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- ↑ "Col. Falls Leaves For California Post". Montgomery Advertiser. 21 February 1919. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Ninth Division, All Units, Now "United States Army" By Recent Department Order". Montgomery Advertiser. 16 August 1918. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Tate 2007, pp. 261, 272–273.
- ↑ Newton 2008, pp. 61–64.
- ↑ "13 Die at Sheridan". Montgomery Advertiser. 22 October 1918. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Historical Section, Army War College 1931, pp. 836, 851.
- ↑ Historical Section, Army War College 1931, pp. 641–643.
- ↑ Sawicki 1981, p. 166.
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- Newton, Wesley Phillips (2008). ""Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Grounds": Alabama's Military Bases in World War I". In Olliff, Martin T. (ed.). The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama During World War I. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 41–65. ISBN 978-0-8173-1616-7.
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- Tate, Mary Jo (2007). Critical Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 9781438108452.