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HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

An Authentic History of the
Thirty-fifth Division

Heroes of the Argonne

An Authentic History of the
Thirty-fifth Division

—BY-

CHARLES B. HOYT

Arranged and Compiled by
C. B. LYON, Jr.

Published by
FI^ANKLIN HUDSON PUBLISHING COMPANY

KANSAS CITY, MO.
Copyright 1919

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TO THE FALLEN,

WHO OFFERED THEMSELVES

ON THE ALTAR OF DEATH

FOR VICTORY

CONTENTS

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Foreword 9

Major General William M. Wright 10

Major GeneralTPeter E. Traub 12

Brigadier^General Charles I. Martin Id

; .; I. Rookie Days 19

^ 11. Blighty 25

III. Tommy Atkins and the French Language. . 28

IV. Trenches in the Vosges 39

V. The Two Raids 44

VI. As Reserves at St. Mihiel 53

VII. Behind the Curtain to Strike 61

VIII. The Morrow of Big Things 70

IX. And On the Second Day 83

X. Against Montrebeau Woods 92

XI. The Crimson Day 102

XII. The Thirty-fifth Holds On 114

XIII. Fu-ing the Last Gun 122

XIV. Not Strictly a Matter of History 128

XV. The Last Days 134

The Casualties of the Thirty-fifth 141

The Roster of Kansas Guardsmen 143

ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS AND
DIAGRAMS

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The Man Who Trained the Thirty-fifth 11

The Man Who Led the Thirty-fifth 13

The Organizer of the Seventieth Brigade 15

Diagram of the Division 17

View of Camp Doniphan 21

As England Looked 22

Trenches Near Vauqois Hill 29

Depths of the Argonne 30

Map Showing Travels of the Thirty-fifth in France. 33
Battery of the 130th Field Artillery in Action at

Varennes 37

Looking toward Cheppy 38

Map of the 137th Infantry Raid 46

The Field Signal Battalion in Action ... , 49

The Tank Comes Through 50

Map of the Hilsenfirst Raid 52

Looking Down on St. Mihiel 55

Infantry of the Thirty-fifth on the March 56

Map— Where the Thirty-fifth Bit into the Hinden-

burg Line 63

Diagram of the Arrangement of the First, Army

for the Drive 67

Map of the Operations of the Thirty-fifth in the

Meuse-Argonne Offensive. 73

The Opening Guns 75

Varennes 76

Diagram, Formation of Brigades During the Drive. 81

Shell Holes and Pup Tents of the Argonne 87

The Shell-torn Church at Neuvilly 88

Diagram, Where the Argonne Dead Lie Buried 95

Vauqois Hill 99

An Advanced Dressing Station 100

Graves on the Field of Battle 107

Shooting Down Hun Planes 108

Doughboys Marching Out of the Argonne 117

Artillery in Action in the Bois de Rossignol 118

Trench Scenes Near Verdun 125

Trench Scene in the Sommedieue Sector 126

Hauling SuppUes 131

Artillery Camouflaged. 132

A Sniper on Outpost 137

The Doughboy Knew Mercy 138

FOREWORD

On the pages which follow the aim is to better
acquaint those who stayed at home with what the
fighting men did in France. If the present story of
the Thirty-fifth Division serves to give an insight into
the soldier's life among the French peasantry; if it
carries in some degree a picture of their trench days
and their work on the fields of the Argonne; and if
to the men themselves it serves as an authentic record
to carry them in some later day back to their experi-
ences overseas, then a measure of its purpose is fulfilled.

The groundwork for the history is official records.
From these was built up the completed story, its frame-
work the reports, secret orders and information furn-
ished by officers and men who were in France with the
division. We owe indebtedness to Charles I. Martin,
Dr. Claude C. Lull, Owen R. Ridlon, M. R. McLean,
F. R. Fitzpatrick, Clad Hamilton, Charles F. Oehrle,
Kenneth G. Lewis, and Eugene Wolfe, overseas, and to
Arthur Capper, C. W. Hoyt, W. F. Thompson, G. A.
Betz, Dr. C. B. Lyon, and Charles Ciuiiis, who, by
their help, have made this book possible.

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM M. WRIGHT

The Thirty-fifth Division received its training un-
der Major General Wright at Camp Doniphan, Okla-
homa, He was sent to take over the command August
25, 1917. In September of that year he organized the
division. He left the same month for France to study
modern combat conditions, returning to Camp Doni-
phan to give the Thirty-fifth its final instructions for
overseas service.

On the division's arrival in France he was placed
in temporary command of the Third Army Corps.
Later he was given charge of the Eighty-ninth Divi-
sion, made up of the National Army men organized
at Camp Funston, Kansas. He was with this division
through the Argonne.

Major General Wright is a West Poster. He
was graduated from the Military Academy in 1882.
He was a brigadier general when the war broke out.

Of him it has been said by the officers and men,
"A leader, as well as an organizer of men."

The man who trained the Thirty-fifth.

Photo by W.1.1.ARD,
TopeKa , Kans.

MAJOR GENERAL PETER E. TRAUB.

In the spring of 1886, Major General Traub was
graduated from West Point and became a lieutenant
in the First Cavalry. Four years later he was in
South Dakota chasing Sioux Indians. From stalking
the Redskins he returned to West Point as an instruc-
tor in languages. Until the Spanish-American War
|broke out, he retained his professorship of languages.
jIn the Philippines he took part in the engagement of
Las Guasimas, and in the battle of San Juan was rec-
ommended for the brevet of captain. He secured the
written agreement of General Guevara to surrender
April 27, 1902. From 1902 to 1904 he was assistant
professor of languages at West Point. In 1914, when
the European War opened, he was assistant chief of
the Constabulary in the Philippines.

Major General Traub led the Thirty-fifth in the
'Argonne. He was relieved of his command before
the division returned to the United States, and was
succeeded by Major General Wright, the man who
had trained the Thirty-fifth. Peter E. Traub is now
a Regular Army colonel, stationed at Fort Thomas,
Kentucky.

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The man who led the Thirty-fifth.

BRIGADIER GENERAL CHARLES I. MARTIN.

A quiet man, whose underlying force is his power
of organization. He gained that name for himself as
long ago as 1890, when he was a sergeant in the Kansas
Guard. He became a captain in 1898 in the Twentieth
Kansas Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Frederick
Funston .

In the battle of Manila he led his company over
an open roadway, and on that day it suffered the heav-
iest casualities of any company in the regiment. He
came out of the war a major.

After receiving his appointment as brigadier gen-
eral in 1917, General Martin organized the Seventieth
Brigade at Camp Doniphan, shaping and training it
for overseas service. He took it to France and was
with it during the Vosges and St. Mihiel days. On
the evening of September 21 he was relieved of his
command, just before the division entered the Argonne
offensive.

Of him his fellow- officers and men have said: ''He
is quiet and businesslike. More of us would have
come out of the Argonne with him in command of
the Seventieth Brigade."

The organizer of the Seventieth Brigade.

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THE ROOKIE DAYS

The workshop of peace days shaped and produced the
National Guard of Kansas and Missouri. The demands of
war took it, reshaping what was green and untrained into
the seasoned and trained. It took it and at Vauqois Hill,
at Very, at Cheppy, at Charpentry and at Exermont, in the
Argonne, wrote for it a part in the annals of world warfare.

In October, 1917, when the Kansas and Missouri troops
were combined at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, to make up
the Thirty-fifth Division, the Kansas offering in officers
and men totalled 8,500, the Missouri side 14,765. To bring
it up to the divisional strength, then set at 27,000, draft
men of Kansas and Missouri were joined to the nucleus.

The final quotas of Kansas and Missouri troops that
were merged to create the division were only frameworks
at the time war was declared. They were less than a third
the number, and to the lot of Charles I. Martin, adjutant
general of Kansas, and Harvey C. Clark, adjutant general of
Missouri, fell the task of building up from this skeleton-
work the backbone of a new division.

The National Guard troops were not called as quickly
as anticipated and a breathing space for recruiting and or-
ganizing was offered by the delay. August 5 the troops
of the two states were called out and assigned to home
camps, where an initial baptism of hikes and drills began.
Steadily from then until October, when the mobilization was
complete, a stream of guard troops flowed toward Camp
Doniphan. Here organizations were allotted designated
areas and entered on an intensive program of exercises,
marches and drills, and an extensive daily menu of Okla-
homa dust.

Major General William M. Wright, a regular army
officer, assumed command August 25 and began shaping the
plans for creating the division. The actual organization
was launched with the arrival of the Headquarters Company
the last of September.

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The division headquarters included staff officers se-
lected by the commanding general, the Thirty-fifth Head-
quarters Troop, formerly Troop A ; First Squadron, Kansas
Cavalry and 128th Machine Gun Battalion, formerly the
First Battalion, and Machine Gun Company of the Second
Missouri Infantry.

The Sixty-ninth Brigade was placed in command of
Brigadier Arthur B. Donnelly. It included Brigade Head-
quarters, formerly First Missouri Brigade; the 129th
Machine Gun Battalion, formerly Second Battalion, Second
Missouri Infantry; 137th Infantry, formerly First and Sec-
ond Kansas Regiments ; 138th Infantry, formerly First and
Fifth Missouri Infantry.

The Seventh Brigade came under command of Briga-
dier General Martin, "with the organization as follows : Bri-
gade Headquarters, formerly Headquarters First Kansas
Brigade ; 130th Machine Gun Battalion, formerly Third Bat-
talion ; Second Missouri Infantry, 139th Infantry, formerly
Third Kansas and Fourth Missouri Infantry; 140th Infan-
try, formerly Third and Sixth Missouri Infantry.

Brigadier General Lucien G. Berry took command of
the Sixtieth Artillery Brigade: 128th Field Artillery, for-
merly First Missouri Field Artillery ; 129th Field Artillery,
formerly Second Missouri Field Artillery; 130th Field
Artillery, formerly First Kansas Field Artillery; 110th
Trench Mortar Battery, formerly Supply and Headquarters
Company, Second Missouri Infantry.

The 110th Military Police was made up of Troops B, C
and D, First Squadron Kansas Cavalry, 110th Ammunition
Train, made up of National Army men transferred from the
Eighty-ninth Division; 110th Supply Train, formerly Mis-
souri Supply Train ; 110th Engineer Train, formerly Kansas
Engineers' Train; 110th Sanitary Train, formerly Kansas
and Missouri Field Hospitals, Companies 1 and 2, and Kan-
sas and Missouri Ambulance Companies 1 and 2.

Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney commanded the 110th
Regiment of Engineers, composed of the First Battalion,
Kansas Engineers, and the First Battalion, Missouri En-
gineers.

Other commands of the division personnel were held
by the following officers :

Brigadier General Harvey C. Clark, Depot Brigade.

Colonel Perry M. Hoisington, 137th Infantry.

Colonel Leroy K. Bobbins, 138th Infantry.

Colonel John D. McNeeley, 139th Infantry.

Colonel Albert Linxwiler, 140th Infantry.

Colonel Frank M. Rumbold, 128th Field Artillery.

Colonel Karl D. Klemm, 129th Field Artillery.

Colonel Hugh Means, 130th Field Artillery.

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Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Davidson, 110th Sanitary
Train.

Major Milton R. McLean, 110th Field Signal Battalion.

Lieutenant Colonel Frederick R. Fitzpatrick, 110th
Ammunition Train.

Major Carl 0. Houseman, 110th Motor Supply Train.

France possessed one phase of attraction that was an
unknown quantity in Camp Doniphan. There in the mud-
land and rainland overseas troops were continually on the
move, shifting from front to front, going into the trenches
or coming out of them, and forever appraising the French
wineshops and the weather gods. The spice of variety,
whether likeable or not, was never lacking.

Camp Doniphan, from a soldier's point of view, lacked
everything but dust. The camp was a stem old schoolmas-
ter, not rapping the desk in proverbial manner for the study
of text books, but blowing a whistle for reveille, a whistle
for drill, a whistle for police duty, and interspersing as its
bid for variety frequent bugle calls and voices of superiors.

The old schoolmaster routed the soldiers out of bed
each morning with dust in their eyes and dust on their army
bacon. The troops arriving during the summer he sent to
drill or hike under a scorching sun with equally scorching
sands underfoot. He kept them at it from gray of morning
until a like period of evening, with time enough snatched
between to eat their meals and furl the pyramidal tents in
which they lived.

The schoolmaster's whip was a court-martial, whose
equal effectiveness was never a matter of doubt to the
soldier. He learned the wages of disobedience. He Was
taught the reward of discipline.

As summer advanced into fall and autumn days into
winter, the manual of arms, bayonet drill, grenade throw-
ing, and trench work became an inseparable part of each
day's routine for the infantry. The a^rtillery with its range
practice, the field signal battalion with its radio work, the
medical men with their first aid training, were on a busy
schedule. Gruelling hikes that carried the men out into
the scrub-oak hill districts surrounding the camp were ini-
tiated as a part of the muscling process.

Major General Wright, after spending until September
18 at Camp Doniphan, had gone East and later to France.
There he was taken on a tour of the battlefields. An inti-
mate study of first-hand information was opened to him,
and when he returned, January 4, he inaugurated material
changes in the training schedule of his command. During
his absence Brigadier General Berry had been divisional
commander from September 18 to December 22. Brigadier
General Martin had then been placed in charge.

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British and French instructors were detailed to the
camp. These men, fresh from France, taught to the men
at Camp Doniphan the lesson of the bayonet, the hand
grenade and the gas mask. As the days of bayonet-as-bayo-
net-can fighting had largely passed when the Thirty-fifth
arrived in France, this phase of training proved more bene-
ficial as a mind-trainer than in actual combat.

Winter in tents meant a fight day after day to keep
up the health of the command so that it would be ready
when the orders came for overseas service. Hospital condi-
tions of the camp were inadequate during: the first months.
Men suspected of diphtheria were placed in the same wards
with certified cases. Refuse and decay matter was thrown
down the slope of the hill at the Old Post Hospital, allowed
to .rot there, and be carried back by the winds into the
wards where patients lay. At the Isolation Camp mumps
cases were compelled to stand guard duty at all hours of
night and to work on kitchen police while their faces were
still swollen.

Later there was an improvement in conditions at the
hospital. Even to the time when the troops began to en-
train for embarkation points in the East, the percentage
of illness in the camp was appreciable.

Madame Rumor, whose wagging tongue by its wag-
gings had ceased to carry weight, persisted that the ap-
proach of spring meant assignment to overseas duty for
the Thirty-fifth.

In March more than Madame's tongue appeared as proof
of this. In vanguard of the division, 300 officers and men,
chosen from all branches of the service, left as an overseas
detail.

The division as a whole did not begin moving until
April, divisional headquarters leaving Camp Doniphan the
evening of April 11 and arriving in Camp Minneola, L. I.,
at noon of April 15. In inverse order of their numerals, the
infantry regiments left: Colonel Linxwiler, with 140th In-
fantry, April 12; 139th Infantry, with Colonel John D.
McNeeley, April 8; 138th Infantry, under Colonel McMahon,
April 15, and Colonel Tucker, 137th Infantry, April 17. The
110th Engineers, the field artillery units, the 110th Sanitary
Train, the 110th Supply Train, the 110th Ammunition Train
were not slated out until May.

The stern old warmaster. Camp Doniphan, gathering up
his ink pots and drill texts, blessed the hearts of 27,000 of
his pupils as they bid a profane adieu to over seven months'
daily grind and Oklahoma's dusty precincts.

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BLIGHTY

A fist-fight of the first class is said to have occurred
between an American and British regiment soon after our
first troops had landed on French soil — following which
the two forces fought the Huns with a marked show of
harmony, good will and success.

The Thirty-fifth's record does not confine it to a regi-
mental dislike. The Kansas and Missouri troops took it too
seriously to have it less than a divisional affair. Instances
of individual actual encounters, especially when there was
tea for breakfast, are matters patent in divisional annals.
Divisionally, the Thirty-fifth kept fistically in check. It
never did more than to have a worded and open consensus
of dislike against the Tommy Atkins brethren and their tea-
drinking habits.

By April 20 the infantry regiments of the Thirty-fifth
had been assembled at the embarkation camp of Minneola,
L. I. The field artillery units and trains of the division
did not follow up until May.

The Kansans and Missourians aboard the British trans-
ports of the convoy received early impressions of mild dis-
taste against the British. The English gobs were obsessed
with a desire of seeing rabbit in the messkits of the Yanks
every meal. The Yanks, obsessed with their usual desire
of saying what they thought, opened the breach.

The convoy passed down the submarine-infested waters
of the Irish Sea, with Scotland's hills to be seen on the left
and Ireland on the right. The voyage had been rough. The
submajrine had been a thing of constant peril. Land and
the Spratt's Dog Food signs of Liverpool, when they loomed
up May 7, were welcomed with cheers.

The troops, practically speaking, were marched from
boat to train. They were at Liverpool that day and by

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evening were leaving it for the other side of Blighty. The
trip to Winchester gave the Thirty-fifth a new impression
of the English and the land in which they lived. They did
not hold it against the conductor of the train on which they
rode that he was called a guard and used snuff. The sol-
diers were likewise lenient to the toy-sized coaches, which
were divided off into compartments. Their size, they found,
was no indication of their speed, for they whirled the Thirty-
fifth across Blighty at a breath-taking rate.

To the Kansas and Missouri men England looked like a
land laid out by ruler and mathematics. Hedgerows were
trimmed neatly, homes "were arranged and grouped with
the precision of an English mind, fields were squared away
and separated as though by use of the tape-measure. On
all sides the green of Blighty in springtime was ablaze with
buttercups and poppies, the poppies as red as the A,rgonne
days that were to come.

Along the way feeble cheers were discerned from the
unenthusiastic Englishman.

"If the Huns' reception isn't any wanner than this,
this'U be a cruel war," was the doughboy's verdict.

"What town is this, old dere ?" a soldier would ask out
the window of his compartment.

"I tyke it you're asking the name of the town?" the
presumptuous Englishman would ask.

"Tyke it, hell no," the soldier would reply, in a gentle
American tongue. "It ain't the name of the to'wn I'm after,
old dere, but I was wondering if cooties can stand the Eng-
lish climate."

"Beastly uncouth, the Americans," the presumptuous
Englishman would tell his wife at the supper table that
evening.

"What I don't understand about the Englishman," the
soldier with the gentle tongue would remark to his com-
rades, "is how they understand a war is going on. They
don't understand anything else you ask 'em."

It took nearly a year's association with the French
to convince the Kansans and Missourians that the family
tree of their own race does not possess all the bad points.

The fighting men of the Thirty-fifth were only vague-
ly aware of what was enacting itself in the war drama
across the English Channel. As they rested at Winchester
after their long voyage and the trip across England, ink-
lings trickled in, and they were not always inklings to as-
sure the soldier the best was as it should be.

The infantry had gone ahead of the other units of the
division because after March 21 the Germans had made
it appear every available rifle-bearer on the Allied side was
needed. The great four-phased offensive had been laimched

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with much pomp and gusto. The Germans openly bragged
about putting their feet under Paris tables before April
had passed and indicated their design to smash through,
separate the French and British armies, and seize the Chan-
nel ports.

Ludendorf commanded a mobile force of over half a
million, with staunch support given to every sector of his
line. He was playing a card to beat the Americans before
they beat him. The interlude between America's promise
of aid and the concrete evidence of it was. recognized as the
crucial period, both by our leaders and those of the Huns.

The old red gate that stands on the edge of Belleau
Wood was then only the entrance to a wooded hillside, and
not to a shrine of American sacrifice. The old red gate
was unbattered by shell fire. It had not yet seen the Second
Division and the Marines fight their way through the tan-
gled underbrush and devilwood of Belleau. That was for
days "which were to come.

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TOMMY ATKINS AND THE FRENCH LANGUAGE

The Thirty-fifth, a part of that stream directed toward
France to stem the advance of the Germans, was not per-
mitted to rest itself long at Winchester. The soldiers were
fretted mostly there by the two-meals-a-day schedule of
their Tommy Atkins brethren. Some of the division's aux-
iliary troops, to come later in June, were in the rest camp
at Romsey, where buying eggs or a glass of rum was crime
next to murder.

It would not be a faithful record to say that on May
9, when the men left for Southampton to embark for France,
it was a matter copiously wept over. They had been wait-
ing for the guns so long they were ready to hear them. To
themselves, they confessed guns could present no new ter-
rors when English slum had been on the menu for two days.

The soldiers had been led to believe that every inch of
St. George's Channel housed a Hun underseas craft. They
set out of Southampton that night and the next day sighted
France. In all the 27,000 Kansans and JVLissoufians trans-
ported to French soil, there is not a single casualty on rec-
ord by torpedoing. The convoy that came across in May,
bringing the 130th Field Artillery and 110th Sanitary Train,
was intimately involved in the Irish Sea with a submarine,
but escaped without loss of a ship.

The infantry reached La Havre May 10 at 10 o'clock
in the morning. The coal-smudged, gloomy streets and
buildings of the city were not to them as they had pictured
the threshold of France. They had not been long in French
surroundings before they learned that too much of what
they had read about sunny France was written by authors
who had large apartments in the Hotel Louvre at Paris.
Those who soldiered in the mud-and-rain villages and re-

In the wake of the Thirty-fifth's advance.
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ceived the privilege of a brief stay in the French capital
understand why the authors felt that way about it.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, May 14, the men began the
move toward Eu. They arrived here at 6 o'clock in the
evening of the same day. Eu, a typical village of northern
France, was thirty-eight miles from the high tide of the
German advance. Amiens, important as a railroad center,
was southeast of it and just behind the line being held at
such desperate cost by the British army. The matter of
lights was here brought seriously to the attention of the
men. Aerial bombing about Eu was not uncommon and the
no-lights-allowed edict, carried out effectively at night in
all districts of France, was a necessary measure.

In contact With the British sailor while crossing the
ocean on his transports, in contact with the English civilian
while crossing Blighty en route to Southampton, the dough-
boys were now experiencing their first intimate relation
with the British soldier and the French language. Which
was the harder to get along with is a matter of the individual
case. With the British Tommy the soldier always could ex-
plain very emphatically his opinion of him. In the French
language and with the Flrench he was reduced to the sub-
terfuge of "Wee, wee" and "Pas compri."

It can be said in justice to the Tommy that he thought
as little of us as we did of him. He thought our nation was
a note-writing, back-sliding, diddle-daddling, afraid-to-fight
affair, and that each Yank represented wholesomely and
faithfully the spirit of it. In turn, we impressed him with
the fact that the Huns would be eating at the family table
of the English if we had not stepped in when we did. The
Americans were always earnestly impressive that it was to
save the world they stepped in and not to save the British.

This clash between the two seemed to run more in under-
currents than on the surface. Frequently and in a general
way profaning each other to the back, they would meet, as
individuals, curse the Huns and exchange cigarettes, which
the American, after once smoking an English fag, always
considered a bad trade on his part. The Central West men
were eager for talks With Tommies who served under Gen-
eral Allenby in Palestine or had taken part in the Gallipoli
venture.

The Thirty-fifth was at Eu until 3 o'clock on the morn-
ing of June 6. The wall of men thrown out by Foch had
dammed the advancing gray flood, and the plan to brigade
other American divisions with the British had been changed.
Never having been called into action, the change in brig-
ading plans directly affected the Thirty-fifth. Under new
orders it was to be sent to a quiet sector in the Vosges for
actual training in trench warfare.

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The box car system, "40 homme, 8 chevaux" (40 men,
8 horses), by which the troops traveled from Eu to Arches,
their first stop in the mountainous country of southern
France, was the product and result of an overcrowded coun-
try. The inpour of foreign troops was as though the trade
of the largest store in New York had been suddenly switched
to a two-counter affair in a country town. French tracks
were congested with rolling stock. America, on its part, con-
tributed no passenger trains, but an appreciable number of
large engines and the larger types of freight cars.

By interlacing anatomy, forty men were accommodated
in each car. It was not comfortable riding. ^Men were
stacked in and piled up in a manner that would have brought
protests from a self-respecting sheep on the way to market.
At night they criss-crossed each other, cursed, and possessed
of a soldier's privilege, slept even under those conditions.

The French system of freight-handling differs from
that of the United States, the problem of short runs being a
principal factor. Their "40 hommes, 8 chevaux" are equal
to only about half the length of our ordinary freight car.
These small-sized cars reduce for the shipper whose scale of
business is not large his cost of unutilized space. In America
the shipper pays for the room in an entire car, whether his
goods fill a third of it or not. The French shipper seldom
has a shipment that does not fill the better part of the toy-
type carrier of France. All roads are under government
control.

The trip from Eu to Arches was 300 miles. It carried
the soldie^rs in close proximity to Paris, where from their
palatial box car accommodations they could obtain a pano-
ramic view but could not visit it.

Along the way they received their first intimate glances
of French life. They saw fatherless children at play, who
begged them for "biskwee," the American cracker form of
hardtack. They sailed these litttle fellows what they cried
for and enjoyed the ensuing scramble. They saw women in
the fields, who stopped in their work as the soldiers passed.
Old men, bent on carrying out at home the work of the young
men who were now at the front, leaned on their scythes and
looked with tired eyes at the passing train.

There was little cheering. In England the soldiers had
laid this to the English jealousy of the American. In France
they accounted it to the French people's stricken condition.
They were, the soldiers believed, too sad to cheer.

The American's introduction to the French was more
pleasant than that to the British. He had made up his mind
about the British. Before he ever landed in England, he had
made up his mind against them. Everything the British did
during his contact with them he took as confirming his con-
viction.

TOMMY ATKINS AND THE FRENCH LANGUAGE

33

The soldier had taken a liking for the French before he
ever met them. The side of France he had read about was
the birth of a tie of sympathy and understanding. The tie
held until he came into actual contact with them. Then it
snapped. It kept rebounding farther and farther back until
by the time he left he and the French were on the terms of
a bulldog and tomcat. He loved the British in comparison.

The cause for this cannot be assigned to one thing, but
to a number of things. When the Thi.rty-fifth drew into
Arches at 8 o'clock on the evening of June 11, Arches Was
not the village it was to be several months later. So with
all the small villages in Southern France. It required a
matter of some weeks for the American soldier to educate
the French storekeeper to the amount he could be over-
charged. After the soldiers were quite finished with edu-
cating the merchant, the merchant started out on his own
hook. He dazzled the soldier with his superiority in that
line. He could get more out of nothing than a magician.

There exists a strong strain of avarice in the French
peasantry. Mere Blanc, who ran a combination wineshop
and epicerie on the corner, was one with her eyes always
on the francs.

The course of the Thirty-fifth's travels through France.

34 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

A soldier would enter her shop.

"Eggs today, Madame?"

"Oui, Monsieur," Mere Blanc would reply. "Five francs,
Monsieur."

"Why is it you are charging me five francs for a dozen
of these when you sell them to the French for fwo francs ?"
he would ask.

"Pas compri, Monsieur."

The soldier would pay the five francs and leave. The
reason the French paid no more than two francs for eggs
was because Mere Blanc knew they would pay no more. The
Americans paid five francs because Mere Blanc knew that
if he wanted them bad enough he would pay ten.

Good conduct is not a thing without exceptions. There
were American soldiers whose minds could not surmount
the workings of French wines and alcoholics. If a soldier
had the evening's pleasure of breaking up some glasses in
a cafe and smashing the only mirror in the house, he was
highly indignant if he "was ousted in a manner as ungentle-
manly as himself. He never forgot it, either as a particular
or general thing. The winekeeper he forever held an ac-
count against and the French race he never forgave.

Then there was the egotism of the individual cropping
out into the egotism of the races. Two people thrown con-
stantly together will, after a lapse of time, begin to discover
certain faults possessed by the other. In the same manner,
two races thrown together, especially when there is the
barrier of an uncommon speech, will soon seek out the faults
of the other. This discord is apt to be more harsh and
quickly accomplished between races, largely because of the
wide divergence in standards. Until after the armistice
the accord between the Americans and French was an un-
shaken relationship, perhaps lent force by the crucial tests
to both forces. Certain it is, that after hostilities had
ceased, and shades of it even before, a contrary feeling had
begun to appear.

No tourist ever knew France as the soldie;r knows it.
Seeking the hotels of larger cities, the traveler goes along
on the surface of things. The soldier, thrown into a hay-
mow life over a cackling chorus and the mooing cow, caught
glimpses that lent a new insight. The wonder of it is that
this knowledge of a people did not bring him closer to them
instead of adding to the rift.

There was nothing of a thrill in the daily life of the
Kansas and Missouri soldiers during their stay from June
11 to June 30 in the Arches area. At Eu there had been
marches which tested their endurance. Here went on a
repetition of the grind with which they were so familiar,
d^ill, short hikes and maneuvers.

TOMMY ATKINS AND THE FRENCH LANGUAGE 35

The Thirty-fifth's training at Camp Doniphan had been
with the Springfield, the change to a British type of rifle
being made while the troops were at La Havre. On leaving
Eu they had again been equipped with Springfields and
Eddystones.

The Arches area was an excellent foretaste of the coun-
try in which the division was to do its first fighting. High
pine-clad hills could be seen rambling on both sides from
the valleys belo'w. Little villages, a few kilometres between
each, were complete with dreariness and women at daily
tasks of washing clothes at the municipal troughs.

Up with the early light of a new day, there would be
reveille, army bacon for breakfast, and hard manuevers for
the morning. There would be rice for dinner and hikes and
drills for the afternoon. Supper over, the men could be
seen mingling with the peasant-folk of the villages. Many
of them, in their first flush of enthusiasm for the French
language, would go armed with grammars and spend the
entire evening wrestling with it in presence of the Mere
and Pere and, fortune favoring, with what daughterly mem-
bers there chanced to be.

During these early days the Kansans and Missourians
and French peasantry were on a basis of strong friendship.
The surroundings were new to the soldiers and the soldiers
were new to the peasants. The storekeepers were satisfied
with the small overpay the Americans gladly gave them.
The soldier was drained of his souvenir supply. This
peasantry's appetite for Things Americain seemed without
end.

Call to quarters summoned the soldiers to the haymows
of the villages. There was never an elaborate supply of
straw for bedding and in winter months as the Thirty-fifth
moved farther north the soldiers suffered from the cold.
With each haymow there was, however, an elaborate as-
sortment of odors and cooties.

The stables Were usually directly under the sleeping
quarters of the billet. Stamping and mooing bovines fretted
the soldiers during the night and the first thing they heard
in the morning before the bugle was some chanticleer busy
bringing up the dawn. Rats and the troops at a later period
developed as congenial bedmates.

There were no guns to be heard. Air raids were spoken
of, but never occurred. In these surroundings the air of
war took on a subdued tone.

It was on June 15 that Major General Wright was re-
lieved of command to assume charge of the Third Army
Corps, and later to be given command of the Eighty-ninth
Division. Brigadier General Nathaniel F. McClure took
over the command. While at Arches, Colonel McNeeley

36 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

was relieved of the 139th Infantry and succeeded by Colonel
Kirby Walker; Colonel Linxwiler was relieved of the 140th
Infantry and succeeded by Colonel Murphy; and Colonel
McMahon relieved of the 138th Infantry and succeeded bj
Colonel George P. White.

On the morning of June 30 the Thirty-fifth began the
move toward the Wesserling subsector on the Vosges front.

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TRENCHES IN THE VOSGES

F. Wolf gan, who owns a typical wineshop in the typical
village of Kruth, was standing in the doorway of his estab-
lishment on an evening early in July. The place of business
of F. Wolfgan, who was himself a pudgy and stocky per-
sonage, as if from too much beer, was at the end of the main
street. The manure piles and gray red-tiled homes on both
sides of it stretched out in perspective under the evening
sun. The road forked to the right of Herr Wolfgangs wine-
shop, the main roadway winding away into the pine-clad
mountains and its branch taking a steep course up the hill
which set back of the cafe. Between the fork of the roads
stood a small shrine, common in all parts of France and
Germany.

Herr Wolfgan had his eyes on the figure of Christus
on the shrine. He did not see the moving body of khaki far
down the village's main street.

"Frau Wolfgan," he said over his shoulder to his wife,
who was busy inside, "I hear there are Americans coming.
I wonder, mein Frau, will they leave untouched our little
shrine at the fork of the roads."

"Mein Herr," returned Frau Wolfgan, from among an
array of glasses, "we must trust to God they do and not to
them."

So the Thirty-fifth came to Alsace, a province that had
been torn from France in 1870, and now "was being held by
right of arms. In the first year of the war, the French had
looked ahead of the Germans in their advance here, had
met them half way, and had taken some territory back. The
warfare had then reverted to an immobile type, in which
each side dug its trenches, turned loose cannon each day to
evidence its presence, and indulged, for want of excitement.

40 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

in nightly raids occasionally. At the time the Thirty-fifth
officially opened a joint account with the French on the
Wesserling subsector, July 1, the brethren in blue, as far
as it had been in their power to do so, had discarded all
semblance of warfare with the Germans.

In contact with the inhabitants, the Kansas and Mis-
souri men tasted first of German efficiency. This Alsatian
land that had once belonged to France was no more the
France from which they had just come than Germany itself.
The people spoke both French and German, but German
was practically the only tongue heard; they looked like
Germans; acted like Germans; and, Americans were not
slow in learning, did not hesitate in flaunting their loyalty
to the Fatherland. One storekeeper in Kruth on July 14,
when the Bastile Day was celebrated by the French and
Americans, hung American, French and German flags over
the entranceway of his shop. The Kaiser would have wept
to see with what speed some passing soldiers hauled down
the Prussian banners.

From the beginning the relationship between the Alsa-
tians and Americans was founded on grave suspicion.
Herr Wolfgan and his clan of thinkers throughout Alsace
had at heart stern doubt of the sincerity of the soldiers.

The soldiers, on their part, saw people who by German
efficiency had to all appearances been converted into Ger-
mans. The strain of Alsatian blood had been suffused with
forty-eight years of Teutonic. German was taught in the
schools. The sons of many of these aged peasants were
away fighting under the Prussian standards, offering their
lives to uphold them.

The second battalion of 138th Infantry, under Major
Norman B. Comfort, held the honor of being the first or-
ganization of the Thirty-fifth to go to the front. In trucks
the men went from Arches, up along the winding course
of the Moselle, and passing through the tunnel at Bussang,
left France for their first sight of conquered territory.

General McClure established headquarters for the di-
vision, with the first echelon, at Wesserling. The headquar-
ters of the second and third echelons was set up at Corni-
mont.

A steady flow of troops of the division was directed
toward the trenches. The moves were generally made in
trucks. Like a spiral staircase, the roadways wound up and
up from the Arches area into the spruce and pine of the
peaks and then lowered to the valleys of Alsace.

Wesserling was the farthest point to which the men
were taken by trucks. From this area to the trenches, hob-
nails, sweat and army language served their purpose. To
the points from which the men marched directly into the

TRENCHES IN THE VOSGES 41

trenches, such as Bussat, it was a steady ascent. Branches
of trees interlaced overhead, arching into a so^t of pergola.
Sheltered under this a greater part of the way, they were
very rarely subject to artillery fi;re or dangers from the air.

The march was made at night. Arriving at the small
towns behind the trenches in the gray of morning, the men
generally rested that day and went in by companies to re-
lieve the French during the night. Occasionally the Boche
would spout a few rounds of wrath at the Americans, and
on a number of occasions there v/ere casualties. More
often, the companies filed quietly in under the cover of
darkness and the Germans awoke the next morning with
fresh khaki in the line opposing them.

The Thirty-third French Corps was in line on the De
Galbert subsector. It was located between Gerardmer and
Wesserling and served as a choice rest spot for the French.
Divisions that had been riddled in the severe fighting
farther north were sent here much as they would have
been sent to a rest camp. They were reorganized, filled
out, rested, and after the training of the replacements was
complete ,were returned to the northern districts.

The soldiers of the Thirty-fifth had trained until train-
ing no longer held a beloved spot in their hearts. They could
not see their first life in the trenches in the light of the
poilu. Having trained a year and crossed the ocean for
action, they could not understand a man who would turn it
down when it was right at hand. Just over the parapet
were German trenches. In them were Germans.

"This is a hell of a war," said the doughboy. "Germans
everywhere and they won't let you shoot any."

"This ain't a war," his Buddie would answer. "The
Frogs and Krauts got it fixed up between 'em to spend their
vacations where there ain't nothin' to bother 'em but
scenery. How're they gonna find out who's winnin' this
affair?"

"Maybe they got maps and figure it out in their heads."

"Yap ; but we won't get home to help with the harvest
next summer unless somebody does some fightin'."

"It does look like," said the doughboy, "somebody
might get hurt if they don't quit firing those cannons once
a week."

At one point on the line a little mountain stream in
No Man's Land had been used through mutual agreement
by the French and Germans for washing clothes. The
doughboys of the 137th Infantry never fully became recon-
ciled to this friendly agreement between enemies.

"What's them Krauts doing in No Man's Land?"

"Dunno. No special permits granted, is there?"

The rifles of the two doughboys barked together. Two

42 HEROES OF THE ARGONNI]

Germans fell. The third scuttled toward friendly territory.

A Frenchman hurried up to the doughboys.

"Monsieur, monsieur — ah, it is between us an agree-
ment."

"Yes," drawled one of the doughboys, nonchalantly
filling a cigarette paper with tobacco, "but between us it
ain't. Between us, old dere, it's war."

The trenches in which the infantry found itself kept
no uniform distance from that of the Germans. Each sys-
tem of earthworks, both ours and that of the enemy, twisted
and serpentined over the hills, at one point so close the men
could have sighted "the whites of the enemy's eyes," at
others four and five hundred yards apart. Speaking gen-
erally, the trenches were deep enough to shelter an infantry-
man from the enemy gaze without need of his bending or
crouching. In passing each other, one of the two some-
times had to use the fire step. Red Cross men in the
trenches always went without their brassards. The Red
Cross insignia on their left arms offered too good and
dangerous a target to the enemy sniper.

Lieutenant Tiberius Jones, with the ambulance section
of the Thirty-fifth, was making a visit to the trenches near
Wesserling. The trench in which he found himself was a
shallow communicating trench and as the lieutenant walked
along his head was in plain view of the enemy. Something
struck the parapet near his head.

"What was that ?" asked Lieutenant Jones of a dough-
boy who was near.

"That?" returned the doughboy; "a Jerry sniper we
haven't been able to locate yet."

The lieutenant sank to the trench floor just as another
bullet shattered the earthworks near his head. He glared
at the doughboy.

"Say, you," demanded the lieutenant in a fine rage,
"why in the devil didn't you tell me there was a Boche
sniper oVQr there ?"

The doughboy returned the lieutenant's glare steadily
and inquired in an unperturbed drawl, "Well, if he didn't
have something to shoot at, how in the hell could we ever
locate him?"

Until July 15 the French and the Americans held the
Wesserling subsector on a joint account. On July 20 the
Seventeenth Brigade relieved the Sixty-ninth Brigade. A
regiment of French infantry was on the right of General
Martin's men. The khaki fighters forever lived under a
sense of restraint, which they blamed to the timid qualities
of their F!rench brethren. The poilu, in return, never quite
forgave the American for disturbing the halcyon calm of
the Vosges sector. And it was never, it can be said in

TRENCHES IN THE VOSGES 43

justice to the French fighter, quite the same after the
Americans came.

After the French withdrew, the Wesserling sector was
left entirely in the hands of the Thirty-fifth. The Sixty-
ninth Brigade, under Colonel McMahon, and the Seventieth
Brigade, under General Martin, alternated their commands
in performing the trench duties. August 10, five days
before the Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade, under General
Berry, rejoined the division, the south end of the Gerard-
mer sector was entrusted to the Kansas and Missouri fight-
ers. This gave to the division a strength of trenchworks
approximating thirty-five miles in length.

The Gerardmer portion of the line, differing only
slightly in topography from the pine and spruce clad moun-
tains of Wesserling, gave no cause for a change in the
schedule of divisional duties. The extension of the line
placed practically the entire Thirty-fifth body of infantry-
men into the trenches, and gave less time for resting periods
in the rear.

The division, after August 15, was supported by its
own artillery. The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade had
arrived at Liverpool in the same convoy with the 110th
Field Signal Battalion and the 110th Sanitary Train. The
signal units and Sanitary Train men had joined the division
shortly after its arrival in the Vosges.

The artillery had proceeded from La Havre to Angers,
where it received equipment. At Camp Coetquidan, the old
artillery training post of Napoleon Bonaparte during the
days of his emperorship, the two Missouri and one Kansas
regiments spent two months. The units then relieved the
French artillerymen, who had been supporting the Thirty-
fifth till the American gunners had finished their training.

The usual humdrum of trench life was not often broken.
Major Fred L. Lemmon, commander of the First Battalion,
140th Infantry, early in August withstood a severe German
raid. Early in the same month three hundred Germans
staged a raid on the sector held by the 139th Infantry. In
July the Thirty-fifth doughboys gave the Boche a taste of
what they were to give them by the mouthful in the
Argonne.

V
THE TWO RAIDS

The mettle of Kansas men met its first serious test
July 20. Company C, 137th Infantry, staged a raid on
Landersbach, returning with laurels and five German pris-
oners.

Orders having been given for the raid, the forty mem-
bers of Company C who had volunteered, and the balance
of 160 from other companies of the regiment, were with-
drawn from the trenches July 15. The next day the volun-
teer raiders spent in resting. July 17, 18 and 19 the men
went through a series of practice raids on trenchworks
built in imitation of those they were to attack. On the
evening of July 19 they returned to the lines and set them-
selves for their first venture over the top.

The general scheme of the raid was for part of the first
platoon to support the right flank in the advance ; the second
the left flank, cleaning up trenches and dugouts as they
went; a platoon to advance toward Landersbach in two
columns, cleaning houses and cellars, and especially the
factory of the village; and the other group to leave the
trenches near the road of Sondemach-Landersbach, pene-
trating the enemy position and joining up with the group
engaged in mopping-up the village.

Green rockets were to be used for signalling the return
of the men. Telephone liaisons were established in a cellar
at Sondej-nach and at a post between this and the artillery.
Ten American stretcher-bearers were to accompany the
right groups and six the left groups.

Captain Roy Perkins, commander of Company C, was
in charge of the raid. The first, second and third platoons
of the company were massed in the organizations southwest
of Mattle at 2 o'clock, and the fourth platoon at Sondernach
at the same hour. The night of July 19 good openings in

THE TWO RAIDS 45

the American wire entanglements were effected by work-
ing parties.

The ground over which the men were to advance was
difficult. Mattle Field and Mattle Hill, lying across the dip
from the American trenches, were subject to extreme ma-
chine gun fire from the wooded slopes to the east and north-
east. An effective barrage, it was hoped, would lessen the
effect of the enemy*s fire as the men worked their way
down the slope toward Landersbach.

The American barrage opened at 4:04 o'clock. The
French manned the guns, for this was at a time the Sixtieth
Field Artillery Brigade was still in training.

The men crouched in the trenches, waiting for the zero
hour, just as they were to wait for its more sinister note
in days to come in the Argonne. It was dark still, with that
early morning grayness and dampness of the Vosges setting
in. On all sides the forms of crouching men could be dis-
tinguished lining the trenches. The pine and spruce trees,
which clothe the peaks of the Vosges, gave an added air of
grotesqueness to the scene. Some men leaned nervously
against the sides of the trench, others squatted down and
hugged their rifles in their laps.

The barrage, to have begun at 3 :30 o'clock, was delayed
until 4:04 o'clock for want of Hght. As the preliminary
strokes of the guns shook the earthworks in which the men
were waiting, the word passed along the line to prepare for
the advance. The roll and bellow of the French 75s in-
creased, hurtling their greater destruction at the Germans.

Before the advance had begun, the Germans were re-
taliating with vicious regularity. The trenchworks of the
Americans were churned and swept with an unrelenting
fire.

After a six-minute barrage, from 4:04 to 4:10 o'clock,
the first three platoons of the company worked their way
through the openings in the wire and facing a hurricane of
German artillery fire, started the advance. The fourth
platoon, under Lieutenant Rolf, did not leave Sondernach
until 4:29 o'clock.

Lieutenant Thess, with one-half of the first platoon in
his charge, met with little opposition on the right flank. He
found that the American barrage had completely destroyed
the trenches and shelters. As he made his way farther
toward the German lines he discovered five dead Germans,
grouped around a light machine gun badly damaged from
fire.

Lieutenant Masters, with the second platoon, at the
outset of his advance, was caught in the enemy barrage.
He proceeded with difficulty and found the positions he was
to clean, filled with snake-like masses of entanglements.

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HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

A few shelters, evidently used as posts, he destroyed. Find-
ing it impossible to continue through Boveaux, which was
filled with wire and was being heavily hammered by enemy
artillery, he was compelled to retrace his steps and go by
the factory road of Landersbach.

Lieutenant Scott, with the third platoon and half of the
first, made his way through the openings in the enemy
wire without meeting serious opposition. He sighted a
party of Germans running down the slope of the hill and
captured five of them. Captain Perkins took charge of the
men and directed that Lieutenant Scott return with his
captives to the American lines.

About half way down the slope, the men ran across
some small dugouts. The bodies of seven German dead
were found here. The dugouts had been almost completely

The Kansas men advanced across Mattle under heavy machine gun fiire.

THE TWO RAIDS 47

destroyed. Captain Perkins pushed on to the quarry, which
by war's interference had been out of operation since 1914.
No troops were discovered in the quarry or in the buildings
on the Lander sbach Road. One dead German was found
in the entranceway to a cellar.

Lieutenant Rolf, with his platoon, searched the dugouts
and buildings on the left side of the road. The men fired
these as they went along. Six dead Germans were found
near the dugouts. Lieutenant Rolf and Captain Perkins
joined their parties in Landersbach at the old factory. It
was learned that Lieutenant Masters, with the second pla-
toon, had already returned to Sondernach. Captain Perkins
and Lieutenant Rolf went to the American lines, arriving
there at 4:49 o'clock.

The most serious fire during the raid had been received
from the wooded slopes east and northeast of Landersbach.
The Americans had been under continuous machine gun
play on Mattle Field and Mattle Hill.

Lieutenant C. Thomas Hopkins, the first Wichita man
to be killed with the Thirty-fifth in France, who, with the
139th Infantry, had entered the trenches on the night of
the raid during the barrage, had seen one of Lieutenant
Rolf's men become wounded and entangled in the bajrbed
wire. Facing the direct fire from an enemy machine gun,
he went to the man's rescue and was himself wounded.
Sergeant Jackson Walker and a private from Company G,
139th Infantry, rescued the two men.

Three were killed in the raid and twelve wounded, three
seriously and nine slightly. Private George W. Holm was
the first man killed. Ten hours after the raid Captain
Perkins made his way into the German lines, found the
dead bodies of two of the Americans, and brought them
back to the American side for burial.

Eleven men were cited :

Lieutenant Hopkins, Wichita; Captain Roy Perkins,
Salina; Lieutenants Emil Rola, Paul Masters, Louis Scott,
Walter Kirkpatrick, and Arthur Thess; Sergeant Walker,
and Privates Carl Turner, Earl Sullivan and Earl Brusser.

The raid had netted five German captives and nineteen
dead.

Not less effective or less well carried out was the raid
on Hilsenfirst Mountain by Company H, 138th Infantry.
Like preparations were made for it in the way of rehears-
ing on trenches fashioned after those to be attacked. The
men were taken out five days before the time set for the
raid and thoroughly acquainted with the obstacles in ter-
rain and opposition they v/ere expected to meet.

The artillery preparation for the raid of July 6 was
much longer than it had been for that of the Kansas men.

48 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

For forty-five minutes the American batteries thundered at
the Germans, paving the way through the tangle of barbed-
wire for the advance. The Germans answered With their
best, and the barrage through which the Missouri men were
forced to pick their way was swift and severe.

To guard against mistaking their own men, the Amer-
icans either wore helmets painted in white or girded with
a white stripe. Large white handkerchiefs were worn
around the neck. Only about one-fourth of the men were
equipped with rifles, the rest with pistols. One man in
each four carried four incendiary or smoke grenades, and
each man had with him six 0. F. grenades. Each party in
the raid carried an automatic rifle to protect the retreat
of the cleaning detachments.

Differing from the raid of 137th Infantry, the ^Missouri
men had their zero hour just as the Vosges Mountains were
darkening into evening. From the point of a soldier's mind,
evening is a better time for these affairs. The outline of
the bare sweeps of Hilsenfirst Mountain would have been
just as gaunt and ugly by the early light of morning as by
the late light of day, but the soldiers had a different taste
in their mouths. They were not worn out by a night of
sleepless waiting and they had none of that early morning
pinch at the marrow which adds terrors to the zero hour.

When the bombardment began at 7 :45 o'clock, the men
were in dugouts on Hilsenfirst Mountain. At 8:05 o'clock
they were ordered out to the front line, where they crouched
and hugged their guns, awaiting the zero hour. At 8:30
o'clock the signal passed along the line and the advance
began.

Lieutenant Leahy was in charge of the raid. Scouts
had the night before cut through the wire entanglements
and through these gaps they were led up for the advance.
The right flank Was to be protected by Lieutenant Leahy
in command, with Lieutenant Oliver W. Spencer and Lieu-
tenant William Sweeney in charge of the separate platoons.

On the left flank Lieutenant William Bryan was in
charge of a platoon, and Lieutenant John Mitchell was to
follow with a group of moppers-up. Sergeant George von
Land was in charge of half a platoon on Lieutenant Bryan's
flank.

The communicating trenches of the Germans ran like
the spread of two eagles' wings from the crest of Hilsen-
first. From the wide spread near the summit, they tapered
together gradually as they reached a point midway of the
slope.

Behind the slow moving barrage the Missouri men went
at it calmly. Lieutenant Bryan met little opposition on the
left wing until he drew near the apex and joining point of

THE TWO RAIDS 61

the two communicating trenches. There a German machine
^n caught them in full fire and they Were compelled to
seek cover. Sergeant Peter G. Errett ventured out with
three men to aid him, and by making a hands-and-knees
creep up on the nest, were able to silence it with pistols
and hand grenades.

The entire advance was made under a symphony of
machine gun fire. Lieutenant Sweeney, back of Lieutenant
Spencer on the right wing, kept a clear field most of the
time, but the party in the lead fell crosswise of some serious
nests. Bombing dugouts as they went, they reached their
objective below the joining point of the communicating
trenches without great loss and returned in company with
Lieutenant Bryan.

Lieutenant Mitchell, following on the heels of the
others with the moppers-up men, cleaned the dugouts.
None of the Germans he met seemed willing to be taken
prisoners, so he did not insist. There are easier ways.

Four Missouri men Were killed and eighteen wounded
in the raid. Seven prisoners were taken and twenty Ger-
man dead were left behind their lines.

Nineteen men were cited:

First Lieutenants William H. Leahy, John E. Mitchell
and Oliver W. Spencer; Second Lieutenants William S.
Bryan, William Sweeney; Sergeants Albert Michenf elder,
Peter G. Errett, Charles E. Newman, Albert E. Elsea and
Fred L. Edwards; Corporals Walter E. Ficke, L. Bartels,
Clayton Moore, George von Land; Privates Elmer Grupe,
Herman Harrison, Joseph Reynolds, Francis M. Fierce, Fred
L. Laird.

The value of the training in the Vosges to every branch
of service in the division must be measured more by the
atmosphere of war it gave them rather than by the actual
benefits of the training. For what the infantry learned of
trench warfare was of no practical value to it in carrying
on the open tactics of the Argonne; for what the artillery
learned in emplacing guns it had pretty nearly to unlearn
in the days to come ; so with the field signal wqrk and med-
ical men.

The importance of the Vosges sector for training was
that it also gave to the Thirty-fifth those conditions under
which war must be carried on. Feather beds and waffles
for breakfast, they learned, were not a part of it. The
civilian mind, even with a year's training, does not easily
adapt itself to the requirements of a soldier at war. These
necessities life on the Vosges sector helped to emphasize.

Then, too, to bring the condition home to the mind of
the soldiers, was the toll of dead. Ninety-six little graves
could have been counted when the Thirty-fifth withdrew

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■ OUtrOVTS

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POSTS

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The stage set for the Hilsenfirst raid.

from the trenches in the Vosges. These dead drew largely
theix number from sickness and accident, but the raids and
life in the trenches counted their part also. The crosses
that mark the resting place of the Kansas and Missouri
men are to be found scattered in the many cemeteries of
the small villages.

After the Argonne the soldiers turned their memories
to the mountainous country of Southern France and found
they thought of it more as a land at peace than at war.
The homes of the peasantry were intact there; the fields
produced their yearly harvest; something the soldier was
later to see only at rare times. For Northern France had
paid the toll greater than any other part of the country.

The peasants in the fields had seemed to the soldiers
to be at peace; the hum of the linen factories, fringing the
streams in Alsace, it seemed must hum the peace song ; the
girls in the villages, the old men, the old women, all clatter-
ing along in their sabots like a troop of noisef ul cavalry — in
comparison with Argonne days, nothing could have been
more like a land of warless quiet.

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The soldiers of the Thirty-fifth sensed a move and Big
Things in the air. It is not the lot of a soldier below the
silver eagle rank to be informed of these things, but they
are never slow in getting ideas for themselves. From the
Vosges most of them were possessed with the belief that it
was to be straight smash through to the Rhine.

The Thirty-fifth had held the Wesserling subsector
since July 1, and had added to their care the d'Anould or
Gerardmer sector August 10. The first confirmation to the
soldiers' belief that Big Things were to come was the assem-
bling of elements of the division that were not in the line at
Gerardmer. These organizations were farmed August 27
and 28.

Orders were received from the headquarters of the
French Thirty-third Army Corps that the Thirty-fifth was
to be relieved of the Gerardmer sector August 31 and Sep-
tember 1. The morning of September 2 saw all the units
of the division out of the trenches. The move and Big
Things looked like a sure part of the program at last.

The men who had just completed two months' training
in the trenches were now scheduled for six weeks out of
them.- They were turning the prow from the Vosges toward
a kind of warfare which was natural to them, but which
had not been a principal part of their training program.

To measure the Vosges training and its actual benefits
would be to say that if a person wears a bathing suit it will
give him the ability to swim. The soldier of the Thirty-
fifth had donned his fighting togs, but he had yet to do
much fighting. And it — of the sort he was to meet with
in the wooded passes of the Argonne, where, as Dumouriez
once said, "every pass is a Thermopylae."

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When you become accustomed to seeking the protec-
tion of the trench and dugout whenever there is a bombard-
ment, it is a different matter to face one in a shallow shell-
hole. It is a different thing to lie behind the sheltering lift of
a parapet and have a sniper blaze away lazily every now and
then at you to taking the hail of machine gun full in the
face. In this is drawn the line between what the soldier
had experienced and was to experience in the month to
come. Through comparison, the relative benefits of the
trench training to the open mode of warfare are a matter
of surface evidence.

The organizations of the division entrained September
4, 5 and 6, and began the move to the Rosieres a,rea. This
was the jump-off for a series of marches which were a
fitting introduction to the hardships of the month to follow.
France had kept up its traditional habit of raining each
day, and mud on the roads was ankle deep.

On the nights of September 10 and 11 the troops
marched to the vicinity of Tomblaine, Jarville, and Maron.
The men were billeted in villages along the way.

Night. The 70th Brigade, under General Martin, has
passed through Neufmaison. There are no lights, for smok-
ing is forbidden where there is danger of enemy planes
swooping down at any minute. There are no noises, save
for the jangling of accoutrement and the crunch of the
hobnailed soldier. On such marches the soldiers do not talk
much among themselves. They have rifles and seventy-
pound packs to think about. What more could be asked
to keep one's mind occupied ?

The road is jammed with moving troops. The advance
is made by paces. The men take the distance of a few
yardsticks ahead; then stop, and stand in inactivity while
a cold drizzle washes their faces and adds pounds to their
packs.

The men wear out as the night wears on. Their cloth-
ing is saturated ; their packs weigh over the seventy pounds
now; and shoulders are numbed. When the column halts,
they halt in their tracks and slump into the mud.

The soldier tired enough knows no bed more com-
fortable than one of French mud. On their initiation into
night hikes, they believed they would never accustom them-
selves to sleeping in it. The early stages of night march-
ing convinced them to the contrary. Officers and men
alike would stretch themselves in the slime to snatch a
brief respite. The water soaking through their already
rain- and sweat-soaked clothing, they would fall asleep
almost instantly with a calmness that civilians in a feather
bed would envy.

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The men began the ascent of what seemed an endless
hill. The trees that formed an arch overhead reminded
them of the Vosges days and their first time into the
trenches. Horses in the supply train began to fall out.

"Poor weak creatures," sympathized a doughboy, shift-
ing his rifle from his right shoulder to his left, and hitch-
ing at his pack. "I wish we'd get to the top of this Pike's
Peak or they'd let us smoke a cigarette."

"I s'pose if we passed by a cafe," sneered his com-
panion, with the sweet emphasis of one in bad temper,
"you'd want 'em to stop and let us get refreshments?"

"Why not?" growled the doughboy. "The general and
his staff, wearing away their life in a seven-passenger
Cadillac, never fail to do it. It must be hell to climb these
hills in a six-cylinder car? I'd "

But the doughboy's words are suddenly drowned in
the avalanche of sound. The barrage for the St. Mihiel
offensive had begun, and the sky to the northwest was
slashed and cut with a mass of crimson. The earth trem-
bled and rocked under the shock of the guns.

All night the men had marched to the music of the
guns, and as they swung down the road leading to Foret de
Haye the first light of a new day was in the East. Be-
draggled ; bemudded ; wearied to the core ; where pup tents
in the mire could be made palaces of sleep. There between
them and Foret de Haye, between them and the flush
of a new day, some Algerians had come onto the road. In
the reflected glow their keftis and burnooses gave weird
outline to their figures. * * *

The division lay in concealed bivouac in the Foret de
Haye. They were in the First Army Reserve, behind the
curtain to strike wherever Pershing might direct. But in
their pup tents in the sogging and dripping woods they
were kept behind the curtain and never struck. And never,
as a result, fully forgave Pershing for not letting them.

Being in reserve at St. Mihiel was a dreary affair,
more dreary than exciting. After each long march the
soldiers were convinced the fight and Big Things were just
ahead. Big Things were elusive. Each night of hobnailed
agony seemed to bring them no nearer. In Foret de Haye
they went into the mud and pup tents as living quarters.
Big Things slipped away again. The thundering guns re-
ceded into sullen grumblings.

The soldiers picked blackberries in the surrounding
woods until by the time of their departure they were on a
par with their rations. The soldier turned convert to the
theory that there is no affair of Big Things. This Was like
the Vosges had been, an affair of Little Things. They

58 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

grew tired of searching for blackberries. Boche airplanes
pelting the Nancy vicinity ceased to be a matter of interest.
They chilled with sleeping under pup tents on chilled ground.
Masters with the dice lost interest, for Nancy took all there
was to take.

