VOL. I. 82nd Division Number ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 5, 1919 5c a Copy ATLANTA'S MILITARY WEEKLY—AFFILIATED WITH TRENCH AND CAMP. THE UNIVERSAL CAR We Operate a Complete Repair Shop, and will appreciate your giving us a trial on your Ford the next time you need repairs made. Cars, Parts and Service WELCOME HOME BOYS OF THE 82nd We are Proud of You and Your Great Victory C. C, Baggs Aut( 93-95 So. Pryor St. A MESSAGE. Do not get caught in the receding tide of the great war. Set yourselves at once to look forward. Remember that the world must be built up again, and it looks as if there was an opportunity to make the world better than it has ever been before. We believe there is a chance of preventing this thing from ever happening again, of building up man¬ kind to something nearer a perfect condition, where every man can use his own faculties to the utmost, which, after all, is the great pleasure in life; where every man who has a heart and an ambition will be able to develop himself for something worth doing. Eemember that, and look forward, you fellows that are young. Do not look back into the re¬ ceding wave, but look forward into the crest that is coming on ahead of you. As in this war, so in civil life—your own right hand will teach'you terrible things if you will only begin now at onee.—President A. Lawrence Main 2843 PHONES: Main 695 . Atla Welcome J|ome Boys of the 82nd Division EMORY UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GIFT OF Mrs. John Spalding ar/i HEATH & CO s School and College Text Books Atlanta, Ga. 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Willingham Office and Yard: Ridge Avenue and Southern Railway ATLANTA, GA. •r. | SERVICE RECORD »••,.. i ... i ...... i .. . % Double Shakers Oil Mill Machinery Shakers Saw Gummers Magnets Beaters Hullers Seed Cleaners Mote Cleaners Hull Bran Separating Equipment Feed Mixers Separators Cake Breakers Sand and Boll Reels Cake Strippers Fertilizer Machinery Complete Plants Reels Mixing Plows Single Cage Clod Breakers Double Cage Mills Shakers Sacking Scales Retard Elevator Feeders Specialties Clod Breakers Rotary Mixers Cage Mill Elevator Boots Revolving Screens Send for Catalog ATLANTA UTILITY WORKS East Point, Georgia (Suburb of Atlanta) s»>. * 10 SERVICE RECORD FOREWORD By JVlaj. Gen. Geo. B. Duncan, Commanding 82nd Division • " ★★ "1 am glad of this opportunity to voice my appreciation of the soldier¬ ly and heroic qualities of the officers and men of the Eighty-Second Divi¬ sion and to bid farewell to those who have been discharged. I am sorry that it was not possible for me to go to Atlanta with the units that are to be demobilized at Camp Gordon. I speak for the entire division when I say that nothing has pleased us more than the cor¬ dial invitations extended us and the efforts made by our Atlanta friends to have the unit demobilized there. To the men of the Ail-American Division has come honor on the the field of battle and to it has come victory. I am proud to have had such a command and I feel a very keen interest in every man who was a part of it. Now that most of those who served so gallantly over there are returning to their homes in the southland, let me remind them to be soldiers still, let them maintain the high standards set by the Di¬ vision, let them lead upright, manly lives and be the men they proved themselves to be in the training area and on the field. Many of my men left home as boys, they are returning as heroes. They will be leaders in their several communities and each of its members will be¬ come a power for good. They all know what good personal conduct means and I like to believe that each man of the Eighty-Second Di¬ vision feels his responsibility to himself, to his fellows and to the traditions of his organization. May good luck come to them all." GEO. B. DUNCAN, Maj. Gen. U. S. A., Com. 82nd Div. SERVICE RECORD 11 HISTORY OF THE 82nd DIVISION By WARD GREENE Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal. (Editor's Note: As the accredited correspondent of The Journal, Mr. Greene spent five months in France, devoting much of his time to an exhaus¬ tive study of the work of the AU-American divi¬ sion, going over the ground of actual combat and compiling a history that is a tribute both to the men it deals with and to its author. This marks the first time the history has been published in its entirety.) t I. As a son far from home will look often ftito the sunset and yearn for the sound of his mother's voice and the feel of her arms about him, so does the Eighty-second Divi¬ sion from its bivouac on the fields of France yearn toward the west, to-day and long for the city which is its mother. That city is Atlanta. There the division was born, there it was cradled through its formative period as a child is cradled in his mother's arms, and from Atlanta it set forth when full grown and stalwart with all a mother's anxious prayers and blessing for its safety following it from the city of its nativity. Whatever may be the feelings of Atlanta toward the Eighty-second Division, that, I know, is the division's sentiment toward the city. There is not a member of it who, were he trained in Atlanta, does not regard At¬ lanta as his own. New Jersey and Alabama, Tampa and Boston, their sons who entered service at Camp Gordon look to Atlanta and to Georgia as to a parent. Their own cities and their own states, they think, have other divisions whose fortunes have been followed with greater interest than their own, but of this they are sure—that back in Dixie there is one place where the Eighty-second Division comes first in the hearts of two million peo¬ ple. It is natural, therefore, that one coming to the Eighty-second Division from Atlanta should hear this question voiced above all others: "Does Atlanta still care for the Eighty-second Division and does Atlanta know what we have done?" There is a reason for that question, espe¬ cially for the latter half of it, for the Eighty- second Division has done things. In the language of the army, it has "put out." It was the seventh of all American divisions to sail for France. It was the first national army division to enter the lines as a fighting unit. It served in the Toul sector and in the Marbache sector at the St. Mihiel. Above all, it entered the battle of the Argonne in time to turn defeat into victory and for twenty-five bloody days without a let-up drove the boche before it. That, in a nutshell, is the history of the division. That is why the division is proud, with a pride comparable only to the glory of an undergraduate in his alma mater. The division is proud of itself and that feeling of pride runs through it from the commander to the lowliest buck private. Even as any American is proud of his city first, proud of his state next and proud of his country most of all, so is any member of the Eighty-sec¬ ond Division certain that his company is the best company in the regiment, that his regi¬ ment is the best regiment in the division and that his division is the best that ever crossed the seas from America. But surely that is no bad thing. He is a poor soldier, whatever his outfit, that does not think otherwise. And in the case of the Eighty-second, as has been said, there is a reason for it. The division does not claim it won the war. It is willing to leave that boast to others. But where it did put out, it put out well, and the glory of that putting out is sufficient in itself. And the division wants Atlanta to know that it did put out. No man is seeking glory for himself. But where honor is due he wants it, not for his own sake, but for the sake of his company, for the sake of his regi¬ ment, for the sake of his division, more than all else, for the sake of those boys sleeping up there in the misty forests of the Argonne and along the banks of the Meuse, the boys who "put out" all they had and cannot speak for themselves. I would like to write the story of the Eighty-second Division that way. To tell no more and no less than happened, yet to give not alone the dates of engagements and the lists of casualties, but something as well of the feeling of it all, something of the little things that can be summed up in a sentence,- yet altogether make the war as it really was. "I will never forget October 7," said one Atlanta officer. "I lay all day in a ditch by the side of a road that was being shelled." There you have it—one sentence, yet what a story that is! All day long in a ditch by the side of a road, from daybreak to darkness flat on his stomach in the oozy mud, unable to move save to shift a leg or a knee, unable even to lift his head, suffering from hunger, suffering from thirst, never knowing what moment the screaming shells bursting a few yards away would burst just that much nearer and bump him off, all day long lying there thinking, thinking, thinking, waiting, waiting, waiting while the minutes ticked off like eternities. That is one real story of the war, but he told it in a sentence. Other stories, bigger, more spectacular, can be put into terse re¬ ports that read like a trial balance. For war has become commonplace to these men and they tell of it with even less emotion than you would describe an accident at Five Points. That is because, perhaps, no man can tell it as it really was. He lacks the power. And because, too, very often it was commonplace. Lying in a ditch all day by the side of a road is commonplace. So, too, were so many other things—hiking till their legs were numb, going hungry, getting wet to the skin, burrowing in fox holes in the sides of hills. They were commonplace, but they were the war. They were the war, and while this story of the Eighty-second Division may contain many true tales of heroic exploits that read like a scene from a moving picture looks, this should be remembered, that many a lad who never won the D. S. C., who never had his name mentioned in orders, who never was recommended for promotion, nevertheless fought, this grim fight with a grit that en¬ titles him to all honor that befalls his fel¬ lows. To that great army of the linmen- tioned our hats are off. The story of the Eighty-second Division has been secured from many sources. It is not the story of any one particular regiment or any one particular man. It has been compiled from the official division history and from the official regimental histories. These have been supplemented by personal visits to every outfit in the division—infan¬ try, artillery, machine guns, ammunition trains, sanitary train, • supply train, signal corps, engineers, quartermaster corps and all. The story has been told to me by dignified generals, by colonels pointing out puzzling lines on large maps, by other officials kicking the fires in their billets and conjuring up visions of the Argonne along with visions of home, and by buck privates, Italians who could scarcely speak English, some of them, but whose black eyes sparkled nevertheless, as they portrayed in vivid pantomime the business of bavonetting Jerry through the bread-basket. Spread out, as the division is at this writ¬ ing, through nearly thirty square miles of France, billeted as the different outfits are in nearly fifty different towns, with long dis¬ tances in between which must be traveled in- anything from mud-bespattered sidecars to Ford jitneys, the story has been difficult to obtain when thoroughness and completeness was the desire. If, therefore, there are any omissions, any inaccuracies that are prone to ■ occur in the story of any division, pardon is asked. They have been carefully guarded against and are not intentional. The sole purpose has been to give glory where glory is due, and, bromide though it is, in the case of the Eighty-second Division it was never truer that there is "glory enough for all." II. The birthday of the Eighty-second Divi¬ sion is the twenty-fifth of August. On that day in the year 1917 a new city on the out¬ skirts of Atlanta was opened to the men who u ere to control its destinies and the destinies of its inhabitants for the next eight months. The city was called Camp Gordon and its officials were the officers ordered there to organize the Eighty-second Division out of civilian material from all four points of the compass. The camp, as all Atlanta knows, was lo¬ cated some fifteen miles out Peachtree road on the national highway between Atlanta and 12 SERVICE RECORD Now oi'k ( ity. It had been built in rec¬ ord time by government engineers and At¬ lanta contractors who for the past three months had been transforming' the naked Georgia hills into red clay streets and blocks and blocks of raw pine barracks that rose, as if by magic, at the rate almost of one building- a day. Here, while the chorus of hammer and saw was still sounding through the hot sum¬ mer sunshine, came the advance guard of men who were to help create for ITncle Sam an army with which to tight the war into which he had entered for no other purpose than to save the world from tyranny. The first comers were officers of the regu¬ lar army. Major-General Eben Swift was the new commander of the division and Col¬ onel Preston Brown was his chief of staff. To-day neither are with the division, Gen¬ eral Swift having been sent in November, 1917, to overseas sendee in Italy, and Col¬ onel Brown being now with the headquarters of the American Third Army in Germany. Of the majors and higher officers over one- ihird were officers of the regular army. With only a few exceptions, the remaining officers were southerners, the pick of Dixie's young manhood. Hailing in the main from Geor¬ gia, Alabama and Florida, they had volun¬ teered at the first crack of war for the initial training camp at Fort McPherson, and there, for the past three months they had done ''squads right" and "squads left" until they shouted commands in their sleep, hiked until their feet were masses of blazing blisters, studied themselves blind, taken their fun where they found it and, at last, won their reward in the shape of new serge uniforms, leather puttees, garrison caps and Shining new insignia of which those who wore gold leaves were no more proud than those who wore a single silver bar. It was in full regalia that they turned out at Camp Gordon following their brief leave after graduation to answer to the an¬ nouncement that the division commander would review the new officers. But some hours later the white collars were sadly wilted and the new uniforms were decidedly sweaty, for instead of reviewing them, the division commander hiked them twelve miles over the red old hills of Georgia to the tune of ''The Long Boy." The war had begun, and from that time on it never stopped. Along in the early part of September came the great day that marked a new era in the lives of thousands of young men the South over, the day when they packed up their pajamas and their troubles in the old kit-bags and started out that long and dusty road to Camp Gordon, first leaves of the draft that was sweeping the nation. Their send-off by the home folks, their re¬ ception at the camp, the sudden change from desk and bank and stock room to cots in bar¬ racks, setting-up exercises, strange commands and exhausting drills—all this is carved as deep in the minds of those lads as anything they have endured in France. The first recruits to report at Camp Gor¬ don were select men from Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, along with a small training cadre of non-commissioned officers from the Sixth and Seventeenth regiments of infan¬ try at Fort Oglethorp". Thus il seemed for a time that the Eighty-second Division, offi¬ cered in the main by southern men and with its ranks filled with other southerners, was to be more representative of Dixie than any division in (he country. And then came the great change, the change that made the Eighty-second not rep¬ resentative of Dixie, but representative of the nation, one might almost say, representa¬ tive of the world. For in the new1 organiza¬ tion that came to pass were men of all creeds and colors, of all nationalities and faiths, drawn from the nooks and corners of the country to be painted by the same brush of khaki that turned them out one finished product—the All-American Division. Only six weeks of training had been com¬ pleted when the order was received trans¬ ferring the entire enlisted personnel of the camp, with the exception of the training cadre of 783 men, to southern national guard outfits and the Eighty-first Division. Keen disappointment fell upon Gordon, for it seemed hard to go back and begin all over again the work which had been started in such a fine flush of enthusiasm, and at the same time there was ill-disguised disgust over the prospect of the division losing its identity as a typically southern outfit. COL. W. M. WHITMAN, 325TH INFANTRY. Photo by Winn and Mathewson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal. In the light of what has come to pass since then, however, there is probably no officer in I he Eighty-second Division that is not glad in his heart that his division came to be All- American, for those lads of foreign birth whom some had looked upon contemptuously as "wops" and "guineas" and "micks," proved the mettle of their pasture in the tearing teeth of shell and shrapnel. They won their citizenship as no other American has won his since Valley Forge and York- town. When 1 visited the Eighty-second over a year later at its bivouac near Langres, France, Captain Lamar "Pie" Weaver called out from his company the following men: Selfe, Pereria, Harnett, Curci, Belloek, Datum, Bolanis, Dolan, Fort in, Truserwicz, Ycrkeeke, Fletcher and Watson. In the order named, they were born in the following countries: America, Portugal, Jewish Rus¬ sia, Italy, Lithuania, Germany, Greece, Ire¬ land, French Canada, Russia, Belgium, Scot¬ land and England. Those were thirteen men from only one company. It was said that any company in the division would show the same diversity. One company even boasted eighteen different nationalities. As this time, men who had fought for America through the Argonne and the Mouse offensives were taking out their first papers as American citizens. The govern¬ ment is making a special exception in their cases whereby they do not have to establish long residence. And well do they deserve any exception that is made. America could have had no better citizen in France than the little Italian of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth Infantry who, so the story goes, couldn't talk to his prisoner in Eng¬ lish, but who brought him in, pricking him in the back with a bayonet and shouting: "Allez! Carrauba! Toots sweet!" Thus has the Eighty-second preserved the name of All-American or World-wide Divi¬ sion, if you please, with which it was chris¬ tened at Camp Gordon in the fall of 1917, when, by November 1, 28,000 men had en¬ tered Camp Gordon as replacements from Camps Devens, Dix, Upton, Lee and Meade, one-third of them of foreign birth, several hundred not citizens of the United States, and a few not even able to speak English. It has preserved that name and it has de¬ served it. For the losses in the Eighty-sec¬ ond have struck home not alone to the South. In the homes of Maryland and Pennsylvania are sendee flags bearing golden stars in mem¬ ory of the boys who perished with the Eighty-second Division. Homesteaders of the middle west and families beyond the Rockies will remember the Eighty-second as the division in which their loved one went to his death and his immortal glory. In the little church of the Madonna on the lower east side of New York candles burn for sol¬ diers of the All-American Division. And the letters which come to the division com¬ manders are written in many languages and bespeak the same plea—the story of how he gave his life with the Eighty-second Division in the Argonne or along the Meuse. III. The training of the Eighty-second Division at Camp Gordon was a colorless period com¬ pared to what service it later saw in France. The same storv might be told of anv one of a score of training camps the country over. They drilled and they drilled and then they drilled some more. Many things were achieved, and in turn there were many set¬ backs. Trouble was feared for a time from the many aliens of enemy origin in the camp. There were Germans and Austrian Poles, Czechs and Jugo-Slavs, Russians and Serbians, Armenians and Turks. Altogether, they made up a large and extremely doubtful quantity. Finally, the confessed enemy aliens were eliminated. Over 1,400 of them were discharged by the war department. Sus¬ picious eases were transferred to the depot brigade and English language schools were inaugurated. SERVICE RECORD 13 To fill up the gaps in tlic ranks thus caused the division got replacements from maliv parts of the country. The principal influx came in March, when five thousand selectmen were received from Camps Dodge, Travis, Devens and Upton. This was fol¬ lowed by the second draft call from Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. In the meantime the personnel of the divi¬ sion staff had also experienced changes. With General Swift's departure overseas in No¬ vember, Brigadier-General -Tames l>. Erwin took command with Major B. E. Beebe as chief of staff. On December 2(>, 1017, Gen¬ eral Erwin was transferred to command at ('hickainauga Park and was succeeded by Brigadier-General William P. Burnhani, who received his promotion to Ihe rank of major-general in April, 191S. COL. RICHARD WETHERILL AND OFFICERS OF THE 32STH INFANTRY. Photo by Greene. Through all this time the work of whip¬ ping the division into a unit which should be ready to fight had been going steadily forward. The program, in fact, out-stripped the equipment provided. Before the winter was over, the boys were training with wooden rifles and howling for real guns. Event¬ ually they got tlieni and began practice on the rifle range at Xorcross. At the same time the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Field Artillery brigade had received one battery of three-inch guns in November, 1017, and another battery in February, 1!)1K, and had begun bombarding the sides of Blackjack Mountain, near Marietta, Ga. During the first three months of 101N ihe division had the benefit of instruction from a few British and French officers assigned to the camp, and while the training of the men was confined mostly to discipline, mor¬ ale, musketry, bayonet fighting, extended order drills and other formations, they had a trench system, a "gas house," and in many other ways began to get their first ideas of what fighting was to be like in Europe, ideas, however, which were destined to undergo a radical change when they finally knocked up against the real thing. After all, the memories of ('amp Gordon that linger most in the minds of the All- Americans and Atlantians alike to-day are not those of the drill field and the barracks. There were many oilier pleasanter moments, and it is a fine thing to discover that here in France, a year later, the men of the Eighty- second Division recall those moments with a zest which speaks well for the efforts Atlanta put forth in their behalf. All those Sunday dinners, those automobile rides, those entertainments at the camp, the Washington birthday celebration at the audi¬ torium, the Rotary club and the Italian club and the Greek club—they did not go for naught. However inspired they may have been by the spirit of sheer hospitality and kindliness, thev have borne rich fruit for Atlanta. As L went from one end of the Eighty- second Division to the other here in France, I heard the word "Atlanta" everywhere, and never was if spoken unless accompanied by the customary: "Gee, T wish I was there now!" There was a major of artillery from South Carolina who entertained us at mess with a description of the steak a la Napoleon which he used to get at the Piedmont. lie dwelt upon it lovingly, the ingredients that went to make it, the way in which it was cooked all in one pot, the appetizing odor that arose from! the cover, the entrancing manner in which the juice sizzled out on his plate, and then—"Gee!" said the major, "I wish I was there now!" And the colonel, who had never been in Atlanta, as he dug into his beef and beans, said: "Well, do you know, major, I wish I was, too!" There was a captain of infantry in the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth. His home is in Montgomery, but: "I tell you what," he said, "I think I'll just have to move to Atlanta when I get back. Why, all my friends—the fellows I've fought this war with,—are from Atlanta. I'll be lost at home. And besides, just think of the girls. I toll you, captain,"—this to another who had never been to Atlanta—"there are more pretty girls in Atlanta than any town in the world. They walk down Peachtree a'nd they don't even see you. Go by just like that. Not a bit like France. Gee, I wish I was on Peachtree now!" And there was a sergeant in the little town of Argillieres, the headquarters of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth Infantry. When he heard I was the correspondent of The Journal, he came up and saluted and he said: "You know Rogers Winter on The Journal, don't you, sir ( I wish you'd re¬ member me to him when you get back. He used to have me out to his house, you know, and we had wonderful limes. That man can certainly talk. I'm from New York myself, but if they don't muster us out at Camp Gordon, I'm coming back to Atlanta anyway and hear Mister Winter talk some more." And so it went. There were messages to Willis Tinimons, to Miss Buckmastor, in¬ quiries about this person and that, and they were not from the Atlanta boys generally, but from the New Yorkers and the Jerseyites and the others from far-off places who had come to feel that in Atlanta they had "won them a home." And because they feel that way about it, thev one and all would prefer to be mustered out at Camp Gordon of any place in the United States. They cuss the road occasion¬ ally and express the hope that it will be fixed by the time they return, but they would be willing even to risk a jitney ride over the mountains from Gordon to Buckhead for the privilege of setting foot on Peachtree street again and on Saturday afternoon in front of Nunnallv's watching the parade go by. Those days in the winter of 1917-18 and the following spring are very dear to the Eighty-second. And of all their memories there are none which stand out more resplend¬ ency than do two occasions to the men of the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry and the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry—the time they paraded in Atlanta and pitched camp at Piedmont Park. Atlanta well remembers both those days. It was in the carlv spring, the time of year when the woods and fields on either side of the long road to Camp Gordon were putting out white dogwood blossom and flaming honeysuckle through the green verdure every¬ where, when the sunshine clasped hands long with the twilight, as though reluctant to say good by, when Piedmont Park—the clear lake and the soft skv and the furry trees on the far horizon—was like a setting for a dream. And the w istfulness of the season was matched only by the poignancy of the thing that was so near, for it was common knowledge then that the Eighty-second Divi¬ sion was soon to go. The Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth was the first to parade. They came swinging in the long road from the camp in the early morning, for they had bivouaced en route the night before, and as they marched down WITH THE 326TH. Photo Greene. Peachtree street with Colonel W. M. Whit¬ man at their head—tlic- only one of the orig¬ inal infantry colonels of the Eighty-second who is still at the head of his command—all Atlanta was there to bid them hail and fare¬ well. "We weren't known as the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry then," said one officer of the regiment a year later in France, as he hearkened back reminiscently to that day. "Atlanta knew us as Joe Brown Con- nally's regiment, and, come to think of it, I'm satisfied with the reputation, for Joe Brown has certainly put out. He isn't as young as some of the other .boys, but he stuck through the misery and the hardship of it- all from the day we left Camp Gordon until 14 SERVICE RECORD he got gassed in the Argonne. And he's hack with us now, as fine a chap as ever. You know, when we paraded in London, the story went that the queen said: 'Here comes Joe Brown!' Well, in the fight of the Argonne, I shouldn't wonder but what Jerry said the same thing. Only he said it a different way." The parade and the bivouac of the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry at Pied¬ mont Park was followed a short time later by a similar parade by the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry. To the latter event was attached unusual significance, for at that time the Three Hundred and Twenty- sixth had among its officers more Atlantians and more Georgians than any regiment in the division. An association sponsoring the regiment had been formed in Atlanta and the members took this occasion as an opportunity to present the regiment with colors, two beautiful silk flags, one the regimental flag and the other Old Glory. To-day the fortunes of war have wrought many changes in the ranks of the Three Hun¬ dred and Twenty-sixth. Out of fifty or more Georgians who were officers of the regiment when it left Camp Gordon, a bare half of them remain. Four have been killed, many have been wounded, and many more have been promoted, transferred to other com¬ mands and sent back to the states as instruc¬ tors. Its commander who received the colors on that day at Piedmont Park, Colonel J. C. McArthur, was evacuated on October 26 and returned to the states, and the regiment to¬ day—proud as its record has been—can no longer be said to have more Georgians than any of the division. One thing does remain, however—the colors. When we unfurled them but the other day in the little town of Esnoms, France, they were as bright and beautiful as ever, for the day of the bullet-riddled, battle- scarred flag is no more. The front line trenches are no place for such a tell-tale tar¬ get. Five times have the colors flown in France —once on Eastile Day. July 14, when the French gave them the position of honor in their celebration at Toul; once on the occa¬ sion of General Pershing's visit to the British front, when he reviewed the Eighty-second Division and saluted the colors of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Tnfantry as he passed; once on the regimental anniversary of August 29; once for the French memorial services at St. Genevieve, where tiie regiment was billeted; and once on December 2, when the regiment held memorial services for its own honored dead. The last time they were opened to the wet winds was in January, when the color ser¬ geant asked that their picture be taken to show the people of Atlanta their flags in France. He was the same sergeant who re¬ ceived them in Atlanta, Senior Color Ser¬ geant Landon C. Peoples, of Morristown, Tenn., and he stood there, with another ser¬ geant from Massachusetts on his left and the color guard, one from the North and one from the South, on either end, just as he stood at Piedmont Park in April, 1917. Only this time there was nobody to see but a camera, no crowds banked below the Driving club, no troops drawn up in long brown lines; only a muddy gray street of a little French village, with an old voman bending over the town pump and a scraggly little dog sitting on his tail in the muck, his ears cocked up and his brown eyes puzzled, as though he were wondering what it was all about. There is another pair of colors in the Eighty-second Division equally as precious to its command as are the Three Twenty- sixth's to it. These are the colors that were presented to the Three Hundred and Twen¬ tieth Field Artillery regiment by the good people of Marietta who did so much for the artillery while it was in training on the Blackjack range near the town. When the people of Marietta presented these to the Three Hundred and Twentieth, the inscription that went with them was: "We claim them as our own." The regiment remembers that inscription to-day, and from its headquarters at Bras¬ siere'!, France, its commander, Colonel Harry C. Williams, is writing the war department to request that, when the regiment returns to the United States, the colors may be given back to Marietta, to be placed in the archives of the town as a proud memorial that the Three Twentieth bore them well and honor¬ ably overseas. IV. In February and March, 1917, the Eighty-second Division was inspected at Camp Gordon by the war department. The report on the division was so favorable that overseas orders were issued. It was the sec¬ ond national army division to leave the United States and the seventh in order of all divisions crossing. The departure of the division began early in April. To the general public all was as before, for no waving banners or cheering crowds sped the regiments on their way. There were strict orders against imparting information to anyone of the movements in progress, but if here and there were farewells too tense to tell of, no one was censured. Quietly, steadily, the troop trains began to move out from the siding at Chamblee, some¬ times in the pitchy night, sometimes in the clear spring mornings, when the men could look back and see the last of the brown bar¬ racks and green trees that had been home to them for so long, the home they were leaving now for the great adventure. Divisional headquarters left Camp Gordon on April 10 and the infantry and machine guns followed at the rate of four hundred a day, making the journey up the Southern road via Washington to Jersey City, where they were ferried across the river to Long Island city, boarding cars here for Camp Upton, which most of them reached in the midst of a cold, drizzling rain. The period at Camp Upton is not a pleas¬ ant memory for anyone in the division. Gaps in the ranks were refilled, final touches were made to equipment, and in a very short time the division was on the eve of embarkation. Divisional headquarters sailed from New York April 25, 1917, and the last infantry and machine gun battalions of the unit had followed bv May 3. The artillery did not sail at the same time as the rest of the divi¬ sion. The One Hundred and Fifty-seventh brigade began to move from Camp. Gordon on May 7, and completed the movement by May 11. The advance school detachment went to Camp Merritt, the remainder to Camp Mills, but. the entire brigade moved out of New York harbor in intervals from May 19 to May 21. The main part of the division crossed the Atlantic in convoys of ten vessels that fol¬ lowed each other at intervals down the North River, past the Statue of Liberty and out past Sandy Hook into the open sea. If was not a cheerful voyage, for while some of the battalions were quartered on giant liners, such as the Leviathon and the Mauretania, others were crowded into the smoky, dirty holes of Oriental ships that had been hastily pressed into service. The Allies were calling for men and comfort must be sacrificed to get them on the western front where the Ger¬ mans even then were launching their great spring drive. ' Running down the harbor into the open sea, the decks were kept clear of men in case prying eyes were watching the boat drills and life-belt gymnastics, the longer nights when the ships surged forward under the stars without a light showing and when their human cargo, packed by the thousands below decks, never knew what moment would bring a shock and a cry and the launching of those flimsy boats into the treacherous waves. The size of the convoys brought a sense of security, but even this was banished when the news spread that in event any transport was attacked, the rest would abandon it and flee for safety. Of course, there were alarms and rumors galore. The Baltic opened fire one day on an object that suddenly appeared in the space between ships, and a destroyer headed in for the scene, dropping depth bombs that shook the neighbor ships from end to end. If it was a submarine, it never came up alive. If it was driftwood, ditto. In either event nobody knew, but everybody certainly cared. It was a tremendous relief to everybody when ten swift destroyers appeared one day and the word spread that the convoy was within three hundred miles of the Irish coast. The various units of the division landed at Liverpool during the ten days from May 7 to May 17. From there the battalions were sent to various English "rest camps"—the quotes are meant to express doubt regarding the adjective—before proceeding to South- amton to embark for Havre. Not all of the regiments proceeded, directly to Southampton, however. To one outfit, the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infan¬ try, was given the proud honor of being the first American troops to parade through the streets of London since the United States entered the war. It was to be a demonstra¬ tion of England's appreciation in welcoming the United Stafps as her ally, and surely no man who took part in it will ever forget it. The occasion will long live in the memory of every man who participated. It could not be better described than by Colonel Whitman himself, who tells it in the following words: "On the morning of May 8 an aide to the American general commanding in London came aboard our ship. He announced that the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth had been selected to parade in London on May 11 before his Royal Majesty King George the Fifth. "We disembarked, marched across Liver¬ pool town and climbed aboard a train for Winchester. The run down was through SERVICE RECORD 15 pretty English country and was mighty fine after two weeks at sea. The men were sing¬ ing and the crowds along the route were cheering us loudly. It was dark when Win¬ chester was reached, but we found a place to sleep after a short march. "Morning showed us a beautiful rolling landscape in an historic part of England. The original house of William the Conqueror stood in Winchester. Here, too, was the Hound Table of King Arthur. Roman camps abounded. Arrington, the luxurious home of Nell Gwyime, is close by. It is deserted now, but has been a wonderful estate, with lakes and walks and woods. IIow Charles ever got his accounts for Nell past the auditor is a mystery; he couldn't get away with such a plaything in these strenuous days. "But we had little time to devote to the Conqueror or Nell Gwynne. We were press¬ ing campaign hats, scrubbing leggins and buying Sain Browne belts for the big show. May 11 dawned bright, but we beat the sun to it; we were under way early toward Lon¬ don. First came a short march to the sta¬ tion at "Winchester and then a train ride to London, followed by a short march to Well¬ ington Barracks. "Our appearance had already been her¬ alded in' the morning papers; crowds had gathered early to see the Yanks. In the courtyard at Wellington Barracks we stacked arms and broke ranks. Here we were in the home of the Scots and Coldstream Guards. Our host was Major (Lord) Stair, who had been a prisoner in Germany for two years. He entertained the officers, and the soldiers took care of our men for lunch. Our Ajnerican ambassador, Mr. Page, called to see the troops; also Sir Erancis Lloyd and the Duke of Connaught. "At one o'clock in the afternoon horses were brought for the regimental commander and his staff, the gates of the courtyard were thrown open and the parade started. Our own band led the column, but each battalion was also given a British band, with bagpipes and all the trimmings. Great crowds lined the streets and we had a continuous ovation. "The war office was passed, where Lloyd George looked down on us; past the American embassy, where our platoon of the headquar¬ ters company stood as guard of honor; past the Oarleton Terrace, the home of many Americans, at which point our band played 'Maryland,' 'Dixie' and 'Swanee Bibber.' "We marched at attention all the way. which caused comment from the British offi¬ cers. Bayonets were removed in deference to the British custom, that perniils one regi¬ ment only, the King's Own, to parade in London with bayonets fixed. "Before reaching Buckingham Palace, the column was halted. The Guards' band then .