Url Resource class Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Language Rights Spatial Coverage Temporal Coverage Rights Holder Collection Location https://afterthewarproject.org/s/veterans-voices/item/423 dctype:Image Letter in which Captain Ralston Flemming writes of his desire to instill a spirit of “militant Americanism” among immigrant soldiers. Captain Ralston Flemming This letter by U.S. Army Captain Ralston Flemming from 1918 is about the efforts at Camp Jackson in South Carolina to assimilate immigrants into the American military. Some time after this letter was written, Congress passed legislation that alowed foreign-born soldiers to obtain expedited naturalization. About 300,000 immigrant soldiers gained citizenship through military service in the war. Library of Congress Sept. 9, 1918