The Thirty-fifth was kept in Foret de Haye until Sep-
tember 15 and 16. Pershing had not been sure of the
strength of his opposition at St. Mihiel. He had backed his
trained divisions up with untested divisions.

The first day was a gauge by which to judge the en-
tire operation. The barrage sent the Germans reeling back
of Mount Sec and St. Mihiel, and they were kept reeling
back as the doughboys advanced. The strong point of
Mount Sec, a stronghold corresponding to Vauqois Hill in
the Argonne, was a thing to be climbed by the doughboys
and not fought over. Occasionally a machine gun spit a
thin thread of flame, but they were always quieted without
serious losses.

The St. Mihiel operation, for it does not deserve the
name of drive or offensive, cost the American division par-
ticipating in it slightly over one per cent casualties.

Bombing was the great danger to which the Thirty-
fifth was subject during its three days in reserve. The
Germans were busy attempting to save their guns, supplies,
and men, and were in no mood for more retaliation than
was absolutely necessary. Most of this they gave into the
hands of the airmen, who divided their choice selection of
aerial torpedoes between the city of Nancy and the soldiers
lying concealed in the woods.

The organization of the division during the St. Mihiel
operation was:

69th Infantry Brigade Brig. General Nathaniel F.

McClure

137th Infantry Colonel Clad Hamilton

138th Infantry Colonel George P. White

129th Machine Gun ...Captain George P. Wark

70th Infantry Brigade ......Brig. General Charles I. Mar-
tin

139th Infantry Colonel Kirby Walker

140th Infantry ......Colonel Pierce A. Murphy

130th Machine Gun ...Captain Paul A. Frey

128th Machine Gun Major Westley Halliburton

60th Field Artillery Brigade.Brig. Gen. Lucien G. Berry

128th Field Artillery Colonel Frank M. Rumbold

129th Field Atillery Colonel Karl D. Klemm

130th Field Artillery. Major William W. Thurston

110th Trench Mortar

Battery Capt. Fred W. Manchester

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110th Ammunition

Train _ _._ Lt. Col. Fred R. Fitzpatrick

110th Engineers Colonel Thomas C. Clark

110th Field Signal Battalion...Captain Elmer G. Stahl
110th Train Hdqrs. — Mounted

Police -...._ Col. William McD. Rowan

110th Engineer Train _ First Lieut. Peake Vincil

110th Supply Train Major George M. Faught

110th Sanitary Train _..Major Herbert C. Wooley

137th Field Hospital _ Major Archie N. Johnson

138th Field Hospital Major William W. Gilbert

139th Field Hospital ...Major Seth A. Hammel

140th Field Hospital Major Henry T. Sallisbury

Follovvdng are units that were attached :

112th Mobile Veterinary

Unit - First Lieut. Calvin F. Bennett

Sanitary Squad No. 19 „ First Lieut. Sam M. Hibbard

Sales Commissary Detach-
ment 9 Second Lieut. Harold Hurley

Salvage Unit No. 304 Second Lieut. Joseph Linner

Salvage Unit No. 305 Second Lieut. H. H. Bruce

Division headquarters was established in three echelons.
The first consisted of:

The Commanding General Major General Peter E.

Traub

The Chief of Staff.....„ Colonel Ernest E. Haskell

Assistant Chiefs of Staff —

G-1 - Colonel William R. Gibson

Gr-2 Major Harry S. Howland

G-3 Lt. Col. Walter V. Gallagher

The Division Surgeon Lt. Col. Raymond C. Turck

Division Signal Officer...... Lt. Col. George A. Wieczerek

Division Engineer _ Col. Thomas C. Clark

Division Gas Officer. Captain William W. Wise

Division M. G. Officer. _ Lt. Col. Donald D. Hay

The first echelon was established at Liverdun. The
second echelon at Sexey les Bois, consisted of:

The Division Adjutant Major William Ellis

Division Personnel Adjutant.„Captain William R. Thurston
Division Veterinajrian Captain Ora P. Davis

The third echelon, at Velaine en Haye, was made up
as follows :

Division Quartermaster Major Arthur Parker

Division Inspector Captain Edward Sammons

Division Judge Advocate Major Victor Ruehl

Division Ordnance Officer. Major Channing E. Delaplane

60 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

Had the soldier understood Foch's plan for the whole,
his individual part might have been more clear to him.
Like so many checkers on a board, only in this case it hap-
pened to be in French mud, he saw bodies of soldiers
marched and countermarched, camping for a time here and
then rolling pup tents and marching toward some other
indefinite address. This continuous moving, to the appar-
ent accomplishment of no end, he came to view as a useless
and timewasting process. He had been in the war for
over a year and hadn't seen a thing that looked like a good-
sized battle.

Foch, long before the Americans had an appreciable
army in France, had mapped out their course of campaign.
It was on a certain day in Paris, shortly after the American
aid had been promised, and before Pershing had arrived.
He was with Sir Douglas Haig and Premier Clemenceau.

"The Americans ?" he said, in answer to a question by
Clemenceau. "I have their place — here."

With his cane, he traced in the gravel at his feet a line
representing the western front. He explained his plan to
place the Americans on the southern sector of the line, there
to smash northward as the French and British drove to
the east, and so bottle up the armies of Ludendorf.

So while the stern old schoolmaster of war. Camp Doni-
phan, kept the Thirty-fifth at its lessons for seven months,
Foch kept his mind on his plan. He kept his mind on it as
the division tasted the surface dregs of War in the Vosges.
And they were a pa,rt of his plan as they moved north into
reserve at St. Mihiel, and had come to the time they were
going to play their role in it when they began the move
toward the Argonne.

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The soldiers never knew how palatial were the
French box cars until they took their first long ride in a
truck Francaise. There is room for twelve men in a
French truck. The number was doubled, minus two, and
the men told to sit on each other's heads and stomachs.

The division, before leaving Foret de Haye, was
marched to a point in the vicinity of Five Trenches where
the 200 French trucks were lined up on the roadway.
There was ten miles of them. The truck method of convoy
was very common in the French army.

After an afternoon and night of this species of agony,
the division arrived in the Charmontois district. Here
it was attached to the Third Army Corps and under the
Second French Army for tactical control and supply.

The division was under command of the French gen-
eral at Mordacq, and from his headquarters the order
came that the 69th Brigade, under General McClure, was
to move to the vicinity of Anzeville. This move took place
on the night of September 19.

The following night the rest of the division changed
its position from Charmontois to the neighborhood of
Grange-le-Comte and the woods east of Beauchamp. The
Grange-le-Comte sector was taken over by the division
from the French Seventy-third Division. The outpost
units of the French remained in place. The supporting
line was held by two battalions of the 69th Brigade, each
with a machine gun company attached and one battalion
and machine gun company in reserve.

The Thirty-fifth maintained this formation until the
curtain went up on America's greatest offensive the morn-
ing of September 26.

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The ground over which the division was scheduled to
advance was not heavily wooded. The trees were scattered
and only in places furnished natural defensive positions
for the Germans. There were many deep ravines, de-
stroyed villages and farms, and other obstacles which did
offer natural defense. Vauqois Hill was a network of
dugouts and trenches, torn with huge mine craters, pre-
senting almost impassable entanglements of wire. Cheppy,
Very, Charpentry and Baulny stood in the way of a rapid
and cheaply-boughten advance.

History had played a large part on these fields and
in these same ruined villages. It was at Varennes, the
same Varennes that the Thirty-fifth Division wrested
foot by foot from the Germans, that in 1791 was the
meeting place of a king and groceryman who changed the
whole course of French history. It was the same Varennes,
the same Vauqois, the same Cheppy, the same Very, the
same Neuvilly that in the following year saw the Duke of
Brunswick's Hessians pouring through the passes of the
Argonne toward Paris.

Old-Dragoon Drouet, the Maitre de Poste of Sainte
Menehould, was leaning in the doorway of his office on
the warm summer evening of June 20, 1791. Old-Dragoon
Drouet was not in a good mood this evening. Affairs of
the day had not been going to suit him, and he had only
a scowl and a surly greeting for his neighbors as they
passed.

Old-Dragoon Drouet was a patriot. And neither had
things at Paris been going to suit him. An entirely bad
taste he felt for things in general as he glanced up and
down the narrow street on this evening in June. A
postilion-guard carriage came thundering down toward
the Maitre de Poste. Old-Dragoon Drouet sought with
his eye those inside the Berline coach as it moved by.

He forgot his scowl, his surly demeanor, the bad
taste in his mouth for things in general. Old-Dragoon
Drouet had been in Paris; he had seen something of
France and the French nobility. He knew that face in
the carriage, prettily tucked away under the broad gypsy
hat. It was Marie Antoinette.

Old-Dragoon Drouet smoked a foul-smelling pipe and
was taciturn, which is not a bad combination for the
thinker. He knew that were Marie Antoinette and King
Louis XVI allowed to escape from France, there would
follow an invasion by Prussia and Austria.

Guillaume was called. The horses must be made
ready that very minute. They were ready that very minute,
and Old-Dragoon Drouet and Guillaume were on them and
speeding away toward Varennes as quickly. It was dark-

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Where the Thirty ^fth bit its way into the Hindenburg Line.

When the division was relieved on the morning of October 1 , it was
the farthest advanced division in the First Armj^- Boureuilles, Varennes,
Cheppy, Charpentry, and Baulny are all towns captured by the Kansas
and Missouri men.

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ening rapidly, but darkness must not interfere with speed
when France is at stake.

Frothing horses and scowling Old-Dragoon Drouet,
with the silent Guillaume, drew up in front of the Bras
d'Or Tavern at Varennes, just as Boniface Le Blanc was
serving some late patrons of the wine table. Scowling
still, Old-Dragoon Drouet called Le Blanc aside and
whispered something to him. Le Blanc called Madame
Le Blanc and soon much whispering was going back and
forth through the quiet village of Varennes. M. Sausse,
the groceryman, who retired early each evening, soon ap-
peared at the Bras d'Or, his hair disheveled and his shirt
tucked in badly. M. Sausse dispatched someone and soon
the tocsin was heard booming; sending its summons into
the night for a rally of the Patriots.

Across the bridge (this bridge was blown out by the
Germans when the Americans began their advance), under
which the Aire River flows between Neuvilly and Var-
ennes, the patriots placed an old furniture wagon.

Down the dark roadway, from the direction of Neu-
villy, there presently came the rumble of the Berline — ^the
same Berline that would plunge France into civil war
were it allowed to pass Varennes.

"Altela!"

There was a flashing of lanterns. Two muskets were
leveled at the door of the coach.

"Your passports, Mesdames?" said Groceryman M.
Sausse.

In the shadow-dancing lantern lights they all left the
Berline — the weak King Louis, the pretty Marie Antoinette
in her gypsy hat and her heart beating a bit faster. There
are no passports. Then with no passports there can be no
passage through Varennes, Groceryman M. Sausse informs
the King and Queen.

They all went to the Bras d*Or Tavern. Louis asked
for refreshments. They were given him, a bottle of Bur-
gundy and bread and cheese, for there was no better. The
King remarked that the Burgundy was the best he had
ever tasted.

That night the Bras d'Or Tavern (nothing shows
there now but gaunt fire-withered walls) was the royal
resting place of King Louis and the destinies of France.
The next day he was returned to Paris, where, before his
entry, notices were published warning the populace that
"if they cheer the King they will be beaten; if they insult
the King they will be hung."

In the following year, September 2, 1792, when Paris
was storming with revolutionary fire, every neighbor was

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doubting every neighbor, and the stage of things had
come when worse was to go to the worst, the Hessians
under the Duke of Brunswick had occupied Verdun and
were pressing on for the passes of the Argonne toward
Paris. As Brunswick had planned it, the march to Paris
was to be a triumphant march, much the same as the
Prussian ruler something over a century later was to plan
it. Well for France then there was a Dumouriez, as
later it was to be well for her there was a Joffre, whose
genius knew that such a triumphant march could be
turned into a complete disaster — ^for Brunswick and his
Hessians.

"There are four passes in the Argonne," said Du-
mouriez, "and each pass is a Thermopylae."

The Thirty-fifth soldiers who have been there know
the nature of September weather in the Argonne. Du-
mouriez knew the Argonne and its seasons by heart;
Brunswick, by maps and reports. Wheeling southward,
he was able to force Grand-Pre pass, advancing through
the same territory the Thirty-fifth lost so many lives to
take : through Charpentry, through Very, through Cheppy,
through Varennes, through Neuvilly — ^toward Paris!

Brunswick was suddenly attacked by an enemy Du-
mouriez knew would not fail as France's ally. It rained;
rained day and night, for so many days that ditches over-
flowed, fields were as seas of mud, roadways were nearly
impassable. Rained, and raining on day and night, threw
the Hessian spoilers into a confusion of movements and
a confusion of supplies.

But if it would not be triumphant, it would be hard
fought; Paris would be reached at all costs. So Bruns-
wick pushed on, rain or no rain; mud or no mud; con-
fusion or no confusion.

Dumouriez had scrappings of soldiery numbering
96,000 to face an army of 160,000 Prussians headed by
Brunswick. He chose Valmy as the place to take his
stand. Across the valley on the heights of La Lune the
glittering Hessian array was stationed.

Dumouriez was confronted with no small problem,
all these recruits on his hands, who wanted to fight with
"Vive la Patrie" on their lips, but who talked back when
a superior ordered them to carry a sack of bread or help
load a wagon. No doubt they were good enough as "shoe-
makers and tailors," but what would that help, tacking
soles on shoes or mending clothes, in winning a battle?

On September 30, from the heights of La Lune, the
cannon mouths of Brunswick opened and sent their first
message of steel death into the ranks of the French. Some
bombs set fire to ammunition wagons among the French
batteries.

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"They are in confusion; it is time," said Brunswick.

He directed that the infantry be sent forward in
close order formation. Kellermann, who was later to be-
come one of Napoleon's greatest masters of the field, held
the impatient "shoemakers and tailors" until the Hessians
had almost reached them.

Bayonets gleaming; "Vive la Patrie! Vive le Nation!"
on every lip; confusing yells, some with meaning, some
with no meaning, the unseasoned and the untrained went
forward to meet the trained and the skilled. And the line
crumpled before them.

There it was, in the same Argonne where the Thirty-
fifth was to meet with the German best, the best that was
not good enough, Dumouriez's faith in his scrappings of
soldiery saved France.

At 8 o'clock on the evening of September 21, Brigadier
General Martin was notified by the commanding general
of the division. Gen. Peter E. Traub, that he was to be
relieved of his command of the Seventieth Brigade. The
same day General McClure was notified that he was to be
relieved of his command of the Sixty-ninth Brigade.

General Martin had been with his command since its
organization at Camp Doniphan. He had sailed across
with it and had seen it through the trench-training period in
the Vosges. General Traub offered no excuse for either
his removal or that of General McClure.

General Martin was succeeded in his command by
Col. Kirby Walker, General McClure in his by Col. Louis
M. Nuttman. Col. Clad Hamilton was in charge of the
137th Infantry ; Col. Harry S. Howland in charge of 138th
Infantry; Lieut. Col. Carl L. Ristine of 139th Infantry,
and Lieut. Col. Channing E. Deleplane, who had just been
promoted from the rank of major, was in charge of the
140th Infantry. Capt. George P. Wark, who had been in
temporary charge of 129th Machine Gun Battalion, lost
command to Maj. Thomas H. Loy.

When the troops had been brought up for the attack,
the Thirty-fifth found itself opposite the Argonne Forest
and the Aire Valley. It was in the First Army Corps,
with the Twenty-eighth Division, under Major General
Muir, to its left. Both the Twenty-eighth and the Seventy-
seventh, to the left of General Muir's division, were troops
with experience.

To the right of the Thirty-fifth was the Ninety-first,
under General Johnston, the Thirty-seventh and the Seven-
ty-ninth, all untested divisions. Of the other three divisions
in line on the right flank, the Thirty-third was untried,
the Eightieth had seen some fighting with the Australians,
and the Fourth drew its store of experience from fighting
on the Vesle.

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67

I'ue Fust Army ury,aUizea lor tile otiensive.

The First, Second, Third, Twenty-sixth, Thirty-second
and Forty-second, the most tried troops of the First Army,
were held in reserve.

The nine divisions in line for the opening attack Sep-
tember 26 were given 215 tanks to aid them in the advance.
This was a greater number than the nature of the terrain
permitted to be used. The American tank corps operated
143 of these, and the other 72 were manned by the French.
Of the airplanes attached to the First Army at the beginning
of the battle, 40 were French.

In the Argonne battle, as on the training sector in
the Vosges, the Americans were working on a joint ac-
count with the French. The French Fourth Army, under
General Goraud, was to advance on the west side of the
Argonne Forest, the Americans on the east side of it. The
mistake of attempting to take it by frontal attack was
early realized by Foch. When the French and American
armies had advanced the Germans would be compelled to
retire to save themselves from falling into enemy hands.
The two forces would join up and repeat the process on
the wooded hills north of the Argonne. The French and
Americans pushing toward Givet from the south, the
British from the west, the Germans would find themselves

68 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

with their backs to the Ardennes Forests. The handwrit-
ing on the wall could forecast nothing less than a debacle
for them.

Not all the troops which faced the Thirty-fifth and
its sister divisions were of the best German stock. It
seems that there had been some miscalculation on the part
of the German intelligence department.

Gen. von der Marwitz of the German Fifth Army
looked for an attack toward Metz. The French on outpost
before the Thirty-fifth and the other eight divisions of
the American First Army were kept there as a decoy for
the Germans. No operation on as large scale as the Meuse-
Argonne offensive could have been completely veiled, yet
so secret was it that the enemy entirely misjudged the
place and force of the attack. Only four German divisions
held the country through which the Americans were
scheduled to advance.

The First Guard Division was the best the Germans
had to offer. It had suffered great losses in the Chemin
des Dames and Marne battles and was on this quiet sector
recuperating. The Seventh Reserve was building itself
up in a like manner after having been badly riddled in the
spring and summer. The 117th Reserves, composed largely
of Alsatians and Poles, could not be counted on for strong
morale. The Second Landwehr Division, made up of men
over thirty-five years old, was stationed in the Argonne
Forest. The Thirty-fifth found itself, though it was not
known to the men at the time, facing parts of the First
Guard and Second Landwehr.

The artificial defenses of the Germans, the Americans
realized, were more formidable than those erected in their
path by Nature. Directly in front of the defenses stretch-
ing between the Argonne and Verdun, were four well de-
fined defensive lines. The Hindenburg line was made up
of what is known as the Volker Stellung and the Hagen
Stellung. Running back of this was the Kriemhilde
Stellung, reputed to be stronger than the Hindenburg
defensive works. To the rear some distance was the un-
finished Freya Stellung. The Kriemhilde line was con-
sidered by the Germans as the backbone of their defense.

The plan of attack was to be a column of brigades, the
Sixty-ninth Brigade leading. The regiments of the two
brigades were to keep side by side, each with one battalion
in the front line, one battalion in support and one battalion
in reserve. The second battalion of 139th Infantry, under
Major Rieger, was to be attached to the leading brigade
to mop up Vauqois Hill and Bois de Rossignol, two com-
panies being assigned to each separate place of attack.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN TO STRIKE 69

The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade was to be rein-
forced by the 219th R. A. C, 282d R. A. L., 317th R. A. L.
and 451st R. A. L. The organizations were to be in
echelon, the positions well forward. One battery of light
artillery was to be directed to the front line to be used
as forward guns.

Four machine gun companies were to be attached to
the front line battalions, two companies were to be in rear
of the support line, ready to take position on Cote 239, and
one battalion and one company were in position at Buze-
mont and another battalion and another company to be in
position on Cote 253, Mamelon Blanc, and La Maize.

One company of engineers was to be assigned to the
leading brigade as wire-cutters, two platoons were to be
assigned to accompany the mopping up battalion and one
company, less one platoon, was assigned to assist the ad-
vance of the tanks.

The 344th Tank Battalion, less one company, was to
be distributed along the front ready to advance. The
First Aero Squadron was attached to the division, and
one plane was directed to be constantly over the division
sector. The Second Balloon Company was assigned to the
division for observation with the larger calibered guns.
One squadron. Second Cavalry, was assembled south of
Abreville, with scouts assigned to accompany the rear ele-
ments of the infantry in its advance.

The night of September 25 was a night of stars. It
was unusually quiet and unusually dark. Occasionally
above the low murmurings of talk there would be the
whining twang of a Jerry.

The soldiers knew, and no word was needed to tell
them. It was the eve and the morrow was the day of Big
Things.

VIII
THE MORROW OF BIG THINGS

Big Things opened with the American artillery prep-
aration at 2:30 o'clock on the morning of September 26.
Shortly before mid-night a deceptive fire had been sent
over west of the Argonne and east of the Meuse. This
had been to further confuse General Von der Marwitz and
to increase his uncertainty as to the points against which
the offensive was to be aimed.

Since September 21 the Thirty-fifth had been sta-
tioned in the wooded places about Grange-le-Comte. The
afternoon of September 25 they had begun the move for-
ward and that night were among the guns awaiting the
advance of the morning.

Each man carried a full canteen of water, for the
(Germans were known to make a practice of poisoning wells
in territory surrendered to the enemy. The infantrymen
went equipped with rifles, bayonets, steel helmets and gas
masks. They had 250 rounds of ammunition. On their
backs they carried a pack-carrier, containing a raincoat,
seventy-two hours' iron rations and a mess kit. ihe
ration issue generally consisted of two cans of bully-beef
and five boxes of "biskwee," the American hardtack. In-
cendiary grenades, explosive grenades and rifle grenades
were carried, to be used by the men on machine gun nests
and dugouts.

The night of stars had given way to a heavy fog.
Grotesque shapes formed out of the darkness as the men
crouched and slept in their places near the guns. The
Germans had learned they were there, for intermittent
shelling changed to a steady fire. Both gas shells and
high explosives were being used.

THE MORROW OF BIG THINGS 71

Some distance back of the infantry in the woods was
a section of the 110th Field Signal Battalion. Caught in the
heavy shelling, several of the men were wounded.

"I had just raised my head," said Thomas J. Kelly,
of Company B, "to smell for gas, when a high explosive
burst just in front of me, so close that the explosion
burned my face and the concussion knocked me crazy for a
minute. When I came to I was bleeding as though my
whole face had been shot off. I had no feeling in my face
and didn't have for days."

When the artillery preparation began at 2:30 o'clock,
it was as if that part of the world had been seized by the
scruff of the neck and was in for the shaking of a life-
time. The earth jarred and trembled to the opening
strokes of the barrage, rocked and rumbled and tossed as
its volume mounted. The lighter pieces were punctuated
with the thunders of the heavies, all contriving to give that
indescribable roar and whining that is a part of fire so
intensely concentrated.

The formidable array of 75s were stationed in ad-
vance positions, assigned to the task of tearing up and
making a way through the barbed wire entanglements and
network of dugouts for the infantry's advance. The naval
guns stationed at posts farther to the rear sought to ef-
fectively stop concentration and movement of troops be-
hind the enemy lines.

In that artillery preparation, lasting three hours, the
Americans offered against the Germans all their three
thousand guns could give. The 77mm. batteries of the
128th and 129th Field Artillery Regiments, and one batta-
lion of the 219th French Regiment, 155mm. batteries of
the 130th Field Artillery and 317th French Artillery Regi-
ment, and the 105mm. batteries of the 351st French Regi-
ment, all together threw into the German lines 78,000 shells
during the drive, and the bigger part of them were sent
hurtling over on the morning of September 26.

The sogging, dripping blanket of fog grew heavier
as the time approached for the infantrymen of the Thirty-
fifth to begin the advance. The Sixty-ninth Brigade,
under Colonel Louis M. Nuttman, was to lead the attack,
making the leap-off along the line with the 137th and
138th Regiments abreast. The Seventieth Brigade, under
Colonel Kirby Walker, was to serve as the divisional re-
serve. The Second Battalion of 139th Infantry, under
Major Rieger, and the 130th Machine Gun Battalion,
under Captain Paul Frey, were attached to the leading
brigade as moppers-up of Vauqois Hill and Bois de Ros-
signol.

72 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

At 5:30 o'clock the advance began. The 139th In-
fantry was in column behind 137th, the 140th Infantry in
column behind 138th. The regiments were formed in
columns of battalions with 500 metres (541 yards) dis-
tance between each. They advanced in small columns in
staggered formation. The regiment to the left in each
brigade served as the base regiment.

The men followed a rolling barrage at the rate of 100
metres (110 yards) in four minutes. It was not hard going.
Back in the Foret Hesse they had discarded their packs,
and what they carried now was light compared to their
usual march equipment. Some were smoking. They went
with their guns flung over their shoulders.

The 139th Infantry, in column behind 137th Infantry,
was to follow on around the western edge of Vauqois Hill,
140th Infantry, in column behind 138th Infantry, around
the eastern edge. Dugouts were to be cleaned by two
companies of the Second Battalion of 139th Infantry. The
other two companies of the battalion had been directed to
proceed toward Bois de Rossignol to mop up after the
advance there.

The 137th Infantry, under Colonel Clad Hamilton,
found little opposition as it advanced on the left wing of
the divisional line. So thorough had been the artillery
preparation that the artificial defenses were churned and
upheaved into wreckage. The fog walled the men in. Oc-
casionally there was a machine gun to quiet. Occasionally
the whine of a German shell told the men all was not to
be easy ahead. Prisoners were taken at Boureuilles. The
march continued up the roadway that runs between Neu-
villy and Varennes, then the men, veering in an easterly
course, left it as they drew nearer the defenses which the
artillery had not destroyed. They found themselves ad-
vancing against heavier shelling and greater opposition
from the machine gun nests. At 7:40 o'clock the Ameri-
can barrage protecting the advance had ceased, and the
men were left to cut their way through as best they could.
Colonel Hamilton and his staff encountered their first
heavy shelling about two kilometres (one mile and a quar-
ter) southeast of Varennes. They were on the road which
branches down from the Fleville-Varennes main highway.
They sought shelter in what had been a German gun em-
placement, staying there under cover during a severe
bombardment. The advance had not been seriously im-
peded. The troops kept on in the general direction of
Varennes.

The 139th, under Lieutenant Colonel Carl I. Ristine,
had established headquarters before the jump-off under
an old bridge near Clairmont. From there the regiment

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73

74 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

began its advance. Major Rieger, with the Second Batta-
lion, was stationed farther east to better command an ad-
vance along the slopes of Vauqois Hill.

At 11 o'clock the 139th Infantry was two and one-half
kilometres back of Varennes. The leading battalion of
137th Infantry had been checked by machine gun and
flank artillery fire on the outskirts of the village. Every
gray-walled little house, even to the gaunt remains of the
town church, seemed to have within a machine gun.

As the fog still lent confusion to attempts at liaison
between units, the leading battalion of 137th Infantry
halted and established itself behind the defenses at the
edge of Varennes. When the Second Battalion drew up
in support of the leading battalion an attempt was made
to secure protective artillery fire for an advance. This
could not be done, as the guns had been unable to move up
within effective range on account of blown-out bridges and
the condition of the terrain. French tanks were directed
to the aid of the 137th, and the two leading battalions
swept into their possession that part of the village which
lies east of the Aire River. On the slope which rises
northward of Varennes they were ordered by Colonel
Hamilton to prepare positions and stay until artillery sup-
port could be secured. Flank fire from the east, the posi-
tions which had not yet been taken by the Twenty-eighth
Division men, made it impossible, in Colonel Hamilton's
belief, to advatice farther on the western edge of Cote 221.

Unable to understand why the 137th Infantry did not
continue the advance. Lieutenant Colonel Ristine sought
out Colonel Hamilton and asked the cause of delay.
Colonel Hamilton said it would be slaughter to attempt an
advance without artillery protection. Lieutenant Colonel
Ristine said he understood the advance was to be con-
tinued at any cost.

The 137th Infantry was established on the slope north
of Varennes. Lieutenant Colonel Ristine led his men
around the base of this to the northeast. Major Rieger,
after mopping up the western slope of Vauqois Hill, joined
the regiment here.

Major Rieger's battalion had found Vauqois Hill and
Bois de Rossignol comparatively easy to handle. In some
of the dugouts the moppers-up had found Germans, none
of which had shown much fight. They had bombed and
cleaned them out as they went along, endeavoring to over-
look as few as possible in the fog of impenetrable thickness.

Lieutenant McDonald, adjutant of the battalion, had
been killed as he went over with the first wave. He had
been crouching down, waiting for the zero hour, and had
just raised himself to lead in the attack. He crumpled
back on the ground with a bullet through his chest.

THE MORROW OF BIG THINGS 77

Vauqois Hill, the Dead Man's Hill of the Argonne,
stood as the pivotal center around which the division
operated. The French said the hill could not be taken in
less than seventy-two hours. The Americans took it in
forty-five minutes and a view of the ground itself revealed
how great was the price.

Pitted and scarred, scalped and torn, nothing stood
but the battered ghosts of trees. Gnarled and withered
trunks they had become, standing lone and bleak on the
crest. The ground where the trenches had been was kicked
and pitched with fire until its aspect was wave-like, rolling
from crest of shell hole to pit of it. The German earth-
works, where they ran along the summit of the hill, were
bashed in until unrecognizable as the handiwork of man.

The barbed wire entanglements had been gnarled into
snake-like masses. Over these grounds, sacred with Ameri-
can blood, you might pass with reverence; yet pass over
them with a blemished suffusion of regret to realize that
to kill the snake some must be bitten and sacrificed.

After capturing Varennes, the 137th Infantry had
been checked at 2:45 o'clock in the afternoon. The 139th
Infantry passed around the 137th, and at 3:15 o'clock
Colonel Walker sent General Traub a message saying
Colonel Ristine now commanded the advance regiment and
was about one kilometre northeast of Varennes. From his
advance line Colonel Ristine sent out men both to the right
and left in an attempt to establish liaison with other regi-
ments of the division.

After setting his regiment in motion. Colonel Ristine
took charge of the advance elements and assigned Major
William Stepp to the remainder of his command.

About two kilometres east of Varennes there is an
old orchard, a house in shambles, and near this a narrow
gauge railroad, used by the Germans for carrying sup-
plies. Colonel Ristine had gone ahead and Major Stepp
was making his way through the orchard to follow. Enemy
artillery fire from the Varennes flank had been increasing.
Major Stepp was on the edge of the orchard when struck
by a piece of shrapnel and killed.

Colonel Ristine had advanced under opposition that
grew stronger as he progressed. Major Rieger, he found,
had pressed ahead, and he ordered him with his men to
make way toward Very to the east. By this move he hoped
to bring 138th Infantry, under Colonel Harry S. Howland,
into liaison, and by so doing establish the semblance of a
divisional line.

Receiving enfilade fire from German artillery to the
left, Colonel Ristine ordered his men to dig in and returned
to learn why Major Stepp had not come up with the other

78 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

battalions of his command. Learning of his death and the
serious bombardment to which the men had been subject,
he reorganized them and led on to give support to his
battalion holding the advance positions. The First and
Third battalions dug in, the Second Battalion remaining in
the rear as reserve.

Colonel Hamilton, with 137th Infantry north of Var-
ennes, discovered that the men had become badly mixed,
both with Twenty-eighth Division men and those in other
units of the Thirty-fifth. He attempted a reorganization,
replacing officers who had been killed and combining or-
ganizations so that they might be effectively handled.

Part of the First Battalion had wandered away to
the right during the fog of the morning. These men fell
in with 138th Infantry and were instrumental in the tak-
ing of Cheppy about noon of the first day of the drive.
The 139th Infantry on this wing of the advance were led
by this into believing that they were still in support of the
all-Kansas regiment.

The main body of the 137th Infantry, before Varennes,
dug in there for the night.

Since 7:40 o'clock in the morning, when the barrage
had ceased, the artillery had been attempting to move for-
ward. That road which leads between Varennes and
Neuvilly was made impracticable for use by the explosion
of a mine, a gap looming there that required days to fill.
A bridge, too, had been blown out. This left the Axis of
Liaison, a very vague factor in the Argonne, as the second
choice. The Axis of Liaison was comparable to an unim-
proved roadway in Kansas during the wet season. The
wheels of the cannon sank frequently and deeply, and the
exhausted horses could do little to move them. The 129th
Field Artillery began to move at 8 :25 o'clock on the morn-
ing of the first day, one battalion of the 130th Field Ar-
tillery at 8:25 o'clock, the other two battalions at 10:15
o'clock, and the 128th Field Artillery at 9 o'clock.

But in the mire of the roadway not much progress
could be made. Only one battalion, 129th Field Artillery,
gained a forward position on the first day. Its guns were
stationed in the northwest corner of the Bois de Rossignol.

The shortage of horses in the Thirty-fifth was from
the same cause that brought it about in the entire First
Army, America stopped shipping horses in the spring in
order to send men, and the French were unable to either
find as many horses or as good ones to equip the artillery
as they had expected. In addition, the American army had
not yet learned to care for horses properly, and the wear-
ing out process took a terrible toll.

THE MORROW OF BIG THINGS 79

On the right wing of the advance, 138th and 140th
Infantry had experienced varying obstacles in the opening
phase of the attack. The same fog that so badly confused
the units on the left of the divisional line added confusion
to the two regiments on the right. The intermingling of
men of different commands resulted before the eastern
edge of Vauqois Hill had been passed and the progress
toward Cheppy well started.

The men could not see over twenty-five yards in any
one direction. To add to the confusion, smoke bombs were
sent over by the artillery. In clear weather fire of this
nature would have served as a screen against the enemy,
but on the foggy morning of September 26 it served to
add to the disorder.

Just as the 137th Infantry had passed through Bour-
euilles and met with little serious opposition until reach-
ing the outskirts of Varennes, the 138th Infantry pro-
gressed through the ravines and passes until it came to the
southeasterly edge of Cheppy. By the time they reached
the little village the men had gone three kilometres and
losses were light.

Cheppy was almost in the center of the divisional ad-
vance. It was a village much like Varennes, with an old
church pitiably mangled from shell fire and homes bleak
with the same ruin. Colonel Rowland's men had been
checked and in the face of the cutting machine gun and
artillery fire the worth of an advance was not considered
equal to the price that would have to be paid.

As at Varennes, it was necessary to call on aid from
the 344th French Tank Battalion. Six crawling steel
houses came swinging down the road, and under pro-
tection of these, as far as it could be called protection, the
attack was made. The tanks swept down the machine
gun nests, pouring machine gun fire and one-pounders
from their small steel towers. Even with the tanks before
them, the losses of 138th Infantry were heavy before the
complete capture of the village was affected. A thin wave
of 137th Infantry, which had lost itself from the main
body, had passed through the western edge, and from a
German pill-box had received a high toll in dead and
wounded.

The advance of the 137th detachment had been in a
column of twos. The men, one after the other, had pushed
on in the teeth of the fire, and, one after the other, had
fallen. Their rifles were in their hands and their faces
pointed toward Germany.

The 140th Infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel Dela-
plane, had encountered less opposition than practically any
other regiment. On the eastern slope of Vauqois Hill

80 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

a bombing detachment of the regiment had met some Ger-
mans who showed fight, but on the whole the advance had
been quiet for the regiment.

The 140th Infantry kept about one hundred metres in
rear of the 138th Infantry. While Cheppy Was being
taken, the regiment was advancing back of the attacking
troops in case of unexpectedly strong opposition by the
Grermans.

As in the case with other regiments of the division,
the 140th Infantry a number of times passed machine gun
nests and then was compelled to return and capture them.
The German machine gunners, lying in a particularly well
concealed clump of trees or in a defense that was not
easily recognizable in the fog„ would allow the troops to
pass without firing.

When they had gone on for some distance the gunners
would open a strong fire from their rear. In the white-
walled air of the morning it was not easy to detect the
position of the nest and the losses were frequently heavy
before the men could backtrack and capture it.

After Cheppy had been taken, the 138th Infantry re-
organized and prepared to go ahead. General Traub
ordered up the tanks and put them in the line to crush
down pill-boxes wherever the opposition loomed strongest.

Very, about two kilometres northeast of Cheppy, was
the next stronghold in the pathway of 138th Infantry.
Like Cheppy, it boasted mostly of its past. The homes
that had once been there were shattered stones and half-
standing walls. The people, as in the other parts of the
war area, had fled, and behind in their leave-taking had
left only memories.

Tanks played a very small part in the capture of the
village. The Germans, as if they had learned of what was
sweeping down on them, posted the strongholds thinly with
machine guns and were for the most part gone when the
Americans arrived.

On the right of the Thirty-fifth, the Ninety-first Divi-
sion had not been able to progress so rapidly through the
Bois-de-Cheppy. Its lagging pace had permitted the Ger-
mans to maintain their artillery position at a point com-
manding Very. So where at Cheppy it had been machine
guns, at Very it became artillery fire, and in both cases
the cost in dead and wounded was large.

Very had been taken at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
At 4 o'clock the leading elements were one kilometre north
of the village. Colonel Howland ordered his men to dig
in for the night. With the line running about one and
one-half kilometres south of Charpentry and one kilometre
north of Very, the advance on the day of Big Things came
to a stop.

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Three miles had been the net advance. At Cheppy, at
Varennes and at Very, guns and supplies and prisoners
had fallen into American hands. Automatic rifles, ma-
chine guns and anti-tank rifles were included in the cap-
tured material. An estimate of four hundred and fifty
prisoners were taken on the first day.

What had been the cost there can be only an estimate.
The report of the first day by the division surgeon shows
one gas case, five seriously wounded, ten slightly wounded
and one suffering from psycho-neurosis (shell-shock). But
the report serves only to show how few of the wounded were
cared for on the first day. Dressing stations and triages
were not established and working effectively until the sec-
ond day of the offensive.

At Boureuilles, in the morning advance, 137th Infan-
try had captured prisoners from the XV Landsturm Batta-
lion, acting as sector troops. The first captives from the
First Guard Division were also taken here.

The morrow of Big Things had not been without its
price and rewards.

IX
AND ON THE SECOND DAY

Varying fortune had greeted the American First
Army's attempt to break through Germany's Kriemhilde
Stellung, the outer defense of which was the Hindenburg
Line. Neither the Twenty-eigb ••h on the left nor the Nine-
ty-first on the right had beei able to keep pace with the
Thirty-fifth. This, bad as it was for the Thirty-fifth in
receiving enfilade fire on the opening day, was to grow
worse as the offensive progressed.

Satisfactory results had been the general tone of the
reports along the entire 40-kilometre (25-mile) front for
the first day. Artillery preparation of the right kind
and the fighting qualities of the men had shown the de-
fensive earthworks of the Germans were not the land
armadas they were boasted to be.

During the period lapsing between the barrage of the
first morning and the early hours of the second day only
one battalion of artillery, 129th Field Artillery, had been
able to gain a forward position. It was stationed near
Cheppy. The remainder of the artillery units, both Ameri-
can and French, were fighting their way up into position
along the muddy and shell-torn roadways leading to the
front.

General Traub, ^ lo had consulted with General
Berry, in command of tiie Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade,
had learned there could be no effective artillery support
given before 8:30 o'clock on the morning of the second
day. He issued orders for the attack to begin at that hour.

Shortly after midnight he received orders from the
First Army Corps stating the attack must begin at 5:30
o'clock. Without artillery support General Traub realized
the terrible toll this would take.

84 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

At 1 o'clock he sent this order :

"The Thirty-fifth Division will attack the enemy at
5:80 a. m. this morning and advance to the combined army
first phase east of Fleville."

He realized that this last-minute countermand in
orders might lead to a serious misunderstanding. He
sought out the brigade and regimental commanders, some
of whom he found ana some of whom he did not, in an
attempt to straighten out the matter before the hour set
for the attack.

The plan of attack was for the Seventieth Brigade to
take position in the lead. Colonel Ristine, with 139th In-
fantry, had passed 137th Infantry on the first day. It
was necessary for Colonel Delaplane, to fill out the brigade
plan of attack, to come abreast of Colonel Ristine's regiment
with 140th Infantry. This he did.

Two battalions of each regiment were to be in the ad-
vrance line, one battalion in support. The Sixty-ninth
Brigade was to come up from the rear at a distance of
1,000 metres (1,083 yards) with regiments formed in a
column of battalions.

To the leading battalions in the front line the ma-
chine gun companies were attached, one company to each
battalion. The 128th Machine Gun Battalion was attached
to the Sixty-ninth Brigade.

The advance was begun at 5:30 o'clock. It was mist-
ing, the sky overcast. There was no fog, as there had
been on the previous morning.

Colonel Ristine had sent messages back to brigade
headquarters asking that a protective fire be given by the
artillery. Without it he was open to serious flank fire
from the Twenty-eighth Division area. At the time set
for the attack he had received no answer to his messages.
A desultory shell, seemingly from the American side,
whined overhead occasionally, but there was no attempt
at a barrage. He ordered an advance at 6 o'clock.

It was an advance of certain death. From the flank
the Germans poufed into the ranks a costly fire. From
left and right, and ahead, the sputter of machine guns
greeted every step.

It was a test of morale. The damp gloom of the Sep-
tember day ; the excitement and strain of the fighting the
day before; the lack of food and sleep — all contributed
against, and not for, the soldier. The German artillery
bit into the ranks at every pace. Fresh gaps opened as the
rut-rut-rut of machine guns increased in volume.

"No use," said Colonel Ristine.

He ordered a halt. The men dug in. Word was sent
back to brigade headquarters that without artillery sup-
port no further advance could be made.

AND ON THE SECOND DAY 85

Colonel Ristine learned of tanks in the rear. He
formed the right wing of his line behind these and at-
tempted another advance. Anti-tank rifles and artillery
from the German lines began an effective fire, a gale too
strong for the tanks and infantrymen to advance into. The
tanks turned prow to the rear and left the rifle-bearers to
dig in.

The right side of the line was now considerably ahead
of the left side. To avert the deadly flank fire, Colonel
Ristine drew back the right wing. The regiment dug in
again.

The 137th Infantry had moved early in the morning
to the east, near Vieux Moulin. The flank fire from the
direction of Varennes continued, indicating the Twenty-
eighth was still meeting with serious opposition. The
casualties of the 137th as they lay near Vieux Moulin on
the second day were heavy, the German guns playing on
them from vantage points to the west.

On the right spread of the divisional line 140th In-
fantry had met with even greater losses. Shortly before 5
o'clock Colonel Delaplane received the orders for the ad-
vance at 5:30 o'clock. He passed his regiment through
that of 138th Infantry and set his men on a line to press
ahead. They begun to move forward at the hour indicated.

The crest of Hill 218 was boiling under enemy fire.
High explosives and shrapnel kept the death song continu-
ously above the men's heads. The line seemed to literally
crumple before the artillery and machine guns of the Ger-
mans, and Colonel Delaplane decided each foot of ground
was being bought at too precious a price. The men were
ordered to dig in.

"Then I had my first real experience of going over the
top under fire," says Sergeant R. P. Haley, Company B,
140th Infantry. "I wish you could have seen the boys,
some smoking, some carrying their guns on their shoulders
as if they were on their way home."

It was the Kansas and Missouri men's manner of
facing death.

The headquarters of the Seventieth Brigade had been
established early in the day at Le Forge near Cheppy.
Colonel Walker had learned of Colonel Ristine's need of
artillery support, and had received a similar message from
the commander of 140th Infantry.

To them he sent this message :

"Have just sent message to battery west of Cheppy to
get in liaison and support you."

This was at 10:35 o'clock. At 10:40 o'clock and at
11:32 o'clock he sent messages again saying that he was
attempting to get artillery fire for the two regiments. At

86 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

1 :50 o'clock Colonel Walker sent word to the two regimen-
tal commanders that General Traub had taken up the mat-
ter of artillery support and that they could be promised it
within a short time.

The 138th Infantry, like 137th Infantry, lay during
the day under fire. The regiment was in support of 140th
Infantry and when its advance was checked it was held
up also.

Each time during the day when the Thirty-fifth had
attempted to go forward it had been in the face of what
seemed insurmountable difficulties. Not only was the ter-
rain unfavorable with its many small ravines, its wooded
patches, its hollows and its hills, but the artificial de-
fenses of Hagen Stellung and Volker Stellung stretched
themselves like a concrete rib across their pathway. Al-
though in retreat, the German artillery had lost none of
its effectiveness. American airplanes politely withdrew
when observations were sought by enemy aircraft, and
machine guns hung behind every natural and artificial
defense that was in gunning distance.

The machine guns were manned largely by members
of the First Guard Division. It may be that there were
troops in the German army that were fond of surrender-
ing. This class, by lip proof from the doughboy, was not.

At 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon a new attack was
launched. Nine more tanks were sent lumbering tov/ard the
front along the Very-Charpentry road, and, aided with
these and those already on the first line, better results
were anticipated.

During the day's fighting Major Clark, in command
of the First Battalion of the 139th Infantry, had been
wounded while charging a machine gun nest and had been
replaced by Captain Williamson, Company D. Lieutenant
Brown, adjutant of 139th Infantry, had also fallen in the
morning attack.

Before the advance could be made it v/as found a
considerable amount of reorganization was necessary.
Straightening out his units the best he could. Colonel Ris-
tine led his men into an attack against Charpentry and
Baulny.

There was no artillery protection, speaking in a sense
that term infers. A gun would bellow now and then, pre-
sumably from the battery near Cheppy, but there was no
concentration of fire or nothing to serve as a screen
against the enemy. The men, tired after two days of
fighting, struck into the full current of artillery and ma-
chine gun fire. The 140th Infantry, advancing on the
right, fell in behind the tanks for protection, but the men
of 139th and 137th Infantry charged the machine gun

From L' Illustration, France.
Shell holes and pup tents of the Argonne.

GQ

bO

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AND ON THE SECOND DAY 89

nests with rifles and grenades. Down the road that leads
into Charpentry the men took the best the Germans had
to offer and it was not good enough. Mixed elements of
137th, 140th and 139th Infantry beat their way through
the maze of ruined homes and hidden guns, never stopping
until the line had been advanced north of Baulny. At
Baulny they had repeated the type of attack employed at
Charpentry and the Germans had not been able to stand
against it.

Theoretically, there had been a divisional line estab-
lished to keep separated the regiments attacking on a line
with each other. Liaison was supposed to be maintained,
and the regiments to advance as individual units, one on
the right of the line, the other on the left.

As the division had fought its way farther northward,
the 138th Infantry and 140th Infantry had gradually
woven their course to the left. It was found that when the
attack was made on Charpentry practically all the units
were not far distant from this point. The gradual north-
westerly direction followed by the two regiments to the
right made it impossible for them to keep in close liaison
with the Ninety-first Division. A large gap naturally
formed in the line between the two divisions and was
there a greater part of the second day. Colonel Nuttman
attempted to correct this the third morning by directing
the troops of 140th Infantry to strike out diagonally to the
northeast.

Colonel Hamilton had remained with 137th Infantry
during the day near Vieux Moulin. Before the attack was
to begin in the evening he learned of the advance and in-
structed Major John H. O'Connor to take over the active
command. Major O'Connor, with the leading battalion of
137th Infantry, followed after the 139th Infantry, and
arrived at Charpentry in time to aid in the capture of the
village.

He kept on with the command until he believed he had
reached the farthest advance of the line. He later dis-
covered he had gone some distance beyond it. Returning
with his detachment of men, he established himself with
mixed elements of all the regiments north of Baulny.

Colonel Delaplane, going ahead with 140th Infantry on
the right, had reached past Charpentry and was established
northeast of Baulny when darkness forced him to stop.
The 138th Infantry had followed up in the rear, and some
of the elements had intermingled with those of the regi-
ment ahead, as the progress continued. As night closed
down liaison became more difficult. The main body of
troops, a sprinkling of all the division's regiments, dug in
just beyond the outskirts of Baulny.

90 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

Colonel Ristine, with men from the 139th Infantry,
had surged far ahead of any other point reached by the
divisional troops. Fearing lest a stop of any length would
subject him to crossfire from the west, where the Twenty-
eighth had not yet come up, and from the east, where other
units of his division were lagging, he kept rapidly working
his way to the northwest.

Beyond Baulny to the northeast is Chaudron Farm,
and to the north a kilometre's distance, Drachen. The
Germans had used this as a camp during their occupation
of the territory, and before Colonel Ristine was sure of his
bearings he found himself near this point. He caught sight
of troops ahead, and learned these were Germans. He
caught sight of some troops to the rear, and learned these
were Germans. In grave danger of capture. Colonel Ristine
established his men in a shell hole and prepared all the re-
sistance possible under the circumstances.

It had grown dark and in the distance Colonel Ristine
was able to hear what sounded like American guns. Ma-
chine guns opened up on the position occupied in the shell
hole, and verified his fear that the Germans knew of his
place.

An attempt Was then made to discover the main body
of 139th Infantry, which had been left behind by Colonel
Ristine's rapid-moving smaller detachment. In the dark-
ness Colonel Ristine was unable to regain contact with the
regiment and with dawn found himself farther within the
German lines.

In the gray light of early morning he discovered the
abandoned overcoat and helmet of a German officer. Be-
hind the enemy lines, all had been thrown into the con-
fusion of retreat. Troops were moving back, supplies were
being taken to the rear, ammunition and guns, and all other
possessions the Germans wished to save, they were hurry-
ing out of reach of the advancing Americans.

The movements of confusion going on back of the
enemy lines aided Colonel Ristine. Disguised in a German
overcoat and helm.et, he could hurry as much as the rest of
them whenever spoken to and thus avoid chances of dis-
covery.

He learned the positions of two ammunition dumps,
several batteries, and procuring maps, brought what he
had found back with him when he returned the evening of
the next day. The American artillery destroyed the dumps
and silenced the enemy batteries.

Night of the second day found the Thirty-fifth two
and one-half kilometres nearer Germany. The total ad-
vance in the two days had been seven and one-half kilo-
metres, or five miles.

AND ON THE SECOND DAY 01

It is not easy to understand why it was the Germans
offered such stubborn resistance on the morning of the
second day and yet in the attack in the evening we^re un-
able to hold back the Thirty-fifth. If the Thirty-fifth had
advanced the second time with a barrage, this dropping
back would have been a natural consequence. As it was,
the men swept on with no artillery support, leaving what
they could not do themselves to the tanks.

Perhaps the strongest opposition met at any time dur-
ing the advance on the second day was at Charpentry. The
ruins which had once been homes we^re sheltering crevices
for nests. Along the roadway leading into and out of the
village machine guns were behind trees and snipers were
in them. They were fighters belonging to the Prussian
First Guard and were fighters. Few prisoners were taken
on the second day.

The heaviest casualties for the day were suffered by
137th Infantry and 138th Infantry. There is an element
of surprise in this, for a greater part of the day both of
these regiments were held in reserve. They were not up
on the fighting line until evening.

The cause for this is the flank fire from enemy artil-
lery that both of the regiments received. They were not in
a well protected place, and the toll counted from the cross-
fire was much higher than among the troops spread out
on the first line.

The artillery from the American side had been negli-
gihle. The thin fire offered on some occasions during the
day by the battery of 129th Field Artillery west of Cheppy
had not been sufficient to afford protection or sustain an
advance. Despite the inability of the artillery to plow its
way through the hub-deep mud of the roadways, the in-
fantry, after its check in the morning, had plunged ahead
late in the afternoon, and had stopped the advance only
when confusion was .resulting among the units as a result
of the darkness.

Some of the fighting men had surged as far ahead as
Montrebeau Woods, but the main body now lay just north
of Baulny. The men were tired. The first day had been
hard, but the day just back of them had introduced them
to the sterner aspects of Argonne warfare.

The men were hungry, with that hunger which comes
from diet on bully-beef and hardtack. They had been sub-
jected to the racking fire and excitement of open fighting,
and where they lay now the intermittent thunder of enemy
guns gave them little chance for sleep.

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The dawn of September 28 was cold, with a fine drizzle
filling the air. All through the night under the occasional
burst of shells the Thirty-fifth had clung to its position near
Baulny. For those who could cast away a thought of the
morrow, snatches of sleep had been possible.

Along the entire American First Army's front the ad-
vance had continued. Some of the divisions lagged behind
others, but progress, no matter how small, had been made
in the case of every one. The invincible rib of steel and
wire and concrete, the bar to Germany, was crumbling.
The pride of the Kaiser's soldiery knew it, and they were
working frantically and loyally to stem the catastrophal
advance bearing down on them.

The rapid surge ahead of the Thirty-fifth had given
the Germans little time to organize their retreat. What
they could not take they abandoned to enemy hands. The
division had been slowed up on the second day and during
the night the Germans drew together every resource to
check further gains.

At 6:30 o'clock in the morning, behind artillery pro-
tection, the Germans sought to break through the Thirty-
. fifth's position. The thin line on the American side poured
rifle and machine gun fire into the ranks, and the enemy
reeled back without another attempt. The principal force
of the counter-attack was against Major O'Connor's men on
the left of the line.

The line that held the Thirty-fifth divisional front was
like so many shuffled cards. Major O'Connor had better
than a battalion on the line, but as to the position of the

AGAINST MONTREBEAU WOODS 93

rest of his regiment he had no idea. Even in the battalion
directly under him there was an element of men from other
units of the division.

During the advance the regiments had kept in col-
umn, 139th and 137th Infantry in one, 138th and 140th
Infantry in the other. A large number of the units of
139th Infantry had by this time worked up on a line with
137th Infantry, and there had been a great deal of inter-
mingling. The 139th Infantry was literally without a com-
mander. Colonel Ristine, who was lost behind the German
lines, had been unable to notify anyone of his predicament.
Major Rieger, who would have succeeded to the command,
not knowing the whereabouts of the 139th Infantry com-
mander, did not attempt to keep organized any more than
his one battalion.

The 140th Infantry, on the right, was in the lead of
138th Infantry. There had been some mixing of elements
between these two regiments, but they still maintained to
a large degree their original fo;rmation.

A half mile to the north of Baulny runs the L'Esper-
ance-Chaudron Farm road. Sloping up from this roadway
northward again is Montrebeau Woods.

This woods was the Baby Belleau of the Argonne. On
a smaller scale, it looks much like Belleau Woods, with a
thick growth of trees, a tangle of underbrush and shrub-
bery, and dips and small ravines that baffle approach when
armed with machine guns. Screened behind the protec-
tion of these natural defenses, and added to them the arti-
ficial entanglements and defensive works which had been
constructed, were the Germans holding a Baby Belleau
that had every aspect of being as impregnable as the
original.

The mixed elements of 137th and 139th Infantry re-
ceived orders that the left wing was to advance at 6:30
o'clock. Early morning grayness was setting in. The
drizzle at dawn had left a dreary, overcast sky behind it,
and the usual gloom of a September day in the Argonne.

The attack had to be made over open fields. Lieut.
Menager, French artillery liaison officer, had carried v/ord
to Lieutenant Colonel Creange, in command of the French
artillery with thirty-five guns, that support was needed to
make the advance. The battery of 129th Field was near
Cheppy, and a battery of 128th Field Artillery west of
Very. The 155mm. guns of the 130th Field Artillery bat-
teries were in place at Varennes.

The Germans still held the winning hand in a,rtillery.
As the 137th and 139th Infantry fought their way across
the L'Esperance-Chaudron Farm road they were greeted
with a torrential pour from artillery and machine guns.

94 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

From beyond Exermont, where observation by the Ger-
mans went on unmolested, the guns sent against the ranks
a sweeping fire.

The Twenty-eighth Division was still held up on the
left bank of the Aire River. Apremont had not yet been
taken and from this point the Germans poured in their
fire. From the Argonne Forest, just beyond, where the
Seventy-seventh pivision was in a tangle of underbrush and
difficulties, there came heavy artillerying. The flank fire
was causing large casualties.

Even more terrible was the toll of the machine guns
from Montrebeau Woods. Sheltered in this Baby Belleau,
the Germans felt the confidence of their stronghold and
were not slow to grasp its advantages. As the 137th and
139th Infantry, offered no shelter on the open stretch,
drew closer to the tangled maze of forestry, new machine
gun nests seemed to open fire with every step.

Arriving on the fringe of the woods, the men were or-
dered to dig in. Major Rieger, with his battalion on the
right, established itself and reorganized. Major O'Connor
had received word that Colonel Hamilton was back to as-
sume active command of 137th Infantry, but so far he had
seen nothing of him since they had parted the afternoon
before.

On the right flank the attack ordered early on the
morning of the third day was progressing much slower.
At 6 o'clock Colonel Delaplane, with 140th Infantry, at-
tempted to drive ahead from his position northeast of
Baulny. It was as though the men were advancing under
heavens that rained artillery fire. From three sides ma-
chine guns played their continuous death stream on the
Kansas and Missouri men.

Corporal Coulter, of Company B, with his squad took a
comparable place in the history of his company with that
of Major Whittlesly of the Seventy-seventh to his division.
Things were still well shrouded in darkness when the ad-
vance began, and Corporal Coulter with his squad moved
far ahead of the advancing regiment.

Caught in the vortex of machine guns from all sides
of him, and in the center of what seemed an inferno of
bursting shells, Corporal Coulter and his squad could neither
go forward nor return to rejoin their companions.

When the regiment came up with them late that morn-
ing, Corporal Coulter and his squad were trusting to luck
and a shell hole for preservation. They joined up with the
regiment and continued in the advance.

After attempting to go forward in the hurricane of
machine gun and artillery fire. Colonel Delaplane had meas-
ured the cost and decided it were best to wait for artillery

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05

The American aeaa lie buiiea at Komagne.

The cross on the map indicates what is to be the final resting
place of practically all the dead of the Am3rican Expeditionary
Forces. From every corn3r of the Argonne b ittlefield, the bod-
ies of the soldiers are being disinterred an J carried to the city
of dead at Romagne. Many of the Thirty-fifth's men, killed in
action, Ue buried here.

96 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

protection from the American guns. At 9:45 o'clock
another attack was undertaken. Some veteran tanks
(veteran because they had battered down the nests of
the Germans at Varennes, Cheppy, and Charpentry,
and many of the Frenchmen who manned them had seen
service on as hard a front as this) lumbered up. Back
of these 140th Infantry began the advance, slowly working
its way to the L'Esperance-Chaudron Farm roadway, pass-
ing this, and advancing to 500 yards north of Chaudron
Farm.

As with the left wing of the division, 137th and 139th
Infantry, meager artillery fire paved a way for the attack.
The tanks proved less effective than they had in instances
before.

Hidden in the Baby Belleau, the Germans commanded a
full viev/ of the advancing troops. Armed with anti-tank
guns, which shoot a shell much like that of the rifle except
that it is three times as large, they sent the tanks reeling
back for safety time after time. Artillery, playing a deadly
fire from flank and front, checked them also, hindering
the bugs of steel from effectively hammering down the
machine gun nests.