-truck up 'Cod Save the King' as His Maj¬ esty walked out of the palace, gate and stood at the curb. Then we marched on past him in column of squads. The men executed eyes left as they passed by in review, so that every one in ranks caught a glimpse of the British monarch. With him stood Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, the Princess Beatrice and the Duke of Connaught. "The regimental commander dismounted and stood with the royal party as the troops moved past. The king returned the salute of everv officer. The men looked well and inarched well. There were moving pictures taken of the parade, which we hope to see some (lay on our return home. The London papers were most complimentary in their 'description. The king asked if there were any more like these men in the United States. The queen asked if they were eager to get in the fray. History has answered both questions." V. The Eighty-second Division came first to France by way of Southampton, England, crossing the rough-and-tumble channel in the small, swift steamers that roared along through the waves and the darkness as though they were shot from a cannon. All of tlie troops made the crossing at night. They landed at Havre during the sec¬ ond week of May, when the weather was still cold and rainy and this country of France QUARTERMASTER OFFICERS OF 82D AND FRENCH MASCOT. Photo by Greene. appeared anything but attractive to the lads from overseas who had come so far to fight for it. The British met them at Havre and with the British the division was trained for battle for the next month. At Havre the troops got their gas masks, exchanged the American 1917 rifles, which they had learned to shoot so well, for the new British Enfields, and were in general de¬ prived of all the overseas equipment they had so painstakingly gathered together in the states and were furnished with new outfits throughout. Then they entrained in the box cars lab¬ eled "40 hommes-8 chevaux" for the British training area near Eu, with division head¬ quarters at Escarbotin. The troops began training about May 10 with the Sixty-sixth British Division, of which Major-General Bethil was the commander. A strenuous course was laid down. It included the train¬ ing of the infantry with Lewis automatic rifles and the machine gun battalions with Yickers guns, schools for officers and non- coms, the British system of bayonet fighting, and practice hikes to towns around the area on which the new equipment was thoroughly tested out. Long before the training period was over the division began to get well acquainted with lxith the French and the British. The latter, slow to warm up at first, developed into good pals and jolly companions by the end of May, and the doughboys of the division were beginning to get that, thrill that comes but once in a life-time, when one sits down in a French cafe and orders a meal from pot age to fromage without talking a single word with his hands. The troops were billeted in small towns throughout the area. It was a pronounced change for them from the long barracks of the training camps in the states, but the nov¬ elty of billets wore off through the long months in various parts of France that fol¬ lowed. They learned to make themselves comfortable in barns and haylofts that the most abandoned hobo in the states would have despised. They became hardened to French mud and French rain, and though some of them acquired cooties and many of them lost the spick-and-span look of soldiers on parade, all of them were absorbing the tough fibre of the genuine fighting man, who is not a thing of beauty but is a joy forever to the heart of his commander. During all of this time they could hear the crash of exploding bombs from the Zeppelins that prowled up and down the Somme, drop¬ ping bombs apparently at random, and they learned to sing the song of the army, which begins: "Lights out! Lights out! Everybody lights out! Here's another Gotha ra-a-i-id! Pardon me for stepping on your leg, but that big Bird is about to lay an egg!" Some members of the division got closer to the real fighting than air raids. In June officers and non-coms from the various com¬ mands were sent up to the British front line trenches near Albert and Amiens to see how the game was played. They went by way of Abbeville to the British Third Army head¬ quarters, thence to division headquarters, thence to brigade headquarters and finally into the front lines under actual fire of the German guns. It was on one of these trips that the divi¬ sion suffered its first casualty, when a gallant young Georgian, beloved of his regiment and beloved of his fellow officers, was killed in action. On June 9, 1918, Captain Jewett Williams, commander of B Company, Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry, was out on patrol in No Man's Land, mending wires, when the Germans opened fire on the detach¬ ment with machine gun bullets. He was instantly killed, and his body, brought in by his companions, lies to-day in the little ceme¬ tery at Abbeville, France, where it was buried with full military honors. Two impressions were brought back to their commands by the officers of the division who got their first taste of fire at this time. One was that the British were badlv shaken by the German drive that was launched March 21, that, though their officers were splendid specimens of confidence and bravery and skill, their men were young and nervous and if the boche launched another drive, it might go hard with the Allies' cause. The other impression was an overwhelm¬ ing desire on the part of every officer to take his own men into the fight and test out those qualities of soldierly courage he was certain by now beat in the breast of every one of them. It was generally assumed then that the time would not be long when this would be done, and the report was that the division would be brigaded with its British friends in a big push to regain the lost fields of Picardy. The latter expectation, however, was never fulfilled. The division had been inspected May 2G by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and on May 30 it was inspected again, this time by the commanding general of the Amer¬ ican Expeditionary Forces himself, General John J. Pershing. It was on his trip of SERVICE RECORD inspection thai General Pershing let fall a hint to the officers of the Eighty-second re¬ garding- the vital issue then hcing discussed by the allied high command: namely, whether or not the Americans should he brigaded with the French and British or be permitted to paddle their own canoe. History has told since then how General Pershing held out for the American canoe, and it was this determi¬ nation of his to form an American army that the officers of the Eighty-second learned on this occasion. Therefore, it did not come as such a great surprise after all when, on June 10, tentative orders which would have sent regiments of the division into action with the British were cancelled and the entire division was ordered to entrain for Toul. The Enfield rifles were returned and the infantry was armed with United States guns, and the word was passed that the Eighty-second was to become a part of the first All-American Army. On .Tune 10 the movement of the division toward the front line trenches began. It lasted for two days. Traveling in box cars, the men were routed to their new locations by way of Paris, but all they saw of the city was the Eiffel tower spinning up in the misty distance. X6 Paris for them at that time! After journeying tediously for several days, the division finally detrained and, one bv one, the units beo-an to settle down in the American "old home sector" northwest of loul. Jims it has been dubbed by reason of the lacl thai so many American troops obtained their baptism of fire in this ''quiet sector,'' but for the boys of the All-Atnerican there was nothing home-like about it. It was their initial entry as a division; not only that, it was the first time a national army division had entered the front lines as a fight¬ ing unit, and the men and officers alike were on their mettle. The historic date when the relief of the Twenty-sixth Division by the Eighty-second began was the night of June 25. The sector taken over was known as the Lagney sector, Woevre front. The Eighty-second held the left flank of the Thirty-second French Army Corps, Eighth French Army, with the French artillery taking over the artillery positions of the Twenty-sixth Division in place of the Eighty-second's artillery brigade, which was then in training at La Courtine. A march up long and muddy hills brought the various units to billets shortly in the rear of the front lines. Here they trained for a week on the target range of the French with the new French Chauehat rifles which were issued to them. In the meantime officers of the various regiments reconnoitered the front line positions which were to be taken over, finding just where they were to locate their own troops and getting at the same time all the informal ion I he French could furnish them regarding the enemy positions and No Alan's Land. Positions of all machine guns, together with all maps and orders of the sec¬ tor, were carefully studied. Then under cover of darkness, column after column moved quietly into the lines, some of them into the first trenches, others into support positions in the rear. They found their dugouts, put out their sentries and, when day broke on the morning of June 20, they looked out across Xo Man's Land—a desert of ruined trenches and rusty wire, a few scattered, crumbling houses that used to be a town, and, almost a mile away, a fringe of timber which they knew sheltered the boche. VI. The Eighty-second Division occupied the Lagney sector near Toul for exactly two weeks, from June 20 to August 10. To-dav anv member of the division which later went through the Argonne and the M euse battles would descril>e those two weeks at Toul as distinctly a "good war," but it was not so to them then. The tingle of holding the front lines was in the blood of every man, and the most casual bombing raid of the enemy left, an indelible impression. (Continued on page 35.) Photo by Winn and Mathcirsori. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal. SERVICE RECORD 17 CHAS. KRUEGER President and Treasurer A. 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Probably not quite so many. But an awful lot of names. I remember about it. My good friend, G. K. Rut- ledge, then the Camp Gordon report¬ er for the Georgian-American, sort of got up the idea of having a naming contest for the Eighty-second before it went away to war, and it was some naming contest. Rutledge organized the affair, and got Governor Hugh Dorsey, Brigadier- General William P. Burnham, com¬ manding officer of the division, and Major R. E'. Beebe, chief of staff, to serve as a committee of judges to de¬ cide on the best and most appropriate name for the division; the "battle name," he said it would be. Then he wrote a story about the plan, stating that a 'big and ornate silver loving cup would be awarded the person suggesting the name that was adopted—and sat back to see what would happen. Several things happened, mostly names. The suggestions came in by the dozen at first; then by hundreds; then by thousands. I mean this liter¬ ally. I remember The Georgian print¬ ed a picture of Miss Billie Nolan, a very personable young woman in the business department, who was de¬ puted to look after the mail of the suggestors of names. The picture showed Miss Nolan holding a huge basket, a yard tall, spilling over with letters, each letter containing one or more suggestions, usually more, for the name of the Camp Gordon division. It was a very easy picture to look at, Miss Nolan being of that type.. And interesting, as illustrative of how many people in one day had thought about the Camp Gordon boys, and wanted to pick out a good name for them to go and lick the Kaiser under. The names ranged from everything to anything and back again. What¬ ever a gamut is, it was run ragged. There were serious but sloppy names suggested, like Father's Favorite and Mother's Pet. There was a somewhat acutely localistic name—the Moon¬ shine Division, having a rather pointed application to an industry supposed by certain persons to be pursued to a moderate extent in the mountainous districts of this state. There were trick names, that would make you think carefully before you could grasp the full significance—like Gordon Knights, a play on Gordonites, of course; and religious titles, like Gideonites, reminiscent of the mid¬ night exploit of Mr. Gideon's cele¬ brated band of dark-lantern warriors in the Old Testament. There were fanciful names like Bluebird—why on earth would any¬ body want to name a fighting division of United States soldiers bluebirds? And Warren Kimsey, then song leader at the camp, suggested the Singing Division; possibly with an eye to his own profession. Homely names, too—the United States Buddies; and (with a hint of innate viciousness in it) the Circular Saw Division, recalling the number of times everybody probably has heard that So-and-So, a most combative per¬ son, "would fight a circular saw," which always has been rated a tough proposition to tackle. I remember a story a/bout a bulldog that fought a circular saw, winding up with this dialogue: "How many rounds did the fight last?" "Three rounds." "How did the dog come out?" "In sections." Then we have the sentimental names, like Blue and Gray and Colum¬ bia; and then the slangy names, like Mascot and Mixer, and United States Buddies. The threatening names were popu¬ lar. We had Cyclone and Thunder Cloud and names of that type, and Hun Hunters; and some rather vicious ones, like Hun Haters. Kaiser Katch- ers and Kaiser Krackers were allitera¬ tive and flip; and somebody—a wo¬ man, I suppose—wanted the division named Hope. It took nearly a week to sort out and arrange the names for the judges, and it took them—I don't know just how long—a good while, to decide. But late on the night of Saturday, April 6, General Order No. 3 was is¬ sued by Brigadier-General Burnham, by R. E. Beebe, chief of staff, as fol¬ lows: "The Eighty-second Division repre¬ sents the best manhood from every state in the Union. In view of this fact, the Commanding General desig¬ nates this Division, and orders that it be known as the Ail-American Divi¬ sion." Mrs. Vivienne Goodwyn,' living at the Winecoff Hotel, Atlanta, suggest¬ ed that name, and received the big cup. And as the All-American Division, the Eighty-second went overseas a few weeks later and assisted notably in the mopping-up process then began on the Huns soon after it landed. And as the All-American Division the Eighty-second will foe known in history, unto the third and fourth generations—and so forth, and so on, forever. Compliments of W. P. 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Advertising Rntes upon application at SERVICE RECORD Office, Atlanta, Georgia. THE EIGHTY-SECOND. SERVICE RECORD deems it a very great privilege to publish a special edi¬ tion in commemoration of the Eighty- Second Division and its record of heroic achievement. It is a matter of deep regret to this paper that circum¬ stances did not permit the Eighty-Sec¬ ond to return to Camp Gordon for demobilization and allow the people of Atlanta the opportunity of express¬ ing their great pride in the splendid fighting organization which came into being and went through the rigors of preliminary training only a few miles away. The Eighty-second, aptly named the "All-American," will always occupy a very warm corner in the hearts of At- lantians, for the majority of its officers went through the Officers' Training Camp at Fort McPherson during the Spring and Summer of 1917, the first of the raw recruits who came to the division that September came from Georgia and the neighboring States of Florida and Alabama, and through the Fall and Winter that followed, they watched the Division grow, saw many of its men transferred away to other camps, saw thousands of others come in from all over the United States, and ultimately saw the finished product representing every State in the Union, truly an "All-American Division," in those April days when the division packed up and left quietly, silently for the port of embarkation whence they were to soon go overseas and there grapple with the Hun. Atlanta followed every move the division made in the days that follow¬ ed, read eagerly the first scanty crumbs of news which brought word that the "All-American" was at last in action, watched with proud sorrow the casualty lists as the names of men known and beloved in this city appear¬ ed day by day. Atlanta mourned as if her own the loss of Captain Jewett Williams from Athens, the first man of the Eighty-second to die in action, and was soon shocked with grief as other names came in,—Captain Joseph Wade Conkling, the Unitarian minister who gave up his pulpit to serve in the line, Lieutenant Carl Goldsmith, Cap¬ tain Charles Foster of New York, Cap¬ tain Louis Battey of Augusta, and scores of other brave young men who made friends in the city. SERVICE RECORD bids you wel¬ come and farewell! MERELY A FINGER. By AC'EY OEE. I found him on the steps of the Red Cross House at Fort McPherson. He looked lonesome and I ventured a word. I found him retiring and self- effacing. And yet his right sleeve bore the tell-tale mark, the gold chevron. Surely, he had a story. I asked him how he happened to be wounded and he held up his right hand. His index finger was missing and in its place there was only a stump. "At the Argonne," he said, simply. "I was with the Eighty-second Divi¬ sion." And then, mumbling a hurried excuse, he made his way off. I watched him as he sauntered up the street. And then my gaze was drawn to the many other boys passing by. Some had lost legs; limp, empty sleeves testified to the sacrifice others had made. A finger for his country! Surely that was not so much. When com¬ parison with these brave lads was drawn— My thoughts were broken in upon by a ruddy-faced Irish youth who had been an interested spectator of my meeting with the young veteran who had left me so abruptly. "Do you know who that young lad was?" he asked me. I told him no. I manifested an in¬ terest, however, that I did not sin¬ cerely feel. "He lost a finger, you know," my informant continued. I nodded, but my mind kept traveling along differ¬ ent paths. I couldn't help but think of these other gallant boys who had given so much. "His home's in Alabama." My new¬ found acquaintance would not be gain¬ said. "Before the war he was a tailor's apprentice. Worked for his father in his little shop. He didn't have much schooling, but he did have ambition. And it took a musical turn. "His fiddle was his ever-faithful con¬ fidant. I know because I was in the same company with him. And play! Why, do you know he had taken a course with the best masters at Bos¬ ton and New York. And he had been acclaimed as the coming young musi¬ cian of the country." My attention now had ceased to wander, focused it was on his every word. "And then came the war. He pack¬ ed up his violin and joined us at Gor¬ don. And then we went to France. And finally came the tussle in the Argonne. Well, you know he lost the first finger of his right hand. And all his years of study, of self-sacrifice, all the hopes of his aged parents—, no, he doesn't say much about it, nary a re¬ gret expressed. But you can guess how he feels." I could and did. And what an in¬ dictment it was on me. Hasty con¬ clusions! They struck me hard. I suffered. A finger for his country! I wonder if many could have given more. The Governor Expresses Georgia's Gratitude It is a genuine source of pleasure to me to welcome back home again the men of the Eighty-Second, Division, so aptly named the "All-American Division," after a record of great achievement on the other side. Georgia feels a deep affection for the heroes of St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne offensive who were trained almost within the shadow of the capitol, and my only regret is that military necessity prevented the Eighty-Second from returning to Camp Gordon as a whole so that the State might have the opportunity of extending a welcome some where nearly commensurate ivith the pride which the people of Georgia have in the brave record of the Divi¬ sion. Hugh M. Dorsey. t i 'J .. i'i • i ; . • r i-iy.y. .i/.-i^. Hi I ATLANTA'S WELCOME By Mayor James L. Key The City of Atlanta extends her most cordial greet¬ ings to the boys of the 82nd Division. We had wished that we could have had all of the 82nd Division, and at one time. We would have been glad to have had them march down Peachtree with flags flying, so they could have felt the great heart throb of our people, and could have been made to know our pride in their achievements and joy in their return. But we know that the supreme wish in every boy was to get back home, with as little delay as possible. Hence we could not ask for any delay. We wish them to know that they have not only written their fame upon the imperishable annals of their country, but have done what is of even more value, have written it upon the hearts of our people. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Service Recohd wishes to thank the Atlanta Journal, the Atlanta Constitu¬ tion, the Atlanta Georgian, Mr. Ward Greene, Major Trammell Scott, Cap¬ tain Allan C. Gottschaldt, lieuten¬ ant Stevens Mitchell, Mr. Cecil K. Jones, and other friends of this paper for their courtesy and timely aid whereby this souvenir edition has been made possible. THE ADVERTISER. An advertisement in this book is an undoubted factor in the establishment of prestige. It is unquestioned proof of civic pride, community interest, bus¬ iness enterprise and industrial progressiveness. The "Service Record" staff feels that every business and indus¬ try locally are represented in the advertising pages .of this book. It is the belief of the staff that the presence of an advertise¬ ment from a local concern in this book is in itself proof positive that the local business is a leader in its line and is worthy of the patronage of our readers. 20 SERVICE RECORD LCOME Bill 82 nd Division David T. Bussey Ford Dealer Atlanta Welcome Home, Bops! Discard pour wrist watch and put on one of my HAMILTONS J. W. BOONE, 14 NORTH FORSYTH STREET Watch Inspector for N. C. & St. L. and C. of G. Rys. Welcome Home 82nd Division They Brought Home the Bacon MONT AG BROS. Incorporated Manufacturing Stationers, Wholesalers of School Supplies and Druggists' Sundries 10-20 Nelson Street Atlanta, Georgia Askin £? Marine Co. Fine Clothing for Men and Women Charge Accounts Solicited 78 Whitehall Street W. A. DAY, Manager 20 Years' Experience t»e J. B. McCRARY CO. ATLANTA, GEORGIA Design, Finance, Construct Municipal Works, Water, Lights, Sewers, Street Paving, Improved Highways, Bonds Purchased. Work Executed We offer a service that saves you money ATLANTIC ICE & COAL CORPORATION WHOLESALE and RETAIL ICE, COAL, COLD STORAGE general offices: atlanta, ga. The American Audit Co. 100 Broadway- New York City P. W. LAFRENTZ, C. P. A., President BRANCHES: New York Philadelphia Scranton San Francisco New Orleans Atlanta Milwaukee Boston Chicago Baltimore Richmond Washington, D. C. London, E. C. Our Reports of Audit and Our Certificates of Condition and Operations, are known to have weight in the finan¬ cial World :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Atlanta Branch 1013 Fourth National Bank Building C. P. BIDWELL, C. P. A., Resident Vice-President We are proud of the splendid record and achievements of the lawyers and others of the now famous Eighty-Second Division. Moore & Pomeroy 1120 Hurt Bldg. SERVICE RECORD 21 Reminiscences of a Doughboy Shavetail By FIRST LIEUTENANT STEVENS MITCHELL, INFANTRY RESERVE CORPS. (Formerly of the 326th Infantry, 82d Division) MAJOR-GENERAL EBEN D. SWIFT LEADING OFFICERS OF THE 82ND DIVISION ON A PRACTICE MARCH, SEPTEMBER, 1917. Photo by Winn and ilathewson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal. Welcome Home, 82nd <» VIRLYN B. MOORE ATTORNEY PHONE IVY 1677 703-8 EMPIRE BUILDING OWmwW'SyVi V? ^ V? Greet Every Member of the All American Division as if He Were Your Own Brother | Thev drilled with alacrity and obedience at Camp Gordon, where the ^ men were fused into a great fighting unit. \\ hen they got across the seas |> they demonstrated that their trainers had heen educated, natural born soldiers and fighters. On the battle line the Eighty-second made their ./ drill-master proud of their achievements. Not even the raking, death- ^ dealing fire of the enemy guns caused them to forget to carry out orders of their superiors. Their conduct on the battle field was a revelation to the world. Haw material whipped into veritable soldiers in a few ^ months was something new. We must show how deeply we feel the '•> great debt which we owe the men who come back, but we must not ^ forget those who will never leave the silent fields of France. We must / show our appreciation by giving them a hearty welcome. ♦ ALEX. W. STEPHENS, • Judge Georgia Court of Appeals. We extend a hearty welcome to the boys of the 82nd Division who fought so bravely for their country and humanity. Knott & Carmichael Furniture Company MANUFACTURERS UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE 346-348 Lee Street Atlanta, Georgia • 4 « ** '* •- * 4 *4; *• 4 4 * '*x *' '4 * ** When the first group of officers ar¬ rived at Camp Gordon on the morning of August, 29th, 1917, the camp was a much different place from what it now is. It was swamped beneath an avalanche of lumber, and a horde of carpenters were its only occupants, and the clamor and red dust were really appalling. The officers settled down wherever they could, and awaited the coming of the first enlisted men. The first five per cent, arrived on the morning of September fith, .and were greeted by officers detailed for the purpose at I he receiving station, now the Central Y. M. C. A. building. Most of them were a most perplexed and unhappy lot, whose main idea of the army was that guardhouses were as frequent as barracks, and that officers mainly got their enjoyment in life from having people shot at sunrise. Their ideas were soon cured, but many others came to take their place, the chief one being that an officer de¬ rived his greatest joy from shouting "Close up!" just as your feet felt as if they weighed 150 pounds apiece. In those early days clothing was the main drawbacks to the joy of life. Clothes just simply could not be got, and those that were procurable could not be made to fit, and many of the rookies presented very curious ap¬ pearances in those days when, clad in a gigantic pair of leggins, which would have done service as a corset for a 350-pound woman, and a coat that would have been a tight fit for a ten- year-old boy, they hiked along the dusty roads. About the time that clothing was scarcest, came the orders to transfer all men to Camps Jackson, Wheeler and Sevier, "fully equipped." The transfer was made, but the only equipment was a lively sense of humor, directed almost entirely at the wit who had issued the order. Then came the boys from the north. Formerly there had been mainly Southern farmer boy's in the camp, but now there came representatives of every race, faith, trade and country in the world. A Lithuarian, a Syrian Turk, an Aberdeen Scotchman, three Italians and an Indian constituted a regular squad in one platoon, and many others as diverse might have been found. And then came the weary months of training. But why speak of them? They were dull and hard, but they were necessary. At any rate seven months passed by, when suddenly came the order to embark for Prance. I think that all the members of the regiments will never forget those last days in Atlanta—the parades, the pre¬ sentations of colors—the last dances, the hurried good-byes, and the endless confusion that comes with a large troop movement. And then we were off. A few days of intense wrangling with the Camp Upton quartermasters and the regi¬ ments were at sea. And a long, hard pull of it we had, for it's rather a nervous proposition to sail through a submarine zone, even if you are es¬ corted the last day or two. But, as luck would have it, there were no en¬ counters with submarines, and in only one case was there a scare. That scare came at a time on the Mauretania, when an officers' meeting was being held, and most of the men' were taking an afternoon nap. A depth bomb was dropped, but no other excitement came out of the matter. When we reached Liverpool we marched through the streets to the station. It could be noted that there was something in the atmosphere that was foreign to us. Mainly it was lack of interest. At that time England was beaten, and knew it, and admitted it. So it was a rather dull day for us. Straight to Southampton we went, to struggle for two days with rain and mud, and bad food, and little of it, till we went on the horribly dirty transports that took us to Havre. At Havre we had our first experi¬ ence with wine and beer and other liquids that cheer, and it was a cheery crowd of officers that sat around the officers' club at Havre, and banged away at the piano and ordered wine just as if they had been used to doing it for the last two or three centuries. We were scattered up and down the coast in little villages, and went to schools and on trips to the front. On one of these, Captain Jewett Williams, 32Gth Infantry, was killed in action, being the first of the division to fall. Then came the orders to move to Toul, and we embarked. Four days of sleeping in cattle cars or on the un¬ sheltered floors of flat cars followed. But we all enjoyed it. And how they did cheer us at Paris and Versailles, and applauded like mad when we stopped at the stations. Some of the men of one 'battalion were lost at one of the stops, and the tale of their adventures would make a book in itself. At another point, a mule went A. W. O. L. from the back of a moving flat car, and when the next train came along was picked up and attached to I Co., 326th Infantry, for rations and quarters, by Lt. Bankston, of that com¬ pany. It was a splendid