camp. The local soldiers may come home in a body late Friday or early Saturday. A telegram from Sergt. Joe Reinhardt to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Reinhardt, said the men would be discharged at Winston-Salem and would reach Hickory on Thursday.

Those who went to Charleston were Mr. and Mrs. J.H.P. Cilley, Mrs. H.C. Menzies, Messrs. Eubert and Walker Lyerly, Mrs. Lawrence Cline and Mrs. Geo. L. Lyerly.

Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt, commander of the regiment, again spoke in warmest praise of the officers and men. They were ready for anything and this offer was confident a better regiment never wore Uncle Sam’s uniform.