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DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY

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This book is made possible by the generous co-operation of the officers of the West Point Manufacturing Company and Lanett Cotton Mills. It is the result of the combined efforts of the War Service Station in each mill locality to pay at least a feeble tribute to the gallant doughboy who enlisted in the cause of right and democracy. It is hoped that, as the years pass by, these crusaders and their posterity may find an increasing interest in this memorial to their heroism.

Also, it has been thought advisable to preserve a record of the accomplishments of all those patriotic forces which contributed their part towards the successful termination of the greatest conflict in history.

It would not be amiss to call particular attention to the War Service Stations, under whose leadership was fostered practically all of the patriotic work consummated by those at home. That these Stations were a comfort to our boys—in their interest and solicitude for them—is attested by the letters reproduced.

The President’s War Message

Delivered before Congress April 2, 1917

I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making.

On the third of February last, I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean.

That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine warfare earlier in the war; but since April of last year the Imperial Government had somewhat restrained the commanders of its undersea craft in conformity with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not be sunk, and that due warning would be given to all other vessels which its submarines might seek to destroy, when no resistance was offered or escape attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least a fair chance to save their lives in their open boats.

The precautions taken were meager and haphazard enough, as was proved in distressing instance after instance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed.

The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board—the vessels of friendly neutrals, along with belligerents.

Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the proscribed areas by the German Government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle.

I was for a little while unable to believe that such things would in fact be done by any government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane practices of civilized nations.

International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the seas, where no nation had right of dominion and where lay the free highways of the world.

By painful stage after stage has that law been built up, with meager enough results, indeed, after all was accomplished that could be accomplished, but always with a clear view, at least, of what the heart and conscience of mankind demanded.

This minimum of right the German Government has swept aside under the plea of retaliation and necessity, and because it had no weapons which it could use at sea except these which it is impossible to employ as it is employing them without throwing to the winds all scruples of humanity or of respect for the understandings that were supposed to underlie the intercourse of the world.

I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate.

Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.

The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a war against all nations.

American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination.

The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it.

The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away.

Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the Nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.

When I addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of February last, I thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence.

But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. Because submarines are in effect outlaws when used as the German submarines have been used against merchant shipping, it is impossible to defend ships against their attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchantmen would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon the open sea.

It is common prudence in such circumstances, grim necessity indeed, to endeavor to destroy them before they have shown their own intention. They must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt with at all.

The German Government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the areas of the sea which it has proscribed, even in the defense of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right to defend. The intimation is conveyed that the armed guards which we have placed on our merchant ships will be treated as beyond the pale of law and subject to be dealt with as pirates would be. Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best; in such circumstances and in the face of such pretensions it is worse than ineffectual; it is likely only to produce what it was meant to prevent; it is practically certain to draw us into the war without either the rights or the effectiveness of belligerents.

There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making: we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our Nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life.

With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.

What this will involve is clear. It will involve the utmost practicable co-operation in counsel and action with the governments now at war with Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of the most liberal financial credits in order that our resources may, so far as possible, be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the Nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible. It will involve the immediate full equipment of the Navy in all respects, but particularly in supplying it with the best means of dealing with the enemy’s submarines. It will involve the immediate addition to the armed forces of the United States already provided for by law in case of war at least five hundred thousand men, who should, in my opinion, be chosen upon the principle of universal liability to service, and also the authorization of subsequent additional increments of equal force so soon as they may be needed and can be handled in training.

It will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to the Government, sustained, I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well-conceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may, against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.

In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be accomplished we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of interfering as little as possible in our own preparation and in the equipment of our own military forces with the duty—for it will be a very practical duty—of supplying the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field and we should help them in every way to be effective there.

I shall take the liberty of suggesting, through the several executive departments of the Government, for the consideration of your committees, measures for the accomplishment of the several objects I have mentioned. I hope that it will be your pleasure to deal with them as having been framed after very careful thought by the branch of the Government upon which the responsibility of conducting the war and safeguarding the Nation will most directly fall.

While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the Nation has been altered or clouded by them.

I have exactly the same things in mind now that I had in mind when I addressed the Senate on the twenty-second of January last; the same that I had in mind when I addressed the Congress on the third of February and on the twenty-sixth of February.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not the will of their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances.

We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.

We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval.

It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.

Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest. Such designs can be successfully worked out only under cover and where no one has the right to ask questions.

Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggression, carried, it may be, from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning all the nation’s affairs.

A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion.

Intrigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles who could plan what they would and render account to no one would be a corruption seated at its very heart. Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia?

Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart, in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the intimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instinct, their habitual attitude toward life.

The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it has stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character or purpose; and now it has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added in all their native majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a League of Honor.

One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of Government with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of council, our peace within and without, our industries and our commerce.

Indeed, it is now evident that its spies were here even before the war began; and it unhappily is not a matter of conjecture, but a fact proved in our courts of justice, that the intrigues which have more than once come perilously near to disturbing the peace and dislocating the industries of the country have been carried on at the instigation, with the support, and even under the personal direction of official agents of the Imperial Government accredited to the Government of the United States.

Even in checking these things and trying to extirpate them we have sought to put the most generous interpretation possible upon them because we knew that their source lay, not in any hostile feeling or purpose of the German people toward us (who were, no doubt, as ignorant of them as we ourselves were), but only in the selfish designs of a Government that did what it pleased and told its people nothing. But they have played their part in serving to convince us at last that that Government entertains no real friendship for us and means to act against our peace and security at its convenience. That it means to stir up enemies against us at our very doors, the intercepted note to the German Minister at Mexico City is eloquent evidence.

We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.

We are now about to accept gauge of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the Nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.

Just because we fight without rancor, without selfish object, seeking nothing for ourselves but what we shall wish to share with all free peoples, we shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations as belligerents without passion and ourselves observe with proud punctilio the principles of right and of fair play we profess to be fighting for.

I have said nothing of the governments allied with the Imperial Government of Germany because they have not made war upon us or challenged us to defend our right and our honor. The Austro-Hungarian Government has, indeed, avowed its unqualified indorsement and acceptance of the reckless and lawless submarine warfare adopted now without disguise by the Imperial German Government, and it has therefore not been possible for this Government to receive Count Tarnowski, the Ambassador recently accredited to this Government by the Imperial and Royal Government of Austria-Hungary; but that Government has not actually engaged in warfare against citizens of the United States on the seas, and I take the liberty, for the present at least, of postponing a discussion of our relations with the authorities at Vienna. We enter this war only where we are clearly forced into it because there are no other means of defending our rights.

It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness because we act without animus, not in enmity toward a people nor with the desire to bring any injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible Government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of right and is running amuck.

We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, and shall desire nothing so much as the early re-establishment of intimate relations of mutual advantage between us—however hard it may be for them, for the time being, to believe that this is spoken from our hearts. We have borne with their present Government through all these bitter months because of that friendship—exercising a patience and forbearance which would otherwise have been impossible. We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions toward the millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy who live amongst us and share our life, and we shall be proud to prove it toward all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to the Government in the hour of test. They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other fealty or allegiance.

They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining the few who may be of a different mind and purpose.

If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression; but, if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant few.

It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.

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Lanett

Corp. Joe F. Adams
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. George Alexander
Company E
167th Infantry

Pvt. Loyd Allen
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Will T. Anderson
Company C
106th Am. Train

Pvt. Clyde Andrews
Company B
3d Infantry

Pvt. Chas. H. Barnett
Battery C
6th Field Artillery

Corp. Harry Bachelor
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Claude Barnett
Bakery Co. 357

Sailor George Bankston
U.S.S. Rhode Island

Pvt. Jesse Berry
Company C
106th Am. Train

Pvt. Earl Beal
Battery F
53d Artillery C.A.C.

Pvt. Edgar Blakely
Medical Corps

Sgt. James Blackmon
19th Division
Supply Train

Corp. Mark B. Blackmon
Company C
106th Am. Train

Pvt. Willie H. Brewer
Company G
2d Training Reg.

Pvt. Earnest G. Brewster
Company 39
157th Depot Brigade

Pvt. Eddie E. Buchannan
1st Company
1st Army Corps School Det.

Sgt. Thos. H. Cason
Company C
106th Am. Train

Pvt. George Caldwell
Company B
324th Infantry

Pvt. Merritt E. Carlisle
Company L
327th Infantry

Corp. Henry Carlisle
Battery E
21st Field Artillery

Sgt. Jno. G. Chapman
Quartermaster Corps

Pvt. T. G. Clements
2d Provisional
Depot Battalion

Sgt. Maj. Guy Coffee
Hdqtrs. Company
384th Infantry

Tipton Coffee
Y. M. C. A.

Wendell Coffee
Ph. M.1
U.S.S. Kentucky

Sgt. Ewell Coffee
Company B
17th Engineers

Corp. Harvey R. Collins
Company B
6th Repl. Reg. Inf.

Pvt. A. Fennimore Cox
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Jesse W. Coleman
Company B
151st Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. Hoyt Crowder
3d Company
Developing Btn.

Corp. Lester D. Crowder
Company F
167th Infantry

Cook O. W. Culpepper
Company I
M.T.C.R.U. 307

Pvt. Leroy Daniel
Hdqtrs. Company
167th Infantry

Pvt. Elijah Daniel
6th Company
Development Btn.

Pvt. Robert Dailey
Battery E
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Winfred L. Deloach
Battery C
7th Field Artillery

Pvt. Huburt Denham
Battery D
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Radney Dobson
Company H
161st Infantry

Pvt. Gay Dunn
Company B
48th Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. A. E. Fincher
2d Provisional
R.R.C.

Pvt. George Fincher
Company B
359th Infantry

Pvt. Isac Free
Mach. Gun Company
167th Infantry

Pvt. William E. Freeman
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Wesley Foster
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Will H. Gill
Company C
321st Infantry

Corp. Tolbert H. Gray
Company F
167th Infantry

Corp. Ben W. Griffeth
Company B
34th Engineers

Pvt. Allie Griffin
Company E
123d Infantry

Pvt. J. B. Grier
Company G
321st Infantry

Pvt. Alver Gunn
Company E
7th Engineers

Pvt. John B. Gunn
Battery F
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Richard Hadaway
Company E
167th Infantry

Pvt. Brinton Hall
Company H
161st Infantry

Sgt. Will H. Hammock
20th Company
156th Depot Brigade

Pvt. Robert Hammock
65th Company
6th Group M.T.D.