trip and was made through a splendid part of France, and if the accommodations had only been a bit more de luxe all would have been merry as a wedding bell. Finally, in the night, we came into Toul, a place as dark as pitch. No lights were lit on account of fear of the boche, and it was quite a bit of trouble to unload animals and kitchens and wagons and folks in pitch black dark on a narrow platform. Well, it was finally done and we marched through deserted streets, and lost ourselves in the queer maze of streets and finally set out on the cor¬ rect routes. Pretty soon dawn came on, and we saw ourselves in pretty fair looking villages and in a few hours we were all settled down in fine shape, and were soon billetted around at Gondreville, Chaloy, Touge, Lurey, etc. On the 25th of .Tune we began to take over the Xivray, Seicheprey, Flirev, Limly sector from the 26th (New Eng¬ land) division, who had just success¬ fully withstood an offensive at Seiche- prey, though they had lost many men in the .Jury woods. The division took o\er the trenches and woods without any untoward SERVICE RECORD events, and settled down into the rou¬ tine of the sector, as if they had been old veterans. The sector had been the same for four years, and was rather well fitted up, though in many places, works erected by the French during the offensive of 1915 had fallen into bad repair. Over the whole country Mont See loomed up, allowing Jerry to observe all our movements, as he ' would, and to fire on us as he wished, and many a time were the roads from Bernecourt and Beaumont and Ram- becourt shelled right merrily when •Terry suspected them of holding a sup¬ ply train. While in this sector the Third Bat¬ talion of the 326th Infantry made quite a successful raid of the German position in the Bois de Mortmore, and many Germans were killed during the engagement. The raid was led by Cap¬ tain Thomas Barrett (now major) and Captain Arthur Hamm (killed in ac¬ tion at St. Mihiel) under the direc¬ tion of Major Homer Watkins. Early in August we got the rumor that we were to be relieved and the 89th Division was to take our place, and the 82d was to proceed to Nan- teniel le Handoin, near Soissons. How¬ ever, these orders were evidently countermanded or else were merely rumors, for after the gas attack on the S9th Division, while the relief was progressing, the division was held in billets west of Toul for over a week, till the orders came to move into the Marbache sector, and hold the line of Pont-a-Mousson. J. C. Stuhhs, onager East Atlanta Hardware Company WHOLESALE AND RETAIL East Atlanta, Georgia Welcome Home Eighty-Second THE FOUR MINUTE MEN of ATLANTA Welcome Home Boys of the 82nd Division Your Work Was Well Done. SMITH & HIGGINS 264 PETERS STREET | .Adlers 2 At Five Points I Outfitters to JVLen ^Velcomes Home the Boys | ATLANTA VARIETY WORKS f '' J. L. & W. H. ZACHRY, Proprietors ■'/ Manufacturers and Jobbers ?s 1 Turman & Calhoun I \" s" Realty Company j s Empire Building, Atlanta, Ga. f * Welcomes Each and Every Man of :: "Atlanta's Own" \ 82nd Division J: Atlanta, Georgia 4- SERVICE RECORD 23 ** Odds and Ends: Poetical and Otherwise *** From the pen of Franklin P. Adams, captain U. S. A., comes a poem which hits to the spot: "When You Meet a Man From Your Own Heme Town." Sing, O Muse, in the treble clef, A little song of the A. E. F., And pardon me, please, if I give vent To something akin to sentiment. But we have our moments over here When we want to cry and we want to cheer; And the hurrah feeling will not down When you meet a man from your own home town. It's many a lonesome, lonesome day Since you embarked from the U. S. A., And you meet some men, it's a great big war— From burgs that you never had known before; And you landed here, and your rest camp mate Was a man from some strange and distant state. Liked him? Yes, but you wanted to see A man from the town where you used to be. And then you went, by design or chance, All over the well-known map of France; And you yearned with a yearn that grew and grew To talk with a man from the place you knew. And some lugubrious morning when Your morale is batting about .110, "Where are you from?" and you make reply, And the 0. D. warrior says: "So am I." And the universe wears a smiling face As you spill your talk of the old home place; You talk of the streets and the home¬ town jokes, And you find that you know each other's folks; And you haven't any more woes at all, As you both decide that the world is small— A statement adding to its renown When you meet a man from your own home town. You may be among the enlisted men, You may be a Lieut., or a Major-Gen., Your home may be up in the Chilkoot Pass, In Denver, Col., or in Pittsfield, Mass.; You may have come from Chicago, 111., From Buffalo, Portland, or Louisville, But there's nothing, I'm gambling, can keep you down When you meet a man from your own home town. If you want to know why I wrote this pome, Well—I've just had a talk with a guy from home. WHILE AT BORDEAUX. Bordeaux saw quite a bit of the boys of the Eighty-second, and natur¬ ally the boys of the Eighty-second saw quite a bit of Bordeaux. Base Section No. 2 it was officially, and The Cour¬ ier, an admirable weekly publication, was the official organ of the station. The following- excerpts from one of the issues of The Courier are submit¬ ted: Doing Our Bit. We did our bit, the U. S. A., We took our share of shot and shell. A little late, perhaps, in the day, But, never mind—wo did it well; But they were full four years in hell, Blood to the waist, backs to the wall; So, please when you the story tell, Don't talk as if we did it all. For once forego our ancient way— By pride, 'tis said, the angels fell— And rather let us humbly pay Homage to her that would not sell Herself, nor any might compel, Belgium so great that seemed so small That torch and torture could not quell— Don't talk as if we did it all. Remember Serbia at bay, With not a roof 'neath which to dwell, And France, her soul half torn away, Unconquered and invincible; And, in her Alpine citadel, Forget not Italy, and recall That England did her bit as well— Don't talk as if we did it all. L' ENVOI Boys, why of course—our bosoms swell; That we should talk a little tall Is, so to say, au naturel— Don't talk as if we did it all. —Richard Legallien. Strictly between the 307th Engi¬ neers and the 325th Infantry, as it were, is a poem published in the Scup¬ per, the official "knows all, sees all" of the U. S. S. Santa Cecelia: Navy Stew. 'Twas the 30th Engineers and the In¬ fantry 325, Who left Bordeaux on our good ship, Alert and all alive. 'Twas found they had some talent for instruments with strings, So the boys got together and that's what started things. They borrowed a banjo-mando for one of the boys to play, And Sergeant Waite's mandola sure helped to save the day. With violins and mandolins, they made the whole place ring; They'd gather on the hatch at night and the rest of the gang would sing. Now, we can't forget "Fats" Brady, who makes the three bones ache, And when he sings the laughing song, you ought to see him shake. But now we're nearin^r old New York, and we hate to see them go, Altho' with their discharge in hand, they'll be happy we all know. And if we meet in future days, we'll have no sad regret, For the Engineers and Infantry, we never can forget. —Jim. SONG OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND. by ac'ey gee. Song of the Eighty-second, Rhyme of the boys who scrap, Tale of the lads who licked the Hun cads, And put a new face on the map. At Gordon we trained and we labored; In France we labored in rain. Discouragement! Never! We sure were a lever In wresting back ill-gotten gain. You may talk of other divisions; They all did their part, I'll admit, But for plain, down-right fightin', boy, what's on you bitin' Don't you know that "A. A." means grit? Just a word for those left behind, Who made the supreme sacrifice. To buddies gone AVest, to a well-de- served rest, No eulogy e'er will suffice. Now we're back in the land of our own, The land that we fought hard to save, If we did well, we're glad, we gave all we had, For this land of the free and the brave. Song of the Eighty-second, Rhyme of the boys who won; Welcome to MEN, with us again, Doers and fighters—well done! THINKING OF OVER THERE OVER HERE. (by onf who is.) I did look more than once at those French mademoiselles. But I'm emu¬ lating Lot's famed wife now that I'm back in Georgia. One thing I learned, too. It came to me under shell fire. What a nut I was to let a holdup man, with a mere .32 teat me out of my watch and goods and chattels one day last year before I went overseas. Let 'im try it again. There was a time when I wondered if I'd ever see the "city of five points" again. The five points being, I be¬ lieve,—unusual street-car service (and use the word 'unusual' advisedly), Coca Cola, telephone service extraor¬ dinary (extraordinary—ditto marks), real southern weather, and the home of my girl! "Argonne Ted" is a veteran. He is a dog. And there is a suspicion that he is of German descent. But now¬ adays he is a Georgian and boasts a wound chevron, the gold service stripe and the famed All-American division insignia. Back last November "Argonne Ted" fell into the hands of the Eighty-sec¬ ond when Sergeant Wm. J. Luttrell, of the 327th Ambulance Company, a Tennessean, came across him in a cap¬ tured Hun dugout. Nearly blind from the effects of gas, the little black "purp" rallied under the kindly at¬ tentions of the sergeant and his com¬ rades and soon was a member of the division in good standing. I I W. IL 0tfibrn dumber Manufacturers of and Dealers in V | LUMBER, MILL WORK, INTERIOR FINISH, SASH ; AND DOORS i % Office, Factory and Yard, 542 Whitehall St. | FRED C. DISBRO, Sec. and Treas. | t % | Bell Phone, Main 1946; Atlanta, 839 Atlanta, Ga. | X | Welcome Home, | Boys of the 82nd | Division, Atlanta I Greets You. f •? i I Walker Electric and Plumbing Co. % X • 'v Z Atlanta, Georgia <•' z \ •v y 24 SERVICE RECORD THAT LEAVE. Ask the Eighty-second veteran what he thought of a stay at a leave area and watch him grin! And the chances are he'll follow this up by mentioning Luchon, a favorite haunt of the Ail- American men on furlough. Or per- hap he'll twist his tongue around the word "permissionaire," which, freely translated, means the open sesame to the doughboy's delight. Luchon is a little town in the Pyre¬ nees. Picture a wide, sunny valley, two thousand feet above sea level, in the midst of the picturesque central Pyrenees. And snow-clad peaks, tow¬ ering from 6,000 to 8,000 feet high, encircling the town. And, following out the recipe,—ready to serve—a number of "Y" workers who are do¬ ing a truly praiseworthy work there. "Boy, burn my clothes, I'm in heaven," was the expressive enthus¬ iastic comment of one Georgia Cracker as he spread himself over the sur¬ rounding landscape and prepared to enjoy the scenery. Girls? Oh, yes, they do say they're quite pretty, but the boys of the- Eighty-second are more liable to tell you of the baseball diamonds that have ibeen laid out there and how their rival company lost their dessert one night through over-confidence in their prowess in the grand old American game. Moreover, Bagneres de Luchon ap¬ peals to those who love excursions into picturesque territory. "Buddy," explained one of Georgia's own, "D'you know it was only a short trip to the Spanish border. And I nearly learned to dance the fandango! Then, too, at Luchon there's one of the most famous gambling casinos in Prance. No, buddy, you guessed wrong that time. Still it made a wonderful dance hall. And right around the casino, a park, and palm trees, and the air redolent with the perfume of camelias in bloom and jasmine. And don't forget that a good number of the welfare workers there were real American girls!" Which ends the argument right there, also any worries that might have persisted in the minds of the listeners. "THE WEEK'S WASH." The 307th Engineers, one of the regiments of the Eighty-second Divi¬ sion, was decidedly a clean-up outfit. They even prove it by the name of their paper, gotten out abroad: "The Week's Wash " In the initial edition appears the fol¬ lowing: "In this, the initial edition, we hang out for drying our first week's wash." Not that the humor in evi¬ dence is dry—far from it. Note the editorial slogan, for in¬ stance: "Affiliate yourself with the Week's Wash and clean up." Or note this caustic comment: "You've surely heard the latest dope about our merging with the 8th Army Corps and doing stevedore duty back in the Sk O. S. Take the bull by the horns and write your folks to haul down the service flag that's been flying in your honor." And in another number appears: "The sweetest words of tongue or pen, are these: 'We're coming home again.'" i Southern Iron & Equipment Company % Offices: 217-218-219 Grant Building. Shops: Southern Belt Railroad % Steel Rails, Locomotives, Rolling Stock, Castings, Grey Iron and \> Brass, Locomotive and Car Repairs and Parts a Specialty Z ATLANTA, GEORGIA 4> Branch Office: Hibernia Bank Building, New Orleans, La. Wf)e Slop* of tfje 82nb Btbteton . A hearty welcome is bestowed upon you. Wishing each one of you who have participated in the past crisis a most prosperous future. Jflurpfjp ftollotoap, All clothes are made— OUR CLOTHES ARE BETTER MADE That insures YOU better Service, Result, Satisfaction CHAS. J. COFER & COMPANY 20 Marietta Street J^ord THE UNIVERSAL CAR | BEAUDRY MOTOR COMPANY ! 'V AUTHORIZED FORD AGENTS } 7 Phones Main 1123, 2245, 4285 f Office and Salesrooms, 169-171 Marietta St. Garage Entrance, 118-120 Walton St. { E. G. BEAUDRY, President ATLANTA, GEORGIA % Welcome Home Again, ; Boys of the 82nd We shall be pleased to gain the acquaintance ; of each one of you. Come around. : D. Shalloway & Company 15 Edgewood Avenue Tailors Hatters Furnishers j, -s ? ; • i • * ** * 's-t • J !>•♦/»■ t t-i>t-*vvt' 1 ♦»« ♦ -s-t ♦, •>• t s-t t' ? 1111> Boys of the 82^ ! We Welcome You Home j 'X Many of you with whom we j are personally acquainted : and those we were not so | fortunate to know. J The same hand of courtesy I and service rendered before : your departure awaits you at I l Parks-Chambers-Hardwick j "Five Points" Coflip£tny ATLANTA • Clothing—Furnishings : Hats—Shoes j ARMY AND CIVILIAN OUTFITTERS * SERVICE RECORD 25 : You Made Us Proud, j ! Atlanta is indeed proud of 'J; ! the fact that it was the tempo- '* - rary home of the Eighty-Sec- '*< . ond Division. We came to f] . know thousands of these fight- * > ing men while they were in ,*s training at Camp Gordon. !$! • While most of the enlisted men S, were not natives of Atlanta or ^ ^ Georgia, yet they completely ^ won the heart of Atlanta and 5. f the city adopted the Division r from General to "K. P." I. 1 If possible, Atlanta was even f J more interested in the Eighty- *$, Second Division than in the Division comprised mostly of Georgia's own sons. Which T | only goes to show that the U. S. ^ A. is just one big family. When J a crisis comes there is no North, S, »- no South, no East, no West, but | just one GREAT BIG UNITED $ I STATES OF AMERICA. | X You men of the Eighty-Sec- ^ • ond Division covered tlie whole ^ S> country with glory in your ad- ' 'i> vance from Sommerance and Marcq through Saint Juvin to •> Champigneulle. Then when you were transferred down be- *< tween Metz and Nancy you • turned a supposedly quiet sec- r tor into an inferno of action, f You started the fighting there, r We can imagine what you went • through at Pont-A-Mousson. 4> y As one of the oldest institu- X/ tions of Atlanta and Georgia, £ % we are glad to be able to share y 'y in the glory won by the Eighty- 4, X, Second, and to say to each and ■? £ every member thereof that they y 'y will never be forgotten by our v X people. '% % Atlanta's only disappoint- y y ment was that the Eighty-Sec- X, ond could not be brought back I to Camp Gordon to be mus- y y tered out. We wanted to try to X {, express the way we felt—to % \ show how proud we were of 'y X you. i, If you want to visit a town f, X where you will know you are y y welcome, or if you want to live y y in a good town where you will X p be appreciated, catch a train y 7 for Atlanta, Georgia, and when y ■ . f be appreciated, catch a train for Atlanta, Georgia, and when y you arrive just let somebody y t know you belonged to the £ | Eighty-Second Division. SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY I • .vw.-...- ^ 1 Atlanta, Georgia I Manufacturers of \ The Greatest Blood Purifier y and Tonic ¥ FOUR EIGIITY-SECOND LEADERS WELL KNOWN IN ATLANTA. Prom left to right: Lieutenant-Colonel Henry S. Wagner, 325th Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel Frank S. Rowell, 326th Infantry; Brigadier-General Marcus D. Cronin, 163rd Infantry Brigade; Colonel John B. McArthur, 326th Infantry. Photo by Winn and Mathewson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal. Howdy, Boys x We're glad you're back And we sure are proud of you Guthman Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co. I" Welcome Home Boys 82nd Division R. D. BARKSDALE CO. MEN'S WAKE Shoes and Hats A DOUGHBOY'S PRAYER. Noted writers are vieing with one another to prove both sides of the question: "Has the Doughboy a New Religion?" It is not the intention of Service Record to presume an opinion. It merely submits—for the humorous aspect solely—a copy of a "prayer" brought back by one of the Georgia boys of the All-American organization, which is herewith presented: A Soldier's Prayer. Our father who art in Washington, Baker be thy name, thy cable come, thy will be done in St. Nazaire as in LeMans. Give us this day our long- delayed pay and forgive' the bugler, the mess sergeant, the Y. M. C. A., and those that wear bars; and lead us not into the Army of Occupation, but deliver us from another service stripe, for thine is the Army, the M. P.'s, the S. O. S., the Q. M. C., forever and ever. Amen. Glory be to Peter! Finis. Toot Sweet. Phone Ivy 310 (Kimball House) Decatur St. Furloughs were in order. "Every man who has a good reason for re¬ questing a furlough, step forward." "Company, halt!" the captain roar¬ ed.—Everybody's. 20 SERVICE RECORD (Courtesy of Atlanta Georgian) ALVIN C. YORK Sergeant Alvin C. York, of the gal- land 82d Division, proclaimed by army officers and writers as the great¬ est hero of the war, proved modest to a fault, even for a brave man, when interviewed at Camp Merritt by a special representative of Service Rec¬ ord in an attempt to get the story in his own words of how he accomplished the most remarkable feat performed by one man during the war. While there have been many other cases in which as great individual bravery was displayed, York's strat¬ egy, personal fearlessness, and the deadly accuracy of his rifle when he found himself and his squad suddenly entrapped by the enemy enabled him, lone-handed, to kill over twenty Ger¬ mans, capture 137, including one major and several other officers, and lead the remaining members of his squad back to safety; a feat which places him at the head of America's long list of heroes. When asked to make a statement for SERVICE RECORD, York looked around helplessly for a moment and then admitted he had nothing to say regarding his remarkable fight. Think¬ ing the big Tennessean was embar¬ rassed by the presence of so many of his "buddies" who were standing around in open-mouthed admiration of their hero, Major General Duncan, his division commander was asked to in¬ vite him into his office where he could talk in seclusion. The general replied that while he would be glad for Ser¬ geant York to send a word of farewell to his comrades being demobilized at Camp Gordon, he did not wish to use his influence to get him to say any¬ thing about his personal achievements. "Sergeant York doesn't care much for publicity," continued General Dun¬ can. "He was a conscientious objec¬ tor for a long time until he finally de¬ cided that America's cause was a righteous one and that his country needed his services at the front. He is also a leader in a sect that is opposed to warfare, and he regrets keenly the necessity for killing so many Ger¬ mans." "When George Patullo asked York if he would like to have a story of his achievement told in the Saturday Evening Post, York replied that he didn't care so much for that, but that he would not object to a few lines in the Gospel Advocate," said the general. Upon his return to the United States when an armistice had been declared, Sergeant York was much sought after as the guest of honor at the many en¬ tertainments and banquets which were planned for his coming, and in spite of his quiet and retiring habits and his eagerness to return to his farm at Pall Mall, Tennessee, he responded to the demand and accepted a number of the many invitations showered upon him. He also received many flattering offers to go on the stage and in the moving pictures, but in keeping with the determination to follow up the life he was living in the Tennessee hills when war was declared, he rejected them all and returned to his home and his loved ones. SERVICE RECORD 27 LOVE IS STILL IN COMMAND. Dedicated to the 82nd Division. My friend, when you've felt that love of right and country That has called you to foreign lands, To fight to the slime holes they call trenches, Dug in, under shell fire, with your hands— When you've known that wondrous brother love That springs up between men who fight, Whose very souls are bared to each other, And each man proud to die for the right— When you've gone for days on your nerve alone, And your "Iron Rations" were only your guts— When the roads were all blocked with wounded and dead, And horses, feet up, filled the ruts— When you've fought by men's side on a stretcher, And heard never a man to complain,— It was always, "Help the other fellow, It is he who is in the most pain"—■ Youre proud of the men who lived through this hell And you honor each cross that was won, But our greatest are those who fell at Mihiel, Or "went west" in the bloody Argonnc. And when on the great Armistice Day You're carried South on a Red Cross train, You see gratitude enough on French I'ace^, To pay for all of America's pain— Then, when "vive la Amerique's" a sweet echo, And your ship slowly stands out to sea— Each wave seems a runner with home love To the sick and wounded aboard The Maui— And at last when the Statue of Liberty Just seems to fold you into her arms, And Bands come out to escort you in, With hundreds of boats sounding alarms— I say, when you've felt this love of right and country, And learned this love for your fellow man,— And after the long fight—the home love, You'll know, despite war, Love is still in command. Written on board IT. S. Transport Maui, from Bordeaux, France, Dec. 5th, 1918—arriving New York, Dec. 17th, 1918,—by Major Trammell Scott, Inf. U. S. A. Atlanta Health and Sanitary Department Workers Sent Many of Their Sons Over Seas to Fight the Foe No civic endeavor branch lias a happier greeting' for the returning' boys of the All-Amer¬ icans than the Atlanta Health and Sanitary Department, for in the ranks of the world-fa¬ mous division are sons and brothers of many of the men who work from dawn to dark to keep the city clean and healthful for its people. Though they have a pride in the thoroughness of their work they have a greater pride in the deeds and accomplishments of that division in which their own blood flows. The returning force shows many a well known and loved face absent, but from those most deeply interested no protests come. They know the sacrifice was necessary and though it is hard they are bear¬ ing up under the blow with a fortitude equalled only by that fortitude the missing ones showed when they marched smiling, laughing and sing¬ ing against the curtain of fire thrown out by the Germans. Those boys showed the world what good, clean-liearted American boys can do and our welcome to those who come back should show the great gratitude we feel for what they did while away. Let's make their home coming one never to be forgotten either by them or by us. JOHN JENTZEN, Chief of the Atlanta San. Dept. and all Workers of that Line. To the boys of the 82nd Division We extend our welcome :: :: Swift & Company Atlanta, Georgia To the Boys of the Heroic 82nd A hearty welcome is be¬ stowed upon you for your most noble work which you have accomplished. Let us furnish you with a most pleasing suit at our new location. Yours truly JACK HAYES PEACHTREE AND AUBURN 28 SERVICE RECORD BRIGADIER-GENERAL, MARCUS D. CRONIN, COMMANDING ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THIRD INFANTRY BRIGADE AND STAFF LEAD¬ ING HIS TROOPS IN PARADE DOWN PEACHTREE STREET SHORTLY BEFORE THE 82ND DIVISION LEFT FOR OVERSEAS. "OH, BUT IT'S GRAND IN THE LAND OF—" It doesn't take a keen student of psychology to ascertain just what thoughts are engrossing the minds of those boys of the Eighty-second who are "home again, no more to roam again." What they have been through! Tales of the Argonne, of the St. Mihiel salient, of "cooties"? Hardly. What they expect to go through? Rollo, you've hit the proverbial mark! You mean worries about Bolshevism? The question mark brings a negative response. Far from it. Possibly the prohibition proposi¬ tion? Wrong again. (Cries of "Do tell us, do!") Have it your way. Our scene is Camp Gordon; the demobilization group to be specific. Time, recently. "Buddy," it is a tanned veteran of the Ail-American outfit speaking, "what date is it?" "Twenty-fourth o' May," comes the response. "Hell! I'll have to work fast," is the emphatic rejoinder. All of which brings to mind the fact that the month of June lurks in the offing. And friend D. Cupid has since time immemorial claimed that month as his very own. We Do Dry Cleaning and Dyeing THE NAVY AND THE MERCANTILE MARINE. We'll give three cheers for the Navy and the Mercantile Marine, They are the men who fought and braved the dreaded submarine. Duty they have never shirked though the dangers have been great, To-day they are singing, but it's not the "Hymn of Hate." Their duty they have done and their course is nobly run, They have beaten back the Hun with his device; How can the wrong prevail? Although the powers of hell assail "The Great Omnipotent. —W. V. L. The above poem was penned on shipboard by an English bed-room steward aboard the transport Orduna. It was brought to Atlanta by one of the Eighty-second boys, finding its way in due course to these columns. Atlanta Steam Dye AND -=: Cleaning Works 53 Auburn Avenue Bell Ivy 2340 PHONES Atlanta 954 Dry Cleaning and Dyeing a Specialty All Work Skillfully Done and Promptly Delivered. Expre. s Paid One Way on All Out of Town Orders over $3 00 JAMES S SPRATLING, Proprietor and Expert Dyer ATLANTA, GEORGIA ■•'fAYvS's v'v 'v j 'vvS/i/iA/v'v Compliments East Atlanta Pharmacy ATLANTA, GEORGIA Kirkwood Pharmacy KIRKWOOD, GA. SERVICE RECORD 29 Qpelcome 82 nd Dr- W. L. GILBERT ATLANTA NATIONAL BANK BUILDING el come to the 82nd Division SMITH, HAMMOND & SMITH ATTORNEYS AT I.AW SOU TO .-11 GRANT Ul'IUlIN(i ATLANTA, GEORGIA W7e)}come Home, Boys Eugene V. Haynes Co. DIAMONDS 73 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Ga. Xott t*ixv^v^O Welcome home, men of the Eighty-Second! The grateful heart of every patriotic Atlan- tan, of every Georgian, of every true Ameri¬ can, does homage to you. Atlanta is justly proud of her hero sons to whom a whole nation pays tribute, and bids you welcome with open hearts. J. B. REGNAS & CO. Atlanta, Georgia Welcome Home, Boys, Glad You're Back C. C. GREEN. Manager bell PHONE MAIN 9S5 CHAS. A. GREEN OPTICAL COMPANY High Class Prescription Work. All Kinds of Lenses Ground to Order. Spectacles, Eye Glasses and Other Optical Goods. 139 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Georgia TOelcome ffiome, ffiopa THE CENTRAL AUTO CO. J, B. Anchors, Proprietor. 34-36-38-40 Auburn Ave. ATLANTA, GA. A Hearty Welcome Extended C. D. KENNY CO. TEAS, COFFEES, SUGARS Both Phones 5S9 82 Whitehall St. Atlanta, Georgia This Space Donated by a friend of the Service as an evidence of loyalty and patriotism WELCOME HOME Boys of the 82nd WELCOME HOME BOYS BROKEN LENS DUPLICATED GLASSES FITTED I GRIND MY OWN LENSES EXPERT EXAMINATION GEO. S. lv A II N REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST AND MANUFACTURING OPTICIAN 18 Decatur Street, Opposite Kimball House Bell Phone Ivy 5621-J Atlanta, Ga. 30 SERVICE RECORD POWERFUL GAS. They're telling some interesting stories about town these days,—some new ones that escaped the ears of overseas correspondents, some whose nature permit of retelling. One of the Eighty-second veterans sauntered up to the clerk at a downtown hotel the other afternoon. The clerk was con¬ siderably put out over the laziness of some of his bellhops and was not loath to make that fact known. The overseas veteran interposed a word. "Over in France those niggers did good work. I recall one night one of our regiments had been in for a long continuous ! ombardment by gas shells. Under cover of darkness, the troops were relieved and some colored sol¬ diers took their place. The gas at¬ tack by the Huns continued unabated. "Morning came and the German lookouts in No Man's Land were sorely peiple\ed. Finally this message went back to their corps headquar¬ ters: 'We've gassed 'em till they're black in the face and still they're com- £ We Welcome the 82nd Division Home Again If We Can Be of Any Service to You Call on Us. BAGLEY & WILLET General Agents Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. f Fourth National Bank Building ATLANTA, GEORGIA f Bell Phone M. 3323 Atlanta Phone 1326 X GEO. MOORE ICE CREAM CO. ? INCORPORATED Manufacturers of \ PURE ICE CREAM J HIGH GRADE CANDIES f Quality Counts % 51 EAST ALABAMA STREET t Welcome 82nd Division L. M LANDRUM f .. ^ Compliments to the 82nd Division Savannah Lunch Room z avanna i 20 West Alabama Street QUICK SERVICE AND POPULAR PRICES <5> BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF ATLANTIC STEEL COMPANY'S PLANT Welcome! M en of the Eighty-Second, We are Glad You're Back ATLANTIC STEEL COMPANY ATLANTA SERVICE RECORD 31 I Compliments of the Board of County Commissioners of Fulton County 1919 W. M. POOLE, Chairman J. OSCAR MILLS, Vice-Chairman Dr. W. L. GILBERT C. G. TURNER PAUL S. ETHERIDGE |||E Extend to You Boys of 82nd Division a Hearty Welcome Withers Foundry and Machine Works Men of the 82™i The latch string hangs outside our door You have done your duty— more than your duty—and the country honors you, every one. By your courage and bravery and blood you have helped to conquer and now you re¬ turn home floating the banner of victory—long may it wave. This store is your store and we want you to feel that it is. The latch string hangs out¬ side the door. TERRY - BROWN & TILLY 116 Peachtree Street Next Door to the Piedmont Hotel SERVICE RECORD '\A 0.S- Txoo^a ZVA-VWL&. A "Toast to the Brave 82nd. Here's to the Boys, the brave and the true, The "fighting" 82nd, that "put the deal through.'* Your cross of Victory, through the thick of the fray, Through sacrifice and heroism that helped win the day. Through shot and shell, and the furies of Hell, You're back home, God bless you, the story to tell. And long may you live, in the glory you've won, In defense of World Freedom, and defeat of the Hun. Compliments and best wishes JOHNSON PAINT COMPANY B. F. JOHNSON, President MANUFACTURERS JOHNSON'S ROOF AND BRIDGE PAINT Third Floor Candler Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., U. S. A. Chief W. B.CODY w^nhehe 82nd Division Home Welcome, 82nd Division. Jake Newman, Clothing and Furnishings 95 Peachtree Street. (iDttr (Srpptutga Atlanta Wooden Ware Co. Welcome Home! E. M. Thomas Auto Top & Mfg. Co. Wholesale Manufacturers Automobile Tops, Seat Covers, Top Recovers, Tiro Covers, and Side Curtains E. M. Thomas Auto Top & Mfg. Co. 332 Peachtree Street ATLANTA, GA. Motor Apparatus for Fire Department Service STRENGTH POWER BALANCE Built By American-LaFrance Fire Engine Company Incorporated ELMIRA, NEW YORK P. O. HEBERT, Southern Manager, ATLANTA, GA- SERVICE RECORD Staff Major-General Eben D. Swift Brigadier- (later Major-) General Wm. P. Burnhara TWO GENERALS WHO COMMANDED THE 82nd DIVISION. MAJOR-GENERAL EBEN D. SWIFT, THE FIRST LEADER OF DIVISION, AND BRIGADIER-GENERAL (LATER MAJOR-GENERAL) WILLIAM P. BURNHAM. WHO WAS SUBSEQUENTLY THE THIRD COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE 82ND, AND LED IT OVERSEAS, WATCHING THE DIVI¬ SION PASS IN REVIEW AT CAMP GORDON. Men of the 82 nd WELCOME HOME We say this with Hearts full of Love and Gratitude Marbut Minor East Atlanta \ Everything to Eat and W7ear Donated by an Atlanta Friend of the 82nd Division 1 t t Qpdrmtt? Ijome, our ifrrors of % FOR your civilian Outfits we can give you the best service and values in Atlanta. ill SAM ASHER & BROTHERS 10 Peachtree Street The Peachtree Arcade Clothing Hats Furnishings 34 SERVICE RECORD Welcome Hfome! L. C: ADLER 113 PEACHTREE ST. ATLANTA, GA. Welcome Home, Bops of the 82nd E. J. PERKERSON CO. MEN'S OUTFITTERS 100 WHITEHALL STREET jlap protfjerg, 3fnc* JEWELERS and BANKERS 19 Peachtree Street Atlanta, (gcorgta 3BfU $f)one idain 1584 I 82nd Division—Welcome NAT KAISER & CO. 3 PEACHTREE ST. ATLANTA 1038 BELL MAIN 443 PARIS BROOM MANUFACTURING CO. 35-37 East Mitchell Street Distributors of Certain-Teed Roofing and House Paint If Interested, Get Our Prices Before You Purchase We are glad to join in a HEARTY WELCOME HOME to the boys of the 82nd. This is our pleasure. As a business we make the famous CORNFIELD HAMS AND BACON They are always good. The White Provision Company PACKERS. ATLANTA, GA. I Welcome IKome 1 Heartiest Greetings from. ^Tke Hirshberg Company 13, 15, 17 Nelson Street Atlanta, Georgia Our hearty congratulations to the boys of the 82nd Division KING HARDWARE CO. 87 Whitehall Street PHONES Local Main 3866 Long Distance 9936 Atlanta Cotton Oil Company Manufacturers of Cotton Seed Products OFFICE AND MILL Lakewood Avenue A. & P. R. R. (Take Lakewood Car Line, 15 Minutes Ride) ATLANTA, GA. SERVICE RECORD 35 I I The American Book Company welcomes the boys of the Eighty-Second back with open arms. No one of the units of America in the war deserves to be praised to the detriment of another. No one of the branches of the American army was any the less willing than any other branch to do its duty—but the Eighty- Second (the All-American) met the opportunity they had with the right courage and the right initiative. Welcome to the land that gave you birth as a unit in the great war —welcome back as befits you, with a tear and a sigh for those who will never come back, and a cheer from the heart for those who are coming back "home." The American Book Company Atlanta, Georgia 4 ...... i ... i . i j-j-j-i w i «■? ?