Captain Grigg, liaison officer of the Seventieth
Brigade, was established at regimental headquarters 400
yards back of Charpentry. He had been attempting
to get in touch with Colonel Delaplane, but had failed
to do so. At 1:15 o'clock he sent a message to Major
Rieger saying that the attack was to continue until
Montrebeau Woods was in possession of the Thirty-fifth.

Lieutenant Martin, in charge of a squad of men, had
been sent out by Colonel Delaplane in an effort to establish
liason with the 137th and 139th Infantry on the left.
He was unable to do so. Colonel Hamilton, who had re-
sumed the active command of the 137th Infantry, was un-
able to get in touch with the units on his right.

Major O'Connor, who had taken over the 137th Infantry
on the afternoon of the second day, had been forced to go
to the rear in the afternoon after Colonel Hamilton had
worked his way to the front and located his regiment.

Along the edge of Montrebeau Woods the men were
in what might be called group formation. Any real sem-
blance of a line had been lost as the regiments advanced
and gradually merged with one another. On the right of
the Thirty-fifth, Colonel Delaplane had more than once
attempted to establish liaison with the Ninety-first. The
gap that had resulted as the entire Thirty-fifth swung in
a westerly direction in its attack prevented this being
effectively accomplished.

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The 138th Infantry had kept to the right of 140th
Infantry in its attack of the morning. When 140th In-
fantry, as the leading regiment, dug in on the fringe of
the woods, the larger part of the supporting regiment
closed up on the right and dug in.

The Thirty-fifth's attempts against Montrebeau Woods
introduced them to a warfare different than any they had
yet encountered. The Germans were behind trees, in small
ravines, such as Indians in America of an early day might
have chosen in fighting against the pioneers and explorers.

The Germans had all the best of it. They were not
short on ammunition and their artillery pounded away con-
tinuously. By crawling up on nests, and using their rifles
and grenades, the Americans were able to clean them out.

By night they had a better hold, but they were not
in possession of the Baby Belleau. The pill-boxes were in
bunches and clusters, and every one taken was charged
with its price in dead and wounded.

It was on the third day at 3:25 o'clock in the after-
noon that a reorganization of the brigades took place. It
was found that under the condition in which the men were
fighting and the circumstances that prevented proper
liaison, the troops could be more effectively handled by
placing each flank of the divisional line under the brigade
commanders. Colonel Nuttman, who up to this time had
been in command of 137th and 138th Infantry, took over
139th Infantry, and the 138th Infantry went to Colonel
Walker. Colonel Nuttman was in command on the left,
and Colonel Walker on the right.

The plan was to take as much as could be of Montre-
beau Woods. The farthest approach of the line was to
be maintained by the main body of the troops. The line
of resistance was to be established about 1,500 yards in
rear of the first line. Machine guns were echeloned at the
main line of resistance to strengthen it.

Major P. C. Kalloch had reported to Colonel Hamilton
when he rejoined his command that afternoon. Major
Kalloch, who was acting under orders from divisional head-
quarters, had been relieved as division intelligence officer
so that he might help fill the gap in the rank of active
commanders. Colonel Hamilton appointed him chief of
staff and sought to reorganize as well as possible the scat-
tered units of his command.

A steady pour of rain had set in at 5 o'clock in the
afternoon. Finding three enlisted men wandering about in
the woods looking for their command. Colonel Hamilton
pressed them into service as a part of his regimental
staff. They dug out what had been freshly made by a
large shell and the regimental headquarters post was

98 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

established. The three enlisted men were appointed run-
ners, and Lieutenant Black was made adjutant for the
regiment.

It was impossible to do much in the darkness of the
woods. Dismally cold, the steady drip of the rain in the
branches of the trees was drowned by the sound only of
bursting shells or the intermittent purr of a machine gun
announcing itself from another section of Montrebeau.
The short flashes of the shells would be followed by the
grind and snort of the steel as it tore its way through the
underbrush.

Lieutenant Owen Ridlon, liaison officer of the Sev-
entieth Brigade, was established in a dugout north of Char-
pentry. Outside there was the slow pour of the rain and
the near-thunder of the artillery.

An officer with the epaulettes of a colonel appeared
in the doorway.

"I am to take command of 139th Infantry," he an-
nounced without introductory remarks.

The officer was Colonel Americus Mitchell. He was a
regular army officer, who had been assigned to the
division after the many removals on the eve of the
Argonne battle. He was three days late in arriving.

"Where is Colonel Nuttman?" asked Mitchell.

"Search me," said Ridlon. "I'll try and find him."

Accompanied by a runner. Lieutenant Ridlon spent
the better part of the night looking for Colonel Nuttman.
The Colonel on the first day of the fighting had lost his
bearings and wandered away into the Ninety-first Di-
vision's area. Lieutenant Ridlon feared a similar circum-
stance in this case, for by morning Colonel Nuttman could
not be located.

As the truth would bear it out, it would have been
difficult to locate brigade or regimental commanders of the
rest of the division. The 139th Infantry had gone along
leaderless until the return on this evening of the third day
of Colonel Ristine. After his disappearance some sup-
posed him dead, others that he had fallen back wounded.
His regiment had gone ahead without a leader. The com-
mand of 137th Infantry had shifted from Colonel Hamilton
to Major O'Connor and back again. No one was certain
who held command, as far as the men were concerned,
until Colonel Hamilton led the attack the morning of
September 29.

On the right side of the line Colonel Delaplane had
kept command of his regiment. In 138th Infantry Colonel
Howland had gone to the rear and Major Norman B. Com-
fort was in command. The locations of brigade and regi-
mental headquarters during the first day had been fairly

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well established, the second day was a thing of doubt, and
the third day a matter of profound uncertainty. The run-
ners ran themselves out of breath, to no good result.

From Mamelon Blanc division headquarters had moved
to Cheppy. Major General Traub had not stayed with the
headquarters post all of the three days, but had been absent
on long tours of personal reconnaissance. It had been his
desire to find out just how things were going and the best
means to do this had in his belief been to see for him-
self.

Each day of the battle had seen the advance of the
Thirty-fifth grow slower. Past the outer defenses of the
Hindenburg Line they had bent themselves against the
inner strongholds with less success. It was not that the
men were fighting less bravely than on the opening day.
They were tired with three days in the rain and the muck.
This, together with the lack of food, was the difference
between the men who had gone into battle three days before
and the men who held to the dense thickets of Montrebeau
Woods on the third night.

The little groups of men that went to make up the
Thirty-fifth's line on the night of the third day had been
badly thinned. Each man who was taken to the rear
wounded was firm in his belief that his entire company had
been wiped out; that only a few of his regiment re-
mained, and that thejre was not much left of the division
as a whole.

Each one had his story of how the artillery had swept
them off their feet. He had seen his comrades fall on all
sides. Most of the officers had been killed. Cooks, cor-
porals and chaplains were leading. The attack was going
ahead, against a withering artillery and machine gun fire.

The records, as best they could be compiled on the third
day of the fighting, show 138th Infantry the heaviest loser.
The largest proportion of casualties was from machine gun
and gas, with no way to count the dead. The 137th In-
fantry stood second on the list in men lost.

The Thirty-fifth had plunged forward one mile and a
quarter nearer Germany.

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XI
THE CRIMSON DAY

The town tocsin in the old church belfry of Exer-
mont was booming to the peasant folk of the village an
early summons to mass.

Pere Blanc, with his silk hat, and Mere Blanc, in a
skirt she must lift high to keep off the muddy streets of
Exermont, were donned in Sunday's best. Behind them
trailed all the little Blancs, Jeanne and Adele and Pierre,
strutting and dressed fqr the occasion.

The main street and the branch streets of the village
were filled with peasantry, all bent on the same mission as
Pere and Mere Blanc and their family of three. The best
regalia their scant incomes afforded they had bought, and
on this occasion of all others it was worn. Pere Blanc bowed
pleasantly as they passed their neighbors; Jeanne and
Adele and Pierre (Pierre whose record of sin had never
been forgotten since the day at mass when he had thrown
a marble at the cure during services and it had landed in
the vessel of holy water) trailed along the muddy street
behind them.

How different the Sunday morning of September, 1913,
and this Sunday morning five years later.

There was no particular value attached to Exermont,
but the Germans were contriving every means to save it
from American hands. During the night machine gunners
had moved out from the village and established themselves
just beyond the northern edge of Montrebeau Woods. Ma-
chine guns were on the right of Exermont, and on the left,
to the back of it, and in it.

On the right of the divisional line, the Ninety-first
Division had failed to come up, and a similar circumstance
existed on the left of the line in the sector occupied by the

THE CRIMSON DAY 103

Twenty-eighth. German airplanes, whose predominance
had been a matter unquestioned since the second day, acted
as free rangers, bombing, pouring machine gun fire into
the ranks, and directing the artillery.

The Exermont of five years ago had opened its eyes
on peace. The Exermont of this Sunday in 1918 opened
its eyes on the dawn of the Thirty-fifth's most crimson day.

It had been a sleepless night for the Kansas and Mis-
souri soldiers. In the dismal recesses of Montrebeau Woods
the sharp flashes of bursting shells had kept up the better
part of the night. A spongy mud offered itself as the sole
resting place for those who were exhausted enough to take
advantage of it.

Big Things, in those long hours of night, was disrobed
of its glamor. Its romance, its thrills, its excitement,
dropped away from it, as if the darkness of early morning
when it lifted was a curtain rising to let the men look into
all the ugliness of war. Dark, lowering skies were a back-
ground for death. It was colorless, romanceless, and a
thing to give a sickening physical twist.

As far as could be learned, the Ninety-first Division on
the right was at Eclisfontaine. On the left the advance
position of the Twenty-eighth was reported to be north of
Apremont.

At 10 o'clock on the night of September 28, Major
General Traub had sent out orders for the attack at 5:30
o'clock the following morning.

The right column of the division, consisting of 140th
and 138th Infantry and 129th Machine Gun Battalion, were
to carry the divisional line forward past Exermont on the
right. Colonel Nuttman, with 137th and 139th Infantry,
and 130th Machine Gun Battalion, was to make the attack
on the left.

The artillery was to send over a protective barrage
until the advance had been carried about half a mile north
of Exermont.

The 110th Engineers and the 138th Machine Gun Bat-
talion were to act as divisional reserves. The engineers,
less the second battalion, were assigned to the right column,
and the 138th Machine Gun Battalion, less one company,
and with the second battalion of the engineers, were to fol-
low in support on the left wing.

On receiving orders for the attack at 4 :45 o'clock from
Colonel Nuttman, Colonel Hamilton began to organize his
units. He found that many troops from 139th Infantry
were with the 137th Infantry, and he formed the two to-
gether as effectively as was possible in the darkness of
Montrebeau Woods.

104 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

Major Kalloch was placed in command of 150 men and
told to lead the first wave. Colonel Hamilton, with 600
men, was to give him support.

The artillery barrage promised at 5:30 o'clock did not
materialize, so Colonel Hamilton decided to attempt an ad-
vance without it. The Germans were pounding the woods
with high explosive and shrapnel and the whir of machine
guns was continuous.

Swinging out from behind the protection of the woods,
the men began the advance. It was as if a flood of steel
poured against them. The line wavered, surged forward,
and wavered again. Men were falling in pitilessly large
numbers on all sides.

Counting the cost at every step, Major Kalloch pushed
ahead. At the rise north of Montrebeau Woods which
overlooks Exermont, flank machine gun fire swept back
the ranks and Major Kalloch saw unless cover was gained
he would not even have a shattered remnant of his line
with which to return. He v/as able to gain a gully that
leads out from Exermont and there waited fo,r the reserves
promised by Colonel Hamilton.

They did not come. Colonel Hamilton, waiting until
Major Kalloch was some hundred yards ahead with his men,
had given the order to move forward. The men had come
out of the woods in thin skirmish line formation, with a
hundred of the 600 kept back to fill up the gaps caused by
casualties.

By this time the Germans had trained the full current
of artillery and machine gun on the northern strip of the
woods. Moving slowly against the scorching death flow,
the men gained the crest of the slope which looks down
into Exermont. Major Kalloch saw them and believed at
last he was to get relief for his handful of men, still hang-
ing on under shelter of the low slopes of the gully.

When Colonel Hamilton's men reached the crest of the
slope, the inferno that had been bad before became worse.
As if singed by the stream of fire, the line hesitated,
dropped back, and plunged ahead again.

Colonel Hamilton, who was watching the men as they
pushed forward, went dizzy suddenly.

"I'm gassed," he said to Major O'Connor, who was near
him. Major O'Connor, who the afternoon before had re-
turned to the rear, had come up again early in the morning.
Colonel Hamilton, fifty-two years old, a Topeka lawyer,
used to desk and office work, was so weak he was unable
to stand. Stretche^r-bearers were able to get him back to
Montrebeau Woods, and from there he was taken to the
rear.

THE CRIMSON DAY 105

Major O'Connor, who saw it was slaughter to face a
fire of the kind being sent against them, did not attempt
to check the line as it dropped back down the slope toward
the Baby Belleau. Bought at such a price, Exermont was
better left in the hands of the Germans.

Major Kalloch, when Major O'Connor's men had fallen
back, was favored with renewed machine gun and artillery
fire. Believing it useless to hold on longer, Major ICalloch
and his men, what small handful was left of them, crawled
out of the small gully and made it Indian fashion back to
the protection of Montrebeau. The first attempt to take
ExQrmont had failed.

Not far distant from where Colonel Hamilton had been
established with his men that morning was Major Rieger,
with the second battalion of 139th Infantry. He received
orders to launch the attack at 5:30 o'clock, with the as-
surance that there would be support given him by the regi-
ments on the right and left. By 6 o'clock he had come in
contact with no othe;r large bodies of troops, but had ac-
cidentally ran across two lost companies of 140th Infantry.
These he added to the badly depleted ranks of his own bat-
talion and prepared to go forward.

Much the same fire greeted Major Rieger's men as
those led out by Major Kalloch and Colonel Hamilton. The
burning dash of machine gun checked them many times
but never was able to bring them to a standstill. Un-
daunted by their losses, the men gained the slope of the
hill leading down into Exermont.

Again here the artillery and machine gun play mingled
in death song on all sides of the men, and here again Major
Rieger's men might have wavered and crumpled back. But
they did not. Taking it as they might have taken any
serious problem, for death was not as serious now as it
might have been some other time, they swept down the
hillside into the village.

Winning their way through the muddy streetways,
they stamped out the nests and killed the gunners as they
went. Here was a lonely old house, that had once been
the home of a peasant. The soldier could be sure of it, for
discarded in one corner was a schoolbook. On the first
page inside — ^j^^es, it is "Pere to Pierre Blanc, on his tenth
birthday, 1913." This then is the wreckage that is left of
the home of Pere and Mere Blanc and all the little Blancs,
who had lived there in the days when peace was on every
hand. And the only emblem of their happiness is the torn
old schoolbook of Rerre, whose record of sin for throwing
a marble at the cure may still live.

The soldier below pauses. There is the angry bark of
a machine gun overhead. Can it be that from the sleeping

106 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

chambers that were once used by the Blancs the Germans
have so much forgotten themselves as to kill those who
are the friends of the Blanc family, the Americans? The
soldier will see to it.

Five minutes later what had once been the bedroom
chambers of Pere and Mere Blanc and all the little Blancs
was a mass of wreckage. The doughboy's grenade had ac-
complished as much, and in addition hidden in the debris
were the bodies of the two Germans who had so far forgot-
ten themselves as to desecrate the bedchambers of the
Blancs, former citizens of Exermont.

Major Rieger halted his battalion a little short of a
quarter of a mile nqrth of Exermont. The withering fire
from all sides that had greeted his advance increased rather
than slackened. So badly cut had his men been by the
enemy guns, he considered a farther movement forward
as out of the question.

Colonel Walker, on the right wing, had not been so
fortunate in transmitting the divisional order. The runners
were able to get them into the hands of Colonel Delaplane,
but Lieutenant Colonel Parker, who had taken command of
138th Infantry, they were unable to find.

Colonel Walker, at Chaudron Farm, at 8:18 o'clock, sent
the following message to Major General Traub, with head-
quarters at Cheppy :

"The 140th Infantry began the advance at 6 :45 a. m.
(This was an hou,r and a quarter later than called for in
divisional orders.) The 138th Infantry evidently did not re-
ceive the orders, for I have been unable to find them. Two
companies of the 139th Infantry was mixed with the 140th
Infantry. No tanks appeared. The advance was stopped
within one-half kilometre (approximately a quarter of mile)
by artillery and machine gun fire. Have ordered another
attack to begin at 8:15 o'clock. The elements of the Ninety-
first Division are on our right, but they did not advance at
5 :30 a. m. and are not advancing now. Apparently have no
orders to advance. There is no evidence of an advance on
the immediate left of the column.

"The 138th Infantry has just appeared and will put
two battalions into the attack which I have just ordered,
holding the third battalion in reserve."

Unaided by tanks, as had been the case with Major
Rieger's battalion, Colonel Delaplane, with 140th Infantry,
gained a position near Exermont about two hours after
the 139th Infantry men had paved the way on the left. An
attempt was made to strengthen the line against counter-
attacks by closer operation between the units on the right
and left of the line. This was partially accomplished, and
Major Rieger and Colonel Delaplane held on, waiting for
further orders.

Buried where they had fallen.

In the heat of the Argonne fighting there was little time for care-
ful burial of the dead. The man's helmet was sometimes laid across
his grave; the identification tag, with the soldier's name, rank and
numb3r, sometimes attached to the little cross. Even these were
not always there to mark his resting-place.

THE CRIMSON DAY 109

Lieutenant Colonel Parker had been reported killed
during the action of the morning, and the command of 138th
Infantry had been taken over by Majo.r Comfort. Colonel
Walker sent orders to him to keep in support of the leading
regiment, and in case of a counter-attack to establish a line
of resistance.

While Major Rieger and Colonel Delaplane were pay-
ing the price of retaining their positions on the edge of
Exermont, the units of 137th Infantry in Montrebeau Woods
were suffering from the failure of the Twenty-eighth Di-
vision to advance on their left. After their attempt to go
forward in the morning, the remnants of Major O'Connor's
command had remained in the shelter of the woods, where
they were subjected to artillery and machine gun fire, but
where a measure of protection was offered them.

A thin line was thrown across the west edge of the
woods by Major O'Connor. Late in the morning a detach-
ment of Germans were seen approaching, evidently with
the idea of testing out the strength of the American posi-
tion. They were beaten back with rifle fire.

In the early part of the afternoon a large body was
seen coming in the direction of the Baby Belleau. Major
O'Connor's men were so exhausted and thinned by casual-
ties he feared the result of the attack and signalled for a
barrage. It came quickly in response to his call and the
Germans fell back without reaching the woods.

On the right side of the woods Colonel Mitchell had
scraped together some scattered units and organized them
into what he called 139th Infantry. There was such a
confusion of organizations that for some time neither
Colonel Ristine, after his escape from the German lines, or
Colonel Mitchell had known the other was supposed to be
in command of the regiment.

About 1 o'clock in the afternoon Colonel Mitchell and
Lieutenant Ridlon were standing on the edge of Montre-
beau, looking away to the east. A speck of moving men
could be seen.

"Americans or Germans?" asked Colonel Mitchell.

"Look like Germans," said Lieutenant Ridlon.

They were Germans. They bore down on the eastern
edge of the woods in the face of a strong rifle fire. The
Germans paid a heavy price in dead, but a large number
of Thirty-fifth men were taken prisoners.

As more troops were appearing to the east, it was
believed an enveloping movement was under way. Realiz-
ing the danger, Colonel Mitchell sent Lieutenant Ridlon
back with word to Colonel Nuttman of what was taking
place.

110 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

Toward noon of the fourth day Major General Traub
had made a trip toward the front to learn just how mat-
ters stood. The perilious thread-like position that had
been reached by Major Rieger gave every indication of
being too weak to hold, and the withdrawal to a line of
resistance on the heights of Baulny was considered essential.

Lieutenant Ridlon found that the work of preparing
the line of resistance was already well under way. Colonel
Thomas C. Clarke, in command of 110th Engineers, had
chosen the line L'Esperance-Chaudron Farm-Cote 231 and
was organizing it for the infantry to fall back on. Lieu-
tenant Ridlon talked with Colonel Clarke and Lieutenant
Colonel Edward Stayton, told them how conditions were
nearer the front, and then started back to rejoin Colonel
Mitchell.

He found Colonel Walker was established with his
brigade headquarters at Chaudron Farm in an old stone
structure. He reported to him and told him the condi-
tions as he knew them.

"You go up and tell the C. 0. of 139th and 137th
Infantry to fall back on Baulny Ridge, using thin lines,"
commanded the Colonel.

"Wouldn't it be better, sir, if I had a written order to
that effect?" asked Lieutenant Ridlon.

"Do what I say," said Colonel Walker.

Lieutenant Ridlon made his way on up to Montrebeau
Woods, telling Colonel Mitchell of the orders he had re-
ceived from brigade headquarters. As Colonel Mitchell's
regiment was not in Colonel Walker's brigade, he believed
there must be some mistake. He sent a runner back to
headquarters of the Sixty-ninth Brigade and asked for
orders. Word was brought back that the division was to
retire to Baulny Ridge. The troops in the Baby Belleau
were to cover the retirement of the regiments holding
Exermont.

Lieutenant Ridlon, with runners, carried this message
forward to Major Rieger.

The 110th Engineers on Baulny Ridge were during
this time doing everything within their power to prepare
the line of resistance. The Germans, aware that the re-
tirement was being comtemplated, sent a crossfire from
Exermont and Emerieux Farm.

The engineers were working in the open, with nothing
to give them protection from the heavy shelling. A tempo-
rary system of trenchworks were dug, and along this the
infantry and engineers were to make a stand. The engi-
neers, not ordinarily combatant troops, had been up to the
third day of the drive in the rear, repairing roadways and
bridges. Some had been attached with the fighting men to

THE CRIMSON DAY 111

cut wire entanglements, but the regiment as a whole had
been engaged in the other type of work.

By the order sent out at 10 o'clock on the night of
September 28, the 110th Engineers were created divisional
reserves and consequently combatant troops. Equipped
with rifles, gas masks, and helmets, and with shovels and
picks that they had before used on the roadways, they be-
gan digging in.

Exposed to the frontal and flank fire, high explosives
and shrapnel rained around the engineers as they worked.
Colonel Clarke saw what a heavy price his regiment was
paying, but to save a possible rout of the division he
realized the work was necessary.

And the work went on.

At 12:30 o'clock the artillery, which was effectively
doing all that was asked of it, gave Major Rieger's bat-
talion a barrage at Exermont. A movement afoot against
the battalion by the Germans was checked.

The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade and French Artil-
lery units of Lieutenant Colonel Creange had been expe-
riencing every manner of difficulty since the barrage sent
over on the opening day of the drive. The surge ahead
of the infantry had distanced the artillery guns by the
early part of the morning. A battery of 129th Field Artil-
lery was first in a forward position, stationed on the edge
of the Bois de Rossignol. The 75s were ordered into ad-
vance positions on the second day near Cheppy and Very.
The 130th Field Artillery, with 155-mm. guns, were di-
rected to take a post at Varennes.

From the start the artillerymen fought with their guns
over roadways that were practically impassable. By the
time the batteries of 129th Field Artillery were in action
near Cheppy they were stripped of animal stock, and what
was left them was so exhausted as to be ready for the
discard.

Undaunted by enemy fire and by the depthless mud of
the roadways, the artillerymen kept their guns moving
forward when it was possible to do so. Putting their
shoulders to the carriage of the cannon, they attempted to
push ahead the mud-bound guns, and where the horses
failed the men succeeded.

On every day of the drive there was artillery fire.
On the first day during which the opening barrage was
fired, 41,000 shells, 4,500 of which were of heavy caliber
from the 130th Field Artillery guns, were sent over. The
Sixtieth Field Artillery on the second and third days put
over a total of 4,000 shells. After the fight to get the
batteries forward on the second and third days, the artil-
lery was back in full working order on the fourth day,

112 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

with a record of 12,700 shells hurtled into the German
lines. On the fifth day, as the Thirty-fifth lay entrenched
along Baulny Ridge, the artillery furnished protection with
a fire of over 12,000 rounds.

After the attack by the Germans shortly after noon,
Major Rieger perceived them massing troops in increased
numbers to his front and flanks. He sent word to Colonel
Nuttman, telling of conditions and asking for more men.
Word came back that he was to withdraw.

Sergeant Fugene Wolfe, of 139th Infantry headquarters,
was sent back with a request from Major Rieger for a bar-
rage to cover his withdrawal. Sergeant Wolfe was able
to make rapid progress to the rear, despite a strong ma-
chine gun fire on the flanks, and conveyed Major Rieger's
order.

When Lieutenant Ridlon, who had been directed by
Colonel Mitchell to inform Major Rieger of the plans for
withdrawing to the line on Baulny Ridge, arrived at Exer-
mont, the shattered remnants of the battalion were already
preparing to retire. The 140th Infantry men, who were
at Exermont, had started to the rear some time before.

Behind a protective fire from the artillery. Major
Rieger began the retirement. The Germans, who had
been massing men since the attack about noon, dogged the
retreating steps of the battalion with automatic rifle and
machine gun fire. The handful of men that still remained
to Major Rieger fought back stubbornly, inflicting losses
as they went.

To the south through Exermont, past the house of
Pere and Mere Blanc and all the little Blancs, now the
house of death for two German machine gunners, the re-
maining members of the battalion retraced their steps of
the morning. Only thirty per cent of the number who
had helped capture the village were in the line of retire-
ment. The rest had either been killed, received machine gun
wounds, or were gassed.

The work of getting the wounded to the rear was suc-
cessfully carried out. Captain D. H. Wilson, 137th In-
fantry, was posted with seventy men at Chaudron Farm to
protect the evacuation of the casualties as they were taken
from the dressing station at Chaudron Farm and as they
were carried from the thickets of Montrebeau Woods.

Among the wounded going to the rear was Charlie
Rife, Company B, 137th Infantry. Everyone who saw
Rife was sure something had gone wrong with his blouse,
but just what it was they were not certain.

Rife's blouse had been torn to threads while he was in
Montrebeau Woods the third day. A piece of shrapnel,
tearing its way into his blouse, had knocked a razor, a pair

THE CRIMSON DAY 113

of sun goggles and some other essentials of warfare out of
his pocket. The wound was not serious, but Rife never re-
covered from the loss of his sun goggles.

As evening drew on it found the Thirty-fifth en-
trenched along the heights of Baulny Ridge. The retire-
ment had been effected without great losses in any of the
regiments. American artillery had covered the retreat
whenever its fire was necessary and had lessened the num-
ber of casualties.

The division had made its last advance. The work
at hand was to hold on.

XII
THE THIRTY-FIFTH HOLDS ON

The dawn of the Thirty-fifth's fifth day in the Ar-
gfonne was much like the dawn of the other days had been.
Low-scudding clouds threw a drear aspect on the scene.
There was no rain, but the ground on which the men lay was
wet from the rain of the days before, and the air was
cold and moist.

Baulny Ridge was not protected from enemy eyes by
any natural growth of trees and shrubs. The holes which
the men dug were their only measure of protection, and
this was not enough to save many of them from becoming
casualties.

On the whole, the division was some better situated.
The Ninety-first Division on the right had advanced as far
as Eclisfontaine, the Twenty-eighth on the left was up to
Apremont, and the flank fire which had harassed every
step of the Thirty-fifth's advance no longer bothered the
men.

The task of holding on, with all its balm for the days
that had gone before, was not pleasant. The men were
tired, so tired that when they dropped down it was like
moving a world on their shoulders to get up again.

The retirement of the day before had not been carried
out in perfect order. The men had fallen back in some
semblance of formation, but there was much straggling
into the lines after it had been established along the
heights of Baulny. The engineers, not fresh themselves,
were still fresh enough to stimulate the fight-worn in-
fantry and machine gunners. The doughboys trickled into
the lines in groups and singly, falling in where they were
directed to and doing what they were commanded the best
their tired bodies would perform for them.

THE THIRTY-FIFTH HOLDS ON 115

At 9:45 o'clock in the morning the headquarters of
both brigades and the headquarters of 138th Infantry
were established on the Varennes-Charpentry road at the
entrance of Charpentry.

Colonel Delaplane reported at 10:10 a. m. at brigade
headquarters that the night had been passed by 140th
Infantry in a thin line of skirmishers north of Chaudron
Farm. Mixed units, he reported, held the position south
of Chaudron Farm. Back of the first line was a second,
being held by mixed troops, and a third, being held by the
engineers.

Colonel Mitchell, with 139th Infantry, had organized
along this same line, slightly to the left of 140th Infantry.
No liaison between 139th and 140th Infantry and 137th
and 138th Infantry had been established.

At 10:15 o'clock Lieutenant Gates, of 130th Machine
Gun Battalion, sent the following message to Captain
Moore :

"Acting under division machine gun officer's instruc-
tions, I have taken up position in ravine on hill south
of Baulny in order to cover retreat of troops on hills
should they be forced to retreat. Troops on hill north of
Baulny having hard time and may retire at any time."

Captain Reinholdt, who on the day before had taken
command of 138th Infantry when Major Comfort failed
to put in appearance, had assembled and reorganized his
regiment on the ridge south of Baulny. An example of the
riddled condition of the division may be gathered from
the strength of this regiment at the time it organized
for a defensive stand. In the first battalion there were
182 men, in the second battalion 250 men, and in the
third battalion 521 men. This made the total regimental
strength 853 men. With other regiments of the Thirty-
fifth practically the same condition was existent.

At 11 o'clock two planes were sighted flying over the
lines near Baulny. As enemy aircraft had played a large
part during the drive in bombing and machine gunning the
doughboys in their advance, these were the object of instant
suspicion. They bore the French three-colored circle on
their wings, but had two black stripes on them also.

The anti-aircraft guns blazed a pathway of puff-balls
around the two planes. They swerved, dipped, rose, and
after taking observations, scudded away in a Rhineland
direction. They were German planes.

Major Comfort, lost from his command of 138th In-
fantry, at 11 o'clock sent the following message to Brigade
headquarters :

**Am organizing second position on crest across draw
east of Baulny. Have 115 men of 138th. The first line is

116 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

apparently failing on its right and my right will soon be the
right front. No shelter here from hostile artillery and
unless we get fresh men and artillery from rear, can but
momentarily retard the Boche, should he come."

Fortunately for Major Comfort and the right of the
line, the Boche launched the counter-attack some distance
to the left. They came forward with rifles and automatic
rifles. The counter-attack, it seemed, was more to gauge
the strength of the American line than a determined as-
sault. Suffering material losses in men and guns, the
Germans were forced to withdraw. And the Thirty-fifth
kept at the task of holding on.

During the morning a conference had been held be-
tween Colonel Walker, Colonel Nuttman, Colonel Ristine,
and Colonel Delaplane, with a decision as to the organiza-
tion of the units on the divisional line. During a large
part of the day the troops were organized as follows:

To the right 138th Infantry was on the front line, with
units of 140th Infantry in reserve. The 140th Infantry was
in liaison with the Ninety-first Division on the right. The
center of the line was held by 137th and 138th Infantry, in
reserve, with 110th Engineers in the front line. On the
left of the line the Twenty-eighth Division, with engineers
in reserve, was drawn up.

Colonel Hay, division machine gun officer, received
word that Captain Moore had taken over the command
of 130th Machine Gun Battalion from Lieutenant Gates.
Company A of the battalion was northeast of Baulny with
five guns. Company C, with eleven guns, and Company D,
with two guns, were just south of Baulny on the slope of
the hill. Company B had become badly mixed and could
not be located.

From Major Thomas H. Loy, Colonel Hay received
this message:

"Have 138th Machine Gun in position on ridge south
of Baulny. Have two fragments of company on front. A
and B Companies can only muster two guns and have them
in position on same ridge. Everybody worn out and
needing relief."

Later Major Loy sent the following message:

"With remnants of Companies A, C and D, about 150
men and 19 guns, have taken up positions covering point of
hill 210 along same ridge to extreme right flank of division
sector. The 138th Machine Gun Company I have turned
over to the commander of 138th Infantry, who is occupy-
ing the ridge immediately in our front.

"Major Loy,
"C. 0. 129th Machine Gun Battalion."

No word had come back from Captain Wilson, who
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evacuation of the wounded. Fearing his little band of men
was too small in number to stand out against the enemy,
Colonel Walker directed that Lieutenant Ware, 140th In-
fantry, organize a provisional company and go to his aid.
Bringing together stragglers and other men as they
filtered back into the lines, Lieutenant Ware went forward
to Captain Wilson's assistance.

Lieutenant Lucier, who was in charge of a mixed de-
tachment in Montrebeau Woods, holding back the Germans
until the wounded could be taken to the rear, reported late
in the morning to brigade headquarters that he could not
keep his place much longer without reinforcements. Ger-
man waves, massed much stronger than his outpost detach-
ments, swept them back and seriously endangered the work
of evacuation.

By beating back the German advance, although often
overwhelmed by numbers, the outpost units were able to
keep their places until all the wounded were on their way
to the rear. Major Slusher, in charge of the men of the
dressing station at Chaudron Farm, saw that all the men
were cared for before he drew back toward the line along
Baulny Ridge.

Despite all the men could do to fulfill the dictates of
duty, the supreme weariness of the last four days of
fighting, now entering on the fifth, was not to be easily
triumphed over. What they did was by sheer will, for
bodies were numb and reacted slowly to thoughts that
would drive them.

Perhaps this message from Colonel Walker to General
Traub on the last day of the fighting reveals better than
any other just what test th^ men were facing:

"Colonel Delaplane has two front lines of engineer
trenches and engineers all in the third line. Colonel Dela-
plane's part of the line is held by a mixture of elements.
Colonel Mitchell last night got some of the elements of his
command and is reported to be moving into ravines to
north and east of Charpentry. We will need heavy coun-
ter battery work to avoid losses from enemy artillery play-
ing on rather crowded men in lines that are exposed to
view. Hope Colonel Hay can get M. G.s organized or give
us a plan. The men are physically exhausted and the
action of a few is liable to cause many to filter to the
rear. In my opinion these troops should be relieved at
once by fresh troops."

Late in the afternoon of September 30 orders were
received that the division was to be relieved, and were
transmitted by G^eneral Traub to the brigade commanders.
The First Division, one of the first to arrive in France,
and seasoned by hard campaigns on the front to the north.

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was to take over the sector occupied by the Thirty-fifth.

The First Division slipped into the Thirty-fifth's
place on the front at 3 o'clock the morning of October 1.
The Sixtieth Field Artillery Brigade and the Sanitary Train
were not relieved, but were attached to the First. The
Sixtieth Field Artillery on its first day in support of the
new division fired 4,438 rounds of ammunition, and be-
fore it withdrew on October 2 fired a farewell round of
1,728 shells.

The Sanitary Train continued two days longer with
its work until the First Division medical men could get into
place with their dressing stations and triages. During the
six days it was in operation the triage at Neuvilly, in the
hands of the field hospital section of the Sanitary Train,
handled 4,623 cases from the Thirty-fifth ; from the Thirty-
seventh Division, 87 cases; from the Twenty-eighth Di-
vision, 443 cases ; from the Ninety-first Division, 798 cases ;
and miscellaneous, 350 cases; making a total of 6,301
handled. Of this number 250 were sent to the corps rest
camp. From the salvage at the triage 280 officers and
men were re-equipped and returned for duty.

Besides the 4,623 cases which were handled from the
Thirty-fifth by the triage, there were 2,344 handled by
triages of other divisions, bringing the total casualty list
to 6,967. The medical department of the division had lost
proportionately as many men in the drive as the com-
batant units. During the latter days in the Argonne, when
word floated back that the fighting men were being pressed
back and the line would not hold, many of the men with Red
Cross brassards on their arms tore them off, secured a rifle
from some dead comrade, and went to the front line.

"We Were behind the infantry," said James C. Wilson,
Ambulance Company 140. "We grabbed fallen soldiers'
guns and went over the top. We tore our brassards from
our arms and marched along with the infantry."

In Ambulance Company 137 sixty-one men and three
officers of a personnel of 140 were listed as casualties from
shell fire and gas.

The total gain in ground by the Thirty-fifth during its
five days' fighting was ten kilometres, or six and one-
quarter miles. The farthest advance had been 300 metres
north of Exermont, or to a point seven and three-quarters
miles from where the jump-off had been made near Vauqois
Hill the morning of September 26.

Twelve German officers had been taken as prisoners
and 751 men. If all the prisoners had been brought to the
rear that were captured, the total would have been ma-
terially increased. But the class of fighting Prussians who
would stay at their machine guns until they had done all

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the damage in their power and then jump from behind
them with "Kamerad" on their Hps received only the just
share of mercy. The doughboy never faltered and the pun-
ishment he meted was a thing inexorable. In addition to
the list of captured accredited to the division, 250 prisoners
were taken by mistake to the Ninety-first Division head-
quarters.

The materiel taken during the drive was : 85 machine
guns, 160 auto rifles, 100 anti-tank guns, 4 telephone sys-
tems, 1 engineer dump, 2 ammunition dumps, 5 6-inch how-
itzers, 2 machine gun belt fillers, 3 77milm. field pieces,
2.60cm. gauge gas engines, 4 whiz bangs, 1 anti-aircraft
battery, 2 trench mortars, 11 pieces artillery, and 1 one-
pound gun.

So the Thirty-fifth had gone against the best the Ger-
mans had to offer and it was not good enough. There, in
a bedlam of death and destruction and debris, they had
thrust aside the pride of the German army and had bat-
tered down the master-defenses erected in their pathway.
On every side were American boys, fallen face forward with
their rifles in their hands ; Germans fallen at their machine
gun posts, in the comradeship of death. Dead horses,
crumpled at their task of supply and demand. Wreckage of
villages, bare walls the only proof that the old church tocsin
had once boomed the night watches and lives had been lived
there. Shattered trees and roads torn with fire. By
Varennes is an airplane, once piloted by an American, now
lying crippled and smashed and useless. A ground that is
marred and misshapen, a place of skulls, a playground of
death, the battle-ground.

The dawn of October 1 saw the weary columns of the
Thirty-fifth winding to the rear. It was morning and the
sky Was lit with crimson ; like all that was left in remem-
brance behind.

The air was cool, October air of the Argonne. The
trees on the hillsides were purpling and russeting and robing
for the colder days that were to come.

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After the relief had taken place, the troops assembled
in the vicinity of Charpentry. The organizations, badly cut
up and disordered, formed in marching order and set out
on the long trail that led to the rear.

Both officers and men were so worn by their five days'
fighting they literally dragged themselves to the task of
marching. They kept in column formation, so far as that
was possible, and there were stragglers only where men
dropped out from sheer exhaustion and weariness.

The horse-power of the division had been greatly de-
pleted during the drive. On September 25 the horses with
the artillery and ammunition train numbered 5,370; on
October 6, after a count and report had been made, there
were 4,152 horses. In the 128th Field Artillery there was
a shortage of 641 horses; in 129th Field Artillery, 799; in
130th Field Artillery, 977 ; and in 110th Ammunition Train,
286.

Such vital shortage in horse-power explains the in-
ability of the artillery to move forward along the mire of
the roadways. The long, tedious hours of waiting when
progress could not be made ahead might best be shown by
taking a company of artillery as an example.

This shows the headway made by Company B, 130th
Field Artillery, during the days of the drive:

At 2:30 a. m., September 26, opened barrage fire from
the position north of Neuvilly. At 8:30 a. m. left position,
materiel intact, took road through Neuvilly north. At 5:30
p. m. September 26 to 8 a. m. September 27 in bivouac on
road two kilometres north of Neuvilly. At 8 a. m. Septem-
ber 27 to 2 p. m. same day on road from bivouac to position

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in town of Varennes. At 2 p. m. in position at Varennes,
active operation until 9 p. m. October 2.

The chronological order of Battery B's movement into
position serves as an example of what occurred in the case
of other artillery units. The light pieces, which had a
greater distance to make, were not into position as quickly
as the 155mm. guns of the 130th Field Artillery.

October 2 the battle-torn columns of the Thirty-fifth
swung into the area south of Courupt. The Sixtieth Field
Artillery Brigade and the Sanitary Train were relieved on
the line at varying times during the day.

From Courupt the march was continued on October 3
to the area along the eastern edge of Les Islettes-Brizeaux
road south to the Passavant-Beaulieu road. The following
day the division spent resting and cleaning equipment.
October 5 the march to the rear was continued, the men
arriving in the evening in the vicinity of Vavincourt.

Coming out of the Argonne, the fighting men of the
Thirty-fifth in five days had covered forty-six miles. The
days from September 26 to October 6 had been a test with-
out equal in the division's existence.

In the words of H. A. Drum, chief of staff of the First
Army : *The fighting spirit and bravery of the officers and
men were excellent."

From October 6 to 11 the Thirty-fifth Division re-
mained near Vavincourt, resting from the strenuous days
of Argonne fighting. The days were not without their
drills, their policing, and all that is a part of the camp
routine. The soldier had heard much of the rest camps,
where men wined and dined after they had suffered heavy
fighting.

The rest camp, it was found, was another army
chimera. Reveille, retreat, drill, and a repetition of all
those things they had done over and over again for nearly
a year and a half, was what greeted them daily. Vin rouge
and bad beer they had, if that would be called wining;
bully-beef and beans they had, if that could be called din-
ing. The rest camp made the soldier long for the battle.

Then began the gruelling hikes again.

"Keep me in battle all the time," growled the dough-
boy. "Them rest camps are a French joke."

"Yal," agreed a companion, as he trudged along;
"reveille and drills are regular vacation parties, ain't
they?"

"I wonder," said the doughboy, "if John J. knows
there's such a thing in the army as a rest camp. I thought
all the time he had a big heart."

The morning of October 13 found the Thirty-fifth in
the vicinity of Benoite-Baux, Courouvre and Thillombois.

124 HEROES OF THE AKGONNE

The first lap of the ma,rch toward Sommedieue was com-
pleted.

That day the march continued. The Thirty-fifth ar-
rived in the Sommedieue area. Here it came under the
Thirty-third French Army Corps. Major General Traub
set up headquarters for the division at the little village
from which the area took its name. Sommedieue had been
the scene of some shelling, and, as was proven in the days
to come, was to be the scene of more. There was a city
fountain, three wineshops, two epiceries, and an old church.
Not all the French had been driven out by the shelling of
the village.

The Thirty-fifth relieved the French Fifteenth D. I. C.
Division on the Sommedieue sector the night of October
14-15. The relief was carried out in one night, with inter-
mittent shelling from the enemy lines.

After the Argonne, the trenches near Verdun were
almost to the Americans as the Vosges had been. It was
a return to the trench system of fighting. And that sys-
tem, so called, is a dry, tasteless affair after the open mode
of warfare the Thirty-fifth had experienced in the Argonne.

The Americans shelled the Germans. The Germans
kept up an answermg rumble. TTiere was gas sent over as a
general daily appetizer, occasionally high explosives. The
Thirty-fifth did not undertake any daring raids as it had
in the Vosges and contented itself with penetrating the
enemy lines with small patrols. One of these made its way
as far as Etain, and returned with an adventure to its
credit and all the knowledge of the German positions that
could be desired.

The Kansans and Missourians were near Verdun and
near Dead Man's Hill, where the French had made their
historic stand against the Kronprinz. The safety of
Democracy was a dim, indefinite matter to the soldier when
he saw such concrete irrespect of church and home as the
battered cathedral and buildings of Verdun.

All four regiments of the division were on the line in
the Sommedieue sector. Two battalions of each were in
the trenches, and one in support. To each line battalion a
machine gun company was attached.

The German airplanes were not idle. They maintained
vigilant observation over the American lines, directing the
enemy artillery and dropping propaganda. The opening
negotiations toward an armistice had been launched by
Germany and the airmen attempted a heart thrust at the
American morale with such statements as,

"What are you fighting for? Germany is tired of
bloodshed and seeks peace. When the need of fighting
is past, why are we fighting?"

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From overhead these slips of paper would shower
down on the soldiers below. Enemy propaganda was
always jested at and considered a "bon souvenir." They
rarely survived long in the hands of the men, for regu-
lar scouting parties were sent out to round up the slips
of paper "damaging to the morale."

It was while on this sector the first seven-days fur-
loughs were granted to the men. Grenoble, yet uninvaded
by Americans, was the first furlough area thrown open to
the Thirty-fifth or other organizations of the A. E. F.
The French met the train at the depot with flags, bands
and cheers. Pretty girls blew kisses from their finger
tips and old women waved and wiped away the tears.
There were twelve hundred men of the division who tasted
again of the sweetmeats of civilization. They were given
good rooms in good hotels, good meals at the best eating
houses, and with no cost to themselves. They answered
to no call except their own whims, went where they pleased
in the city, and were treated as guests.

November 1 the Thirty-fifth passed under the French
Seventeenth Army Corps. The nights of November 5 and
6 the men were relieved in the trenches by the Eighty-
first Division. Upon completion of the relief the division
was attached to the Third American Army Corps.

The Thirty-fifth doughboys had spent their last days
in the trenches, had shot at their last Boche, and for the
last time had been under fire. The fighting days were at
an end. The path lay homeward.

XIV
NOT STRICTLY A MATTER OF HISTORY

There is a man we call the professional soldier. He
is graduated from West Point. Its standards are his
standards, its creed his creed, its teachings his belief. He
has no previous military training before he is sent there.
West Point is his college and he must learn to obey its
laws and bow to its precepts.

The broadening power of the civilian college is barred
to him. He enters the portals of an educational institu-
tion whose doctrine is destruction; whose creed is killing,
if killing and its attendants will accomplish the desired
end. He has no knowledge of the life of the soldiers he
must command. He is given no opportunity to learn their
viewpoint. He has been taught to think of them not as
men, but as something to be used to accomplish the de-
sired end. Nothing must stand before that. It must be
his religion, even as destruction is a doctrine with him
and killing is a creed.

So with the world at war we saw a new situation. We
did not have professional officers commanding profes-
sional soldiers. The officers retained their vocation still,
but there was a need for men. The vast reservoir of
civilian manhood was spigoted. And soon the profes-
sional officers found themselves commanding non-pro-
fessional soldiers.

This was new to them. The plain soldier, in their
eyes simply a means, they could think of him in no other
light. He was the instrument to accomplish an end. His
life meant little, his comfort less, and his health meant
nothing.

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As when a report was turned in by a regimental com-
mander after the armistice showing that the men of the
Thirty-fifth were suffering great sickness from drill and
hikes in the mud and rain of a French winter, General
Dugan, division commander, replied: "The health of the
command is secondary." Secondary to what? To drills and
maneuvers at. a time when the war was over. Sitting by
a warm fire, did it matter to General Dugan how many
of his men never returned? Was he interested to know
how many men were in the hospitals? No; for, saturated
with West Point theory, he thought of the men only as
an accomplishment to an end. And, with that small,
cramped vision West Point gives. General Dugan could not
see that the end, the winning of the war, had already been
attained.

There was a situation brought about just before the
Argonne drive by this same myopia and pettiness bred by
the regular army. With the Thirty-fifth from the day
of its organization, many of the Kansas and Missouri
National Guard officers had built up around them fighting
machines fit for any field. His dislike for anything
National Guard overshadowing his desire for efficiency,
Major General Traub made some last-minute removals.
The news that General Martin and others in high com-
mand were to go had been common property, and not
favorably received by either officers or men. General
Martin had intensively studied the ground over which the
attack was to be made. He knew accurately the nature of
the terrain. He understood his command. Colonel Kirby
Walker, who replaced him, like the others of the regular
army placed in commands at the last minute, was un-
acquainted with his command, and, even more important,
did not possess its confidence.

Such a situation could result in but one thing. When
the system of organization met its first serious tests, it
crumbled. Instead of holding his hands to the reins,
Major General Traub, imbued with the regular army habit,
was making inspections on the field; was here, there and
everywhere, and no place in particular. Set such an ex-
ample by their chief, the brigade and regimental com-
manders naturally took on some of this wanderlust spirit
themselves.

The organization system crumbled, but the organiza-
tions themselves did not. The men demonstrated that of-
ficers may, or may not, be a full asset to victory. Where
no officer was present they took things upon themselves.
Cooks, figuratively speaking, kicked over the coffee pots
and led companies. Chaplains forgot to pray and led

130 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

the men into battle. Corporals took over the responsi-
bilities of captains.

There was the matter of the artillery. The alleged
failure of that organization to give effective protection to
the infantrymen was again not a thing of the organization
itself, but the manner in which it was handled. The regu-
lar army general in charge, General Berry, handicapped
largely by a failure of the guns to make their way through
the muddy roadways, was handicapped to a further degree
by his own short-sightedness in the provision of efficient
liaison.

What did the regular army, with all its West Pointers
and gloried theories, bring from the Argonne fields? All
that had been studied for a lifetime they let crumble. All
they had bragged of and flaunted as their acme of effi-
ciency was valueless in practice. They brought no honor
from the field and no credit for the victory won there.
The shattered remnants of their boasted prowess had gone
at the first breath of resistance from the enemy and they
lesft to "carry on" the plain, bemudded, begrimed dough-
boy.

The West Pointer needs a new school. The doctor
who graduates from college, the lawyer who obtains his
degree — are their promotions ever afterward given them
because they possess their degrees? The doctor's degree
has little to do with his success after he is graduated. The
lawyer does not win his cases because he succeeded in
passing the state bar examination.

But the situation of the West Pointer differs from
all other professions. He is graduated. He is promoted
by seniority, not on a basis of ability. He passes exam-
inations from one grade to another, examinations that are
a matter of form and not tests of his personal leadership
and adaptability. He attains generalship some day, per-
haps, not because he has risen to the top by his own merit,
but because he is older in the service than other men and
a graduate of West Point. There is no incentive for him
to show he is a better leader than other men, for they who
are older than he must keep the places ahead filled until
deaths or retirements open gaps.

The West Pointer needs a school where he receives his
training in civilian pursuits and his military training
afterward. He requires that broadening of vision that in
no day has been thought of as a part of the professional
soldier's makeup. He should serve a period in the ranks
after he has completed his civilian studies. When he won
his officership after obtaining a knowledge of the civilian
mind and a knowledge of the plain soldier's mind he would
appreciate and not abuse its privileges.

NOT STRICTLY A MATTER OF HISTORY 133

So in the Argonne it was the doughboy.
With or without officers, he said : "Hell ! fellows, let's
eat *em up."

And he did — the uncrowned king, the doughboy.

XV
THE LAST DAYS

The Thirty-fifth was on the long hike trail again.
From Sommedieue on November 6 and 7 the division went
into the Chaumont-sur-Aire area. Here the following day
was spent cleaning equipment and resting. On November
9 and 10 the move was resumed, the division reaching the
St. Mihiel area, where it was relieved from duty with the
Third Corps and the First Army and came under the
Fourth Corps and Second Army.

The eleventh month, the eleventh day, and the elev-
enth hour, Germany confessed by the armistice its defeat.
The Thirty-fifth, which was in that current directed by
Foch for the great offensive east of Metz, was checked.
The men took up billets in the haymows, and waited for
proof of the news.

Among the soldiery it was not received without skep-
ticism. There had been rumors and counter-rumors for
many weeks that Germany was on the brink of defeat, but
as rumors and counter-rumors are as necessary to the
army as bully-beef and black coffee tfie soldier held to his
doubts. The night of November 10 the sky was ablaze
with flares and rockets. On every hand were evidences
of the good news.

In the corner of the billet the usual belated game was
in progress. A sleeper, disturbed in his slumbers, would
in mild military terms express his opinion of "card
sharks" and "all their dam brethren."

Suddenly a sound rises above the low mumbling billet
talk.

"Music," suggests a doughboy at the card ring.

"A jazz band," says another.

THE LAST DAYS 136

"A bomb," persists the dugout fiend, diving for refuge
ttnder a bunk.

"Hey, guys, wake up !"

("Aw, what in hell?")

"Outside, you fellows. A Yank's married a madam-
oiselle and they're celebrating."

"La guerre fini! La guerre "

But soldiers are skeptical. Some would scramble out
of their straw pallets and go out into the muddy little
street. There the night was light as day; search-lights
and rockets blazed on the sky, flares and fires lighted the
horizon. There was a hurrying of people to and fro.

More did not go into the muddy little street. They
rolled over and slept. Others gurgled mumbles of protest
against those who disturbed their sleep.

The next day French newspapers appeared with
screamer headlines on the front page "Signe Armistice."
Then came Paris editions of American newspaprs, all
bearing like news. The doubting turned to belief at last,
but belief is not realization. And there were many who
saw the dawn of a world unbattling with that attitude the
soldier learns to hold toward all things — indifference.

The weary period of waiting following the armistice
was spent in the area about Commercy. The soldiers were
quartered in the haymows of typical French villages of
that section of France. There was the usual wineshop,
the usual peasantry clattering along in their sabots, the
usual haymow apartments with their mustiness and dank
odors, and the usual city fountain that stood as the heart
from which all the village's industry radiated.

The soldier faced no more difficult period in his en-
tire army experience than this time of waiting. At Camp
Doniphan he had always ahead of him the adventures of-
fered by the voyage to France and the promise of excite-
ment in battle. In France, he might not have been fight-
ing for a vision, but he was possessed of a concrete idea,
and its force was great enough to lead him through what-
ever suffering and hardship there might be.

The writer who says the American soldier was an
uncomplaining soldier has no intimate knowledge of his
characteristics. On every step of long marches there
would arise a bellowing protest, so loud as to awaken
villagers at their peaceful occupation of the forty winks.
After the armistice drills and maneuvers were a part of
each day's program, and the soldiers' idea of them will
always be best kept in France.

This ever-flowing stream of protest was a result of
civilian days, ingrown and deep-rooted. The soldier would

136 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

bow to discipline outwardly, but inwardly never fully al-
lowed himself to acknowledge its precepts. He would do
as he was told to do, but his idea beneath was expressed by
his talk on the surface.

The soldier earned his redemption through the qual-
ities of his action when real sacrifice was at stake. No
matter how much he might say on the march, no matter
to what thoughts his hours of drill were given, when it
came time in the Argonne for that real test in makeup,
he met it without a word to indicate he would have wished
his course to be different.

The villages in which the soldiers lived after the
armistice were not given to cheerfulness. The brooding old
churches, with their moss-covered walls ; the red-tiled roofs
of the homes, etched with spots of black and yellow by
the days of rain, and the streets that were lastingly
muddy, lent an atmosphere of depression and discontent.
French winters are gray and fog-bound. Snow is
rare, but temperatures are low. Heating a haymow pre-
sented a problem to which only comparable was the quest
for entertainment. The days were busy with drills and
maneuvers, a thing loathed and inveighed against without mercy
by the soldiers; evenings were left them, empty-handed of
pleasures of practically any form. There were wines and
beers at the cafes, but if no other argument were needed
to convince mankind prohibition is necessary, some forms
of French alcoholics would furnish it.

As winter went along, this dearth of entertainment
was in a measure remedied. Troupes of singers and
dancers and musicians were sent out over divisional cir-
cuits. Motion picture shows were given three times a
week. A show troupe of the Thirty-fifth was organized,
playing at Commercy and other points in the divisional
area. Later the show was sent to Luxemburg and cov-
ered other cities on the A. E. F. circuit.

Boxing matches between French and American fistic
champions were arranged at Commercy. Some of the
same matches that were staged in Paris were staged here.
So the winter wore along. A year before they had
been waiting to start the journey toward France. They
had seen France, lived, eaten, and some had lost their lives,
in its mud. They were ready to return.

It was better that the soldiers be returned as soon
as possible. The breach between the Americans and the
French had widened and in the chasm across which they
gazed there was to be found no common interests and
sympathy. Lafayette had been repaid, but the thanks of
the French were expressed in increased prices to the sol-
diers. The mass of the soldiery never understood and

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THE LAST DAYS 139

never forgave. Between the inhabitants of some of the
villages and the men billeted there the relationship trem-
bled on the brink of racial clashes. The soldiers desired
a quick return to America and the only love the French
now held to stay their departure was for their money.

The division was scheduled out February 7, but a
delay of a month took place. By March 12 the whole of
the Thirty-fifth was in the Le Mans area, after a ride of
three days in box cars a la Americain.

In the Le Mans area an effort was made to restore
the men to their normal condition. There were few in-
spections, short hikes, and the most that was required was
not a great deal. The villages in the district were clean
little affairs, each possessing a church and wineshops with
mechanical pianos.

The Thirty-fifth began the move toward St. Nazaire
April 2. The men were in isolation and blue overalls here
for several days while awaiting the arrival of ships. In
the distance they could see the Bay of Biscay, and the road
that led toward America.

Divisional headquarters, with Major General Wright
and his staff, and auxiliary units of the division, boarded
the De Kalb March 28 at 4 o'clock, and sailed the next
afternoon at 1 o'clock. The ship docked at Newport News,
Virginia.

The 137th Infantry and 130th Field Artillery arrived
in the harbor at New York April 23. The division in
landing was split between New York and Newport News,
those that sailed from Brest going to New York and those
embarking from St. Nazaire to Newport News.

The Thirty-fifth left 1530 in dead in France, and re-
turned with 10,605 replacements.

Practically all of the organizations on the way to
Camp Funston, Kansas, for demobilization, paraded two
cities of Kansas and Missouri. The streets were banked
with crowds, and the people from the countryside were out
with bands and flags.

Short work was made of the demobilization at Camp
Funston. The men were given their discharges, their pay,
and the sixty-dollar bonus due every discharged soldier of
the army. On an average, less than three days were spent
by the organizations at the demobilization camp.

Slips were given for transportation. The men boarded
the trains armed with grins and new suitcases.

And the unvoiced thoughts we could but translate:

France, we have told you goodbye. We tramped
through the mud of your fields, we slept weary nights in
your rains that never cease, we gave all you asked and

140 HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

repaid all we sought of your Lafayette, and now we have
returned.

All of us who went are not returning. All of us who
went and have returned possess a larger vision of your
sacrifice, a broader insight into your heroism. All the
the praise you offer us for throwing the weight on the
scales and defeating the Huns can never equal your valor
in preserving the balance until we arrived. You fought
against odds and we fought with them ; you fought against
the seasoned and the fresh troops of all the enemy had to
offer, and never once did they reach their goal; you paid
with blood and the reward was victory.

We have returned, but the land we left behind shall
always be sacred for the memory of our dead who only
returned in spirit with us ; sacred for the memory of their
sacrifices for you and your sacrifices for them; sacred
as the spot the world shall always look upon as the cal-
dron in which men and races were regenerated.

What awaits us on our return makes us glad of that
return. Most of us shall probably never again visit the
spots where comrades fell and the guns mouthed their
loudest thunderings. Our return is no brief farewell,
and a farewell not of regret but of satisfaction that the
work we went to do has been done well.

The curtain is rung down, the span is crossed.

France, goodbye.

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Introduction to the Roster

There were 27,000 men in the Thirty-fifth Division. Of
this number the original quota furnished by Kansas was 8,500.