Pvt. L. Clyde Harmon
Bakery Co. 326

Pvt. Grady Harmon
Company 7
Infantry Repl. Unit

Pvt. Hobson H. Harmon
Supply Battery
56th Field Artillery

Pvt. Phillip H. Heard
Company D
66th Engineers

Sgt. James Heard
Company A
59th Engineers

Roland Shaefer Heard
Yeoman 3 c.
8 U.S. Navy Yard
Charleston, S.C.

Corp. Buford Heggood
118th Infantry Band
59th Brigade

Pvt. Hobson Heggood
Post Military Band
Edgewood Arsenal

Pvt. F. M. Heggood
118th Infantry Band

Pvt. Emmit Henderson
Company G
165th Infantry

Corp. S. Calloway Herring
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Charles Frank Hill
Battery C
3d Field Artillery

Corp. John J. Seymore
Company C
106th Am. Train

Musc. David Holloway
167th Infantry Band

Pvt. Minor Hood
Company D
106th Am. Train

Pvt. Jack Howard
Company 17
5th Reg. U.S. Marine Corps

Pvt. Jno. M. Howarth
S.A.T.C.
Auburn, Ala.

Pvt. Reuben J. Jennings
S.A.T.C.
Marion Inst.

Pvt. John Johnson
Company A
106th Engineers

Sgt. Frank P. Jones
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Oscar King
Company C
54th Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. Belah King
5th Company
Coast Artillery

Pvt. Marion W. Knight
Quartermaster Corps

Pvt. Joe W. Knight
Marine Guard
Naval Radio Station

Pvt. John C. Leonard
Casual Co. 63
162d Depot Brigade

Pvt. Hobson Lewis
Company E
3d Infantry

Pvt. Evans McGhee
Company C
3d Infantry

Pvt. Gip. L. McGhee
23d. Infantry

Corp. James McGlon
Company H
167th Infantry

Pvt. Jesse McGlon
64th Engineers
R.O.T.

Pvt. Curtis McNaron
Company L
115th U.S.G.N.A.

Pvt. Brant F. Maguire
13th Company
5th Platoon

Pvt. J. T. Manley
Battery D
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Luther Martin
39th Company
10th Training Btn.
157th Depot Brigade

Pvt. Earnest R. Mitchell
Hdqtrs. Company
152d Depot Brigade

Pvt. Lofton Mitchell
Company E
106th Am. Train

Pvt. Cluster Morgan
Company M
70th Infantry

Pvt. Edd L. Newby
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Walter Newsome
Company A
168th Infantry

Corp. Eugene Oliver
Company H
167th Infantry

Pvt. Calvin Parker
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Henry M. Parker
Quartermaster Corps

Sgt. Watson Phillips
Quartermaster Corps

Sgt. George C. Pryor
Medical Dept.
6th Engineers

Corp. William C. Raines
Headquarters Band
116th Field Artillery

Pvt. Willie Rogers
Company A
321st Infantry

Pvt. Charles E. Sanders
Motor Truck Co. 332

Pvt. Charles Sedinger
Company D
6th Infantry

Pvt. Jimmie Seymour
Company A
101st Infantry

Pvt. Thomas M. Simms
Company E
307th Engineers

Pvt. Grady Smith
Medical Dept.
157th Depot Brigade

Pvt. Joe Smith
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Ollie Smith
Company C
321st Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. John W. Stewart
Company H
43d Infantry

Sgt. James Stearns
Battery C
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Harvey D. Stephens
Company C
321st Mach. Gun Btn.

Corp. Eugene Stiff
Company G
122d Infantry

Pvt. Charles Tally
Hdqtrs. Troops
314th Cavalry

Horseshoer Thomas Tally
Battery D
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Lomas Thomaston
Company A
1st Infantry
Regl. and Trn. Btn.

Corp. Thomas Thomaston
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Hugh Turner
Company D
19th Btn. U.S.G.N.A.

Pvt. James Ward
Company F
167th Infantry

Corp. Quincer W. Whittle
Company B
116th Supply Train

Pvt. Ocie T. Wilbanks
Company E
20th Engineers

Pvt. Colvin Wilbanks
71st Company
6th Group M.T.D.

Pvt. Robert Williams
Company F 167th Infantry

Sgt. Jesse Von Williams
Company F
167th Infantry

Sailor Charles Winningham
U.S.S. Camden Detail
League Island Navy Yard

Charles H. Yarbrough
Ph. M.3
Bay Ridge Rec. Ship

Pvt. Dan H. Hart
Company H
123d Infantry

Pvt. Carl Smith
Company H
123d Infantry

Corp. William D. Purcell
Company
A 306 Ammunition Train

Pvt. Walter Geter
Company 21
R.R.D.

Pvt. Chester D. May
Company F
167th Infantry

Corp. Eugene Herring
Company C
106th Am. Train

Pvt. Robert Hollis
Company K
16th Infantry

Pvt. James E. Robinson
8th Field Artillery

Pvt. Hobson Cummings
S.A.T.C.
Auburn, Ala.

Pvt. Walter Peppers
Company 39
New Receiving Camp

Pvt. Jim B. Morris
Hdqtrs. Company
115th Field Artillery

Roll of Honor

‡ Killed in action † Died of disease * Photo

*Adams, J. F.
Allen, Marshall
Alexander, Ben
*Alexander, George
*Allen, Loyd
*Anderson, Will
†*Andrews, Clyde
Andrews, J. C.
Aughtman, John

‡*Bachelor, Harry
Baker, William
*Bankston, George
Barnett, Claude
Barnett, Charles H.
Barton, Tebe
*Beal, Earl
*Berry, Jesse
*Blackmon, James
*Blackmon, Mark
*Blakely, Edgar
Boggs, James G.
Bowling, I. L.
*Brewer, Willie H.
Brewster, Earnest G.
Brown, Jesse
Brumaloe, C. C.
*Buchannan, Edward E.

*Caldwell, George
*Carlisle, Henry
‡*Carlisle, Merritt
Carmichael, George
Carmichael, Jim
*Cason, Thomas
*Chapman, John
*Clements, T. G.
*Coffee, Ewell
*Coffee, Guy
*Coffee, Tipton
*Coffee, Wendell
*Coleman, J. W.
*Collins, Harvey R.
‡*Cox, Fennimore
*Crowder, Hoyt
‡*Crowder, Lester D.
*Culpepper, Orein W.
Cummings, Hobson

*Dailey, Robert
*Daniel, Elijah
*Daniel, Leroy
*Deloach, Winfred L.
*Denham, Huburt
*Dobson, Radney
*Dunn, Lonnie G.

East, Albert

*Free, Isac
*Freeman, William E.
*Fincher, Eugene
*Fincher, George
‡*Foster, Wesley

*Geter, Walter
*Gill, Will
*Gray, Tolbert H.
*Grier, Joe B.
*Griffeth, Ben W.
*Griffin, Allie
*Gunn, Alver T.
*Gunn, John B.

*Hadaway, Richard
*Hall, Brinton
*Hammock, Robert L.
*Hammock, Will H.
*Harmon, Clyde
*Harmon, Grady
*Harmon, Hobson
*Hart, Dan
*Heard, Phillip
*Heard, James E.
*Heard, Shaefer
*Heggood, Buford
*Heggood, F. M.
*Heggood, Hobson
*Henderson, Emmit
*Herring, Eugene
*Herring, S. Calloway

*Hill, Charles Frank
Hill, Charlie
*Hollis, Robert
*Holloway, David
*Hood, Minor
*Howard, Jack
*Howarth, John M.
Jenkins, Hamp
*Jennings, Rube J.
*Johnson, John
*Jones, Frank P.

Kendrick, John
*King, Belah
*King, Oscar
*Knight, Marion
*Knight, Joe
Knight, Horace
Kynard, O. D.

*Leonard, John C.
*Lewis, Hobson J.
Lewis, Edd

Manning, E.
Martin, Clarence
*May, Chester D.
*Mitchell, Earnest
*Mitchell, Lofton
*Morgan, Cluster
*Morris, Jim B.
*Maguire, Brant F.
*Manley, J. T.
*Martin, Luther
*McGhee, Evans
McGhee, Gip L.
*McGlon, Jesse
*McGlon, James
*McNaron, Curtis

Neese, Kenny
*Newby, Edd L.
*Newsome, Walter
Norman, Raemon

*Oliver, Eugene

*Parker, Calvin
*Parker, Mose Henry
Peppers, Walter
*Phillips, Watson
*Pryor, George C.
*Purcell, William D.

*Raines, William C.
Robinson, James E.
Robinson, Oscar
*Rogers, William

*Sanders, C. E.
Sands, L. C.
*Sedinger, Charles
*Seymore, James
*Seymore, John J.
*Sims, Thomas M.
*Smith, Carl
*Smith, Grady
*Smith, Joe
*Smith, Ollie
*Stearns, James
*Stevens, Harvey D.
Stevens, Otis
*Stewart, John W.
*Stiff, Eugene

*Tally, Charlie
*Tally, Robert
‡*Thomaston, Thomas
*Thomaston, William L.
*Turner, Hugh

*Ward, James
*Whittle, Quincer
*Wilbanks, Colvin
*Wilbanks, Ocie T.
*Williams, Jesse Von
*Williams, Robert
*Winningham, Charles
Winslett, R. D.

*Yarbrough, Charles H.

Colored

Askew, Frank

Brock, Bill

Collins, Jim
Collins, John
Chappel, Dock
Cheery, Abraham

Dallis, Willie
Duncan, James D.
Duncan, John
Duncan, Will
Duncan, Lindsey

Fitspatrick, Henry

Gates, Richard
Gipson, Charlie
Gordon, W. M.
Goss, Jim
Goss, Napoleon
Greenwood, Enoch
Greer, William A., Jr.

