Remembering Suwannee: Mobilization and service in “The War to End All Wars”

This week, we begin the first of seven or so articles on World War I, focusing on Suwannee County’s mobilization for the war as well as some miscellaneous service and post-war information. I hope you find the series as informative as I have. World War I (called “The Great War,” “The War to End All Wars,” and the like at the time) began in mid-1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie. A convoluted system of treaties by the major European powers caused a potentially internal affair between Austria-Hungary and their Serbian territories to spread into a world war, the most destructive in history until that point. After the Archdu