What follows is the table of organization for the Kansas
quota, with a list of the points at which they were organized :

first Kansas (later merged with Second Kansas into 137th
Infantry): Headquarters, Lawrence; Machine Gun Company,
Humboldt; Supply Company, Lawrence; A Company, Kansas
City; B, Horton; C, Burlington; D, Paola; E, Fredonia; F,
Hiawatha; G, Fort Scott; H, Lawrence; I, Manhattan; K, Gar-
nett; L, Yates Center; M, Lawrence.

Second Kansas (later merged with First Kansas into 137th
Infantry): Headquarters, Newton; Machine Gun Company,
Hutchinson; A Company, Wichita; B, Holton; C, Great Bend;
D, McPherson; E, Hutchinson; F, Larned; G, Minneapolis; H,
Winfield; I, Wichita; K, Independence; L, Emporia; M, Salina.

Third Kansas (later merged with the Fourth Missouri into
139th Infantry) : Headquarters, Topeka; Machine Gun Company,
lola; Supply Company, Topeka; A Company, Coffeyville; B,
Oskaloosa; C, Junction City; D, Caney; E, Leavenworth; F,
El Dorado; G, Downs; H, Abilene; I, Herington; K, Newton;
L, Wellington; M, Marion.

First Regiment, Kansas Field Artillery (later made the 130th
Field Artillery, 60th Brigade): Headquarters, Topeka; Supply
Company, Topeka; A Company, Topeka; B, Lawrence; C, Pitts-
burg; D, Pittsburg; E, Kansas City; F, Wichita.

First Squadron, Kansas Cavalry (later became Troop A of
the Headquarters Troop, Thirty-fifth Division): Headquarters,
Ida; A Company, Eureka; B, Wichita; C, Dodge City; D,
Coffeyville.

First Kansas Field Signal Battalion (later became 110th Field
Signal Battalion) : Headquarters, Wellington; A Company, To-
peka (radio); B, lola (wire); C, Wichita (outpost).

First Kansas Battalion of Engineers (later became 110th En-
gineer companies): Headquarters, Kansas City; A Company,
Topeka; B, Kansas City; C, Kansas City.

Kansas Sanitary Train (later became a part of 110th Sani-
tary Train) : Field Hospital 1 (became Field Hospital 139), To-
peka; Ambulance Company 1 (became Ambulance Company 139),
Kansas City; Field Hospital 2 (became Field Hospital 140), Par-
sons; Ambulance Company 2 (became Ambulance Company 140),
Kansas City.

The 110th Ammxmition Train was made up of draft quota
from Camp Funston, Kansas, and transferred men from the
Thirty-fifth Division.

The roster, containing the names of the Kansas men as they
entered training at Camp Doniphan, including the 110th Ammu-
nition Train, is on the page that follows:

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS AUGUST 16. 1917

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS OF THE FmST

KANSAS INFANTRY

70th Brigade

Sergeant Major, Brig.

Lawrence, Virgil J.
Sergeant

White, Raymond M.
Waggoners

Nevill, Clarence R.

Bkillin, Hance B.
Privates, First Class

Brown, William A.

Hdq.

Carroll, Alfred E.
Crawford, Geo. M., Jr.
Longrenecker, Donald D.
Mays, Marshall I.
Reed, Willis C.
Ridlon, Owen A.
Stratemeyer, Lewis O.
Waldo, Guy L.
Zercher, Joseph E.

146

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

TROOP A OF THE FIRST KANSAS CAVALRY
Headquarters Troop, Thirty-fifth Division

Captain

Baker, Ralph E,

1st Lieutenant

Martin, Eugene R.

2nd Lieutenant

Clark, Elzie E.

1st Sergeant

Miller, Wilkie M.
Mess Sergeant

Ainsworth, Howard W.
Supply Sergeant

McMullen, Everett A,
Stable Sergeant

Purkable, Harry V.
Sergeants

Rodenbaugh, Charles W.

Smuth, James W.

Weiser, Charles H.

Gore, Clarence E.

Moffitt, Russell M.
Corporals

Ladd, Ole E.

Marriott, Dean R.

Wig-gins, George E.

Miller, Albert B.

Burt, Harold A.

Cook, Archie A.

Hamlin, Edwin F.

Pugh, Lloyd A.
Horseshoers

Weldon. Robert Ia

Cook, John E.
Saddler

Klein, Fred C.
Cooks

govern, Samuel L,

Martin, Ralph L.
Buglers

Martin, Errol S.

Riney, Harold P.
Privates, 1st Class

Hickman, Harry C.

Berry, Lloyd A.

Call, William L.

Duncan, Jesse

Hart, Harold M.

MoFall, Ray H.

WTieeler, Charley H.

Wright, Rodney R,

Lewis, Glenn R.

Todd, Eddie- L.

Willis, James H.

Swann, Carl S.

Call, John C.

Gullikson, Charles M.

Hunt, Fred L.

Harris, Joseph H.

Wright, Wordie I.

Jones, Earl J.
O'Brien, Francis F.
Ladd, John E.
Privates

Askey, Lee E.
Agard, Robert
Atkinson, Arthur R.
Barker, Willie
Barber, Charley
Barg, Melvin H
Betsher, William H.
Branson, Hugh
Bland, James W.
Beyer, Oscar A,
Boone, Everet L.
Cox, Claude L
Collins, William F.
Conn, Roy J.
Crans, Thurlow S.
Cummings, Arthur C.
Divine, John A.
Dolson, William E.
Davis, Roy L.
Edwards, Oral W.
Gibson, Grover C.
Hellman, Glenn C.
Herbert, Arthur
Hillman, Charles E.
Jones, Earl O.
Johnson, Lowell W.
Jordon, Harry E.
James, Vernon A.
Kessinger, Bennle
Lloyd, Walter W.
Love, Otis
Milham, Ralph A.
Miller, George
Meredith, Cline J.
Milner, Calvin A.
Owen, Alvin G.
Olson, Henry J.
Pryce, Sam
Roberts, Clyde
Rockley, Rex
Ray, Arthur C.
Ryan, Frank C.
Robb, Vivian E.
Reay, Charles R.
Sallyards, Logan
Soully, Andrew L
Smith, Otto G.
Stride, Clarence R.
Samuels. William A.
Schall, Jack
Stockton, Ernest M.
Sturgeon, Harold J.
Schadel, Levi M.
Talley, Cecil V.
Webb, Earl R.
Wilson, Norman R.
Weatherbee, Fred L.
Watson, Frank R.
Walter, Barney

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

147

TROOP B OF THE FIRST KANSAS CAVALRY
110th Military Palice

Captain

Sherman, James H.
1st Lieutenant

Stroud, Elisha H.
2nd Lieutenant

Hollick, Merle E.
1st Sergeant

Bishop, George E.
Mess Sergeant

Lanning-, Wayne J.
Supply Sergeant

Chapman, Burchard B.
Stable Sergeant

Cooper, Walter S.
Sergeants

Evans, Jack

Fiedler, Fred

Hunt, Richard L.
Corporals

Cunningham, Claude F.

Brown, Willard R.

Lord, Ralph C.

Critser, Dale W.

Ogile. Franck O.

Gioding, John L.

Foley, James W.
Privates

Anderson, Emmitt C.

Asher, Roy D.

Banta, Orson F.

Bidwell, Andre-w J.

Boyle, Dewey

Brown, John R.

Brumfield, Joe

Burns, James W.

Callahan, Warren J.

Campbell, Carl F.

Case. Charles E.

Cherry, Leland S.

Close, Elmer H.

Colson, James C.

Colver, Ralph B. D.

Corbin, Robert

Crawford, Herbert J.

Current, Orval E.

Decourcey, Victor St. E.

Daugherty, Bryan J.

Doran, Ira

Elliott, Jesse R.

Ester, Lawrence W.

Fowler. Raymond C.

Fowler. Raymond G.

Goosey, Merle C.

Graves, George C.

Graves, Henry C.

Gregory, Chester A.

Harman, Robert L.

Harned, Frank S.

Harper, Albert D,
Heine, Albert W.
Hervey, Raymond C.
Hibarger, Godfrey S.
Hills, Dan C.
Helt, Roy F.
Holliday, Owen J.
Holsey, Henry N.
Howard, Clarence A.
Holt, Rollie H.
Houston, James W.
Husted, Emery E;
Jansen, Charles
Johnson, Rudy L.
Kearney, William A.
Kemper. Charles L.
Kennedy, Earl L.
Laurie, James M.
Lickey, Clifford
Manahan, Thomas L.
Matson, Lauren C.
Mayfieid, Henry M.
McMahan, Pearl P.
McDaniel, Floyd
McKivett, James C. A
Miller, Walter L.
Milligan, Harry D.
Moore, Pearl T.
Nagley, Earl
Nagley, James W.
Newcomb, Jack
Pantier, Ray W.
Parker, Merle D.
Patterson, Clarence
Penny, Kelles N.
Penland, Robert E.
Phenneger, Forrest G.
Pickens, James F.
Pickens, Leon S.
Roll, Lloyd L,
Roll. Arthur D.
Rowe, Everett M.
Rush, Oren N.
Scrimsher, Evell R.
Sellers, Leonard
Shafer, Harry H.
Sharp, Oscar H.
Showers, Erman A.
Smith, George O.
Spurling, Harlowe
Straw, Herschel E.
Thompson, Earl W.
Traver, Harry J.
Tuttle. Clarence J.
Umbarger, Ivan D.
Vance, Francis M.
Wheeler, Dean O.
Wilson, Clyde B.
Wilson, Harold A.
Wood, George M.

148

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

TROOP C OF THE FIRST KANSAS CAVALRY
110th Military Police

Captain

Gary, Joseph R.
1st Lieutenant

Jones, Winfield D.
2nd Lieutenant
Hale, Will T.
Sergeants

Askow, Bernard M.
Miller, John L.
Holmes, Jess C.
Dowdy. Claude D.
Watson, Lige E.
Miller, John E.
Morgan, Fred
Corporals

Myers, Floyd P.
Balfour, William D.
Evans, Earl D,
Dye, William L.
Evans, Cress B.
Privates

Arrington, Frank H.
Anders, Lemual L.
Anders, Phinas C.
Archer, Rommie L.
Allen, Jean H.
Brentlinger, Charley
Bader, Ross J.
Bolinger, Esra D.
Bailey, William L.
Barbee, Andrew L.
Cormack, John C.
Cummings, Theodore W.
Crowe, James D'.
Craft, Clarence D.
Craft, DeWitt
Davison, Roy H.
Dennis, Robert I.
Downing, McKinley

Dooley, William J.

Dixon, Carnet J.

Ditch, Oscar

Eagan, Robert E.

Eaton, Forrest D.

Elsey, Howard C.

Ellis, Herbert B.

Fiester, George J.

Fowler, George W.

Freeman, Alvin D.

Foster, William J.

Fugitt, Austin G.

Gearhart, Byron W!.

Galloway, Lawrence HL

Gilliam, Lloyd H.

Hill, Guy W.

Hill, Leonard J.

Hinke, William B.

Hole, Martin
Hays, Dwight D.
Haff. Vernon M.
Houston, Harry H.
Houston, Frank W.
Hutchison, Chester A.
Hole, Allen
Howe, Clifford C
Helfrich, Henry C.
Hutchings, Harold E.
Hill, Fred G.
Howard, James A.
Hudson, Therman O.
Johnson, Howard L.
Judd, Robert F.
Knowlton, Charles A.
Kuns. Albert W.
Karraker, Francis M.
Little, John P.
Lowery, William G.
Melton, Thomas
Mapes, Walter W.
Mansfield, John H.

Mallonee, Ira

Moore, Chas. F.

McCue, Ralph V.

McDowell, Jess

Miller, Merl F.

McDermott, James L.

Otto, Leo B.

Page, Herbert S.

Pendleton, Elwood

Parker, Frank G.

Perry, Jim W.

Powers, Grant

Roberts, Carl A.

Rockstrum. Charles

Reeves, Robert C.

Robertson, Alexander W.

Reese, Victor

Rapp, Martin S.

Souder, Chas. O.

Snyder, Owen O.

Stafford, Addison D.

Skillington, Lewis E,

Samples, Lyle K.

Sisson, Nelson J.

Sisson, Archie L.

Sibert. Elzy

Summerville, James R.

Strum, Clyde R.

Timken, Leslie

Tuttle, Austin L.

Troehmel, Julius P.

Underwood, Thomas A.

Vance, Earl E.

Wallace, Paul R.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

140

Troop D of the First Squadron, Kansas Caralry

Captain

Fulton, Ralph I>.
1st Lieutenant
Hite, John M.
2nd Lieutenant

Milham. Russell F,
1st Sergeant

Fish, Earl S.
Mess Sergeant

O'Connell, Mark B.
Supply Sergeant
Allison, Gelo P.
Stable Sergeant

Drake, Morlan W.
Sergeants

Clarence. Amos C.
Gillam, John C.
Wells, Ted W.
Milliken, Charles W.
Wilmoth, Jesse B.
Ck>rporals

Cook, Vernon S.
Dana, Arthur W.
Flanna^an, Mike
Quesnier, Joseph A.
Hill, I. Thomas
O'Connell, Paul M.
PInkston, Elmer
Turner, Merle E.
Horseshoers

Davis, Roscoe J.
Holmes. Walter F.
Saddler

Pool. Ralph P.
Cooks

Dillon, John L.
Thomlinon. Amos R.
Buglers
Scott, Paul H.
Williams, John S.
Priyates, 1st Class
Amos, J. Albert
Beal, Otis O.
Brill. Claude H.
Cavenar, Clarence W.
Clark. Ellis J.
Creel, Earl W.
Debo, William O.
Fisher, Willard
Forth, Frank J.
Hurley, Raj H.
Klme, Ernest L.
McBurney, James B.
McCormick, George D.
McHatton, Robert P.
Millstead, William B.
Pendarvis, William
Smith, J. Lester
Summers, Chester R.

Thompson, Reese A.
Wallingford, James C.
Privates
Arnold, Lee
Barnes. Lawrence A.
Basey, Mark H.
Bennett, Eddie L,
Bray, John H.
Beal, Charlie
Bowersock, Roy
Bowman, Frank C.
Burress, Dewey
Bush, Lloyd
Burris, George
Boyce, Fred E.
Burgolty, William H.
Christy, Ernest P.
Crittenden. Samuel
Cooper, Delbert H.
Dewey, Richard C.
Dugan, Cuba J.
Edson, Leon K,
Evans, Condo
Farran, James R.
Ford, Willford H.
Frizell, Allen
Hahn, Clyde D.
Hanley, Harold
Harrington, Walter D.
Harvey, Frank H
Hindman. Charley M.
Igo, George W.
Johnston, Francis H.
Johnston, Harris
Kabler, Ira C.
Knight, Thomas R.
Landon, William R.
Lonnecker, Virgel H.
Maiden, Clarence O.
McKee. James B.
McCleary, Frank W.
McCloud. Walter R.
Owen. Lee R.
Raczykowski. Thomas
Ransom, John Wi.
Sayre, Aaron V.
Sullivan William C.
Schroeder, Johannefl F.
Smith, James Otis
Stevens, Robert W.
Stockham. Charles M.
Swallow, Fred B.
Taylor. Manning H.
Tiarks. Herman M.
Tiffany. Dolphin C.
Tucker. Kyle W.
Walls. Tilde H.
Warner William T.
Wilson Willis T.
Wilson. Frank L.
Wolfe. William P.
Wright. Jacob W.
Toung Perry J.

180

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Sanitary Detachment of the First Squadron,
Kansas Cavalry

1st Lieutenant

Simpson, Samuel E.

Privates

Alkirs, Charles W.
Baldrldge, Floyd K.

Brenner, Cecil A.
Ely, Clarence G.
Enslow, Andrew
Leathexwood, Harry E.
Manzering, Carl C.
Smith, Earl R.

Detachment of the Kansas Q. M. C.
Thirty-fifth Quartermaster Corps

Sergeants, 1st Class

Wilson, Donald D.

Fritz, Walter R.

Thoren, Carl E.

Shadinger, Harold D.

Hesse, James W.

Balakely, Victor K. D.
Sergeants

Milam, Morris D.

Nash, Edward C.

Shepard, Cortland W.

Weber, George W.

Welty, Donald D.

Brockett, Wallace J.
Priyates, 1st Class

Baker, Von C.

Bowman. Herbert D.
Briery, Clifford C.
Cole, Wilbur D.
Fellows, Frank L.
LAwn, James F.
Reinbach, Otto M.
Rowell, Lloyd G.
SamuelBon, John N.
Willard, Glenn M.

Privates

Gustafson, Charles M.
Hall, Lester H. W.

Cooks

Chapman, Marion S.
Jasperson, Clarence P.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

151

Headquarters Company, First Kansas Infantry
Seventieth Brigade

Captain

Murray. Joseph W.

Regimental Sergeant Major

Studer, William J.

Battalion Sergeant Major

Hanson, Harry W.
Bryan, Ora E.
Gillette, Harold R.

Color Sergeant

Wenger, Joseph S.

Mess Sergeant

Galloway, Percy L.

Supply Sergeant

LeSuer, Nelson M.
Stable Sergeant

Dickerson, Harlan K
Sergeant

Hill, Ormond P.
Cooks

Lupher, David W.

Reedy, Howard L.
Band Leader

Rigdon, Walter
Assistant Band Leader

Keiser, Bernhardt A.
Sergeant Bugler

Domingo, Faustina J.
Band Sergeant

Crowder, Frank T.
Band Corporals

Riggs, Charles N.

Shearer, Beryl L.

Williams, Charles
Musicians, 1st Class

Birch, Albert B.

Kalama, Francis J.

Musicians, 2nd Class

Madrid, Savannah
Mcllhenny, Robert C.
Musicians, 3rd Class

Barndt, Clarence Li.

Bayles, Charles G.

Belden, Theodore

Berridge, Guy H.

Block, Clarence I.

Clements, Luther Q.

Davis, Oren T.

Deon, Louis A.

Graham, Roy W.

Kirk, A. Tom

Peterson, Fritz B.

Powell, Verne C.

Ramsey, Charles L.

Saunders, Gordon

Tanner, Allen O.

Tester, Clifford L.
Privates, 1st Class

Angevine, Montfort B.

Cohn, Byron S.

Hill, Alfred G.

Sanger, Clarence A.
Privates

Anderson, Arthur S.

Benedict, Fred R.

Bouton, Archie B.

Brown, Max L.

Burger, Harry L.

Courtney, William E.

Haskins, George

Hess, Walter W:

Jones, Frederick G.

Lawrence, Arthur

McCurdy, Henry B.

Neville, Kenneth L.

Roads, Ray V.

Rohrer, William

Smith, Guido B.

IM

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Machine Gun Company, First Kansas Infantry
130th Machine Gun Battalion

Captain

Mathlas, Frank D.

Ist Lieutenant

Braucher Hawley H.

2nd Lieutenants

Moor, Thomas F.
McClaran, Ray M,

First Sergeant

Goble, Lester E.

Mess Sergeant

Braden, Fred W,

Supply Sergeant

Capelin, Perry A.

Stable Sergeant

Hinkle. Byron L.

Horseshoer

Lambeth, Hugh W.
Sergeants

Works, "Warren W.

McGannon, Michael L.

Lieurance. Ray R.

Solley, William H.

Doty, Alg-y

Armsby, Horace H.
Corporals

Johnson, James L.

Lieurance, Delbert R.

Noyes, Melvin F.

Williams, Edwin H.

Willhite, Riley E.

Johnson, William M.

Hottenstein, Fred J.
Mechanics

Willhite, James G. W.
Cook

Sibert, Frank S.
Privates, 1st Class

Ashbrook, Lindsay W.
Alexander, Colin H.
Barrackman, William J.
Goble, Lawrence S.
Poore, Ezra W.
Porter, Charles E.

Privates

Adams, Raymond D.
Bayer, Clarence G.
Benson, Floyd E.
Bush. Ranson A.
Byers, Frank J.
Campbell, Clarence E.
Carter, John H.
Cave, Ernest L.
Cheap, Georg-e L.
Dauster, Ralph D.
Dobson, Bryan
Embrey, Roy N.
Fleming-, Gilford R.
Fronk, Cyrus A.
Goodell, Walter
Gordon, Clyde F.
Green. James E»
Hack, Lyle W,
Hall, Fred H.
Henderson, Cletus L.
Hendricks, George L.
Hylton, Henry R.
Jordon, Raymond A.
Kelley, Orlo T.
Kerscher, Raymond
Lambeth, Alson G.
Lassmann, Otto W.
Lloyd, Thomas A.
McGinity, James M.
Magha, Dewey W.
Miller, Frank E.
Mosier, Fred T,
Newton, Elza L.
Northrup, Walter H.
Partington, Orrel D,
Rauhoff, Harry J.
Saunders, Gwinn J.
Smith, Carl J.
Snider, Arley R.
Summers, Earl E.
Tomlinson, Harvey W.
Thompson, Robert L., Jr.
Wastle, Frank A.
White, Ernest D.
Wilson, John M.
Wood, George D.
Wood, Robert W.
Gant, Clarence F.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

153

Supply Company, First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Wagstaff, Robert B.
2nd Lieutenant

Bartlett, Thomas R.
Regimental Supply Sergeants

Tuttle, Horace L.

Templin, Harry W.

Thompson, Leon R.
First Sergeant

Kester, Clarence L.
Mess Sergeant

Willis. Vergil B.
Stable Sergeant

Stover, Ralph A.
Corporal

Nelson, Earl C.
Saddler

Cook, Harry T.

Cook

Parker, John W.
Waggoners

Ardrey, Joseph C.
Allen, Luther

Bebout, Roy N.
Bishop, Fred H.
Brown, Orrin C.
Brown, Russell R.
Byerly, Arthur D.
Crane, Chas. W.
Chambers. Albert R.
Chambers, Frank 1m
Coffey, Ellis D.
Dunham, Robert E.
Fife, Robert F.
Gard, George E.
Grattan, Alex D.
Heylmun, Edgar D.
Hurlock, John B.
Kraus, Joseph
Kratz, Francis O.
Lobaugh, Ray Ww
Peck, Athol
Percy. Mack J.
Potter, Clarence B.
Riggs, Edwin C.
Remberg, Everett K
Seymour, Frank K
Taylor, Russell L.
Webb, Steve G.

154

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company A of the First Kansas Infantry
137th Infantry

Captain

Rupert, Archie K.
1st Lieutenant

Simpson, Wyndham A.
2nd Lieutenant

Firstenberger, Alfred
1st Sergeant

Beck, William J.
Supply Sergeant

Winters, Roy
Mess Sergeant

Cog-hill, Charles A.
Sergeants

Strickland. Frank P., Jr.

Browe, Owen B.

McMinimy, Joseph L.

Kirby, James S.

DeBord, Ulysses C.

Browne, Donald L».

Donlen, William J.
Corporals

Hammer, Nelson E.

Powell, Paul R,

Boyle, Ernest E.

Debo, Leland C.

Townsend, Ben G.

Adams, Frank P.

Hardin. Edward R.

Abramson, Harry

Snowwhite, Gustave F.
Cooks

Orr, Thomas J.

Hicks, Charles C.

Phillips, Fred
Mechanics

Asplund, Robert A.

Urie, Noble B.
Buglers

Carey, Thomas F. Jr.

McBratney, William L.
Privates, 1st Class

Anders, Everett J.

DeBord, Hugh G.

Gunz, Earl

Henderson, Herbert A

Hill, George

Jeffords, Paul

King, Howard O.

Lane, Paul R.

Simpson, William T.

Stevens, Earl

Stubbs, Earl B.
Privates

Ackley, William B.

Adams, George P.

Anderson, Harry

Anderson, Walter

Ashlock, Vernpn L.

Asplund, George B.

Barclay, Dennis

Beggs, John O.

Beardsley, Grov©r C.

Berg-in, Cecil A.
Bernsthy, William W.
Booker, Manning K.
Bowers, Orville D.
Bray, Russell K.
Bunevac, Paul
Brendell, Leo
Callahan, Frank R.
Garden, John W.
Carpenter. Orville L
Consty, Roscoe J.
Colley, David J.
Converse, Arthur N.
Clark, Ora R.
Crawford, Charles E.
Defries, Ruel E,
DeMeyer, Edmond
Davidson, Hugh W.
Dougherty, Forester H.
Dougherty, Leslie H.
Douglas, John L.
Dunn, Harvey N.
Erickson, John
Faulkner, Arthur C.
Fiscus, George
Folscroft, Otis G.
Force, Archie D.
Gerhards, Ben J.
Gerhards, John H.
Goff, Charles D.
Goodell, Ralph H.
Gregory, William
Grossman, Samuel E.
Gunn, Donald M.
Hail, Worden R.
Hiatt. Frank L.
High, William H.
Hill, Harry
Hillyer, Fred W.
Holleman, Albert L.
Jeffords, Frank E.
Jenkins, Roy E.
Johnson, Joseph E.
Johnson, Leon
Jolliff, Charles D.
Jolliff, John W.
Kane, John W.
Kerns, Commodore L.
Kirkman. Ridge
Laudeman, James H.
Lawrence, Phillip H.
Layton, Fred
Lew^is, Arthur C.
Lobeck, John
Maule, Fred E.
Malherbe, Arthur L.
Malott, Harry A.
Maxwell, Donald B.
Maxwell, John A.
Michaelis, Joseph B.
Mitchell, Wade W.
Morris. Arthur J.
Munkers, Gilmer H.
Nelson, Harry L.
Newton, Robert W.
O'Farrell, William W.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE^

156

O'Neill, Thomas H.
Otterman, DeWItt J.
Pate, William N.
Peterson, Oscar A.
Poisal, Walter
Randel, Samuel P.
Reynolds, Joseph I.
Rash, Elmer E.
Ridley, Fred
Sanders, Raymond D.
Schiller, Arnold A.
Schwalje, Michael A.
Schuler, Louis A.
Schneider, Frank
Simonsen, Harold N.
Sinsleman, Charles H.
Smith, Arthur L.
Staton, Edward E.
Stanford, Jesse W.
Strelner, Charles G.

Street. Earl T.
Sterbenz, Matthew J.
Stubbs, Gail W.
Stumph, Bennie F.
Sudac, Nick
Tarry, Lloyd W.
Thompson, William
Timmons, Bverette
Voix, John A.
Washburn, Raymond
Way, Floyd L.
Wells, Clarence T.
Williams, Orie A.
Wiggins, Ralph
Wilson, James C.
Wilson, Merle B.
Wise, Charles W.
Woolf, James E.
Galley, Edward J.
Trendell, William

15C

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company B of the First Kansas Inf antiy

Captain

Thompson, John R.
1st Lieutenant

Thompson, Andre-w J.
2nd Lieutenant

Vining, Guy E.
1st Sergeant

Theiss, Arthur L.
Supply Sergeant

Hodgen, Calvin J.
Sergeants

White, Jesse

Landing, Arthur A.

Birch. Arthur M.
Corporals

Pettit, Charles M.

Weir. Arthur N.

Hutchinson, Elzie C.

Ellson, Ralph E.

Lanter, John S.

Masquat, George P.
Cooks

Whiffen, Paul

Conner, Charles E.

Jack, Thomas A.
Buglers

Harris, Clarence A.

Crawford, Floyd H.
Mechanics

Welker, Lewis E.

Baldwin, James B.
Privates, 1st Class

Bolen, Oscar

Griffin, Charles E.

Henderson, William M.

Henney, Homer J.

McMinds, Erwin P.

Miller, Henry J.

Smithers, Claude C.

Stovall, Woodson E.
Privates

Alexander, Earnest

Allen, Alex

Anderson, AUie E.

Archer, Clyde L.

Balser, Chris E.

Bowman, Roy

Boyce, Daniel A.

Brun, Kilby

Brun, Franklin O.

Brunner, Sam.

Busser, Earl P.

Bushey, Dwight C

Cahill, Edward J.

Calvert, George H.

Cameron, John L.

Candreia, Louis J.

Claflin, Sanford F.

Clark. Walter J.

Connor, Frank L.

Connor, John W.

Conner, Bearl
Cordill, Ivan R.
Deeringer, Roland
Evans, Frank B.
Filmore, Gus J.
Foster, Floyd C.
Foster, Earl A.
Gibson, George W.
Gilmore, Earl A.
Good, Benjamin P.
Gordon. Jesse C.
Goux, William F.
Guier, Joe
Guy, Fay
Green, Carl Wi.
Grosvenor, Horace C.
Hall, Edward F.
Hamner, Arthur L.
Hamilton, Orville E.
Hawley, Dwight H.
Harvey, Luzerne A.
Herbstreith, Lloyd H.
Hiatt, Dewey H.
Hiatt, Marion G.
Higley, Rolland C.
Hinkley, Joe B.
Holtzer, Henry
Houghton, Leo J.
lies, Merle T.
Kinsey, William O.
Lessen, Ernst
Lewis, Roy
Lindsey, Andrew T.
Long, Roy
Lyons, George W.
Lyons Homer L.
McElroy. Lawrence B.
McGuffin, Frank L.
Maguire, Mark
Maher, Isadore R.
Martin, Arthur A.
Markley, William N.
Maxwell, Dan K.
Merz, Floyd H.
Modeland, Harvey E.
Monhollon, James C.
Mull, John H.
Munson, Charles D.
Murphy, William H.
Noel, Joseph R.
Noel, William B.
O'Brien, Earl A.
O'Brien, Clyde E.
Osborn, James W.
Peterson, Raymond V.
Pierce, Claude K.
Ping, Lester O.
Ping, Albert
Raber, Walter E.
Ray, Oscar N.
Ray, William J.
Rick, Harold S.
Rife. Charles L.
Riggs, I. B.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

15t

Hivers, Richard C.
Roberts, Earl A.
Roberts, Issas W.
Rogers, Glen W.
Ross, Earl W.
Rutlidge, De-wey
Schlagle, Dannie
Schlagle, Allen
Schwaub, John H.
Bchone, Herman A.
Scott. Leslie
Seever, Ray H.
Slattery, Thomas W.
Smith, James D.
Snavely, Nell
Sowers, Homer
Speer, Leroy J.
Spear, Charley
etahl, Harold J.
Stirton, Charley B.
Stirton, Chester B.

Tapsee, Lyman
Thompson, Lester H.
Thompson, Ivan R,
Walls, Lawrence
Warrick, William W.
Watson, Harry
Wewenes, Phillip N.
Whittier, Clyde J.
White, George E.
Whiffen, Uridge Q.
Williams, Eddie
Wilson, Fremont J.
Winzer, Charles A.
Wright, Alvin R.
Wylie, George R.
Young, Carl H.
Young, Arthur T.

Privates

Masquat, Henry A.
Miller, William B.

168

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company C of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Barmely, Frank

1st Lieutenant

Flok, William C.
2nd Lieutenant

Salisbury, John B.
1st Sergeant

Nelson, Earl F.
Mess Sergeant

Hahn, Fred H.
Supply Sergeant

Reed, Raymond J.
Sergeants

Grennan, Fred L.

McCullough, Amer I4.

Kulling, Milton

Ball. Ross E.

Adams, George Li.

Wingett, Roy A.
Corporals

Agnew, Patrick W.

Archer, Erna C.

Clark, Champ

Eptlng, Lindsay R.

Erantz, William O.

Gibson, John H.

Howe, Vincent H.

McCullough, Glen H.

Pierson, Ray S.

Sanders, Donald A.

Stockton. John

Sanderson, Austin M.

Gill, Glen E.

Polly, Byron G.

Crockett, Harry J.
Buglers

McCullough, Ray

Thompson, Howard H.
Cooks

Gibson, Charles

Munday, Charles W.

Gibson, Roy.
Mechanics

Johnson, Louis C.

Pate, Roy
Privates, 1st Class

Alexander. Clarence J.

Armstrong, Marshall B.

Clark, Rodney

Gangloff, Alvah C.

Hahn, Fenton

Hair, Clarence W.

Hosier, Richard F.

McAlister, John

McCullough, Carl H.

McCullough, Grover C.

Pierson, Austin R.

Wuerfele, Thomas B.
Privates

Burdick, Frank

Bruner, Samuel S,

Bear. Ainsworth
Bidleman, Chester W.
Brinker, Harold J.
Bull, Clyde
Briles, Owen E.
Beissel, Harold
Briles, Robert A.
Ball, Ira A.
Boissel, Keith
Brewer, J. Dewitt
Busby, Arthur M.
Congdon, Hobson
Carter, Ralph M.
Combs, Lee M.
Carter. William A.
Crocker, Glen
Cantrell, Lon
Coffman, Rist H.
Cheshire, George B.
Chadd, Alfred J.
Combs, John E.
Draper, Alva R.
Davidson, Louis A.
Dodge, Clayton M.
Davis, Otis L.
Dixon, Alfred L.
Ellis. Melvin
Ellis, Melvin
Ellis, Harry
Freeman, Charles
Ford, Hugh G.
Fry, Harris
Emert, Herbert G.
Fleming, Howard
Flake, Leland
Fosnight, Roy
Fox, Earl
Gill, Raymond F.
Green, Ross A.
Hugenot, Benjamin R.
Hull, Clarence M.
Harrington, Dan A.
Hughes, Bert
Hedges, Harold H.
Ingersoll, Clarence
Jeter, James H.
Jessop, Frank R.
Jones, Harold C.
Johnson, John T.
Kinney, Myron A.
Koch, Harrison B.
Kahnt, Arthur R.
Knox. W^illiam R
Lipe, Elmer
Lyman, Issac
Lytle, William T.
Law, Dewitt
Myers, Max
Martin, Perry
Manley, William A.
Miller, Vinson W.
McCullough, Fred
Meyers, Joseph B.
Mollenhour, Fred I*
Mollenhour, George H.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

169

Moore. Frank
Mardick, Charle-s
McCullough Hames H.
Means, John M.
Neely, Albert
Newlad, Forrest
Newland, Forrest
Nicolay, Owen D.
Olson, Hugh R.
Proctor, George L.
Petschonek, George A.
Phillips, Theodore
Parcell, Earl
Phillips, Murrel
Phelan. Webster
Proctor, Arthur A.
Proctor, Clarence
Rudolph, Samuel K.
Ratliff, Orval S.
Ream, Leland Lb
Randall, Fred

Rockey, Evert C.
Rockey, Loren
Schneider, Mathew J.
Shemberger, Forrest lA
Stukey, Elmer E.
Sipes, Ernest R.
Supple. Howard
Turner, Harry A.
Tucker, Everett
Tetor, Carl F.
Thomas, Joshua
Weigand, Harvey L.
White, Lee P.
Wingett, Caven
Winterscheid, Claude V.
Williams, Hames E.
Williams, James E.
Warren, William T.
Watson, George
Westerdale. Hesse P.

160

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company D of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Trinjc, George G.

1st Lieutenant
Aures, Robert A.

2iid Lieutenant

Tomlinson, Frank L.

Supply Sergeant
Barton, George

Mess Sergeant

Tronjc, Lawrence P.

Sergeants

Blaisdell, Richard S.
Bayse, Edmond H.

Corporals

Smith, Thomas
Keefauver, Harry-
Hackney, Charles S.
"Willis, James
Smith, Elvis m
Snodgrrass, Tyler J.
Ereaster, Harry C.
O'Roark, Jack.
Huggins, Robert

Mechanics
EEayes, Raymond L.

Smith, Robert C.

Cully, Chilton L.

Vandoren, Gus W.
Buglers

Marchall, George R.

Anderson, Harry S.
Privates, 1st Class

Fisher, Frank

Hoffman, Harrison M.

Hamlin. Tom WL
PriYates

Achey, Joseph C.

Anderson, Clair S.

Arnold, Eddie B.

Attebery, Chester R.

Ballard, William

Beckley, Leonard R.

Bagshaw, Dennis A.

Bennett, Marion B.

Bennett Donald A.

Bigham, Fred

Bigham, Emery H.

Bradley, Fay M.

Bradshaw, Jim F.

Bradshaw. Harry W.

Burgess, Ralph

Burd, William

Carlisle, Edd O.

Caylor, George W.

CJaylor, Mike E.

Crabtree, Albert

Creal, Harry E.

Cres, Walter B.

Copple, Murray T.

Corey, Lynn P.

Crist, Barnest

Cruet. Bllton S.

Dailey. Orval J.

Dale, Robert R.

Darlington, Fred P.

Dehart, Fred

Ferris, Lloyd G.

Finch, Harry W.

Ford, Carter

Freeman, Leslie M.

Freeman, Frank B.

Furry, Corbett J.

Gillenwater, Turner C.

Glavin, Michael E.

Graham, Clarence C.

Gray. Clarence A-

Hadden, George A.

Hamlin, Chester

Hammond, Frank

Hannon, Harry A.

Hardin, Ira L.

Haslett, Forrest B.

Hatfield. Joe B.

Hazen, Earl H.

Harris, Duenice J.

Henderson, Robert M.

Henry, Harry H.

Hernry, Peter

Hodges. McDuffIs

Hoffer, John W.

Holman, Benjamin A.

Hay, John C.

Hearen, Ernest S.

Jackson, Clifford

Jacobs, Floyd A.

Kershner, Floyd A.

Kuhn, Jesse W.

Lovewell, Peter M.

Markley, Noble

Metller, Dewey

Mullins, Chester L.

Mooney. William H.

MoBath, Colfac

McCoy, Elmer D.

McConnell, Harvey L.

McCaulley, James
McDaniel, George W.
McLean, Neil P,
McMahan, Ira B.
McNutt, Edward T.
McNutt, Henry B.
McRoberts, Noah
Nelson, Harvey G.
Oshlert. William I*
Parham, Tom
Parker, Ralph
Peck, Earnest
Plain, Frank J.
Preedy, Paul
PuUen, Wallace C.
Pierce, James A-
Quisenberry, Benson F.
Reed, Francis T.
Redd, Hugh R.
Rice, Marion
Riley, John P.
Roach. Thomas A.
Rowe, Clarencs
Russell, Chester H.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNEj

161

Russon, Wallace G.
Sanders, Archie C.
Sliipman, Ralph
Small, Delbert J.
Smead, Raymond
Smith, Lloyd
Stanback, Alfred
Stanback, Lon F.
Taylor, Clyde H.
Then, Charley B.
Trigg, Clarence W.
Tomlinson, Ralph
Tuel, Gilba H.
Tull, Simson
Umphenour, Claude B.
Umphenour, Calvin Im
Umphenour, Earnest

Vohs, Henry C.
Vohs, Lee B.
Webb, Luther H.
Weesner, Leo H.
Weaver, Harley D.
White. Fred A.
Williams, Frank L.
Witcher, David S.
Witt, Albert J.
Witt, Willis F.
Wollard, John E.
Worster, William
Yates, John H.
Young, James L.

Reservest Attached

Maxwell, Fred M.

162

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company E of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Hudson, Ben S.

1st Lieutenant

Verchere, George A.
2nd Lieutenant

Byerly, Clifford W.
1st Sergeant

Porter, Armer
Mess Sergeant

Stempf, Augrust P.
Supply Sergeant
Willis, Morse S.
Sergeants

Walters, Charles
Harman, Joseph R.
Phillips, Lynne C
Knaus, Scott
Hayes, William M.
Thomas, Roy
Leech, Seth
Couk, Cecil V.
Corporals

Wiggins, Alexander T.
Horney, Jeffry C.
Leech, Clement
Barrigar, Frederick N.
Carothers, Harry S.

Fair, Archie V.

Mount, Guy L.

Ong, William

Sheperd, Orin A.

Brown. Harold N.

Burch, Cleo H.

Cady. King M.

Cohagen, Claire G.

Hampson, Thomas D. Jr.

Mount, Clarence I.

Russell, Orvid V.

White, Loyal H.
Buglers

Pappert, Rudolph W.

Brown, Grnest L.
Mechanics

Timmons, Hobart

Siler, Leo J.

Cooks

Milner, Carl H.
Mussett, James R.
Sawdy, Elmer F.
Privates^ 1st Class
Shea, George
Sallee, Cleo O.
Bonser, Dean V.
Brooke, Louis
Blinn, Charles O.
Chambers. John B.
Champman, Clarence J.
Chapman, Clarence J.
Chapman, Harley B.
Cox, William K

Cox, Orval L.
Dial, James C.
Gill, Carl L.
Gunby, Merle F.
Hadley, William A.
Keitzer, Harold A.
Lewis, Jerry H
Lucas, Paul E.
Merrill, Ruah R.
Miller, Evert
Neighbors, Charles A.
Nichols, William R.
Russell, Delbert B.
Rothgeb, Clarence
Sargeant, Geo. R.
Simms, Earl
Shaffer, Edward
Thatch, Lester
White, Edward
Privates

Adams, Walter B.
Allen, James A.
Allen. Ed E.
Alexander, Clarence P.
Beeman, Carl A.
Beck, Ben H.
Beck, Bert D.
Bentley, Fred
Brittain, William C.
Camden, Milo
Couk, Walter L
Comer, Harry
Cook, J. B., Jr.
Cooley. Orin E.
Cooper, Basil

Cantrall, Thomas B.

Cowan, Homer W.

Drake, Roy

Dial, Willis E.

Dannels, Guy

Donart, Clarence B.

Ellis, Karl D.

Elliott, Claude E.

Flinn, William A.

Gifford, Roy

Green, Iva L.

Graham, Jerry S.

Quatney, William W.

Hasty, Fre-d

Heiser, Paul C.

Hoff, Clarence D.

Hollingworth, Clarence

Hutchinson, Cecil

Hay den, Alva P.

Heins, Walter E.

Housley, William M.

Jones, Jay

Kirkman, Paul B.

Kingsbury, Edgar

Kingbury, Oscar

Keim, Stanley D.

Lombard, Albert F.

Lombard, Ernest H.

Lillie, Walter P.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

163

Lopshlre, Harold A.
Moon, George
Moore, John L.
Morse, Milton R.
Malone, Archie D.
McMillan, Harry L.
Moyer, Paul
McKinney, John
McAdaras. James B.
McKinney, Hubert A.
Offenbacker, Percy G.
Offenbacker, Roscoe E.
Orr, Loyd
O'Leary, Edward
Pringle, William J.
Penwell, Samuel H,
Powers, Harry J.
Richardson, Charles H.
Sparks Lyman C.
Shufelt Roy M.
Smith, Earl
Smith, Bob

Shoup, Oren A.
Shafer, Irven C.
Siler, Albert W.
Scott, James M.
Thompson, Willie C.
Taulbee, Herman E.
Terry, Bruce M.
Tice, Harry J.
Troutman, Dewey
Thayer, Ray N.
Vermillion, Dorsey G.
Verchere, Eugene
Whaley, Emery M.
Wells. Francis E.
White, Forest B.
Willoughby, Claude E.
Willoughby, Claude E.
Wolever, Harold R.
Wyckoff, Elmer R.
Wickman, Floyd B.
West, John A.
Yoakum, Bailey

164

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company F of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Weltmer, Henry J.
1st Lieutenant

Haber, Oscar O.
2nd Lieutenant

Bi&elow, Albert S.
1st Sergeant

Jackson, Chas. J.
Supply Sergeant

Rubert. Arthur A.
Mess Sergeant

Brown, Reuben F.
Sergeants

Conklin, Lester C.

Ball, James

Stewart, Walter L.

Taylor, Earle W.

McKee Chas. R.

McDermand, Loyal
Corporals

Shaw, Chester L.

Shannon, Chas. E.

Craig, Homer D".

Davis, Elmer

Williams. Jay M.

Kreutzburg-, John H.

Dorei, Murlin S.

Britt, Lon W.

Weddle, Rhubert W.

Boyer, Carl B.

Miller, Virgil

Warden, Walter B.

Austin, Emery G.

Bush, George J.

Russell, Elmer E.
Mechanics

Matson. Dan.

Davis, Herbert
Cooks

Hunn, James

Miller, Edd
Bugler

Linnell, William G.

Privates

Andrew, George
Armstrong, Earle W.
Askren, Leo
Avery, John S.
Bailey, Harrison D.
Bergen, William A.
Bergin, Richard P.
Benshoff, David L.
Bishop, Harold J.
Britt, Lish
Brunning, Pearl
Caine, Carl C.
Carter, Eugene B.
Carson, Clifford J.
Clowe. OrvlUe
Compton, Walter L.
Crandall, William C.

Crothers, Homer L.
Cummings, George H.
Curtis, Harold L.
Dove, Edgar T.
Dunkin, Ralph W.
Dunard, Benjamin
Ebelmesser, Robert B.
Eichelberger, Henry A.
Fenley, George
Plemming, Henry A.
Fordyce. Carl A.
Fowler, John L.
Galbraith, Geo. R.
Good, Geo. L.
Green, Frank B.
Hardy, William E.
Henson, Clyde R.
Henninger, Ralph
Hines, Samuel K.
Hornbeck, Geo. W.
Houston, Jack R.
Howell, Ernest V.
Hudson. Howard P.
Hull, James E.
Ivers, Merrill D.
lies, Robert S.
Jackson, John C.
Jepson, Percy N.
Jones, Ivan E.
Jones, Jesse
Johnson, Raymond J.
Kidwell, Frank E.
Kiner, Geo. F.
Lacy, Raymond E.
Laha, William A.
Largent. Orville
Lease, Arlie
Levick, John W.
Leibig, Carl F.
Loftin, Delbert E.
Longacres, Edward G.
Lyons, Lorin P.
McDaniel, Van L,
McEnaney, Joseph B.
Magers, Pete M.
Mars, Albert
Maure, Adolph F.
Mize, Luther J,
Morgan. Arthur R.
Nass, John J.
Nelson, Grant A.
Nickels, Lloyd
Ormiston, Thomas B.
Overson, Edward M.
Pittinger, Ray L.
Potts, Wilfred H.
Pucks, Francis T.
Rinne, Theodore H.
Rudbeck, Thomas
Schurman, Aver R.
Sechler, Homer P.
Seever. Noble E.
Seyler, John E.
Shorb, Lyman
Shupert, William B.

HEROES OFjTHE ARGONNE

165

Simmons, Clark M.
Smith, Wilber M.
Spicer, Horace R.
Stanley, Frank F.
Stetzman, Wilard H.
Stice, Hoyt
Stine Elba W.
Stonbarger, Millard
Stubinger, Jacob
Stunz, Paul A.
Swain. Harry J.
Svreetland, Ernest A.
Tietz, Evan J.
Turner, Clarence L.
VanDalsetn, Ralph E.
Walker, Glenn A.
Watson, George D.
Weber, Clinton L,
Weddle, Cecil M.
Weddle, Marion L.
Welborn, James B.
Whaley, Harold L.
Wiley, Hubert

Loss
Discharged
Corporals

Watson. Melvin D.

Gaston, James B.
Cook

Weltmer, Ivan D.
Privates

Baer, Rudolph

Dillon, William J.

Eichelberger, Will

Fahn, Joseph P.

Lawrence, Ralph E.

Soden, William M.

Sweetland, Glen I.

Truex, Byron E.

Watkins, Kenneth H.
Transferred

Cole, John C.

Holbrook. Harold J.

Robertson, Arthur

Shannon, Alvin B.

Sticker Lay erne EL

16«

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company G of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Prichard, John H.
1st Lieutenant

Cooper, Harry A.
2nd Lieutenant

Golden, Ed F.
Supply Sergeant

Masterson, Thomas S.
Mess Sergeant

Parker, Harry B.
Sergeants

Wegschelder, Charles B.

Comstock, Harry I.

McGrew, Harry

Runyon, Eugene

Abrens, Frank E.
Corporals

Compton. Harry W.

Hoy, Chris J.

Ragin, Lewis
Mechanics

Brown, George A.

McGill, George F.
Cooks

Boatwright, Harry W.

Lockwood, Orville W.

Palling, Robert G.
Buglers

Huff, Hubert W.

Mitchell, Harold A.

Privates, 1st Class

Abington, Robert B.
Ausman, Joseph G.
Bainum. George W.
Baker, Carroll
Carver, Ercy
Cochran, Julian O.
Cooper, Edward H.
Daly, Thomas R.
Frary, John F.
Lyon, Harry A.
Hudson, Bannus
Harkey, Clair C.
Mack, Wilson
Power, Francis M.
Scott, Herbert W.
Scott. William M.
Stufflebeam, Roy
Thogmartin, Leo
Privates

Ambler, Clem H.
Asch, Francis G.
Aus, Hurst
Ayers, Henry
Babbitt, Henry E.
Barbarick, Clyde W.
Bird, Asas G.
Bolin, John H.
Brady Harold F.

Brown, Frank S.
Brophy, Francis J.
Burns, John W.
Carnes, Orval
Games, Ray
Carnes, Earl E.
Carter, Orville B.
Cassady, Ernest L.
Chatterton, Clell C
Clements, Fred R.
Cooks, Chauncey C.
Caberly, Cyrus L
Coberly, Kenneth F.
Conley, Earl E.
Cooper Thomas N.
Cowan, Jesse E.
Cox. Rex A.
Cullison, David E.
Cummings, Harold
Day, Carl H.
Dean, Ernest
Dinklage, Kenneth
Dixon, Frank M.
Downey, Ernest L.
Duncan, Roy J.
Ende«felder, Heinie C.
Esicks, Loren L
Galvin, Benjamin C.
Garrison, Irvin
Gilbert. James
Gilmore, Henry A.
Gillies, James
Grace, Henry N.
Gunsaullus, Frank H.
Hagen, Earnest
Hare, Fred A,
Harpold, Frank Wi.
Harpold, Ralph D.
Henson, Everett W.
Holstein, Mark M.
Hoy, Dewey A.
Hoy, George W.
Hoy. Henty H.
Hudson, Stanton
Hutcherson, Lee
Hyle, Harry E.
Insley, Lester S.
Keffer, Alva W.
King, Floyd
Koontz, Leonard F.
Lewis, Lew L.
Linn, Roscoe-
Marquis, Marion A.
Maxwell, Harvey
McCargar, Claude B.
McMillon. Jesse M.
McGrew, Ace K.
Meacham, Roy A.
Meads, George W.
Monroe, Lee R.
Monroe, Sam L.
Moody, Ernest L.
Moore, Burris B.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

i87

Morehead, Harvard A.
Morrow, Charles H.
Motti, Earl F.
Miller, Chester A.
Nelson, Merl R.
Neely, Clyde A.
Newland, Robert J.
Nicholson. Lee S.
Patterson, Arthur L.
Pepers, Arthur G.
Phillips, Charles E.
Pierson, Prank
Porter, Frank C.
Powell, Bernon I.
Reynolds, Harley W,
Riley, Ray C. , ^
Sawyer, Raymond G.
Smith, Everett C.
Smith, Chesley
Springer, Raymond L.

Stalker. Alfred A.
Stapp, Walter
Stephens, William T.
Storey, Earl R.
Tucker, Gus D.
Tucker, Roy J.
Vail, Elmer W.
Walker, Harry Li.
Ware, Horace M.
Wells, Vern L..
Wheaton, Dewey H.
White, Otto B.
Whitaker, Harry L.
Woodard. Wallace I*
Williams, William
Wobbe, Harry L.
Discharged S.C.D.
Brown, Gus
Cleland, George D.
Lame, Arthur B.

108

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company H of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Brownlee, Oscar C.
1st Lieutenant

Dorsey, Eli B.
2nd Lieutenant

Bowen, Emery J.
Sergeants

Clarke, Prank E.

Walton Kendall A.

Skinner, Herbert
Corporals

Price, Archie R.

Weed, Mahlon

Price. Robert

Ward, Clyde F.

Cheney, Harry L.

Dunkley, Frank
Cook

Bushy, Edward

Bugler

Otis, Glen
Mechanics

Stebbins, Cullen
Privates, 1st Class

Carpenter, Miller J.
Chase, Emerson W.
Everley, Clarence J.
Je-nkins, Charles W.
Milner, Earl
Olmsted. Orley L.
Rothberger, Fred
Scothorn, Earl
Taylor, Alfred G.
Privates

Ashby, Harry M.
Ayers, Sam L.
Amey, Russell S.
Ackerson, Elmer H.
Buchman, Joseph D.
Baker, Glen
Bell, John J.
Butell, Earnest E.
Bowersock, Lawrea^e H.
Branson, Jefferson R.
Benedict, Francis L.
Bright, Clarence E.
Counts, Milton J.
Crow, David R.
Clark, Bernal E.
Cox, Hubert D.
Criss, Richard T.
Clark, John C.
Corel, Charles W.
Corel, Glen J.
Conger, Erie L.
Criss, George
Carter, James G.
HeForest, Robert
Doyle, Roscoe M.
Demeritt, Bv«ritt

DeForest, Lewis H
Daugherty, George W.
Daugherty, Thomas E.
Dowers, Lilburn M.
Davis, Albert R.
Deskin, Lloyd
Driggs, Frank H.
Erwin, Claude D.
Fetty, Andrew E.
Fitts, Leslie
Foster, Lloyd E.
Fast, John C.
Farell, Roy C.
Griffin, Lester
Griffin, Jasper W.
Gilbert, Edgar F.
Gibbs, Gordon E.
Gaumer, Charles N.
Grimes, "Vance L.
Huss, Larce A.
Hundley, Overton B.
Hall, Elmer K.
Hope, Charles H.
Hite, Woodward V.
Hockings, Orville O.
Haight, Albert G.
Harford, Gerald B.
Haney. Roy
Harger, William R.
lies, Carl G.
Johnson, Albert H.
Jones, James E.
Jaggard, Robert K.
Jensen, Sherman L.
Jewell, Roy C.
Kastner, Kirk B.
Koelzer, Albert L,
Kinzer, Edward L.
Kendall, Leland H.
Lynch, Albert P.
Lansing, Jack C.
Langenderfer, Albert C.
Lewallen, Harry L.
Le Suer, Marvin J.
Laster, Rollis
Lavin, Eugene T.
Miles, Horace B.
Martin, Charles A.
Main, Claude E.
Monk, Francis H.
Martin, Frank G,
Murphy, Orville W.
Mann, Willie
Nesbitt. Robert C.
O'Neal, Oliver B.
Osborne, Clifton B.
Ochse, Edward J.
Pitts, Earnest C.
Pinnick, Ira V.
Pettibone, Victor H.
Price, Wilson C.
Phillips, Loyd "VT.
Pierson, Oscar

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

160

Proctor, Willard
Peer, Charles A.
Palmer, Ezra L.
Ruby. Ralph D.
Richardson, George M.
Richardson, Daniel J.
Rutherford, Robroy
Rothberger, Max R.
Robinson, Loren D.
Robison, Elbert E.
Shogrin, Arthur C.
Schubert, Paul J.
Smith, George W.
Snow, Anthony E.
Skinner, Harry C.
Strahm, Allen D.
Shumway, Ray C.
Steinbring, Albert "W.
Sandusky, Steve
Sperling, Forrest

Stoner, Grover C
Smith, Ray H.
Trout, Henry D.
Utterback, Ray 1*
Wilber, Wesley A.
Walters, Robert K.
Wortman, Walter S.
Weber, George B.
Weaver, William T.
Wells. Frank A.
Zeller, George W.

Losses, Discharged

Brooks, Claude O.
Michaelson Carl B.
Wells, Nathan D.
Fearing, Sherman
Hageman, Harry D.
Kasold, Arthur
Yoder, Wren F.

170

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company I of the First Kansas Infantry

tlJaptain

Crawford, George R.
1st Lieutenant

Scheleen, Arthur A. R.
2nd Lieutenant

Keller, Clede R.
1st Sergeant

Redlker, Irving- M.
Supply Sergeant

Tolman, George C.
Mess Sergeant

Apltz. Alford C.
Sergeants

Broberg, Oliver W.
Reed, Ollis W.
McHugh, Dilts S.
Ferrel, Don E.
Brown, Duke C.
Getty, Richard W.
Corporals
Lee, Joy O.
Allis, Leland C.
Rader, John W.
Harper, Dennis K.
Grooms, Leslie A.
Newell, Clell A.
Howe. Clarance B.
Baker, Robert E.
Dundore, Clemans E.
Fraker, Thomas M.
Mechanics

Lundsberg, Chester B.
Foveaux, William
Cooks

Cordts, Walter A.

Smith, Charles O.

Carlton, Lee S.
Buglers

Rothrock, Thomas

Sawyer, Glen R.
Privates

Ayers, John H.

Babcock, Dale L.

Balderson. George W.

Bartley, Percy D.

Bennett, Jony W.

Best, Harry E.

Bolin, Marcelin H.

Bradley, David F.

Bradley, Ralph M.

Bumbaugh, Albert B.

Burgess, Edmund B.

Byers, Verner M.

Carley, Charles W.

Carley, George W.

Casford, Howard J.

Chapman, Otis B.

Cobb, Joe T.

Coffey, Clarence W.

Comfort, Howard L.
Cooper, Charles A.
Day, Francis L.
Dexter, Archie B.
Dicky, Donald M.
Doty, Dale W.
Dugan, Frank M.
Falconer, Ralph E.
Farrell, Edward J.
Fayman, Harold H.
Ferrell, John D.
Finnigan, John W.
Fordyce, Wilbur F.
Foster, Elwin J.
Frankenpohl, Edward P.
Freeby, Harold L.
Fulton, Ralph
Gardner, Richard A.
Gittings, Bert W. J.
Goshorn. Carl A.
Gregg, Earl
Gross, Martin
Hamilton, Daniel B.
Harrold, Earl Spencer
Harrison, Benard W.
Hayes, William W.
Higginbotham, Charles L.
Hodges, William F.
Hoke, Eicil A.
Ticlland, Joseph C.
Holloway, Myles
Holm, George W.
Holt, George W,
Hopper, Charles B.

Hurst B. Fredrick

Hutte. Dale N.

Johnson, Alvan A.

Jones, Maurice

Knisely, Elber M.

Kraft, George HL

Langner, Emil W.

Larson, J. Robert

Lockard, Virgil F.

Lowe, William S.

Lunday, Dewey W.

Lundberg, George L.

McBee. George W.

McKee, Joe H

Maddock, Ralph E.

Maluy, William B.

Manrose, Byron

Messick, Warren

Meier, Lawrence A.

Mitschler, Paul H.

Mortimer, Charles

Murphy, Dewey

Nelson, Frank

Nester, Cyrus J.

Newman. Frank N.

Osbourn, Ira

Osbourn, John M.

Paddock, James L.

Paddock, Victor V.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

171

Padgett, Fred M.
Padgett, Merl L.
Parrish, Tom H.
Pearson, Varlourd
Peters, Lewis E.
Pillsbury, Hobart B.
Rains, Harry L.
Rains, Philip B.
Reed, Harrison
Reed, Samuel C.
Reinders, Charley E.
Rorig, Albert P.
Sanders, Morton B.
Schultz, John
Scott, Meivin J.
Selfridge, Palmer W.
Shaver, John M.
Shay, John H.
Shirkey, Earl F.
Slifer. Ralph
Smith, Raymond L.