Harris, Hosea
Hill, Clarence
Hill, Stanley
Huguley, Dock

Jordon, Edd

McKinley, Jeff

Oliver, Wesley
Oneal, Alva

Roberson, Early

Scott, Lee
Smith, Elijah

Towles, Willie
Trammel, Luther

Watkins, Robert
Weston, Gilbert
Weston, Willie
Winston, Jeff
Winston, Zack

Extracts of Appreciation

“To know that the people at home are squarely back of us just doubles our determination to lick the Boche.... Our first Battalion was the first American troops to capture prisoners without the aid of the French or British.”

David Holloway

July 8, 1918

“I beg to inform you that there are boys here from the largest cities in the country who have been here a long time and never have received as much as a card from the numerous organizations in their home cities while I have had letters from Lanett Service Station and only been here a month. The boys all admit that they have to take off their hats to Lanett for the spirit the folks at home show in backing up the boys.”

Hobson G. Heggood

“And if it so be I will stand on the vine clad hills of sunny France and give my life for a cause that is just and right.”

Evans McGhee

June 14, 1918. Eagle Pass, Texas

“Our motto is ‘Over the Top and give them H—’ and you can take it from me that is just what they are doing. Our boys are fighting like our grandfathers fought back in the sixties and they are making for themselves a name which will never be forgotten.”

Dave Holloway.

September 21, 1918. Musician, 167th Inf. Band, Somewhere in France

“And I am glad that I have such a patriotic town to back me while I do a little to help beat the Beast of Berlin.”

Sgt. Eugene C. Stiff.

July 23, 1918. Company 9, 122d Infantry

“I wish to thank you for the interest the Service Station is taking in me and I am sure all the boys from dear old Lanett feel the same as myself.... We had three battles with the ‘Subs’ on my last trip and I am proud to say we got three ‘Subs’ out of three battles.”

Chas. H. Yarbrough.

On Board U. S. S. Zeelandia

“We drove the enemy out of places that looked impossible for it to be done, tunnels and under hills and mountains several hundred feet deep, but believe me we went in after them without any mercy and finally got them going so fast we had to put doughboys in motor trucks and hook the kitchens on behind to keep up with them.”

Thomas M. Sims.

November 30, 1918. Company E, 307th Engineers

“Again I offer you a rising and unanimous vote of thanks for your kind letters. Number 10 reached me this week and did me more good than a check for $50.00 would.... You will have to admit that when the world wanted Germany licked they sent over the A. E. F. (After England Failed) and three days after I reached the front the second time, the Kaiser packed his trick clothes, threw his crown into the garbage pail, put on his rubber boots and let himself out the back door.”

Corp. W. D. Purcell

November 21, 1918

“You have no idea how we love to hear from home and to feel that you remember us. We can fight a heap better when we’re reminded once in a while that our loved ones are helping us by keeping us in touch with home and sacrificing in numerous ways that we may be more comfortable.”

George Bankston

July 16, 1918. The Rhode Island

“It is just beginning to seem like 1919 to me and it will be a happy year I am sure because it means that I am coming back to the only country on earth with all my feet and hands still attached to me.

“Don’t close the station until all of us are out of France. I would miss your letters and I want to see all the folks at the station and thank them for their backing and the interest taken in the boys.”

Corp. Wm. D. Purcell

January, 1919. Somewhere in France

“My chum called to me and we counted two hundred air planes going over to Germany and they were all in sight at one time and they made me think of a flock of wild geese back in the States.”

Alver Gunn

October, 1918. Somewhere in France

“I thank God I am an American and will go down with my comrades if the good Lord so wills that I go that way.”

Extract from letter dated August 27, 1918, from Thomas Thomaston, Company F, 167th Infantry, who was killed before his letter reached the Service Station.

“Yesterday was Christmas and believe me we had some dinner—turkey, pies, California cake, dressing, mashed potatoes, celery, tangerines, cigarettes and one cigar and a few other things I did not know any name for—and that makes me think, I thank you many, many times for the Christmas box. You could not have sent anything that would have pleased me more and I assure you it was appreciated by myself and friends.”

Corp. Wm. D. Purcell

December 26, 1918. Co. A, 306th Am. Train

WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, Lanett

J. I. Warner, chairman  Lillian Warner, secretary
J. L. Weldon  J. H. Horrarth  J. A. Simmons

RECEPTION ROOM. WAR SERVICE STATION. Lanett

WAR SERVICE STATION, Lanett

RED CROSS WORK ROOM, Lanett

Managing Committee of Lanett

Geo. H. Lanier  Geo. S. Harris  R. W. Jennings  J. H. Howarth  J. J. Jordan

TEAM No. 1
Geo. S. Harris, Captain
J. D. Anderson
John Knowles
Edgar Mitchell
W. W. Wallis
John King
John Simmons

TEAM No. 2
R. W. Jennings, Captain
John I. Warner
W. H. Gray
Britt Veazey
Geo. Heard

TEAM No. 3
D. A. Jolly, Captain
Tom Swan
P. Sorrell
W. Hollis
Geo. Cromer
B. Pennington

TEAM No. 4
W. S. Leatherwood, Captain
C. E. Lunceford
H. E. Mathews
A. J. Weldon
J. N. Barrow

TEAM No. 5
Tipton Coffee, Captain
Rev. D. M. Joiner
G. F. Partridge
E. J. Gilbert
R. D. King

TEAM No. 6
D. J. Crowder, Captain
J. T. Aughtman
H. C. Hamilton
C. E. DeLoach
Sam Jones

TEAM No. 7
Lewis Wright, Captain
C. M. Brady
G. B. Avery
Clyde Blakely
Geo. Lanier

TEAM No. 8
Samuel Hayes, Captain
K. Kitchens
Patrick Sullivan
Keil Howell
Neal Holstun

TEAM No. 9
W. F. Sims, Captain
E. R. Cummings
John Brewer
Jno. Strickland
Smith Lanier

TEAM No. 10
Dawson Swint, Captain
W. W. Whitson
Sam Goodman
Ray Coffee
Arthur Hagedorn
L. S. Philips

TEAM No. 11
J. J. Jordan, Captain
W. H. Knight
J. H. Stevens
Tom McClendon
U. S. Waters

TEAM No. 12
John Hagedorn, Captain
C. C. Wilbanks
Lee Heyman
C. W. Milford
W. R. Harrison

TEAM No. 13
Dr. J. L. Weldon, Captain
Dr. Whatley
J. H. Allen
Carl Crouch
H. M. Gay

TEAM No. 14
T. L. Crouch, Captain
V. M. Wood
Amos Priester
J. A. Wheeler
O. K. Waites

TEAM No. 15
O. A. Bonner, Captain
Harvey Weldon
Luther Boyd
Wm. Z. Taylor
O. C. McClendon

TEAM No. 16
R. C. Stanfield, Captain
J. T. Winningham
A. C. Lynn
S. T. Jones

TEAM No. 17
James Wallace, Captain
Emory Coffee
W. H. Wright
E. P. Rutland
Parker Horn
A. L. Smith

TEAM No. 18
J. C. Berry, Captain
Jesse Laudermilk
Dr. McCulloh
Homer Wilbanks
Bob Harrison

TEAM No. 19
W. L. Osborne, Captain
Ed Rainey
W. H. Harvey
J. E. Ridgeway
John Harrison

Committee of Ladies

TEAM No. 20
Mrs. Geo. Harris, Captain
Mrs. C. W. Warner
Mrs. J. L. Weldon
Mrs. Dawson Swint
Mrs. Britt Veazey

TEAM No. 21
Mrs. J. H. Howarth, Captain
Mrs. Patrick Sullivan
Mrs. Willie Grey
Mrs. D. A. Jolly
Mrs. C. E. DeLoach

TEAM No. 22
Mrs. Chas. Stevens, Captain
Miss Cordelia Micou
Miss Estelle Heard
Mrs. Homer Wilbanks
Miss Ruby Pearce

TEAM No. 23
Mrs. Geo. H. Lanier, Captain
Mrs. John Hagedorn
Mrs. Lee Heyman
Mrs. Morris Darden
Miss Katie Smith
Mrs. Jamie Johnson

TEAM No. 24
Mrs. John King, Captain
Miss Flora Clyde Warner
Miss Helen Howarth
Miss Florence Weldon
Miss Hatty Knowles

TEAM No. 25
Mrs. S. L. Hayes, Captain
Mrs. Adah Stevens
Miss Gertrude Crowder
Miss Grace Stevens
Miss Frances Wallace

Committee Report

Second Liberty Loan |  | $1,650.00
Third Liberty Loan |  | 53,700.00
Fourth Liberty Loan |  | 55,850.00
Victory Liberty Loan |  | 30,300.00
Total |  | $141,500.00
United War Work Fund |  | $2,451.00
First Red Cross War Fund |  | $1,822.56
Second Red Cross War Fund |  | $5,294.00
War Stamps |  | $104,707.00
Salvation Army Drive |  | $313.40

From Lanett Red Cross

Sweaters |  | 38
Sox, pairs |  | 23
Pajamas, pairs |  | 21
Towels |  | 44
Bed shirts |  | 78
Bandages |  | 65
Comfort kits |  | 5
Convalescent robes |  | 6
Refugee garments |  | 1006

Letters written to boys in Service |  | 1972
Letters received from boys in Service |  | 423
Other letters written |  | 291
Number of packages forwarded |  | 57
Number of visitors at War Service Station |  | 2515
Total now in Service: white 164, colored 37 |  | 201
Number of Bulletins mailed |  | 2648
Killed in action |  | 6
Died of disease |  | 1
Wounded |  | 16

Shawmut

Sgt. Curtis Avery
Amer. Military Com.
Q.M.C.

Pvt. Herbert Avery
S.A.T.C.

Pvt. John J. Baker
Company C
39th Infantry

Corp. J. C. Barnes
Company I
167th Infantry

Corp. D. H. Barnes
5th Aero Squadron Rep.

Pvt. Floyd Blackwelder
S.A.T.C.