-• ♦ »■« Welcome Home, Boys of the 82nd Ernest L. Rhodes Co. The South's Largest Wholesale Millinery House 67-69 South Pryor Street ATLANTA HISTORY OF THE 82D DIVISION. (Continued from page 16.) As a matter of fact, the Eighty-sec- express my ond's first experience of trench war- ware—the old trench warfare of four years past where for weeks the com¬ bat troops occupied opposite trenches and patrols through No Man's Land and sniping from parapet to parapet made life a deadly grind—was to be its last. When next it entered the lines at St. Mihiel, until the last unit of the division was withdrawn after those twenty-five decimating days in the Argonne, it was open warfare all the way, warfare which, at its worst, was more terrible than the trenches at any time. At any rate, before the division left the Lagney sector it had made things much livelier for the boche than when it entered. At first the men were in¬ tensely nervous. Peering over the top of the trench in the dead of night, the ghostly darkness of No Man's Land seemed alive with a thousand shadows which might be spectres and might not be. And it was this nervousness which resulted in the death of one of the two officers killed during those two weeks. First Lieutenant Winston P. Anderson, of Birmingham, Ala., feelings regarding your grand nation and more particularly your regiment which, on French soil, came on the 27th June to partake, at our side, to the guarding of our frontiers and our rights. "I will not insist on our admiration for your prodigious military effort, in view of the accomplishment of the organization of peace as put forward by President Wilson, for the realiza¬ tion of justice and right among na¬ tions. To-morrow's words will be of solemn gratitude and hope all through France, making here a national day the 4th of July. "I only wish to say to you, Colonel, to your officers and your men, that more than those who have not seen you at work we have felt at your con¬ duct new certitudes of victory. We have seen your splendid regiment; your men, healthy and robust, impa¬ tient to give and take; your officers bring to the passing of our 'relief orders all the resources of their sur¬ plus intelligence and their conscien¬ tious mind. We have felt, through the seriousness of your minds, the frank¬ ness of your looks, that in you we have met not only camrades in arms, but mental brothers whose hearts and intelligence are overcome by the same ideal of democracy and justice. "We ha ye all written to our families and our friends the splendid impres- FORTIFICATIONS AROUND METZ. Photo by Jones. Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth In¬ fantry, was shot by one of his own men on the night of July 3 while he was making a relief of companies. He was mistaken in the darkness for one of the enemy. Regimental services were held on July 4 and he was buried a short distance back of the lines. The division celebrated the Fourth of July by keeping vigil throughout the day and night in the lines. Some of the battalions which were in re¬ serve managed to hold real celebra¬ tions, and in this they were assisted by the French, who took this oppor¬ tunity to show their appreciation of America's part in the war. Incident to these celebrations is the following letter which Colonel Whit man, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth, received from a French colonel and which is not without value as illustrative of a certain form of French politeness: "Le Lieutenant-Colonel Gignoux, com¬ mandant le 341s Regiment l'lnfan- trie, to the Colonel Whitman, com¬ manding the 325 U. S. A. I. R-: "To-day, 3rd of July; eve of your National Day I wish, in the name of the officers and men of the 341st to sion brought to our energies by the 325th. We have told them: 'We have seen them, the United States soldiers, and they are marvelous!' You have thus, in not hesitating to come to¬ wards us over miles, leaving for a length of time home and country, brought some comfort and a joy to those we have also left behind long ago, and this will contribute to lessen their isolation. "I hold it a duty to express our gratitude for your sacrifice to the cause. Hurrah! for the United States Republic! Hurrah for the 325th! "(Signed) Gignoux." During its stay in the Lagney sec¬ tor, the men of the All-American Di¬ vision built an entirely new system of defensive trenches, including concrete pill-boxes, camouflage, roads and trench wiring, work in which the Three Hundred and Seventh Engi¬ neers, under command of Colonel J. L. Schley, of Savannah, Ga., had no small share. The division in reality was ex¬ pecting a heavy attack from the boche and though it never came they were ready for it. 36 SERVICE RECORD The waiting time was put in to good advantage with almost nightly raids on the enemy trenches, supplemented by patrols up and down No Man's Land. It was no unusual occurrence tor the boche to send up weird flares that lit the sky seemingly for miles around and revealed in the bare ground between the trenches scores of figures which might be either friend or enemy. Then was the time to dive for any shelter at hand, for the flare was sure to be followed by the pup- pup-pup of machine gun bullets zip¬ ping past the ears. Often, too, raiding parties would be so close to each other that there was nothing to it but to meet hand to hand and may the best man come out alive. With rifle butt, bayonet and trench knives men fought in the darkness, and sometimes those who returned would bring of others nothing but the report "missing in action." As the time of the division's occupa¬ tion drew toward its close, activity in¬ creased on both sides. Several times raiding parties had penetrated deep into the enemy lines, and on August 6, Companies K and M, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry, led by Major Homer Watkins, of At¬ lanta, staged a raid of unusual pro¬ portions. The object of the raid was to get information identifying the Ger¬ man unit opposing the Eighty-second. For days the men picked for the raid were trained by the French on dummy works in the rear in exact replica of the trenches they were to attack. Then, with their advance covered by a barrage from the artillery, the two companies crawled out of the trenches, walked, ran and crawled over No Man's Land and entered the German lines, killing as they went. For six hundred meters they pene¬ trated enemy territory, blasting the bosche out of his dugouts with hand grenades, bayonetting him as he tried to resist and returning at last with their mission fulfilled and a toll of one entire platoon of Germans killed and wounded, three machine guns captured, besides numerous rifles and other equipment that completely iden¬ tified the unit. Only one American had been killed in the raid and four wounded, but as the raiding party stumbled back into its own lines, the German artillery opened a vengeful fire. Two bays filled with men in one of the trenches were each hit by a shell, and seven¬ teen men were killed outright and fif¬ teen wounded. The troops participat¬ ing in the raid were cited for their gal¬ lantry in a division order published August 8. Casualties increased before the di¬ vision was relieved, for the artillery on both sides began to engage in a thunderous duel, and the boche avia¬ tors, most daring and reckless of any of his fighters, flew over the American lines, attacking observation balloons, engaging the Yank pursuit planes with fighting machines, dropping his eggs on posts of command and occa¬ sionally coming low enough to sweep the trenches with a hail of machine gun bullets. One German "ace" shot down two of the American observation balloons in quick succession, so that the observators were forced to take to their parachutes. What with the harassing fire from the air, the continuous shelling from heavy artillery and the nerve-racking nights when patrols and raids keep every man on edge, the Ail-Americans were not sorry to be relieved when their hitch was up at the end of the first week in August. They got out none too soon, for on the night of Au¬ gust 7, the Germans launched a bom¬ bardment of mustard gas and phos¬ gene shells in retaliation for a suc¬ cessful gas projector attack of seven and one-half tons of various gases which the Three Hundred and Seventh Engineers had put down on August 3. The Eighty-second was being relieved by the Eighty-ninth division when the attack came. All of its front line in¬ fantry battalions had been withdrawn, so that, while the incoming division suffered heavily, the Eighty-second had but seventeen casualties, these among the front line machine gun units. The total casualties of the Eighty- second during its occupation of the Lagney sector were as follows: killed, two officers and sixty enlisted men; severely wounded, six officers and ninety-three enlisted men; slightly wounded, thirteen officers and one hundred and fifty-nine enlisted men; wounded, degree undetermined, five officers and one hundred and twenty- seven enlisted men; missing or cap¬ tured, one enlisted man; died of wounds, sixteen enlisted men; total casualties, twenty-six officers and four hundred and fifty-six enlisted men. Of the twenty-four officers wounded, fourteen have since been returned as fit for duty, and of the four hundred and seventy-nine enlisted men wound¬ ed, one hundred and ninety-seven have returned. Among the officers who were casualties was Captain Franklin T. Mikell, Three Hundred and Twenty- sixth Infantry, Atlanta, who was se- BRIDGE OVER AIRE BUILT BY 307TH ENGINEERS IN THREE HOURS UNDER HEAVY SHELLFIRE. Photo by Jones verely gassed August 8. Second Lieu¬ tenant Frank A. Morris, of Atlanta, an¬ other officer of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth, was wounded August 5. Both were incapacitated for further duty. Among the enlisted men from Georgia who were casualties were the following from the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry: Private James F. Little, Milledgeville, who died August 1ft, from gas injuries re¬ ceived in action, and Private Samuel J. Petkner, Atlanta, who died August 11, from gas injuries received in ac¬ tion. There were no other Georgia officers killed or seriously wounded in the Lagney sector. VII During the month of August and the early part of September, 1918,—the time that elapsed between the Eighty- second division's withdrawal from the Lagney sector and the beginning of the St. Mihiel drive,—the division en¬ joyed a period of comparative quiet, although for part of the time it was in the front lines and suffered no small number of casualties. Its relief by the Eighty-ninth divi¬ sion in the Toul sector was completed CAPTAIN JOE BROWN CONNALLY, Supply Officer, 325th Infantry. Photo by Winn and Mathewson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal. Line Up with a Live Bank, B\ You can have no better asset than the confi- dence and good-will of a sound, strong bank. It will be valuable to you at every step of your business career. I I The Fourth National welcomes the accounts of young men who want to succeed i in the right wag. i 3> Fourth National Bank \ AT FIVE POINTS - ATLANTA J SERVICE RECORD Welcome Home, Boys of the 82nd Your job was well done Atlanta and the South greet you Armour Fertilizer Works Rhodes Building ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA Oh, You Doughboys! CARHARTT msmmm TEAM "MASTERCLOTH" Overalls and Gloves Are Waiting for You Hamilton Carhartt The World's Largest Overall Manufacturer WELCOME HOME on August 10, and the division moved by hiking and by box-cars to an area west of Toul, with headquarters at 1 lenod-les-Toul. On August 10, orders were received assigning the division to the American Third Army Corps, which was then at grips with the boche in the Marne salient. But for some reason or other, the orders were revoked within twenty-four hours and the division thus missed the Marne battles. Instead the division was assigned to the Fourth American Army Corps for administration and to the Eighth French Army Corps for tactical con¬ trol, and plunged into a course of training in the area where it was then billeted. The training period, while hard, was not without its compensa¬ tions, for the boys were able to get hot baths for the first time in many weeks and to don fresh clothes. Transferred August 20 to the con¬ trol of the First Corps, which became part of the First American Army Au¬ gust 30, the division was ordered to relieve the Second division (Ameri¬ can) in the Marbache sector, begin¬ ning August 15. The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth French division was on the right of the Eighty-second and the First American Division was on its left, although the latter was re¬ lieved a week later by the Ninetieth American Division. "War de luxe" is the way the Eighty-second speaks of its service in the Marbache sector. The sector lay astfide the beautiful valley of the Mo¬ selle river, just bordering on the vine¬ yards of Lorraine. Since the first year of the war it had been known as a "rest sector" for both the French and German troops. Here, it was said, the Germans brought their student officers from Metz to break them in on patrol work. As for the French, they were content to let well enough alone, for they intended some day to have the province of Lorraine returned to them intact and they were very much averse to starting anything that might lay waste its bounteous fields and make of its prosperous cities another Verdun. The Eighty-second thus found it as nearly comfortable a place as trenches can be made in war times. Just with¬ in their front lines lay the consider¬ able city of Pont-a-Mousson. The out¬ skirts of the town marked the out¬ skirts of their own defenses. Barbed wire entanglements ran through vege¬ table gardens and orchards, and it was no uncommon thing to pluck car¬ rots for dinner out in No Man's Land, if the cook could get away with it without having a German sniper plug at him. Some of the homes here were mansions of the city's wealthy. Sev¬ eral machine gun nests were secreted in conservatories, and officers have told me that while they were on out¬ post duty they could hear the billiard balls clicking behind them, when somebody achieved a three-cushion shot. This may not have been typi¬ cal, but it is not exaggerated. These things are firmly fixed in the minds of the All-Americans, together with many other memories of the Marbache sec¬ tor—the giant fortresses of Metz vis¬ ible on clear days twelve miles away; how the boche planes romped up and down the Moselle valley, trying to get the big railroad gun that had been set up at Diouluard with its nose point¬ ing toward Metz; fights between the German aviators and the allied planes; the statue of the Virgin on the hill; and the hill at St. Genevieve which the Three Hundred and Seventh Engi¬ neers literally honeycombed with tun¬ nels from the dugouts on one side to the dugouts on the other. Rut even here, when "war deluxe" was waged, came battle and death to the Eighty-second. The boche pa¬ trols had been quite bold at first, coming up to the edge of the wire on the outskirts of the town at night, and pitching hand grenades out of the darkness into dugouts. And their boldness brought retaliation from the Americans. Counter raids were be¬ gun and before long the American patrols were often penetrating deep into the enemy lines. One of the first Distinguished Ser¬ vice crosses to be awarded in the di¬ vision was won here when Captain William A. Sirmon, of the Three Hun¬ dred and Twenty-Fifth Infantry, then a lieutenant, gallantly rescued anothei officer who had been wounded. Lieu¬ tenant Hazelwood, of the Ninth in¬ fantry, was shot down while on a night patrol, and Captain Sirmon risked his own life to carry him through the German wire, staggering along for more than three hundred yards, while the boche machine guns cut up the ground all about him. It was in the Marbache sector that the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry lost two of its best young officers: First Lieutenant Robert O. Wallace, of Atlanta, and Second Lieu¬ tenant James E. Williams, of Savan¬ nah, whose order promoting him to first lieutenant arrived the day he was killed. He never lived to take the oath. On August 29, the two lieutenants went out on a daylight reconnaissance with Corporals Slavin and Sullivan, of Company L. At 2 o'clock they left Dombasle chateau; they never re¬ turned. Searching parties went far out toward the German wire, but could find no trace of them. For four months their fate was in doubt. Then, after the armistice was signed, Cor¬ poral Slavin, who had been a prisoner in Germany all this time, rejoined the regiment with the first news of the two Georgians that had been received. He said that Lieutenant Wallace led the small patrol to the ruins of Clem¬ ency, a short distance beyond the American sector in front of the French lines. As they passed through Clem¬ ency, which was found deserted, they reported their movement to the French outpost at this point. Then they pushed on across the Seille river and across No Man's Land to the Ger¬ man wire. No Germans had been seen, but unwittingly they had walked into a trap, for a patrol of the enemy was hidden in Clemency woods, where they must have seen the Americans and decided to let them go past. On their return, the Germans opened fire. The two lieutenants and Corporal Sullivan fell. Slavin was captured. He said that all three of the others were killed. In the Marbache sector the All- American Division was reunited as the same original division that left Camp Gordon four months ago, when it was rejoined by the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Field Artillery bri¬ gade, which had been absent from the division ever since the troops moved (Continued on page 39.) 3S SERVICE RECORD Your Home Coming will be Complete If Gapitola made Biscuits are served Gapitola Flour is made here at Home We guarantee the quality to be the Atlanta Milling Company purest obtainable \ Established 1898 I Extend the Glad Hand to the Boys of the 82nd COLONEL W. M. WHITMAN, COMMANDING 325TH INFANTRY, AND STAFF AT PIEDMONT PARK IN SPRING OF 1918. Photo by Winn and Mathewson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal. Though J- was thousands of miles away I ® saw you march fearlessly into the Argonne. I ' saw you duplicate the work of your fathers in j; the war of Independence and again of your I forebears in that great struggle between the : States. And as I looked at your resistless, £ intrepid advance I was prouder than ever before in my life that I was an American. As \ I saw you offer up your lives on the bloody fields of France I thought of the great worth | ; each of you were to your home land and almost | without knowing it I sent up a prayer for your "\ ; safe return. Now that you are back it is up to j; us who speeded your departure to show our t, great pleasure in your return. If we have j aught to which you are not welcome I do not f > know it. Your home coming makes us all akin Z and with the same loyalty to us you showed ; over there we greet you. May your future lives 7. be as useful to yourselves at it has recently been j serviceable to your country. \ ■ A. 0. BLALOCK f Collector Internal Revenue, j, t, Atlanta, Ga. j > i i, [ | service record Men from the Front Want the Stylish Clothes We Sell The "front" may have been in the trenches in France or in the routine duties of an American cantonment. There were many fronts in this war: and many mt n from the front. They want stylish clothes; and we have that kind for them. Hart-Schaffner &Marx make them for us ; waist- seam models for young men, quieter sack styles for older men; clothes with all-wool quality and refine¬ ment. Copyright 1919 liait bcaa'iner & Marx ALLEN-CHAPMAN CO. Clothiers Tailors 12 Whitehall agents'1 Hart-Schaffner & Marx Clothes HISTORY OF THE 82D DIVISION. Keep Your Govern¬ ment Insurance Force m There are other plans of Policy contracts which you will have need for. The Southern States Life Insurance Company General Office, Atlanta, Will be pleased to have you investigate their policies. (Continued out of Camp Gordon the spring be¬ fore. The brigade had been hoeing a pret¬ ty hard row. Formed of the Three Hundred and Nineteenth, the Three Hundred and Twentieth and the Three Hundred and Twenty-first regiments of field artillery, a trench mortar bat¬ tery and headquarters, altogether a total of two hundred and eight offi¬ cers who were mostly graduates of the first Fort McPherson tiaining camp and 4,769 men from both North and South, it had been forced to un¬ dergo almost an entirely new system of training after it landed in France. At Blackjack Mountain near Ma¬ rietta, where the brigade was under command of Colonel Earl D'Arcy Pearce until Brigadier-General C. D, Rhodes assumed command in Feb¬ ruary and Colonel Pearce went back to his regiment, the Three Hundred and Nineteenth, the brigade had trained with wooden cannon and wooden horses save for the two bat¬ teries of old three-inch field pieces it received in November and in Feb¬ ruary. In April the brigade received a bat¬ tery of four-point-sevens with which the Three Nineteenth trained for a while, but never did it have more than these three batteries, which were all of old American manufacture and not at all like the guns used in France. Therefore, with only old guns to shoot and mighty few of those, with no fire control equipment, with no harness and no saddles, the artillerymen from Gordon crossed the Atlantic in May with only such stuff as they could carry on their backs and with very little idea of the work they were to do. But in France they got both knowl¬ edge and equipment. Landing at Havre June 3, the brigade was sent to La Courtine in south-central France, an old French camp which had been taken over as the artillery center of the American Expeditionary Force. It was a pleasant place—roll¬ ing hills much like those they had left behind in Georgia, a picturesque little village, a kindly people. Amid such surroundings they got down to real work. Equipment poured in by the bale. It was all of French make with the sole exception of the rolling kitchens and the water carts, which were American. Horses were difficult to get, but scouting parties were sent out through all France, rounding them up. On a splendid range, with French instructors, they began to fathom the mysteries of French seventy-fives and French one- fifty-fives; in special schools, taught both by French and Americans, the officers were taught advance work; they began at the bottom with the A. B. C's, but it was not long before they had mastered the last details of highly organized trench warfare and could play the game with any of them. The artillery was at La Courtine until August 1. Then orders were re¬ ceived which sent them to Chateau- Thierry. The brigade, like the divi¬ sion, missed the Marne fighting by a hair. The second battalion of the Three Hundred and Twentieth, the trench mortar battery and the Am¬ munition train got as far to the front from page 37.) as Jaulgonnes, where they were in reserve and "raring to go." But sud¬ denly orders were changed and the entire brigade was sent to Pont-a- Mousson, where any disappointment that might have been felt at missing the drive to the west was changed to satisfaction at once more joining the division. The satisfaction was shared by the doughboys, for it was no small cheer to have their own artillery instead of the Fiench and to feel that whatever the division did, it would do as a united whole. There, on the Mar- bache front, the artillery brigade fired its first shots at the bosche, and there, with the rest of the Eighty-second Di¬ vision, it was in the lines when the first great Ail-American offensive was launched at St. Mihiel. VIII The reduction of the Saint Mihiel salient by the Americans in the sec¬ ond week of September, 1918, is rec¬ ognized as one of the great achieve¬ ments of the war and was especially notable since it marked the first all- American blow against the boche. In the victory the Eighty-second Di¬ vision had a minor part to play, but it played that part to perfection, while its One Hundred and Sixty-fourth In¬ fantry brigade, particularly one regi¬ ment, the Three Hundred and Twenty- eighth, was directly in the main drive. For four years the Saint Mihiel salient had been a thorn in the Allies side. Especially at this time, when it bulged out like a bag into the Allied lines, it constituted a grave menace. The Yanks were given the job of ob¬ literating it. How they did it history has told. In two days they swept for¬ ward through all enemy defenses, captured their objectives, took 10,000 prisoners and 443 guns, freed scores of French villages from Hun rule and established a new line that di¬ rectly threatened Metz. And the cost of it all was but 7,000 casualties, most¬ ly light. Mighty preparations were made for the drive. Divisions totalling 600,000 troops were moved forward at night, for the attack was to be a complete surprise. Artillery stood hub to hub, ready to launch one of the most fero¬ cious barrages the war produced. Air¬ craft, transport, tanks, ambulances, field hospitals, all the paraphernalia of war, were assembled at super strength on a line that extended about forty miles around the nose of the salient from Les Eparges to the Mo¬ selle River. At the extreme right of the line, where the salient bent in toward Metz, was the First Army Corps, under command of Major-General Hunter Liggett, its right resting on Pont-a- Mousson. And here, as a part of the corps, was the Eighty-second Division. From the position of the division, on the right flank of both the corps and the army, it will be seen that no at¬ tack was to be expected from it. Its instructions were to "exert pressure and maintain contact with the enemy." In other words, granting that the St. Mihiel salient was an open door, the Eighty-second was to hold the hinges fast while other divisions pushed the door shut. Therefore, when the American bar¬ rage began to shake the earth at 1 o'clock on the morning of September 12, and when, after four hours of mer¬ ciless bombardment, the infantry 40 SERVICE RECORD jumped ofl! at the zero hour, all four regiments In the division pushed to the front strong daylight patrols whose job it was to gain close contact with the enemy, to keep him busy, drive in his outposts and get information con- (erning the location of his supporting troops. The patrols fulfilled their job to the limit, but the cost was not light. One patrol from the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry had reached Bel Air Farm, when a strong counter attack was directed against them by the Germans. So powerful was the counter-stroke that the troops were forced to fall back again to their own trenches. Here the heroism of First Lieutenant Robert M. Goodall, of Florida, was later rewarded with the Distinguished Service Cross. Lieutenant Goodall was leading a platoon from Company D, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-first Machine Gun battalion. As the boche appear¬ ed out of the fog and both his own con_mand and the infantry seemed in danger of capture or annihilation from a flank attack, Lieutenant Goodall, armed only with his pistol, held them back and prevented them fj om enfilad¬ ing down the trenches until the troops were withdrawn. Then, still firing, he helped a wounded soldier to safety and rejoining the machine guns on the Metz road, remained with two guns to hold the front line trench as the boche continued to advance. Man by man, his companions were shot down around him, but he still held on, until his guns were jammed, and then he fired up the last cartridge in his pis¬ tol before he, too, withdrew. The good work which the Eighty- second Division did on the opening day of the St. Mihiel drive brought the following telegram from the com¬ manding general of the First Army corps to the Division commander: "Please convey to the officers and men of your division my appreciation of the difficult part they had to perform in the highly successful operation of the First Corps today. This part they performed to my full satisfaction." The second day of the St. Mihiel drive was one of glory and of grief, as well, for the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth brigade under command of Brigadier-General Julian R. Lind- sey, of Georgia. It began with a raid against the enemy which brought severe wounds to two well known Georgia officers. Prior to the big offensive, the Amer¬ ican command had known exactly what German divisions opposed it. After the first day's drive, corps head¬ quarters was extremely anxious to find out whether or not the Germans had added new units and were prepar¬ ing to strike back in an effort to re¬ gain their lost territory. Two com¬ panies, E and K, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry, were as¬ signed the job of making a strong raid which should gain this information. In broad daylight on the morning of the thirteenth, with their own artil- We welcome you liome. You have done what we knew you would do. You have carried the flag to the thickest of the fight with splendid courage, and you have shown that the men of Georgia have the same force and gallantry which distinguished their ancestors in the Revolutionary War and the War between the States. May the happiness and success in civil life which you so fully deserve be your portion. This for you is my earn¬ est prayer. HOKE SMITH. Welcome VoulKome PASCO TOOL COMPANY The Largest Exclusive Tool Store South 10 NORTH BROAD STREET ATLANTA, GA. Phones : IVY J JOHN G. PASCO, President and Treasurer SERVICE RECORD 41 A "^arm Ufand of Welcome to tl)£ $26 Atlanta Is ~JJrou6 of ^ou | (Tangier, Oljomson 3'firscl) $ (Tati&ter building I ^Allattta, (Georgia I 82nd Division — I Boys, We Welcome | You Home | Virginia-Garolina Gherrucal Go. I Georgia Sales Division Atlanta^ Ga. lery laying down a barrage, the two companies went over the top. A smoke screen hid their advance as they stalked forward through No Man's Land against Bell Air Farm and the Bois de la Tete d'Or adjoining. The raid accomplished its mission. A prisoner was taken from whom full confirmation of the enemy line was obtained. Several of the enemy were killed and a machine gun captured. But all through the raid the German artillery shelled the American trenches in front and behind with a hail of ex¬ plosives. On the return the raiding party suffered heavily. One officer, First Lieutenant Joe N. Neel, of Ma¬ con, was so severely wounded that he died two days later. Another, First Lieutenant Robert Forrester, of At¬ lanta, was struck with a piece of high explosive shell and severely wounded. Five out of six officers on the raid were casualties. Five men were kill¬ ed, eleven were severely wounded, twenty-nine were slightly wounded, nine were reported missing and thirty- seven were gassed by the fumes of phosgene and mustard. These were the heaviest casualties the Three Hundred and Twenty- seventh had suffered up to this time. Besides the two Georgians named, an¬ other, Second Lieutenant Lei D. Sheri¬ dan, of Macon, was wounded by shrapnel on September 13, at Pont-a- Mousson, and Captain Daniel G. Fowle, of Atlanta, suffered a shrapnel wound the day before. He has since recovered, and rejoined the regiment. While these operations were going on in one part of the brigade, the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth in¬ fantry on the extreme left of the divi¬ sion was drawn directly into the main drive. This was caused by the de¬ cision of the American high command to advance the right brigade of the Ninetieth Division through the famous Bois le Prete. The Ninetieth Division was the cen¬ tral wedge of the drive into the salient. Its right brigade adjoined the left flank of the Eighty-second Division, held by the Three Hundred and Twen¬ ty-eighth Infantry. On the first day of the drive this regiment's front line battalion had forced an entrance into the Maison Gauthier, which was a well known "strong point" covering the southern approach to the town of Nor- roy. This advance revealed Norroy still strongly held by the boche. It must be understood that the Mo¬ selle River, winding through the sa¬ lient here, divided the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth division which was on the west bank,—the same side oc¬ cupied by the Ninetieth Division,—■ from the rest of the Eighty-second Di¬ vision, which was on the east bank of the Moselle. On the morning of September 13, Colonel Richard Wetherill, command¬ ing the regiment, was informed that the right flank of the Ninetieth Divi¬ sion had pushed into the Bois de la Prete and held a line nine hundred meters southwest of Norroy. He was ordered, therefore, to advance his reg¬ iment along the west bank of the Mo¬ selle, keeping in touch with the right flank of the Ninetieth Division and conforming thereafter with all move¬ ments of the division. Thus the Three Twenty-eighth was practically withdrawn from the Eighty-second and operated as part of the Ninetieth Di¬ vision which was bearing the brunt of the St. Mihiel drive. The special mission of the regiment was to protect the right flank of the Ninetieth Division from any force which the boche might send down the valley of the Moselle with a view to encircling the division on the high, woody plateau which it occupied a kilometer west of the river. And the special danger of the job was that, since the remainder of the Eighty-sec¬ ond was not advancing on the east bank of the Moselle, the Three Hun¬ dred and Twenty-eighth would be go¬ ing into battle with its own right flank entirely unprotected except for a ford- able river. Moreover, if the Ninetieth Division reached the ridge west of Norroy, the right flank of the Three Twenty-eighth would be at least three kilometers in advance of the Ameri¬ can lines on the east bank of the Mo¬ selle and would be exposed to a gall¬ ing fire from the German batteries in position on the east bank and even to the rear of the regiment. Despite this handicap, the regiment kicked off on September 13, and for four days was in the thick of the fight¬ ing. The second battalion, under com¬ mand of Major Buxton, with machine gun assistance by Company C, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-first Ma¬ chine Gun Battalion, advanced toward Norroy. The expected resistance by the boche did not develop. The town was entered and seventeen civil¬ ians, mostly old women, were freed, dazed but rejoicing, from the cellars in which they had been hiding. They told the Americans that the Germans had evacuated Norroy hur¬ riedly only that afternoon, carrying off with them three hundred F'rench civil¬ ians, but leaving all their battalion records, large quantities of equipment, even meals untouched on the tables. In the streets of Norroy lay the dead bodies of German soldiers, victims of the tremendous American barrage of the day before. Belgian hares were the only animals in the village, but from these, the troops were told, the Germans had furnished their tables with all the fresh meat they wanted. The Germans were afraid of the Amer¬ icans, said the old women, for they had been told that the Yanks killed all prisoners. Through September 14, the regi¬ ment consolidated its position, organ¬ izing the heights just north of the town, facing its exposed right flank slightly east along the river, and es¬ tablishing communication with the Ninetieth Division, which had suc¬ ceeded in occupying in force the high ground west of Norroy. But from the east the German guns continued to thunder Enemy planes flew over the town, spying on the entrenched troops, and mustard and high explosive shells began to crash into streets and houses, taking their toll of casualties. A captured German