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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40905 ***
+
+DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+_To the brave men and heroic women of Lanett, Shawmut, Langdale, Fairfax
+and Riverview, who have gone forth to do battle for the democracy of the
+world: and to the loved ones they have left behind, this book is
+affectionately dedicated._
+
+
+This book is made possible by the generous co-operation of the officers of
+the West Point Manufacturing Company and Lanett Cotton Mills. It is the
+result of the combined efforts of the War Service Station in each mill
+locality to pay at least a feeble tribute to the gallant doughboy who
+enlisted in the cause of right and democracy. It is hoped that, as the
+years pass by, these crusaders and their posterity may find an increasing
+interest in this memorial to their heroism.
+
+Also, it has been thought advisable to preserve a record of the
+accomplishments of all those patriotic forces which contributed their part
+towards the successful termination of the greatest conflict in history.
+
+It would not be amiss to call particular attention to the War Service
+Stations, under whose leadership was fostered practically all of the
+patriotic work consummated by those at home. That these Stations were a
+comfort to our boys--in their interest and solicitude for them--is
+attested by the letters reproduced.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON _Commander-in-Chief_ UNITED STATES
+ARMY]
+
+
+The President's War Message
+
+Delivered before Congress April 2, 1917
+
+I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are
+serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately,
+which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should
+assume the responsibility of making.
+
+On the third of February last, I officially laid before you the
+extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and
+after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all
+restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every
+vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and
+Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by
+the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean.
+
+That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine warfare earlier
+in the war; but since April of last year the Imperial Government had
+somewhat restrained the commanders of its undersea craft in conformity
+with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not be sunk,
+and that due warning would be given to all other vessels which its
+submarines might seek to destroy, when no resistance was offered or escape
+attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least a fair
+chance to save their lives in their open boats.
+
+The precautions taken were meager and haphazard enough, as was proved in
+distressing instance after instance in the progress of the cruel and
+unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed.
+
+The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind,
+whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination,
+their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and
+without thought of help or mercy for those on board--the vessels of
+friendly neutrals, along with belligerents.
+
+Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and
+stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe
+conduct through the proscribed areas by the German Government itself and
+were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with
+the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle.
+
+I was for a little while unable to believe that such things would in fact
+be done by any government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane
+practices of civilized nations.
+
+International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which
+would be respected and observed upon the seas, where no nation had right
+of dominion and where lay the free highways of the world.
+
+By painful stage after stage has that law been built up, with meager
+enough results, indeed, after all was accomplished that could be
+accomplished, but always with a clear view, at least, of what the heart
+and conscience of mankind demanded.
+
+This minimum of right the German Government has swept aside under the plea
+of retaliation and necessity, and because it had no weapons which it could
+use at sea except these which it is impossible to employ as it is
+employing them without throwing to the winds all scruples of humanity or
+of respect for the understandings that were supposed to underlie the
+intercourse of the world.
+
+I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and
+serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of
+the lives of non-combatants, men, women and children, engaged in pursuits
+which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been
+deemed innocent and legitimate.
+
+Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot
+be.
+
+The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against
+mankind. It is a war against all nations.
+
+American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has
+stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other
+neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters
+in the same way. There has been no discrimination.
+
+The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it
+will meet it.
+
+The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel
+and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as
+a nation. We must put excited feeling away.
+
+Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical
+might of the Nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of
+which we are only a single champion.
+
+When I addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of February last, I
+thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our
+right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our
+people safe against unlawful violence.
+
+But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. Because submarines
+are in effect outlaws when used as the German submarines have been used
+against merchant shipping, it is impossible to defend ships against their
+attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchantmen would defend
+themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon
+the open sea.
+
+It is common prudence in such circumstances, grim necessity indeed, to
+endeavor to destroy them before they have shown their own intention. They
+must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt with at all.
+
+The German Government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all
+within the areas of the sea which it has proscribed, even in the defense
+of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right
+to defend. The intimation is conveyed that the armed guards which we have
+placed on our merchant ships will be treated as beyond the pale of law and
+subject to be dealt with as pirates would be. Armed neutrality is
+ineffectual enough at best; in such circumstances and in the face of such
+pretensions it is worse than ineffectual; it is likely only to produce
+what it was meant to prevent; it is practically certain to draw us into
+the war without either the rights or the effectiveness of belligerents.
+
+There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making: we will
+not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our
+Nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs against which
+we now array ourselves are no common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of
+human life.
+
+With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the
+step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but
+in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise
+that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German
+Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and
+people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of
+belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate
+steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but
+also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the
+Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
+
+What this will involve is clear. It will involve the utmost practicable
+co-operation in counsel and action with the governments now at war with
+Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of
+the most liberal financial credits in order that our resources may, so far
+as possible, be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and
+mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the
+materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the Nation in the most
+abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible. It will
+involve the immediate full equipment of the Navy in all respects, but
+particularly in supplying it with the best means of dealing with the
+enemy's submarines. It will involve the immediate addition to the armed
+forces of the United States already provided for by law in case of war at
+least five hundred thousand men, who should, in my opinion, be chosen upon
+the principle of universal liability to service, and also the
+authorization of subsequent additional increments of equal force so soon
+as they may be needed and can be handled in training.