Stanley, Ralph R.
Stevens, Roy C.
Sumner, John N.
Tangeman, Ralph B.
Thierer, Jacob O.
Thorton, Dewey
Travis, Donald H.
Unger, Ferdinand J.
Urban, John M.
Wakefield, Wallace H.
Wallace, John W.
Wallace, Walter C.
Walters, David A.
Weeks, Everett J.
Weninger, Erwin
Wlldinson, Harley Wr.
Williams, George B.
Wilson, Albert W.
Woolheater, Harold B.
Wymore, Percy F.

172

ROSTERIOF KANSAS UNITS

Company K of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

McDonald, Lewis C.
1st Lieutenant

Work, Dan A.
2nd Lieutenant

Gillette, Prank O.
Supply Sergeant

Spradlln. Albert F.
Mess Sergeant

Keil, Carl J.
Sergeants

Potter, Bruce B.

Dlackledge, Benjamin P.

Hampshire, Claude C.

Hiner, Merritt M.

Adams, Prank B.
Corporals

Baker, Ottawa E.

Jones, Robert L.

Morris, Lloyd B.

Tippin, Curtis M.

Helton, Joe S.

Travers. Benjamin A.

Evans, Julius O.

Enslow, Walter L.

Neil, Arnold J.

Certain, Harold R.

Black, Warren C.
Cooks

Stomp, George A.

Goodwin, Nile U.

Neil, Walter C.
Mechanics

Melvin, Harry L.

Tyler, Charles
Privates

Adams, Harry C.

Anthony, Walter C.

Acuff. Morse C.

Altic, Bennie E.

Blake, Jesse S.

Bowen, Jesse A.

Bryan, Emmett E.

Buckels, Pred S.

Bunyan, Harry

Ballanger, Clarence V.

Bell, Ralph O.

Bogart, Charles E.

Barnes, Robert T.

Branaman, Hugh A.

Brumit, William P.

Balsley. Ira L.

Blackledge, Walter M.

Barnes, Oliver E.

Beau, John H., Jr.

Brock, Otis H.

Borer, Charles J.

Cross, Joe B.

Cook, Paul D.

Caylor. L«land S.

Catuska, Clareniie D.
Carter, Marion D.
Crow, Jesse J.
Carr, Robert
Danforth. Harry T.
Dunn, Harry A.
Day, Vern H.
Donald, Alden L.
D'avies, Albert
DeWolf, Henry P.
Edington, Merle D.
Engwall, Carl
Enochs, Raymond G.
Fergus, Malcom R.
Fraker, Ray D.
Faulkner, Orval H.
Pishburn, Ray G.
Gentry, Carey P.
Freer, Floyd E.
Greer, Thomas D.
Greer, William C.
Greer, Irving W.
Graffham, Albert C.
Graham, Frank O.
Goff, Harley
Gunn, Foster A.
Gates, Truman R.
Garst, Earl P.
Harrold, Thomas
Hunt, George T.
Heiken, Eilert G.
Hastings, Joseph L.
Hootman, Lester
Hanson, Louis H.
Hunter Ora L.
Hubbard, Albert
Hugill, George
Henderson, Lester J.
Kinnard, Arthur R.
Keene, Wallace
Kepple, Edmund P.
Kelsey, James D.
Kirkpatrick, Joyce T.
Kleinsorge, Edwin P.
Long, John P.
Lathrop, George A.
Marconette, Aaron T.
Melluish, Parker B.
Miller, Frank
Mills, John

McParland, Chester B.
Miller, Max L.
Mettler, Lee
McDaniels, Walter
Muntzert, Orlin E.
Muntzert, Pred P.
Mcintosh, Fred H.
Morton, William H.
Murry, Frank
NeU, Hallie H.
Newquist, Pred J.
O' Conner, Henry L.
Ortolf, Williani
Orerbolt, Jack

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

17i

Ohmes, Michael J.
Ohmea, Frank J.
Ohmes, Wendell G.
Osborn, Thomas E.
Oakley, Ralph C.
Payne, Harry
Petty, Charles E.
Price, Charles S.
Ramsdell, Frank R.
Reneau, Everett
Reed, Charles E.
Reimer, August C.
Rowland, Clyde
Ralston, Truman G.
Smith, Irl E.
Smith, Lewis N.
Sutton, John I.
Showen, William
Staley, Lloyd M.
Scott, Paul K.

Shotzman, Jacob W.
Shuey, Ferguson A.
Springer, William P.
Snow, Ellis W.
Soderstrom, Ralph A.
Shoemaker, Orvie E.
Seyler, Ovid
Shroder, Neil B.
Tedrow, Frank L.
Triplett, David S.
Walker, Charles F.
Williams, Wallace
Wick, James B.
Winter, Wilson N.
Welton, Vern A.
Wilcox, Dewey J.
White, Harry A.
Losses, Discharged
Adkinson, Wesley B.
Smith, Edgar W.

174

ROSTER OP KANSAS UNITS

Company L of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Patterson, Earle T.
1st Lieutenant

Cannady, Paul A.
2nd Lieutenant

Phillips, Richard M.
1st Sergeant

Keller, Harry S.
Mess Sergeant
Allen, John F.
Supply Sergeant

Dillman, Omar D.
Sergeants

Haven, Forrest
Conley, Ray
Corporal

Nannings, Simon P.
Cooks
Lamborn, Carson T.
McGowan, Ernest R.
Branden, Oscar B.
Buglers

Leighton, Vear V.
Hicks, Ralph E.
Mechanics

Hartshorn, Ray
Naylor, Claud H.
Privates, 1st Class
Acton, James E.
Blue, Clifford M.
Crisler, Ulric F.
Hardesty, Stanley B.
Kershner, Joe D.
Nanninga, Tjaart R.
Parker, Willis
Williamson, Claude R.
Powell, Keith
Smith, Daniel L.
Ruble, Robert H.
Robbins, Pies S.
Smock, Elxery R.
Wilson, Elmer R.
Burlingame, Dudley Q.
Hamilton, Herbert P.
Lawton, Ray J.
Lotton, Orrid Q.
Moore, Earl H.
McCoy, Leslie
Thrasher, William A.
Woods, Perry L..
Ashley, Lloyd E.
Privates

Bauersfeld, Paul T.
Barber, Frank
Bowman, Lloyd B.
Borders, Glenn W.
Brooks, Willis P.
Brown, John W.
Breon, Leroy W.
Brooks, Homer P.
Blackman, Hiram F.

Burton, Charles S.
Bransfield, Martin W.
Bumgarner, Harry V.
Cramer, Maley O.
Carpenter, Lloyd C.
Cook, Robert J.
Covault, Eddie S.
Cresson, Sig.
Craig, Charles M.
Campbell, Leslie J.
Chester, V. Lynn
Carthel, Edgar
Davis, William T.
Davis, Will
Depew, Benjamin W.
Derby, Neal E.
Doty, Otis L.
Dickey Eber, J.
Dale, Keith E.
Ellis, Lenard G.
Farra, Verne L.
Frost, Alvin L.
Goodwin, Ira M.
Gifford, Edward L.
Griffitts, Rose C.
Gilbert, James
Hackney, Ira W.
Henry, Charles H.
Hugh, Bert F.
Hurlock, Joe H.
Holmes, Charlie H.
Henrichs, Walter O.
Ireland, Martin E.
Jones, Olaj A.
Jones, Robert W.

Jones, Roy O.

Jones, Milton

Johnson, Fred H.

Johnson, John E.

Johnson, Victor L.

Johnson, Herbert O.

Jordan, Wade A.

Kash, Frank

Kilby, James A.

Knotts, John J.

Knotts, Elias L.

Lee, Ralph H.

Lieurance, Clarence J.

Leonard, Lee L.

Leshley, Floyd.

Lynn, William T.

Lucas, Robert T.

Loter, William B.

McAdoo, Clarence

McCullough, Thurlew W.

McCall, Archie M.

McCoy, Ralph

McClendon, Charles

Martin, John E.

Mathis, Oren N.

Merrill, Walter D.

Moore, Charles F.

Mentague, Charles W.

Moffett, Roy J.

MUler, Earl L.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

17^

Mabis, Horace R.
McClure, James C.
MeiHig, William Henry
Mehl, William C.
Maupin, Emmett
Munger, Louis C.
Naill, Sidney R.
Nokes, Clarence W.
Parker, Bert L.
Pruitt, Harry L.
Plummer, Wade F.
Pollock, Harry O.
Ralph, Melvin L.
Renner, Lee M.
Rubert, James H.
Reynolds, Mortimer B.
Riho, Frank
Roberts, Oscar R.
Saferots, Carl L.
Scott, Charles L.

Stewart, Raymon C.
Sutley, Merle
Stephens, Ova
Sponcer, Henry
Sweringer, Oral
Snyder, John W.
Skaggs, Lee
Trueblood, Harry S.
Tout, Rollie
Van Wormer, Adrain
Watts, Milton E.
Weiland, Chancey
Wells, Jessie H.
Wilson, Loyd R.
Whetsel, Henry W.
Wiggins, Walter H.
Wood, Sammie
Woodward, William F.
Williams, Tom L.
Walz, Walter J.

ir«

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company M of the First Kansas Infantry

Captain

Jones, Frank EL
1st Lieutenant

Daum, Merrill P.
2nd Lieutenant

Elmore, Frank B.
1st Sergeant

Bands, Frank C.
Mess Sergeant

Peters, Shirley
Supply Sergeant

Stortz, Frank
Sergeants

Adams, Merle J.

Carpenter, Samuel L.

Court wright, WUliam W.

Deeker, Leonard E.

Hayes, Lusius B.

Humphrey, Harry L.
Corporals

Aere, Joseph

Auchard, Virgil

Bloom, James

Coe, Fordyce B.

Hauser, Prank

Kirby, Glynn

Miles, Charles S.

Oliver, Archibald B.

Riley, Don

Robbins, Roy S.

Rust, Boyd

Spangler, Le Port

Smiley, Stanton

Ufford, Neil-

Webb, David W.
Mechanic

Whitla, Lowell R.
Cooks

Creek. William P.

Moyer, Samuel P.

Ruppenthal, Harold
Buglers

Acre, Leonard

Plank, Ewart
Privates, 1st Class

Auchard, Ralph

Campbell, Francis

Hattemer, Otto

Kelly, Carroll B.

Leis, Tracy P.

Manning, Robert

Masset, Addison R.

Rice, Ewart R.

Rice, Joseph

Riley, William S.
Privates

Acre, Albert H.

Ashley, Harry B.

Austin. Verle

Ball, Charles M.

Bamett, Greorge

Blicks, Paul A.
Bouton, Daln
Brown, Karl
Bryan, Joseph D.
Bukovatz, John J.
Bussh, Charles
Carpenter, Walter T.
Carpenter, Charles T.
Carpenter, Robert H.
Clary, Gamett S.
Clawson, John H.
Coe, Auburn S.
Cottrell, Ray M.
Couehman, Floyd H.
Craig, James V.
Cullen, Albert
Curl, Hobart G.
Draskowich, Mike J.
Dye, Milton L.
Edwards, John R.
Eggen, Charles B.
Ellsworth, Willoughby P.
Eivans, Joe
Fisher, Earl P.
Frank, Verne
Garrigues, Frank O.
Gee, Merrill H.
Gibson, Hugh H.
Gibson, Phillip C.
Gill, Wayne I,
Grordon, Howard
Griffith, William H.
Grinstead, James R.
Haines, Charles A.
Hale, Milford W.
Hammer, Byron
Hart, Charlie E.
Hart, Mark L.
Haynes, Malsotn P.
Hoster, Claude H.
Holston, Verner H.
Honick, Lewis E.
Horn, Will R.
Hughey, William N.
Hynes, Fred L.
Jenson, Paul P.
Johnson, Lewis C.
Johnston, John
Kelly, Sherwin P.
Kincheloe, Iven C,
Krappes, John H.
Krauss, Albert P. P.
La Carte, Alrerez J.
Lewis, Charles W.
Legg, Edwin
Laudblade, Leon W.
Luse, Elgie
Martling, Francis H.
McDonald, Ira M.
McGinness, Byron P.
McGinness, Hugh T.
McMurphey, John W.
Mendenhall, Edgar L.
Miner, Erie S.
Mitchell. Basil L.

HEROES OFiTHEJARGONNE

177

Moore, Edmond E.
O'Brien, Shamus
Oehrle, Charles F,
Olson, Forrest C.
Owens, Seth J.
Palmer, Opie L.
Peterson, William J.
Prebble, Fred
Rader, Ralph R.
Richter, Theodore H.
Rodgers, Charles Harvey-
Roe, William
Rogers, John L.
Rueker, Carl
Rummell, Ross J.
Runnion, Ray
Schutter, Frank J.
Smith, Frank
Smith, Oden W.
Smith, Wright W.
Snyder, Ivan V.
Stewart, Kenneth C.
Stines, Leonard P.
Thrower, Walter
Tinklepaugh, Dunne
Vanderbur, Carl E.
Van Wormer, Horace L.
Walker, Carl
Warders, Charles E3.
Whiteher, Andrew J.
"Vhite, Oliver W.

Losses, Discharged
Mechanic

Bailey, Arthur R.
Privates

Kane, George C.

Kemp, Harley S.

McLaughlin, Walter H.

Powell, Ralph D.

Volok, Thomas

Whiteher, Harry
Privates

Ashley, Harry

Brown, Karl

Craig, James V.

Cullen, Robert

Draskowish, Mike

Honick, Lewis E.

Johnson, Louis O.

Oehrle, Charles F.

Peterson, William C.

Richter, Theodore H.

Rodgers, John

Tinklepaugh, Dunne
Losses, Discharged

Bryan, Joseph D.

Bukovatz, John J.

Fisher, Earl P.

Gibson, Phillip C.

Krappes, John B.

Lewis, Charles W.

178

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Initial Draft, Sanitary Detachment, First Kansas

Infantry

Major

Salisbury, Henry T.
Captain

Durant, Ira E.
1st Lieutenants

Alford, Joseph E.

Barnes, Ralph E.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Alphin, Wayne
Sergeants

Curl, Chester L.

Silverthorn, Earl

Myers, William R.
Privates, 1st Class

Anderson, Ivan H.

Buchanan, Dwight

Carman, Benjamin

Derby, Arthur Q.

Dumas, Harry

Engel, Herman

Greiss, Murray

Jones, Sam I.

McCormick, Norwood
Martin, Earl L.
Myers, John B.
Russell, John C.
Starkweather, Robert
Privates
Achining, Carl
Bryde, Phillip
Cooke, Charles H.
Daniels, Charles B.
Francisco, Clell
Heron, William T.
Hudson, Adolphus F.
Hughes, Lawrence D.
McAllister, Fred L.
Nichols, Clifford
Roberts, Harrold M.
Thudium, Carl
Woodard, Howard
Wyatt, Wiley J.

Losses, Discharged

Golding, Ned.

Detachment Unassigned of the First Kansas
Infantry

Private

Elchelberger, Will

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

179

Headquarters Company, Second Kansas Infantry
137th Infantry

Captain

Romey, Frank E.

Re^mental Sergeant Major

Robieson, Frank W.

Band Leader

Beeson, Otero G.

Battalion Sergeant Majors

Morrison, Reed
Mitchell, Dalbert W.

1st Sergeant

Fink, Louis W.
Sergeant Bugler

Black, Paul L.
Color Sergeants

Noonan, Robert E.

Fagerquist, Reuben T.
Supply Sergeant

Stewart, James H., Jr.
Mess Sergeant

Palmer, Frank G.
Band Sergeants

Olson, Ernest M,

Di Nino, Frank V.
Band Corporals

Innis, Donald F.

Hawkinson, Carl W.
Cooks

Bryant, James R.

Yeager, John B.
Musicians, 1st Class

Glaze n, Roy J.

Sheffer, Wilhelm G.
Musicians, 2nd Class

Shehi, Dan L.

Bagby, Charles A.

Young, Charles D.

Musicians, 3rd Class

Baer, James D.

Braithwite, Robert G,

Cool, Eugene B.

Davis, Howard W.

Huffine, Guy L.

Heck, James G.

Lichtenberger, Harley W.

McFadden, Harold M.

McGrew, Richard A.

Norton, Emra A.

Palmer, Chester B.

Reyonlds, Stanley A.

Scott, Cyrus W.

Wesley, Wendell P.
Privates, 1st Class

Hanna, Ross

Ferguson, James F.

Trull, Leo

White, Ernest L.
Privates

Carlton, V, Berne

Daugherty, Paul

Hoover, Donald D.

Harshman, Frank S.

McKay, Patrick

McBeth, Marcus V.

Robbins, Arthur B.

Robbins, Herman D.

Roberts, James

Sanders, Robert

Sturtevant, Ernest L,

Winterhalter, Daniel C.
Horseshoer

Sampson, George K.
Privates

Atwood, Arthur F.

Dixon, David W.
Discharged

Fagerquist, Arthur C.

130

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Machine Gun Company, Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Rexroad, Guy C.
1st Lieutenant

Benscoter, Frank J.
2nd Lieutenant

Campbell, Robert A.

Barthold, John, Jr.
1st Sergeant

Wilson, Ezra J.
Mess Sergeant

Brown, Ray W.
Supply Sergeant

Hyatt, Walter D.
Stable Sergeant

Huston, Lester W.
Sergeants

Parsons, Roy F.

Lunas, James B.

McKee, Edward W.

Shawhan, Leslie L.

Gibbons, Leon D.

Crow, Roy M.
Corporals

Bates, Howard J.

MsLssoni, Alfred A.

Middlehurst, George S.

Winters, George W.

Lloyd, Frank L.

Nelson, William S.

Rider, Ned M.

Hagaman, Darrel P.
Cook

Dralle, Albert E.
Buglers

Arnold, Ray W.

Rexroad, Gerald
Mechanics

Warnock, Earl C.

Green, Lewis F.
Privates, 1st Class

Ferguson, John H.

Johnson, Roy V.

Fick, Paul F.

Kimzoy, Harland D.

Shiffer, Ray H.

McKenzie, Verl J.

Dill, Norman F.

Whelpley, Charles W.

Alexander, Paul W.

Baker, Chester W.

Barton, Sly
Privates

Blackburn, Stanton E.

Brooks, Richard G.

Clark, Walter S.

Cline, Lester M.

Cramer, Wendell H.

Deming, Claude E.

Everett, Martin E.

Fiori, Seraphin

Ford, Leon A.

Frohwitter, William B.

Fowler, Homer F.

Grace, Phillip G.

Hamby, Lloyd W.

Jennings, Don A.

Jackson, Floyd E.

King, Frank

Klippel, Philip C.

Lang, Bert F.

Lockhead, Lewis R.

Lumm, Jesse

McGuire, Paul R.

Mauser, Roy A.

Nicholson, George T.

Ross, Bert F.

Seely, Guy

Shawhan, Harold R.

Shive, Myron L.

Snell, David L.

Stewart, John E.

Thompson, J. Arthur

Turner, Roy E.

Weaver, Henry J.

Weeks, Harold H.

Wentz, Ralph D.
Losses, Discharged

Sergeant

Maltby, Arthur L.
Horseshoer

Bates, Chester I.
Cook

Nagle, Charles A.
Private, 1st Class

Richards, Arba F.
Privates

Buggelin, Charles F.

Elmes, Harry

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

181

• Supply Company, Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Noonan, Alfred E.
2nd Lieutenant

iNixon, Jesse M.
1st Sergeant

Smith, Eustace
Regrimental Supply Sergeants

Rohrer, Samuel J.

Snyder, Parker L.

Henney, Alfred K.
Mess Sergeant

Daugher, James W.
Corporal

Lantz, Dillard A.
Cook

Haines, Walter H.
Horseshoer

Dunham, Noah F.
Saddler

Weatherman, Ferrell B.
Waggoners

Adkinson, L»evo J.

Albrecht, Irvan

Battershell, John
Brown, Harvey L.
Carr, Robert E.
Cecil, Aaron B.
Clark, Ralph C.
Collins, Charles L.
Dopps, Lyman J.
Duncan, Clyde
Harrell, Edward
Hershberger, Locke H.
Huntsman, Charles L.
Knight, Frank H.
Lennen, Earl L.
Leslie, Ansel E.
Mallory, Harrison D.
Manny, Ernest C.
Manny, Ora A.
McClure, Ernest A.
McCowan, Oliver W.
Ritterhouse, Lester A.
Smith, Wilfred D.
Smith, Paul J.
Stewart, Charles B.
Wainner, Ralph R.
Warren, Mansford B.
Wheeler, Sidney R.

182

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company A of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Barr, Frank E.
1st Lieutenant

Simpson, Paul J.
2nd Lieutenant

Kell, Emil G.
1st Sergeant
Seymore, Theodore
Supply Sergeant

Palmer, Earl J.
Mess Sergeant

Branch, Ralph A.
Sergeants

Dodman, Earl

Ford, Hobart A.

Bodkin, Charles W.

Waldron, Hugh

Hopkins, Thomas

Inman, Boyd

Dodds, Elbert L.
Corporals

Banks, Clyde J.

Ingle, Millard T.

Sees, Harry A. M.

Martin, George F.

English, Clarence A.

Babrick, Earl

Ulmer, Charles

Olmstead, Earl O.

Gaskill, Louis W.

Stephens, William J. T.

Mathews,, Harry S.

Rouse, Harry L.
Cooks

Grimes, Edward L.

McDuffs, Norman L.
Mechanics

Shields, Eugene B.
Privates, 1st Class

Grimes, Scott L.

Childers, Alva B.

Carter, Harris G.

Dunham, Frank V.

Hake, Herbert H.

Knox, Thomas N.

Martindale, Lyle M.

Offenstein, Rosa B.

Rector, Walter M.

Thompson, Leo V.
Privates

Armour, Jack W.

Andrews, Robert P.

Barrett, Henry B.

Bennett, Carl

Bonner, Eugene B.

Booth, Otis P.

Brown, Robert R.

Brown, Herbert R.
Brown, Guy C.
Brewington, Glenn
Burgett, Fred S.
Carpenter, Sherman R.
Ccisto, Clyde R.
Cleary, Cecil E.
Crafton, John W.
Crafton, Wight M.
Crist, Paul A.
Daugherty, Victor M.
Daisy, Raymond
Davis, Laverne
Dondelinger, Louis
Drake, Shad
Elliott, John S.
Fintelman, William R.
Fisher, George H.
Fitzgerald, Jesse L.
Fralick, Ransler C.
Gay, Bryant W.
Gilleland, Edgar E.
Guy, Robert E.
Hartman, Luther M.
Heath, Don A.
Hendren, Clyde M.
Hendren, Paul
Hicks, Ralph I.

Holcomb, Louis H.

Howell, Rex

Hull, Orval P.

Humbert, Lee R.

Jinks, Harry L.

Kelly, George W.

Kendrick, Francis A.

Kiehl, Dale M.

Kirk, Harvey F.

Lampe, George H.

Lickly, Morris J.

Lightner, George H.

Lindaberry, Joe

Lindt, Otto H.

Lish, Ira N.

Lusk, George B.

McAvey, Arch G.

McCartney, Jacob L.

McCool, Earl J.

McCorgary, Thomas A.

McDermott, Lra D.

Martin, Louis A.

Mason, Emmett M.

Milner, Champ O.

Minard, Frank B.

Mitchell, Earl S.

Moore, Homer R.

Morgan, Claude W.

Morris, William V.

Morrison, Harry K.

Norvell, Frank O.

Newcomb, Leland A.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

183

O'Hare, Vernard C.
Oldfield, Charles H.
Page, Tom L.
Palling, William R.
Pattinson, John R.
Peacock, Elton D.
Penny, George
Phillips, Joe W.
Pierce, Clarence O.
Pitts, William A.
Propp, Daniel R.
Peterson, Harry T.
Raly, Fred L.
Reedy, Raymond
Reeves, Harold E.
Replegle, Bedford B.
Robinson, Roscoe L.
Rowe, Horace D.
Sage, John F.
Sampson, Roy E.
Schmucker, Theodore I.
Schreffler, Charles L.
Schreffler, Clarence Q.
Scott, Oliver W.
Seal, Roy D.
Shick, Floyd R.
Silvius, Richard O.

Singleton, Grover F.

Smith, Ezekial P.

Sommerviller, William A.

Stine, George B.

Taylor, Walter W.

Templer, Alfred L.

Thompson, Orin L.

Townsley, John A.

Tillinghast, Frank L.

Treft, Charles W.

Truex, Galeb C.

Tyron, Harley D.

Walker, James K.

Whitecotton, Arthur E. H.

Wilcox, Edwin C.

Willard, Albert L.

Wilson, William H.

Wilson, Zynn M.

Winn, Newton R.

Wood, Frank E.

Cummings, Thad L.
Private, 1st Class

Knox, Thomas W.
Privates

Barritt, Henry E.

Lampe, Greorge H.

184

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company B of the Second Kansas Infantry-

Captain

Berridge, Scott
1st Lieutenant

Gibson, Roy S.
2nd Lieutenant

Rennick, Clarence A.
1st Sergeant

Grubbs, Clarence O.
Sergeants

Knox, Garrett "W.

Flynn, James "V.

Bird, Victor T.

Fairchild, Harold H.

Slaughter, James R.

Lambert, Emery W.

Jarvis, Russell J.

Long, Phillip

Dale, Harold
Corporals

Mann, Harold

Horton, Francis A.

Lutz, Harry E.

Bradley, Walter
Mechanic

Butrum, Clarence A.
Cooks

Beems, Roger

Brumfield, Elmer D.
Buglers

Young, Clarence O.

McGehe, Floyd A.
Privates, 1st Class

Bailey, Arthur L.

Dennis, Herschel

Eaden, Roscoe

Karstetter, Frank C.

Morrissey, James L.
Privates

Alexander, Harold L.

Alexander, Roy C.

Alexander, Wilmer

AJendorf, Jacob G.

Bair, Ralph

Baertch, Carl E.

Baldwin, Clifford G.

Baugh, Hilton

Barnes, Virgil

Barr, Ray

Baxter, Emmett

Benander, Arthur

Bossier, John W.

Bottom, John W.

Bradley, Jesse

Brown, Paul R.

Bronston, Byron E.

Blackwood, Fred J.

Brubaker, Stewart H.

Carlson, Edward G.

Caywood, Walter E.

Chrisman, Paul H.

Chrisman, Spencer

Christian, Robert R.

Christensen, James P

Clements, Harry C.
Conklin, George D.
Compton, Harry H.
Curtess, Samuel W.
Davis, Harold
Day, Elmer
Day, Roy C.
Darling, Ernest G.
Douglas, Ora
Dunn, Jack
Eby, Harry R.
Earl, Isaac Henry
Fees, Russell B.
Forsberg, Clarence
Fultz, Harvey
Glendening, Perry W.
Gray, William
Hall, George
Hannah, Cecil
Harris, John T.
Hart, Joseph C.
Hartman, Elmer G.
Hartman, Fred H.
Heiselman, William H.
Hickox, Charles M.
Hill, Lee
Hill, Paul N.
Hollis, Doyle
Holt, McKinley
Ireland, Percy S.
Johnson, Earl D.
Kathrene, Charles
Kesling, Opha L.
Kidney, Emmett
Kidney, Scott
King, Ralph T.
Kroth, Ralph T.
Lewis, Charles
Lewis, Worth A.
Lines, McLin
Lines, William
Marion, Levi
Michaels, Raymond E.
Mitchell, Birt
Mitchell, Clifford R.
Mitchell, Clarence E.
Mitchell, Thomas A,
Miller, George N.
Miller, Oscar
Minor, Gilbert S.
Musselman, Francis C.
Meyers, Irenous C.
Meyers, Claude L.
McComas, Clyde C.
McHenry, Milton
McKinsey, Bert
McKinsey, Ray
McMurtry, Eugene
McPherson, Charles W.
McPherson, Clyde O.
Nelson, Jesse
Nicholas, Lloyd
Nicho-las, Otis C.
Osterhold, Frank
Park, Charles E.
Patterson, Harold
Pointer, Virgil D.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

185

Pollock, Marion L.
Priest, Walton E.
Roby, Paul T.
Rudy, Ernest A.
Russell, Ralph V.
Russell, Ray C.
Sanderson, George W.
Simmons, Leroy D.
Simpson, Erwin C.
Slate, Lee
Slater, Meredith H.
Smith, Lewis J.
Stafford, David L.
Stanley, Elmer
Starkey, John W.
Steele, Wilford C.
Stephenson, George L.
Stonebraker, James D.
Stonebraker, Louis J.
Sullivan, Earl D.
Suter, Harold B,
Thompson, Leon E.
Thompson, Loren E.
Thompson, Ross F.
Tift, Rawlin L.
Utterback, Frank R.
Ward, Roy E.

Wyatt, John F.

Fletcher, Paul C.

McClacherty, John W.

Overgard, Ray

Patrik, Frank

Shoenberger, Russell
Privates, 1st Class

Skinner, Owen G.

Spittler, Leaman

Stone, Herbert R.

Sweeney, Daniel K.

Stringham, Leon

Sweeney, Ross L.

Swick, Herbert T.

Temple, William

Thomas, Guy M,

Tunnell, Earl G,

Turner, Howard E.

Vierra, John

Wood, Morgan L.
Losses, Discharged

Gilmore, Dave E.

Perkins, Clemet

Sturm, Guy
€orp<M-al

Higbee, Roy B.

186

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company C of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

McKenzie, Scott
1st Lieutenant

Quigley, Clarence H.
2nd Lieutenant

Scott, Louis R.
1st Sergeant

Deklyn, Ray A.
Supply Sergeant

Momyer, Harry H.
Mess Sergeant

Truex, Adelbert G.
Sergeants

Redwine, Reginald F.

Burns, Frank L.

Roper, Samuel D.

Swift. Jay G.

Crouse, Charlie W.

Arth, Edgar J.

Heuiesen, Frank

Boylan, Brad

McGreevy, Urban

Lamoreux, Wayne
Corporals

McFadden, William P.

Hunt, Albert D.

Kinniard, Eugene B.

Woodburn, Gustavus W.

Hook, John

Ruble, Charles A.

Wood, George C.

Breeden, Leo F.

Grubb, Floyd

Wilson, Roscoe

Johnson, Gilbert M.
Mechanics

Pritchard, Paul E.

Locke, Thom'tB A.

Cooks

Girdner, Kelly W.

Morrison, I^imon W.
Buglers

Scheufler, William P.

Soden, Walter G.
Privates, ?.st Class

Ashpole, Archie

Alexander, Ira

Brown, Reid A.

Bertram, Walter E.

Chapman, Roscoe

Carleton, Raymond R.

Cowley, Stone O.

Drawbridge, Mason R.

Everitt, Lloyd G.

Gunn, Edwin R.

Heame, Floyd R.

High, Branch D.

Harvey, David

Jurgensen, William M.

Krebaum, Calvin V.

Keenan, John B.

Keller, Walter F.

Leadbetter, Alva
Longmoor, Charles H.
Meyer, August H.
Mayes, Walter R.
Petty, Oliver H.
Robertson, Alexander L.
Rinker, Roy L.
Sipe, Charles L.
Steadman, John P.
Speck, Charles F.
Wesley, Charles A.
Yetschke, Clarence
Privates

Armstrong, Bliss
Brown, Henry F.
Bryant, Levern
Boebeck, Arthur F.
Bortz, Andrew J.
Bone, Bentley O.
Bonham, Oscar L.
Brodbeck, Ernest A.
Blackburn, Jake M.
Batman, Dilla
Bedford, Charles E.
Bright, Greorge A.
Culbreath, Arthur
Cook, Cecil F.
Cates, Fred
Clinton, Arthur
Deines, Adam
Dix, Buford
Dyer, Roy
Durbin, Charlie
Ewlng, Jessie W.
Fisher, Emmett M.
Fritscher, Henry
Graham, Morris T.
Gabbert, Ernest C.
Gooing, Mack
Grubb, Walter S.
Hoffman, Henry J.
Hayes, James W.
Highland, Royal G.
Hoffman, Conrad
Hargrave, William A.
Hook, Henry
Hardesty, Charles H.
Hall, Hugh
Jones, William J.
Jones, Bee W.
Jeffers, McKinley H.
Karr, William F.
Kenney, Guy J.
Kruse, William H.
Lynn, "Vemie O.
Livesay, William O.
McCracken, Harry
McClure, Fred A.
McCorkle, Owen W.
McDaniel, Gerald
McDaniel, Clarence A.
McClure, Guy B.
Mercer, Earl M.
Mahoney, Denny
Moore, Reuben W.

HEROESIOFiTHE ARGONNE

187

Nelson, Roy iN.
Newell, George S.
Orm, Ira E.
Powell, Roy A.
Powell, Harold Q.
Quimby, Loy S.
Radke, Albert L.
Renfro, Aubry
Richardson, Charles B.
Speck, Earl
Swab, Norman E.
Stoskopf, Lester B.
Snow, Elmer E.
Scott, James L.
Steenis, Richard J.
Stone, John H.
Sloan, Alva L.
Sieker, Walter O.
Shuck, Frank M.

Sullivan, William L.
SegandoUar, Fred
Skinner, Henry C.
Sams, Lester L.
Shook, Perry O.
Tromer, William S.
Tinnemeyer, John H. F.
Trear, Patrick
Talbott, Henry W.
Tabler, Ivan E.
Varner, Leo O.
Wilson, Jack
Warner, Earl L.
Whaley, George B.
Walker, Joseph W.
Ward, Earl A.
Wemmergren, Karl
White, Clarence H.
Wilson, William B.

188

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company D of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

EUis. Fred E.
1st Lieutenant

Breese, Verne G.
2nd Lieutenant

Dorst, Harry B.
1st Sergeant

Hennessey, Clarence A.
Supply Sergeant

Drake, John C.
Sergeants

Canfield, Thomas N.

Marymee, Jamea C.

Gillilan, John A.

Bailey, Lawrence S.

Hull, Wayne G.
Corporals

Greenshaw, Otis O.

Bretches, Lloyd

Coblentz, Luther

Hag-Strom, Granvil

Vague, Thomas R.

Gordon, Joseph A.

Larson, Willard E.

Sayler, George J.

Koehn, Alex R.

Stauffer, Marion W.

Ruggeri, Antonio
Cooks

George, Charles A.

Minns, Paul J.

Parks, Harvey L.
Bugler

Hill, Lloyd L.
Mechanics

Dilley, Rufus F.

Malm, Andrew
Privates, 1st Class

Caliway, Welborn

Clark, Arthur

Gronfur, Iver

Haga, George

Janke, Herbert

Roffman, Ray
Privates

Adams, Melvin W.

Anderson, Edwin A.

Ash, Guy H.

Basinger, Pesca L.

Banman, Alvin K.

Banman, Daniel F,

Beranek, James M.

Blair, Bern B.

Blair, Arthur L.

Bowlby, Raleigh C.

Bretches, Dewey W.

Bias, Frank L.

Bishop, Lloyd A.

Bistline, George A.

Branton, Ralph L.

Case, Alex H.

Carrell, William W.

Chapin, Herbert M.

Clark, Francis M.

Clark, Donald S.

Carter, Clarence

Crouse, Harry R.

Cramer, Ward B.

Curtis, Charles H.

Cade, Carl D.

Dossett, Ralph R.

Duby, Jesse C.

Dugan, Lon T.
Duhn, August W.
Dyck, Frank E.

Privates, 1st Class

Ek, Emil
Eller, John A.
Finkle, Earl P.
Fisher, Harold B.
Fisher, J^Idney P.
Eraser, Rosser C.
Frye, Clifford C.
Going, Verne E.
Grant, Hiram E.
Godown, Lester E.
Haynes, Ivan R.
Hayson, Fred G.
Harger, Walter B.
Harris, Vemer G.
Hereford, Harold R.
Helgeson, Carl M.
Hook, Ernest D.
Hill, John G.
Ivey, Jack
Ishmael, Clifton
Jackson, Thomas W.
Johnsey, Eddie L.
Johnson, Elmer O.
Kelly, Stewart S.
Kelsey, Raymond G.
Kellett, WiUiam F.
Kutnink, Paul E.
Krehbiel, Edwin G.
Knowles, Elmer E.
Lathwell, Earl J.
Larson, Homer W.
Lloyd, Leon S.
Lloyd, Ivan L.
Lonberger, Frank M.
Lipe, Orville L.
Lipe, Loran
Luginbill, Arnold P.
Maguire, Lee R,
Magathan, Benjamin
Magathan, Lemuel B.
Maltby, George E.
Merritt, Frank W.
Messbarger, Uriel E.
Mulnix, Ben R.
McMurray, Fred L.
McPhail, Ross
McDougal, Earl M.
Nelson, Ernest A.
Nelson, Edward J.
Nell, John H.
Niggeman, William J.
O' Bryant, Charles W.
O'Bryant, Archibald M.
Overbey, Claude R.
Owen, Ray D.
Parr, Evert R.
Post, Floyd E.
Pollitt, Dallas D.
Pierce, Cecil A.
Rariden, Edgar L.
Ranstrom, Robert R.
Rehtz, Herman
Reid, Lester L.
Rutledge, Paul R.
Rutledge, Gayl N.
Sandifer, William J.
Santee, Harold P.
Serviss, George E.
Shaw, Joe R.
Siebert, Howard
Simpson, Paul M.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

189

Company E of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Fleeman, William R.
1st Lieutenant

Wilson, Durward J.
2nd Lieutenant

Rankin, Harvey R.
1st Sergeant

Stewart, Donald P.
Mess Sergeant

Houston, Rex C.
Supply Sergeant

Cline, Frank B.
Sergeants

Mather, Clarence T.

White, Louis D.

Potter, Donald C,

Wickendoll, Albert

Newton, Roy H.

Crippen, Dale L.

King, Fred W.
Corporals

Davolt, Bert V.

Tucker, Morris J.

Ran say, Ivan G.

Beuttner, Harry G.

Brundige, Charles R.

Foster, Lester O.

Vaughan, Frank A.

Abbott, Seth J.

Edwards, Hobart

Short, Charley

Strobel, Howard E.

Woods, James H,

Ulmer, Joseph L.
Mechanic

Gibbs, Leonard A.

Cooks

Cox, Lloyd B.

Campbell, James W.

Howe, Roy A.
Buglers

Miller, Norman W.

Bergen, John K.
Privates 1st Class

Anderson, Edwin A,

Blackball, Malcolm R.

Brace, Clayton W.

Cheatum, Claude E.

Clark, Milo G.

Donnell, Kenneth B.

Frye, Emmett A.

Hardwicke, John H,

Hobson. Floyd H.

Hodgson, Garrell D.

Houston, Thomas S.

Howe, Edgar E.

McCoUum, Archie D.

McKee, Arden H.

Moeser, Frank P.

Patton, Joseph R.

Peck, Ralph F.

Richards, James B.

Smither, William F.
Tucker, Russel G.
Ulmer, Harvey W.
Vogt, John

Waggerman, Hubert L.
White, Albert E.
WTiitehead, William J.
Zumwalt, Charles L.
Privates

Ackley, Henry W.
Altis, Charley C.
Anderson, George C.
Anderson, Pete C.
Anderson, Ralph M.
Barksdale, William W.
Banres, Clarence C.
Battin, Alfred H.
Battin, William A.
Black, John A.
Bowen, Albert W.
Brown, Earl F.
Calbert, Lee M.
Canfield, William R.
Canfield, John H.
Carter, Norman A.
Coffelt, Terrill C.
Cooper, Eldon L.
Danner, Ira O.
Davis, John S.
Devore, Nicholas L.
Foreman, Kay M.
Fowler, Orville D.
Fowler, William W.
Fritz, Joe H.
Fullerton, Robert W.
Fulling, Vergil H.
Goodrich, George W.
Gosen, Dick W.
Grosham, Floyd
Griffith, Bertie R.
Harrington, Joseph F.
Hart, Ralph R.
Hawkins, Roscoe O.
Hill, William F.
Hobbick, Howard R.
Howard, George
Ivey, Kellie M.
Kenoyer, Earl
Kenoyer, John E.
Koon, Fred C.
Lambertus, John W.
Lewis, William W,
Love, Joseph E.
Lyons, Everett M.
Malone, William L.
Martin, Hillary R.
Mawby, Felix M.
McCamant, Donald G.
McCollum, Claude V.
McColm, Arthur L.
McHone, William A.
McMullen, Hubert R.
Miller, Frank R.
Nelson, Ely
Parker, Kenneth R.

190 ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Pauls, Otto Williams, Claude

Porter, Russell B. Wilson, Otis C.

Poulton, Gleason B. Wilson, William H.

Powell, Ernest F. Young, Harry L.

Price, Frank M. Yowell, Benjamin W.

Sanford, George R. Zumwalt, Andrew J.

Schock, Ferrol B. T,o^^pq HiRrhAr^P^

Scott, Chauncey H. LiOsses, i/iscnargea

Scott, Clarence J. Sergeant

Seaman, Charley L. Hall, Claude H.

Shepherd, William P. rnrnnrals

Staley, Charlie E. w?kk5 n.«.^^ w

Stapleton, Raymond R. gP^^^' T?®?^f ® ^•

Stephenson, Fred L. g^cks Bert L

Stephenson, Leroy B. S^mJ?^' ^^^^^ P' ^

Stewart, Grant Williams, Charles B.

Stockton, Albert N. Mechanic

Stone, Fred Weaver, James H.

Truitt, Albert H. PHvafaa 1«t C\nw

Truitt, Alfred L. ^If* ® \io„ V

Watkins. Benjamin F. S^^^flxr i^^itt w

Watts, Emerson A. „ Parmley, Ernest W.

Whitehead, Charles E. Fnvate

Wiegel, Fay M. Atkinson, Floyd W.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

191

Company F of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Smith, Clarence M.
1st Lieutenant

Thornbrough, Albert L.
2nd Lieutenant

Burgess, Carl E.
1st Sergeant

Bell, Joseph N.
Mess Sergeant

Blsh, Frank
Supply Sergeant

A'Neals, Albert
Sergeants

Arnold, Manford F.

Barr, George S.

Stutzman, Robert H.

Edwards, Gilbert C.

Graham, Ira M.

Myrick, Edgar P.

Purdue, Paul
Corporals

Fisher, Henry O.

Moore, Millard

Avary, John K.
Cooks

Rice, Harry

Ridge, Jim

Creaghead, Harry
Mechanic

Wonsettler, Oscar
Buglers

Croan, Ephriam

Ingels, Vernon B.
Privates, 1st Class

Artzberger, Harland

Armstrong, Willard

Bass, Lawrence

Blankenship, Bert M.

Deighton, George S.

Estes, Loy C.

Gregory, Miles H.

Hundley, Claud J.

Jenkins, Charles

Kirch, John H.

Litsey, Aden

Liockey, Paul

McAfee, Harrison

Michler, Don A.

Raymour, Grady P.

Rynerson, Russell

Shoup, Jesse R.

Sooby, Benjamin H.

Smith, Roger E.

Sherry, Thomas L.

Taylor, Brooks

Weeks, Wade R.
Privates

Ackerman, Spencer C.

Anderson, Pro

Arnold, Archie L.

Allbritton, Jackson C.
Artzberger, Raymond
Brooks, Royce
Barnett, Monroe
Bindley, Mark R.
Burson, Ralph A,
Biehm, Harrison H.
Barcus, Thomas O.
Blecha, Frank J.
Carrell, Carl
Chalmers, Ray W.
Chumbley, Arlice C.
Craghead, Walter
Couch, Earl E.
Campbell, John C.
Chears, Walter S.
Croan, Reuben H.
Croan, Howard O.
Dahl, Frank
Dupree, Roy L.
Edgar, Hubert
Evans, Thomas L.
Force, Ora M.
Flewelling, Ervin M.
Ferguson, Arthur L.
Gore, Louis R.
Griffith, Earl
Geer, Carl H.
Gibbs, James
Gibbs, Jesse
Gode, Edgar H.
Ginn, Floyd S.
Gibbons, Albert W.
Haff, Lawrence
-Hawkins, Chester
Hager, Charles S.
Hoover, Carl
Hennessey, Myron W.
Haugh, George D.
Howard, Harold D.
Hoover, Arlie C.
Jarvis, Ralph
Johnson, Drvlll
Jordan, Edmond
Jordan, Ivel J.
Johnson, Albert C.
Keberlein, George J.
McBride, Frank T.
Myers, Harold J.
Morris, Glenn W.
Milton, Grant
Milton, Harvey B.
Milton, Elisha P.
McVey, Jake H.
Miller, Clyde H.
Michler, Frank L.
Murty, Lane
Nairn, Guy W.
O'Hanlin, Clyde S.
Ostrand, Otto C.
Ormord, Marshall S.
Pittinger, Percival
Preston, Orville
Post, Walter E.

192 ROSTER OP KANSAS UNITS

Peck, Clifford H. Sterling, Earl

Parry, Rauland S. Sterling, Daniel L.

Pauley, Orville Teliver, Eimit R.

Parker, Reese H. Thomas, Alfred H.

Parks, Arthur H. Thompson, Edward T.

Quinn, Patrick Turner, Henry !•

Russell, Harry P. Turner, Sampson A.

Reynolds, Colman Watts, Earl N.

Raney, Carl Webb, James M.

Reynolds, Jack Walker, Albert A.

Ratcliff, Egbert R. Wilder, Thomas E.

Richardson, John A. Welch, Fred L.

Simmons, Charles B. Whitehurst, Harry V.

Simmons, Harold R. Witt, Clifton A.

Smart, Harry W. White, Walter A.

Sutton, Walter B. Williams, Floyd B.

Scott, Arthur Wheeler, Frank C.
Shepherd, Ralph E.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

193

Company G of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Harvey, Leslie E.
1st Lieutenant

George, Jesse E.
2nd Lieutenant

Harvey, Eh-nest S.
Supply Sergeant

Lorenz, Ira V.
Mess Sergeant

Gooch, John C.
Sergeants

Lockhart, George A.

Widmoyer, Fred B.

Johnson, Thomas P.

Murphy, Robert C.

Jackson, Sherman N.

Hart, Verne C.

Spivey, Ora M.

Purton, John L.
Corporals

Cowell, George S.

Popham, Harry A.

Spivey, Henry L.

Ballance, Carl A.

Hally, Maurice J,

Stanford, Samuel T.

Cowger, Irvin L.

Boner, Boyd H.

Davis, Roland E.
Bugler

Berry, Ray W.
Cooks

Dotson, Charles R.

Shaw, George
Mechanics

Trout, Elmer J.

Muller, Victor W.
Privates, 1st Class

Bennett, Freedom

Cross, Elsworth A.

Davis, Thomas C.

Ferguson, Guy W.

Pilcher, Robert E.

Smith, Henry H.

Stout, Clarence M.

Twombly, Roy
Privates

Armstrong, Lee A.

Baker, Homer A.

Baker, George M.

Barrett, John F.

Baumgartner, David P

Beach, Paul C.

Bock, Arthur A.

Becker, James R.

Bending, Foster D.

Bilsland, Joseph L.

Bishop, Elson J.

Boyle, John H.

Boyle, Charles M.

Butt, Chester J.

Butterworth, "William M.
Carpenter, Thomas P.
Caughey, William M.
Coleman, George J.
Coleman, Thurston
Collins, Jake J.
Collister, William H.
Conde, Arthur L.
Cross, Alonzo F.
Cross, Harry
Conde, Lee E.
Davies, George T.
Delcamp, Boyd E.
Dewey, Bert
Domino, Fred E.
Dorman, Bernie E.
Dunham, Albert G.
Dunlap, Robert J.
Dykes, Clay W.
Edwards, Harry S.
Endicott, Clarence
Felton, John B.
Ferguson, Eugene R.
Fletcher, Merton M.
Frakes, James E.
Gooch, Leslie L.
Guise, Raymond C.
Hall, Henry T.
Harmon, John E.
Harmon, Ralph E.
Hartley, Roy
Hazen, Walter B.
Heaton, Harry G.
Heberly, Otis J.
Hewes, William H.
Hostetler, Carl C.
Hudsonpillar, Clarence
Kephart, Lloyd R.
Kifer, Russell S.
Kuhnle, Fred W., Jr.
Laymon, Ralph F.
Lewis, Erwin H.
Lott, Neely
MahoUand, Ralph E.
Marvin, Paul
Matthews, Earl C.
McCoUough, Frank R.
McGaugh, Lyle B.
McGavran, Boyd B.
McKee, Chester G.
Melcher, Henry J.
Miller, Jesse Z.
Minner, Dow J.
Moss, Charles A.
Muller, Ira E.
Murdick, Reed W.
Murdock, Mearl R.
Murphy, Elyde M.
Myrick, Eugene B.
Nelson, John H.
Newell, Elmer E.
Parsons, John H.
Perkins, Doan F.
Pilcher, Arthur C.
Pilcher, Clifford L.

194

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Popham, Glenn A.
Postelthwaite, Glenn D.
Potter, Forrest J.
Press, Floyd S.
Richards, Guy O,
Rodgers, Charles M.
Rogers, Lloyd V.
Rose, Wallace
Ruby, Chancy E.
Sampson, Rexford B.
Sargent, John
Shreve, Carl R.
Shrouf, Lester B.
Siegrist, Carl J.
Smith, Hugh R.
Snavely, Irvin N.
Sommers, Ora C.
Standau William H.
Starkey, Jesse G.
Strait, Charles
Sweeny, Joseph

Swoyer, Henry A.
Swoyer, John R.
Teasley, Earl
Thompson, Earl D.
Townsend, Esley
Truitt, Verne E.
Treadwell, Lee J.
Vaughn, Fred G.
Walden, Clarence B.
Walden, Roy L.
Ward, Frank R.
Webster, Calvin S.
Whipp, Russell B.
Wickham, Clyde S.
Woodman, Alvin H.
Woods, Milton A.

Losses, Discharged

1st Sergeant

Stout, Ray

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

195

Company H of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Vaughn, Fred H.
1st Lieutenant

Brown, William L».
2nd Lieutenant

Fulghum, Marshall W.
1st Sergeant

Crawford, George E.
Mess Sergeant
Supply Sergeant

Robinson, Ivan R.
Sergeants

Beck, Eugene H.

Hodges, Will H.

Pierpont, Raymond

Rutledge, Cecil L.

Wallack, Walter M.
Corporals

Patterson, Robert S.

Tharp, Lewis M.

Constant, Wallace

Stolp, Joy A.

Schantz, Herbert S.

Barker, Ellis T.

Jenkins, Fred T.

Kondall, Wayne

Garrett, James S.

Endicott, Ralph

Cunningham, Charles W.

Wylie, Ernest J.
Cooks

Cook, Israel U.

Isonagle, Darrell D.

Isonagle, Cecil H.
Buglers

Kinkaid, Emmot C.

Holt, Joseph E.
Kechanic

Armstrong, Eldward H.
Privates, 1st Class

Barber, Lawrence L.

Busby, Dean R.

Dobbs, James V.

Dow, William H.

Owens, Cecil P.

Robinson, Earl H.

Schifferdecker, George W.

Seaman, Homer ^

Tolles, Henry W.
Privates

Abel, Henry G.

Allman, George V.

Anderson, James M.

Arnold, Edward R.

Ault, Earl C.

Baker, Harold A.

Baker, Noble H.

Baldwin, Charles W.

Barringer, Oliver P.

Bauer, Merle H.

Beii, Carl H.
Blakey, Victor V.
Bourdette, Robert C.
Bratcher Ivel L.
Burbsm, Fay E.
Buss, Lloyd F.
Carpenter, Lynn P.
Chattam, Carl C.
Clark, Lewis A.
Collins, Joseph H.
Conley, Floyd A.
Privates
Cornelison, Harvey R.
Cornelison, Herbert A.
Crisswell, John T.
Crooks, Cecil E,
Dillman, Jake S.
Dunagan, John O.
Eastin, Harvie
Eiche, Frederick G.
Faught, Lawrence
Ferguson, Sidney F.
Files, Lennis T.
Fitch, Rupert O.
Fleming, Thomas H.
Foley, Mike E.
Gardner, Chester W.
Geoslin, Doris R.
Gilford, Lon
Gordon, Dewey O.
Gresham, Henry H,
Griffith, Glenn
Hall, John H.
Hartley, James A.
Henry, Garfield R.
Heat wood, Albert F.
Hetherington, Marion L.
High, Clarence E.
Himes, Charles E.
Hughes, William R.
Ingalsbe, Lawson S.
Jacobs, John C.
Jacobs, Marvin
Johnson, Irl
Raster, Reuben F.
Raster, Sleamon H.
Rinsey, Albert E.
Lawrence William H.
Lorton, Hugh C,
Mahannah, Harry M.
Martin, William L.
May, Jesse E.
McCoy, Ernest O.
McCreary, Lou
McCreary, Walter
McVeil, Emery W.
Miller, Harold L.
Myers, Max E.
Nicely, John W.
Narris, Leonard H.
Osborn, Bert C.
Psige, James H.
Pinard, Eddie J.
Pinion, William N.
Powers, Oran E.

196

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Powers, William H.
Prattsman, George 3.
Rader, Otis M.
Randall, Emil A.
Roberts, Cecil L.
Robinson, Earl A.
Rodman, John M.
Ronsick, Doll D.
Roseberry, Howard Q.
Rude, Robert L.
Sanburn, Fred
Sawyer, Lacey W.
Schlotthauer, Jacob
Sherwood, Hober C.
Sleek, Bon A.
Smith, Allen E.
Smith, Paul S.
Snyder, Dean P.
Stocking, William E.
Switser, Charles T.
Thompson, Merville C.
Thorpe, Elmer R.
Tully, James B.

Underwood, Virgil T.

Vaughn, William A.

Wallace, Leow H.

Walton, Carrie E.

Ward, Max W.

Watkins, Herbert A.

Wells, Thomas

White, Llewllyn B.

Whitt, Jesse E.

Wimpey, Eugene F.

Wortman, Harold S.

Yarbrough, Glenn G.

Young, Daniel

Young, George W.

Young, Roy D.
Losses, Discharged
Privates

Collins, Emanuel N.
Mess Sergeant

Dobbs, Glenn W.

Adam, Murel B.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

im

Company I of the Second Kansas Infantrj

Oaptain

House, Earl A.
1st Lieutenant

Swift, Allender
2nd Lieutenant

Ricord, Pearl
Supply Sergeant

Cerf, Charles
Sergeants

Van, Y. Earl B.

Rasnic, Clyde J.

Jones, Donald P.

Ellis, James R.

Currie, Paul E.

Graham, George W.

Hampton, Augustus A.

Brownie e, James S.
Corporals

Gilmore, Morris C.

Joy, Will J.

Covell, Tom G.

Dwyer, Daniel M.

Atterbury, Joseph H.

Almond, Roger P.

Fuller, Robert P.

Smith, Charles J.

Key, Shirley D.

Kiersey, Chester A.
Cooks

Nichols, Alvin W.
Privates, 1st Class

Avery, Earl P.

Covell, Chester W.

Lyon, Harold J.

Taylor, Arthur S.

Van Wagoner, George W.

Wertz, Percy J.
Privates

Adkerson, Jakle

Allen, Guy P.

Anderson, Fred M.

Arnold, John H.

Auker, Burley B.

Barton, Horace C.

Barkhurst, Earl J.

Belford, Karl

Bentley, Anzel B.

Blanchard, Merlin P.

Boyd, Harrison L,

Bridwell, Walter C.

Brown, Carroll P.

Brown, Mile C.

Bundy, James I.

Clark, Henry E.

Clark, Thomas P.

Clegg, Fines N.

Colville, John A.

Colville, William B.

Cunningham, William W.

Cusick, Eugene

Dehner, Albert B.

D«nnia, George A.

DeVore, Albert A.
DeVore, Elmer B.
Doll, Claude B.
Dorie, William F.
Eastin, Jess A.
Elliott, James V.
Fay, Frank S.
Frazee, Harry W.
Gaines, Henry F.
Gard, Edward E.
Gillham, Phillip G.
Glover, Clyde W.
Graham, Edward
Greenwood, Harold W.
Greenwood, Lloyd D.
Grover, Carl H.
Haddox, McHenry B.
Hamrich, Guy
Harris, William B.
Harrison, Everett S.
Harvell, John M.
Helms, Lewis E.
Helvey, Charles W.
Herrick, Harry P.
Hess, Loyd S.
Hormel, Lee J.
Hudson, Thomas C.
Jennings, Austin P.
Jones, Ben E.
Jones, Charles M.
Junod, Louis J.
Kaplan, Harry
Kennedy, Milton J.
Koons, James P.
Kruse, Otto P.
McCarroll, John C.
McCoy, Leo E.
McCullough, Frank H.
McMillen, Carl B.
McPeek, Lester R.
Maher, Richard D.
Melick, Allan H.
Messer, Charles L.
Minter, Charles O. M.
Mitchell, Samuel R.
Morris, Leo E.
Passell, John B.
Payton, Jess
Ferryman, Floyd EJ.
Petticord, Harold H.
Pickrell, Todd R.
Prohart, Lawrence
Prothero, Joe H.
Purinton, Wallace L.
Quirk, Leo
Ratcliff, Carter B.
Reeside, Delbert C.
Reynolds, Ernest R.
Roberts, Earl M.
Rodwell, Joe A.
Rowsey, Walter W.
Sauer, Grant L.
Schafer, August
Seales, Charles L.
Seamans, Fred B.

198 ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Shank, Harvey L. Twyman, Fred J.

Shilling, Rudolph D. Walterschield, Henry Yf

Simms, Thomas M. Walton, Paul D.

Shinliver, Vinton C. Whiting, Fred H.

Sloan, William E. Whitton, Fred W.

Smith, Fred A. Wiley, Thomas L.

Smith, Harold I. Wilson, Albert

Stice, William Wine, Arthur G.

StoU, Frank M. Wood, Elbert R.

Taylor, Edward J. Wood, Harry G.

Teter, Earl F. Wood, Walter B.

Theroulde, Alfred O. Woodward, John J.

Titus, Joseph Yaple, Claude N.

Todd, Charles T. Yeager, Clarence P.

Trego, Claude E. Young, Henry W.

Tyson, Logan R. Whipple, Tracey

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

190

Company K of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Fry, Renelda T.
1st Lieutenant

Gilmore, Rex S.
2nd Lieutenant

Ball, Harry M.
1st Sergeant

Dabney, Earl A.
Mess Sergeant

Lowell, Dunbar
Supply Sergeant

Campbell, Joseph
Sergeants

McClelland, James

McKay, Donald

McBride, Roy

Backus, Lon

O'Brian, Ira

Church, Roy B.

Miller, William H.

Becker, Leod D.
Corporals

McGinley, Victor D.

Child, Charles

Hertwick, John P.

Bateman, James D.

Walters, William

Howard, Floyd T.

Dabney, Charles J.