prisoner re¬ vealed the information that the boche had probably fallen back to Vandiers, two kilometers further north, and was entrenched there. Accordingly, this was made the next objective. Just be¬ fore dawn on September 15, the sec- SERVICE RECORD ond battalion was relieved in Norroy by the third battalion ot the regiment under command ot Major Johnson, and the advance was renewed. With the Ninetieth Division press¬ ing forward to the high ground west of Vandiers, the third battalion, with Company C, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-first Machine Gun Battal¬ ion in support, made a daylight sortie in order to protect the Ninetieth's flank. The heights from which the troops jumped off sloped away to a level valley in the center of which lay Vandiers. It was glaringly open country, and to the east the enemy ar¬ tillery had a full sweep of the bat¬ talion's flank. Nevertheless, with the big shells bursting in their ranks and men drop¬ ping like ten-pins, the battalion swept down the long hill and into Vandiers, driving the boche before it and occu¬ pying the high ground to the north of the village, with some units digging in just to its south. And still the enemy artillery shelled the town and the newly organized trenches with all the deadly ammunition he could bring to bear. On the night of September 15, the third battalion, its ranks fear¬ fully decimated by the fire through which it had passed, was relieved by the first battalion under command of Major Boyle, and the first battalion continued to hold the line, still under heavy bombardment, until it in turn was relieved September 16, by a bat¬ talion of the Ninetieth and the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth, or rath¬ er, what was left of it, marched back to the Eighty-second. The battle of the St. Mihiel was over, but the division had not come out of it unscathed. Honors and cas¬ ualties alike had been its fortune. The first and third battalions of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth were cited in division orders for their splen¬ did conduct in taking Vandiers under heavy artillery fire. The total casual¬ ties recorded during operations in the sector were: killed, five officers and fifty-three men; wounded severely, seventeen officers and one hundred and sixty-nine men; wounded slightly, twenty-two officers and three hundred and fifty-one men; wounded, degree undetermined, five officers and thirty- nine men; missing or captured, three officers and twenty-two men; died of wounds, one officer and nine men; total, fifty-three officers casualties and six hundred and forty-three men. Of the wounded, ten officers and one hun¬ dred and fifty-eight men were later re¬ turned to duty. Besides the casualties in the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry already mentioned, several Georgians were among the many officers killed and wounded in the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth Infantry in its capture of Norroy and Vandiers. First Lieutenant Charles S. Harri¬ son, of Columbus, Ga., was killed on September 12, south of Norroy by a machine gun bullet. Captain James All Atlanta and Georgia Should Join in Greeting the All-Americans The home coming of the All-Americans, the boys who were trained right here in Atlan¬ ta, is an epoch of which the entire city should be proud and in which every citizen, man, woman and child, should delight to take part so that their appreciation of the work done by that gallant division might be unmistakably emphasized. Those boys were in training here long enough for all Atlanta to know practically each one of the division personally. During those days of preparation for the mighty strug¬ gle we vied with each other to show them we were with them heart and soul. Now that they are back not to show them, each of them I might say, a genuine welcome, savors of the selfish. We were glad to make their stay pleasant while they were converting themselves into soldiers for our defense and now that they are back to slight them in the least indicates that all we wanted was their protection from the ravish¬ ing Hun and the strong arm of the Kaiser. It was a great task those boys set themselves and they did it like no one but Americans can do. LOWBY ARNOLD, Solicitor Atlanta City Court. RIDLEY-YATES COMPANYI ATLANTA t DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, ! FURNISHINGS, 1 t REAVY-TO- % WEAR | ! •Sf £ Wholesale Only lllllllllllllllllllll NEWEST STYLES AND FABRICS, LOWEST QUOTATIONS OF ANY MARKET :: :: - Superior Service, Fair 'Prices, Highest Quality. "We Profit Much Because We Serve With A11 Our Souls" Vto Home anb tfje Jtetne&si OTorlb Welcome back into the Business world which is waiting and wanting you—you with your years of experience gained in the hard long year of trying ordeals through which you have come out victorious. May even great¬ er achievements be yours in the world's work and in your part of shaping the future des¬ tiny of the Greatest Nation on Earth. McClure Ten Cent Co. To the Men of the 82nd Division. Welcome SERVICE RECORD 43 Compliments of King & Spalding Attorneys Jack J. Spalding Hughes Spalding Daniel Mac Dougald John A. Sibley Atlanta, Ga. Welcome Home, Boys! Ginn Company Publishers Founded by Edwin Ginn, 1867 Commerce Hall Corner Edgewood Avenue and North Pryor Street ATLANTA, GA. R. Cooper, of Augusta, was wounded at Norroy, September 15, and at the same town on the same day, Captain Samuel C. Rumph, of Marsha] Iville, was also wounded. IX While the Eighty-second Division came out of the St. Mihiel drive with thinned ranks, it came out with hon¬ ors as well. It has already been re¬ lated how the commanding general of the First Army Corps sent a telegram of congratulation to the division com¬ mander, commending the entire divi¬ sion for its work on the opening day. This was followed by other tributes, to those who made the big raid of the Three Twenty-seventh and to the two battalions of the Three Twenty-eighth that took and held Vandierres. The latter were cited in division orders for their splendid conduct. A division citation at the same time was given Lieutenant-Colonel Emory •I. Pike, divisional machine gun officer. Colonel Pike was directing the move¬ ments of the machine gunners at Van- diers and was also assisting the in¬ fantry in its advance, when he was struck by a piece of flying shell. He later died from his wounds. Another noteworthy feature of the drive was the work of the artillery. It was at the St. Mihiel that the di¬ vision brigade got its first chance to prove its mettle. That men and offi¬ cers alike did credit to their training could not be better shown than in the following commendatory order from the brigade commander, Brigadier- General C. D. Rhodes: "Headquarters 157th F. A. Brigade, A. E. F. Sept. 18, 1918. "General Order No. 11. 1. Upon the termination of intensive work in the present sector, the brigade commander desires to express to this newly organized brigade of the na¬ tional army his hearty commendation of the conduct of its personnel throughout the military operations of September 12-18, 1918, which had for its object the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient. 2. The officers and men of the 319th, 320th, and 321st field artillery, including its medical personnel, have worked night and day during this pe¬ riod, with not only uncomplaining for¬ titude, but with happy eagerness at the opportunities presented for dan¬ gerous service against an aggressive enemy. They have had some killed and wounded, and have been constant¬ ly shelled with high explosives and gas, and bombed by aeroplanes, with¬ out diminishing in the slightest degree that American indifference to danger and professional skill as artillerymen which has made the difficult defense of an abnormally exposed sector a suc¬ cess. Although assigned a minor role, the results accomplished by the new¬ ly trained soldiers of this brigade were worthy of the highest traditions MAJOR DAVID R. HAWKINS, 325th Infantry. Photo by Winn and Mathewson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal. of the American army and materially contributed to the general success of our forces elsewhere. 3. The Three Hundred and Seventh Trench Mortar battery, on September 13th, fired a barrage from the most ex¬ treme front line salient of the entire zone of the first army, less than six hundred meters from the enemy's ma¬ chine guns, and under a most terrific bombardment from dominating posi¬ tions of his batteries controlled by enemy aeroplanes. The perfect self- t WELCOME HOME, BOYS 13. BERNARD AUCTIONEER SO S. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, GA. u SERVICE RECORD possession of officers and men during this bombardment, as well as orderly withdrawal under severe fire of guns and personnel from the trenches after the completion of the barrage, was highly creditable. That no casualties occurred was largely due to the cool example of its officers and to the fine discipline which prevailed throughout the engagement. 4. The officers and men of the Three Hundred and Seventh Ammunition Train, from the beginning of opera¬ tions worked night and day under heavy fire from guns and aeroplanes, exposing themselves fearlessly, not only to death from enemy projectiles, but from the explosion of our own munitions. Deprived of sufficient sleep, working on congested roads at night without lights, officers and men cheerfully and uncomplainingly did more than their full duty and are to be commended. 5. The brigade staff worked night and day for the perfect functioning of the component elements of the bri¬ gade, not only at brigade headquar¬ ters, but in inspection and reconnois- ances under fire in various parts of the sector of operations. Without their enthusiastic, fearless and skillful operations, satisfactory results could not have been attained. C. D. RHODES, Brigadier General, N. A. Commanding. It might be mentioned here that the Three Hundred and Seventh Trench Mortar Battery, cited for his valiant work and the coolness and skill of its officers, was commanded by Captain Harry Dodd, of Savannah, former sporting editor of the Savannah Morn¬ ing News. Note, too, the reference to the Three Hundred and Seventh Ammunition Train. Both in the St. Mihiel and in the Argonne-Meuse offensive which followed, this organization which in¬ cludes so many Atlanta boys and Georgians in its personnel, did shin¬ ing things. And, since an ammuni¬ tion train is often overlooked in the shuffle of dividing the credit, since many people, in fact, have only a vague idea of what it is, it seems fit¬ ting to pause here for a bit to describe something of its activities. The ammunition train of the Eighty- second division includes four compan¬ ies in a "motor battalion" and four companies in a "horse battalion," with headquarters for each battalion and a train headquarters as well. Of course, the men with the horses are perfectly certain that their steeds can put it all over the motors any day, while the motor battalion is equally proud of it¬ self. Certainly it is that both of them together make a crackerjack combina¬ tion, for one can go where the other can't, and speed as well as endurance are available at all times. There are forty officers and 1,295 men in the train. The train was un¬ der command of Colonel LaTrobe at Camp Gordon, but is now in command Welcome Home, Boys OF THE 82nd Division Your work was well done We all greet you Atlanta Paper Company Moore Street ATLANTA, GEORGIA District Grand Lodge No. 18, G. U. 0. 0. F. of America, Jurisdiction of Georgia, thirty-five thousand strong, extends a patriotic greet¬ ing and welcome to the 82d Division of the American Expeditionary Forces on their tri¬ umphant return from France where they con¬ tributed their share on the battlefield to save the opportunity for democracy for the world. The 82d Division, in common with the 92d Divi¬ sion, made the supreme sacrifice that all men might be free; and the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Jurisdiction of Georgia, extends through its General Manager, on the home¬ coming of the 82d Division, a cordial and patri¬ otic welcome. B. J. DAVIS, General Manager. SERVICE $> i~&S> | Our Compliments and best f | wishes to all the patriots who I | fought for the liberties of ! I the world. I How would you like I to represent the | Qkrat Northutpatrnt iHutual Safe 3na. 01 o. § How would you like f a policy in the | (Srrat Nartljuirstrnt Mutual IGtfr Jtta. (Ho. f If we can serve you in either respect, I command us I We need courageous, self-reliant,convincing A gents | Shall be pleased to have you call or write % W. WOODS WHITE, General Agent I Northwestern Mutual Htfe Jn& (En. I 223-30 Healey Building I ATLANTA, GA. I We extend a most cordial welcome I to all the boys of 1 82nd Division I And would like to congratulate | each one with a hearty I handshake I Florsheim Shoe Store Company Styles of the Times. 17 PEACHTREE ST. RECORD of Colonel Charles W. McClure. Among the well known Georgia offi¬ cers in its personnel are Major Jesse G. Giles, Marietta; Major Alfred W. Marshall, Savannah; Captain Eugene R. Clark, Albany; Captain William Le- gare Davis, Atlanta; Captain Hiles Hamilton, Rome; Captain Hugh Mauck, Atlanta; Captain John R. Northcutt, Athens; Captain Alvon W. Reed, Athens; First Lieutenant Samuel A. Cann, Savannah; First Lieutenant James B. Helton; First Lieutenant Crawford Maddox, At¬ lanta, adjutant of the train; First Lieutenant Lehman Phelan, Atlanta; Second Lieutenant Hamilton H. Bond, Atlanta; Second Lieutenant John S. Disosway, Atlanta; Second Lieuten¬ ant Atticus C. Haygood, Decatur; Sec¬ ond Lieutenant William L. Howard, LaGrange, and Second Lieutenant S. L. Stephens. The ammunition train is part of the artillery brigade, but the two motor battalions of the train were with the division northwest of Toul while the artillery was at La Courtine. The function of the brigade is to serve all the ammunition used in the division, both for the infantry and the artillery. Theoretically, the ammunition drivers haul ammunition from dumps in the rear to combat wagons which take them farther to the front, but actually much of the hauling was done from the dumps right into the front lines. Moreover, its duties in the Argonne were to haul ammunition to "anticipa¬ tion dumps" in advance of the artil¬ lery, so that as the drive rolled for¬ ward, plenty of ammunition would be waiting already. Those are the cold facts regarding an ammunition train, but after looking them over, any driver would say with heart-felt memories. "They don't tell the half of it, dearie, they don't tell the half of it!" And, of course, they don't. Mud, shells, gas work; work, gas, shells, mud, night after night, day af¬ ter day—that's the real story. In the St. Mihiel it was night after night of driving the heavily loaded trucks to the front; and in the Argonne it was worse, for neither day nor camouflage mattered there, and for forty-eight hours and longer, drivers carried on without a winK of sleep before the shift relieved them. They drove the heavy trucks over roads that were sloughs of mud and were choked from bank to bank with traffic seemingly as impassable as a stone wall—a solid line of artillery, ambulances, troops, staff corps and others mounted and afoot plowing along to the front on one side; an¬ other solid line of returning ambu¬ lances, infantry being relieved, wound¬ ed and supply carts going to the rear on the other side; and in the middle of the road a pushing, conglomerate mass of men and mules and motors, trying to go both ways at once. It was raining cats and dogs, it was mud¬ dier than the bed of the Chattahoo¬ chee, it was dark as Egypt, and in the middle of it all Fritz would come zooning overhead, a flare would turn the sky green, shells would begin crashing on the road, a bomb would smack into the mess and the plane would sweep back and forth a few hundred yards above the road, with the flyer spraying machine gun bul¬ lets on the defenseless heads of the drivers, who couldn't fight back, couldn't do anything but sit there and grit their teeth and watch the bullets kicking up little red flashes under their wheels and try not to think 45 about the fact that behind them were several dozen hand grenades and high explosive shells that, at the first bul¬ let, would blow them all into king¬ dom come. An easy job? Well, there are some easier. The ammunition drivers will tell you any day that the doughboy is the lad with the tough job, but the doughboys will hand it to the ammunition train for having no bed of flowers. And they will hand it particularly to the Three Hundred and Seventh for hav¬ ing not only plenty of ammunition at the front, but generally fifty per cent more than was needed. And this in spite of the rain, in spite of the mud, in spite of the congested roads, in spite of the continuous shell-Are, in spite of the dangerous burden they carried, in spite of the fact that they couldn't see to drive with gas masks on and gas shells were falling con¬ stantly, in spite of lack of food and lack of sleep and the difficulty of find¬ ing in the darkness the outfits they were ordered to supply with gun-feed. They got there just the same and most of them have lived to tell it. X. For two weeks following its opera¬ tions in the Marbache sector and the St. Mihiel the Eighty-second Division had a comparatively quiet time. But it was only the calm before the storm, for the period was to come to a climax in the great smash through the for¬ est of the> Argonne in which the divi¬ sion suffered its greatest losses and won its most undying fame. The division was relieved in the Marbache sector on September 20 and 21 by the Sixty-ninth French division. Even its outfits which had not been participated in the main St. Mihiel drive had managed to stir things up considerably for the boche, but with the advent of the French, the "quiet sector" was allowed to resume its usual placid ways and both sides, it was said, settled down to their old occupation of "fishing on the banks of the Soille." The Eighty-second hiked back sev¬ eral miles from the front to the woods in the rear of the Marbache sector, where pup tents were pitched in the mud and three rather rainy and mis¬ erable days were spent. Division headquarters were at Liverdun, with the outfits centered around Marbache and Belleville. About the only de¬ velopment worthy of notice at this time was the transfer of Lieutenant- Colonel Boyden E!. Beebe, chief of staff, to general headquarters. He was succeeded by Colonel Raymond Sheldon. Later another important change in the division personnel was made when, on October 4th, just on the brink of the Argonne drive, Major- General Burnham, who had been in command of the division ever since it left Camp Gordon, left to become mili¬ tary attache of the American legation at Athens, Greece. The command of the Eighty-second was assumed by Major-General George B. Duncan, who is in command as this is written, and (Continued on page 47.) 46 SERVICE RECORD •$<&<$•■&$ frs&&$>wfr$4^v^dO^., XXXXXX - ^ I All Men of the Ail-American are Made of the Same Stuff as Alvin York, the Fearless Tennesseean The world never doubted the result of the issue over there when the United States threw its weight into the conflict. Not even the battle-gloating German, the nation that considered itself unbeatable, realized that he was done to death when President Wilson declared for war. At first, it is true, he laughed at the American soldier, saying the nation could not turn out an army. But when the first American got into the scrap and went after the Ilun without waiting for a formal introduction Bill Hohenzollern, Von Ilindenburg, Ludendorf and some more of the mighty, pompous boasters, asked for a day off so they might catch their breath. The work of the marines and a few regulars at Chateau-Thierry opened the eyes of all the world. "What manner of men are these mere recruits?" asked old veterans of other nations. And they got their answer. It was "these 'manner of men' are the greatest fighters on earth. They come from the greatest nation on earth. They are natural born fighters and do not have to be trained for battle. By birthright they are fighters who fear no one and who cannot be whipped, for they fight on never knowing there is such a thing as failure in the world for them." That's why an American makes a great soldier, the ideal soldier—he never knows when he is whipped and for that reason is never licked. Now in the great army we sent over there there was no mightier unit than this same Eighty-second we are welcoming home. Crude, loose-jointed, stoop-should¬ ered boys called from between the plow handles lined up with the well-dressed lad from behind the counter, from the shops, the banks—from all callings. No two of that motley crew were alike when they came together but within a few weeks they were all so alike that it required close inspection to tell which was which. But remember in one way not even an inspection would single out an individual and that was in their anxiety to fight and the manner in which they fought once they got the chance. Within a short time after reaching the camp here those clerks had corns on their hands and the plow boys had straight backs and an easy, graceful walk. The hardened hand of the bookkeeper was no longer good over his ledger, neither was the easy, graceful swing at all useful in the furrow. These are the kind of boys we greeted at Gordon, soft, ill-assorted, 110 two thinking alike. But we sent them against the mighty Attilla a trained unit with but a single thought and a single line of action. There's your melting pot for you—and I hope you'll observe that that melting pot had no leak in it as was plainly shown when they greeted the great Bill's imperial sons on the battle front. Why that old Rebel yell Atlanta's Eighty-second sounded over the French plains the Germans in Berlin heard and trembled. They saw the handwriting on the wall and the Kaiser's boy took to his dug out. All the time those boys over there were thinking of us just as we were thinking of them. And now that they are back what should we do? Pass them on the streets as strangers? Let them think we have for¬ gotten their mighty work? Not in the least. We must extend them a greeting so sincere, so deep and so pronounced they will never forget it. It must be as earnest on our part as were their efforts for us and the world over there. Only by creating a bright picture in their minds on their arrival can we kill their sharp recollections of those pictures made for them over there. Make the man grieving for his buddie, who fell by his side, realize that your welcome to the living one here in Atlanta is equallv great in spirit for his lost comrade with whom he bunked, ate and fought on the plains of Flanders ■ The boys handed it to us while they were away. Now let's hand it to them in great gobs as we greet them home. Every one who come? is an Alvin York at home as well as on the battle front. Remember Alvin once belonged to us right here at Camp Gordon But now that praying, lighting Tennessee elder belongs to tl.e whole nation and it wouldn't surprise me to see the entire world lay claim to him. Do you know I think there is a potential Alvm York in every American whether he be of service age or yet a mere school boy taking his first military training. JOHN A. BOYKIN, Solicitor General Atlanta Circuit. SERVICE RECORD 47 Boys of the 82nd MASON BROTHERS Extends a hearty welcome and sincere congratulations for your brave and noble work Over there! Meet us face to face Mason Brothers Furniture Company 6 West Mitchell Street Phone M-3569 All-American Welcome Home And — by the way — since you're done with "slum "bully beef' and army chow, try—and you won't need urging — good old Southern hot-cakes. Of course you'll want syrup Bonita and Uniform Brands GEORGIA SYRUP CO. ATLANTA, GEORGIA HISTORY OP THE 82D DIVISION. (Continued from page 45.) Colonel Sheldon was succeeded as chief of staff by Colonel Gordon John¬ ston. On September 24 the Ail-Americans began their movement toward the north and the Argonne. The orders were for the division to assemble in the vicinity of Clermont, west of Ver¬ dun. This they did. The horse trans¬ port and the artillery inarched, but the rest of the division was transport¬ ed in French trucks. One of the mar¬ vels of the war has been the way in which the French moved entire divi¬ sions, almost entire armies, in cam¬ ions. One hundred and fifty trucks were required to move one regiment of the Eighty-second alone and it must have taken between eight hundred and a thousand to transport the entire division. The trip was long and tedious, and the period of waiting that followed was no better, marked as it was by rain and cold and insufficient shelter and the suspense upon every man who knew that a great battle was impend¬ ing. Arriving at its destination on September 25th and 26th, the division pitched shelter tents in the woods west of the Clerniont-Bar-le-Duc road and the commander reported to the commanding general of the American First Army that his troops were ready as army reserve. Then began the battle of the Ar¬ gonne, which will go down in history as one of the bloodiest fought by American armies in any war and which, had it not been for the Eighty- second Division, might never have been the momentous victory it was for the Yanks. This is not exaggera¬ tion. Without boasting, without claiming undue credit for the division, it is an authentic fact that it was its big flank push on October 7th, when the American drive had come to a standstill, that caved in the German lines and made it possible for the Yanks to sweep the enemy back to the 'banks of the Meuse. Incidentally, it was this attack which liberated the famous "lost battalion" of the Seventy- seventh division, the story of which has been told at least a dozen times in our leading magazines without any mention by name of the Eighty-sec¬ ond. For these reasons and for the rea¬ son that for twenty-five days, the longest time, it is said, that any divi¬ sion has served in the front lines without even a few hours' rest, the Eighty-second fought through the For¬ est of the Argonne as it had never fought before. The division lost 8,500 men in killed, wounded, captured and missing. It suffered from bullets, it suffered from hunger, it suffered from cold, it suffered from shells and gas and machine guns and all the horrors the Hun could bring to bear. It was, for a fact, almost wiped out. Yet it captured in turn 845 prisoners, six¬ teen cannon, one hundred and twenty- one machine guns, some two hundred light machine guns, many minnenwer- fers and large quantities of stores. It cleared the Argonne of the boche that blocked its path, it slew them whole¬ sale, it broke the famous Kriemhold- Stellung line and when it was finally relieved, it finished the war with enough glory to last all of its mem¬ bers to the ends of their days. The story of the Argonne might be told in many ways. It might be told from the viewpoint of the generals who planned the attack, who pinned out on large maps the positions of their own armies and the foe, who said which division should go here and which there, and who, through haras¬ sing days and sleepless nights, issued orders and changed their tactics and hurled fresh troops to this point and that, changing their well-conceived ideas to meet the needs of the minute and the hour, and who, at the last, saw their strategy crowned with suc¬ cess. It might be told from the viewpoint of the brigade or the regimental com¬ mander, huddling under a candle in a dug-out near the front lines, with the shells crashing outside, anxiously awaiting the scrawled messages that panting runners brought from the hell out ahead to tell him how his own little part of the big battle was far¬ ing, scrawling in turn messages to be sent back to the front and messages to be sent back to the division com¬ mand in the rear, sometimes quitting his post at midnight to take a tour of the lines and see for himself how things were going, sometimes leading his men into battle personally, as those brave colonels of the Eighty- second did. The story might be told from the viewpoint of the artillery, feverishly figuring firing data by candle-light in frantic effort to protect the infantry with a barrage called for by a certain hour. It might be told from the view¬ point of the ambulance drivers, forc¬ ing their machines along muddy, shell- stricken roads to save the lives of wounded men groaning within. It might be told by the doctors and the medical corps in their sad, bloody, tireless work at the advance dressing stations. It might be told by the men of the signal corps, daring death hourly in No Man's Land and open places where the life of a gnat was not worth a wager, to keep the all- important communications going. The supply train, rushing rations to the front that starving men might fight, could tell the story. So could the engi¬ neers, the machine gunners, and, most of all, the wild-eyed, wonderful dough¬ boy who went over the top again and again and through barbed wire, am¬ buscade, machine gun nest, ravine and jungle, met the boche with bullet and bayonet and swept him back toward Germany. They could all tell it, yet each would tell it differently. For no two men in the same battle see the same things, feel the same things and undergo the same experiences. Therefore it is difficult for anyone to describe the bat¬ tle of the Argonne, yet will the at¬ tempt be made that the Eighty-second Division may get the credit that is its due. First will come a general de¬ scription of the ground and the plan of battle, with some of the things men saw and felt during those twenty-five days; next, the story of the battle as it is told in division and regimental histories, the tactical story of move¬ ments by this regiment and that, of the taking of towns, the establishing of lines and the whole progress of the drive. Lastly will be the names and accounts of those who died and were wounded and of those who by their heroism won tributes from their fellows. And if, among these names, those of Georgians occur more fre¬ quently than the rest, it is not be¬ cause Georgians were more courageous than any others; for, one and all, the men who fought through the battle of the Argonne, sticking it out to the last, are heroes to the core. 4S SERVICE RECORD XI. Look at any larse map of Frame and you will sec. spreading across the northern frontier from Grandpre to Rar-le-Due. not far from the Luxem¬ bourg border where il joins Belgium, a greenish fringe which is the forest ol' the Argonne. The Aisne river runs along; its western edge, and 011 the east is the valley of the Aire. Still further east of this river and to the north are other forrests. reaching the banks of the Meuse and spreading over into Luxembourg. Where the Argonne stops to the west, another dense forest, the Ardennes, begins, and on the borders of this is Sedan. it was toward Sedan that the American drive set in the closing month of the war, October, 1918. To push the Germans out of this part of northern France would mean prac¬ tically the last straw on the camel's back, it was believed, and develop¬ ments later proved the shrewdness of this judgment. Not only would it mean the rout of the enemy from a tremendous slice of his captured terri¬ tory, but it would break a breach in the famous Kriemheld-Stellung line, his heaviest bulwark on the western front and with a pathway opened here for the Allies to drive a wedge into Luxembourg, would steadily nar¬ row the neck through which he could retire his armies from Belgium into Germany. Success might mean the i ufting off and capture of those armies; at the least, it would force I he withdrawal of the Hun into his own country and bring him to bay on the banks of the Rhine. The undertaking, however, was one at which any armies but those fresh from overseas would have balked, for the German high command was fully aware of the peril of the position and had spared nothing to make it well- nigh impregnable. I11 this the Hun generals were aided by the natural lay of the land, for at any time the Ar- gonne was a wilderness compared to most of the drawing-room forests in Europe. The trees grew in thickets, glades were few and far between, the forest was dissected by deep ravines at intervals, hills rose on every hand blanketed with heavy woods, and at this time of year, when the autumn rains were pouring, the lowlands were a soggy morass. To complete the picture, the Germans had strung barbed-wire from tree to free, in some places making barricades twenty feet high. They had fortified the hills and the towns. They had bent down the branches of other trees to make a wall of bush and wire. 