Capt. J. I. Bowles
Company E
106th Supply Train

Pvt. James Bridges
Company H
167th Infantry

Pvt. Hoyt A. Canady
Company K
167th Infantry

Pvt. John Carmack
7th Co. 13th M.P.C.
Embarkation Center

Pvt. Elige Champion
Battery E
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Claudius H. Cole
(Marine)
Balloon Det. H.A.F.

Pvt. J. W. Conway
Company C
151st Mach. Gun Btn.

Sgt. Cliff Conway
Company F
103d Infantry

Pvt. Marion L. Connell
Company A
48th Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. Geo. Cottle
Battery D
18th Field Artillery

Roy D. Coulter
Marine

Sgt. Jones S. Davis
Base Hospital 21

Pvt. Jakie S. Edge
Company K
1st Pioneers Inf.

Pvt. H. H. Elloit
20th Co. 5th Tr. Btn.
156th Depot Brigade

Corp. Howard S. Fling
Company I
167th Infantry

Pvt. Kenon Foster
11th Infantry Nov.
Repl.

Pvt. G. W. Hollis
Cas. Company 43
162d Depot Brigade
Tent Area 4

Sgt. John F. Hollis
Squadron 488 Const.

Pvt. Clyde Huff
Company I
167th Infantry

Floyd Hughey
U.S.N.

Pvt. Reuben Howell
Company I
Development Battalion

Pvt. T. B. James
40th Co. 10th Tr. Btn.
157th Depot Brigade

Pvt. J. M. Jarrell
Battery D
129th Field Artillery

Pvt. Walter Jarrell
4th Prov. Company

Pvt. Adolphus Johnson
Oversea Casual Co.
24th Camp Pike. A.R.D.

Pvt. Burl D. Jones
Company E
167th Infantry

Wag. R. L. Jones
H.S. Company
106th San. Tr.

Pvt. Hiram A. Keel
Company B
52d Infantry

Pvt. Geo. Kemp
Battery C
6th Field Artillery

Pvt. Mac Lackey
4th Provisional Co.

Sgt. T. B. Lanier
Bakery Co. 366
Quartermaster Corps

Corp. C. M. Lawhorn
Company H
167th Infantry

Pvt. J. C. Lyons
Company I
167th Infantry

Corp. W. F. McCarley
Company I
167th Infantry

Pvt. Wm. P. Mangrum
Company H
167th Infantry

Pvt. Wilfred O. Mangrum
Company D
17th Infantry

Pvt. Rance A. Milam
Company I
327th Infantry

Pvt. Otis B. Newman
Company M
331st Infantry

Pvt. N. D. Phillips
243d M.P. Co.

Pvt. Frank Pitts
Company H
167th Infantry

Pvt. Horace L. Pratt
801. 343 Q.M.C.

Pvt. Harold Pritchard
S.A.T.C.

Lee Ruff
U.S. Navy
U.S.S. Von Stubin

Sgt. J. C. Sewell
Company E
106th Supply Train

Corp. J. R. Sharpe
Company B
102d Infantry

T. A. Simms
U.S. Navy
U.S.S. Mt. Vernon

Pvt. Alva Smith
17th Co. 5th Tr. Btn.
157th Depot Brigade

Pvt. L. C. Smith
S.A.T.C.

1st Lieut. A. C. Smith
301st E. Remount Sqd.

Pvt. E. L. Spivey
22d Co. 6th Tr. Btn.
157th Depot Brigade

Corp. J. H. Stephens
Bakery Company 2
Q.M.C. Det.

J. S. Sledge
U.S. Navy
U.S.S. Louisiana

Pvt. Thomas H. Still
Company C
161st Infantry

Bugler C. T. Terrell
Company I
167th Infantry

Pvt. Thomas M. Aikens
Battery D
18th Field Artillery

Pvt. Bennie Thomas
Marine

Pvt. Thomas G. Tyson
Company I
6th Infantry

Wag. John T. Wallace
Supply Company
11th Infantry

W. L. Warren
U.S. Navy
U.S.S. Oklahoma

Pvt. Sam J. Warren
Cas. Company 63
162d Depot Brigade

Pvt. Kyle Waters
327th Field Hospital
307th San. Train

Pvt. Roy Watkins
Machine Gun Co.
56th Infantry

Clinton Waters
U.S. Navy
U.S.S. Rathhurn

Pvt. John D. Whatley
A. & B. School
Camp Sevier, S.C.

Pvt. John Deward White
Hdqtrs. Company
321st Infantry

Pvt. Olin Whitlaw
Cas. Company 33
Cas. Detachment
162d Depot Brigade

Corp. Paul W. Smith
Company G
1st Pioneers Infantry
2d Btn. H.Q.I.

Pvt. Floyd White
Company D
23d Infantry

Pvt. Joe Word
122d A.C.
106th San. Train

Pvt. Bernard Manley
Company A
113th F.A.

Pvt. N. B. Murphy
Student Marine Training Corps

Private A. E. Beaird
Company I
327th Infantry

Roll of Honor

‡ Killed in action † Died of disease * Photo

Adcock, Coy
*Aikens, Thomas
*Avery, Curtis
*Avery, Herbert

*Baker, John J.
*Barnes, D. H.
*Barnes, J. C.
‡Beard, A. E.
*Blackwelder, Floyd
*Bowles, J. T.
‡*Bridges, Jim

*Canady, Hoyt A.
*Carmack, John
*Champion, Lige
*Cole, Claudius H.
*Connell, Marion L.
*Conway, Clifford
*Conway, J. W.
*Cottle, George
*Coulter, Roy D.
Crowder, Lee

‡Dabbs, H. L.
*Davis, J. S.
Deloach, Birdie E.
Deloach, O. D.

*Edge, J. S.
*Elloit, Homer H.

*Fling, H. S.
*Foster, Kenon
Foster, Rufus M.

Garrett, Carl

Hestley, Dan M.
*Hollis, G. W.
*Hollis, J. F.
*Howell, Reuben
*Huff, Clyde
*Hughey, T. F.
Humphrey, Jewell

*James, T. B.
*Jarrell, J. M.
*Jarrell, Walter
*Johnson, Aldolphus
*Jones, Burl D.
*Jones, Robt. L.

*Keel, Hiram H.
*Kemp, George
Kennington, Grady
Kennington, Jake

*Lackey, Mac
*Lanier, T. B.
*Lawhorne, C. M.
Lindsey, O. L.
*Lyons, J. C.

*Mangrum, Wilford
‡*Mangrum, Wm. P.
Manley, Bernard
*Milam, Rance
Murphy, N. B.
*McCarley, W. F.

*Newman, Otis B.

*Phillips, Denson
*Pitts, Frank
*Pratt, Horace L.
*Pritchard, Harold

*Ruff, Lee

*Sewell, J. C.
Sharpe, A. E.
*Sharpe, J. R.
*Simms, A. T.
*Sledge, J. S.
*Smith, Alva
*Smith, A. C.
*Smith, Cooper
Smith, Elish
Smith, Ernest
*Smith, Paul W.
Smith, John Will
*Spivey, E. L.
Spivey, Forrest
*Stephens, J. H.
*Still, T. H.

Taunton, Jesse
Taylor, C. Z.
*Terrell, C. T.
‡*Thomas, Bennie
*Tyson, Thomas

*Wallace, John T.
*Warren, Sam
*Warren, W. L.
*Waters, Clinton
*Waters, Kyle
*Watkins, Roy W.
‡*Whatley, John D.
*White, Floyd
*White, John D.
*Whitlow, Olin
*Word, Joe

Colored

Boyd, Charlie
Boyd, Ocie
Brooks, Amos
Brooks, Jessie
Brooks, Willie Lee

Chambers, John
Cooper, Jeff
Copeland, George

Gibson, B. C.

‡Haffner, Richard

Littlefield, B. K.

Mason, John
Mitts, John

Oliver, Wesley

Reese, John T.

Extracts of Appreciation

“The people here are different from any other section of France. Their customs and dress are very peculiar, in fact, reminds me very much of the people of Holland. They wear wooden shoes and have a dialect all their own. French people from the more up-to-date parts of France have difficulty in speaking to and understanding them. The country is flat and marshy, and windmills like those of Holland can be seen. It is very pleasant in summer but in the winter I think it must be very cold, for already it is getting very cold at night and in the morning. I do not think we will be here long, though I do not know where we will go from here. Perhaps where the big guns roar and the bombs drop from the skies. Well, we have been anxious to go up front, and no doubt our chance will come some day. We have been doing some mighty important work back here in the S. O. S. but it is the nature of an American to want to be where the excitement is thickest.”

J. F. H.

October 8, 1918

“This helmet was picked up on the morning of October 16th as we were returning to the rear from a convoy in the heart of the Argonne, near the village of Cheppy. The wearer who had fallen earlier in the day was an old soldier perhaps sixty-five years old and belonged to the 419th Division of the Saxon Bombardiers. More than a hundred German and American Troops lay dead within sight.

“The probable cause of his death was high explosive, as he was torn up very badly.

“In an area of two square miles many hundred of these could have been gathered. I took an interest in this one on account of its high polish for camouflage purposes, something new to us at that time.”

A. C. S.

“We spent quite a different life from this in the English waters where we put in many monotonous months waiting for the Hun to come out. We were sorry he came out the way he did for we were just aching to exchange broadsides with him.

“My ship convoyed one-half million troops through what is called the ‘Submarines’ Graveyard,’ off the coast of Ireland, during the months of September and October.”

W. W.

January 1, 1919

“The boys in the outfit I belong to were the first to cross the Meuse River and were in the first lines when the guns stopped firing at 11 o’clock on the 11th day on the 11th month in the year 1918.”

J. T. W.

December 21, 1918

“I now belong to the Army of Occupation. We are going through what is to my thinking the prettiest country yet. My battery has hiked some four hundred and twenty-five kilometers since we fired our last barrage—and believe me, that was some barrage—‘The Million Dollar One’. It will take a long time before I forget it. I stood on a hill and watched and listened. IT WAS GREAT. I guess about ten or twelve regiments of the American Artillery and I don’t know how many of the French took part. The best of old Heinie’s guns were being used. If he knew the sound of them as well as we did, he knew that we were firing his OWN guns at him. They have a very peculiar and creepy sound, see?”