Brighton, Harold

Snyder, Clarence

Cripps, Warren A.

Nichols, Byron D.

Engel, William

Hunter, Donald

Smith, E. Erwin

Mather, David £1

Bailer, Earl

Sewell, Harry
Mechanics

Elliott, Thomas B.

Orton, Carl
Cooks

Haines, Charles

McClary, James M.

Currey, Claud C.
Buglers

Herron, Connie R.

Smith, Alva
Privates, 1st Class

Adam, Chester H.

Bump, Ronald A.

Boice, Harold

Bramer, Harry A.

Carter, Clarence D.

Chandler, Charles A.

Damon, Samuel T.

Daugherty, Tom

Garcia, Joseph

Hase, Eugene E.

Hughes, Arthur B.

Hughes, Harry E.
Hertwick, Charles I.
Jacoby, James P.
Johnson, Shelby
Lang, Albert H.
Lohner, Joseph H.
Mallonee, Leo R.
Otterstotter, Jes
Spayd, John R.
Staloup, Kenneth H.
Terry, Floid
Tucker, James E.
Truax, Alva G.
Woodman, James H.
Walters, Mark
Walters, Clyde L.
Williams, Arnold D.
Privates

Andrews, Harold R.
Arnold Joe
Atkinson, Calvin O.
Boyle, David A.
Babb, Verlin
Blain, Howard W.
Brasier, Frank
Bircher, Gentry
Bodine, George O.
Biggs, James W.
Brock, Charles B.
Brown, Horace C.
Bean, Roy L.
Crimmel, Henry W.
Cecil, Neil M.
Crowe, Robert L.
Coy, Clarence E.
Carter, Harold
Cook, Harry D.
Chauteau, Fred L.
Chapman, Lendal D.
Canney, Charles E.
Debo, Jerry
Eppley, Glen O.
Eckley, Bennle
Evans, Charles H.
Estes, Charles E.
Foster, Raymond
Gurtney, Andrew J.
Gallup, Otis O.
Guarnee, John H.
Gamer, Lonie
Graves, Peter
Gard, Harry
Geren, Charley
Goodson, Agle B.
Hutchlns, Howard L.
HoUon, Claude L.
Harlow, Albert M.
Higson, Fred
Hicks, Clyde
Jones, Walter W.
Jones, Lester
Johnson, Joseph E.
Johnson, James B.
Kennedy, Fred
Kerr, Clarence C.

200

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Krone, Jay
Kinslow, William
Latta, Ralph H.
Lewis, Ferell J.
McGuire, Will S.
Meskee, George G.
Murray, Ewing S.
Murphey, Loy L.
McLaughlin, George
Morgan, Alford E.
Mudge, Carl B.
Newton, Frank C.
O'Keefe, Thomas
Owen, James E.
Osburn, Curtis
Philipe, Al
Philo, Chester
Pyle, George
Peneazok, Joha

Rhodes, Walter A.
Reeves, James
Rusher, Loy L.
Ringle, Foster G.
Smith, Leonard E.
Slater, Roy W.
Shadday, Charles
Stone, Rolla A.
Thrapp, Roy
Thiess, William L.
Vance, Herbert
Warner, Robert M.
Woolam, Earl
Wilson, Walter L.
Weber, William N.
Wilson, Lee E.
Wassara, Paul B.
Whitten, Samuel H.
Warner, Alford A.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

201

Company L of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Clayton, J. Patterson
1st Lieutenant

Ericson, Arthur J.
2nd Lieutenant

Laird, Homer U.
1st Sergeant

Schwartz, Walter A,
Supply Sergeant

Burt, Charles W.
Mess Sergeant

Hartenbower, Grover C.
Sergeants

Trusler, Victor T.

Meairs, Rufus C.
Corporals

Steckel, William

Sheridan, Phillip

Anderson, John M.

Christensen, Oscar C.
Cooks

Kappelmann, Otto T,

Waite, Erwin R.

Swarner, Frank
Buglers

Mosley, Ira
Privates, 1st Class

Brier, Arthur E.

Briley, Carl P.

Dewey, Lynn M.

DeWitt, Harold

Fry, Andrew F.

Green, Churchill

Portwood, Bruce T.

Son, Elmer

Wagley, Harold K.
Privates

Ainsworth, Walter

Anderson, Clare J.

Andrews, Walter H.

Austin, Glenn R.

Bass, Howard W.

Beard, Owen

Bell, Russell L.

Blackwood, Merle A.

Blackwood, Virgil H.

Bond, Merritt

Boyle, Walter J.

Brandner, Fred A.

Brown, Harry M.

Brown, William R.

Campbell, Guy B.

Casstevens, Earl

Christensens, Earl

Colburn, Willard C.

Cottrill, Floyd B.

Cozine, Frank K.

Crabtree, Jake L.

Crain, George R.

Crist, Frank

Crites, Jesse C,

Crotts, Glenn F.
Dietz, William P.
Dianey, William J.
Donaldson, Arthur W.
Downey, John L.
Dunham, Myron Francis
Drury, Floyd
Edwards, Hugh F.
Filinger, Charles J.
Foster, Jay
Foster, Silas F.
French, John W.
Gadbery, Arthur R.
Giddings, Chester C.
Gifford, Harley W.
Gillispie, Arthur Gr.
Glaze, Theodore
Grim wood, Thomas J.
Gross, Louis H.
Hampton, Henry M.
Hassinger, George V.
Hassinger, S. Earl
Haworth, Fred J.
Hobbs, Gerald Gordon
Horn, Edgar E.
Hosley, Charles R.
Houghton, Ray
Hughes, Marion H.
Hunt, Charles W.
Ireland, Charles E.
Johnson, Russell W.
Jones, Linn P.
Kendall, Charles B.
Kesler, Charles E.
Kimble, Herman
Knowles, Edward
Layton, Elmer J.
Lockwood, Lawrence B.
Logan, J. Austin
Lowther, Eugene T.
Lynn, Francis
McCracken, Jesse E.
Madison, Clarence J.
Madison, Roy L.
Madison, Stanley C.
Mastin, Owen P.
Meyer, Clarence L.
Meyer, Elmer
Minner, Ernest C.
Monroe, Jesse Rodney
Morris, Clifford
Myers, Harry A.
Nelson, Richard R.
Noakes, Charles C.
Norris, Oren N.
Oakley, Lester C.
Olberding, Louie A.
Pennington, Thomas J.
Petty, John W.
Pierson, Lea R.
Posvar, Edmund
Potter, David B.
Prescott, Russell M.
Purdy, Leslie L.
RandaU, Lewis W.

202

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Rapp, Alfred L.
Reeser, Joseph R.
Ridgway, Merle
Riegle, Roy Wilford
Riggs, Clarence E.
Rinard, Bernard I.
Roberts, Richard
Rohman, William C.
Rumford, Elbert A.
Runnels, Vernon
Ryman, Ben F.
Schaible, Harold M.
Schoeck, C. Leonard
Schoeck, Harry A.
.Sellers, Leslie R.
Shaft, Elvis C.
iSidener, Marion M.
Simpson, Chester C.
Simpson, Otto E.
Smith, James M.

Smith, Joyce D.

Solander, Howard D.

Spangler, Joseph E.

Spivey, William L.

Stackley, Christie

Stevenson, Charles E.

Stites, O. Russel

Strom, Leonard O.

Wahl, Charles J.

Williamson, Randolph

Wilson, James A.

Wisler, Charles S.

Wood, Wayne

Zieber, Warren
Losses, Discharged
Sergeant

Richards, John S.
Privates, 1st Class

Cain, Louis A.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

203

Company M of the Second Kansas Infantry

Captain

Perkins, Roy W.
1st Lieutenant

Holly, Ward P.
2nd Lieutenant

Shipe, Willard J.
1st Sergeant

Richardson, Andrew J.
Supply Sergeant

Biggart, William W.
Mess Sergeant

Wagstaff, Fred M.
Sergeants

Lill, Cycril L.

Showman, Samuel E.

Dick, Harlow G.

Lindblom, Ralph A.

Morriman, Lewis

Brill, Daniel P.

Thompson, Eugene "W.
Corporals

Anderson, Carl

Doran, William

Young, Charlie W.

Carroll, William

Carruthers, Roy

Mencher, John

Pitts, VoUie W.

Donaldson, Joe F.

Moran, Fred

Barnett, Earl B.

Peterson, James C.

Metzger, Fred

Lightfoot, Ernest

Crosby, Amos

Smith, Sam B.

Price, Irvin M.
Cooks

Shephard, Luda B.

Smith, Van B.

Walden, Allen C.
Privates, 1st Class

Adams, Clarence E,

Barnett, Sam

Bell, Rowan J.

Bennett, Merrill W.

Brassfield, William P.

Cannon, Paul A.

Carson, Hobart R.

Chambers, John L.

Draher, Leland C.

Flinn, Edwin G.

Freeman, Claude

Gentry, Vincent W.

Hilligoss, Claude

Kohr, Roscoe E.

Lindholm, Enfred Q.

Maloney, Jack E.

McDowell, James C.

Murphey, Charley A.

Markham, Harry R.

Pratt, Glenn A.

Snyder, James

Smith, Edgar L.

Smith, Charles O.

Spence, Fred L.

Taylor, Frank O.

Watson, Mark L.

West, Hedford S.
Privates

Akins, Malcolm

Alley, Lawrence J.

Alexander, Frederick N

Anderson, William

Atkinson, Clarence

Bartels, Alfred B.

Benedict, Willard H.

Bolby, Claude E.

Bolby, James

Bolby, Maurice A.

Borst, Frank C.

Boyles, Arthur L.

Brimlow, George F.

Butler, Eugene G.

Davis, Lawrence E.

Davis, Lee

Ditto, Dorsa J.

Durant, Pearl Russell

Ethridge, John A.

Fry, Leonard M.

Fuller, Will J.

Fuller, William H.

Garrison, Roy L.

Gottberg, John Fred

Graham, Eugene S.

Griggs, John S.

Haley, Marvin

Hed, Clarence A.

Hickman, Fred H.

Hite, Hickman

Hopkins, William M.

Hulbert, Earl O.

Hurst, John H. C.

Hutton, Asa A.

Ingram, Lloyd E.

Israel, John R.

Johnson, Webster L.

Knox, Andrew R.

Kreuger, Richard A.

Larkins, James A.

Lewis, Frederick P.

Lindsay, John C.

Livingston, Edward S.

Malone, Walter C.

Manning, Lauren T.

Maxwell, Walter L.

Metcalf, Ival A.

Miller, Doster

Miller, Harry R.

Miller, Hugh J.

Moody, James

Musser, Joe D.

Nichols, Chester H.
' Oberg, John E.

O'Malley, Ed D.

Ordway, Guy O.

Orr, Wilbert E.

204

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Parkinson, Thomas G.
Patterson, Richard L.
Peake, William McKinley
Pendergrass, Ernest L.
Putsch, Roy
Reardon, Daniel P.
Reardon, Frederick M.
Read, Edison
Rose, Leroy A.
Roseman, Aaron H.
Roseman, Clair J.
Rider, Bert A.
Sanborn, Seth H.
Schumaker, Ernest
Seavey, August G.
Seavey, Park N.
Sommers, Clayton S.
Sparks, Albert A.
Spencer, Herbert
Stahl, Emmett J.

Stanfield, Paul A.
Stauffer, Walter D.
Stigall, Charley H.
Storer, Evert A.
Sutcliffe, George A. M.
Todd, John E.
Toner, Leonard L.
Vanatta, Milford P.
Vaughn, Clyde J.
Weaver, Vernon
Whaley, William E.
Whiteford, Guy L.
Wilson, Clyde
Wilson, Robert S.
Willers, Raymond
Miner, George D.
Attached

Jones, Lester V.
Tart, Gerald A.
Newcomb, Wayne C.

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Sanitary Detachment of the Second Kansas
Infantry

Major

Evans, Charles S.
Captain

Seiver, Charles M.
1st Lieutenant

Hawke, Charles C.

Kirkpatrick, Walter H.
1st Sergeant

Gregg, Harry S.
Sergeants

Freark, Joyce

Glahn, Harry

Wilson, Glen
Privates, 1st Class

Browning, Claude

Browning, Frank

Davis, Warren

Dicker, Ralph W.

Dressier, Elmer L,

Evans, Roger

Glahn, Eugene

Hale, George
Miller, William L.
Palmateer, Walter
Pine, Ralph E.
Watkins, LeRoy
Willis, George H.
Privates
Draper, William
Dunn, William
Evns, Paul
Kirchoff, Arthur L.
McDonald, Andrew
McKee, Gordon E.
McKitrick, Edward
Mifflin, Dee
Moore, Howard
Ramsey, Clay
Slaughter, Robert
Smitih, Harry R.
Starrett, Joe
Stevens, Walter J.
Trackwell, Jesse
Urlaub, Ernst A.

Detachment Unassigned, Recruits Second KanMS

Infantry

Privates

Hall, Levi M.
Halley, James W.
Hammer, Richard S.
Hoffman, William M.
Brady, John J.
Burdick, Chester
Irvin, Robert E.
Jennings, James M.
Sand, Roy E.
Skiles, Charles E.
Tedder, Bryan E.
Turton, Humphery H.

Vermillion, Louin E.
Warner, Aquilla R.
West, Hershal R.
Wilson, James
Wilcox, Paul J.
Wooley, Harry M.
Winton, Geo. L.
Davison, Ernest D.
Eals, Philip S.
Jacobs, Henry W.
Patton, Renwick M.
Taylor, Howard E.

Headquarters of the Third Kansas Infantry
139th Infantry

Colonel

Rowan. Willie McD.
Lieut. Colonel

Sharp, Alex A-
Majors

McClain, Baxter D.

Krause, Albert H.
Campbell, Thoma* R.
1st Lieutenants
Botkin, Paul O.
Dudley, Hugh S.
Sharp, John B.

206

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Headquarters Company of the Third Kansas
Infantry

Captain

Haskell, John J.
Regimental Sergeant Majo r

Cahill, Frank P.
Musician Surgeant Majors

Brier, James M., Jr.

Roberts, Frank M.

Pitts, Albert Dudley
Band Leader

Morse, Theodore
Mess Sergeant

Quackenbush, Derwood B.
Band Sergeant

Crouch, Alfred D.
Sergeant

Parry, EYank H.
Privates

Abell, Robert E.

Adams, Henry W.

Ball, Charles O.

Bannon, Howard W.

Black, Roy W.

Bowen, LeRoy P. C.

Brooks, Devon B.

Bruner, James

Cambern, Leon J.

Carter, Alfred B.

Crashaw, William L*.

Drum, Robert A.

Dutton, Lane A.

Dubreuil, Joseph E.

Ewan, Philip T.

Fleming, David Walter
Fleming, James R.
Foshay, Garret A.
Fowler, Leroy J.
Gaston, Dewey G.
Greenman, Lloyd B.
Greenlee, Samuel Rae
Haage, William R.
Hanstine, Paul H.
Hart, Donald R.
Hartley, Minor Joe
Henderson, William R.
Liff, Theodore L.
King, Ernest E.
Knopf, Roby J.
Neville, Fred
Nininger, Ora E.
McCarter, Arthur
Miles, Marion
Miller, Karl D.
Morris, Harold G.
Mitchell, Ralph E.
Quiett, William E.
Royer, Harold J.
Smith, Chas. J.
Stitt, Earl D.
Stitt. Orby J.
Stocking, Clyde L.
Towles, Roy S.
True, Larkin M.
Vernon, Leo R.
Wagner, Francis E.
Wheeler, Paul R.
Wolfe, Eugene
Zimmerman, Henry W.

Machine Gun Company of the Third Kansas
Infantry '

Captain

Payton, William E.
1st Lieutenants

Wilson, Richard T.
1st Lieutenant

Hunt, George J.

Northrup, Lewis O.
1st Sergeant

Enfield, Alfred R.
Supply Sergeant

Scott, Ewing C.
Mess Sergeant

Barber, Ezra T.
Sergeants

Teeters, Lloyd L.

Beck, Harold W.

Bean, Louis G.

Dickerson, James G.

Vance, Chas. P.

Ross, Edgar B.

Bennett, Webster S.

Frevert, Frederick E.

Corporals

Denton, Fred L.
Doggett, Cleo O.
Hair, James L.
Pierce, Frank O.
Card, Esmond
Coman, James G.

Dewey, Willim M.

O' Flaherty, John F.
Cooks

Miller, Claude

Miller, Earl
Horseshoer

Ballard, Roy G.
Mechanics

Womack, Chas. M.

Manthey, Will A.
Musicians

Newton, Herbert F.

Robinson, Kenneth M.
Privates, 1st Class

Boman, Ralph C.

Daigh, Clifford L.

Grover, George M.

Nickels, Lloyd O.

Jordan, Olin L.

Kennedy, Carl S.

Norton, Everette C.

Tippis, Leroy

Smith, James E.

Malcom, Canby H.
Privates

Ard, David

Ball, Otey

Brouillard, Chas, B.

Baker, Walter J.

Brouillard, Albert L.

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Bolln, Francis C.
Cummins, Chas. C.
Fishes, Chas, C.
Farren, Glenwood G.
Hoffman, Geo. L.
Hale, Guy W.
Heaton, Claude L.
Hoke, Oscar F.
Kirkpatrick, Jesse H.
Krause, David L.
Kane, Oscar K.
Latimer, Burney F.
Lee, Elmer
Lenhart, Wendell O.
Lindsey, Chas. H.
Long, Lloyd E.
Middleton, Carl S.

Milne, Dell P.
Morrison, Lenard T.
Marple, Earl L.
Myers, John R.
McCoy, Scott C.
Noble, Donald J.
Ritter, Archie D.
Raisch, John M.
Rutherford, Lloyd P.
Sicks, Wilber A. A.
Seals, Lionel A.
Straub, Peter W.
Sicks, Elsa C.
Walker, George S.
Waugh, William F.
Parker, Madison J.

Supply Company of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Going, James F.
2nd Lieutenant

Woodward, George K.
Regimental Supply Sergeants

Blain, William J.

Bair, Homer R.
1st Sergeant

Thome, Donald
Horseshoer

Emry, Elmer J.
Saddler

Reed, Geo. A.
Privates

Anderson, Harold G.

Benson, Loren R.

Blake, Hololm L.

Bonjour, Ira S.

Bragg, Henry A.

Brake, Carey G.

Corbin, Harold W.

Davis, John E.

Dennis, Paul
Dorcas, Everette H.
Forth, Arlie M.
Garland, William A.
Greeland, Donald C.
Grant, Wilmar O.
Harper, Thaddeus S.
Hazlett, John L.
Henry, Scott S.
Holdren, Emmett G.
Humphreys, James
Humphreys, John E.
Jacques, George L.
Johnson, Donald W.
Johnston, Walter F.
Jones, Fred R.
Keene, Arthur W.
Langan, Joseph P.
Mentzer, Harry A.
Nordgren, Axel B.
Russell, John V.
Stanton, Geo. S.
Watson, Fountain W,
Zeek, Floyd L.

Company A of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Dale, Edgar H.
1st Lieutenant

Bentley, Blanton U.
2nd Lieutenant

Barndollar, Charles W.
1st Sergeant

Trickett, Dean
Mess Sergeant

Rees, Earle F.
Supply Sergeant

Elliott, David S.
Sergeants

Kiddo, Richard E.

Halsey, Ray N.

Brunner, Alfred C.

Burkhall, Walter H.

Jenson, Carl O.

Hickman, Walter C.

Bingham, Delmore L.

Bradbury, Frank W.
Corporals

Dillon, Keith

Andrews, Rayma L.

Swearingen, Carl E.
Pickering, Ben C.
Meeks, Clyde
Miller, Claude E.
Wills, Carl I.
Jones, Robert H.
Askren, Bert
Piner, George W.
Cosier, Raymond E.
VanWinkle, Earle B.
Miller, Arthur M.
Love, Blanton D.
Shaubell, Harry D.
Dana, Merle H.
Fulks, John M.
Mechanics
Martin, Verne
Curran, Lawrence A.

Cooks

Arnold, Clarence
Walton, Grover C.
Vermehren, William H.

Musicians

Metcalf, Seward E.
Prashaw, Cecil J.

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Privates, 1st Class

Benefiel, Lelan J.
Boom, Samuel J.
Bricker, Raymond W.
Bryson, Geo. W.
Callow, Don C.
Gathers, Charles P., Jr.
Clark, Hugh W.
Dooley, Floyd C.
Giles, Floyd L.
Gillespey, Walter A.
Gray, Richard L.
Harris, John D.
Herrick, Ben P.
Huddleston, Geo. R.
Long, Roy D.
MacHatton, Joe
Matteson, Leo V.
Nelson, Geo. E.
Parrott, James D.
Perry, Alva B.
Renner, Floyd E,
Rice, Harold S.
Smith, Herbert E.
Swan, Carlton S.
Trough, Lloyd
Vaughan, William
Walton, Ellis P.
Wise, Robert L.
Privates
Allen, James M,
Anderson, Abraham B,
Baker, Earnest H.
Benefiel, Oral
Bentley, Bruce M.
Boston, Levi S.
Brannan, Sam
Bucher, Barney
Bucher, Tilden
Callow, James G.
Carrlngton, Homer
Cllne, Dave A.
Cobb, Chas. R.
Combs, Joel A.
Cotton, Harry C.
Cribbs, Arthur L.
Crocker, Clyde T.
Cundiff, Roy E.
Davis, Chas. B.
Davis, Harold W.
Duckworth, Roy E.
Elmore, Lester R.
Fisher, Guy K.
Pitch, Alfred C.
Poshe, Jim M.
Fuller, James C.
Fuzzell, David W.
Gillespie, Ward W.
Glidewell, Marion D.
Grady, George E.

Graves, Theo. R. Jr.
Griffith, Jess L.
Grober, Walter O.
Haddon, Carl J.
Hall, Orley L.
Hancock, William L.
Hanes, James B.
Higginbottham, James H.
Higgins, Edward H.
Highley, Elmer N.
Howe, Robert W.
Hutson, Rufus H.
Jewell, Frank
Jones, Edgar L.
Jones, Robert P.
Jundy, Dewey
Kindley, Field E.
Lape, Earl D.
Latta, James
Latta, John
Livingstone, Arthur D.
Long, Baden H.
Main, Harry L.
Martin, Samuel J.
IxcGee, Chas. E.
Myers, Les. J.
Page, Harold R.
Papen, James D.
Papen, Willard L.
Patterson, Claude A.
Pearson, Fl-ancis W.
Pevehouse, John D.
Pierson, William A.
Ray, Montie W.
Renner, Oluf G.
Richardson, Guy D.
Richardson, Roy S.
Roberts, William C.
Rogers, Ernest H.
Sargent, Frank H.
Scholes, Richard C.
Seaton, Orville J.
Sevier, Ernest
Smith, Alden
Spurlock, James B.
Stephens, Max S.
Straub, Joseph P.
Sumner, Earl E.
Tabor, Calvin A.
Tucker, Max A.
Vanderford, Earl B.
VanvsdoU, Seef
Wade, John A.
Wallen, Henry J.
White, Guy L.
White, Roy W.
Wilkus, John P.

Attached, Privates

Clingan, Hughett

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Company B of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Walling, Guy N.
1st Lieutenant
Smith, William A.
2nd Lieutenant

Kanaga, Clinton W.
1st Sergeant

Blevins, Jesse J.
Corporals

Fish, Enoch E.

Burnaa, George

Vendel, Joseph J.

Lamer, Iceland S.

Blevins, Theodore R.

Rindon, Harry I.

Leach, Arnold F.
Mechanics

Clark, Floyd
Buglers

Trapp, Merle A.

Marshall, Marlin W.
Privates, 1st Class

Gutschenritter, Samuel B.

Hoffman, John H.

Jenkins, Rosco D.

Kimmel, William M.
Privates

Abbott, Dean R.

Anderson, Alba W.

Austin, Robert A.

Bacon, Elmer E.

Bateman, Lemuel E,

Barackman, Crawford K.

Blevins, William E.

Barackman, Donnel

Bliss, Stanley E.

Blockwiez, Birt

Boehme, Birt

Bousefield, Geo. H.

Brandon, Benjamin F.

Brandon, Francis

Brann, Everett W.

Brey, Marlin

Brown, Ira C.

Burnam, William M.

Carson, Robert O.

Chance, Benjamin H.

Conley, Loren

Cooper, David Jr.

Coons, Kenneth A.

Davis, Claud

Davis, Lester M.

Davis, Lewis E.

Davis, William L.

Denning, Leonard C.

Douglas, Joseph B.

Douglas, John J.

Duncan, Elmer E.

Early, Walter R.

Edwards, James H.

Ferris, Earl A.

Fletcher, Chas. W.

Fletcher, Clair C.

Fletcher, Louis

Ford, Glee A.

Frantz, Donald

Frazier, Omer O.

Frendle, Leonard D.

Gibson, Lucien P.

Gibson, Perry F.

Glock, John H.

Greeley, Chas. E.

Guay, John

Gutschenritter, Tom C.

H&gan, Tony C.

Hegendeffer, Earnest P.

Hammon, William
Harr, Lloyd T.
Harrison, Benjamin C,
Hargis, DeWitt M.
Hawkins, Floyd J.
Hawkins, John L.
Hays, John W.
Hesser, Fred S.
Hudson, Leslie A.
Hudson, William B.
Hull, Geo. W.
Hull, Ralph W.
Johnson, Enoch B.
Johnson, William C.
Karnes, Roland R.
Keeling, James A.
Kilmer, James T.
Lancaster, Richard R.
Langley, Arbie F.
Langley, Ernest L.
Lake, Artie C.
Larkins, William J.
Lillie, Homer F.
Loveland, Floyd
Mack, Arthur L,
Mantin, Wilson M.
Mayall, Claude
Moore, Leslie L.
Morton, Jason S.
Miller, Grover C.
Miller, Virgil W.
Mott, Roy A.
Neill, Robert N.
Nichols, Ralph N.
Olmstead, Hugh
Owen, Albert A.
Owen, Wade R.
Parker, Philip
Paull, Clinton R.
Paulson, Roy
Pottorf, Frank A.
Pottorf, Fred G.
Pratt, William M.
Quaney, Lawrence F.
Radcliff, George D.
Ramsey, David W.
Renfro, David B.
Rettlg, Fred W.
Robertson, Leo W.
Robohn, Walter E.
Robbins, Lawrence B.
Rogers Clyde J.
Scales, Lester B.
Schultz, Everett
Segraves, Victor L.
Shiveley, Chas. W.
Shumard, Arthur E,
Sill, Richard I.
Taylor, James R.
Vandruff, Grover
Vendell, William F.
Vigus, Frank M.
Walter, Austin M.
Walters, Frank
Wheeler, James R.
Wheeler, William W.
Williamson, Sherman H.
Wind, Fred J.
Winrick, Clarence F.
Winters, Roy C.
Witteck, John F.
Yearout, Thomas P.
Young, Clark
Young, Karle C.
Atkins, Lloyd W.
Brown, Delmer D.
Woods, William J.
Rosenblum, Joe
Robinson, Elwood 8.

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Company C of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Perrigo, William H.
1st Lieutenant

Daugherty, Samuel A.
2nd Lieutenant

Hall, Charles O.
Mechanics

Petit, Harry

Ker,by, Martin P.
Cooks

Gouin, Forrest E.

Gaunt, Herman

Anderson, George W.
Buglers

Allm, Noble

McGarry, James
Privates

Arnold, Harry L.

Archbold, Geo. L.

Arveson, Archie L.

Asher, Gene L.

Anderson, Grover

Allen, Leslie

Bently, William E.

Brady, Raymond F.

Bauer, Leon

Brazil, Chester G.

Bedford, Chas. E.

Bassham, James C.

Beason, Henry M.

Barritt, Harry D.

Briddell. William S.

Ceas, Lester W.

Clark, John C.

Collins, Pat P.

Collins, Walter

Cox, Curtis

Cushing, Thos. L.

Delaney, Timothy W.

Diegleman, Joseph M.

Dietrich, Fred

Dietrich, William A.

Davenport, Leslie J.

Dempsey, Charles

Dean, George A.

Benty, Edward

Ellzey, Wesley A.

Estes, John W.

Egleston, Richard

Engler, Louis K.

Folck. Lilburn P. Jr.

Fentem, Harry

Fox, Chas. W. V.

Foley, Timothy J. Jr.

Ford, Loyd E.

Finney, Frank A.

Glenn, Arthur D.

Grant, Richard M.

Gormley, Earl C.

Grattan, William M.

Hull, Warren

Hines, William D.

Henry, George J.

Huitt, Edward

Hartong, Harry E.

Huey, Archie

Hurley, Daniel T.

Halfpenny, Gordon H.

Hunt, George F.

Holterman, Emil J.

Haag, Tom S.

Harding, David

Hadden, William

Hood, Martin

Insley, William E.
Jerrard, Clyde H.
Jennings, Ray L.
Jones, Earl L.
Jones, Odis K.
Johnston, Harold
Johnson, Virgil H.
Kelley, Leo E.
Kelley, Paul M.
Kennedy, Clarence D.
Kerr, Paul
Knerr, Clare S.
Kipple, Ray G.
Leach, Thomas
Leone, Felice
McCormick, Thomas P.
Mclntyre, Harry H.
McKinney, Earl H.
Maher, Charley W.
Mallon, George W.
Marcy, Fred H.
Melching, Roy C.
Miller, Henry O,
Murphy, Howard P.
Nelson, Gerald
Nixon, Guy L.
Nunn, Roy
O'Meara, Charles J.
O'Meara, Paul A.
Otnes, Fred J.
Otnes, John B.
Palmer, Ewart G.
Pegues, Henry S.
Peterson, Albert V.
Peterson, Carl E.
Phillips, Charles W.
Putnam, Alvin W.
Randall, Leon
Rathert, Louis E.
Read, Emory W.
Ray, Boyd E.
Redding, Dennie W.
Reiber, Carl S.
Reilly, John J.
Rivers, Leo B.
Ross, Clyde J.
Saterlee, Fred
Schanlan, Leo T.
Schraag, Willie S.
Schroeder, Ben
Schultz, Toney
Schultz, Walter R.
Scott, Walter N.
Shafer, Andrew J.
Shaner, William
Smith, Charles L.
Snell, Clyde R.
Stansell, Benjamin H.
Stiffler, Elmer
Steinbruick, Adolph A.
Storey, Fred L.
Storey, William F.
Surprenant, Carl B.
Taylor, LeRoy G,
Taylor, Raymond J.
Thompson, Vance E.
Tibbits, Earl P.
Tressin, Morgan
Upham, Ralph E.
Valmer, John O.
Vetch, Charles C.
Vetch, George
Vetch, John H., Jr.
Ware, George E.
Warnock, Charles L.
White, Floyd
Whitley. Frank

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211

Williams, Forrest H.
Williams, Russell H,
Wilburn, Will L.
Wrakestraw, George J.
Young-, Floyd
Klingman, Oscar
Attached Reservist, K. N. G.
Ericson, Arthur W.
Joyce, Paul O.
Pride, Joseph
Anderson, Earl O.
Armstrong, Adrian R.
Akins, Ernest C.
Allen, Dewey W.
Baker, Roy C.
Bialachofski, Bill
Brewster, Willard C.
Brown, Clarence I.
Burns, Monroe C.
Bowman, Hezekiah K.
Billingsley, Buell
Briggs, Carl
Black, Alston W.
Carson, John L.
Campbell, Guy E.
Cox, William P.
Cottom, Ira L.
Crepps, Glenn Miller
Campbell, Edward B.
Coate, Frank D.
Ellis, John R.
Evans, Joe O.
Elrod, Eddie H.
Fields, Frank L.
Fox, Homer D.
Franklin, Roy E.
Foster, Roy
Gillen, Glenn C.
Green, Corbin L,
Glotrowski, Wlidslew F.
Haines, William H.
Hall, Cecil E.
Hardman, Ralph W.
Hepner, Roland R.
Howard, Lewis
Huffman, Clint
luros, Thomas
Johnson, Foster A.
Kunz, Lawrence W.

Killion, Fred

Leach, Alfred E.

Miller, Frank O.

Murphy, George M.

Minote, Thomas

Medlen, Charley A.

Mumford, William S.

Martin, Walter W.

Murrell, Robert Lewis

McAfee, Dennis M.

McGhee, Clarence O.

Mclntire, Carmi L.

McAfee, William A.

Norris, Albre J.

Norris, Walter D.

Ostrander, Cecil H.

Parsons, Charles C.

Potter, Max

Plunkett, Newton

Powell, J. John

Reed, George W.

Reynolds, Ernest E.

Ross, William Wayne

Ryan, Floyd

Robertson, Martin E,

Smith, Benjamin F.

Skaggs, Oscar

Shane, James C.

Songer, Lee

Smith, Ed Frank

Stewart, Clarence W.

Sullivan, Ira J.

Summer, Servyl S.

Swiger, Fted O.

Trimble, Chester F.
Thomiason, Buck
Taylor, Earl
Welch, Henry C.
Williams, Hiram M.
Wilson, Willard E.
Wilson, William B,
Veerkamp, Franz L.
Wymann, Lee
Wilson, Homer C.
Ward, Charles H.
Williams, Clint
Williams, Floyd F.
Williams, Henry

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Company D of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Wark, George H.

1st Lieutenant

Nicholson, Angus J.

2nd[ Lieutenant

Wilson, Jesse H.

1st Sergeant

Grider, Roy N.
Mess Sergeant

Rinehart, Stephan R.
Supply Sergeant

Mitchell, Lesley H.
Sergeants

Nance, Ward D.
Herring, Keith
Orgram, Hoyt R.
Crandell, Clarence L.
Adams, Alfred O.
Belscamper, Floyd W.
Bradley, Charles H.
Taylor, Benjamin
Corporals
VanDeventer, Roland W.
Straight, Alhert E.
Raymond, Roy B.
Mitchell, Lester A.
Ramsey, Walter H.
Johnson, Clarence E.
Leatherrock, Wesley K.
Chilcote, Ferrin H.
Cochrane, William M.
Bowen, Charles R.
Edmundson, Morril H.
Danforth, George N.
Coleman, Glenn T.
Cherry, Homer E.
McCrory, Victor E.
Rogers, Charles A,
Hemphill, Lloyd

Mechanics

Mitchell, William A.

Lewis, Bret C.
Cooks

Smith, Fred F.

Dodson, George W.

Prall, Joseph N.
Buglers

Cooper, Austin G.

Franks, Robert A.
Privates, 1st Class

Boles, Edward J.

Belscamper, Earl B.

Boles, Clarence C.

Booker, Harry C.

Bowen, Chester J.

Buster, Roy F.

Brown, Ernest B.

Boyer, Baldwin H.

Carrinder, Joe G.

Capps, Hubert

Cook, William E.

Corbitt, Joseph W.

Gilliland, David E.

Gullic, Jesse

Higgs, Arthur L.

Higgs, Ernest D.

Holden, Raymond T.

Jones, J. William

Koons, Frank W.

McCrory, Lyonell

McClelland, George W.

Storms, Everett E.

Stewart, James W.

Townsend, Willard E.

Todd, Dean N.

Worthen, Sidney L.

Wiley, Carter W.

Webb, Henry C.
Privates

Smith, Benjamin F.

Company E of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Lindenstruth, Robert W.

1st Lieutenant

Radford, Paul C.

2nd Lieutenant

Biddle, Humphrey
1st Sergeant

Coleman, Don P.
Supply Sergeant

O'Connor, John W.
Mess Sergeant

Radloff, Henry W.
Sergeants

Faulkner, Howard G.

DeTemple, Allan J.

Powell, Alfred B.

Harding, George E.
Corporals

Reilly, William D.

Cochran, Walter H.

Gist, Walter M.

Blochberger, Edward R.

Kerr, Len D.

Gronis, John D.

Perkins, Harry A., Jr.

Levene, Bernard W.
Mechanics

Yates, Edward C.
Cooks

Younger, David L,

Brenneman, Perry L.
Buglers

Bagwell, Ernest M.

Kramer, Stephen G.
Privates

Abel, Phillip A.

Babbitt, Fred F.

Barber, Royal E.

Bell, Hugh M.

Belz, Gus C.

Blake, John H.

Broughton, Lloyd D,

Brushwood, Clyde W.

Bursch, George W.

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213

Campbell, Roy S.
Carter, John V.
Chambers, Ernest F.
Collins, Ray L.
Cooper, Robert E.
Conley, Walter I.
Courtney, Guy T.
Crooks, Marion P.
Crimpley, Corbett
Denman, Glen M.
Doherty, Paul M.
Douglas, Oscar L.
Douglas, William W.
Downing, Robert A.
Davis, Frank M.
Ennis, Harry J.
Fleeman, Thomas R.
Fletcher, George T. S.
Fitts, Austin
Ford, Louis R.
Fullum, Ray F.
Fretz, Harry E.
Gardner, Edwin S.
Garvey, Harry O.
Ginder, Roy F.
Gouck, Kenneth S.
Greene, Robert B.
Guenther, Louis W.
Hageman, Harry D.
Hargrave. Chauncy H.
Harrison, Guy M.
Harris, Edwin M.
Hillis, Gordon N.
Hitzemann, Clarence A.
Hoffine, Clyde M.
Hunter, Earl H.
Jackson, Ivan A.
Karnes, Frank L.
Kelsey, Harry R.
Lake, Ralph E.
Landes, Roy E.
Leach, Elwood M.
Leach, Ray E.
LeRoy, Keith K.
Levi, Morgan P.
Meister, Paul E.
Mentzer, Paul E.
Miller, Edward J.
Minger, Edward E.
Mitchell, Sidney B.
Morrow, Rowland C.
Mosley, Dewey

Mueller, Paul E.
Myers, Oscar L.
McAttee, Eslie H.
MacLaren, Larry A.
McDonald, Charles J.
McEnulty, Leo B.
Nacher, Stephan A.
Nitz, Edward A.
Noel, George H.
Overstreet, William
Owens, Eugene C.
Papenhausen, John
Parrott, Lee E.
Pearson, Leon H.
Perkins, William H.
Peters, Lyman D.
Peters, Leslie L.
Peters, Wallace J.
Phillips, John E.
Powers, Kenneth H.
Ricketts, Fred A.
Rogers, Ralph E.
Root, Harvey O.
Rosenkrantz, Ike
Salsbery, Edgar R.
Sample, Louie L.
Schroeder, Temme W.
Scott, Jesse W. J.
Scott, Robert A.
Shea, George
Shea, Walter M.
Shepard, Reginald O.
Skinner, Joseph W.
Slattery, Michael W.
Smith, Robert B.
Stevenson, Frank G.
Strong, Harry N.
Sykes, John
Talbott, Butler R.
Tomlinson, Marvin E.
Trackwell, Ernest E.
"Valentine, Delbert A.
Ward, Charles P.
Warren, Ben C.
Webb, Harrel R.
Wilson, Andy B.
Wilson, Charles N.
Wilson, Edward C.
Wilson, George T.
Wood, William H.
Worley, Ellis O.
Yarbrough, William H.

214

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company F of the ITiird Kansas Infantry

Captain

Otten, Irving A.
1st Lieutenant

Clarks, Charles W.
2nd Lieutenant

Bare, Carl J.
1st Sergeant

Rice, Fred L.
Mess Sergeant

Thuma, Lester C.
Supply Sergeant

Stewart, Charles V.
Sergeants

Neff, Raymond T.

Harmon, Karl M.

Reese, George W.

Mitchell, Ezra C.

Stratford, John R.

Stratford, Ray A.

Shyrer, Frank A.

Matthews, Neil
Corporals

Sheen, Joe R.

McCurdy, Walter R.

Cookston, Harry B.

Oblander, Rhiney

Pickering, T. Arlie

Bredendick, Henry W.

McCauley, Robert M.

Jossi, Louis

Arnold, Lonzo Bert

Craig, Harry F.

Dautoenspeck, George W.

Holderman, Abraham J.

Perry, Frank H.

Smith, Edward M.

Dockery, Harry

Logan, Guy R.

Goff, Manuel B.
Cooks

Whitcomb, Walter R.

Bedinger, Charles

James, John T.
Mechanics

Hightower, Herbert H.

Tetrick, Henry C.
Buglers

Houchen, Thomas E.

Stewart, Lester L.
Privates, 1st Class

Barnheart, Henry T.

Biggs, Russell V.

Daniels, William O.

Fall, Albert

Fell, Charley E.

Graves, John F.

Greene, Claude W.

Green, Harry B.

Halfhill, Noah

Harden, Milton J.

Hood, George W.

Jackson, Lloyd V.

Lucas, William C.

Oakes, John A.
Pirtle, Charles E.
Plew, John H.
Reser, Ralph
Richardson, Oliver
Richardson, Roy R.
Ryan, Philip W.
Sanders, Charles L.
Sass, Fred
Schmidt, Harry J.
Shuck, Frank M.
Smith, Joe J.
Stanfield, Howard Bruce
Stoltz, George W.
Stoltz, Ray L.

Privates

Baker, William E,
Blackwell, Virgil R.
Blair, Charles E.
Bressell, Philip
Broadbeck, Ernest A.
Brown, Joe O.
Carter, James Levi
Clark, Frank M.
Clinton, Arthur E.
Cole, Orville
Collins, Clarence
Correll, John L.
Counts, John T.
Counts, Harvey R.
Crabb, Melvin
Crans, Thurlow S.
Daniels, Robert E.
Darwin, Ernest
Davenport, Lloyd E.
Davy, Claude W.
Ditto, Weir H.
Doane, Jess
Doores, Forrest L.
Doyle, Delta W.
Dugan, Sherman
Dyer, Roy E.
Emery, William H.
Feely, Raymond B.
Forristall, George C.
Foust, Benjamin E,
Gant, Tracy
Gilliland, Claude K.
Gist, Harold E.
Gordon, James
Gray, Claude E.
Green, Otis C.
Griggs, Harry
Harrington, Lawnie E.
Hayhurst, Clarence M.
Herrington, Curtis C.
Hufford, Glenn F.
Hunter, Floyd N.
Ingraham, Thomas C.
Jackson, Charles V.
Johnson, Earl Milan
Kairschner, William L.
Keithley, Henry T.
Kniff, Walter
Law, John H.
Liggett, Lester

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215

Lindsay, Nat M.
Love, Rama S.
Lumm, Earl L.
Lytle, Clyde W.
Martin, Leslie
Miller, Frank W.
Mitchell, Elmer E.
Morris, Wilbur B.
Mullins, Oscar B.
McGrew, Lewis A.
Oblander, Charles J.
Oliver, Ervin L.
Palmer, Harry H.
Pierce, Herschel W.
Rader, Earl H.
Randall, Henry E.
Reese, Howard T.
Rich, Hilbert E.
Ricord, Edwin O.

Robbins, Ollie E.
Russell, Cecil Earl
Seery, John E.
Sharp, Oliver
Sheridan, Clarence E,
Smith, Ray I.
Spiegel, Oscar H.
Stanley, Arthur G.
Tillery, Lewis W.
Vernon, Ernest F.
Walling, Charles E.
Whitmer, Kent O.
Wilson, Charles Harrison
Wilson, James W.
Wilson, Karl F.
Windsor, Fred
Winterrowd, Guy P.
Wright, Thaddeus A.

Company G of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Snyder, Arthur W.
1st Lieutenant

Hanby, Edward V.
2nd Lieutenant

Bisenius, George P.
1st Sergeant

Gowley, Richard P.
Supply Sergeant

Arend, Harold D.
Sergeants

Murray, Charles T.

Knight, Robert R.

Florea, Wilbur C.

Bryant, Wilber J.
Corporals

Wichers, Henry B.

Sexton, Joseph C.

Mitchell, George L.

Kimsey, Dan E.

Edwards, Harry

Bowers, Arthur W.

Blanks, Dean T.

Cook

Godfrey, Giles J. G.
Buglers

Burch, Roscoe E.

Crum, Raymond H.
Privates

Abrahams, Louis K.

Addams, Irvin

Akens, Charley R.

Akens, Frank M.

Allen, Vivian S.

Barnes, Sam

Bergier, Lieth J.

Bickle, Gale

Boyer, Harold J.

Bottorff, Glen W.

Bowman, John L.

Bryant, George T.

Burns, Eddie

Carmody, Thomas

Casey, Phillip T.

Coble, Glen C.

Catlin, Clarence A.

Cope, John G.

Cope, Roy Newton

Confer, Samuel A.

Covert, Louis L.
Cox, LaRose
Creamer, Forrest H.
Gushing, Roy W.
Dial, Lawrence E,
Dillon, Donald
Duffy, Clarence E.
Earls, Gordan L.
Elliott, Anderson
Elder, Lawrence S. '
Emigh, William F.
Fisk, Joe M.
Flickinger, Bert D.
Fischer, William F.
Goheen, Maurice. S.
Gibson, Grover C.
Gill, Joe J.
Gorham, Arthur
Greeman, Benjamin
Griffiths, Floyd L.
Hauptle, August J.
Henderson, Arthur W.
Henderson, Walter P.
Hettinger, Lloyd M.
Home, Arthur B,
Hull, Floyd E.
Hull, Laurel W.
Haverty, Leroy
Havner, Ben C.
Higgins, Edward J.
Irey, John M.
Jones, Harry E.
Jones, John
Jones, Lawrence L.
Jones, Ralph H,
Johnston, Harry A-
Johnston, Vearl V.
Jack, Russell
Jackson, Earl A.
Kaup, John C.
Killinger, LeRoy
Kirschbaum, Henry
Kisling, John W.
Ladow, Aubrey L.
Latham, Edgar P.
Lee, Ben
Love, Charley
Lynch, Harvey W.
Lingo, William H.
Logan, Homer T.
Lovem, Archie
McCormick, Alfred B.

216

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

McConnell, Charles EL
McCune, Kay E.
Marzolf, Milton J.
Maxwell, Ray D.
Miller, Frank B.
Montoro, Thomas L.
Morrell, John S.
Moyer, Harry E.
Malcolm, OUie M.
Murphy, Will
Nasman, Eddie L.
Neifert, Jesse G.
Parmelee, Dickinson L,
Phillips, Harry
Raff, Rea
Randall, James R.
Ray, Charles O.
Ray, Ralph P.
Reddick, Earl E.
Reddick, William J.
Remick, Glenn W.
Richardson, LeRoy
Richardson, Wayne J.
Robinson, Charley L.
Rollins, Vern
Reeder, Carl W,
Schellinger, William H.
Sharp, Chester
Sharp, Gordon
Sheets, Lawrence O.
Smith, Albert

Smith, Charles M.
Smith, Frank
Smith, Harold C.
Smith, Milton H.
Smith, James O.
Smith, Zeb
Sower, Jacob
Stansbury, Vaughn L.
Stokes, Earl R.
Sutton, Cecil A.
Schoonover, Lee L.
Talbott, Richard W.
Teten, John J.
Thrasher, Robert E.
Thomas, Dewey O.
Treaster, Oscar N.
Turner, Carl M.
VanCleave, Clifford M.
Ward, Paul
Walker, Earl R.
Well, Donald K.
White, John N.
Wideman, Fred E.
Winter, Andrew T.
Walters, Bastian J.
Williams, Albert J.
Wright, William L.
Yager, Herman
Young, Lawrence P.
Zumwalt, John D.

Campany H of the Third Kansas Infantry-

Captain

Browne, Charles H. •
1st Lieutenant

McManigaJ, John W.
2nd Lieutenant

Lucier, Ralph F.
Mechanics

Lackey, Roy R.

Tabbron, John W.
Cooks

Clark, Homer L.

Lash, Harlow W.

Dunanan, Merle L.
Buglers

Seeds, Robert R.

Wood, Charles J.
Privates

Anderes, Albert

Anderson, Arvld H.

AUgire, Ray R.

Alstrom, Carl W.

Alpin, Robert W.

Armstrong, Harry A.

Aspley, Roscoe W.

Ballweg, Clarence J.

Barkley, Elmer W.

Blair, Oberton J.

Boyd, John E.

Boyer, Homer E.

Brenner, Sidney C.

Brinkmeyer, William F.

Brinkmeyer, John A.

Buchanan, Dewey H.

Buchanan, Frank L,

Buchanan, Harry W.

Buchanan, Paul

Buchanan, Ward

Burton, Simeon S.
Cairns, Charles B.
Callahan, Holly W.
Callahan, Joe H.
Campbell, James E.
Cashman, John L.
Chesnut, Raymond L.
Cooper, James M.
Cox, Joseph H.
Crumrine, Harvey W.
Curran, Mark S.
Cutler, Dale J.
Cutler, James R.
Daniel, Jesse J.
Davis, Arch W.
Davis, Frank E.
Dawson, LeeRoy
Day, Willard L.
Dayton, Howard S.
DeHaven, Walter J,
Deamgion, Sam
Dixon, Clarence E.
Dobkins, John M.
Dower, Jesse R.
Duffy, Isaac
Dyer, Vaughn
Eaves, Everett
Eckley, Charles T,
Elwick, Fay A.
Etherington, George W.
Ewing, Rexford E.
Fisher, Grant H.
Foltz, Carl H.
Foltz, Edward J.
Foltz, John A.
Eraser, Leslie A.
Frey, John
Garten, William H.
Gibbs, Glenn I.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

217

Gish, Jacob M.
Gish, Ray W.
Hall, James E.
Harris, Ralph M.
Hawthorne, Coe
Haynes, Quin H.
Herman, Walter R.
Heskett, Alvin
Issitt, George E.
Jeffcoat, Melvin E.
Jones, Aaron E.
Jordan, Frank B.
Jordan, Harold M,
Kauffman, Clarence E.
Kauffman, Clyde L.
Kehler, Ward G.
Kirk, Charles G.
Larkin, James E.
Leshley, Blake
Lewis, Robert R.
Lioader, George L,
Loader, Robert K.
Lucier, Alcide J.
Luck, Charles J,
McCosh, Harry P.
McNeal, Ellis A.
Machen, John E.
Mann, Alie A.
Merillat, Harve G.
Monroe, Elmer L.
Nemec, William M.
O'Neal, Willie H.
Parks, Everett L.
Parson, Clint
Paul, William H.
Poe, Charles N.
Porter, Ray
Rector, Mahon R.
Reep, Elmer L.
Reese, Claude E.
Reid, George A.
Romberger, Roy B.
Russell, Roy R.

Sampson, Clarence A.
Savidge, Arthur W.
Savidge, Ernest R.
Schneider, August G.
Schneider, Kellen A.
Seip, Howard L.
Shannon, Clarence L
Sherman, Ralph S.
Sherwood, Roy C.
Shiry, Alonzo D.
Shockey, Fred M.
Shook, Anthony
Shook, Grover C.
Shook, Wilbur V.
Shoop, Clarence W.
Shuey, John S.
Shum, Lawrence E.
Siemers, John F,
Simpson, Clarence A,
Smith, Albert W.
Smith, Otto C.
Sparwasser, Edward W.
Steinborn, George
Steyer, Clark
Strowig, Olin R.
Stuck, Mervin L.
Stuck, William J.
Sutton, William H.
Swanger, Elmer H.
Tate, William E.
Tober, Claude A.
Turner, Ray
Tweed, David
VanDoren, Chester G.
Viola, Ralph H.
Walters, Harry E.
Wigham, William E.
Wilson, Buck M.
Wilkie, David B.
Yeadon, George W.
Yeadon, Henry
Attached

Leshley, Floyd

Company I of the Tlhird Kansas Infantry

Captain

Garrett, James B.
1st Lieutenant

Guilfoyle, Matthew
2nd Lieutenant

Martin, Ralph W.
Privates

Abbott, Lloyd E.
Adams, Arthur E.
Adam, Wilbur L.
Anderson, Clarence L.
Anderson, Vivian C.
Annis, Edward C.
Arbuckle, Frank
Arnold, John W.
Arnold, Percy H.
Asling, Fred
Baird, Hoyt G.
Bane, George E.
Barrett, Daniel
Barrett, Samuel
Behring, Harry C.
Blythe, Harold J.
Bress, Charles W.

Buckley, Bollie V.
Burns, Ambra
Brock, John
Calkins, Arthur
Calkins, Harvey A.
Callahan, Charles P.
Cameron, Robert S.
Chapin, Clarence C.
Clark, George R.
Costello, Joseph J.
Crisp, Edgar E.
Culver, Harold E.
Darling, John
Davis, Tom D.
Douglas, Levern
Doyle, Joseph L.
Duggan, Patrick J.
Dunn, Jesse L.
Edens, Harry H.
Elliott, Worley H.
Falen, Martin R.
Fisher, Elmer C.
Fisher, Samuel L.
Galloway, Frank C.
Giltner, Frank E.

218

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Goodrich, Fred E.
Haage, Jennings B.
Haclder, Hermis C.
Hammond, Paul H.
Hamer, Phillip W.
Harrison, Louie
Hartley, James M.
Haverstock, Dewey i
Hernisen, Elmer
Hodgson, George W.
Hoskins, Frank E.
Howell, Marshall K.
Hudson, John M.
Hudson, Steve
Jenkins, Sidney
Kandt, Martin C.
Kearn, Earl R.
Keefer, Samuel B.
Kiser, Charles H.
Kistler, John J.
Kochenower, Walter A.
Kahl, Frank W.
Kohler, Erwin F.
Krause, Erphine A.
Krause, John A.
Longhofer, Fred
Longhofer, Godfrey P.
Lundine, Arthur G.
McClaran, Carey R.
McCaleb, Ernest T.
McDiffett, Lorenzo W.
McMurray, Harold D.
McWilliams, Earl J.
Maddix, Earl C.
Metcalfe, Albert L.
Meyers, Harvey R.
Meyers, Thomas D.
Miskey, August L.
Moors, Clarence C.
Moorehead, Fred D.
Morris, Robert O.
Mulkey, Myron M.
Murphy, Ray H.
Neis, Clarence H.
Nichols, Harold C.
Normandin, William H.
Oldfield, Louis D.
Oldfield, Willie
Oneil, John J.
Pabst, Charles E.
Pegorsch, Henry A.
Pfeister, Simmle C.
Phillips, Fred P.
Pio, Jesse L.

Potts, Albert S.
Price, Ronald H.
Pugh, Carl D.
Rader, Procter E.
Reber, Otto A.
Reed, Alonzo L.
Rigney, James A.
Rogers, Thomas R.
Rupert, Evert
Ruyle, Lawrence R.
Schrader, Herbert C.
Schrader, Robert F.
Schrolick, Martin W.
Schump, Joseph P.
Schump, Paul J.
Seely, Dwight H.
Sell, Vernon D.
Sheehan, Francis W.
Sheridan, Delmer R.
Shipley, Perry
Smith, Cecil E.
Smith, Roy H.
Spady, Alex
Staley, Harvey H.
Steinberg, Shirley
Sterling, Joseph A.
Stevenson, Luther C.
Sturgis, Harold D.
Strunk, Milton
Thomas, Carl A.
Tullis, Harvey W.
Vanderpool, Clarence T.
Vansickle, Jack
Vaughn, Floyd
Volkman, Arthur W.
Wager, Claude H.
Walker, Arthur H.
Walker, Earl R.
Wakefield, Fred
Ward, Ison R.
Waylan, Harold E.
Weaver, Harold W.
Webster, Clyde E.
Wiggins, Horace E.
Wilde, Lavern P.
Wilde, Teddy L.
Williams, Arthur J.
Williams, Charles D.
Wilson, Mark E.
Young, Leo H.
Combs, Harry L.
Hopper, Charles A.
Stephens, Harry H,
Tebo, George H.

Company K of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Randall, Howard M.
1st Lieutenant

Brewster, George C.
2nd Lieutenant

Kaster, John P.
1st Sergeant

Sheets, Frank R.
Supply Sergeant

Gilchrist, Walter C.
Mess Sergeant

McDonald, Harvey
Sergeants

Freeburne, Cecil

Weede, James A.

McArthur, John C.
Kobel, George W.

Cooks

Shea, James L.

Pi*ivates

Albrecht, Henry G.
Adams, Carl E.
Atkinson, Louis D.
Anderson, George A.
Adams, Arthur
Abbey, Frank L., Jr.
Adams, Donald P.
Armstrong, Lloyd H.
Baker, Marvin S.
Burgener, Leo I.
Blough, Vernon L.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

219

Blaylock, Herbert J.
Barr, Harry R.
Burdick, Roy E.
Bassett, Leroy H.
Black, Rex R.
Brogdon, John I.
Barker, Roy B.
Britt, A. Earl
Carter, Milo O.
Carter, Frank E.
Coppock, Charles
Cox, Floyd L.
Cox, John E.
Chambers, Walter E.
Chester, George M.
Cryderman, Wayne V.
Corley, Joel V.
Corley, John C.
Crow, Lloyd W.
Davis, Evan L.
Deshner, Walter H.
Dunmire, Joseph A.
Dohner, Rutherford B.
Egbert, Rollin E.
Errett, Jay H.
Eshom, Charles H.
Eversull, Stephen B.
Ferguson, Roy
French, William P.
Finnell, Lauren
Fowler, Clarke D.
Fuller, Ellis B.
Eraser, Gilbert S.
Fieth, Milton E.
Freeburne, Clarence
Gilchrist, William B.
Grochowsky, Jacob
Griswold, Oberly A.
Geisick, Henry
Gradert, John F.
Henry, Lawrence G.
Hankins, James L.
Holle, Frank J.
Hoppe, Eugene A.
Hoffman, William
Hall, Harry L.
Hoffman, Carl C.
Hampson, T. Carlyle
Hartman, Joseph W.
Hutton, Leroy J.
Huey, Frank G.
Hammond, Harry
Hartman, William L.
Hardin, Ellis L
Hamilton, Thomas D.
Harris, Weston V.
Hopkins, Mjo-on E.
Ingold, Walter T.
Isham, Leroy G.
Jewell, Carl L.
Kinard, Fred E.
Keeppen, Hancel G.
Knee, James C.
Landes, Adolph H.
Lantz, Chauncy M.
Liggett, Astin A.
McGlassen, John A.
Merritt, Cecil

MUler, Wilbee P.
Moffett, Charles C.
Murdock, Delbert
McMillan, Ralph E.
Morgan, Earl A.
Morrison, Thomas L.
Newfeld, Thomas S.
Patterson, Edward C.
Pace, William L.
Payne, Charles H.
Fletcher, Paul
Quigley, Edward D.
Renick, Harry H.
Rogers, Harold A.
Reid, William J.
Royer, Paul
Rhoads, Marvin E.
Reid, Marion C.
Roberts, Erskine
Rogers, Walter K.
Ragsdale, Lawrence B.
Rodenbaugh, Allen H.
Sims, Ottis M.
Stewart, Wellington
Stockman, Francis J.
Small, Charles L,
Scott, John L.
Simpson, Orin S.
Schertz, George H.
Snyder, John B.
Shacklett, Glen E.
Starrett, Royce E.
Slaymaker, Charles E.
Sawyer, Gordon W.
Smith, Carleton S.
Sisson, Arthur R.
Simpson, Duke B.
Sperry, Frank L.
Stone, Edward A.
Smith, Emmett E.
Swengle, Elmo S.
Schell, Oscar J.
Sands, Ewart W.
Timmons, Harley N.
Timmons, Franklin P.
Thompson, Marvin B.
Terry, McKinley
Ulery, Audily W.
Vandine, Robert W.
Warner, Merle B.
Williams, Walter R.
Welsh, Willard
Woodley, Homer
Walden, Francis W.
White, John S.
Warner, John G.
West, Paul L.
Whitesell, Arthur P.
Wing, Norris N.
Wolter, Fred W.
Zimmerman, Harvey F.