+
+It will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to the
+Government, sustained, I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained
+by the present generation, by well-conceived taxation. I say sustained so
+far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would
+be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on
+money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our
+people so far as we may, against the very serious hardships and evils
+which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be
+produced by vast loans.
+
+In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be accomplished
+we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of interfering as little as
+possible in our own preparation and in the equipment of our own military
+forces with the duty--for it will be a very practical duty--of supplying
+the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can
+obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field and we
+should help them in every way to be effective there.
+
+I shall take the liberty of suggesting, through the several executive
+departments of the Government, for the consideration of your committees,
+measures for the accomplishment of the several objects I have mentioned. I
+hope that it will be your pleasure to deal with them as having been framed
+after very careful thought by the branch of the Government upon which the
+responsibility of conducting the war and safeguarding the Nation will most
+directly fall.
+
+While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very
+clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our
+objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and
+normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not
+believe that the thought of the Nation has been altered or clouded by
+them.
+
+I have exactly the same things in mind now that I had in mind when I
+addressed the Senate on the twenty-second of January last; the same that I
+had in mind when I addressed the Congress on the third of February and on
+the twenty-sixth of February.
+
+Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and
+justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power
+and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the
+world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure
+the observance of those principles.
+
+Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world
+is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace
+and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by
+organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not the will of
+their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances.
+
+We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the
+same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be
+observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the
+individual citizens of civilized states.
+
+We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling toward them
+but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that
+their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their
+previous knowledge or approval.
+
+It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the
+old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and
+wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little
+groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as
+pawns and tools.
+
+Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set
+the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs
+which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest. Such
+designs can be successfully worked out only under cover and where no one
+has the right to ask questions.
+
+Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggression, carried, it may be,
+from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the light
+only within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully guarded
+confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible
+where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning
+all the nation's affairs.
+
+A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a
+partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be
+trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It must be a
+league of honor, a partnership of opinion.
+
+Intrigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles who
+could plan what they would and render account to no one would be a
+corruption seated at its very heart. Only free peoples can hold their
+purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of
+mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
+
+Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for
+the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that
+have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia?
+
+Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact
+democratic at heart, in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the
+intimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instinct,
+their habitual attitude toward life.
+
+The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as
+it has stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact
+Russian in origin, character or purpose; and now it has been shaken off
+and the great, generous Russian people have been added in all their native
+majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the
+world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a League of
+Honor.
+
+One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian
+autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very
+outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and
+even our offices of Government with spies and set criminal intrigues
+everywhere afoot against our national unity of council, our peace within
+and without, our industries and our commerce.
+
+Indeed, it is now evident that its spies were here even before the war
+began; and it unhappily is not a matter of conjecture, but a fact proved
+in our courts of justice, that the intrigues which have more than once
+come perilously near to disturbing the peace and dislocating the
+industries of the country have been carried on at the instigation, with
+the support, and even under the personal direction of official agents of
+the Imperial Government accredited to the Government of the United States.
+
+Even in checking these things and trying to extirpate them we have sought
+to put the most generous interpretation possible upon them because we knew
+that their source lay, not in any hostile feeling or purpose of the German
+people toward us (who were, no doubt, as ignorant of them as we ourselves
+were), but only in the selfish designs of a Government that did what it
+pleased and told its people nothing. But they have played their part in
+serving to convince us at last that that Government entertains no real
+friendship for us and means to act against our peace and security at its
+convenience. That it means to stir up enemies against us at our very
+doors, the intercepted note to the German Minister at Mexico City is
+eloquent evidence.
+
+We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in
+such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and
+that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to
+accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for
+the democratic governments of the world.
+
+We are now about to accept gauge of battle with this natural foe to
+liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the Nation to
+check and nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad, now that we
+see the facts with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight for the
+ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the
+German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the
+privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience.
+The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon
+the tested foundations of political liberty.
+
+We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We
+seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the
+sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the
+rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made
+as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
+
+Just because we fight without rancor, without selfish object, seeking
+nothing for ourselves but what we shall wish to share with all free
+peoples, we shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations as
+belligerents without passion and ourselves observe with proud punctilio
+the principles of right and of fair play we profess to be fighting for.
+
+I have said nothing of the governments allied with the Imperial Government
+of Germany because they have not made war upon us or challenged us to
+defend our right and our honor. The Austro-Hungarian Government has,
+indeed, avowed its unqualified indorsement and acceptance of the reckless
+and lawless submarine warfare adopted now without disguise by the Imperial
+German Government, and it has therefore not been possible for this
+Government to receive Count Tarnowski, the Ambassador recently accredited
+to this Government by the Imperial and Royal Government of
+Austria-Hungary; but that Government has not actually engaged in warfare
+against citizens of the United States on the seas, and I take the liberty,
+for the present at least, of postponing a discussion of our relations with
+the authorities at Vienna. We enter this war only where we are clearly
+forced into it because there are no other means of defending our rights.