G. F. K.

December 4, 1918

“I had the pictures struck yesterday. And to show you how much speed there is here in France—for this is an instance of real speed—

“The guy who runs the shop pounded me on the back and said, ‘Bon, bon-apres un mayr photo finie’. Anybody that has to put up with that kind of lingo and fight this war has sure got some job. Well, after tearing out about all of my hair and using three different Franco-American dictionaries I finally managed to get this out of the scraps, ‘Good, good, after one month, picture finished’.

“Remember that was only yesterday.”

C. H.

October 25, 1918

“If this letter reaches you safely you can say it came through from the infernal regions, for if there was ever a ‘Hell’s Half Acre’ this must be it. Put your finger on the biggest forest in France and say I’m there. Six weeks like a rat, three of which is like a whirlwind sweeping through Hades day or night, no rest, but forever watching, waiting, working by candle light deep down in a dug-out, or no light at all. This certainly cannot last much longer. It does us good to know there is one place where everything is like it used to be. I certainly am glad SHAWMUT is still natural and hope someday soon to get back there and take up my work where I left off.”

A. C. S.

“I wish to express my sincere appreciation of the personal letter service which has been rendered me. It is the wonderful and unselfish spirit of the folks back home, which has made the men of the A. E. F. willing and eager to ‘carry on’.”

J. S. D.

December 22, 1918

“I was sitting on my bunk trying to write these few lines, when my bunkie jumped up all at once and said a few words (I can’t tell you what he said). At first I thought that he was shot but I found out what the trouble was, only a ‘cootie bite’.”

D. H. B.

September 23, 1918

“If there is one thing that stands out preeminently in a soldier’s daily schedule across the sea, as to helpfulness it is ‘that letter’ or little bit of news from home (America). If you good people who are carrying on the work of the ‘Home Guards’ could see the eager faces of the Yanks at mail time, as they congregate for mail distributions, I am sure you would agree that time spent in writing to ‘Over There’ boys, is at least appreciated to the fullest.”

J. H. S.

September 22, 1918

“I appreciate having my name on the list at the War Service Station very much. I enjoy the Bulletin from the first to the last and hope I’ll never miss one as long as the war lasts.”

H. A.

October 6, 1918

“I was indeed surprised, a few days since, to receive a letter from you good people of my old home town reminding me that you still remember me and appreciate the effort that we boys are making to do our ‘bit’ for the just and righteous cause in which we are all enlisted.

“Your promise to write us from time to time of the items of interest at home especially gratifying, for local news nowadays, possesses far more interest and diversion for us than does the doings and happenings of the remainder of the ‘great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world’.”

C. T. T.

July 10, 1918

“It makes one feel good to know that he is remembered back home, not only by his parents, but by his friends as well. You don’t know, you can’t know, just how much good you are doing and just how it makes us feel when stationed at a remote camp, where we know no one, to get a letter from friends at home, who are interested in us. It makes us feel as though nothing on earth could prevent us from winning this war—and we shall win.”

R. D. C.

June 21, 1918

“We leave this port the tenth of December and proceed nine hundred miles off this coast and meet President Wilson and his party, who are coming over to the Peace Conference on the George Washington, convoyed by the super-dreadnaught, Pennsylvania, and six destroyers.

“There are nine big dreadnaughts in our fleet lying here who will go out and convoy them to Brest, France.”

W. L. W.

December 8, 1918

WAR SERVICE STATION, Shawmut

WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, Shawmut
G. C. Wagnon  C. A. Singleterry  J. T. Hollis  Geo. W. Murphy
Mrs. Jack Plaut, ass’t sec’y  J. R. Edwards  Mrs. Mary M. Bugg, sec’y

RED CROSS WORK ROOM, Shawmut

RECEPTION ROOM, WAR SERVICE STATION, Shawmut

Committees

Y. M. C. A. DRIVE
Subscription, $338.35

RED CROSS CHRISTMAS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Edwards, J. R.
Murphy, G. W.
Whitehead, J. L.
Subscription, $100.00

RED CROSS WAR FUND DRIVE
Bugg, Mrs.
Edwards, J. R.
Wagnon, Mrs.
Whitehead, J. L.
Subscription, $1,186.00

RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL
Bugg, Mrs. M. M.
Jones, T. T.
Kemp, Mrs. F. S.
Subscription, $150.00

UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE
Cole, Loyd
Crowder, J. J.
Crowder, Walt
Herring, Dr.
Hollis, J. T.
Johnson, E. J.
Jones, T. T.
Kemp, F. S.
Murphy, G. W.
Pritchard, Mrs. P.
Singleterry, C. A.
Underwood, W. L.
Wagnon, G. C.
Walls, J. S.
Subscription, $1,944.10

ARMENIAN RELIEF FUND
Subscription, $101.50

SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
Subscription, $100.70

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
Jones, T. T.
Murphy, G. W.
Murphy, O. G.
Singleterry, C. A.
Wagnon, G. C.
Subscription, $1,750.00

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
Crowder, J. J.
Edwards, J. R.
Hollis, J. T.
Johnson, E. J.
Jones, T. T.
Kemp, F. S.
Kemp, Miss Grace
Murphy, G. W.
Murphy, O. G.
Singleterry, C. A.
Wagnon, G. C.
Walls, J. S.
Underwood, W. L.
Subscription, $24,350.00

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
Crowder, J. J.
Edwards, J. R.
Hollis, J. T.
Johnson, E. J.
Jones, Mrs. T. T.
Jones, T. T.
Kemp, F. S.
Murphy, G. W.
Murphy, O. G.
Pritchard, Dr. P.
Singleterry, C. A.
Underwood, W. L.
Wagnon, G. C.
Walls, J. S.
Whitehead, J. W.
Subscription, $25,200.00

VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN
Subscription, $10,500.00

WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
Subscription, $10,500.00

|  | Total
Liberty and Victory Loans |  | $61,800.00
War Saving Stamps |  | 10,500.00
United War Fund |  | 1,944.10
Membership and Subscription Red Cross |  | 1,436.00
Y. M. C. A. |  | 338.35
Salvation Army |  | 100.70
Armenian Relief |  | 101.50

Committee Report

Number of boys who left for Service from Shawmut |  | 111
Number of colored boys |  | 14
Number of boys discharged before War Service Station started |  | 5
Number of boys whose address was unlocated |  | 10
| 29
Number of boys on writing list |  | 82
Number of boys who died in Service |  | 7
Number of boys known to be wounded |  | 20
Number of boys who have written to War Service Station |  | 61
Number of visitors to Station |  | 2950
Number of letters sent to boys in Service |  | 1267
Number of other letters mailed |  | 464
Number of Bulletins mailed |  | 1650
Number of packages forwarded |  | 125
Number of letters received from boys in Service |  | 283
Number of pieces of mail sent out from War Service Station |  | 3188

From Shawmut Red Cross

T bandages |  | 91
Bed shirts |  | 48
Triangular bandages |  | 103
Abdominal bandages |  | 79
Sweaters |  | 116
Sox, pairs |  | 11
Refugee aprons |  | 20
Helpless case shirts |  | 12
Pajamas, pairs |  | 20
Refugee dresses |  | 10
Comfort bags |  | 5
Refugee shirts |  | 5
Convalescent robes |  | 10
Garments to Belgian and French refugees |  | 482
Towels in shower |  | 125
Influenza masks for influenza epidemic |  | 1000
Garments in Christmas box |  | 160
Inspection of boys’ Christmas boxes.

Junior Red Cross

Collected 1917-1918 |  | $60.00
Collected 1918-1919 |  | 50.00
Sweaters |  | 6
Hospital blanket |  | 1
Sox, pairs |  | 15
Utility bags |  | 10
Monthly hospital booklets.

Langdale

Grady Allen
U.S.S. Susquehanna

Pvt. William F. Bailey
Battery E
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Charles Bailey
Battery D
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. James Arthur Bates
38th Co. 10th Tr. Btn.
157th Depot Brigade

Pvt. William A. Blanks
Hdqtrs. Military Police

Pvt. Walter Blackwell
57th Company
M.T.C.

Lieut. J. Mem Bohannon
Company I
167th Infantry

Pvt. Walter T. Bohannon
Cavalry Camp Remount

Bugler Henry J. Brannon
Battery F
50th Artillery C.A.C.

Douglas Brittingham
U.S.S. Pennsylvania

Pvt. Poet Canady
Company C
321st Infantry

Pvt. Alsberry Carlisle
9th Company
167th Infantry

Pvt. Johnnie E. Carriker
Truck Company 2
106th Am. Train

Cook Eddie L. Crawford
Hdqtrs. Troop
4th Division

Pvt. Robert R. Crawford
Company A
29th Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. J. Ben Crenshaw
57th Company
M.T.D.

Pvt. Amos M. Crenshaw
Cas. Company 465

Pvt. Roy Culberson
Company H
328th Infantry

Pvt. Ocie Lee Deloach
F.R.S. 327

Pvt. Richmond Earles
Company 5
H.Q.R.S.

Pvt. Joseph A. Fobus
Battery E
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Rufus M. Foster
327th Field Hospital
307th San. Train

Luther Frazier
Sub Chaser 204

Pvt. W. A. Fuller
Supply Co.
321st Infantry

Sgt. Jessee L. Glass
A.P.O. 927

Pvt. Keener Gray
3d Prov. Company
O.A.R.D.

Pvt. Austin M. Hornsby
Hdqtrs. Company
17th Infantry

Pvt. Ronald E. James
Battery D
114th Field Artillery

Pvt. Olin Johnson
Company D
89th Infantry

Pvt. James Lee Johnson
21st Company
R.R.D.

Cook Ellis Joseph
Base Hospital

Pvt. Oscar W. Kent
260th Company
130th Btn. M.P.C.

Hugh S. Bates
Naval Training Station

Pvt. Ocie Laney
Supply Company
10th F.A., A.P.O. 740

Sgt. Thomas Landreth
Company F
17th Infantry

Pvt. S. H. Lauderdale
69th Company
6th Group

Sgt. Homer McClendon
Company B
U.S.A. Gen. Hosp. 36

Sgt. Sam McDonald
Company F
167th Infantry

Pvt. Benjamin F. McGarr
Battery F
7th Field Artillery

Pvt. William C. Manning
Company B
47th Reg. T.C.