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Early in October the Yankee divi¬ sions began to assemble for the start¬ ing of the steam-roller. On Septem¬ ber 29th they cranked off. With the exception of one regiment, the Eighty- second was not called into action until the drive had been going on for a week. That regiment was the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infan¬ try. It had been temporarily made First Corps Reserve and on jump-off day it was ordered to report to the commanding general of the Twenty- eighth Division. The regiment's function was to go forward and close the gap between two divisions that were driving for¬ ward, one on the right and one $ Welcome Home, 1 82nd Division West View Floral Co. Phones Iv J 4852 14853 Spratlin, Harrington & Thomas Insurance and Bonds 202-211 Grant Building ATLANTA Welcome, ^Ei9l)t^-Secon6 Salute Victor?! ELYEA COMPANY " Exclusively Wholesale " Automotive Equipment—Bicycles Supplies—Victor Talking Machines |ATLANTA i GEORGIA If ome A Friend of the Eighty-Second through the heart of the forest. The regiment bivouaced the night of Sep¬ tember 29th in the woods three kilo¬ meters west of Varennes. Next day two battalions reinforced the Thirty- fifth division near Baulny and Cliar- pontry. They marched forward in broad day¬ light in direct range of the German guns. They were shelled heavily. Two officers were wounded and about two hundred men were killed and wounded. Despite the shells and de¬ spite shortage of rations, they took their positions and held it until they were withdrawn slightly next day to the position they occupied before west of Varennes. There they remained until October 7th, when the entire Eighty-second division, which had passed meanwhile to control of the First. Army corps, entered the Argonne drive on October 7, 1918, not to leave it for twenty-five terrible days. On October 6 the impetus gained at the outset by the Yankee divisions had spent itself in ten days of demoniac struggle through the fastnesses of the forest. The divisions that had entered the drive at the getaway had been al¬ most cut to pieces, and the advance through the Argonne and up the val¬ ley of the Aire had come to a dead¬ lock. The Huns had thrown into the conflict their utmost resources in men and guns, with disastrous results to American hopes. The Thirty-fifth American division, after suffering grievous losses, had been relieved by the First division. These fresh troops, by a continuous plunge on the east of the forest, had bitten deep into the Hun lines and produced a salient east of the river running north to Flaville. Here too, however, the advance had been definitely stopped, while the Twenty-eighth division west of the Aire and the Seventy-seventh division in the heart of the forest were endur¬ ing heavy casualties without any com¬ pensating gains in territory. The American coupe, started so brilliantly, seemed at this critical .point to be doomed to actual failure; it was openly feared that the Yanks, for once, had bitten off more than they could chew. And then the American high command determined to stake everything on one bold stroke. Conceive, if you can, the appearance of the Argonne situation at this time. In default of a better simile, it might be likened to a gigantic paper bag. Holding the bag in your hand with the top wide open, imagine the German armies occupying it. On one side of the bag were the French, exerting pressure on the left in an effort to push in that side of the bag. At the bottom of the bag was the Seventy- seventh American division, trying to push it in from the bottom and thus flatten out the forest at one fell stroke. The right side of the bag was the salient created by the plunge of the First division, with the Twenty-eighth division holding the lines on that side of the bag near the bottom. But neither the French nor the Seventy- seventh nor the Twenty-eighth nor the First, having pushed that far, were able to push any farther. The plan was for the Eighty-second Division to enter the salient on the right and to drive in between the Twenty-eighth and the First. While they were pushing in the top of the bag on that side, the French were to push from the other side and thus the bag would be squeezed together at the top, just as you would squeeze a paper bag together with your hand before blowing into it and bursting it on your knee. And exactly the same thing would happen to the Germans in the bag as happens to your breath, unless they got out first. And, above all, the bag would be busted! That was the plan and that was the Eighty-second's job. It was no ordi¬ nary task, for troops making such a flank attack would be exposed to counter attack and concentrated artil¬ lery and machine gun fire from the west and north; also, to some extent, from the south, should the division succeed in cutting off the enemy op- Compliments of French Dry Cleaning Company Joseph May & Sons 168 Peachtree Street I SPALDING FOUNDRY COMPANY 1 MACHINE WORK ^ Iron and Brass Castings ATLANTA, GEORGIA it Compliments of % ! W. £l>aul & Company 1 4 Wholesale Clothiers | t 48 Wall Street Atlanta, Ga. f H. Kaplan f Women's Suits, Coats, Skirts, and Waists | 41 WEST MITCHELL STREET I r>o posing the Seventy-seventh division at the bottom of the has. The success of the stroke, however, should it be successful, outweighed all other con¬ siderations, since it would free the Argonne of the Hun and open the path for an American drive on Sedan that would prove his final undoing. Before going into the detailed de¬ scription of how the Eighty-second operated during those memorable days, let it be said here and now that the division fulfilled its mission to the last letter. That "Lost Battalion" of the Seventy-seventh, already referred to, was freed from Hun pressure and liberated, when the Eighty-second be¬ gan to come in strong from the east and the Germans began to retreat. The complexion of the entire Argonne situation was changed, and instead of an American death-trap, it became the victory with consequences so far- reaching that what happened on No¬ vember 11 can be attributed directly tu what happened in the Argonne in October. It was not done, however, as easily at! it reads. The story of the division's operation on a broad scale is soon told. But the story of how separate regi¬ ments and battalions conducted them¬ selves deserves another chapter and a long one. XII. For a week preceding its entrance into the Argonne battle, the Eighty- second Division had been bivouaced in SERVICE the forest behind the American lines, knowing all the time that they were soon to be shot into the turmoil, hold¬ ing themselves on the alert for the orders that might come at any min¬ ute. The boys had heard the terrific crash of artillery on the morning of September 29th that heralded the Yankee push. They had been listen¬ ing for days to the roar of the big guns. Bulletins had come in stating that the right of the drive was forg¬ ing ahead, but that in the central ring of the big show there was bloody work in the forest and the Americans were having all they could handle. The wounded began to dribble back along the roads; then German prison¬ ers in long strings. At last, the orders came. On October 4th the division struck its tents and began moving toward the front of the front, passing as it went the men of the Thirty-fifth division, which had been badly cut up and was being relieved. The next day evi¬ dences of the great struggle that had been going on greeted them on every side—trees hacked to pieces and broken to bits by the ferocious Ameri¬ can barrage; German trenches smash¬ ed in and the barbed wire defenses twisted and torn aside; a deep ravine tunneled with dugouts and fitted up with furniture and baths where the German headquarters had so lately been. At the latter point the division bivouaced for the night. On October 6 commanders of the several regiments were ordered for- Hirsch Bros. Heat to Foot Outfitters 44 Whitehall Street Atlanta, Ga. RECORD The Best is none too good for you. Boys Even in soft drinks "Dear Old Atlanta" Beats them All. Call for Red Rock=Ko-Nut They're Good And drink to your Heart's Content We are Glad to have You Home The Red Rock Co. 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Contractors and Jobbers Sheet Metals and Sheet Metal Products Tinplate. Galvanized and Black Sheet Steel ward to make reconnoisances o{ pos¬ sible routes to be followed for the blow which the division was scheduled to strike on the flank of the boche. They went up in army cars over roads shelled by the German artillery. They found the Germans strongly entrench¬ ed on two high hills across the river overlooking the little town of Chatel- Chehery, which was in their posses¬ sion. Units of the First division were facing them in shallow trenches. The point from which the division would have to fling its troops into the fight offered no concealment for a jump-off, but there was no choice in the matter. It was under every difficulty that could 'be imagined that the boys of the Ail-American outfit went over the top in the Argonne forest on the morning of October 7. The One Hundred and Sixty-fourth brigade, under General Lindsey, led the attack, with the One Hundred and Sixty-third brigade, under General Cronin in corps re- reserve. Orders had been received by Gen¬ eral Lindsey only the afternoon be¬ fore for his troops to attack at day¬ light. The One Hundred and Fifty- seventh Field Artillery brigade, under General Rhodes, was ordered to get into position during the night and support the attack, assisted by several batteries of the First Division. Under the conditions, however, the plan in all its phases was impossible of fulfillment. The artillery brigade was on the march when the orders arrived, the three regiments stretched over roads just emerging from No Man's Land for a distance of twenty kilometers. The head of the column was west of Verennes, many miles to the rear, and the roads up ahead were muddy, rutted and appallingly con¬ gested with all manner of traffic pro¬ ceeding to and from the front. At the same time, the two infantry regiments of the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth brigade were more than ten kilometers from the jump-off point, and they, too, faced the same condition of mud and heavy traffic. Both General Charles P. Summerall and General Frank Parker expressed the opinion that it was impracticable to make the attack on the following morning. They believed that another twenty-four hours should be allowed to elapse that proper preparation might be made. However, orders were orders, and in so far as they could be they were carried out. ATLANTA. GA. Marching all night along roads that were quagmires, with a cold rain pelt¬ ing their helmets, the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth brigade advanced to the attack. Without reconnaisance, without artillery assistance save from one regiment of the First division and a few batteries of their own brigade that had managed to get in place de¬ spite all difficulties, the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh infantry, led by Colonel Ely, jumped off just as dawn was struggling through the gray skies to the east. Shortly afterward, the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth In¬ fantry, with Colonel Wetherill, follow¬ ed. "Like soldiers on parade," some one has said of them, these boys, footsore, cold and tired from their night's march, swept out of the shelter of the woods on that gray October morning and down the long hill raked with red- hot fire. Many of them were going to their death, many of them to the torture of the damned; yet they went with overcoats and blankets tossed aside, with set smiles on their faces under the tin hats, a glorious column of dull brown khaki that takes its place in American history side by side with the men who stormed Stony Point and those who charged San Juan Hill. Nor was it a battle of minutes or a battle of hours, but a battle of days— days of desperate advance into the sheets of machine-gun bullets, days of bitter fighting in the streets of Chatel- Chehery; days of charging through wood and morass and wire, to bayonet the machine gunners at their posts; days of hunger and thirst and suffer¬ ing from wounds and gas and the agony of seeing comrades shot down around them; days that tried men's souls and made the ability to "carry on" possible only because of the fever of combat that had entered the blood of their veins. In only two of those days the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth brigade had relieved the enemy pressure and as¬ sured the advance of the American armies in the Argonne. Several out¬ standing features of those two days are mentioned in the divisional ac¬ counts. One is the way in which the First Battalion of the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry, under command of Major Frank W. "Buz" Blalock, dashed forward and captured Hill 180 on the first day. Another is the courage and resolution displayed by the First battalion of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth infantry, under Major Boyle, in its unassisted assault and capture of Hill 223. A third tells how the Second battalion of the Three Hundred and Twenty- (Continued on page 53) Have your purchases for each individual Charged Clothing for all the family, get it here. It s easy. Costs no more. COOK-COBB CO. 105 Whitehall Street SERVICE RECORD 9vfen of the 82nd Division, the American Red Cross ^Welcomes You Home. There is 110 need to remind you who have been in France of what the Greatest Mother in the World did for you there. You know how she went into danger and hardship with you, how she comforted, fed and warmed you, how she kept you in touch with your family at home and how she helped that family over many a weary bit of road while you were away. Now that you have come home, the Greatest Mother is not making an end of her services to you. If you go into camp, you will find the Red Cross there before you, ready to perform those thousand and one little acts' of friendship that make you feel that someone is really interested in you; if you have been wounded and must spend some time in a hospital, the Red Cross will supplement the care the Government will give you. It will give you wholesome recreation that is the best aid to the skill of the surgeon; it will give you interesting occupation for your hands or your mind to help the long days pass more quickly; it will help viiu fit yourself to return to civilian life and take up a new occupation; it. will give you advice or material aid or the solution to your particular prob¬ lem of life. There is no line drawn beyond which the Red Cross can not or will not go; the scope of its service to you is limited only by your need. When you return to your home, the Red Cross will still not forget you. The Home Service Section that was friend and" adviser to your family during the dark days of your absence is ready to perform the same service for you. It adjusted your allotment and allowance difficulties while you were in France; it will give you information now as to the provisions the Government has made for you and help in securing your $60.00 bonus; it will make your re-establishment in civil life as easy as is possible under the individual circumstances, and, if your term of service has left you physically weakened, it will see that you have the proper care. It will be your lawyer, your doctor, your nurse, if necessary, even your banker, and it will do all this because it is your friend. Then, when the Red Cross has done its utmost for you, when it has discharged its debt of love and grati¬ tude of the American people to the American soldier, it wants your help in doing for the world what only the organized love and kindness of the world can do. 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Compliments of a Friend SERVICE RECORD 53 Atlanta Nationa 1 Bank OLDEST NATIONAL BANK IN THE COTTON STATES ^TLANTA, tlie South and the Na¬ tion owes a debt of gratitude to the boys of the Eighty-Second Divi¬ sion. No allied division has a finer service record, and the Atlanta Na¬ tional Bank is glad of this opportu¬ nity of expressing its appreciation of that record. Atlanta National Bank OFFICERS: Robert F. Maddox, President Vice-Presidents Frank E. Bloek James IS. Floyd George R. Donovan Tlios. J. Peoples J. S. Kennedy, Cashier Assistant Cashiers J. P. Leitner D. B. DeSaussure R. B. Cunningham Jas. F. Alexander HISTORY OF THE 82D DIVISION (Continued from page 51) Another 1 to S Tons Service to Truck Owners Do you know what your truck does each day'! j Do you know exactly what it costs you to do that wot k ! An actual record of your truck operation and costs is important. 1; The Federal Motor Truck Company realizes this fact, ♦, and is ready to help. • Federal Truck Cost Forms are yours for the asking ^ write for them. v Just Another Federal Service. r Brigman Motors Company J 493 WHITEHALL ST. f eighth infantry, commanded by Cap¬ tain Tillman, jumped off east of Hill 223 on the second day and carried the line one thousand meters west to the Pylone railroad, the brigade's objec¬ tive, capturing 350 prisoners, 123 ma¬ chine guns, three trench mortars and quantities of stores. "The spirit, which actuated the men of the division is illustrated by an incident which took place on the afternoon of October 2d, and which will never be forgotten by the men of the Three Hundred and Twenty- eighth infantry watching from the ridge west of Hill 223," said an officer of that regiment. "Two companies of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sev¬ enth infantry under Captain Davis, advanced across the valley to rein¬ force the right flank o£ the second bat¬ talion, Three Hundred and Twenty- eighth infantry. They were under a terrible concentration of machine gun and rifle fire. All hell seemed to turn loose on them. Only forty men out of those two companies reached their objective. Yet we who were watching from the rim of the amphitheatre saw the assault waves advance across the open as if at drill and with seeming indifference to the fact that men were going down like ten-pins before a ball." At nightfall October S the ranks of the One -Hundred and Sixty-fourth brigade were shot through and through. Holding the front line posi¬ tions which they had so sorely won, weary to the point of exhaustion, satiated with blood and battle, bitterly sorrowing for their pals who lay in heaps back there in the wet woods, they yet knew that they had triumph¬ ed. No better evidence of the fact, no surer indication of the importance of the victory they had won, could 1 e attested than the message which came from General Pershing himself to General Lindsey, through corps and division commanders, congratulating him for the thing his boys had done. It was their first big fight, and nobly had they fought it. Yet for these regiments, and for the entire division, the affair of the Ar- gonne had only begun. The enemy's strangle-hold on the Argonne had been broken, but he was still to fight for every inch of ground and he held many inches, many miles, back through more impenetrable defenses to the Krienheld-Stellung line and beyond. Thus, from that time until it was relieved on November 1, the division was to fight day after day even as two of its regiments fought at the outset of the drive, suffering dead and wound¬ ed daily by the hundred, but ever pushing the Germans back, back, lack. XIII. After its brilliant success at Chatel- Chehery and the two hills defending it on October 7 and S, the One Hun¬ dred and Sixty-fourth brigade of the Eighty-second Division hit a snag. Ahead of the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry, which was consolidating its position on Hill ISO, lay the town of Cornay, which the tioche held. And ahead of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth infantry, which had pushed on beyond Hill 223 and occupied Hill 167, was the high ridge just west of the town. The two regiments attacked these two objectives on October 9 and de¬ spite bitter enemy resistance that laid the dead in wind-rows along the hill¬ side and in front of the town, the yanks won their goals at the point of the bayonet. The Three Twenty- seventh took Cornay and the Three Twenty-eighth the ridge west of the town. But they could not hold. Their own ranks were too badly depleted and the boche staged such a vicious counter¬ attack, shelling both positions with high explosives and gas, raking them with machine gun bullets and driving hard against them with infantry, that the Americans were forced back to their strongholds on Hill 180 and the other hill. One company of the-Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh was trapped in Cornay and although the men held out from 9 o'clock at night until 1 o'clock the next afternoon, they were finally forced to surrender. Three officers of the Three Twenty-eighth, who were in the town, refused to surrender and fought their way back to the American lines, although badly wounded in the exploit. In the meantime the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth infantry, under com¬ mand of Colonel J. C. McArthur, had entered the battle on the left of the other regiments, where it relieved unfts of the Twenty-eighth division near Chatel-Chehery. The regiment attacked at 8:30 o'clock on the morn¬ ing of October 9, with the third bat¬ talion on the right, the first battalion on the left and the second battalion in support. On that day the third, advancing through a ravine west of Chatel-Chehery, reached its objective, two kilometers further on at the De- cauville railroad, and the first bat¬ talion progressed north of the railroad to La Pellette ravine, which it en¬ tered. The direction of this drive was toward La Dusegne, a little town on a branch of the Aire, directly west of Cornay. Thus, at midnight on the night of October 9, the division had established a line that was gradually bending in toward the Aire to clear Wei come 82 nd Division v Distributors for FEDERAL Motor Truck Company, Detroit Southern Auto & Equipment Company SERVICE RECORD that part of the Argonne on its west¬ ern bank and drive on to the east and north. On October 10 the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth infantry marked its entrance into the battle with a notable achievement—the retaking of the lost ground and village of Cornay and the firm establishment of its lines all along the formidable ridge. The regiment, on the Qui vive for its first real fight, passed through the shattered Three Twenty-seventh and Three Twenty-eighth in the early morning of October 10 and took up positions in the rear of Hill ISO and Hill 1G7, with the first battalion, under Major Warren Lott, and the second battalion, under Major Hawkins, ready to advance side by side at daylight on a two-kilometer front, and the third battalion, under Major Pierce, in re¬ serve. With heavy artillery and machine gun assistance, the men went over the top at 7 o'clock. Vicious resistance was expected from the boche, but hav¬ ing spent his fury on the other regi¬ ments the day before he had with¬ drawn most of his force except a few snipers and machine gunners left to defend the ridge and the town. Forty- five minutes later advance platoons of the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth had entered Cornay. By 10:20 o'clock all objectives had been taken and liason had been established with the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth in¬ fantry advancing on the left. Dark¬ ness found the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth firmly established on Cor¬ nay ridge, with its patrols feeling out conditions toward the Aire. There had been but few casualties and the regiment had captured a number of prisoners and machine guns, besides rescuing several wounded officers and men of the Three Twenty-seventh left behind by the Germans. The day had been equally successful for the Three Hundred and Twenty- sixth infantry, which had resumed its advance on the west and north. The third battalion, moving north along the Decauville railroad on a front of five hundred kilometers, captured the town of Pylone, reached the corps objective and made a total advance of two kilometers. Night found the battalion on the heights overlooking the Aire river and the town of St. Juvin just across the stream. The first battalion captured the town of La Besogne early in the day and occupied the ridge northeast of the town. Strong resistance was en¬ countered, but another scalp was added to the battalion's belt when the vil¬ lage of Marcq, on the road to St. Juvin, was taken. The territory all around was mopped up by combat patrols. It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon when the second battalion, which had been in reserve, reached Pylone. It was ordered to pass through the third battalion and attack St. Juvin. But between the lines and the town lay the Aire and here the only two bridges had 'been destroyed by the Germans. Seeking a crossing, patrols of the battalion reaching the river banks as night fell, drew a heavy machine gun fire from the town on the other side and were forced to withdraw at mid¬ night, postponing the attack until the next day. October 11 was a day of bloody fight¬ ing for all the units of the Eighty- TO YOU VICTORIOUS SOLDIERS We extend heartfelt greetings and a sincere welcome. It is you to wliom the world owes a debt of gratitude that can never be fully repaid, but if honor and good wishes is any recompense it is tendered in full¬ est measure. WILEY'S Delicious Candies Welcome H'fome, of H)e 82nd. $?our X#ork was ^Pell -Atlanta (Greets ^ou. % A. M. ROBINSON COMPANY 59-61 North Pryor Street ATLANTA, GEORGIA : SERVICE RECORD second division. A conference at mid¬ night the night before had resulted in a decision for the division to attack the next morning all along the line, in an effort to force a crossing of the Aire, capture St. Juvin and push on toward objectives at Immecourt, Champigneulle and Grand Pre. But never was the resistance of the boche more desperate and more formidable. For the attack the division forma¬ tion was changed. The regiments were switched, the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth and the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth being formed into the One Hundred and Sixty-third bri¬ gade and the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth and the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh into the Sixty- fourth brigade. The former was to attack on the left against St. Juvin and the latter, according to division orders, to advance on the east, cross¬ ing the Aire before daylight and jump¬ ing off along the Sommerance road, which it was not believed the boche occupied. But unexpected resistance of the boche 'broke up the plans. The Mavcq- St. Juvin bridge had been repaired early in the morning by the Three Hundred and Seventh Engineers, but as the One Hundred and Sixty-third brigade began to throw its troops * WELCOME, 82ND ! ATLANTA ENVELOPE COMPANY MANUFACTURERS t Printers, Rulers, Binders, Loose Leaf Work of Every Description ; PHONE BELL MAIN 668 162-164-166 Marietta Street Atlanta, Georgia WELCOME HOME, 82D The Tuggle Shoe Company RETAILERS OF SHOES OUR SPECIALTIES, FACTORY SAMPLES, JOBS AND FLOOR STOCK ! 35 South Broad Street Atlanta, Ga. W^elcome Home Boys REED OIL COMPANY ATLANTA. GA. across the river, the boche opened up from all sides, machine guns rattling from the town and from the ridge east of the town and from the railroad cut to the west of the town, and the heavy artillery from the hills. So intense was the fire and so heavy the casualties that the advance was stop¬ ped and it was decided to withdraw those troops that had crossed the river. This was done with the machine gun¬ ners doing notable work in covering the retirement, and the troops organ¬ ized the heights overlooking the river, digging in and remaining there until nightfall under heavy artillery fire and gas bombardment. The cost of the operations had been enormous, with little gain to show. One company alone had been reduced to a combat strength of forty men and no officers. The One Hundred and Sixty-fourth brigade on the east in the meantime had suffered tremendously. On the m^rch forward in the gray morning, the Germans had suddenly opened fire on the troops long before they reached the Sommerance road, where they were to jump off. The attack was a total surprise, as it was not believed the enemy was on that side of the road at all. Nevertheless, the Three Hun¬ dred and Twenty-fifth infantry wrest¬ ed the first of a series of strong ridges from the foe and held it under heavy fire. Colonel Whitman issued orders that the ridge was to be held at all costs, and his orders were obeyed to the letter. The Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh had also been stopped. Men were falling on every hand, the doctors were doing heroic work in set¬ ting up first aid stations just any¬ where they could. Five officers were killed in the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth and eleven wounded be¬ fore the day was done, besides heavy casualties among the enlisted men, but the ridge was held, and the regiment captured 150 prisoners and twenty machine guns. For two days now the Eighty-second Division held its hard-won ground, pending orders from the corps for further advance. Advantage was taken of the unit to even consolidate posi¬ tions, evacuate the wounded and gen¬ erally organize the badly shattered out¬ fits. Even this period, however, was fraught with hardship and battle. The nights were cold and wet and lying out in the open under such shelter as they could scrape in the ground, the men were constantly subjected to shell fire and gas attacks. On the second day, October 13, the Germans attempt¬ ed a strong counter attack under heavy artillery fire, but largely be¬ cause of the barrage from the division artillery, was repulsed. Ahead of the division lay St. Juvin, the stumbling block for the advance. A succession of rolling ridges between the Americans and the town were pitted with machine gun nests, and these swept such combing torrents of bullets at every hand that appeared that it was deemed impossible to at¬ tempt a further attack until sufficient artillery had been brought to bear to wipe out this menace. On the morning of October 14 the division was ordered again to the at¬ tack. For more than a week the men had been fighting almost day and night, pushing on in the face of ter¬ rible machine gun and artillery fire, halted at times, digging in at night only to be shelled till daylight by high explosives and mustard. They were worn to a frazzle, every battalion and every company was shot to pieces, yet they continued to push the boche back. The attack of the 14th resulted in driving the Germans from St. Juvin and in breaking the famous Kriem- held-Stellung line. For the latter feat divisional accounts give credit to the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth in¬ fantry, units of which were furthest north of any of the division. During the day the first battalion of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sirth entered the eastern outskirts of St. Juvin and did not stop its advance until it reached the St. Juvin-Landress St. Georges road. The Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth had also reached the road and so had the Three Hun¬ dred and .Twenty-fifth infantry, with its outposts well to the north of it. The men passed that night crouched in shell holes deep with mud and water on the crests of hills hammered by enemy guns and gas. It was hard to get food to the front under the intense fire. Casualties were heavy and the suffering of the survivors was but little less worse than the wounded's. Dawn of October 15 broke with a cold rain falling. Worn out though they were, the Ail-Americans again were ordered to attack. The zero hour was set at 7:30 o'clock, but in some manner the boche must have gotten wind of what was coming, for he at¬ tacked first, especially strong against the Three Twenty-eighth and the Three Twenty-fifth, capturing officers and men in the outposts before they could defend themselves and withdrawing in time to escape the withering bar¬ rage laid down by the artillery bri¬ gade at the time set for it. Despite this surprise assault, the regiments went over the top with a rush and before nightfall had cut their way still further north to the edge of a deep ravine, where they dug in for the night. It had now been a matter of days since the Eighty-second Division cleared its part of the Argonne of Ger¬ mans. The fighting had trailed out of the dense forest into comparatively open country, rolling hills and patches of woods; but here, too, the boche had riveted machine guns on every knoll and was spraying the American lines with his heavy artillery. The division had been pitifully re¬ duced. So many had been killed, wounded, gassed and exhausted in the combat battalions that they looked more like companies. Where battal¬ ions ordinarily have a strength of a thousand men and twenty-eight offi¬ cers, those of the Eighty-second now numbered, in the case of one battalion, seven officers and one hundred and twenty-five men; in the case of an¬ other, three officers and one hundred and seventy-five men. Those that were still on their feet were nearly dead with the cold and rain and lack of sleep. And yet they battered on. Another attack was ordered and launched at 6 o'clock on the morning SERVICE RECORD o£ October 10. It centered in heavy fighting and very little progress all up and down the line. By nightfall casualties were even heavier than be¬ fore and conditions were worse than ever. German planes flew above the American lines, locating their posi¬ tions, and the harassing fire of the artillery was continuous. Hardly able to stand, the men now found that i heir rifles were beginning to rust and founder so that many of them were worse than useless. It was high time for the Eighty-second Division to be relieved, but relief did not come for nearly two weeks. That period from October 16 until November 1 was one of terrible suffer¬ ing, although there is little to recount of it in battles lost or won. On Octo¬ ber 17 there was no attack. On Oc¬ tober IS the attack was renewed, with the Eighty-second supporting the right flank of the Seventy-eighth division, which had been shot into the attack on the west. On October 19 and 20 the division began to stabilize its posi¬ tions. The men dug in deep and wired their lines. There they stayed from October 21 until November 1, when the division was relieved by fresh troops which launched anew the American drive toward Sedan. It was the duty of the division to hold the line then, to prevent the enemy from learning that a new at¬ tack was in progress of preparation. This, at least, it did. No orders to this effect were issued, but as a "point of honor," the division re¬ pulsed all counter attacks and raids of the boche until its long trial by fire came to an end with relief by the Eightieth division on November 1. The division had, in truth, been well- nigh wiped out. Out of all four in¬ fantry regiments, says the division ac¬ count, only 2,000 men were on their feet at the end of the Battle of the Argonne. XIV. I will never forget a cold January night in the little town of Larrette, France. We had come in out of the muggy, sloppy darkness and poked up the fire in the decrepit stone grate under the high French mantel. Some¬ body tossed some fresh faggots on the embers so that the flames leaped high. Somebody else got real extravagant and bought a real bottle of real cham¬ pagne. And then we sat there and toasted our toes and sipped our wine and talked. Or rather, the others talked. The boys who had been with the All-Amer- ican division through the Argonne and the Meuse, who had seen it all and suffered it all and come through it. all alive, began to tell of it. And as one reminiscence led to another, as their eyes sparkled at thought of one inci¬ dent. and their teeth set at the mem¬ ory of another, these days were pic¬ tured as they never could be on paper. It's a pity there wasn't a dictaphone handy to take a record of that con¬ versation, with all its "Do you remem¬ ber whens" and all its "When we were at Sommerance," and the rest. For it would come nearer being the real story of the Argonne than anything that could be written. It, with other conversations, fired by memory, that are held in the long winter evenings throughout the division. Strange, what things men remember of a battle! In that one winter even¬ ing I heard— "J(ere s our appreciation to the 82nd. "The Bravest of the Brave " 3lnbtt ffl. 