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The First Regiment of Virginia Infantry met with zeal the all of country in the War of 1898. All its units responded to the president's order and mobilized on the boundary of Mexico in 1916. Summoned to service in the struggle with Germany, the regiment then became the First Battalion of the 116th Infantry in the Twenty-Ninth Division. In October 1918, it was employed in the offensive of the east bank of the Meuse, north of Verdun, where is advance cost losses that were sustained with the spirit displayed at Braddock's defeat and in the Revolution and on the hill at Gettysburg. Reorganized after the peace of 1919, the regiment pledges its dead to preserve their ideals of duty. |