Eulos Moon
U.S. Naval Air Station

Clarence Morris
U.S.S. Cincinnati

James M. Newton
U.S.S. Anniston

Pvt. Will O’Neal
Cas. Company 61
162d Depot Brigade

Pvt. Amos Orrick
Troop A
14th Cavalry

Pvt. Fred Perryman
Company M
49th Infantry

Pvt. Luther Shelnut
Cas. Company 43
162d Depot Brigade

Pvt. Walter Lee Smith
4th Company
O.A.R.D. Automatic

Pvt. Douglas M. Smith
Hdqtrs. Company
57th Infantry

Pvt. G. F. Tankersley
Battery E
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Zachery Thompson
71st Company
6th Group M.T.D.

Pvt. J. O. Threadgill
17th Company
162d Depot Brigade

Ellis Waller
Naval Training Station
Reg. 4 Sec. 9

Sgt. Luke Wesson
Supply Company
167th Infantry

Pvt. Walter H. Whatley
3d Ordnance Guard Co.

Pvt. Johnnie Williams
Bakery Company 358

Pvt. Tommy Young
Company G 2d
Training Regiment

Roll of Honor

† Died of disease ‡ Killed in action

Allen, Grady

Bailey, Charles
Bailey, William F.
Bassett, Bryant
Bates, Hugh S.
Bates, James Arthur
Blackwell, Walter
Blanks, William A.
‡Bohannon, J. Mem
†Bohannon, Walter T.
Boon, Grady
Brannon, Henry J.
Brittingham, Douglas

Canady, Poet
Carlisle, Alsberry
Carriker, Johnnie E.
Crawford, Eddie L.
Crawford, Robert R.
Crenshaw, Amos M.
Crenshaw, J. Ben
Crowder, Otis
Culberson, Roy

Daniel, Eugene R.
Deloach, Ocie Lee

Earles, Richmond
Earles, Schusler

Fobus, Joseph Adie
Foster, Rufus M.
Foster, Walter Lee
Frazier, Luther
Fuller, W. A.

Glass, Jessee L.
Gray, Keener

Hornsby, Austin M.

James, Ronald E.
‡Johnson, James Lee

Johnson, Olin
Joseph, Ellis

Kent, Oscar W.

Landreth, Thomas
Laney, Ocie
‡Lauderdale, S. H.

Manning, William C.
Moon, Eulos
Morris, Clarence
McClendon, Homer
McDonald, Sam
McGarr, Benjamin F.

Newton, James M.

O’Neal, Will
Orrick, Amos

‡Perryman, Fred

Roberts, Andrew

Shelnut, Luther
Smith, Charles M.
Smith, Douglas M.
Smith, Walter Lee
‡Stanfield, Charlie D.
Stephens, Albert E.

Tankersley, George F.
Thompson, Zachary
Threadgill, J. O.
Tyson, Fred

Waller, Ellis
Wesson, Luke
Whatley, Walter H.
Williams, Johnnie

Young, Tommy

Colored

Brooks, Jess
Finley, Alton
Ison, Guss

Taylor, Guy
Taylor, Manual
Winston, Frank

Extracts of Appreciation

“I appreciate all the letters which you have written to me and it certainly livens a fellow up and makes him feel good to receive all the news from home and know just what is being done.”

“I am proud to be represented in the service flag.”

“Am glad to hear from you and to know that you are doing such wonderful work for the boys.”

“Thanking you all for the joy that comes with your ever welcome letters.”

“I want you to tell your fellow members in the War Service Station that as a man in the service I can heartily appreciate the work you are doing for the benefit of the men in the service and I think it is a splendid thing.”

“Please accept my sincere thanks for all the letters, magazines and other things you have sent.”

“Thanking you for remembering me and wishing you much success with your work.”

“Am sure this system will prove a success as the boys will all appreciate the work of the Service Station.”

“I am grateful to you and proud of our War Service Station.”

“I am sure the good work that the Langdale War Service Station is doing for the boys in the service is very much appreciated. No one has an idea what it means until they are in the Service and are remembered as we are by the Service Station.”

“Can assure you that your letters and all good work is more than appreciated.”

“My best wishes for a prosperous Station, but then how could it be otherwise when it is for the good of Democracy and especially for the Liberty of these dear old ‘United States’.”

“I am not going to try to thank you for all the good news and letters I received when I reached port, this time. It was just grand.”

“If you could visit this place once, my dear friends, you would know what a good place the U. S. A. is. Everything is out of date, even the women are all curious looking.”

“It may be six or eight months before I get back to dear old Langdale. Of course it seems very hard to stay, but if my country needs me I am willing.”

WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, Langdale

W. H. Enloe, chairman  W. T. Draper  A. C. Boyd
C. M. Moore  W. L. Clark  Miss Ollie Gardner, secretary

RED CROSS WORK ROOM, Langdale

WAR SERVICE STATION, Langdale

INTERIOR WAR SERVICE STATION, Langdale

Committees

Subscriptions to First Liberty Loan were through
the bank and we have no record of them.

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
Subscription, $5,000.00

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
L. Lanier, V.-Chairman of Chambers Co.
W. H. Enloe, Chairman of Langdale
Subscription, $40,600.00

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
L. Lanier, V.-Chairman of Chambers Co.
Carl. M. Moore, Chairman of Langdale
Subscription, $14,900.00

UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
A. C. Boyd, Chairman of Langdale
Subscription, $1,797.75

Y. M. C. A.
Subscription, $625.00

VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN
W. H. Enloe, Chairman
Subscription, $10,100.00

FIRST RED CROSS WAR FUND
W. H. Enloe, Chairman of Langdale
Subscription, $2,353.02

SECOND RED CROSS WAR FUND
L. Lanier, Chairman of Chambers Co.
W. H. Enloe, Chairman of Langdale
Subscription, $2,390.03

WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
A. C. Boyd, Chairman of Chambers Co.
Geo. T. Johnson, Chairman of Langdale
Subscription, $32,000.00

LANGDALE CHAPTER RED CROSS
Mrs. L. Lanier, Chairman

FOUR-MINUTE-MEN
Carl M. Moore, Chairman
A. C. Boyd
W. H. Enloe
W. L. Clark
W. T. Draper

SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
Carl Moore, Chairman
Subscription, $160.00

|  | Total
Liberty and Victory Loans |  | $70,600.00
Membership and Subscription Red Cross |  | 4,743.05
Y. M. C. A. |  | 625.00
Salvation Army |  | 160.00
United War Fund |  | 1,797.75
War Saving Stamps |  | 32,000.00

Committee Report

Letters written boys in Service |  | 894
Letters from boys in Service |  | 263
Miscellaneous letters written |  | 564
Number of parcels or packages forwarded |  | 363
Number of visitors at Station |  | 1623
Boys leaving during month for Service
Total number in Service |  | 74
Number of Bulletins mailed |  | 1153
Killed in action |  | 4
Died of wounds |  | 1
Died of disease |  | 1
Wounded |  | 2

From Langdale Red Cross

Sweaters |  | 56
Sox, pairs |  | 166
Triangular bandages |  | 326
T bandages |  | 292
Abdominal bandages |  | 255
Bed shirts |  | 92
Hospital shirts |  | 10
Refugee aprons |  | 45
Refugee dresses |  | 20
Pajamas, pairs |  | 24
Operating robes |  | 12
Refugee garments |  | 1202
Bath towels |  | 100
Shoes, pairs |  | 13

Junior Red Cross

Triangular bandages |  | 50
Refugee garments |  | 167
Cash |  | $5.00
Scrap books |  | 30
Barrels of nuts collected |  | 4
Pounds of tinfoil collected |  | 15
Property bags |  | 20

Fairfax

Pvt. Edwin Abernathy
Company F
321st Infantry

Pvt. Young T. Abernathy
Company B
46th Engineers

Pvt. Albert Carl Austin
Company F
3d Training Regiment

Pvt. Sam A. Bradshaw
325th Ambulance Co.
307th Sanitary Train

Corp. James P. Bradfield
Company C
1st Gas Regiment

Ensign Frank L. Branson
Naval Flying Corps

Seaman Alvin F. Bradfield
U.S.S. Shaw

Pvt. Calvin G. Bradfield
Company E
1st Regiment Engineers

Pvt. Herbert Bradshaw
Detached Infantry
Adj. Gen. Office Georgia

Pvt. John W. Brittain
Company C
45th Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. Thomas A. Broome
2d Battery
R.A.R.R.

Pvt. Claude L. Carter
Company H
26th Infantry

Pvt. Leonard Carter
Company D
307th Engineers

Pvt. Y. Toxie Chambley
Company C
321st Infantry

Pvt. James E. Combs
S.A.T.C. Infantry

Pvt. Homer D. Chambley
Battery D
70th Field Artillery

Pvt. Leonard M. Chapman
Mach. Gun Company
321st Infantry

Pvt. E. T. Combs
Quartermaster Corps
Naval Aviation T.C.

Pvt. Forest Davis
Company 39
Recruiting Camp

Pvt. Nello M. Dixon
Company H
167th Infantry

Pvt. I. Grady Dixon
Hdqtrs. Troops
82d Division

Pvt. Leon Duffey
Company A
165th Infantry

Pvt. Terry Aubrey Dunn
Company H
167th Infantry

Pvt. Robert Ennis
Hdqtrs. Company
55th Infantry

Pvt. J. T. Franklin
Bakery Company 365

Cook Curtis R. Gauntt
Battery B
321st Infantry

Sgt. Wm. P. Gilliland
Company E
106th Am. Train

Pvt. Charles W. Glass
Company F
151st Infantry

Pvt. Jno. V. Haerenborgh
R.R.D. No. 3

Sailor Jos. E. Hall
U.S.S. ——

Pvt. R. E. Wilson
634 Aero Squadron

Pvt. Henry Hodnett
Company 17
5th Receiving Btn.