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S*' f Your auto painted I Come to Walker Roofing Company Morrow Transfer & Storage Company 180 and 184 Marietta St. * Household Goods Hauled and Stored Heavy Hauling Of how the fever gallops through the fighter's veins until all his hardships are as nothing in that supreme mo¬ ment when the boche breaks, the boche flees, the Loche goes galloping across the land ahead like some great lum¬ bering bear; Of how a man, knocked silly by a shell, leaped from his litter as he was being borne to the rear, simply be¬ cause he dimly realized that a German was near at hand; and of how he set upon this prisoner, beating him with his bare fists; 01' a boche who let an American doctor dress his wounds and then, as the latter turned, threw a hand gre¬ nade at him; Of another boche, a doctor, who treated an American soldier,—Charlie Brown, of Marietta, this was—so that he was still living when the Three Hundred and Seventh Engineers came into Cornay and found him; Of an Indian in the division who sat on the brink of the parapet when the machine guns were whistling by his head, sitting there, stoic, imper¬ turbable, like all his race, gazing out across No Man's Land; Of how the Poles and the Italians and the other men of foreign birth fought, with a ferocity and heroism that won the undying admiration of their American buddies; Of men who had not an atom of fear, leading the charge against the enemy with the gusto of the quarterback of a football eleven trotting on the field before the game; Of other men who were scared, -trembling down to their toes, yet con¬ quered their fear and fought on, white-faced and tight-lipped, fighting the Germans and themselves as well, a double battle; Of men wounded who refused to be taken to the rear; of men so horribly nauseated from gas that they were dizzy with vomiting, yet fought the friends who would have made them go back to the doctors. And these were only some of the stories. Some of them were grew- some, too horrible to tell. Some were heroic. Most of them were funny, for even in the blind heat of battle, things happen that send men into convul¬ sions of laughter, and somehow, after it is all over, it is these things, the humorous things, which men prefer to relate. Mostly the things they remembered were little things, just a glimpse that was impressed on their brains like the snapshot is caught on the camera's film. One had an idelible picture of a big German rising out of a shell hole with his hands at the kamarad, just as a little Italian drove down with his bayonet. Another could only re¬ member the severed leg of a German, just the severed leg in its boot, stand¬ ing up by the side of a road he passed. Which biought to another the picture of a dead German sitting upright Ly the roadside, dead for days, in his hand a letter, perhaps the last letter from his loved ones which he was reading while he knew that death would soon come from the gaping wound in his side. There were tales of how men dared death for souvenirs, a little Italian saw a German crawling across No Man's Land. The German had on an exceptionally fine helmet. The Italian wiggled over the top of the trench and crawled, too. Pretty soon he came lack, wiping his bayonet. "See!" he called to his lieutenant, holding up the helmet, and grinning. "Bon sou¬ venir!" "The machine guns were so thick that I've heard one bullet whistle past one ear and another bullet whistle past the other ear, so close that they seemed like they pressed my head to¬ gether. When we'd dig in, the bullets would churn the ground up all around us, throwing dirt into -our faces." "And the smell—it was awful! It wakes me up in the middle of the night sometimes, thinking about it— that ghastly stench of the trenches." "Once in the Argonne, just before the zero hour, we were standing in the trench about to go over. Just then a rabbit jumped up from some¬ where and beat it across the open. 'That's a good omen,' said the officer who was with me. He was killed a few minutes later when we jumped off." "We were so short of officers that lieutenants were going out on patrol every night, when ordinarily their turn would come only once a week. And you can tell me! But the spirit of the American soldier is wonderful. They threw away their raincoats and their overcoats when they went over the top, so that later they had nothing at all to protect them from the cold and the wet. They went for days and days, sleeping in fox-holes filled with ice-water, living on nothing but bully beef and water, and then at the last to get bumped off! But never once did I hear a man whine." Thus it went, incident after inci¬ dent, the real story of the Eighty- second in the Argonne. I wish that I could tell all of them, but it would take a volume vaster than the whole congressional record, for every man in the division has a story and they are all worth the telling. Of stories of heroism there are a multitude. Every regiment, it seemed to me, wanted to say something of its colonel. There was Colonel W. M. Whitman, commander of the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth, who won the Distinguished Service Cross for his gallantry at Fleville and St. Juvin, where he led his men in person in four attacks under the heaviest sort of shell | Welcome to the Boys of the 82nd Division i I French-Powell Motor Sales Co., Inc. Southern Distributors National Lexington I 184 Peachtree Street i Atlanta, Georgia £ 58 SERVICE RECORD fire. Colonel Wetherill, said his offi¬ cers of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth, was a "fighting colo¬ nel" ot the same calibre. And so for the otheis. "I wish you'd put something about Colonel Mc Arthur in your story," a buck private in the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth told me. And when a buck piivate hands bouquets to an officer,—it's generally better than cita¬ tion from G. H. Q. "He's not with us any more, but, believe me he was with us in the Argonne. He'd get up at midnight night after nigh lO go ouc to the front "lines and see how things were going. I've seen hi .1 dig his own fox hole with his own picl; and shovel, and crawl into it with the rain pouring down his neck. Five niglits 1 know of he went without a wink of sleep. A man like that is worth fight¬ ing for." The same sort of tributes were voiced by unlisted men of scores of other officers in the division. Among them were General Julian Lindsey, a Georgian, who was tireless in his ef¬ forts, always at the front, in the very thick of it, in his work of directing the operation of (he One Hundred and Sixty-fourth brigade. General Lindsey's adjutant was Ma¬ jor Trammell Scott, another Georgian whose bravery I have heard commend¬ ed everywhere. Major Scott was later evacuated sick and was succeeded by Lieutenant Saunders Jones, of At¬ lanta, who. is acting adjutant at this time. Lieutenant Jones was brigade adjutant through some of the worst of the Argonne fighting, where he went over the top with the infantry and besides was constantly in the open under harassing shell fire as he re¬ ported back the progress of the battle to the brigade post of command. Many officers and men in the Eighty- second Division have been recom¬ mended for the Distinguished Service Cross for their gallantry in the Ar¬ gonne. More of these recommenda¬ tions are being approved every day. And therefore, those that I shall give here may be far from complete by the time this story is published. There was Captain Charles H. Sis- son, of the Three Hundred and Weyman & Connors Established 1890 S. T. Weyman Bayne Gibson A. B. 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When the regiment was outside of St. Juvin, Captain Williams was sent forward to reconnoiter the hill beyond the town. He took only one man with him. Part of the Seventy-seventh division occu¬ pied one edge of the town. The Ger¬ mans were in the other edge. Captain Williams and his man slip¬ ped through the outskirts of the vil¬ lage and started toward the hill. Here the officer decided to have a look over the crest. He started forward alone. When he was only a short distance from the top, an American and five Germans appeared in the foreground. "For God's sake, save me, captain!" yelled the Yank. Captain Williams took in the situa¬ tion like a flash. The doughboy was a prisoner being escorted to the rear. Although he was armed only with a pistol, he hesitated not a second, but turned loose all he had on the boche. Three Germans fell. The fourth leaped toward him and struck his re¬ volver from his hand. Captain Wil¬ liams and the German grappled. Swaying back and forth on the hill¬ side, the American soon had the bet¬ ter of it. He wrested a gun away from the German and shot him. As he leaped away and flourished the weapon toward the fifth German, the latter didn't wait to see what was go¬ ing to happen, but dropped his own gun and lit over the top of the hill as fast as he could go. For a moment Captain Will'ams and the American soldier, who was wound¬ ed, had the situation to themselves. But not for long. As Captain Williams began to help the American down the hillside, the heads of about forty boche were suddenly silhouetted against the skyline at the top of the ridge. Well, to make a long story short, Captain Williams shot the leader of the pla¬ toon, which stopped the rest, and brought back his wounded man to the town, where he finished up a good day's work by taking command of his own machine guns and holding the town while the infantry withdrew. Another interesting citation for the D. S. C. is that of First Lieutenant Robert Walton, Jr., of the Three Hun¬ dred and Twenty-eighth, who, after fighting for six hours on a stretch, volunteered to lead a night patrol in a town fortified by machine guns. From 11 o'clock that night until the next morning, he directed the opera¬ tions of the patrol, which captured sixty-five prisoners and two machine guns. He himself, with three men, entered a German dugout and took twenty-three prisoners. Major Harold Blanchard, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh, got the D. S. C. for his gallantry dur¬ ing fourteen days of hard fighting in the Meuse and the Argonne, during which, despite the fact that he was gassed and suffering from bronchitis, he continued to lead his men when all other officers were casualties. After reaching their objectives through heavy artillery fire, he finally collapsed from the strain. At Chatel-Chehery, Captain W. M. Collins, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh, led a platoon into the face of a heavy machine gun fire when the American barrage failed to fall on time, and personally captured one gun and turned it on the Germans, who fied. He was awarded the D. S. C. F'irst Lieutenant Roland L. Adams, of the Three Hundred and Twenty- seventh, got the D. S. C. when, at Sommerance, though severely gassed, he volunteered for duty in the front line and displayed great bravery in action. The D. S. C. was awarded First Lieutenant Thomas L. Alexander, of the Three Hundred and Twenty- seventh, at Chatel-Chehery. While leading the first attack wave, he was painfully wounded in the mouth, but continued for two thousand yards through a heavy fire until the troops reached their objective. There he kept on his feet until the position was organized and the men consolidated, although he was weak from exhaus¬ tion and loss of blood. Three D. S. C.'s were awarded for the gallantry of three officers of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth in¬ fantry at Cornay. They were Lieu¬ tenant Beverly A. Shipp, Lieutenant Levick P. Lingo and Lieutenant Earl C. Schermerhorn, all of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth infantry. After taking the town and driving off the enemy counter-attacks, they refus¬ ed to surrender when others did and fought their way back to the Ameri¬ can lines through heavy enemy fire. The story is also told of Lieutenant Lingo, who hails from Milledgeville, Ga., that while wounded and being taken back to the rear in an ambu¬ lance, he heard a voice in the dark¬ ness say, "Well, there's nobody to command the company since Lieuten¬ ant Lingo's been wounded"; whereup¬ on Lieutenant Lingo struggled to his feet, rolled out of the ambulance and staggered back to the front lines to take that command. A similar story concerns Captain Lamar "Pie" Weaver, of Atlanta, one of the hardest-fighting, bravest officers in the entire division, if one takes the unanimous testimony of his men."Pie" was gassed in the latter part of the Argonne fighting. Reeling from the effects of the fumes and so sick he could hardly stand, he yet mustered up strength enough to fight the stretcher-bearers when they tried to put him in the ambulance. He finally lost consciousness, but when he woke up in the hospital some time later and found a tag on him "gassed," he began to go away from there. When the doctors weren't looking, "Pie" slipped out of the doors and stumbled through the darkness, almost crazy with sickness, until he found his com¬ pany, with which he stayed in spite of all protests. XV Not all of them will wear the D. S. C. when they come home, these boys of the Eighty-second division, but not because they don't deserve it. With¬ out casting any reflections on those who do carry on their breasts the proud little stripes—for God knows these stripes mean the man who owns them has .played a man's part —the fact remains that if D. S. C.'s were given for every gallant action done by Yankee lads in the Argonne, Uncle Sam would have to follow the example of France and build some croix de guerre factories. For example, many brave tales are told of boys in the Eighty-second that won't be found in the oflieial cita¬ tions. One of these concerns one Corporal York, a Tennesseean, long and lanky and before the war a "con¬ scientious objector." Corporal York belongs to Captain Ed Danforth's company in the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth infantry. "Honestly, captain," he told his com¬ mander, "I hope I don't meet none a these heah Germans man to man. I belong to the Holy Rollers back home no SERVICE RECORD and I'm afeared if somebody crosses me up thai- in the front, I'm gonna do some'n that'll cause me to be put outen the church." Corporal York's problem came in the Argonne. Sixteen men of his company led by two sergeants went out on patrol. They had penetrated pretty far into the enemy territory and were just about lost when sud¬ denly, as they came snooping down one of the forest trails, stepping easy and looking out on all sides for in¬ visible boche, they ran into seventy- five Germans in an open glade. The Jeriies were grouped around a cap¬ tain, squatting on their heels as though he were explaining something to them. "Kamerad!" yelled the seventy-five with one voice the minute they saw the Americans. A salve of German machine guns from the hill beyond seemed to be the echo of their cry. The Germans went flat on their faces as the first bullets began to spit, and York and six Americans also dropped. The two sergeants and the ten men who remained standing were the vic¬ tims of the volley. They fell, dead or wounded. From his place on the ground, partly sheltered by the Ger¬ mans lying in front of him, Corporal York opened fire with his rifle on the machine gunners on the hill. The old squirrel eye of the Tennessee hills was on the job. One by one he picked the gunners off, finally shooting down their lieutenant, when they ceased firing. "I'll shoot the first man who points a gun at me," Corporal York, late con¬ scientious objector, told the seventy- five in front of him. They under¬ stood his tone, if not the words, for they didn't shoot. Instead their cap¬ tain came over to York with his hands up and said in very good English that he'd have everybody surrender, in¬ cluding the machine gunners. "O. K.," said Corporal York. A half hour later, Corporal York and his squad came marching into the American lines, not with seventy- five Germans, but with one hundred and thirty-two, all in a long column with their hands up. "We picked up the rest of 'em com¬ ing in," said Corporal York. ' They was willin' to surrender when we told 'em we'd treat 'em like white men. But capta'n"—and on the word of his commanding officer, there were tears in his eyes as he said it—"I jest nat¬ urally hated to kill all those other Germans." Captain Danforth looked at the long line of prisoners. "I wouldn't worry about that, if I were you, York," he said. "I think God will forgive you for the dead ones. Just look at the lives you saved." Another brave deed was that of Second Lieutenant Roy L. Tibbetts, of Athens, Ga., Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth infantry. On October 15, near the little town of Marcq, Lieutenant Tibbetts carried a one- pounder three hundred yards in front of the infantry front line. There standing up in full view of the Ger¬ man machine gunners, he directed the fire of his men. One bullet landed squarely on his body, but happened to hit in his field glasses and lodged in the case, a fact which probably saved his life. Another bullet wounded him in the elbow. Despite his wound, he continued to direct the fire of the gun until all his men were dead or wound¬ ed save one, when he withdrew. An experience almost as exciting as Boys of the Fighting 82nd, Atlanta cordially greets each of-you that of Corporal York's, was that of Corporal Clifford A. Edmunds, of Thomson, Ga. During one stage of the Argonne fight Corporal Edmunds' squad of his company in the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth infantry, had gone out to capture an enemy ma¬ chine gun. Corporal Edmunds was some seventy-five yards in advance of the qthers, pumping an automatic rifle at the boche, when orders came to re¬ treat. He never received the order, but suddenly found himself deserted out in No Man's Land. 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He fooled the machine gunners, but he didn't fool two German guards under the bridge. They began to shoot at him as he splashed across the shallow stream. Edmunds made the woods without mishap and dove into a clump of brush. There, like Brer Rabbit, he laid low while the Germans shot vari- lights into the sky. faext morning, al¬ most starving, he made his way into the American lines. The wounded man he had taken for dead, an Italian named Ubane, used the rifles of two dead Germans for crutches and also One of the most miraculous escapes was that of Captain Samuel Varnedoe, of the Three Hundred and Twenty- fifth infantry. On October 16, during the last bitter fighting in the Argonne, Captain Varnedoe had led a company of men into a deep ravine to assault a machine gun nest. The guns were captured, but before the Americans could save themselves, the Germans laid down a terrific barrage. Captain Varnedoe was seen to fall and the sur¬ vivors reported that he had been killed. Five days later he was found there when the regiment advanced and captured the ravine. For five days and nights he had lain there in a rain of shells and gas. How he lived through the bombardment and sur¬ vived the fumes that filled the ravine, is a mystery. But after a long period in the hospital, he has returned to the regiment as well as ever. In every battalion, every company of the Eighty-second Division, there are stories like these. Many will not be told until the boys come home. Many, perhaps, will never be told, lor some of the bravest of the brave, were he¬ roes where there was none to see and none to tell. Therefore, let those given here stand not for one man or for two, but for all. XVI The casualties sustained by the Eighty-second Division in the Ar- gonne-Mousse offensive are given ap¬ proximately in the division records as 8,500, including killed, wounded, gas¬ sed and exhausted. So far as I have been able to obtain the facts from the records of the several outfits, there were eleven Georgia officers killed and between forty and fifty wounded. The number of Georgia enlisted men among the casualties would mount into the hundreds, judging from the record of one regiment, which had sixteen Geor¬ gia enlisted men killed. Of the eleven Georgia officers killed, three were from Atlanta: Captain Joseph Wade Conkling, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh infan¬ try; Lieutenant Carl Goldsmith, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth in¬ fantry; and Lieutenant John W. An¬ derson, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh infantry. The three went to their death with the supreme gallantry of true soldiers, say their fellow officers. Lieutenant Anderson was killed by an exploding shell October 8, at Chatel-Chehery, on the second day of the Eighty-second's offensive which broke the backbone of the Germans in the Argonne. He is buried today in the American ceme¬ tery near the town. Captain Conkling died from wounds received in action October 11, at Flo- ville. The story of his death is typi¬ cal of that noble spirit of self-sacrifice which caused him to resign his pulpit in an Atlanta church, to take his place as a man among men with the dough¬ boys in the line. A fragment of shell struck him in the hip. He, himself, made light of the wound. Others did not realize how serious it was. When he refused to go to the rear, declaring that he would stick by his men be¬ cause they needed him, he was allowed to stay. His devotion to his duty probably cost him his life, for when he finally received attention, his loss of blood was so great that he never rallied. The death of Carl Goldsmith seems to have struck home to his regiment with almost unwonted sadness. He was such a splendid boy, endeared alike to officers and men, that even those who have seen so much of death speak today of his passing with a sorrow that is as keen as it is gen¬ uine. His colonel talked of him and of his high qualities as an officer. And so did many others of his friends, al¬ ways with simple, shining words that yet betrayed how deeply his loss has been felt. Carl was killed on the morning of October 8, at Chatel-Che¬ hery, by a high explosive shell. Death was instant. He had led a patrol of men into Cornay to reinforce the Americans there, and was reporting back to his own lines when he came into the line of German fire. His body lies today in a marked grave in the little church-yard at Chatel-Che¬ hery, where a brief service was held by the chaplain and others in the reg¬ iment. Other Georgians on the Eighty-sec¬ ond Division's roll of honor met death as did these, in the front line of battle, unafraid, an inspiration and example to their men. The only Georgian from the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth infantry killed in the Argonne was Captain Louis L. Battey, of Augusta, Ga. He was one of the bravest officers in the regiment, and on the day of his death had distinguished himself for excep¬ tional gallantry. He was killed Oc¬ tober 11, before Floville, as the regi¬ ment was marching forward to the at¬ tack. The Three Hundred and Twenty- sixth infantry lost three Georgians in the Argonne. First Lieutenant Justus E. Owens, of Canon, Ga., was killed in action by shrapnel October 10, near the little town of Marcq, and he is buried in the Argonne forest near Marcq, Second Lieutenant Edmund B. "Rube" Tate, of Elberton, Ga., was killed at St. Juvin, and is buried there. Second Lieutenant Virgil Thomas Bell, of Woodstock, Ga., died October 15, from wounds received in action Oc¬ tober 10. He is buried at the hospital cemetery. Lieutenant Tate and Lieutenant Bell received their death wounds in the same fight. The former was in command of a machine gun platoon. His orders were to take St. Juvin at all costs. As he led his men across the bridge over the Aire into St. Juvin, he was shot down by machine GS SERVICE RECORD gun bullets. Lieutenant Bell rallied the men and led them forward to their objective. He took with his own hands the first two prisoners captured by the regiment. Then, as he stood in the improvised trench, directing the fire of his men, he, too, was shot by the German machine gunners, receiv¬ ing the wounds from which he died. St. Juvin was not captured until four days later when, on October 1-1, Major Homer Watkins' battalion, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth, led the attack to avenge their com¬ rades. A company led by Captain John H. Crozier, another Georgian, threw two platoons into St. Juvin, capturing fifteen machine guns, seven¬ ty-five prisoners and one cannon. This exploit enabled the battalion to move foiward and allowed units of the Seventy-seventh division to enter the town next day without opposition. Besides Captain Conkling and Lieu¬ tenant Anderson, four Georgia officers of the Three Hundred and Twenty- seventh infantry were killed in the Argonne. First Lieutenant George H. Byrd, of Lawrenceville, adjutant of the second battalion of the regiment, was killed by shell-fire October 11, at Floville. First Lieutenant Walter J. Lovie, of Montezuma, was killed by shell-fire October 9, at Cornay. The two others, whose home addresses are given on the regimental records sim¬ ply as Georgia, were Second Lieutenant George Ahlquist, killed by machine gun bullets October 20, at Sommer- ance; and Second Lieutenant James E. CantweU, killed by machine gun bullets October 16. Enlisted men from Georgia in this regiment who were killed—the only regiment from which such a record was obtainable—were: Private Thos. J. Adams, Canon, Ga., died October 21, from wounds received in action at Sommerance; Private John P. Blank- enship, killed in action October 16, at Sommerance; Sergeant James D. Chandler, Gainesville, Ga., died Oc¬ tober 16, at Apremont, from wounds r?ceived in action; Private Walter C. I'odson, D.ffee, Ga., killed in action October 15, at Sommerance; Mechanic William F. Herren, Atlanta, killed in action October 10, at Cornay; Private Robert L. Hubbard, Greensboro, killed in action October 6, at Apremont; Pri¬ vate Lloyd Ivestor, Clarksville, Ga., died October 13, from wounds received in action; Private Abbie L, Johnson, Westhan, Ga., died October 8, from wounds received in action October 6; Private Daniel C. McKinney, Gaines¬ ville, Ga., killed in action October 15, at Sommerance; Corporal Clyde Y. Nix, Grayson, Ga., killed in action Oc¬ tober 13; Private Gordon A. Smith, Valdosta, Ga., killed in action October 10, at Cornay; Private Virgil C. Teen, Claxton, Ga., killed in action October 15, at Sommerance; Private Lafayette Williams, Unadilla, Ga., killed in ac¬ tion October 12, at Floville. These deaths include only those in this one regiment in the Argonne. Captain Bryant E. Wilcox, personnel adjutant of the regiment, states that others may have been killed who were reported missing in action, or some others may have died from wounds. If at some distant day, the relatives or friends of Georgia boys in the Eighty-second division who gave their lives for France, should wish to visit their graves, it will be made as easy <1 COMPLIMENTS OF I GLOBE COAL COMPANY i ATLANTA, GA. 1 Largest Shippers of Charcoal in the South WILLIAM J. RIORDAN COTTON BUYER 23 S. Forsyth St. Atlanta, Ga. I WELCOME Boys of the 82nd The South is Proud of You ! WESTMORELAND, ANDERSON & SMITH LAWYERS GEO, WESTMOEELAND JNO. L. WESTMOEELAND ATLANTA, GA. JAS. L. 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For more than a month during the past winter each of the regiments in the division has been sending details of officers, generally one from each com¬ pany, over the old battlefields in the Argonne. They have sought for the graves of the fallen, seen that they were properly marked, and in every case returned a complete report for the regimental and division records. XVII Of the four infantry regiments in the Eighty-second Division, the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh appears to have lost more Georgia officers, both in killed and wounded, in the Argonne-Meuse battles than either of the other three. Six were killed and twelve wounded. Of the latter, a number have been in¬ valided home since then, while others have recovered and rejoined their commands. Second Lieutenant Lloyd B. Bettis, of Atlanta, was slightly gassed October 8, at Apremont. First Lieutenant Paul M. Davenport, of Thomasville, was slightly wounded by machine gun bullets October 12, at Floville. Second Lieutenant Howard Fox. of Georgia, was wounded by shrapnel Oc¬ tober 10, at Cornay. Captain George L. Harrison, of At¬ lanta, leading his men over the top October 6, at Apremont, had one arm badly torn by shrapnel. Second Lieutenant James P. Heek, of Augusta, was wounded by machine gun bullets October 16, at Sommer- ance. First Lieutenant George W. Mat¬ thews, of Eatonton, was slightly wounded by shrapnel October 9, at Cornay. First Lieutenant Eugene C. Powers, of Atlanta, was slightly wounded by shrapnel October 8, at Apremont. First Lieutenant Joe B. Peavy, of Hamilton, who had been gassed Sep¬ tember 13, at Pont-a-Mousson, was again wounded by shrapnel October 10, at Cornay. First Lieutenant Edward J. Pour- ron, of Atlanta, was wounded by a ma¬ chine gun bullet at Apremont. First Lieutenant Charlie C. Stulb, of Augusta, was slightly wounded by a machine gun bullet October 11, at Floville. First Lieutenant Julian W. Tindall, of Macon, was slightly gassed October 19, at Sommerance. First Lieutenant William W. Weav¬ er, of Macon, was wounded twice, by a shell October 8, at Cornay, and by machine gun bullet October 9, at Cor¬ nay. The Three Hundred and Twenty- fifth infantry also suffered heavily in Georgia wounded. The record of this regiment for the entire war, shows fourteen officers killed, forty-one wounded and none at all captured. First Lieutenant John W. Bonnell, of Atlanta, was wounded October 22, while the ragged remnant of the regi¬ ment was holding the line along the Sommerance-St. Georges road. Captain Joe Brown Connally, of At¬ lanta, having been through the entire battle, was painfully gassed on the last day before the regiment was re¬ lieved. He has since rejoined the reg¬ iment, fully recovered. First Lieutenant Alexander Faw- cett, of Thomasville, was wounded October 25, in the last days of the fighting. Captain Young H. Fraser, of Ox¬ ford, Ga., was wounded October 10, in the victorious attack which the regi¬ ment made on the disputed town of Cornay. Second Lieutenant John I. Guice, of Atlanta, was wounded October 11, in the hard fighting before Floville. Captain Walter O. Marshburn, of Atlanta, was wounded October 16, in the neighborhood of the deadly ravine where Lieutenant Varnedoe was given up for dead. First Lieutenant James A. McFar- land, of Dalton, was wounded October 12, at Floville. Second Lieutenant Robert H. Rives, of Quitman, was also wounded at Flo¬ ville on October 11. P'irst Lieutenant John H. Thompson, of Decatur, was wounded on the morn¬ ing of October 14, on the regiment's drive on the Sommerance road. Second Lieutenant William P. Whel- chel, of Gainesville, Ga., was wounded October 15, when the regiment was at¬ tacked by the Germans just before it was to jump off. Second Lieutenant Raiford Wood, of Savannah, was wounded October 11, at Floville. The Three Hundred and Twenty- sixth infantry, once known as having more Georgia officers than any other in the outfit, had lost many of those before it entered the Argonne through promotions, transfers and the dispatch of a number of officers back to the states as instructors. Its list of wounded Georgians, therefore, is not as heavy as the others. Lieutenant Frank Carter, of At¬ lanta, and Lieutenant Walter A. Rich¬ ards, of Columbus, were both wounded in the attack on St. Juvin, on October 11. They were both sent to the same hospital at Baumme and there Lieu¬ tenant Carter saved his comrade's life when he gave his blood for a trans¬ fusion operation. The story of how Lieutenant Roy L. Tibbetts, of Athens, was wounded while gallantly directing the fire of a one-pounder in the attack on Marcq already has been related. Major Clark Howell, then a captain, was wounded October 24, in the latter part of the drive. A shell splinter struck him on the side of the head, but the helmet which had stood him in such good stead through the worst of the fighting probably saved his life. Although knocked unconscious and evacuated, he was later able to re¬ join the regiment. He received his majority on November 11, and is now assistant division inspector. Other Georgians in the regiment who were wounded were: Major Thomas Barrett the Third, of Augusta, who was gassed in the Meuse-Ar- gonne; First Lieutenant James M. Tribble, of Senoia, who was also gassed. If any other officers were wounded, they have since been able to rejoin the regiment. Eight Georgia officers of the Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth infantry were wounded in the Argonne, ex¬ clusive of Captain "Pie" Weaver, who positively refused to he. Two of them, First Lieutenant Bev¬ erly A. Shipp, of Cordele, and First Lieutenant Lovick P. Lingo, of Mil- ledgeville, got theirs at Cornay, where they got the D. S. C. also when they refused to surrender and fought their (Continued on page 65) 64 SERVICE RECORD N * '♦ -X- Sv i *> H f The Gate City of the South Welcomes the Boys of the 82nd Division Back Home Again COMPLIMENTS OF ATLANTA BAGGAGE and GAB COMPANY Phone Main 4000 The Pathe Sapphire Ball glides smoothly around the records. No needles to change; no wear on the records; al¬ ways ready to piay. ART MODEL Sheraton Made in satin finish Mahog¬ any. Equipped with Pathe Universal Tone Arm. Plays all makes disc records. Size 47% inches wide, 20 inches deep and 36 inches high. You will find a jewelled Pathe at any price you wish to pay. $32.50 for a sim¬ ple instrument. Others more elaborate, in practically all sizes, finishes and woods. Hear the Pathe Phonograph Records played. Your ear will at once detect the big difference made by the Pathe Sapphire ball. Pathe records have the popular hits, first—best—on Pathe records. PATHEPHONE MODEL 7 Mahogany or Oak (Golden and Fumed) Cabinet. 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Coombs, of McRae, was wounded October 14, by a machine gun bullet at Sommerance. Second Lieutenant Samuel Y. Jame¬ son, of College Park, was slightly WELCOME HOME V. E. PERRYMAN J. C. BURSON Perryman-Burson Company SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, TRUSSES, RUBBER GOODS, PHYSICIANS—HOSPITAL SUPPLIES 107 North Pryor Street, Opposite Candler Building Phone Ivy 2964 Atlanta, Ga. We extend a hearty welcome home to the boys from "over there" General Electric Co. 3rd National Bank Building ATLANTA OFFICE folram? logs ijjmttf Art §>upphi (Company 172 HJjttdfall §trwt Atlanta, - - Qfaorgia wounded October 8, at Chatel-Che¬ hery. First Lieutenant Virginius L. Kirby, of Atlanta, was wounded by shrapnel October 16, at Sommerance. First Lieutenant Julius F. Ball, of Milledgeville, was gassed by mustard gas October 8, at Chatel-Chehery. So far as reports received at the division go, all of the officers of the Eighty-second division named herein have recovered from their wounds or are on the high-road to convalescence. XVIII No story of the operations of the Eighty-second division in the Argonne would be complete without some men¬ tion, at least, of other outfits in the division besides the infantry. True, it is the infantry that is the backbone of any division; it is the doughboy that bears the brunt of the attack. He is the main cog in the machine. But were it not for many other cogs —the artillery laying down the rolling barrage that prepares the way for the doughboy's advance; the machine gun¬ ners, going over the top with him shoulder to shoulder and holding the captured ground till the last; the field signal battalion, keeping communica¬ tions going at the risk of their lives; the runners daring shellfire and bombs to take messages from one P. C. to another; the engineers repairing roads and building bridges; the supply train and the ammunition train bringing up food for the man and food for the guns over roads blasted by shells; the am¬ bulance drivers, the stretcher-bearers, the doctors and the men of the medi¬ cal outfits, never pausing in their tire¬ less work of life saving—were it not for these the doughboy would find himself tied hand and foot, powerless to fight. Of the auxiliary outfits of the Eigh¬ ty-second Division nothing too praise¬ worthy can be said. They were on the job day and night and to them and their wonderful work the doughboy himself attributes fifty per cent, of the success the division attained. The doughboy, for one thing, will admit that if he had his choice be¬ tween standing up and shooting and standing up and being shot at, he would take the former every time. But that is exactly where the auxiliary out¬ fits had no choice. One and all, they were shot at and not a man of them had the chance to shoot back. Theirs it was to hear the constant who-e-e-e! of the big shells rushing over, never knowing when one of them would make mince-meat out of themselves and everything around them. Often¬ times the German barrage on the areas immediately behind the front lines (Continued on page 67) Welcome 3'fome of tl)£ 82"' YOU have earned your reward. The South is proud of you and bids you welcome with open hearts. OTIS ELEVATOR GO. ATLANTA, GA. Compliments to Boys of 82nd Division <&. 