Attached

Gragg, George L.
Powell, Arthur P.
Bainbridge, Roy T.
Young, Robert B.
Cummings, Thad L.

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Company L of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Crow, Thomas L.
1st Lieutenant

Black, Asa R.
2nd Lieutenant

Haupt, William H.
Sergeants

Wynn, Byron F.

Greenway, Raymond

Hyndman, Eugene B.
Corporals

Hamel, Arthur A.

Winfield, Joseph M.

Lowry, Delwyn B.

Halcomb, John S.

Ross, William H.

Netherton, Charles E.

Renn, George S.

Beattie, James I.

Holt, Elmer M.

Marshall, Thomas B.

Humphrey, Earl D.

Clark, William C.

Kellog, Frank H.

Robinson, Ronald W.

Schwinn, Thomas
Mechanics

Lovingfoss, Harold C.

Spencer, Frank F.
Cooks

Collins, Claude H.

Camp, Daniel C.

Burscough, Guy E.
Musicians

Nixon, F^ed

Bell, Cecil V.
Privates

Anderson, Archie N.

Ash, Carl

Anderson, Walter J.

Allen, John

Burcham, Grant F.

Brubaker, Claude H.

Beatty, Charles L.

Burson, Ray E.

Brown, Fawn D.

Botkin, Elmo

Barner, Lee M.

Black, Guy A.

Banghart, Merle R.

Botkin, Jay

Beattie, Harold R.

Bunker, Wiley H. M.

Blank, Floyd E.

Baldwin, James M.

Cecil, Carl L.

Casselman, Philip J.

Clark, DeWitt T.

Caples, Russel B.

Carson, Clifford

Cowherd, William A.

Crowdus, William W.

Campbell, Enor C.

Collins, Glen

Clark, Luther A.

Corey, Sam
Derington, Edwin B.
Dobbs, Kenneth S.
Dailey, Ralph D.
Dawson, Benjamin H.
Doramus, Elmer C.
Dust, Pete
Ekland, Ralph L.
Edmonson, Dale E.
Eads, David R.
Elsas, Charles H.
Foster, Alfred E.
Ford, John T.
Gardner, John A.
Ginder, Walter E.
Gaines, Wilbur S.
Gardner, Arthur J.
Goff. Cleo C.
Gowers, George L.
Gwinn, Willis P.
Gift, Floyd W.
Hollingsworth, Ralph
Hamel, Melvin A.
Hainsworth, Avery L.
Hainsworth, Ralph B.
Hopper, Frank C.
Heasty, Kearns R.
Henderson, Wesley A.
Higgins, Joe L.
Jones, Sumner
Jones, Fred L.
Kanage, Sterling G.
Kohl, Williard B.
Kennison, Frank N.
Kohler, Lewis
Kublus, Charles M.
Laird, Thomas E.
Lewis, Charlie A.
Long, William N.
Lane, David W.
Logan, John
Mathews, Whit O.
Marshall, Fred L.
Morrell, Floyd B.
Meyer, Walter O.
Meredith, Warren C.
Mains, Fred L.
Maxon, Emery L.
Mosby, Harry
Maynard, Aaron A.
Mayes, Curtis L.
McCombs, Nathaniel G.
McNally, Bryan T.
McKinney, Alex E.
McFarland, Oral R.
McCabe, Delbert E.
McCuen, Charles L.
McGreavy, Thomas W.
Nickerson, EllswortJi N.
Overby, Jesse M.
Ostrander, Ray M.
Poirier, Victor G.
Phelps, William A.
Patterson, Richard B.
Potucek, Charles W.
Powell, Walter M.
Quinby, Albert M.
Rothrock, Ray R.

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221

Riner, Howard W.
Rorick, Charles A.
Swift, Claude J.
Smith, Charles E.
Sparr, Orville
Snyder, Carroll D.
Sullivan, Clyde R.
Stewart, Harry L.
Sunderland, Roscoe L.
Stone, Robert R.
Strohmeier, Rex R.
Shaffer, Charles P.
Scrivens, Rolla E.
Tooley, Chester N.
Threlfall, John H.
Tennant, Warren A.
Tucker, Hobart B.

VanHorn, Harry E.
Vaughn, Warren Z.
Whittaker, Walter W.
Wilson, Lorn T.
Wilson, Roscoe
Winsor, Glenn H,
Waugh, Joseph E.
Walker, Joseph E,
Williams, Claude D.
Young, John E.
Zook, Russell A.
Attached
Parker, Thaddie M.
Waid, Arthur

Discharged

McKinley, William A.

Company M of the Third Kansas Infantry

Captain

Allison, George L.
1st Lieutenant

Burkholder, Edwin V.
2nd Lieutenant

Carpenter, William R.
Privates

Applegate, Oscar C.
Bray, Earl W.
Bray, Francis E.
Brown, William J.
Brown, Curtis
Brunner, Henry
Brening, George T.
Buffington, Harry W.
Buffington, Charlie H.
Bullock, Clyde
Barton, Luther L.
Beisel, Gotfred P.
Bibler, Meade O.
Booth, Ernest L.
Bauerle, Charles W.
Baker, John P.
Blackburn, Russell W.
Bates, Delano E.
Buffington, Walter O.
Boes, Charles W.
Carney, Fred J.
Castle, Roy C.
Caswell, Arthur B.
Childs, Guy E.
Converse, Floyd F.
Cooper, Albert E.
Cooper, Milburn M.
Crist, Morris
Christian, George i
Doron, Arthur W.
Downey, Elmer G.
Dodge, William J.
Doering, William
Deal, Clarence E.
Druse, Martin F.
Dures, George W.
Eichenour, John W.
Evans, Ernest R.
Fisher, Anthony
Flook, Herman E,
Fitch, Charles L.
Fawley, Wilbur O.
Friesen, William
Fisher, Frank
France, William P.
Foth, Jona

Foth, Fred W.
Gerhardt, John H.
Goodman, Nolan G.
Goodman, Lafe
Grimes, Bruce H.
Hammer, Park S.
Hanneman, Abraham
Hayes, Everett P.
Herndon, Charles D.
Herbel, Andrew
Holmberg, Charles H.
Hopper, William P.
Honn, Calvin
Houlton, Carroll V.
Hugo, John R.
Hulett, Virgil W.
Hunt, Blaine A.
Hurt, Harold H.
Hopkins, Myron E.
Hadel, Henry W.
Jacka, Alfred P.
Jaeger, Harry C.
Kmet, John E.
Keazer, Kenneth
Kline, Henry
Kelther, Neil
Krause, Isaac
Larsen, Robert
Lawrence, Adrian E.
Lovelace, Joseph
Lovelace, Herbert
Lawrence, Edward
Loveless, Paul C.
Linn, Earl J.
Martin, Henry S.
Miesse, James W.
Mackie, Frank J.
Murry, Andrew A.
Martin, Tolbert S.
Monroe, Lawrence R.
Miller, Walter J.
McClure, Norvie J.
McClellan, John I.
May, Alexander J.
May, Adam E.
Matthews, Clarence L.
Newcomb, Wayne C.
Noll, Archie R.
Niederhauser, Charlie C.
Navrat, Joseph
Potter, Kent B,
Potter, Floyd
Piper, William O.
Patterson, Harry O.

222

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Pauls, Rudolph
Raley, Frank O.
Reiswlg, Dave
Riddle, John
Roberts, Orville O.
Rollings, Harry A.
Rollins, James C.
Ramsey, Garland
Shepperd, Charlie B.
Sims, Robert D.
Straubs, Heron S.
Shultz, Fred
Siegenthal, Albert
Sailer, Arthur H.
Schmidt, Alvln
Sellers, August
Schmidt, Richard M.
Smith, Isaac R.
Shimic, Albert
Shahan, Winfield F.
Shields, Albert J.
Sparks, Warren
Thomas, Thomas J.
Tajchman, Louis
Tipton, Chauncey E.
Tarrant, Andy F.

Trear, Barney H.
Urbanek, Philip M.
Urbanek, Enos
Vadakin, Athol G.
Vance, Harry M.
Vogan, Orval C.
Varelman, George E.
Wachholz, August
Wight. Ollie O.
Weinmeister, Harry, Jr.
Winner, Claude S.
Weadon, Frank M.
Williams, Stephen C.
Wikus, Julius L.
Wells, John J.
Willhite, Desmond R.
Wheeler, Lewis H.
Wilcox, Harry M.
Walle, Paul J.
Wheeler, James A.
Zeih, Jacob, Jr.
Zeih, Henry
Zeiner, Earl S.

Attached

Fox, George L.

Sanitary Detachment of the Third Kansas
Infantry

Major

Smith, Henry D.
1st Lieutenants

Webb, Herbert M.

Coffman, John F.

Harrison, Eugene
1st Sergeant

Dreyer, Arthur N.
Sergeants

Read, Lathrop B., Jr.

Schropp, Martin A.

MacLeod, Percy A.
Privates, 1st Class

Bonar, Verlin E.

Bonesteel, Guy M.

Combs, George M.

Duer, Alva O.

Erps, Harry R.

Fuhrken, Arnold C.

King, Fred E.

Lull, Sherman F.

Lull, Elmer

McLeod, Alvin C.

Philbrook, Merell F.

Stoffle, Herbert F.

Turner, James A.

VanDewalker, Earl G.

Whetstine, Sylvester B.
Privates

Allen, William H.

Close, Gilbert C.

Durst, John

Featherkyle, Leo P.

Fetrow, Ward W.

Gray, Robert C.

Howe, Edward C.

Johnson, Frank P.

Kelly, Newton B.

Lecuyer, Albert F.

Steele, Oliver P, Jr.

McLeod, Fred J.

Swan, Bradford L.

Wright, Paul C.
Attached Private

Gray, Earl R.

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223

Headquarters Company of the First Kansas Field

Artillery
130th Field ArtiUery

Captain

- Mills, Arthur M.
1st Lieutenant

McFarland, Frank H.
Regimental Sergeant Major

Cummings, Earl R.

Band Sergeant Major

McGaw, Stewart M.
1st Sergeant

Rhule, Grover C.
Stable Sergeant

Johnson, Rupert A,
Supply Sergeant

Blakely, Charles G., Jr.
Mess Sergeant

Ringgenberg, Joseph C.
Sergeants

Seine, Robert F.

Kreger, John B.

Spielman, Harold Q.

Sproat, Philip H.
Cooks

Neely, Frank B.

Leiss, Walter H.
Privates

Anderson, Ben F.

Anderson, Oscar R.

Barbour, Lancewell M.

Bothwell, Earl

Bulkley, Henry H.

Carson, Harry

Collins, Joe P.

Crowell, Harlow

Debauge, Joseph A.

Dittmer, Otto H.

Felker, Charley E.

Fichtner, PYank R.

Fritz, Edwin A.

Gardner, Vance G.

Goodsell, Clyde M.

Gregory, Edwin M.

Hanson, Harry P.

Hey, Roscoe E.

Jenkins, "William E.

Johnson, Arthur E.

Johnson, Arthur V.

Johnson, Carl V.

Johnson, Richard

Kessinger, Mervin R.

Kiesow, Herman P.

Kistler, Herbert D.

Larson, Albin L.

Leander, Gus

Lynch, Patrick A.
McArdle, Albert H.
McFall, Robert R.
Main, Clarence L.
Mainey, Francis A.
Marchetti, Latt
Marshall, Joseph O.
Mauzey, Joseph H.
Neiswender, Chester P.
Nicholson, John H.
Parrish, William W.
Phillips, Robert A.
Powers, Louis A.
Sawyer, Raymond M.
Sharpless, Samuel
Shipley, Roderick J.
Shultz, Joseph
Skinner, Rexford G.
Smiley, Harold A.
Smith, George
Thatcher, Kenneth T.
Vann, James A.
Wilkerson, Clyde
Williams, Earl M.
Wilson, Harvey
Zercher, John A.
Ziegenbein, Hamer L.

Band Leader

Morrison, Thomas S.

Assistant Band Leader

Main, David W.
Band Sergeant

Smith, Daniel I.
Band Corporals

Miller, Martin G.

Eckert, Fred

Gibbs, Karl M.
Third Class Musicians

Barnes, Bryant

Bowman, Fred W.

Bowman, Vernon E.

Browne, Richard H.

Dennis, Loyd H.

Hammer, Claude T.

Henkle, Elgin G.

Hough, Byron

Maxwell, Paul M.

Montgomery, Charles Z.

Morris, Clyde R.

Peterson, Tell

Ramsey, Fred A.

Ritts, Alvin V.

Russell, Homer

Sinclear, Jack W.

224

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Supply Company of the First Kansas Field
Artillery

Captain

Mayhew, Thomas A.
1st Lieutenant

Porter, Benjamin H.
Privates

Ahrens, Fred W.
Baker, Alma
Bair, Raymond P.
Bilello, Frank H.
Conoway, Clyde E.
Cooper, Arthur
Dal ton, Aaron V.
Dow, John C.
Fike, A. I.
Foster, Edwin A.
Prye, Ed
Frost, Jack
Halsey, Marian A.
Hawk, Jo Fuqua
Hendricks, Eli

Houck, Frank M.
Johnson, Roger W.
Morgan, Earl
Mouror, James R.
McAuliffe, William J.
Porter, Earl L.
Porter, Samuel P.
Shinn, Clarence A.
Stimson, Ray A.
Stimson, Cleo
Shelden, Benjamin W.
Schmidt, Gus A.
Saxon, Keene
Thrift, Claude M.
Winstead, Dewey E.
Wood, Ernest E.
Workman, Charles W.
Whitehead, Fred B.
York, Solomon E.
Zartman, Oscar B.

Battery A of the First Kansas Field Artillery

Captain

Macleen, William P.
1st Lieutenant

McFarland, Paul T.

Anderson, Nels A.
2nd Lieutenants

McKee, Donald F.

Maclean, Hugh A.

Rowles, Leslie
1st Sergeant

Wilson, Clarence E.
Supply Sergeant

Kennedy, Edgar C.
Stable Sergeant

Domme, George
Mess Sergeant

Coon, Edgar R.
Sergeants

Link, William C.

Whitaker, Thomas C.

Kennady, Homer P.

Maxwell, Albert

Goshorn, Robert E.

Mariner, Zoe O.

Bakar, Clarence E.

Brantingham, George L.

Rogers, Glenn W.
Corporals

Bell, Edwin P.

Murphy, Charles

Baker, George P.

Critchfield, Otto B.

Tamqury, Ernest C.

Fulton, Marshall T.

Morehouse, Edgar

Beerbohm, Fred W.

McArthur, Charles E.

Thomas, Theodore

McGee, Chauncey

Woods, Arthur M.

Beals. Herbert J.

Smith, James B.

Stone, Alpha

Young, Ralph M.

Bracy, Willard R.

Fable, Frank

Irvin, Leonard D.

Jarrell, Archibald W.
Cooks

Towles, Glendon

Cavert, James M.

Woolworth, Cecil I.
Chief Mechanics

Stewart, George D.

Hammond, Harry L.

Wiesner, Isidore A.

Ireland, George I.
Horseshoers

Goodell, Edward S.

Pepper, Lee V.
Saddler

Bolibaugh, Louis
Buglers

LaFromboise, Roy

Sweeney, Paul

Kaufman, Paul T.
Privates, 1st Class

Gum, Horace L.

Lesher, Cecil S.

Lyons, Reed M.

Norris, Lewis M.

Parry, Thomas H.

Randall, William N.

Smith, Marshall

Privates

Ackerman, James R.
Adams, Delbert
Adams, Dennis
Adams, John
Albro, Fred
Anderson, Charles B.
Arnold, Herman

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

225

Austin, WiUard D.
Barthel, Harold S.
Bennett, George L.
Bettinger, Osbern D.
Bower, Camile J.
Bower, William
Boyer, Harry F.
Brookish, Maurice
Brubaker, Albert T.
Buckley, Lyle H.
Bundy, William D. R.
Carnahan, James J.
Carnahan, Robert A.
Carroll, James W.
Chacey, Doyle L.
Chambers, William L.
Chappelle, Oscar H.
Cole, Sumner W.
Conklin. Arthur L.
Cook, Elijah W.
Cooper, Harry E.
Cunningham, Walter
Davis, Ralph H.
Decker, Claud R.
Denner, Payton L.
Dickerson, Curtis
Diehl, John P.
Dietz, John P.
Down, Harry E.
Eddy, Jesse A.
Eagle, Arthur L.
Eagle, Robert L.
Evans, Thomas
Frederick, Guy L.
Freeman, Martin J.
Freeman, Max C.
French, Charles H.
Fronke, Arnold C.
Gable, George D,
Gardner, Carl S.
Gohrt, Edwin E. M.
Gillette, Kenneth R.
Givens, George E.
Gracery, William P.
Gregory, Leonard L.
Groff, Webb W.
Grunthal, Walter C.
Ball, Kenneth W.
Hammer, Howard P.
Hastings, Irving R.
Haynes, William C.
Hazel, Ernest C.
Hed, Joseph A.
Heberling, Junius L.
Henderson, Edwin A.
Henry, Arthur P.
Hensel, Hiram F.
Henson, Vernon A.
Holland, Clifford R.
Irish, Floyd E.
James, Walter E.
Johnson, Clifford O.
Johnston, George F.
Kane, John T.
Kaufman, Stanley

Keim, Harvey D.
Kiene, Edward A.
Kirby, Vance
Kling, John
Laird, Leslie
Lang, Carl G.
Langen, William V.
Lent, Roscoe W.
Lindemann, Richard W.
McCorkill, Walter M.
McConnell, Charles N.
McKnaught, Charles D.
McMurtry, Harold G.
Mair, Earl L.
Martin, Zack
Mauzey, Perc E.
Miles, Winslow F.
Moore, George S.
Morey, Charles T.
Morgan, Ralph G.
Morrow, Arthur C.
Newman, Clifford A.
Norris, Walter B.
Palmer, Roy H.
Patterson, Mahlon H.
Phillips, William H.
Price, Harrison L.
Rafferty, Owen J.
Rains, George O.
Rees, William
Reinoehl, Carl R,
Richards, Kenneth V.
Robbins, Harry L.
Robinson, Ellis A.
Rooney, Robert
Rosner, Albert S.
Rowley, Earl S.
Saunders, Galen W.
Scahlon, Frank J.
Schwab, John B.
Smith, Albert E.
Smith, Marion A.
Springer, Harold G.
Steinmetz, Henry O.
Steinmetz, Ivan
Stewart, Samuel G.
Stice, Glen C.
Stockton, Lee
Swearingen, Maurice
Tanner, Charles W.
Thomas, John E.
Torrence, Howard
Tweedy, Robert D.
Uphouse, Thomas R.
Wallace, George B.
Ward, Charles E. D.
Warner, Lorraine D.
Watson, Alex C.
Werner, Ed G.
Whitaker, James M.
Willett, Albert E.
Workman, Lester
Wright, Harvey W.
Sellars, Fred E.

226 ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Battery B of the First Kansas Field Artillery

Captain

Amick, John S.
1st Lieutenant

E?dwards, Charles E.

Jennings, Dana T.
2nd Lieutenant

Spotts, Ralph H.

Troutman, John F.
1st Sergeant

Fink, Louis O.
Mess Sergeant

Rice, William I.
Supply Sergeant

Baker, Milton L.
Sergeants

Battin, Charles T.

Jones, Harold M.

Ogden, Raymond C.

Ritter, Clair A.

Winey, Willard L.
Corporals

Davis, Earl E.

Dunkley, Georg-e

Thomasson, Russel W.
Cooks

Horr, Worthie H.

Kemper, Hollis D.

Talbert, Leslie A.
Mechanics

Nottingham, Harold E.

Reed, George O.

Samuel, Ralph C.
Buglers

Bishop, Howard L.

Blackbird, Thomas

Picketts, Tom A.
Privates

Abbott, George

Aldrich, Earl W.

Allen, Fredria R.

Arnold, Lewis W.

Barnd, Richard

Baumgartner, Carl H.

Bear, Abe

Bennett, Alfred S.

Bradstreet, Edward D.

Brass, Edward B.

Bray, Floyd E.

Breakey, George D.

Brown, Rufus Earl

Bruner, Dreyfus F.

Buckner, Claude E.

Burns, Edward

Cain, William G.

Carr, Harry

Carter, Russell D.

Chissoe, William

Chupo, Moses

Clarke, Byron L.

Coffin, George E.

Conner, Charles A.

Comrad, Howard

Coogan, John L.

Cooper, Edward O.

Couteau, Herbert

Cox, Edward R.

Creel, Howard E.

Curry, Everett

Dailey, Jasper A.

Dale, Allen P.

Davies, Thomas D.

Davis, Jesse W.

Deere, Daniel
Dougherty, Joseph C.
Dove, Charles M.
Duvall, Thomas
Ellis, Blair
Ellis, Otto
Elston, George
Evinger, Labon E.
Ewing, Walter
Fairbanks, Samuel P.
Fletcher, Zell
Forgey, Jesse J.
Gettinger, Elmer
Gibler, Eugene E.
Gooselaw, Henry
Gordanier, Glenn L.
Gotts, Harry
Goulette, Preston
Graves, Ezra T.
Griggs, Eugene
Hadl, Vitus
Hafmoon, Edgar
Harding, Frank E.
Harjo, Johnson
Harvey, Samuel J.
Heiken, Ernest H.
Helm, Bryan
Henderson, Earl M.
Hill, Samuel
Holt, Frank M.
Hopper, Ralph G.
Humphrey, Wilbur J.
Hunter, Floyd L.
Hunter, Issac
Ingles, James A.
Ingram, Irwin
Jewett, Mark
Johns, William N.
Johnson, John O.
Jones, William M.
Justice, Edward S.
Kane, Lawrence W.
Karns, Warren A.
Kerschen, Carl N.
Kilbuck, Jerry
King, George W.
Kingsley, Volney
Kerby, Elton A.
Kirkpatrick, Dewey M.
LaDeaux, Antoine
LaMere, Charlie B.
Lange, Leo H.
Lemberber, Lloyd E.
LeRoy, John F.
Lind, Lloyd L.
Lowrey, Lyman
McCabria, Harry G.
McCurtain, Grene
McKittrick, John
McPherson, Raymond C.
Maddox, Dewey
Mannschreck, Orval
Martin, William Harry
Meadows, Roy W.
Mears, Gus M.
Miller, Fred H.
Mills, Lloyd R.
Murie, Lawrence
Neanomantuby, Jacob
Oakley, George
Oatman, Arthur C.
Okeson, George N.
O'Niel, Donald B.
Oswalt, Arthur
Otto, Edward A.
Owens, Miles M.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

227

Pate, Goldy M.
Peacock, Phillip
Pepper, Robinson
Phegley, Homer Elwood
Phelps, Lawrence
Pickens, William
Pieratt, William E.
Pollock, Harris
Prettyboy, Benjamin
Puckett, Clarence E.
Rairden John R.
Randall, Chas. B.
Randall, Richard
Reed, Homer C.
Reed, James A.
Reinhart, James A.
Reneau, Lee E.
Richmond, Alfred B.
Risley, Chester
Romero, Ralph
Rooks, Edward F.
Russell, Jacob B.
Saunders, Henry W.
Schramm, Joseph P.
Shelton, Oakley R.
Shoemaker, Lee W.
Shovlin, John E.
Sloop, Ernest W.
Smith, Leon E.
Sockey, Rafe

Starnes, William D.
Stewart, Clarence A,
Taylor, Charles M.
Thompson, Harry H.
Tompkins, Amzie T.
Tracy, John R.
Trammell, Joe W.
Trock, Elmer L.
VanNess, William D.
VanWey, Guy S.
Venard, William L.
Vandegrift, Vernel K.
Vandegrift, Vertol J.
Vitt, Otto L.
Walrod, Carl
White, Alvin
White, Elmo E.
White, Frank H.
Williamson, Roy
Winkler, Frank E.
Woodward, Merritt
Tardy, William
Simmerman, Clyde R.
Bates, George
Helwig, Paul M.
Hodges, Stephen E.
Johnson, Arthur G.
Judd, Earl C.
Martin, Murry

Battery C of the First Kansas Field Artillery

Captain

Hughes, James C.
1st Lieutenant

Curran, Hal

Zickraf, Peter L,
2nd Lieutenant

Broadlick, John N.

Blair, John H.
1st Sergeant

Wofford, John E.
Stable Sergeant

McCoy, Bob M,
Sergeants

Brown, Charles M.

Goodwin, John W.

Woodard, Fred E.
Corporals

Wolfe, Cecil E.

Billings, Earl K.

Wilson, Edward

Bruce, Estel V.

Cockerill, Carl L.

Holmes, Frank

French, Arthur M,

Frages, Henry G.

Wright, Arthur L.
Privates

Adamson, Harry B.

Allison, Robert E.

Arkle, John P.

Azember, Nick

Barnthouse, William M,

Benedict, Frank G.

Bennett, Ames F.

Billard, Ernest

Black, Albert S.

Black, Chas. R,

Boissier, Elie

Boissier, Leon
Bone, Alexander H.
Bordin, Achille
Boothe, Daniel L.
Bridgewater, Clyde E.
Bridgewater, Paul A.
Britton, Andrew R. Jr.
Budde, Frank H.
Buehre, Frederick A
Burdick, Clyde R.
Burger, Waldo Y.
Burnett, Joseph R.
Bicknell, Edgar S.
Cadwallader, Ardell
Cameron, Jerry
Campbell, Bill H.
Chaffins, Frank
Chancellor, John A.
Chancellor, Roy E.
Choat, Oscar
Chrysler, Leo F.
Copley, Roy C.
Cordray, Otis
Craft, Clarence A.
Crelly, Harold J.
Courtney, Reginald R.
Cowden, Harry D.
Condy, George R. Jr.
Davis, Clarence
Davis, John W.
Decuyper, Fernand
Degan, David W.
Degan, Sam M.
Delaney, Patrick J.
Deruy, Henry
Diehl, Oscar J.
Dodson, Fred M.
Doss, Hollis C.
Easom, Lewis E.
Elliott, Daniel
Ermey, Fred L.

228

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Etzel, Charles W.
Everitt, Robert C.
Ewalt, Theodore
EJyestone, Hal J.
Fairchild, Elza O.
Fairchild, John W.
Feldman, John F.
Ferguson, John
Fichtner, Clarence E.
Flottman, Arnold L..
Flores, Florence
Fougnie, George
Frankes, Charles E.
Frsitoe, Frank B.
Fuller, Benjamin A.
Fullum, Earl E.
Francis, Wolfe D.
Geier, Lloyd E.
Gillin, Mark B.
Goodman, Ewart Y.
Graham, Andrew
Henderson, Fredie
Henson, Charles K.
Hill, Ira T.
Hill, John F.
Holcomb, Leroy F.
Hooton, John
Huffman, Arthur W.
Hughey, Leslie W.
Hughey, Verne E.
Ingalsbe, Meryl T.
Inglis, Edward
Jarrell, Kelsey A.
Johnson, Russell
Jones, Lloyd C.
Kasper, Arnold J.
Kautsman, Thomas A.
Keady, Loyd C.
Kelley, Lewis M.
Kelso, Jorden
Kelso, William M.
Kent, Alpine N.
Kincaid, Max G.
Knoll, John J.
Kubas, Frank
Lear, Benjamin
Lemler, David W.
Littleton, Bowman T.
Lutz, Elmer L.
Lux, Lester A.
Lynd, Lloyd A.
Mackey, Irven
Ligatt, Herbert H.
Mallen, Thomas D.
May, Walter C.
Maylen, William
McElhenie, George
McHaley, Roy
Michie, Troy W.
Manning, Edward A.

Middleton, Robert W.
Miller, Shelby V.
Minerd, Sylvester L.
Mingori, Louis
Modlin, Charles R.
Montgomery, Frank
O'Connor, Bryan J.
O'Donnell, Mathew J.
Osborne, William C.
Owens, Oscar
Page, George E.
Patterson, Tyler C.
Painter, John L.
Parsons, John L.
Pigg, Robert F.
Powers, Harold C,
Quackenbush, Landon O
Reeder, Bufford
Renison, Loyd
Didley, William
Rodgers, Harry L.
Ryan, Howard T.
Schenck, William J.
Schneider, Jacob J.
Sandbickler, Emile
Sells, Dewey P.
Shields, Frederick B., Jr.
Schirk, Rudolph R.
Schnebly, George J.
Spoonhour, Edward E.
Staff, Arthur E.
Starchich, Frank Jr.
Sullivan, Martin B.
Tatham, Harry
Thomas, Asa A.
Toussaint, Albert R.
Trogdon, Ray
Ulery, Charles E.
Vanderville, Cezar
Vandris, Augustus
VanMeter, Charles R.
Vantrepotts, Fernand
VanVoast, Deforest
Vessadini, Pete
Walker, Blaine E.
Walker, Leonard E.
Watters, Ellington W.
Wery, Joseph L.
Whitten, Jewel C.
Williams, Winferd M.
Wilson, Willim L.
Winters, Robert C.
Wofford, Raymond J.
Wolf, William W.
Woodbury, Forrest G.
York, George
Losses, Discharged, S. C. D.
Robinson, Arden
Bell, Galen M.
Gibbons, Alfred F.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

220

Battery D of the First Kansas Field Artillery

Captain

Brady. Willim H.

Burnett, Clanrold A.

Pomercy, Dwight A.
2nd Lieutenant

Fenton, Gerald B.

Bass, William W.
Sergeants

Hyndman, James M.

Young, Earnest B.

Llepman, Morres V.

Cockerill, Clay R.

Wharton, J. P.
Corporals

Dixon, Fremont

Hussey, Charles

Bouck, Harry W.

Broadlick, Robert

Reed, Robert M.

Flottman, Edward A.

Logan, John

Wilson, Bryan

Fern, John P.

Quinn, John A.

Nett, Bert D.

Tyrk, John C.

Haney, William B.

Russell, Richard
Privates

Adams, Worlie W.

Allister, James

Anderson, James W. Jr.

Armstrong, Albert L.

Beck, Harry B.

Blaker, Lynn D.

Bollinger, Harlow

Bower, Harry D.

Bradfield, Ellis H.

Broderson, Chester B.

Brooks, Orville

Brown, Carl B.

Brown, Joseph

Buchanan, William L

Buckeye, Harry J.

Bullington, Elmer

Butler, Abraham O.

Chancellor, Chester A.

Cherry, Gustave

Christiansen, Otto

Clark, Alva E.

Clinkenbeard, Clarence

Coley, Joe L.

Colwes, William W.

Condit, Ray M.

Cooper, Walter G.

Crosaglia, Joseph

D'Haillecourt, Desire

Dawson, William E.

Dorris, Walter W.

Duffy, Michael

Basom, Harry

Edwards, George

Eisenbrandt, Henry L.

EJppinger, Clyde
Eyer, Herbert L.
Frame, Floyd F,
Francisco, Ralph P.
EYeeman, Frank
Gerhard, Henry
Glitten, James E.
GoUe, August
Goodwin, Dovie
Graham, Robert L.
Graham, William A.
Gugello, Pete
Hamblin, Robert W.
Hamner, Fred
Hamsher, Samuel J.
Harrigan, Joe A.
Harshfield, William B.
Heatwole, Harry G.
Helms, Alvia
Helms, Dewey
Heslet, Raymond L.
Highbaugh, Swan L.
Hill, Davis C.
Huckaby, Loren
Hughes, George L.
Irwin, Paul H.
Izatt, William A.
Jarivasi, Dominic
Jenkins, Earnest P.
Jones, Andrew J.
Jones, David T,
Jones, Frank R.
Kingston, Ozena
Kirby, John
Kittle, William T.
Kreiger, Amos H.
Kuppersmith, Edward
Lamb, Warren
Lauer, George L.
Leigh, Tom
Lemaster, Leonard O.
Lewis, Roy
Loomis, Frank
McAlhaney, Raymond I
McCain, Paul T.
McCoy, Dallas P.
McDaniel, James A.
McFarland, Lester
McAlhaney, Raymond L.
McGinnis, Edward D.
McClothlin, James M.
McManus, Richard A.
^ McMurray, Earl C.
^ Mavery, Jesse
March, Charles A.
Martin, Joseph H.
Maxwell, Donald C.
May, Gordon J.
Minter, Marvin E,
Moore, Archie A.
Morris, Decalb
Nehon, Ramage N.
Newton, William A.
Nichols, Estrl F.
Nielson, Robert

230

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Nightingale, Wilfred H
Nute, Benjamin J.
O'Dell, John G.
Overmeyer, Charles C.
Prettyman, Quincy W.
Province, John T.
Quinlan, Raymond A.
Racy, Clifford N.
Racy, William
Reinhardt, Floyd E.
Richard, Edward A.
Richard, Jules
Restau, Ervin O.
Robison, John A.
Rohinson, Lorraine H.
Ross, Charles F.
Ross, Randal N.
Russell, William
Sanders, Ernest A.
Sayles, Floyd E.
Schmiedler, Aloysius
Scholes, George H.
Seaman, Herbert H.
Seleman, Herman
Shead, Elza B.
Sheets, Frank L.
Shirley, Otis M.
Sills, William T.
Skinner, Eugene A.
Smith. William H.
Spegal, Alonzo P.
Stewart, Charles
Stoffer, Frank M.

Stroud, William V.
Thiolet, Theodore
Thompson, Samuel
Timmons, Warren M.
Tipton, William A.
Towery, Robert C.
Van Hall, Julius F.
Vance, Joseph E.
Volkert, Louis E.
Walker, Augustus
Walter, Alva J.
Ward, James
Welsh, Edward Jr.
White, Charles W.
Whitney, Arthur W.
Williams, Orvil, A.
Wilson, Floyd O.
Wilson, Marion
Wood, Frederick
Wood, William S.
Work, Earl
Worrall, John L.
Zinn, Ralph E.
Zurek, Bryan

Losses, Discharged

Cowan, James H.
Hubbard, Albert M.
Neeks, Albert
Oberto, Joe
Quigley, Julian F,
Shinn, Marshall E.
Van Meter, Elbert

Batftery E of the First Kansas Field Artillery

Captain

Hoyt, Phil S.

1st Lieutenants

Poindexter, Erly W.
Orlander, Frederick H.

2nd Lieutenants

Barker, Roger L.
Russell, Glenn A.

1st Sergeant

Householder, Victor H.

Supply Sergeant

Anderson, Carl E.

Stable Sergeant

Reed, Walter J.

Sergeants

Cheak, Lucian
Laird, Benjamin, H.
Holder, Edward F. M.
Ingle, Truman L.
Amidon, Edward C.
Wall, Courtney, C.
Corporals

Gray, George H.
Cass, Joseph
Miller, WiUiam E.
Dahlgren, Earl W.
Campbell, William E.
Chambers, Thomas A.
Harris, Orville
Hedstrom, Algot G.
Millikan, George N.
Larson, Carl J. E.
Mount, Bert

Buglers

McBratney, Robert R.

Patton, W. Sidney
Cooks

Gayman, Thomas

Lemmon, Sturling

Wagner, Raymond W.
Privates

Anderson, Lwrence J.

Audas, Howard H.

Baker, Edwin M.

Barker, Edward D.

Ballenger, Edward

Baughey, Leslie A.

Beauchamp, John A.

Belan, John

Bender, Cecil

Bigham, George P.

Black, Leroy E.

Bolande, Harold E.

Bradley, Raymond P.

Bratschie, Fred S.

Bridendolph, Neil

Brockwell, John B.

Bronson, Richard T.

Brown, Myron D.

Burns, Fred E.

Burditt, Henry

Burchfield, Leslie K.

Campbell, Charles E. Jr.

Cargill, William F.

Coleman, Clyde D.

Conklin, George E.

Conley, Edward P. Jr.
Corcoran, Ben O.
Copewycz, Walter
Cowles, Elisha C.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

231

Cowles, Lucius L.
Crofton, James J.
Crumpley, Horace
Davis, Joe
DeGroff, James S.
Dempsey, Archie D.
Dennett, Robert W.
Donohue, James L.
Donnovan, William J.
Eaken, William L.
Edmonds, John H.
Evans Richard J.
Fennelly, Leo L.
Fisher, Frederick H.
Fisher, Joseph C.
Franey, Frank "V.
French, Charles L.
Gatewood, Harley B.
George, James M.
Giles, Clinton B.
Gleason, Joseph T.
Glidden, Lyle B.
Gossage, Melvin McK.
Gough, John B.
Gravatt, Homer
Griffin, David
Grimes, John A-
Gross, John W.
Grove, Charles V.
Gustafson, Carl
Hanauer, Edward T.
Hansen, Martin
Hargreaves, Fred E.
Hauf, Earl O.
Hindle, Joe O.
Holden, Herbert G.
Howell, Charles O.
Hughes, John J. Jr.
Hurd, Virgil L.
Hurralbrink, Herman W
Isenhour, William H.
Jewett, Chester C.
Jobe, Charles
Johnson, Chester E.
Johnson, Floyd A.
Jomowkvich, Joe
Jones, George H.
Kerns, Charles W.
Klebansky, Samuel
Koons, Charles D.
Korasic, John F.
Krehm, George J.
Laird, Earl
Larson, Harold A.
Laughlin, Thomas J. A.
Leinbach, Barto J.
Leinbach, Charles B.
McConnell, John J.
McCulley, James C.
McDonough, Thomas L.
McGill, Ronald F.
Mclntyre, Claude
McMahon, Joseph
McMurray, Elmer H.
Mackey, Carl L.
Manning, Robert E.
Markowitz, Daniel

Markley, Charles J.
Marshall, Arthur R.
Meier, Charles W.
Martel, Arthur H.
Miller, Henry L.
Millikan, Roy E
Misell, Robert L.
Mitchell, Ernest W.
Morrison, Ovid T.
Moss, Evertt R.
Motis, Nicholas
Mullies, Ralph W.
Noel, James P.
Noll, Paul R.
Nystrom, Arthur G.
O'Niel, Fred P.
O'Rourk, John F.
Odgers, Sheldon P.
Olson, Walter O.
Osborn, Robert
Perley, George R.
Pfeiffer, Wilbur C.
Reardon, Daniel J.
Rice, George H.
Rice, Samuel R,
Rohl, Anthony J.
Sawyer, John W.
Schiller, George W.
Scheicher, George L.
Schooley, Glenn G.
Schraer, Clifford B.
Shaw, Cornelius R.
Simpson, Frederick
Sims, Martin D.
Smith, Clarence M.
Smith, Frank
Smith, Harry B.
Smith, Jesse E.
Sprowl, David A.
Sprowl, Marshall R.
Staniforth, Fred
Sterner, Charles
Stewart, Walter W.
Swan, Edward R,
Talkin, Andrew H.
Taylor, Henry J.
Thomas, Jerdon L.
Thomas, Roy G.
Thurgate, George M.
Torrey, John T.
Trantum, John T.
Valentine, George
Vaughn, James M.
Walker, Charles P.
Walker, Hugh O.
Walters, Herman L.
Williams, Claude J.
Williams, Earl H.
Williams, John M.
Williams, Lucian Q.
Wilson, Edward P. H.
Wood, Charles D.
Wright, Walter
Zelenok, George A
Losses on Account of Dependents
Kitchen, William

232

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Battery F of the First Kansas Field Artillery

Captain

Sauers, Birdie E.
1st Lieutenants
Priest, Frank T.
Wooley, Daniel W
2nd Lieutenants
Bleckley, Erwin E,
Simons, Bert
1st Sergeant

Klein, Randall T.
Mess Sergeant
Moore, Eric C.
Supply Sergeant

McMillan, Claude V.
Stable Sergeant

Schultz, August A.
Sergeants
Flournoy, John J.
Copeland, Frank T.
Ryan, Elmer E.
Howse, Edward J.
Lemmers, Ftank D.
Corporals
Carter, Ray P.
Mathias, Joseph J.
Hackelman, Charles B.
Logate, James E.
Stippich, Chester V.
Scanland, Merle C.
Barrows, Charles F.
Ross, Elbert S.
Scott, William F.
Geeslin, David M.
Shambaugh, Cloy D.
Cambell, John A.
Bachman, Ray
Chief Mechanic

Andrus, Rollie H.
Horseshoers

Lyons, Arthur B.
Graham, Arthur W.
Mechanics

Clardy, WUliam N.
Oilman, Orville J.
Dennis, Wilford A,
Saddler

Spidle, Charles N.
Cooks

Lakey, Elmer
Weaverling, Clarence A
Buglers

Jones, Wilbur H.
Wikoff, Charles W.
Kelley, Donald F.
Privates
Allon, Russell T.
Axline, Andrew A.
Bailey, Cecil W.
Baker, Paul E.
Baumunk, John L.

Beach, Glenn A.
Bolan, William C.
Brewer, John Henry
Brosius, Chauncy G.
Brown, Cycril M.
Butts, George W.
Camp, Wayne C.
Caplinger, Robert F.
Carroll, William L.
Clinton, Sylvester J.
Coghill, Floyd V.
Cone, John F.
Crawford, James E.
Davis, Edmund D.
Davis, Harold W.
Dean, Glenn L.
Devaughn, Walter B.
Devins, George F.
Dewey, Harvey J.
Diehl, Paul A.
Doherty, Joseph E.
Donelon, William M.
Duckworth, Harry U.
Everitt, Vern D.
Flournoy, Hubert E.
Freizzell, Elton S,
Gabrielson, John A.
Gable, Ivan C.
Gardner, Lester H.
Gray, Glenn N.
Gray, Lyle H.
Gray, Lowell C.
Gray, Claude W
Glaves, Virgil E.
Grey, William J.
Guy, Kenneth E,
Hackney, Ewing S^
Hall, Joseph H.
Hall, Roy L.
Harbaugh, Fred B.
Harris, Herschel G.
Harrison, Russell B.
Hatfield, Harold B.
Haynes, James W.
Hays, James E.
Holphey, Earl H,
Helmers, Edward T.
Henrickson, Sven E.
Hester, Perl M.
■ Higdon, Hobart F. R.
Himmelwright, Homer f^
Hitchner, George
Hodges, Edgar A.
Holland, Harry L.
Horn, Fred
Howerton, Thomas W.
Hughey, Clyde D.
Ingram, Charles M.
Ink, Ira M.
Jackson, Virgil E.
Keck, Edward E.
Kennedy, Jesse E.
Kerr, Luther
Keys, Oliver
Kiddo, Lyman C. G.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

233

King, Ray B.
Klee, Charley
Klee, John J.
Knipp, Raymond A. F.
Knox Ralph S.
Kuechenmeister, Emil L.
Lee, Clarence M.
Lee, James H.
Lee, Merritt R.
Letter, Rufus
Lynn, Ben H.
Marshall, Virgil
Marchall, William M.
Miller, Clayton C.
Moore, Harry W.
Moore, Harry E.
Moore, Ralph A.
Mourning, Fred W.
Mueller, Henry R.
Myers, Claude R.
McConnell, Paul J.
McCormick, Homer L.
McCoy, Carl W.
McNally, Frank E.
Neal, Lester E.
Negley, Cyril G.
Offenstein, Henry J.
Osier, James D,
Overstreet, Arthur D.
Oyler, Jesse R.
Padgett, Milo W.
Panier, Guy R.
Patterson, Edgar
Payne, John N.
Peacock, Lawrence A.
Pence, Harold H.
Phillippi, Murrell L.
Phillips, William P.
Pierce, Edwin P.
Pierce, Harvey H.
Prier, Harry
Rambo, Carl W.
Randall, Ralph A.

Rice, Herbert O.
Richards, Stanley B.
Richardson, John F.
Roberts, Walter B.
Rogers, George C.
Rouse, Wallace T. Jr.
Ruble, Adrain A.
Rudd, William L.
Ruffridge, Michael A.
Sence, Leslie B.
Schnert, Merle F.
Schooley, William O.
Shaw, Andrew F.
Sheperd, Fred W.
Smith, June B.
Smith, Robert M.
Snock, James W.
Sparks, Reed C.
Stanley, Lawrence
Stoon, Fred
Stevens, Merville O.
Stravio, Fred G.
Surtees, Baisel L.
Sweetland, Zephyr K.
Torry, Floyd C.
Thompson, James C.
Truex, Lewis H.
Truitt, Harvey G.
Violette, Harold S.
Walker, Chester L.
Watson, Elmer E.
Waugh, Maurice C.
Wetterhold, Arthur R.
Whittaker, John P.
Willett, Francis W.
Williams, Fred M.
Wilson, Charles I.
Wilson, Max G.
Winn, Caleb E.
Witt, Earle C.
Wood, Karl A.
Yeager, Raymond W.

Detached Medical Department of the First Kansas
Field Artillery

Sergeant, 1st Class

Robbins, Harry E.
Sergeants

Simpson, Harry S.

Whitehead, Floyd S.
Privates

Akers, Claude

Bird, Havert L.

Bailey, James H.

Bratton, Kenneth B.

Davis, Harry J.

Hamilton, James R.

Jones, Edwin R.

Jones, Fred L.
Kimes, Maurice J.
Klina, Harry E.
Lockwood, Phil R.
Morrison, Jesse E.
Rowe, Orville W,
Schock, Gus C.
Shore, Alonzo P.
Scholtz, Arthur H.
Walker, Marcus V.
Warnock, Harold L.
Wilson, Charles O.
Yonkers, Harry A.

234

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Kansas Engineer Battalion
110th Engineers

Sergeant Major

Reese, Raymond M.

Master Engineers, Junior Grade

Northrup, Burt

Lewis, Oliver A.
Steinmetz, Milton
Stacey, William A.
Martin, Elmer C.
Thorpe, Delmar

Company A of the Kansas Engineers Battalion

Oaptain

McLane, Glenwood L.
-1st Lieutenants

Crawford, Hugh W.

Tillotson, Luther R.
-2nd Lieutenant

Finney, Roy A.
1st Sergeant

Wright, Philo A.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Dingelstedt, Otto E.

Gaw, Richard M.
Mess Sergeant

Stewart, William F.
Supply Sergeant

Smith, Philander
Stable Sergeant

Haggard, Ashley P.
Sergeants

Baker, Alfred G.

Firestone, Clifford L.

Fletcher, Claude C.

Caywood, Hugh T.

Stevens, Hal

Mclntyre, John

Logan, Vernon L.

Deane, John F.
Corporals

Terrill, Edmund J.

Irons, James P.

Hill, Clarence J.

Vernson, Harry W.

Hughes, Jay B.

Chandler, Geo. L.

Palmer, Gustave J. F.

Kanode, Lynn H.

Stephen, Earle D.

Moreland, Alban R.

Holliday, Wilbur N.

Purdy, Donald C.

Thurman,, Robert S.

Whipple, Harold C.

Smith, Frank W.

Horseshoer

Lane, John A.

Buglers

Davis, Homer N.
Osborn, Lindsay C.

Cooks

Ellis, Harold H.
Quigley, Earl
Privates, 1st Class

Berlin, Brooks
Cavenee, Fred
Cowgill, David M.
Cheney, Albert R.
Daeschner, Frank R.
DeGroat, Bruce
Billon, Clyde W.
Eagan, Vernon R.
Eberhart, Sidney P.
French, Raymond E.
Gaston, Eldridge
Geiger, Jesse C.
Gress, Roy K.
Hockett, Ray L.
Janney, Walter C.
Knight, Raymond A.
Lindsay, Junior S.
Lingo, William E.
Monroe, Donald F.
Prewett, Vance V.
Pringle, Ray A.
Rees, George D,
Umpsted, Clarence C.
Wakeman, Clyde L.
West, John W. Jr.
Williams, Milo Ellsworth
Wilson, William Ray
Winters, Ray

Privates

Anderson, Robert A.
Baker, David D.
Balston, Hobart
Barner, William E.
Barrett, Gordon A.
Beers, Dorsey L.
Beers, Glenn E.
Bell, Tobe E.
Bender, Harry E.
Birdsall, Walter H.
Brel, Henry E.
Brooks, Hayden H.
Brown, William T. Jr.
Burke, Chester L.
Burke, Otto J.
Bushnell, Hurbert J.
Cahill, Joseph E.
Campbell, Joseph M.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

235

Canfield, Harry P.
Cassady, Floyd A.
Catansaro, Theodore J.
Chessman, Charles A.
Church. Richard B.
Colbert, Walter W.
Colvill, George B.
Cooper, Charley J.
Crum, William F.
Curtis, Charles H.
Davis, Marvin B.
Dorris, Frank Jr.
Dugan, Frank T.
Dutro, John D.
Edwards, James W.
Eggert, Henry A.
Ekston, Martin H.
Fagan, Joseph C.
Forney, Abram H.
Hall, Selby H.
Hamilton, Edwin G.
Henry, Ed. H. S.
Henica, William C.
Higgins, LaMoine M.
Hoselton, Purdy
Jarus, Emil Charles
Johnson, Roy D.
Kelsey, Charles B.
Kittell, George J.
Kirkpatrick, Edward R.
Koons, Howard W.
Lawrence, Robert K.
Lemly, Paul R.
Levey, Earl R.
Long, Claude O.
Lowe, Willoughby, M.
Martin, Edwin
Miller, Willis C.
Mountfortt, Wade Jr.
McLaughlin, David
McNeal, Charles E.
McWilliams, Calvin S.
Owings, Glen R.
Painter, Edward L.
Parker, John O.

Piper, Franklin E.

Potter, Seymour

Reneau, William A.

Rigsby, Charles B.
Roberts, Clifton

Roberts, Lloyd R.
Rowan, Tom L.

Russell, Virgil B.

Scovel, Raleigh

Scudder, Benjamin H.

Sharkey, Charles T.

Sloane, Charles A.

Smith, Leonard F.

Spencer, Marion A.

Stephens, Frank L.

Stewart, Robert B.

Stratton, William

Talbott, Verne H.

Tann, William E.

Timmins, Homer H.

Timmins, Vaughn B.

Townsend, James F., Jr.

Trotter, RoUand L,

True, Guy Herbert

Van Hart, Harold H.

Veltrop, George

White, Myron E.

Willard, Sherman K.

Whitmore, Verne R.
Losses, Discharged

Dano, Raymond J.

Ruble, Roland O.

Stephan, Thomas A.

Street, Gordon F.

Thompson, Leroy

Tomlinson, William A.
Updegrove, Eugene A.
Wardin, William L.
Williamson, Melvin L.
Privates
Adamson, Paul D.
Allen, Fred R.
Amis, John C.
Anderson, Leroy P.
Barnes, Arthur R.
Battey, Eugene F.
Bell, Alexander R.
Bell, Robert P.
Bonebrake, Frederick T.
Blevins, Earl F.
Brown, Ernest L.
Bunce, Earl J.
Bunce, Frank E.
Burke, Eugene R.
Burtch, Russell A.
Calderwood, Will B.
Campbell, Harry W.
Carlson, Willard F. J.
Clark, George A.
Clayton, James I.
Clements, Charles W.
Compton, Allen T.
Cress, Howard R.
Crowder, Leslie E.
Currens, Raymond L.
Dean, John S., Jr.
DeWolfe, Amos C.
Dillon, Dale C.
Doak, William
Dungan, Lee
Elliott, John P.
Ellison, Frank
Ewell, John L.
Felder, Mathew
Finuf, Harrison
Ford, Elmo A.
Ford, John J.
Foulk, Albert C.
Friend, John M.
Gaines, Thomas J.
Garrett, Harold E.
Garvie, Hugh A.
Guyer, Ray H.
Hall, Jay
Hall, Seldon G.
Harrington, P. Wallac*
Dewitt, Henry W.
Hill, Richard L.
Huffman, Claude L
Huntsinger, Ivan
Ice, Lloyd
Jessop, Charles T.
Justice, Robert J.
Keeney, Leroy C.
Keeses, Gerald B.
Ketchum, Omar B.
Linscheid, Otto P.
Light, John C.
McClain, Lige D.
Magill, Laurus A.
Magill, Wilbur S.
McBride, Andrew L.
Martin, Ray P.
Mason, Ray B.
Mason, Robert W.
Matthews, David W.
Minturn, Benjamin E.
Morriss, Clarence M.
Norris, Fred F.
O'Leary, Dorman H.
Oman, Ralph W.
Owen, Joseph J.
Pinet, Eli P.
Polls, John R.
Ralney, Robert L.

236

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Randall, Charles
Reld, Theodore C.
Riley, Edward S.
Rogers, Willard B.
Rucker, Harvey D.
Sackett, Lucien E.
Schaub, Lee R.
Scrlbner, John C.
Shrader, Paul R.
Sills, Shellis H.
Simmons, Chester T.
Singleton, William S.
Talbert, Joseph H.

Taylor, Glen
Thurman, Harold D.
Welch, David
Welch, Howard M.
Wiley, Alfred B.
Worrall, Anton W.
Wilson, John G.
Ball, Eddie R.
Furlong, Clarence E.
Martin, Glen
Piper, Albert
Vier, Shellie V.
Whitecotton, Fred

Company B of the Kansas Engineers Battalion

Captain

James, Darl S.

1st Lieutenants

Brownlee, Harold J.
Weidlein, William D.

2nd Lieutenant

Hudson, Hubert R.

Ist Sergeant

McCarty, Leon B.

Sergeants, 1st Class

Barnhart, Oliver F.
English, William J.
Snyder, Wenslow P.

Mess Sergeant
Nevin, Harry L.

Supply Sergeant

Ronayne, Frank J.

Stable Sergeant

Roberts, Justice L.

Sergeants

Forney, Roy S.

Proudfit, James H.

Weibel, Leo N.

Spratt, Robert C.

Ficken, Benjamin F.

Conrey, Stephen L.

Dryden, Paul L.

Bell, Roy H,
Horseshoer

Coles, Harry R.
Saddler

Walker, Fred R.
Buglers

Harris, Hector W.

Nicholson, Floyd S.
Cooks

Dittrich, Louis

Whittington, John H.

Anderson, Harbert V.

Corporals

Weidlein, Glee T.
Wilson, Harry L,
Kelley, Raymond B.
Madden, F^ank A.
Brazille, Edward T.
Foster, Fred V.
McCallum, Donald J.
Webb, Walton H.
Trotter, Nathan P.
Stephens, Hollis H.
Brigham, Arthur Perry
Vest, Edwin A.
Feller, George C.
Drury, Andrew W.
Winn, Edward L.
Rau, Eugene E.
Willis, James W.
Angle, Roy
Privates, 1st Class
Becker, Jonas P.
Bottum, Charles A.
Carmichael, Lachlan
Cooper, William C.
Craven, John J.
Edmonds, William Henry
England er, Arthur R.
Foster, Guy A.
Heinmann, Charles T.
Hoyt, Raymond A.
Lane, Frank C.
LePort, Fred R.
McAvoy, Bernard F.
MacDuff, Irl G.
Moon, Alva L.
Norman, Frank R.
Porter, Will A.
Ramsey, Arnold G.
Reardon, John
Seineke, Max E.
Roberts, Clarence
Smith, Gardner M.
Smith, Orliff E.
Strohmyer, William E.
Thomas, Clifford A.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

237

Company C of the Kansas Engineers Battalion

Captain

Hudson, Orlin
1st Lieutenants

Fisher, Charles R.

Rouse, Carl E.
2nd Lieutenant

Barclay, Herbert T.
1st Sergeant

McCoy, Charles A.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Henschel, Ramsey C.

Nelson, Henning F.

Tucker, Arthur L.
Mess Sergeant

Schwitzgebel, Charles F.
Supply Sergeant

McLanahan, Orville W.
Stable Sergeant

Gilmore, Walton W.
Duty Sergeants

Dells, David P.

Gosney, Thomas W.

Van Doren, Robert H.

Frick, Wallace H.

Gibson, Foster M.

Dissinger, John E.

Crooks, Reed M,

Yam ell, George W.
Corporals

Austin, Charles E.

Bakeman, J. P.

Bruce, Guy S.

Faulkner, Ward

Hill, Charles A.

Humphrey, Ralph

Merriam, Charles W.

McMillen, Delbert

Miller, Max

Miller, Harry W.

Nelson, Len B.

Russell, Charles F.

Sack, Norman R.

Snow, Leon J.

Shackelton, Fred J.

Stewart, Harold E.

Shannon, Harold E.

Toole. Wilbut N.
Horseshoer

Bankin, Walter S.
Saddler

McMickell, Harvey D.
Buglers

Alley, Worth B.

Payne, Elias B.
Cooks

Thenney, Ernest

Dell, Raymond H,

Pickett, Oliver B.
Privates, 1st Class

Albin, Ira F.

Dill, Bruce L.
Evans, Joseph R.
Fleener, George C.
Frater, Robert A.
Gardner, Harold B.
Gentry, John P.
Harwood, Arthur W.
Hendricks, Garry T.
King, George R.
Knauss, John D.
Lanctot, Sheridan E.
McFarlane, Joseph T.
Martin, Ward
Martin, Bruen L.
Northrup, Floyd L.
Palmer, Edward G.
Rhodes, Gerald F.
Reed, Ruben R.
Rowan, Thomas M.
Savage, Frank M.
Sicking, Walter A.
Smith, John D.
Talpey, Frank A.
Tracy, James R.
Thurston, Bryan E.
Verdieck, Arthur
Wetzig, John R.
Wirth, John A.
Wisely, William W.
Walter, Charles E.

Privates

Allen, Albert A.
Barker, Thomas Y.
Bennett, James A.
Brading, Roy W.
Brown, John N.
Condon, Robert E.
Cosintino, John
Crane, Milo A.
Crawford, Jess
Conroy, Curtis W.
Deems, Frank L.
Dessert, Harry H.
Dimmitt, Austin
Duncan, John H.
Eaton, Robert R.
Edwards, William E.
Farber, Henry C.
Flinn, Roy W.
Glassco, James S.
Graham, Harry E.
Graham, Wilbur E.
Gray, William R.
Grieshammer, Nicholas
Ragan, Eugene J.
Hamacher, Herbert H.
Harvey, Hayden W.
Haslip, Charles R.
Henricks, Charley E.
Hendricks, Jesse H.
Hethcock, Jesse H.
Holverstott, Claud T.
Hoover, Merle W.
Horrell, Jay R.