Pvt. Arthur Hollis
Battery D
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Thomas E. Kinney
Company E
106th Sup. Train

2d Lt. H. B. Kirkpatrick
21st Company
Infantry Reserve Corps

Pvt. Jessie E. Landers
Company E
1st Development Btn.

Pvt. Polie L. Lilly
Battery D
114th Field Artillery

Pvt. Will McIntyre
21st Company
R.R.D.

2d Cl. Fmn. B. F. Martin
U.S.S. Newton

Pvt. W. Evin Martin
Company I
327th Infantry

Corp. T. E. Middleton
106th Trench
Mortar Battery

Pvt. Johnnie Moore
19th Company
5th Training Btn.
157th Depot Brigade

1st Lt. J. C. Morgan
233d Amb. Company
9th Sanitary Train

Sailor Carl Newton
U.S.S. Orion

Pvt. Walter Nichols
7th Regiment
M.P. School

Pvt. George W. Norrel
Battery D
18th Field Artillery

1st Cl. Fmn. C. Oliver
U.S.S. Patterson

Yeoman T. M. Piper
U.S.S. Baltimore

Pvt. Rubin Powell
Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.

Pvt. Geo. W. Reaves
Company A
51st Infantry

Pvt. Wm. D. Satterwhite
Company D
20th Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. Tom W. Smith
Field Remount Sqd. 33

Pvt. John T. Smith
Field Remount Sqd. 330

Pvt. John L. Smith
Company D
321st Infantry

Pvt. Fred L. Stalnaker
76th Group
6th M.T.D.

Corp. W. L. Stalnaker
Company D
161st Infantry

Pvt. C. D. Stalnaker
64th Company
16th Receiving Btn.

Pvt. Henry Taunton
Company D
5th Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. Jesse Taunton
Company M
182d Infantry

Pvt. Dewey Taylor
Company C
20th Mach. Gun Btn.

Sgt. Henry Guy Taylor
Supply Company
2d Infantry

Pvt. Cephas Taylor
Company B
3d Regiment

Pvt. William C. Taylor
Battery B
149th Field Artillery

Pvt. Homer E. Thomas
Company G
161st Infantry

Pvt. T. Howard Turner
Company B
Development Btn.

Pvt. Emmett Welch
5th Company
Air Service

Sgt. Harvey A. Welch
106th Mobile
Ordnance Repair Shop

Pvt. Joe Wessinger
Battery F
114th Field Artillery

William M. Whittington
Company I
167th Reg. 42nd Div.

Pvt. A. C. Williams
Aero Squadron
Roosevelt Field

Corp. James E. Williams
Battery E
117th Field Artillery

Pvt. G. Harold Williams
Company B
17th Engineers

Pvt. Oscar L. Williams
Headquarters Company
321st Infantry Band

Pvt. John O. Williams
Company C
1st Division Battalion

Roll of Honor

‡ Killed in action

Abernathy, Edwin
Abernathy, Young T.
Austin, Albert Carl

Bozeman, Hugh
Bradfield, Alvin F.
Bradfield, Calvin G.
Bradfield, James P.
Bradshaw, Herbert
Bradshaw, Sam A.
Branson, Frank L.
Brittain, John W.
Broome, Thomas A.
Bryan, C. Jesse

Carter, Claude L.
Carter, Leonard
Causey, R. M.
Chambley, Homer D.
Chambley, Y. Toxie
Chapman, Leonard M.
Combs, Elisha T.
Combs, James E.

Davis, Forest
Dixon, I. Grady
Dixon, Nello M.
Duffey, Leon
‡Dunn, Terry A.

Ennis, Robert

Franklin, J. T.

Gilliland, William P.
Gauntt, Curtis R.
Glass, Charles W.

Haerenborgh, John V.
Hall, Edgar
Hamer, Ernest
Herron, R. A.
Hill, A. L.
Hodnett, Henry
Hollis, Arthur

Jackson, Erby L.

Kinney, Thomas E.
Kirkpatrick, Harold B.

Landers, Jesse E.
Laster, Willie
Lilly, Polie L.

Martin, B. Frank
Martin, W. Evin
Middleton, Thomas E.
Mills, George J.
Moore, Johnnie
Morgan, James C.
McIntyre, Will

Newton, Carl
Nichols, Walter
Norrel, George W.

Oliver, Claude

Powell, Rubin
Piper, Tally W.

Reaves, George W.
Roberts, James B.

Satterwhite, Wm. D.
Smith, John T.
Smith, John L.
Smith, Thomas W.
Stalnaker, Charles D.
Stalnaker, Fred L.
Stalnaker, Willie L.

Taylor, Cephas
Taylor, Dewey
Taylor, Henry Guy
Taylor, William C.
Taunton, Henry
Taunton, Jesse
Thomas, Homer E.
Turner, Thadius H.

Welch, Emmett
Welch, Harvey A.
Wessinger, Joe
Whittington, Wm. M.
Williams, A. C.
Williams, G. Harold
Williams, John O.
Williams, James E.
Williams, Oscar L.
Wilson, Robert L.

Colored

Alexander, John, Jr.

Burdette, Walter
Burton, Bob

Dukes, Abe

Ford, Otto
Ford, Robert

Gates, G. G.

Heard, Fisher

Heart, Ernest
Heel, Lewis
Howard, Jeff
Hutchinson, Willie

Moody, Bob

Pettillo, J. L.

Ross, Jim

Ware, Erley
Wilkins, Sam

Extracts of Appreciation

“It’s a tough proposition; it’s a terrible thing, but we know that some blood has to be spilled and we are willing to let it flow for the cause and the best country on earth.”

“I am always overjoyed to hear or receive news from my dear friends at home.”

“The French people go wild over the U. S. boys. One can’t get lonesome or homesick, they treat you too good.”

“I am still on the destroyer, Shaw, and we hunt ‘subs’ most every day.”

“’Tis needless to say that the letters and Bulletins which I received today brought one grand little message and a feeling of comradeship into my heart. I appreciate them very, very much and I enjoy them more and more.”

“I don’t want to quit until the job is finished.”

“Your encouragement, our bullets, and it’s all over.”

“I am happy that it fell my lot to serve for our grand and noble country in her fight for Democracy.”

“I hear that we are going to France. I am just ‘crazy’ to go.”

“Your letters have given me a great deal of pleasure and I can imagine the joy they cause the fellows who have gone across.”

“I have been living under the ground since I have been on the front. Don’t know how I would feel if I could get into a house again.”

“If it wasn’t for the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and the Service Station, I don’t see how we could get along.”

“I have been in action and I feel more than ever that there must be no peace without victory and every soldier I have met shares that feeling.”

“You would feel a deep new tender feeling for France and her people if you could see them carry the Stars and Stripes so proudly, and note the feeling toward the American soldier.”

“Well, they say that we have had a war in France and that it has come to an abrupt close. Isn’t it strange how easily and how swiftly we put a serious crimp into the great German mass? I can’t realize it—it seems a long dream.”

“I have been in England, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and on the line of Germany since I have been in Europe.”

“Since the Armistice we have been on quite a long hike; followed the great and final retreat of the Kaiser’s grand army. We are stationed now a few kilometers beyond the River Rhine, on a hill overlooking the city of Coblenz.”

“Sorry that the other boys didn’t get to see France; they missed the real fun, a trip that they wouldn’t ever forget.”

WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, Fairfax

P. C. Ramsey  J. L. Bowles  A. G. Pope
R. E. Smith, chairman  Ozella Bradshaw, secretary  P. T. Sparks

RED CROSS WORK ROOM, Fairfax

WAR SERVICE STATION, Fairfax

INTERIOR WAR SERVICE STATION, Fairfax

Committees

FIRST LIBERTY LOAN
Some subscribed, but no organized
work done.

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
F. L. Branson, Chairman
C. Kirkpatrick
P. C. Ramsey
Lon Combs
J. E. Howell
Subscription, $1,500.00

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
F. L. Branson, Chairman
R. E. Smith
P. C. Ramsey
C. Kirkpatrick
J. E. B. Martin
Vana Combs
Subscription, $33,700.00

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
R. E. Smith, Chairman
C. Kirkpatrick
P. C. Ramsey
J. E. B. Martin
Lon Combs
F. P. Bradfield
Subscription, $25,700.00

FIRST RED CROSS FUND
F. L. Branson, Chairman
P. C. Ramsey
Lon Combs
J. E. B. Martin
Miss Maud James
Subscription, $1,200.00

SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
T. G. Stanfield
Miss Maud James
Subscription, $140.00

SECOND RED CROSS FUND
R. E. Smith, Chairman
P. C. Ramsey
J. E. B. Martin
C. Kirkpatrick
Lon Combs
F. P. Bradfield
Subscription, $2,150.00

Y. M. C. A.
C. Kirkpatrick, Chairman
R. E. Smith
J. E. B. Martin
Vana Combs
J. E. Howell
Subscription, $572.75

UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
R. E. Smith, Chairman
F. P. Bradfield
Vana Combs
J. E. B. Martin
P. C. Ramsey
Subscription, $1,740.00

WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
J. E. B. Martin, Chairman
J. M. Brown
J. L. Bowles
D. W. Simms
R. E. Smith
P. C. Ramsey
A. G. Pope
Subscriptions, $17,700.00

VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN
F. L. Branson
D. W. Sims
Jack Davis
J. C. Dawe
Subscription, $14,800.00

|  | Total
Liberty and Victory Loans |  | $75,700.00
United War Fund |  | 1,740.00
Membership and Subscription Red Cross |  | 3,350.00
Salvation Army Drive |  | 140.00
War Saving Stamps |  | 17,700.00
Y. M. C. A. |  | 572.75

Committee Report

Total number of letters written to boys in Service |  | 1158
Total number of letters received from boys in Service |  | 205
Total number of other letters written |  | 447
Total number of packages or parcels forwarded |  | 326
Total number of visitors at War Service Station |  | 1232
Total number of boys in Service |  | 101
Total number of Bulletins mailed |  | 1496
Total number killed in action |  | 1
Died of disease or wounds |  | 1
Total number wounded |  | 6

From the Fairfax Red Cross

Bed shirts |  | 36
Helpless case shirts |  | 40
Convalescent robes |  | 4
Pajamas, American |  | 5
Triangular bandages |  | 48
T bandages |  | 8
Abdominal bandages |  | 4
Comfort bags |  | 5
Pillow cases |  | 12
Sheets |  | 24
Hand towels |  | 206
Bath towels |  | 100
Wash cloths |  | 24
Table doilies |  | 60
Tray cloths |  | 24
Aprons, women’s refugee |  | 12
Dresses, children’s refugee |  | 22
Housegowns, women’s refugee |  | 6
Morning blouses, women’s refugee |  | 6
Petticoats, women’s refugee |  | 12
Helmets |  | 3
Mufflers |  | 5
Sweaters, sleeveless |  | 24
Socks for soldiers |  | 52
Influenza masks for home use |  | 600
Total weight of garments donated for refugee boxes, pounds |  | 881
Total number of Christmas boxes packed for soldiers |  | 28

Junior Red Cross

Triangular bandages |  | 36
Towels |  | 72
Wristlets |  | 6

Riverview

Pvt. W. C. Anthony
Headquarters Company
321st F.A. Band
American Ex. F

Pvt. Roy B. Anthony
28th Company
157th Depot Brigade
Camp Gordon, Ga.

