Excerpt from Knox County in the World War, 1917, 1918, 1919
Every effort has been made to make it absolutely fair and impartial, without particle of bias or prejudice in any respect.
Inevitably errors have been made, but every source of information available has been sought and carefully consulted to reduce these mistakes to a minimum. The records of the War and Navy Departments at Washington, the military archives of the State of Tennessee, the books and records of the draft boards, the columns of the daily newspapers, personal letters and diaries, together with other historical sources, have been pored over and delved into for months to get every shred of information possible in regard to the war activities of Knox Countians.
Every effort was exhausted to obtain the photographs of all men who saw service, realizing that in after years these, with their records attached, will be of incalculable interest and value to those of later generations. If the name, record of service, or photograph of any man has been omitted, it has been unintentional and not because every effort has not been made to obtain them. Two men of the editorial staff canvassed the city and county for more than two months, while advertisements and news notices appeared frequently in the newspapers, requesting that this information be given.
The attempt also was made to give to those who were not privileged to see something of the war, as well as to preserve for those who did, a panorama of the most striking scenes and events in which the American army engaged. Of the several thousand photographs, taken in battle by the representatives of the United States Signal Corps, the choicest ones, some two hundred in number, which were obtained for illustration of this history, give such a vivid insight into the machinery of war and how battles were fought that study of them will be more instructive than many pages of descriptive matter. They cover nearly every phase of warfare on all of the battle fronts.
It has been a matter of deep regret that most of those who went forth in the multifarious branches of government service were so widely scattered that a sketch of each of their particular units was impossible. It was found necessary to limit these sketches to those organizations which contained a large number of men from the city and county.
This volume, written and compiled with the sole desire to give the historical facts by word and picture, both of the war abroad and of the civilian activities at home, Is the product of months of labor. It is neither perfect nor complete Such a volume can never be. Yet it is more accurate, we believe, than any history that can be written or any volume that can be compiled in the future when memory has faded many of the participants in this stirring events have move away or died, and the records either have been lost or have crumbled to dust.
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