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While at Camp Funstext General Wood organized and trained the 89th division and later on the 10th regular division, with a num her of pioneer regiments and special organiza tions. He was sent overseas on a tour of observation, was quite seriously wounded, was in a French military hospital for some weeks and returned to the front and completed his tour of observation. When the 89th division was ordered to the front General Wood accom panied it to the sea and was there relieved and sent back to Camp Funston, where he organized and trained the 10th regular division and was in command of it at the time of the armistice The degree of LL.D. was given General Wood by University Williams College ( 1402 Pennsylvania(1'413); Prince ton (1916) ; University of the South and Uni versity of Geurgia (1`)171; University of gun (1918)• Union College, New York, and Wesleyan, Connecticut (1919). He received the degree of Doctor of Military Science from Norwich University and from Pennsylvania Military College (1912). General Wood bolds a Congressional Medal of Honor (Geroninio campaign); is fellow of the Royal Geographi cal Society; member of the Society of the Cincinnati; the Society of Colonial Wars. Sons of the Revolution. Foreign Wars. Indian Wan, and of the Spanish-.\ Nat. He is fellvw of the Academy vi .'s of Havana and Governor-General of the ayfiower So ciety of the United estates. weer he repre

sented the United States at the German martens vres in 1902 and the French and German maw ceuvres in 1908, he was named Grand (Aker of the Legion of Honor, permission to accept which distinction was withheld by the United States. Authority to wear this decoration was granted subsequently in the general order which authorized American officers to wear forties decorations. Besides numerous magazine article, on preparedness, General Wood is the author 'The Military Obligation of atize (1915) ; 'Our Military History' (1916) • ' a tionai Defense'(1917) • and 'Universal Ilitilitaz Training' (1917). Consult Bangs, 'United States Trustee' • 'Cuba: Civil ttm: of General Wood' (1901); 'The Military ernment of Cuba' (in 'Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science', Vat XXI, No. 2, 1903); Baker, 'General Leonard Wood> (in McClure':, Vol. XIV, pp. 1900); 'The Case of General Wood> (in the Outlook, 2 Jan. 1904); 'The Amazing Case of General Wood' (in Scientific American, IS June 1918)- ' 'The Removal of Maj.-Gen Leonard Wood' (ib. 14 April 1917) - 'Resent ment over the Treatment of General Leonard Wood> (Current Opinion, July 1918) • and Marcasson, T. F., 'Leonard Wood, Prophet of Preparedness' (1917); 'The Career of Leonard Wood' (1919).

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