Pvt. Marvin Baker
82d Field Artillery
Battery A
Fort Bliss, Tex.

Pvt. Fonzy O. Barnett
Company B
46th Engineers
American Ex. Forces

Pvt. Archie L. Blackmon
Hdqtrs. Troop
8th Cavalry
Marfa, Texas

Pvt. Joe Chappell
M.G. Repl. Co. 1
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. John Gay
Company I
123rd Infantry
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. Tyler Grant
Base Hospital
Ward 19
Camp Sevier, S.C.

Pvt. Fred Hunt
U.S.A. Training Det.
Auburn, Ala.

Pvt. Crew Hunt
U.S.A. Training Det.
Auburn, Ala.

Pvt. Elbert E. Lewis
Company B
30th U.S. Infantry
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. Jasper J. Lewis
Hdqtrs. Company
56th Infantry
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. Joe McCann
Battery D
118th Field Artillery
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. Levi McKinney
Company E
12th Infantry
Camp Hill, Va.

Pvt. James D. Milner
Company 5
Depot Brigade
Camp Wheeler, Ga.

Pvt. Jesse B. Milner
Company 8
Repl. Camp
Camp Wheeler, Ga.

Pvt. Glenn Milner
Company C
321st Infantry
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. R. O. Ogletree
32d Div. M.P.
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. Nute Paschal
Battery C
54th Field Artillery
Camp Travis, Texas

Pvt. Henry Paschal
Company I
148th Infantry
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. William G. Prather
Battery E
117th Field Artillery
Amer. Ex. Forces

Sgt. Maj. L. L. Scales
1st Battalion
328th Infantry

Pvt. Dock Smith
Company H
107th Infantry
Amer. Ex. Forces

Pvt. Arnold Waller
53d H.A. Batt. D
Field Artillery
Camp Travis, Texas

Pvt. Logan Ware
19th Co. 5th Tr. Btn.
157th Depot Brigade
Camp McClellan, Ala.

Pvt. Watson Ware
Development Det.
Camp Sheridan
Montgomery, Ala.

Pvt. Luther E. Williams
36th Company
3d Gr. M.T.D., M.G., T.C.
Camp Hancock, Ga.

Roll of Honor

Anthony, Roy B.
Anthony, Waymon C.

Baker, Marvin
Barnett, Fonzy O.
Blackmon, Archie

Chappell, Joe

Gay, John
Grant, Tyler

Hunt, Crew
Hunt, Fred

Lewis, Elbert E.
Lewis, Jasper

Milner, Glenn

Milner, James D.
Milner, Jesse B.

McCann, Joseph
McKinney, Levi

Ogletree, Raymond O.

Paschal, Henry
Paschal, Nute
Prather, William G.

Scales, Sgt. Maj. Luther L.
Smith, Dock

Waller, Arnold
Ware, Logan
Ware, Watson
Williams, Luther E.

Extracts of Appreciation

“They can have England, France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany, I have seen them all and spent some time in each, but give me the old United States.”

Raymond O. Ogletree

“I will tell you of my first experience in a dugout. When we arrived here it was raining, so I crawled into a dugout for the night. In the meantime shells were landing regularly. I unrolled my pack and went to bed and I had no more than got settled when Fritz sent some large ones over. As I was a new man at the trade it was hard for me to get to sleep, but finally I did and sometime in the night he sent a large one over which made a direct hit on my dugout. I jumped almost out of bed. It rained so much during the night that I was almost floating when I awoke the next morning and it took me nearly all day to dry out all of my stuff.”

Raymond O. Ogletree

“Speaking of Christmas, we had a pleasant one considering the place and times. There are twenty-seven children in the town where we are now, the same place we were during the holidays. We had a Christmas Tree for them, so I suppose we made several little hearts happy.”

Glenn Milner

“I don’t know whether I will get the first German helmet or not, but I am going to do my bit over there. I shall take it all like a man and fight my best for Old Glory.”

Joe McCann

“I wish I were in good health and could do my bit over there along with the other boys.”

Tyler Grant

“It’s very nice of the Riverview War Service Station to offer a prize to the first boy who captures a German helmet. I’d like to have a chance at the Kaiser and get the one he wears.”

Marvin Baker

“I don’t know how to start to thank the good people of Riverview for the hearty Christmas greetings through the Bulletin. I will say this much, they are the best ever. I send my best regards to everyone.”

Archie Blackmon

“You don’t know how much I appreciate the kindness of the Riverview people while we are over here chasing the Germans as fast as we possibly can. You, no doubt have heard of the big American drive that is now going. I must say that the old U. S. boys are making it hot for those Dutchmen just now. I have been transferred to the band, so I am hoping to play a piece for the boys to march through Berlin soon.”

Waymon C. Anthony

“I want to say that if all the boys in the Service appreciate, as I do, what the folks of Riverview are doing for our benefit, the work is a great success. The letters you send certainly are interesting to me. They keep me in very close touch with what is going on at home.”

Waymon C. Anthony

“I think this is one of the grandest lives a boy can live if he will do his best. I am proud to be a soldier and I hope that it won’t be long before I can go over sea to do my part. I feel like we are fighting for a cause that God would have us fight for. I had much rather go over the top than have it always said of me, ‘He was a slacker’. That’s enough said about that for we are going to get the Kaiser some old way.”

Roy B. Anthony

“I am sorry I didn’t get over to help the boys. I don’t feel like I have been in the Service at all, but I have done the best I could. I think those who went oversea are the ones that should have all the praise for winning this war.”

Roy B. Anthony

“We are here training to fight for the old flag and we will not give up until the last one is dead.”

Watson Ware

“A German garden was captured by our boys a few days ago, so we are living high on cabbage, turnips, etc. You should see what fine homes the Germans had in their dugouts: electric lights, bath rooms, pianos and all such to make life pleasant. I want to tell you, however, that they are not spending much of their time playing pianos and taking baths now, for our boys are giving them all the music they are looking for, and then some.”

Waymon C. Anthony

“For the sake of my country, I am anxious for the day to come when I shall have the opportunity of going over the top to capture the helmet that you mentioned in your last letter, not for the $50.00 reward, but for the sake of my country and the people who are dear to me. I trust that when the war is all over I can go back home and truly say, ‘I have done my all’.”

Committees

WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
R. H. Bledsoe, Jr., Chairman
E. I. Oliver
B. B. McGinty
Arthur T. Goggans
Subscription, $7,000.00

RED CROSS DRIVE
B. B. McGinty, Chairman
Miss Amber Liles
Miss Marion Webster
Subscription, $2,712.00

Y. M. C. A.
Subscription, $700.00

UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
R. H. Bledsoe, Jr., Chairman
Miss Amber Liles
Subscription, $1,183.00

FIRST LIBERTY LOAN
No subscription

SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
B. B. McGinty, Chairman
Subscription, $105.00

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
R. H. Bledsoe, Chairman
B. B. McGinty
C. L. Gibson
J. M. Milner
W. W. Williams
W. R. Williams
W. J. Bradfield
C. A. Goggans
Subscription, $1,800.00

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
E. I. Oliver, Chairman
M. A. Smith
T. J. Goggans
R. H. Bledsoe, Jr.
B. B. McGinty
Subscription, $18,000.00

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
R. H. Bledsoe, Jr., Chairman
Subscription, $7,000.00

VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN
R. H. Bledsoe, Jr., Chairman
Subscription, $7,000.00

|  | Total
Liberty and Victory Loans |  | $33,800.00
United War Fund |  | 1,183.00
Membership and Subscription Red Cross |  | 2,712.00
Y. M. C. A. |  | 700.00
Salvation Army |  | 105.00
War Saving Stamps |  | 7,000.00

WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, Riverview

C. A. Goggans  C. L. Gibson  R. H. Bledsoe, chairman
B. B. McGinty  J. T. Smith  Miss Amber Liles, sec.

WAR SERVICE STATION, Riverview

RED CROSS WORK ROOM, Riverview

INTERIOR WAR SERVICE STATION, Riverview

Committee Report

Number of letters written to boys in Service |  | 382
Number of other letters written |  | 243
Number of Bulletins mailed |  | 508
Total |  | 1133
Number of letters received from boys in Service |  | 138
Number of packages or parcels forwarded |  | 27
Number of visitors to Station |  | 532
Number of packages or parcels forwarded |  | 78
Killed in action |  | None
Died of disease or wounds |  | None
Wounded |  | 1

From the Riverview Red Cross

Abdominal bandages |  | 70
T bandages |  | 50
Triangular bandages |  | 51
Shirts |  | 14
Sox, pairs |  | 13
Sweaters |  | 29
Belgian aprons |  | 14
Little aprons |  | 14
Comfort kits |  | 10
Petticoats |  | 5
Pajamas, pairs |  | 20
Boxes of refugee clothing |  | 3
Towels |  | 75

GEORGE H. LANIER
Vice-President and General Manager
West Point Manufacturing Company
Lanett Cotton Mills

“Whose deep and abiding interest made the
War Service Stations and this memorial possible”

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