238

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Heckert, Eugene D.
Humphrey, Walter F.
Johnson, Carl F.
Johnson, George A.
Johnson, Ishmael
Ivy, Thruman
Keegan, John F.
Kilmer, James A.
Knutson, Arthur J.
Kloster, Elmer A.
Lamb, Frank
Kambert, Robert E.
Layson, Robert C.
Lane, Charles H,
Lloyd, Everett R.
Lovejoy, Fred
Lucas, "William F.
McGreary, Leo R.
McKoown, Robert H.
Mackie, Lyman S.
Major, Everett O.
Mateer, Frank D.
Morris, Harold E.
Morrison, Ralph W.
Newton, Ralph W.
Netteton, Francis J.
Pavlu, Albert J.
Perkins, George T.
Perkins, Harold L.
Plunkett, James W.
Pierce, Harry H.

Raddant, George T.
Rice, Howard B.
Riley, David F.
Rodewald, Albert T.
Rossner, Lome L.
Sebree, Heise H.
Shields, Edward B.
Shultz, George J.
Smither, Webster D.
Sprague, Arthur G.
Storey, Bert W.
Styrgis, Joy F.
Summers, George F.
Tedder, Norman C.
Thomas, Lee R.
Thomson, Gerald R.
Thomson, John L.
Underwood, Tillman
Van Houten, Herbert H.
Van Pelt, George C.
Voltz, George D.
Weber, August, Jr.
White, Joseph L.
Wendt, George C.
Westendick, Philip H.
Williams, Charles D.
Willard, Harry L.
Williams, Ira R.
Wood, Albert B.
Losses

Nunter, Frank A.

Detached Medical Department of the Firs*
Battalion of Kansas Engineers

Sergeant

Brier, Archibald J.
Privates

Hawley, Leslie H.

Holmes, Rodney J.
Holtwick. Charles J.
Pardon, Charles V.
Ramsey, John D.
Sendson, Harold M.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

Kansas Engineer Train

Captain

Eewis, Robert W.
1st Lieutenants

Vincil, Peake

Beauchamp, Lennon P.
2nd Lieutenant

Gaither, Donald
Master Engineers, Senior Grade

Sanders, Ernest

Hunt, William R.
Master Engineers, Junior Grade

Douthat, Lee A.

Oakleaf, Lovell R.

Dreher, Charlie

Rowland, Dan W.
1st Sergeant

Chappuie, Gordon
Sergeants, 1st Class

Morgan, Will C.

Hereld, Roy
Battalion Supply Sergeant

Matthews, Dean V.
Supply Sergeants

Smith, Robert R.

Brinkham, Floyd W.
Stable Sergeants

Overfield, Roy

Travis, Chester E.
Sergeants

McCue, James B.

Hill, John R.

Blades, Ralph C.

Davidson, Frank

Todd, Earl C.

McCollum, Eugene F.
Corporals

Jones, Albert S.

Evans, George A.

Frisinger, Chester A.

McEvers, Maurice A.

Small, Orloe D.

Smith, William A.

Bloom, George L.

Ebner, Clyde T.

Navarre, Henry C.

Cooper, Hutchison
Horseshoers

Bixler, John L.

Hathaway, Claude W.

Fields, Claude B.

Murray, Lloyd M.

Ditts, Olin H.
Saddler

Robertson, Walter F.
Wagoners

Allen, Ben S.

Anz Elmo, Nicola

Anderson, Howard M.

Addington, Albert T.

Allred, Ivan A.
Baldwin, Calvin R.
Bennett, John R.
Brown, George O.
Buntin, Homer H.
Blalack, Pearl
Carr, Charles A.
Callahan, Owen
Catlin, Courtney L,
Carter, Howell H.
Carlson, Harry E.
Campbell, Lester E.
Cobb, John L.
Cooper, Robert F.
Crane, Fred A,
Culver, Willard K.
Dack, Harry G.
Degarimore, Eddie
Doop, Jesse
Dobson, Glen
Drybread, Ephriam
Eastin, Homer F.
Elliott, Verl
Edmunds, Walter J.
Earlow, Danzel M.
Eleenor, William V.
Gardenshire, Malcolm H.
Gardner, Henry I.
Howe, Claude E.
Henderson, John S.
Healer, Thomas
Holton, Floyd A.
Henderson, Homer J.
Hyler, Denver H.
Hole, James M.
Jackson, Ivan
Jones, Robert S.
Johnson, Samuel K.
Krone, Edward F.
Long, Oscar
Lusby, Henry H.
Lusby, Everettt E.
McClure, Roy A.
McGee, Paul C.
Mcintosh, David A.
Moss, Charles H.
Main, John P.
Murray, Orville O.
Meyer, Emil J.
Mensch, Ray S.
Marshall, Hal E.
Morse, Milford J.
Malcolm, Ira E.
Milton, Wood E.
Murray, Lynn R.
Metcalf, Harold W.
Navarre, Guy W.
Navarre, Otto
Parshall, George S.
Rains, Crit
Renner, William
Rundell, Lee S.
Rowland, Alfred L.
Saladin, John H.

240

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Schoenfeldt, Carl J.

Sloan, Julius C.

Shunk, Guy E.

Schulz, William C.

Taylor, Theodore

Taylor, Ogle

Tuttle, Thomas P.

Van Cleave, Everett E.

Vance, Willis W.

White, Guy S.

Wahl, William A.

Witt, Sterling

Wetzel, Guy

Watt, Everett P.

Ziegler, Noland T.

Winchester, Burt C.

Schreck, Edward G.

Strassberg, Herman

Spelman, Joseph F.

Sutton, Sewall

Sutton, Newton

Richardson, Lloyd M.
Cooks

Murray, Thomas D.

Hunt, William H.

Forman, Lew R.
Buglers

Holdren, John

Dennis, Harlan A.

Roads, Harold B.
Privates, 1st Class

Allen, Carl K.

Allen, Vernon

Bauer, George F.
Clifford, Homer L.
Carpenter, Orville W.
Decker, Robert J.
Bopst, William O.
Hoover, Ora
Hosier, Merle
Nicholson, Chauncey I.
Mann, James
Mibeck, Jacob G.
Oakleaf, Paul B.
Ray, Dennis
Shy, John W.
Sutton, Ward
Thompson, Jack
Springer, Job
Stephens, James M.
Swisher, William Z.

Privates

Bircher, Archie C.
Dougherty, Henry W.
Hayes, Jack W.
Hilyard, Lee P.
Mears, Herbert E,
Moews, George
Marling, Ben W.
Neary, William J.
Owen, Frank G.
Parker, Benjamin F,
Pinegar, George D.
Price, Charles E.
Roszel, Hugh D.
Russell, Lonnie E.

Headquarters Detachment of the First Kansas
Field Signal BattaUon

Sergeant, 1st Class

Smith, James E.
Sergeants
Loomis, Earl H.
Waugh, Neal B.

Privates, 1st Class

Dubreuil, Louis T.
Meeker, Cloise C.
Miller, Benjamin J.
Partridge, Clare A.
West, Vernon B.

Supply Section of the First Kansas Field Sigrnal

Battalion

Sergeant, 1st Class

Crake, Walter L.
Privates, 1st Class

Curtis, Lloyd F.

Downing, John F.
Fraelich, Henry H.
Lafromboise, Floyd B.
Neese, Olave L.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

241

110th Field Signal Battalion.

Company A of the First Battalion Signal Corps,

Kansas National Guard

Captain

Stahl, Elmer G.
1st Lieutenant

Carswell, William C.
2nd Lieutenant

Thomas, Chester H.
1st Sergeant

Orrel, Galpin H.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Anderson, Mahor M.

Burdick, C. Dale

Thacher, Safford D.

Warner, John C.

Ziesenis, Harry C.
Sergeants

Wiss, Quirin A.
Privates

Beasley, William A.

Bechtel, Roy M.

Beisner, Cecil H.

Butler, Eugene U.

Campbell, Elmer

Carlson, Victor E.

Carlson, David L.

Carris, Roy O.

Carson, George W.

Caskey, Edmund L,

Chappelle, Archie

Charlesworth, Firth

Coffman, Harry

Coakley, Claude

CorklU, Paul D.

Cox, Harry E.

Coykondall, Arthur

Douglas, Em. H,

Effinger, Ralph C.

Erskine, Edgar M.

Erskine, James R.

Estep, Dale

Fairchild, Howard

Ferguson, George

Ferrin, Harley A.

Ferris, John
Firner, Henry
Foster, Roy C.
Granger, Harry W.
Gregory, Ivan D.
Hauber, John F.
Henley, Brynn
Henley, Frank
Henley, Stephen
Hughes, Avis S.
Jamison, Rajonond
Linsberg, Arthur
Mohrwein, Roy H.
Meier, Leo S.
Mohrbacker, Byron C.
Moore, Clyde S.
Mooring, Ernest L.
Neeley, Fren L.
Ness, Burt R.
Nicholson, Edward L.
Paulson, Kurtz L.
Punches, William R.
Scott, John F.
Shaffer, Don
Shaffer, Paul
Sharpless, Fred S.
Short, Calvin S.
Stone, Francis B.
Stone, William A.
Sutherland, Kenneth L.
Sutton, Alpha E.
Swink, Bert
Taylor, William E.
Titus, Martin D.
Tucker, Claude H.
Urie, Rolland W.
Wall, James W.
Ward, Meade L.
Whitney, Curt K.
Woods, Leonard D.
Woods, Morris D,
Yewell, Roy C.
Ziesenis, Roy C.

242

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company B of the First Battalion Sigrnal Corps,
Kansas National Guard

Captain

Cox, Walter, Leo

1st Lieutenants

Donald, ^illis L.

Freeman, Grover C.
M. S. E.

Clawson, Millard E.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Womack, Ralph J.

Kernal, Delbert L.

McFarland, William F.

Anderson, Eric E,

Neal, Harry A.
Sergeants

Young, Uoyd M.

Lott, Joseph C.

Anderson, Gustav C.

Roberts, Harold M.

Hershkowitz, Martin

Cox, Herschel D.
Corporals

Fowler, Iver F.

Anderson, Frank D.

Adams, Charles H,

Pavis, Frank C.

Knock, Earl R.

Shapel, Amel

Newman, Albert H.

Brownfield, Maro

Olliver, Myler D.

Wright, Kenneth

Frederickson, Judson C.
Cooks

Gay, Hubert L.

Varner, George H.
Horseshoer

Murphy, Joseph T.
Privates, 1st Class

Anderson, Ralph L.

Anderson, George W.

Bass, Orean H.

Brolliar, Albert W.

Benson, T. Wyllys

Beatty, Areotus F.

Chilcote, George J.

Charles, Frank A.

Dulinsky, Mount C.

Davis, Lee F.

Florence, Albert F.

Fryer, Russell C.

Frevert, Robert E.

Hayes, Glen W.

Hurlock, Clyde E.

Harper, Frank W.

Horton, Robert A.

Hepler, Laurence G.

Jackson, John A,

Jones, Joseph C.

Lane, Roy

McKarnin, Sylvester

Moore, Carl E.

Myers, Benjaman

Price, Carl M.

Pittsenberger, Samuel S.

Smith, Clarence D.

Smith, Jesse F.

Shapel, Phillip

Steele, Oliver H.

Stillwell, Loy W.

Vincent, Guy M.

Warford, Clarence L.
Privates

Campbell, Chlore W.

Canty, Earl C.

Daniels, Albert H.

Dixon, Paul

Eraser, Howison J.

Hilton, Emery

Hardwick, Oliver B.

Jones, Raymond E.

Kelley, Thomas J.

Leighty, Vaughn

Martin, Joseph A.

Milne, John A.

Provost, Francis T.

Owens, Ferdinand L.
Losses, Discharged, Dependents

Davidson, William J.

Hale, Ray R.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE.

243

Company C of the First Battalion Signal Corps,
Kansas National Guard

Captain

Bayless, Claude C.
1st Lieutenants

McClintock, Carl A.

McGlynn, Jesse

Coffey, James V.

Whitmore, Floyd P.
1st Sergeant

Waddell, James W., Jr.
Mechanics

Douglass, Charles H,
Cooks

Cannon, Richard L.

Hendrix, Mont W.
Privates

Adams, William E.

Armstrong, Frank L.

Arnold, Claude A.

Babb, George S.

Baker, Marvin S.

Bachman, Fred H.

Bell, Carl A.

Bell, Everett I.

Branson, Otis D.

Burt, Lee E.

Coston, Donald L.

Chilcott, Frank E.

Cooper, Donald J. W.

Davis, George A.

Edmondson, Benjamin F.

Elcock, Charles H.

Foster, Marion Y.

Graves, Harlan

Greer, William A.

Gregory, Thomas E.

Griesinger, Frank R.

Grove, Henry L.

Hanna, Robert

Harpster, Claude

Henn, William C.

Holdren, Don R.

Huggins, Foster M.

Hutchinson, Roland E.
Irwin, Paul S.
Johnson, Emmette M.
Johnston, Garold R.
Jones, Louis V.
Kessinger, Vern C.
La Grant, Earl W.
Lane, Walter O.
Lawson, William E.
Latta, William E.
Lauer, Earl D.
Magie, Albert E.
Marks, Carl Percy
Masterson, William F.
McFall, Oscar L.
McQuiston, Earl H.
Moore, Harry C.
Moore, Jesse L.
Myers, John M.
Murphy, Frank
Nettls, Walter H.
Nutter, Earl I.
Price, Evan J.
Priest, Howard O.
Richman, Phillip
Roberts, Thane O,
Rodman, Burton H.
Saunders, Julian L.
Shires, Benjamin C.
Shockey, Orville
Skean, Byron A.
Sloan, Virgel D.
Smith, Otho G.
Throckmorton, Adel F.
Toennies, Benjamin P. C.
Waldron, Wesley F.
Watkins, Myron J.
Webb, Joseph W.
Weidman, Richard Thomas
White, Rodger L.
Wright, William E.
Williams, Floyd
Wohlford, William W.
DeVier, Cecil J.

244

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Medical Department of the Firi^ Battalion Signal
Corps, Kansas National Guard

Privates

Ausmuse, Philip
Clark, Arthur H.
Dale, Henry L.

Tucker, Lynn E.
Waite, Frank B.
White, Verne D.

Field Hospital No. 1 of the Kansas National Guard

llOth Sanitary Train 139th Field Hospital

Major

Hammel, Seth A.
1st Lieutenants

Lindsay, Merrill K.

Rogers, Henry S.

Jackson, Dana O.

Jones, Harold H.

Boggs, Frank C.
Sergeants, 1st Class

McCoy, Milton E.

Hawkins, June A.

Piepenburg, Aaron L
Sergeants

Herman, Ralph S.

Gurtler, Albert C.

Goheen, Ira L.

Logan, Glenn F.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Johnson, George C.
Cooks

Gould, Charles R.

Oge,8, Edward M.
Horseshoer

Luker, George F.
Mechanic

Dickman, Fred M.
Farrier

Reffelt, Rudolph P.
Saddler

Burns, Earl J.
Bugler

Deimler, Ralph W.
Privates, 1st Class

Akey, McKinley

Arbuthnot, Sidney

Bingham, Earl O.

Blevins, Howard W.

Conard, Morton D.

Dunn, John

Gage, R. Merrill

Geiser, Walter J.

Harrison, George C.

Hickey, Granville C.

Hinds, David H.

Holcomb, Allie E.

Hoyt, Charles B.

Hughes, Herbert F.

Jones, Ernest
Kennedy, Carl P.
Lyon, Charles B., Jr.
McCarter, James C.
McGrew, Nathan W.
Riddle, Dudley McD.
Root, Jesse F.
Runneals, Cecil H.
Sailer, Ernest E.
Staerkel, Max G.
Swearingen, Ralph M.
Taylor, Henry H,
Thompson, Edward W.
Walp, Charles L.
Weaver, James B.
Wells, George D.
Wright, Myron A.
immerman, Joseph F.

Privates

Anderson, Christopher
Axe, Guy J.
Bennett, Charles A.
Buck, Lloyd W.
Burghart, Casper
Burns, Claude T.
Carney, William N.
Chapin, Dean W.
Cratte, Irving F.
Evans, Harold C.
Graham, Harry L,, Jr.
Hamilton, William L.
Hammond, Noel R.
Harrell, James M.
Laine, Maurice D.
Ludington, Fred G.
McClave, Edison W.
McDaniel, Ralph W.
Meredith, Roscoe A.
Murphy, Paul
Nye, Robert W.
Parish, Glen L.
Peck, Kenneth L.
Scharping, Erwin E.
Shehi, Winfield
Shirk, Harold L.
Silk, Max H.
Stevens, Francis J.
Stewart, Roy
Townsend, Goley
Widener, Mark V.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

245

Field Hospital No. 2 of the Kansas National Guard
140th Field Hospital

llOth Sanitary Train

Major

Phillips. Carl
1st Lieutenants

Cornell, John C.

Bennett, Charles C.

Rea, James G.

Mosley, Charles L.

Bunton, Joseph C.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Courtney, George W.

Cranford, Charles W.

dinger, Raymond C.
Sergeants

Bailey, Homer F.

Dick, Frank N.

Fowler, Merle

Hodge, Lester D.

May, Ralph E.

Simon, Loren K.
Cooks

Ayers, Maurice F.

McClary, Carl

White, Ira E.
Privates, 1st Class

Birt, Roy H.

Brown, Seth G.

Burton, Marion T.

Debolt, William H.

Dent, Rawley J.

Elwyn, Russell H.

Funk, Arthur C.

Graham, John S.

Green, Charles H.

Harlow, Mack

Hendrickson, John H.

Jeffrey, Richard C.

Kimmey, Virgil A.

Lietnaker, Cherry E.

Ott, Archie L.

Parker, Glenn M.

Prall, John D.

Rule, Albert B.

Rule, Herbert E.

Sage, William H.

Sayers, Hugart A.

Storey, Edward M.
Thorpe, Lewis M.
Von Buhn, Herman
Van Home, Ralph
Wheat, Lewis H.
White, James L.
Willard, Donald M.
Agnew, Frank T,
Babcock, Dewey Z.
Bicknell, John R.
Campbell, Russell
Caldwell, Dalton L.
Carr, Byron H.
Carson, Clyde F.
Clark, Orville P.
Cummings, Dewey V.
Davis, Bert L.
Foxworthy, Carl
Gates, William J.
Gebhart, Bert A.
Genamell, Harry A.
Griggs, Morton R.
Hacker, Charles L.
Hammell, Lee A.
Harlow, James H.
Hayes, Alfred L.
Jagger, Buel W.
Johnson, Earl W.
Jones, Alpha L.
Keiter, Cecil E.
Locke, William H.
Pittser, Ollie F.
Rafferty, Virgil J.
Ratliff, Charles C.
Reynolds, William L.
Shrewsbury, Charles L.
Seller, Ralph G.
Sparks, Albert R.
Spear, Alfred
Stevens, Wilbum W.
Stewart, Allen L.
Snyder, Roy
Todd, Alvin L.
Vandervort, Earl J.
Wendell, John P.
Workman, Charles B.
Wolverton, Jaxik L.

246

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

First Kansas Ambulance Company
140th Ambulance Company

1st Lieutenants

Rhodes, William L.

Mangun, Clarke W.

Jones, Tiberius L.

Hartman, Ralph C.

Glover, Harold M.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Pierce, FYank B.

Wilson, James C.
Sergeants

Lyon, Charles J.

Cole, Frank R.

Holcombe, Robert F.

McGhan, Francis L».

Wolf, George O.

Singer, Walter T.

Henderson, George
Corporals

Perkins, Robert G.

Thompson, Bruce M.

Gott, Henry V.

Harrington, Ralph G.

Wortman, Paul A.

Heinze, Fred C.

Douglas, Jodie A.

Abbott, Roy C.

Leep, Bernard C.

Baker, Claude M.

Cheever, Wert S.
Cooks

Hackler, George H.

Speckin, Paul A.

Hartig, Cyril M.
Musicians

Street, Elijah M.

Feurt, James B.
Mechanic

Garwood, Leslie C.
Farrier

Herod, John L.
Horseshoer

Powers, William A.
Saddler

Asman, Fred
Privates, 1st Class

Atkins, Theodore W.

Atkinson, Russell J.

Bailey, Edward R.

Bangs, William G.

Barber, Harry A.

Beaumont, Rasnuond L.

Bishop, Roger S.

Blankenship, Elihue H.

Bohanon, Frank

Brainerd, Rowe H.

Brown, Ernest M.

Bullard, Harry J.

Burkett, Lloyd L.

Buzard, Reginald L.

Cannon, Carl P.
Caraway, Sidney
Campbell, John F.
Chandler, Walter T.
Childers, Lloyd D.
Chiles, Ray W.
Clark, Paul M.
Clendening, Robert
Commons, Claude E.
Conklin, Elmer E.
Cook, Homer N.
Coons, Henry A.
Davis, Alfred A.
Duke, WUliam R.
Dunn, Paul W.
Ehn, George A,
Erickson, Elliott
Feehan, Walter J.
Ferguson, Marvin P.
Ferguson, Winfield S.
Fisher, Harold E.
Gifford, Melvin R.
Gilhaus, George J.
Girten, Sylvester H.
Goes, Louis E.
Gordon, Clyde W.
Gordon, Lynell
Gray, Edward F.
Gregg, James F.
Gregory, Vernon L.
Grisham, William B.
Haley, Jacob
Hall, Stanley L.
Hankins, Staten M.
Harden, Wesley G.
Harding, Orville
Hawk, William M.
Herd, Frank P.
Holcombe, Walter M.
Holmberg, Arthur F.
Hood, Otto D.
Horner, Jack
Hudson, Lemuel S.
Hundley, Dare
Hutton, John Wm.
Hicks, William B.
Ingrahm, John D,
Irvine, Harry L.
Jackson, Owen
Juones, Royston
Johnson, Roy L.
Justice, John A.
Lee, Roland H.
Logan, Carl A,
Logan, Combe D.
Lioman, Ambrose R.
Long, Edgar A.
Manley, Mervin C.
Martin, Clarence E.
Mays, Lee R.
McCarthy, Bernard J.
McCoy, Chester S.

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247

McCuUey, Rose H.
McDaniel, William R.
McFadden, Wiley G.
McKinney, Hugh P.
Mendon, Jerome F.
Mitchell, John W.
Moore, Horace H.
Morse, Darwin D.
Oconnor, Bert
Owens, Clarence H.
Patterson, Leo M.
Philibert, Bert
Probst. Arnold W.
Prater, Robert E.
Quinn, William R.
Raybum, Otto E.
Reid, Jesse B.
Richardson, Paul E.
Rock, Edward A.
Schaefer, William C.
Shahane, Walter H.
Smith, Everett A.

Smith, Claud A.
South, Vernon B.
Stewart, Jack
Strong, Ralph A.
Swan, Leslie N.
Swanson, Carl A.
Swanson, Edgar F.
Swartz, Arden E.
Swenson, Bernard M.
Tonn, Edward
Toynton, Clyde G.
Veitch, Caleb C.
Vestal, Moody D.
Walsh, John
Walton, Floyd G.
Webster, John D.
Wilhite, Harry E.
Wood, Clarence M.
Woodruff, John R.
Wright, James F.
Wurtz, Joseph N.
Ziegler, Carl E.

Second Kansas Ambulance Company
139th Ambulance Company, Kansas City, Kansas

Ist Lieutenants

Tenney, Edwin R.

Speck. Richard F.

Adamson, Adam E.

Bondureant, Alpheus J.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Rowland, Charles G.

Adams, James A.
Sergeants

Hadley, Vernon A.

Leady, Roscoe B.

Markley, Algernon

Parsons, John D.

Thomas, Chester L.

Falconer, Clarence E.

Carson, Edward T.
Corporals

Hovey, Clarence E.

Ward. Clarence S.

Knight, Robert R.

Weirshing, Guy

Dugan, Rollo C.

Toler, Roy P.

Robinson, William O.

O'Dowd, Benjamin H.

Roach, Norvin M.

Alleman, Neal D',

Christian, John W., Jr.
Cooks

Toohey, Paul A,

Karbach, Albert R.
Musicians

White. Frederick R.

Keck, Kenneth G.
Privates

Addison, James W.

Anderson, John W,

Anderson, Willard C.

Adams, Ernest T.

Barne-s, Joe

Bailey, Clarence E.

Barnett, Benjamin

Brown, Kenneth
Baum, Earl W.
Baum, Eldon E.
Blackwell. Joseph P.
Blazer, Robert T.
Bradbury, Claude L.
Brennan, Edward W.
Briggs, Clarence
Briggs, Junior
Brown, Guy ^ ™ «

Brunell, Ferdinand F. C.
Buckles, Doyle L.
Buckley, Lee E.
Childs, Wesley M.
Carter, Edward
Church, Romulus B.
Cline, Ernest R.
Cole, Charles R.
Conquest, Victor
Corbett, Joseph F.
Coyle, Walter E.
Crowley, John J.
Davidson, Vernie A.
Dennis, Jesse A.
De Talent, Edward C.
Finley, Harold H.
Flagg, Paul E.
Flesher, Clarence W.
Foster, James R.
Gibson. Walter N.
Gregar, Mike G.
Goff, Melvin W.
Hallquist, Hugo F.
Hamman, Albert B.
Hart, George M.
Hendricks, William R.
Hinze, Edward W.
Houston, Herbert S.
Bueben, Paul T.
Ise, Frank H.
Jackson, Dale B.
Jenkins, Robert C.
Jenner. Clifford M.
Jesson, Joseph J.
Johnson, Andrew

248

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Johnson, Roy E.
Jones, Jacobus F,
Jenson, Henry M.
Kocher, Ernest J.
Kemper, Eug-ene L.
Locke, Lloyd B.
McClenahan, Joe S.
McNabb, Fred R.
Martin, William R.
Miller, Samuel C.
Minniear. John R.
Moore Chester
Murray, Frank H.
Nelson, Oscar P.
Oeilrich, Clarence E.
Parimore, Roy C.
Pedago, Ellis
Piatt. William C.
Pring-le, Kenneth W.
Putman, Lawrence A.
Rebeck, John M,

Raid, Alex
Reid, Roderick V.
Rewerts. Fred C.
Richmond, Lloyd
Russell, Thomas C.
Schenke, Harold W.
Siebers, Frank A.
Sherrell, Clarence W.
Smith, Glen E.
Stalcup, Ernest F.
Stewart, Chester B.
Still, Robert
Stutes, Chester A.
Talmadg-e, Abram J.
Van Cleave, Donald W.
Vesper. Harold E.
Wte,lker, John W., Jr.
Weaverling. Jacob C.
Williams, William J.
Wolf. Jonathan A.
Coving-ton. Vand D,

Medical Department of the Kansas National Guard
Advance Unit Train, Ft. Riley, Kansas

Lieutenants

Siever, Charles M.

Alford. Joseph S.

Hawke, Charles C.

Lindsay, Merrill K.

Jones, Harold H.

Barnes, Ralph C.
Sergeants, 1st Class

Gurtler, Albert C.

Hawkins, June A.
Sergeants

Wilson, Glen

Glahn, Harry

Allphin, Wayne
Myers, William
Logan, Glenn F.
Dewey, Thomas E.

Privates, 1st Class

Arbuthnot, Sydney
Glahn, Eugene
Hale, George
Holcomb, Allie A.
Hughes, Herbert F.
Jones. Sam I.
Starkweather, Robert
Taylor. Henry H.
Weaver James B.

De^tachment Medical Corps of the Kansas National

Guard

Major

Martin, Emanuel N.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

249

Train Headquarters of the 110th Aitununition Train

Motor Battalion Headquarters of the 110th

Ammunition Train

Fitzpatrick, Fred R.
Fowler, E. Fred
George, Jesse E.
Murray, Joseph W.
Kane, William T.
Alley, J. Lawrence
Aton, Ross
Bauer, George F.
Bish. Frank
Bonner, Alpha O.
Boone', Hudson W.
Caull, Nicholas
Conwell, Daniel
D'enyer, Lee C.
Flinn, Edwin G.
Geisinger, Clayton
Green, John K.
Hyland, Charles A.
Kientzle, Fred F.
Lamberton, Walter S.
Lape, Earl D.
Ling, Lyman W.
MacDonald, William S.
McDonough, Arthur L.
Parker, William A.
Powell, Rober K.
Ross, Carmine
Shafer, Raymond L.
Stout, Elihu V.
Thrower, Zack

Turner, Martin R.
White, Lawrence P.
Wildman, Charles E.
Allen. Ellis A.
Aubughon, Clifford W.
Ballweg, Clarence J.
Bliss, Harry R.
Boyd, Morris M
Bullock, Athen G.
Durdick, John H.
Carroll. Lawrence A.
Cooper, Joseph D.
Craven, Henderson A.
Dapron. Oliver L.
Dobbs, James V.
Dormer, Charley H.
Duley, Andrew E.
Edwards, Darsie E.
Fletchall, Delbert E.
Gross, Walter A.
Hill, Ormond P.
Kriege, Oliver W.
Matosh, Frank J.
Olson, George W.
Payne, William C.
Powers, Chester P.
Saling. Thomas W.
Swaim, Wiley P.
Wiggins, James B.

Ordnance Detachment of the 110th Ammunition

Tram

Alpaugh, Russell E.
Barnes, Lawrence A.
Barton, Oliver E.
Brown, Everett J.
Budd, Samuel M.
Cashman, Patrick J.
Cowgill, Isaac M.
Hesik, Frank J.
James, Farris
Lackey. Ray R.
McCann, James J.

McElroy, George A.
Marrs, Carl
Paisley, William E.
Riordan, John J.
Reid, Roger E.
Rodie, Andres
Sailer, William H.
Smalley, Thornton
Sennenberg, Peter S.
Stuart, Allen P.
Tobias, Davis D.

250

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company A of the 110th Ammunition Train

Oliver. Alexander S.
Lawrence, Arthur
Richards, Thomas N.
Adam, Richard E.
Albrecht, Albert
Anderson, Arthur S.
Anderson, William M.
Arnzen, August W.
Ashmore, Arthur S.
Bailey, Liee L.
Ball, Charles M.
Barrett, John P.
Beck, Harold W.
Bell. Joseph N.
Bertus, Martin A.
Berry, Thomas F.
Bird, Raymond T.
Birmingham, Claud S.
Blue, Clifford M.
Bourland, Elmer B.
Brand, Keller
Brusco, Henry
Brulez, Charlie Li.
Byers, Edward N.
Byers, Roy C.
Callison, Albert L.
Carpenter. Robert H.
Chandley, Francis M.
Childs, George C.
Clark, Williard H.
Coffee, Richard M.
Cooper, Charles
Cowdrey, John M.
Cox, Curtis M.
Cox, Glenn
Cox, Samuel IL
Cutler. Loren
Cutright, Alva B.
Dailey, Alva C.
Daniels, Fred H.
David, Moritz W.
Dockery, Harry
Due, Olof
Duncan, John F.
Dyer, Robert R.
Esser, Jacob M.
Farmer, Milo
Ferguson, Ashton E.
Finch. Will
Fleck, Edwin P.
Fox, John W.
Freier, Richard
Gates, Fred W.
Geiger, Edward
Gleason, Martin A.
Greenberg, Morris
Goetza, Albert L.
Griffis, Charles A.
Grimes, William M.
Gunderson, Henry
Gustafson. Harry A.
Hall, Henry H.
Hamilton, Vaughan S.
Hampton, Carl L.
Hansen, Albert C.
Hand, Emitt
Harr, Raymond L.
Hereford, Thomas G.
Herman, Joseph
He-ster, Robert H.
Holle, John L.
Huffman, Jerry F.

Howland. Ralph R.
Jennings, James W.
Jones, Jack
Kisby, George
Knickerbocker, William J.
Kuschel, Richard W.
Lang, Theodore
Light. Crofford B.
Mann, Alie A.
Mann, James
McGrath, John
Metcalf, Henderson
Mercier. Lee R.
Miller, Merl F.
Mills, Richard D.
Montgomery, Marshall
Moore, Clyde L.
Morgan, Will C.
Mursinna, LeRoy C.
Myers, Earl
Nelson, Bels
Nicholson, James
Morris, Alma L.
Odell. Joe D,
Oles, Lawrence M.
Parsons, Dell D.
Patton, Herbert J.
Pietsch, Leonard C.
Pomije, Louis W.
Powell, Alfred B.
Powers, John L.
Springer, Jesse E.
Price, Emitt
Ray. Dennis
Read, Emory W.
Reeves, Russell R.
Reedy, Sam J.
Rice, Orien D.
Richardson, Lemuel B.
Riggs, Edwin C.
Ritz, Charles
Roe, John H.
Ross, Frederick G.
Saunders. S. Gordon
Scarsaletti, John
Schedel, Charles F.
Shoemaker, Orrin G.
Smith, Clarence E.
Smith, Herbert P.
Smith, Carl C.
Smith, Floyd
Snodgrass, John W.
Spencer, James E.
Springer, Jesse E.
Stamper, Marvel C.
Sterling, William T.
Stone, Rollo A.
Straub, Joseph P.
Stuck, Mervin L.
Swepston, Melvin
Taylor, Ernest D.
Teel, John F.
Trimm, Lee Roy
Trout, LeRoy E.
Troxel, Benjamin S.
Wade. Willie C.
Warren, William W.
Williamson, Claud R.
Wilson. Harold
Willyard, Rufus L.
Woodward, Richard L.
Zarosky, Frank

HE: vOES OF THE ARGONNE

251

Company B of the 110th Ammunition Train

Allen, Jesse R.
Anderson, John A.
Attaway, Thomas E.
Ball. Frank M.
Ballard, Mark D.
Barber, Ezra T.
Barber, Lawrence L.
Batts, Frank I.
Borning, Ludwig
Birrell, Wilfred J.
Blair, Seth D.
Blevins, Jesse J.
Blumberg, Henry
Branch, Richard E.
Brewer, Pascle N.
Burleson, John B.
Butler. Jame F.
Calhoun, Sanford W.
Carlson, Martin C.
Carring-ton, Homer
Carter, Wyatt W.
Casey, John M.
Chappee, Evan J,
Chappee, Roy H.
Clayton, Morgan S.
Coffman, George L.
David, Orla G.
Denton, Samuel H.
Depew, Jack P.
Edwards, Jessie L.
Egleston, Richard E.
Eldridge, Hugh S.
Elliston, Glenn S.
Fanter, Harry H.
Faulkner, Garland
Fish, Enoch E.
Graser, Leslie A.
Gibson, Raymond G.
Gilmore, Charles L.
Graves, Raphael M.
Grothaus, Carl L.
Hamner, Byron
Hawkins, John L.
Henderson, Roxie V.
Hesse, Edwin C.

Holton. SIpm.
Hooker, Henry O.
Jenkins, Roscoe D.

Johns, Earl E.

Kairschner, William L.

Keller, Harley E.

Kennedy, Clarence G.

Kenny, William A.

Kline, Harry

Klingman, Oscar

Knox. William P.

Kreiger, William F.

Kuydendall, Herman

Lancaster, Richard R.

Landis, Charles D',

Langenderfer, Albert C.

Lee, Alfred

Levene, Bernard W.

Lewis, Bret C.

Lisch, Charles R.

Lorton, Hugh C.

Macon, Perry G.

Magoon, Woodson B.

Marshall. Henry G.

McClure, Alison E.

McCrory, Victor E.

McWllliam, Emmitt
McWilliam, George
Myer, William E.
Miller, John V.
Miltonberger, George W.
Moorman, John U.
Morrison, Clarence R.
Mulkins, Wilbur E.
Murphy, Frank J.
Newberry. Leland
Nordin, Newton C.
Norris, Dale A,
Norris, Thomas J,
O'Brien, Charles M.
Owen, Hubert
Owens, Cecil P.
Pabst, Fred
Patterson, Robert L.
Pennington, Colder G.
Peterson, Oscar R.
Phillips, Loren
Pigett, Lemuel A.
Powell. Chalmers W.
Powers, Earnest
Rader, Earl H.
Read, Sidney C.
Reichart, Lawrence T.
Richardson, Roy S.
Rives, Floyd
Rogge, August
Rothberger, Fred
Sanders, Earl
Sanders, Lee
Schierkolk, John H.
Schulse, Gustave C.
See. Lewis E.
Seitz, Jean A.
Sharpe, Charley S.
Sherbine, Aaron H.
Skinner, Merle L.
Skinner, Harry C.

Slack, Frank C.

Sligar, Martin F.

Smith, Emerson

Smith, William T.

Soder, Frank J.

Stanley, Clarence

Stebbins, Cullon C.

Steele. Bernard B.

Stookey, Fred

Stuart, Ross C.

Summers, Wiley

Sunderman, Rufus J.

Swope, James F.

Townley, Dallas T.

Turner, William H.

Urmey, John C.

Utter, Carl W.

Vance, Charles P.

Vaughn, David F.

Viers, Robert C.

Whalen. John B.

White, Charles A.

Wilkus, John P.

Williams, Wade

Winter, John

Wolfe, Ray

Worsham, Emanual

Yahn, Leroy J.

Young, Clyde

252

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company C of the 110th Ammunition Train

Anderson, George M.
Ank, George T.
Atkinson, Andrew S.
Banning. Fred B.
Barnes, Sam
Barron, Jacob
Bell, Clarence H.
Berge, Albert F.
Bickle, Gale
Billings, Joseph A,
Blair, Oscar
Blick, William H.
Bradley, Joseph L.
Brannigan, James P.
Braun, Melville F.
Brinker, Benjamin H.
Brost. David
Budrow, Lee G.
Calvert, Thomas R.
Campbell, Reuben E.
Cannon, William
Carinder, Joe G.
Carver, Merle F.
Cecil, Aaron B.
Christensen, Carl A.
Cobaugh, Daniel F.
Conti, Jaseppe
Coskey, George A.
Cox. Grover L.
Cullinan, Thomas J.
Damon, George N.
Daniel, Jesse J.
Deskin, William A.
Dietz, Pascal R.
Drinkwater, Frederick A.
Duggan, Patrick J.
Elliott, Hoyt J.
Emigh, William F.

Ewing, William E.

Eyles, Edward E.

Farris, Stark

Ferguson. Stephen C.

Flesner, William F.

Florea, Wilbur C.

Franks, Robert A.

Frees, Ferris C.

Frost, Richard G.

Gibson, Perry F,

Gettys, William H.

Graf, Frank, Jr.

Hamer, Richard S.

Hawkins, Jesse W.

Helt, Millard F.

Holde-n. William

Holton, Alva H.

Horton, James T.

Jackson, Arnold T.

Jensen, Palmer O.

Johnson, Frank A.

Johnson, William E.

Kappelmann, Otto T.

Kelly, John J.

King, Marvin C.

Kiser, Charles H.

Kachonower, Walter A.

Kulish, Morris

Leake. Lowell L.

Leslie, Ansel E.

Lewis, Roger G.

Lynn, Frank L.

McAfee, Lotis
McAnelly, Joseph R.
McBurney, George W,
McCabe, Charles E.
McCrory, Lyonell
McCulley, Bert
McElroy, Urish G.
Mansfield, Leonard J.
Martin, William A.
Merriott, Clarence W.
Miller, Claud
Miracle, Chester A.
Montgomery, Noah M.
Morrison, Bert
Nagel, Harry W,
Nance, Roy F.
Neff, George W.
North, John H.
Ohlhausen, Archie
Pforts, Fred
Phillips, Bartley
Pickett, Chester
Piper, Charles D.
Popendieker, Fred
Purvis, Charles A.
Reed, Chester C.
Reed, Harvey T.
Reed, Perry
Reed, Rollie
Reese, Claude E,
Reiter, Clair C.
Reister, Laroy M.
Rivers, James

Roberts, Cecil C.

Rogers. Arthur V.

Rose, Marshall
Ryan, Edward J.

Schmidt, Louis

Schwab, John A.

Seaman, Jonah D.

Schulte, John D.
Search, William L.

Seelig, Ralph

Shelton, Charles H.

Sidmon, Edward H.

Skidmore, Arthur L.

Smith, Byron E.

Smith. Floyd

Smith, William A.

Sorrentino, Gennaro

Stephens, Marcus I.

Stewart, Henry D.

Strand, Alfred

Stumpi, George J,

Swanson, Victor L.

Swinney, Reuben A.

Testerman, Clyde F.

Truitt, James W.

Tucker, Arvil H.

Tweston, Richard H.

Waller. Robert W.

Warne, Clarence T.

Watson, Glen M.

Wentz, Ellsworth L.

Westerberg, Francis P.

Williams, Emmett

Willman, Dale A.

Winter, Raymond G.

Wise, William B.

Zacharias, Fred

Zimmerman, Samuel H.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

253

Company D of the 110th Ammunition Train

Privates

Adam, George Vern
Aldrich, George W.
Arnold. Ray
Babbitt, Robert S.
Bartmess, Merle
Barton, Luther L.
Beauchamp, James A.
Beisner, Fred William
Board, Andy Simle
Bollinger, William
Boyd, Clarence L.
Boyd, John R.
Boyer, Clyde E.
Braddock, George W.
Brannen, Robert R,
Bremer. Clarence L.
Brockmeyer, Edgar W
Brooks, Noah
Brothers, Phillip E.
Bruce, Grover L.
Buckallow, Earl W.
Bundridge, Soloman W.
Buster, John R.
Caldwell, George O.
Callahan, Robert E.
Callaway, William P.
Carl. Edwin G. J.
Carter, David M.
Cheap, George L.
Cirella, Domenico
Ciummo, Michele
Clark, Ben R.
Cleston, John W.
Clavenger, Jesse C.
Conlon, William J.
Cook, Charles D.
Cook, John W.
Cooper, Philip
Crowder, Cleo W,
Cunningham, Frank
Darnell, Purl
Deitrich. Carlton
Delaney, Timothy W.
Dell, Garland W.
Denhardt, Lucian O.
Di Simone, Guiseppe
Duncan, Ben E.
Dunlap, William E.
Elliott, William H.
Fanogleo, Andrew
Fox, Charles W.
Freeman, Alvin D.
Fuqua, Claude
Gebauer, Clifford W.
Giltner. Frank E.
Goolsby, Robert F.
Gregory, Clifford B.
Gross, Joseph A.
Haff, Vernon V.
Haines, Roy C.
Graves, Carl B.
Hamrick, David E.
Harbin, Frank
Hardister, Orbis
Howard, William R.
James, Robert L.
Jones, David C.
Karraker. Francis M.
Key, Harry
Kiplinger, Lyman M.
Kirk, Raymond L.

Klapper, Charles J.
Knight, Frank H.
Kerns, Marion D.
Lance, Kelly
Langford, Leslie C.
Lawyer, Ernest W.
Lingenhag, Charles
Malcomb, Ronald "VJ
Markham, Clarence L
Marks. John R.
Mattera, Salvatore
Melton, Thomas
Mendenhall, Charles R.
Miller, Carl R.
Mills, Eugene Clark
Milton, James F.
Moffet, Robert
Montgomery, Oscar W.
Moore, Hersol E.
Motes, Frank M,
Moyer, Charles C.
Nelson, Robert
Ogle, Harley
Orf, Edward H.
Owen, James F.
Peterman, William P.
Piersee'. Charley
Plagens, Henry
Porter, Jackson Perry
Price, Ronald H.
Price, Robert A.
Railsback, Bryan
Rathman, Otto
Reese, Victor
Roub, Clark D.
Russell, William A.
Saintey. Ralph
Sanders, Joseph
Sargent, Raymond Forest
Sasse, Charles
Scheffel, Herbert F.
Schleusner, Lawrence R.
Schulz, Tony
Sealey, Dwight H.
Shakens, John
Shears, Clarence
Skelly, Edward J.
Smith, Samuel S.
Stamper, Grant A.
Sterling, Ralph W.
Story, Thomas C.
Stropkai, George P,
Taylor, Donald G.
Trich, James H.
Thacker, Albert
Turner, Ruby L.
Van Dusen, Thomas R.
Van Krik, Albert F.
Warner, Joseph R.
Wells, William O.
Welsch, Conrad A.
Weaver, James O.
Wevodan. Irvin C.
Whitcomb, John H.
White, Lester O.
Whitman, Charles J.
Wiggins, Lester O.
Willsford John H.
Wiley, Lloyd Thomas
Willis, Bernard C.
Workman, Leon H.

254

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Headquarters Company Horsed Battalion, 110th
Ammunition Train

Bennett, Merrill W.
Bodkin, Charles W.
Bopst, William O.
Brown, Harold W.
Burnaw, George
Clayton. Harry W.
Deffenbaugh, Orville A.
Elvy, Louis V.
Fry, Lester V.
Gamber, Glenn G.

Graham, George
Hampton, Augustus A.
Jellison, Charley
Jenkins, Archie G.
McVicar, Russell A.
Moore, Eugene H.
Oakleaf, Lovell R. •
Tillinghast, Frank L.
Ulmer, Charles
Cookson, William K.

Company E of the 110th Ammunition Trairi

Akins, T. F.
Albert, William H.
Alexander, Columbus R.
Anderson, Arvid
Andrews, Richard
Arehart, Frederick M.
Arnell, James W.
Bailey, Lawrence S.
Bainter, Roy C.
Ballinger, George
Barkow, Fred
Barnes, Edgar V.
Basset, LaRoy H.
Belcher, Luther G.
Bellamy, John J.
Blau, Fred
Biasing, Daniel
Blasky, Frank A.
Blumanhourst, Alfred
Bockelman, Arthur M.
Bowers, Harry F.
Boyer, Homer E.
Burke, Daniel
Burk, Virgil E.
Burton. Otto E.
Burns, Stacy
Buttenhoff, Charles
Brassfield, Wm. P.
Bright, Albert E.
Brannon, Geo. J.
Brown, Wm. V.
Brown, Fred
Brown, Howard A.
Bruce, Earl C.
Callaway, John W.
Capps, Clarence R.
Carlisle, Arthur
Case, Albert B.
Case, Frank L.
Chambers, Lyle R.
Chaplin, Charles C.
Chrisman, Ivan
Christmas, Leslie
Clark, George L.
Claycamp, Fred G.
Clingan, Hugett
Coleman, Glenn T.
Collins, Nata
Collins. Joseph
Cook, Delphius L.
Cook, Grover
Correll, Charles S.

Cosby, Belton S.
Crough, Saniel J.
Crow, Jesse F.
Crothers, John A.
Curtis, Loyd F.
Crissman, Merle P,
Dale, Homer A.
Davis, Calvin H.
De Boice, Ray
Deaton, Wilsy
De La Motte, Henry
Dick, Bernard P.
Dodson, William H.
Doyle. Francis J.
Drake, John C.
Duncan, Orba D.
Durbin, Roy L.
Dyer, Roy L.
Easin, Augustus J.
Eckel, George H.
Elder, Charles W.
England, John L.
Erickson, Arthur W.
Felzien. Edward H.
Fisher, Russell Ei.
Fischer, Paul F.
Freeburne, Cecil
Free-land, Harold G.
Gansior, Louis
Gates, Fred
Gartimmer, Aloysius
Gibson, Wm. R.
Gillham, Horace T.
Garner, Walter
Geibler, Edmund
Gillilan, John A.
Graham. Robert E.
Griffith, Horace F.
Hagerud, Bonnie
Hahn, Virgil J.
Harbin, John W.
Havins, Thurman
Hanks, Sefelt
Heitzman, Williard.
Hladek, Charles P.
Holabaugh, Earl P.
Hollis, Marion O.
Howard, Luther G.
Howard. Otis M.
James, Fred
Johnson. Oscar B.
Kimball, Byron R.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

255

Knight, Robert R.
Knox, Wm. A.
Korsvlk, Gustav V.
Liiberopolus, E. C.
Loyd, Terrence "V. P.
Lyons, John
Martin, Luclan V.
Mark, Raymond O.
Mathis, Robert H.
Massey, "Wm. S.
McCaulley, Alton N.
McDonald, Eugene E.
McKee, Edgar E.
McShane, Theobald E.
McWhorter, Wm. H.
Merriott, Homer L.
Meisner, Fred W.
Millberger, Henry
Milburn, Roy E.
Milton, Albert E.
Mofield, Wm. H.
Mitchell, Oliver C.
Morian, James A.
Murphy, Hugh P.
Myers. Boyd A.
Neiman, John J.
Nelson, Gerald
Packwood, Florence C
Penrod, Brodie
Phillips, Jesse T.
Piland, Jasper
Plunkett, Newton
Pollock, Clarence
Pride, Joseph C.
Rathbone, Arthur R.
Reynolds, Green, Jr.
Rixon, Jesse E.
Rogers, Frank
Rosander, Arvid
Rogers, George

Routh, Louis W.
Roach, Walter F.
Robinett, Richard E.
Sallee, Willis G.
Schimank, Emil
Schnoutze, Walter C.
Shaw, Alexander C.
Sharp, Ferdinand F.
Sheets, Frank R.
Shults, Elmer
Sicks, Wilbur A.
Sims, Luther G.
Simpson, John
See, Geo. E.
Smetana, John
Smith, Ernest T.
Smith, Wm. M.
Smith, Wm. W.
Smith, Reub. Ww
Sorenson, Jack
Summers, Walter E.
Sullivan, Floyd E.
Sutherland, John H.
Steuber. John R.
Swengel, Elmo S,
Swift, Jay G.
Schneider, Clifford B.
Templin, Frank H.
Todd, Cecil H.
Trojacek, Antone L.
Tyl6T, Cecil E.
Vance, Coy C.
Vick, Garland L
Wages, Andrew F.
Welch, John R.
Wilkerson, Benj. F.
Worich. Jerry S.
Wright, Russell G. C.
Zern, William R.
Austen, Gordon F.

256

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company F of the 110th Ammunition Train

Cunningham, Raymond M.
Penrose, Ray G.
Smith, Clarence M.
Alexander, William G.
Allcorn, Leslie S.
A'Neals, Albert
Arnold, Jack R.
Barg-er, Roy E.
Barr, George B.
Bingham. Frank P.
Blake, Martin
Blalock, Jacob G.
Bonjour, Chester L.
Bowman, Claybourne
Brock, Ernest
Burgess, Stanley WV
Butler, Grover C.
Butler, Hampton
Byrd, Walter M.
Carmel, Herbert L.
Chapman, Clarence R.
Cikanek. Antone
Clack, Elmer R.
Coffman, Reuben A.
Conner, Clarence R.
Conrad, Daniel L.
Cook, Edgar A.
Cox, Benjamin F.
Crockett, Clarence W.
Curry, Samuel G.
Curtis, Cicil E.
Davis, Joseph W.
Dean, Clyde F.
Despain, George
Dexter, Lome T.
Dix, Charles
Doherty, John W.
Dufft, Daniel W.
Edmiston, Robert S.
Ellis, Other H.
Fassee, Samuel A.
Ferguson, Arthur L.
Fisher, Henry O.
Ford, Henry
Forman, Murphy F.
Gaines, Arthur L.
Geddes, Robert D.
Gennette. Omer
Glenn, James D.
Graham, Joseph A.
Graves, John R.
Green, Jesse E.
Gregory, Miles H.
Gregory, Charles
Grimes, James A.
Gunckel, John H.
Guffy, Henry
Hackenberg, George W.
Hall, Henry C.
Hall, James M.
Hallmark, Elsie
Hambleton, Earl L.
Hamilton, Andre-w J.

Harriman, Fred L.
Harrison, Franklin F.
Hauser, Frank L.
Heaton, John M.
Hensroth, August
Herman, David S.
Hilburn, John L.
Hildebrand, Anton
Holder, Lucern
Holm, Otto E.
Hooten. Davis W.
Hooser, Glen J.
Horn, Henry W.
Horner, Loren T.
Horton, Lindsey L.
Huerter, William E.
Hull, Oren
Hutchings, James R,
Jacobs, John C.
Jacobson, Paul E.
Jewell, Frank
Johnson, Johnnie S.
Johnson, Right E. S.
Johnson. Robert
Johnson, William G.
Johnston, Walter F,
Jones, Richard N.
Joy, Will J.
Julien, Clifford C.
Karns, James G.
Keller, John C.
Kerr, Clifford J.
King, Ira E.
Kinghorn, Loyd E.
c Kirby, Arthur L.
' Klein, Adolph S.
Kramer. Earl
Lawrence, Fay F.
Lee, Homer E.
Leivan, Earl F.
Lewis, Leroy
Linson, Walter V.
Lowcock, Francis E.
Luttrell, Claude
Main, Robert
Manly, Homer W.
Marney, Carl L.
Masieller, Emery L.
Massey, Thomas A. J.
McAfee. Harrison
M- .'ty, Charlie
Mt;^«,j^hey, James T.
McCrory, Carl W.
McCreary, Owen M.
McHugh, Dilts S.
McNabb, Chester G.
Merk, Claude
Michler, Don A,
Miller, Arnold C.
Miller, Charles J.
Miller, William H.
Morgan, Carl P.
Morgan, Lee R.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

257

Morris, Abner
Murphy, Howard A.
Neal, Clarence G.
Nelson, Earl C.
Newton, Perry I.
Northup, James E.
Nyberg, Melvin
Olofson, Charley P.
Omdahl, Alfred
Owens, Dock I.
Parsons, Cress
Peckham, C. Bart
Pfrang. John E.
Pittenger, Percival
Pichot, Louis H.
Polk, William S.
Queen, James S.
Queen, Thomas C.
Ramer, James E.
Rice, Harry
Rig-el, Albin F.
Roach, Evans L.
Hubert, Arthur A.
Rudolph, Samuel
Schroller, Rudolph P.
Seale. Carl N.
Shandrick, Mike
Shaw, Grocer C.
Shepard, Thomas L.
Sherry, Thomas L.
Simmons, Wfilliam B.

Skalicky, Ernest
Smith, Georg-e F.
Smith, Herman
Smith, Rog-er E.
Smith, Thomas C.
Starner, Harry T.
Stevens, Walter W.
Stroud. Carl B.
Stambaug-h, Sydney B.
Stump, Harvey F.
Stutzman, Robert H.
Sutton, Walter V.
Tolman, George O.
Tryon, John L.
Vanderhyde, Fred
Waters, Anson C.
Walter, Eugene
Wasserman, Ernest
Wax, Herbert E.
Wege, Robert F.
W«iler, Simon
Warner, Joseph B.
Whearty, Roy E.
Whitley, Homer
Wurtz, Joseph J.
Wurtz, Matthias A.
Yeager, Oscar J.
Yoos, Roy S.
Young, George T.
Zwahl, Ernest

258

ROSTER OF KANSAS UNITS

Company G of the 110th Ammimition Train

Adams, Walter K.
Adcock, Thomas C.
Addlngton. Albert T.
Allen, Carl K.
Allen, Vernon
Anderson, Howard M.
Anzelma, Nicola
Barnes, James P.
Barrett, William H.
Beeman, Everett
Bennett, Edward C.
Bennett, John R.
Bixler, John L.
Blalack, Perl
Booker, Samuel F.
Boley, James
Boyd, Ruette
Bower, Robert W.
Brinkman, Floyd W.
Brown, Berrah B.
Brown, George C.
Callahan, Owen B.
Carpenter, Orville W.
Carr, Charles
Carter, Artie
Conn, Roy J.
Conway, George M.
Cook, Alfred J.
Cook, Robert H.
Cooper, Hutchson
Cooper, Robert F.
Curtis, Jett P.
Davis, Charles B.
Delaney, John E.
Depe-w, Ray E.
Doerkson, Aber A.
Douthat, Lee A.
Doop, Jesse
Dougherty, Henry W.
Dreher, Charlie
Eastin, Homer F.
Evans. George A.
Farlow, Denzel M.
Fe-ncel, James A.
Fields, Claude B.
Fleek, Lawrence
Ford, Clyde J.
Forman, Lew R,
Freeman, Clark L.
Fromme, Moritz P.
Fullerton, Offa C.
Grandi, Carl P.
Greub, Emil W.
Grier. William T.
Harmon, Claude
Harmon, Fred
Hargadine, Rufus H.
Hathaway, Claude W.
Hegwer, Julius B.
Hemphill, Owen B.
Henderson, John S.
Hill, John R.
Holle, Fred A.

Howze, Thomas
Hobbs, Roy V.
Hosier, Merle
Hunsinger. Jack
Hurt, Thomas J.
Jackson, Ivan
Johnson, Arthur T.
Johnson, John P.
Jones, Ralph E.
Kitts, William Z.
Krafft, Edward W.
Laird, Wesley S.
Lay, Sam H. C.
Leiker, Peter
Lovendahl, Marion O.
Loeffler, Jacob
Long. Roy D.
McCollum, Eugene F.
McGee, Paul C.
Mcintosh, David A.
McNeal, Glena B.
McNeal, Harry
Main, Harry L.
Marling, Ben Ww
Mensch, Ray S.
Malicky, Charles
Milton, Wood E.
Mitchell, Thomas L.
Morse, Milford J.
Moore, Ward C.
Murray, Lloyd M.
Murray, Lynn R.
Myers, Murrell H.
Navarre, Guy W,
Navarre, Henry C.
Neary, William J.
Nichols, Noah L.
Nobles, Frank
Owens, Ben T.
Penrod, Elbert B.
Plummer, Charle-s
Porsch, Arthur T.
Pugh, Major A.
Pugh, Wesley
Renner, Floyd
Renner, William
Reay, Charles R.
Richardson, Lloyd M.
Robertson. Walter F.
Rolland, Alfred L.
Rowland, Dan W.
Rundell, Lee S.
Sanders, Charley
Sanders, Ernest
Schell, William A.
Schoenfeldt, Carl J.
Schreibe. William J.
Schroll, Clyde J.
Sevier, Ernest
Sharp, Oscar H.
Shoemaker, John
Snodgrass, Ernest G
Smith, Mark J.

HEROES OF THE ARGONNE

269

Smith, William A.
Stephems, Clarence H.
Sims, Huston,
Stone, Bennett ML
Taylor, Ogle
Taylor. Theodore
Templin, Leslie F.
Thompson, Jack
Todd, Earl C.
Trawick, Paul R.
Ulmer, Lew R.

Van Cleave, Bverette B.
Vance, Willis W.
Van Slyke, Harry L.
Warfield, William
Wells, William A.
Whetstone, Fred N.
Winchester, Bert C.
Wilkinson. Ray
Wofford, Moses C.
Wright, Hayne V.
Yeager, Raymond C.

Sanitary Detachment of the 110th Ammunition

Train

Amos, Darwin W.
Browning, Claud
Baldridge, Floyd K.
Covington, Van D.
Draper, William
Darby, Wells
Freark, Joyce
Garrod, Robert O.
Glahn, Eugene
Howell. Joe B.

Kitchen, Roy C.
Moeck, John B.
Morse, Alpha J.
Murphy, Paul
Ogee, Edward M.
Swan, Leslie- N.
Williams, Ernest W.
Williams, Richard C.
Wilson, Glen
Zlegler, Carl E.

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