3'C ^ran6on 66 SERVICE RECORD A Tribute to the Ail-Americans is Paid by Ordinary Jeffries of Fulton County The Eighty-second Division was trained in Atlanta for the great war it has fought so well and it should he, as it is, the pride and the delight of all Atlanta to give these boys a genuine and soul-stirring welcome back to their old homes in our midst. Well do we re¬ member the great concern it gave us all when the cables brought the news that the Eighty- second was in the very midst of it. We had no anxiety as to how they would conduct them¬ selves on the bloody fields but we were anxious for the safety of these fearless lads who were opposing the onward rush of the Huns toward Paris. Now that they are back let's show those who were fortunate enough to return how deep¬ ly we appreciate the great and almost unbe¬ lievable work they have accomplished. THOS. W. JEFFKIES, Judge The Court of Ordinary, Fulton County, Georgia. BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR SUIT See our line of Ready-made Suits at $18.50, $21.50 and $24.50 Tailored-to-Your-Measure Suits, $27.50, $30.00, $32.50 We can save you money on your outfit A Complete line of Furnishings and Shoes Atlanta Bargain House 10-12 WEST MITCHELL ST. OUTFITTERS FOR MEN We're glad you're back! We cheered as bravely as we % could when you left. But it is nothing but smiles and sun- j Z shine now. Here's to the 82nd. 4> X Ragari'Malone Go. i 4- Wholesale Dry Goods and Notions j 32 South Pryor Street Atlanta, Georgia 1 A BANK OF SERVICE an/c/ 6^ r i /f t PRYOR AND EDGEWOOD t ESTABLISHED 1861 RESOURCES $20,000,000.00 A DEPARTMENT FOR SAVINGS Atlanta's Greeting to the Soldier Boys Should be Sincere, Heartfelt and Never to be Forgotten I do not think we can make the home com¬ ing of the boys of the Eighty-second any too warm, generous and hearty. In fact, I doubt if we try our level best if we can make it pro¬ nounced enough. It takes a little thought to really appreciate what those men did for their country, our country. Added to the great risks they took on the battlefields must be considera¬ tion of the training process through which they went in their conversion from civilian to sol¬ dier. To many of these men, especially of the 82nd, that work was harder and at times more distasteful than the actual battle front. But each shouldered his part and when that division left Camp Gordon for the front there was no better division in the entire army in Europe. So I say let's show the boys how much we appreciate what they have done by the welcome wo give them as they come back to us. B. MIFFLIN HOOD, B. Mifflin Hood Brick Co. SERVICE RECORD 67 I ! 1 ! You boys of the 82nd certainly know liow to fight. You showed your worth as a soldier on foreign battlefields. But before that you made apparent to all who knew you your worth as a citizen. Now that the war is over we hope you will return to private life with the same determination to do and to conquer you showed over there. If you do you will make of the United States the greatest of home countries just as you made the greatest fighters. "Welcome home, boys, welcome. INMAN, HOWARD & INMAN, Cotton Brokers, Atlanta. HISTORY OF THE 82D DIVISION (Continued from page 65) f Barfield Fish Company t. 17 East Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. % Producers, Wholesale and Retail Fish, Oysters, Poultry t and Game. £ t Special attention given to out-of-town orders 4> Welcome 82nd I OGLESBY GROCERY GO. ATLANTA, GEORGIA was much heavier than the machine gun fire the infantry encountered go¬ ing over the top, and always there was the awful nerve strain of having to twiddle your thumbs and take it without making any effort at retalia¬ tion. The One Hundred and Fifty-seventh artillery brigade was one outfit whose work did not stop when the rest of the Eighty-second Division was relieved on November 1. The brigade had gone all through the Argonne fighting, bringing the guns up over muddy, shell-shot roads, sticky with mud, to fill rush orders for a barrage in the least possible time and launch the protecting fire for the infantry attacks. Shelled by the boche guns, beset by gas, officers and men sleeping out in the open in fox holes, the brigade had few casualties, but went through a perfect hell of suffering. Only one officer was killed, Lieutenant Findley B. Durrett, of Tuscaloosa, Ala. A number were wounded, including Col¬ onel Earl D'Arcy Pearce, of Atlanta, commanding the Three Hundred and Nineteenth regiment, who was pain¬ fully, but not seriously, wounded when a shell exploded in the top of his dug¬ out. When the division was finally re¬ lieved, the artillery was attached to the Eightieth division, to take part in the renewal of the big American drive toward Sedan. Stationed near Grand Pre, the brigade laid down a terrific barrage at 1 o'clock on th® morning of November 1, for the doughboys of the new division to go over the top. Then, for a week, there was, as one officer expressed it, "One grand and merry chase." The Germans, finally driven out of the protection of the Ar¬ gonne, were falling back in a veritable route. The artillery was put to it to keep up with the infantry, but keep up the brigade did. In fact, part of the time the light artillery was ahead of the doughboys, with the heavies right behind them. Horses began' to fall from exhaustion, guns stuck in the rotten road-beds, officers and men were haggard-eyed and drawn from the continued drive, but the brigade kept up the lick to the finish. When it was finally relieved on No¬ vember 6, its good work drew the fol¬ lowing commendation, from the com¬ mander of the Eightieth division to the commander of the Eighty-second division: "1. I desire to convey to you recog¬ nition of the excellent service done by the 157th Field Artillery brigade while serving with the division east of the, Argonne, November 1 to 6, 1918. "2. The efficient co-operation with the infantry, extending to its close support by guns, batteries and battal¬ ions pushed well to the front, contrib¬ uted the full artillery share to the successful operations of the division, and maintained the high standard of the 82nd division and of the field ar¬ tillery. "3. It is a pleasure to acknowledge this service. "S. D. STURGIS, "Major-General." "The division commander notes with pride the excellent work of the bri¬ gade," was the notation from Major- General Duncan, in forwarding this recommendation to Colonel Pearce, commanding tlfe brigade. And Col¬ onel Pearce had another notation as follows: "1. In forwarding an official copy of the above letter to the organization commanders, the brigade commander wishes to add his appreciation of the splendid zeal and fighting spirit of the 157th throughout the Meuse-Argonne offensive. His pleasure and pride in the above commendation is increased by his knowledge that although the brigade had been in the line without an hour's relief since October 6th, it found no difficulty in matching the energy and determination to advance of the fresh division it was called upon to support." The Three Hundred and Seventh Engineers, which were under com¬ mand of Colonel J. L. Schley, of Sa¬ vannah, Ga., until he left for the states on October 26, and the regimental command was taken over by Lieuten¬ ant-Colonel H. C. Mower, not only per¬ formed one hundred per cent service throughout the Argonne, but part of the time fought as infantry. The engineers, constantly under shell-fire and suffering equal hard¬ ships with the doughboys in exposure to cold and rain, located ferries for the infantry to cross the Aire, built bridges for the machine guns and ar¬ tillery to cross, prepared posts of command and strove to keep the roads in some semblance of repair. On .the night of October 15, when the German counter-attack north of Sommerance was imminent, the sec¬ ond battalion of the engineers was or¬ dered into the line as infantry sup¬ port. On the night of October 16, the first battalion also took its place with the badly thinned ranks of the dough¬ boys. The Engineers lost one officer kill¬ ed, Lieutenant James H. Claxton, of Montezuma, Ga., who was slain by shell-fire north of Sommerance and is buried at Floville. Lieutenant S. H. Andrews was wounded in an exciting fight north of Apremont on Septem¬ ber 29, when D company, commanded by Captain H. B. Baird, went forward to organize a "strong point" in an old quarry. The Germans attacked, but the Engineers took to rifles and ma¬ chine guns, beat them off, captured eleven prisoners and killed about two hundred of the enemy. The only other Georgian wounded with the Engineers was Lieutenant I. F. Witherington, of Atlanta, formerly a star backstop for Georgia Tech, who was hit by a piece of high explosive shell in the Boucq sector, when he led fifty picked men of the regiment on a raid accompanying infantry in the German lines. Other Georgians with the regiment are First Lieutenant Walter R. Boyd, of Savannah; First Lieutenant W. W. Moore, of Decatur; First Lieutenant Robert A. Clay, of Monroe, and First Lieutenant Henry Newton, of Gabbett- ville. Major Eugene Kelly, of Atlanta, was with the regiment through most of the fighting, but has since been transferred to the First Division, which is with the American Army of Occupation in Germany. The regiment is now commanded by Colonel H. A. Finch. Ranking on a par with the work of the infantry in the Argonne was that of the machine gunners, the boys who "never retreat." Besides a machine gun company with each regiment, the division has three machine gun battal¬ ions, the Three Ninteenth, Three Twentieth and Three Twenty-first. When Colonel Pike, division machine gun officer, was killed in the Argonne, he was succeeded by a Georgian, Ma¬ jor I. C. Holloway, of Atlanta, who SERVICE RECORD was formerly with the old Fifth Geor¬ gia national guard regiment. The way in which the machine gun¬ ners went over the top with the in¬ fantry. poured round after round into the Germans, set up their guns right in the open and continued the ad¬ vance under all obstacles, is such that any doughboy in the division will say, "Buddy, my tin hat's off to you!" Officers like Captain Fonville Mc- W'horter. Captain Alec Cunningham, Lieutenant "Si" Hawkins, Lieutenant Kirk Smith, Lieutenant Howard Stearnes, Georgians all, and a score of others, to say nothing of the en¬ listed men, fought with that never- say-die spirit which is ever the motto of the machine guns. Their spirit was exemplified by Ser¬ geant Buler T. Strickland, of the Three Hundred and Twenty-first, who, when he was only a corporal at Nor- roy, formed a machine gun section of three men and himself and held back the boche with but two guns. "Come on, let's go to the rear with the rest; they're retreating!" somebody yelled at Strickland. "Retreat hell!" Strick¬ land yelled back. "I'll just be damned if I'll retreat!" And he didn't. Another non-com in this same bat¬ talion, Sergeant Simpson, won the Distinguished Service Cross for gal¬ lantry at Sommerance. The Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh infan¬ try. goes the story, had advanced as far as the enemy line and finding its position untenable, was compelled to withdraw. Sergeant Simpson seized an abandoned German machine gun and remaining behind alone, covered the retirement of the infantry until the last shot of German ammunition had been fired. The importance of the work done by the Three Hundred and Seventh Field Signal battalion can only be estimated when it is remembered that the tele¬ phone is just as essential to modern warfare as it is to any business. Mem¬ bers of the battalion went over the top with the second waves of infan¬ try, carrying wires with them and un¬ coiling them as they went, so that, scarcely had a position been taken and consolidated, when communica¬ tion was established with the posts of command to the rear. It was necessary, too, for the battal¬ ion to keep the communications going at all times, a tremendous job when the shells and bullets were falling so thick that at any moment a wire was likely to be severed. And then it was up to the repair man, no matter how heavy the bombardment, to get out in Welcome i)ome, $5opsof tfje 82s* IDibtstcm A. V. GUDE, JR. 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Thus, Corporal Louis Sorrow, who has been recommended for the Distin¬ guished Service Cross, continued to i epair an important line after one 1-elper had been killed and two others wounded. Private George Coumas, himself wounded by shrapnel, helped place five wounded comrades in a trench and continued his work, al¬ though suffering greatly, until it was completed. The devotion and courage of the ambulance drivers, evacuating the wounded from the front line trenches under heavy fire, driving their cars over roads well nigh impassable from mud and shell fire alike, when the night was so black that a man could not have seen his hand before his eyes, when the German planes were zooning overhead, scattering bombs at every cross-roads—this courage was such that no tribute is too strong for the men of the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth, Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth and Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Ambulance compan¬ ies. That goes, too, for the doctors and enlisted men of the Three Hundred and Twenty-fifth, sixth and seventh field hospitals, which, with the ambu¬ lance companies, compose the Three Hundred and Seventh Sanitary train. Working for twenty-four and forty- eight hours and longer without a wink of sleep, often under bom¬ bardment, surrounded by such bloody and tragic scenes as are past descrip¬ tion, they saved lives that seemed past saving and brought many a lad through the valley of the shadow who to-day might be sleeping in the Ar- gonne. The supply train and the ammuni¬ tion train, the work of which has been previously described at some length, drove truck and transport night after night through the inky blackness along the death-haunted roads, so that never once, in all the twenty-five weary days, did the division lack for anything in ammunition or food, when either could be gotten to the beleaguered units in the front lines. XIX Since the Eighty-second Division marched out of the Argonne on No¬ vember 1, 1918, and proceeded by easy stages back to the training area in which it is located as this is written, there has been just one picture danc¬ ing in the heads of every man, and that, of course, is home. For the division the war was over. F'ull well it had done its part, and whether peace came soon or not, its members know that for them a rest, at last, was ahead. And when, while they were still on the march to the rear, they received the news that the armistice had been signed,—well, there wasn't much shouting and there wasn't much cheering, but the picture in the head and heart of every man became clearer than ever. And so the division dreams today. True, there isn't much time for dream¬ ing, for the high command sees to it that, having won the war, the army shall continue to fight it. The result is that you never saw a busier place than Prauthey, Champlitte and the twoscore towns and villages where the division is billeted today. Motor¬ cycle riders dash madly from town to town with orders, typewriters click in offices, telephones buzz, and day after day the green hills between the vil¬ lages swarm with men in khaki going through maneuvers and sham battles galore. And yet the division dreams. On clear days, a private standing in the streets of Larrett can see the snowy pinnacle of Mont Blanc, many miles away across the Swiss border. But it is not Mont Blanc he sees as he stands there, dreaming. On cold, drizzly nights, when fires are very necessary in chilly billets, the officer gazes into the flames, but it is not fire he sees. There is just one picture in the vision of all, and that is home. ****** The End. Let Us Furnish Estimates On Your Work. Gresham-Jackson Co. PLUMBING AND HEATING CONTRACTORS Bell Phone Ivy 5327 28 Luckie Street ATLANTA, GA. ® % % Gonklin Tin Plate & Metal Go. 1 Sheet Metal and f Tinners Supplies | ATLANTA SAVANNAH SERVICE RECORD Warp and Woof of the Greatest Fabric on Earth is the Eighty- Second or the AJl-American I know the return of the Eighty-second lias put to rest the racking heart beats of many a mother, wife, daughter and sweetheart and that of itself it more than worth any welcome, it matters not how great and grand that may be, Atlanta can give the boys of that gallant division. I know whereof I speak for I had dear ones over there and the feeling of suspense that would arise at times would become frequently almost unbearable. It was not a selfish feeling either, for we always thought of the other boys who were right along with our own kin. It is not a duty but a pleasure this home greeting should be to all of us who sent them away. They went without a murmur, went with smiles on their faces and it is with smiles and glad hands we should welcome them home again. Over there those boys went through a veritable hell for us and they will never forget the seething blood curdling days they passed on the front over in France unless we make them by the greeting we shall give them. Let's do all we can to wipe out that bloody picture photographed on their minds in the battle lines. And I know of no better way than by making our welcome to them so bright and pronounced that its picture-forever hereafter will shadow the picture made in France. I saw that Eighty-second in training here and from the view point of one who has gone through the drills himself I tell you I never saw a cruder material turned into more perfect soldiers. Why when that division marched away from Camp Gordon it would have made Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sheridan salute the man with the musket as he marched by with the precision of Lee's ragged line and Grant's grand army review. And it wasn't long after they went away when they showed themselves as good or better in the battle line than on the parade ground. When they left no one doubted the valor of those men but there were mighty few of us who imagined they would become the greatest mop- pers-up that ever Pershing would send into the front lines. It is now up to us to show those boys how much we appreciate what they have really accomplished. Like all good soldiers they'll tell you they merely did their duty. That's not true, they did more than their duty and let us show them the love and the esteem in which we hold them for having done "their duty." ARNOLD BROYLES, Clerk Fulton Superior Courts, Atlanta. Copyright 1919 Hart Schaffner & Mars Daniel Bros. Co. Headquarters for Hart-Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes VOU want to get back in the "Civies" quickly, and in the best way; you want the best suit and "fixings" for the money. Consider the reputation of the clothes; of the style, the quality, the finish and the value you expect. Hart-Schaffner & Marx Clothes give you all these in full measure; newest styles, real worth, perfect fit and long wear. All other things just as good. Daniel Bros. Co. 45 to 49 Peachtree St. Home of Hart-Schaffner & Marx Clothes SERVICE RECORD rt WAUKAWAY SHOE CO. $ 1 POPULAR PRICES \ ■| 49 West Mitchell St. % SHOES FOR MEN Bell Phone 5123 J. W. Goldsmith, Jr., —Grant Co. HUDSON DODGE BROTHERS AND ESSEX MOTOR CARS REPUBLIC TRUCKS 229 PEACHTREE STREET ATLANTA, GA. WELCOME HOME Having contributed, so much to stamping out the enemy who were engulfing the whole world in a seething flame of fire, you not only have added fame and honor to America, but also covered yourselves with undying glory. Therefore, it is ivith sincere delight that we extend our best hand to the men of the Eighty-Second and welcome them back to their native homes. M. KUTZ COMPANY Wholesale Milliners Pryor and Mitchell Streets COMPLIMENTS NEAL, President W. B. REEVES, General Manager L. S. WITMAN, Sales Manager Royal Cotton Products Gompany Atlanta, Georgia Manufacturers of High Grade Willowed Gotton Mill Waste 0"Sxjxe>3*s><8xsxe>^$>3>«xsxsxs^ BOYS OF THE 82nd rriO YOU—who have done your part towards winning the "world war"—we make our best bow and heartily welcome you into our midst. We are proud of you, your unblemished record and your undying fame. It is our best wish that each of you—in your future lives—shall attain a measure of success equal to that attained on the bloody- battlefields of France by the wonderful "All- American" Division. Surely, then, prosperity and happiness will be yours! ALEXANDER-SEEWALD CO. AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT BICYCLES and SUNDRIES 81 North Pryor Sir et Atlanta, Georgia a more complete realization of those aspirations which are and will be borne within you and | nurtured into effectiveness as you resume your place in civil life. | • Long after the finish of your career in our midst, the memory of you and your gal- 3 lant achievements shall linger in the minds of the future generations with pride by those t, that are near and dear to vou and with appreciation by the nation at large. t! I f I WELCOME Boys of the 82nd Division I s $ Atlanta, Georgia Brooklyn, New York I St. Louis, Missouri Dallas, Texas FULTON BAG & COTTON MILLS New Orleans, Louisiana MANUFACTURERS OF Bags, Tents and all Canvas Goods SERVICE RECORD V/elcome 82nd HIGHTOWER BOX AND TANK COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF Packing Boxes, Soda Water Cases and Water Tanks Atlanta, Georgia Hello, Boys! Mighty glad you're home Come to see us BELL, LAUNDRY 183 SO. FORSYTH ST. "Just a Good One OUR BOYS "I can make no better earnest of my welcome to you brave boys of the Eighty-Second than that I dedicate my¬ self to service for you. You have earned the undying gratitude of a nation—the whole army of America has earned this—but you were trained in my district, near my home, and for that reason you are dear to my heart. I shall give no pause in my efforts to repay you the debt we have incurred as agnation through your efforts in France. "I can conceive of nothing more noble than to give up life for an ideal—and many of the boys of the Eighty- Second made this sacrifice. Those who will return to At¬ lanta and to many other States must be made to know and to feel that the South is proud of them for the things they have done and the things they have brought about in unify¬ ing a nation before all the world." Welcome, Boys of the 82nd Congressman W. D. UPSHAW Mason & Hamlin, Conover, Cable, Kings¬ bury and Wellington Pianos Carola, Solo Carola and Euphona Inner- Player Pianos Band Instruments, Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise of Every Description Victor Yictrolas and Records The strong guarantee of the world's greatest piano makers, ourselves, is hack of every piano we sell. This guarantee is so broad, so liberal, so binding, that there is no room'left for dissatisfaction. PjiMe Viana fiomjiany THE HOME OF INTERESTED SERVICE 82-84 North Broad Street Atlanta, Georgia SERVICE RECORD 77 POSITIVE PROTECTION EXPERT SERVICE IVY 7341 "Get me a Policyholder, Will Make It to Your Interest." Accident Insurance $1.00 Per Year and Up Julian F. Drinkard SPECIALIST ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE Bring This to Office—It's to Your Interest 1015 Healey Building Atlanta, Georgia WELCOME 82ND DIVISION Bell Phone Main 3687; Atlanta Phone 1797 Branch Store Riverside, Atlanta Phone Chattahoochee 52 T. & C. Furniture Co. COMPLETE LINE OF Furniture and Household Furnishings T. J. CHAPPELEAR, Prop. 415 Marietta St., Opposite Jones Avenue Atlanta, Ga. (£>$bttrn^b5ton & Company DISTRIBUTORS AND JOBBERS gutomottoe equipment EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS: Bosch Magnetos, Stromberg Carburetors, Raybestos Brake Lining, Leak Proof Piston Rings, Gray & Davis Ford Starters, Motometers, Kelsey Streamline Bodies, Veedol Oil 291-293 Peachtree Street Atlanta, <@eoigta 7S SERVICE RECORD • • •> Welcome Home 82nd Division felrmn? BSttfc F. W. Woolworth Company Atlanta's Strictly 5c Ei 10c Store 13-17 Whitehall St. 1 i PHONOGRAPHS INCORPORATED Peachtree and Ellis Streets ATLANTA, GA. RETAIL DEPARTMENT Lucien Harris Says Eighty-Second "Made Good," and Adds That Their Welcome Home Will Crown Them. There can be no medium ground on which Atlantans, Georgians, Southerners or Ameri¬ cans can stand when the Eighty-second Division returns home. Although we will not be granted the privilege of bidding them a welcome all together, as they will be discharged from many camps in the South, yet those who do come can be made to feel the justifiable and pardonable pride we have for them. Returning real conquering heroes, the Eighty-second Division, termed the Ail-American Division because it was made up of boys from practically every state in the union, these boys have shown to the world that a united America still re¬ tains its inherent love of justice and its unswerving belief in democracy. Made up of boys from every state in the union, as I say, they went forward in the thickest of the fighting just at the time in the period of the world war when the hearts of men were sinking with fear of a Hun victory over the world, and the turning point of the war dated from that time. Unswerving and unswervable, these All-Americans met the charging onslaught of the Huns and their allies and turned them back, breaking the back¬ bone of the enemy attack and turning the victorious ITun into the vanquished Hun. • Sons of the veterans of the sixties on both sides were in the Eighty-second, and these sons at the Marne and at Belleau Wood effectually welded together the real United States, and are coming back to us the living exponents of a united America, a real all-America, a country with but one thought and one desire—a democratic nation, a democratic world and a peaceful world. Joel Chandler Harris was my father, and at his knees I have learned during his life¬ time of the bitter days of the sixties, and I thank God that in my life-time I have seen a real united nation for us, and I am profoundly grateful for the fact that in the nation's fight I had two sons in service for our flag. 1 had still another son in the R. 0. T. C. at the University of Georgia. My two oldest boys were in the naval aviation service. My wel¬ come to the boys of the Eighty-second will be tinged with a great personal pride by this fact. Out of this war has started a movement which will further cement the fortunes of our nation and further bury 1he old bloody days of the sixties, this movement being the American Legion. Organized tor the purpose of keeping alive the rich store of traditions coming from this great war, cementing the friendships made by the boys in khaki, honoring the memories of those who died in France for democracy,' the Legion of Honor will also have as a motive, a beautilul motive, the making of our nation really one. And as an exemplification of this real godsend to America is the Kighty-second Division. The All-American Division will be more than welcomed home by Atlanta—the whole city will be theirs to do with as they will. God bless those who have remained in trance and God love those who will come back to us. Thrice welcome back home. LUCIEN HARRIS, Tax Collector, Fulton County, Georgia. Jilt's -vVwvtS* vvvt/iWyvAA'S SERVICE RECORD 79 Crichfon's Business College 13 W. Ala¬ bama St.,cor. Broad Street $40 Crichton's Common-Sense Course In BOOKKEEPING $40 Crichton's Phono-Syllabic Shorthand is endorsed by leading reporters as the greatest discovery of the century. EASILY UNDERSTOOD—EASILY READ, Mrs. Hamilton Doug-las, Founder of the Commercial High School of Atlanta, says: > "Your system is the most logical in vowel arrangement the most ^ easily understood, and most important of all, THE MOST EASILY read ,}> of any system with which I am familiar. ^ "I have investigated several of the Pitmanic systems, but the one > which you have discovered or created is in a class to itself, without even ^ a second to it." * » > "EASY TO LEARN." '? Mr. H. M. Nicholes, Official Shorthand Reporter, and Charter Member t, National Shorthand Reporters' Association of America, says: t "Your METHOD is the most wonderful evolution in the teaching of t the fundamental principles of modern shorthand that has been produced V since 185S." IF YOU CANNOT COME TO ATLANTA, TAKE OITR CORRESPONDENCE ^ COURSE. 1 For catalog address Crichton's Business College, Atlanta ,•> i-i-i, iyWi DISTINCTIVELY BETTER r In Bottles P _ Everywhere BOTTLED EXCLUSIVELY BY US PARFAY BOTTLING CO., Atlanta, Georgia American Savings Bank "Where Broad and Alabama Meet" 4% Paid on Deposits J. G. ST. AMAND PRESIDENT PETER F. CLARKE CASHIER TO THE EIGHTY-SECOND DIVISION IN the hurry and bustle of preparation for war every American industry and service was taxed to its utmost capacity, and even beyond, to supply the sinews of war. Atlanta, in common with other cities, has done its best to minister to the material as well as the social needs of the boys who carried the Stars and Stripes to a glorious victory. We only wish that we might have had more time and leisure in which to express our appreciation and show our hospital¬ ity. We will always be proud of the honor of entertaining the Eighty-second Division. In parting, we offer a toast to your good health and happiness: | "May you live long and prosper f I AMERICAN BAKERIES COMPANY Makers of Hoi sum Cakes SERVICE RECORD 3 Cheers for the 82nd Welcome Back Home— Glad to Have You Here Again Let Your Next Car Be a Reo Reo Atlanta Co. W-: m(* 380 Peachtree Street Phones Ivy 34 and 41)7 UK sr For the Best— Auto Painting and Re-cov¬ ering Tops. For the Best— Commercial Truck Bodies for Ford 1-Ton or Pleasure Car Chassis. For the Best— Buggies and Surreys. Call on Blount Carriage and Buggy Co. Phone East Point 7. Atlanta, Georgia The Southern Cotton Oil Co. Cotton Seed Products — High Grade Fertilizers DISTRICT OFFICE 1114 to 1128 Empire Building ATLANTA, GEORGIA MILLS LOCATED AT Acworth, Georgia Athens, Georgia Ft. McPherson, Georgia Cartersville, Georgia Cedartown, Georgia Columbus, Georgia Commerce, Georgia Cordele, Georgia Dawson, Georgia Forsyth, Georgia Ft. Gaines, Georgia Jackson, Georgia Lavonia, Georgia Newnan, Georgia Talbotton, Georgia SERVICE RECORD Greetings to the brave Boys of the 82nd Division Jfrom EtbbeU ^rottjersi, 3m. Machinists, Auto Repairs, Welding, Machine Work. 16 E. Mitchell Street Phone M. 493 Garage 761 Whitehall Street Phone W. 600-L. Welcome ?|ome 82nd "We are proud of every one of you. Come in and let's talk it over. W Apperson Motor Co. :-M V'/'MVi-W THIRTY-TWO YEARS UNDER ONE CONTINUOUS MANAGEMENT FOOTE & DAVIES CO. PRINTERS, BINDERS LITHOGRAPHERS OFFICE FURNITURE STATIONERS The College Publication House :: :: :: Atlanta, Ga. Welcome Home, 82nd Division Our Own Warriors We Glory in Your Deeds of Valour If you have Government insurance, hold on to it. If you desire additional insurance with similar benefits at the same cost, payable in small instalments or in one sum, apply to The Columbian Woodmen Atlanta, Georgia FRATERNAL LIFE INSURANCE THE BEST INSURANCE AT THE LOWEST COST It pays for temporary and partial disability, total per¬ manent disability from sickness or accident, old age dis¬ ability, double indemnity, funeral expenses or death. If you are competent and seek employment, write for territory. LLOYD T. BINFORD, Eminent Consul, Columbian Woodmen, 401-417 Hurt Building, Atlanta, Ga. 82 SERVICE RECORD The ATLANTA-SOUTHERN DENTAL COLLEGE extends to the Members of the 82nd Division A most cordial welcome and congratulates it upon the splendid record made in the European conflict r 0 Every Man who saw service on the other side we extend our grateful thanks and a hearty "welcome home," with our best wishes for a happy future. E. A. Stephens Assistant to the Solicitor General Fulton County V- J INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CORPORATION HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS ACID PHOSPHATE SULPHURIC ACID SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT HURT BUILDING ATLANTA. GEORGIA FACTORIES AND OFFICES AT Atlanta Athens Cartersville Dublin Americas Tifton Augusta i I 4, NORTH CAROLINA Z •v Charlotte t With fifteen factories in five states we can serve you in both quality and delivery. JZ? Our formulas are made from prac¬ tical experience to suit the Southern farmer. We pre* pare brands which are AVAILABLE while the crop is GROWING—no left over fertilizer to leach out of the soil and waste. JZ? Write us for information at any of our branches. FACTORIES AND OFFICES AT Montgomery Florence SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg Greenwood Anderson Augusta VIRGINIA Norfolk A DISTINCTIVE DIVISION DISTINCTIVE CAR!!!! Tne 82iiu 1^/ividlOii 10 iiic piv>uuCi ui iiiOiiLiio Oi on^nu^uo uuiiiiii^< The OAKLAND L a product of years of careful experiment and research work. C| The wonderful character of this man-made car with its beautiful distinctive lines assures prestige in any quarter. SOUTHERN OAKLAND COMPANY 270 PEACHTREE STREET ATLANTA, GEORGIA ORGANIZING NOW Patriotic and Protective Order of Stags Op. _ ^ £$ or Elegant Club Rooms—^^ith up-to-date Free J^Iedica! Attention—For members athletics, reading, writing, reception and and their families, sick and accident bene- music rooms, pool, howling and dancing fits of $7 per week, $125 hurial benefit, parlors. One night each month set aside Free education for children of deceased as "ladies* night". members with all expenses paid. Initiation Fee, $7,00 Dues, $1.00 f>er month Fifteen Organizers to Conduct Big embershi^ Campaign A High-Class Club and Benefit Society for Gentlemen Club Rooms anil Office: 81/* WEST ALABAMA STREET, 3rd Floor Welcome Home, Boys of the 82nd Division "The Bops with the Pep" E. F. TUGGLE Authorized Dealer t Decatur, Georgia SILVER SPECIAL SPEEDSTER &Sk Theirs is the Best we Have Everybody Joyously Welcomes our Prided 82nd Back Home! Like our Soldier boys afreshened to keener perception and bouyed by the "always ahead" spirit of America, the Kissel builders have breathed the last inspiration of fine motor car building into the distinctive individuality and Special yModelsf The sturdy Kissel ^trucks that* SS LANFORD, PARR & CO. themselves along with the boys are also your aids again. ATLANTA DISTRIBUTOR GEORGIA BUICK MOTOR COMPANY Atlanta Branch: 241 Peachtree Street "A Happiness Complete with a Kissel Elite" I