+
+It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a
+high spirit of right and fairness because we act without animus, not in
+enmity toward a people nor with the desire to bring any injury or
+disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible
+Government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of
+right and is running amuck.
+
+We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, and
+shall desire nothing so much as the early re-establishment of intimate
+relations of mutual advantage between us--however hard it may be for them,
+for the time being, to believe that this is spoken from our hearts. We
+have borne with their present Government through all these bitter months
+because of that friendship--exercising a patience and forbearance which
+would otherwise have been impossible. We shall, happily, still have an
+opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions
+toward the millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy
+who live amongst us and share our life, and we shall be proud to prove it
+toward all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to the Government
+in the hour of test. They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans
+as if they had never known any other fealty or allegiance.
+
+They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining the few
+who may be of a different mind and purpose.
+
+If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of
+stern repression; but, if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only
+here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant
+few.
+
+It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen of the Congress, which
+I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months
+of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead
+this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous
+of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the
+right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which
+we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of
+those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments,
+for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of
+right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to
+all nations and make the world itself at last free.
+
+To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that
+we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that
+the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her
+might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace
+which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
+
+Woodrow Wilson
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING _Commander-in-Chief_ AMERICAN
+EXPEDITIONARY FORCES]
+
+[Illustration: ADMIRAL SIMS _Commander-in-Chief_ UNITED STATES NAVAL
+FORCES]
+
+
+
+
+_Lanett_
+
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Joe F. Adams= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. George Alexander= Company E 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Loyd Allen= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Will T. Anderson= Company C 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Clyde Andrews= Company B 3d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Chas. H. Barnett= Battery C 6th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Harry Bachelor= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Claude Barnett= Bakery Co. 357]
+
+[Illustration: =Sailor George Bankston= U.S.S. Rhode Island]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jesse Berry= Company C 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Earl Beal= Battery F 53d Artillery C.A.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Edgar Blakely= Medical Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. James Blackmon= 19th Division Supply Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Mark B. Blackmon= Company C 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Willie H. Brewer= Company G 2d Training Reg.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Earnest G. Brewster= Company 39 157th Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Eddie E. Buchannan= 1st Company 1st Army Corps School
+Det.]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Thos. H. Cason= Company C 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. George Caldwell= Company B 324th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Merritt E. Carlisle= Company L 327th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Henry Carlisle= Battery E 21st Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Jno. G. Chapman= Quartermaster Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. T. G. Clements= 2d Provisional Depot Battalion]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Maj. Guy Coffee= Hdqtrs. Company 384th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Tipton Coffee= Y. M. C. A.]
+
+[Illustration: =Wendell Coffee= Ph. M.1 U.S.S. Kentucky]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Ewell Coffee= Company B 17th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Harvey R. Collins= Company B 6th Repl. Reg. Inf.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. A. Fennimore Cox= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jesse W. Coleman= Company B 151st Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Hoyt Crowder= 3d Company Developing Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Lester D. Crowder= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Cook O. W. Culpepper= Company I M.T.C.R.U. 307]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Leroy Daniel= Hdqtrs. Company 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Elijah Daniel= 6th Company Development Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Dailey= Battery E 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Winfred L. Deloach= Battery C 7th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Huburt Denham= Battery D 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Radney Dobson= Company H 161st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Gay Dunn= Company B 48th Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. A. E. Fincher= 2d Provisional R.R.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. George Fincher= Company B 359th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Isac Free= Mach. Gun Company 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. William E. Freeman= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Wesley Foster= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Will H. Gill= Company C 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Tolbert H. Gray= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Ben W. Griffeth= Company B 34th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Allie Griffin= Company E 123d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. J. B. Grier= Company G 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Alver Gunn= Company E 7th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John B. Gunn= Battery F 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Richard Hadaway= Company E 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Brinton Hall= Company H 161st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Will H. Hammock= 20th Company 156th Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Hammock= 65th Company 6th Group M.T.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. L. Clyde Harmon= Bakery Co. 326]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Grady Harmon= Company 7 Infantry Repl. Unit]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Hobson H. Harmon= Supply Battery 56th Field
+Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Phillip H. Heard= Company D 66th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. James Heard= Company A 59th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Roland Shaefer Heard= Yeoman 3 c. 8 U.S. Navy Yard
+Charleston, S.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Buford Heggood= 118th Infantry Band 59th Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Hobson Heggood= Post Military Band Edgewood Arsenal]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. F. M. Heggood= 118th Infantry Band]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Emmit Henderson= Company G 165th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. S. Calloway Herring= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles Frank Hill= Battery C 3d Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. John J. Seymore= Company C 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Musc. David Holloway= 167th Infantry Band]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Minor Hood= Company D 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jack Howard= Company 17 5th Reg. U.S. Marine Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jno. M. Howarth= S.A.T.C. Auburn, Ala.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Reuben J. Jennings= S.A.T.C. Marion Inst.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John Johnson= Company A 106th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Frank P. Jones= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Oscar King= Company C 54th Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Belah King= 5th Company Coast Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Marion W. Knight= Quartermaster Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe W. Knight= Marine Guard Naval Radio Station]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John C. Leonard= Casual Co. 63 162d Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Hobson Lewis= Company E 3d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Evans McGhee= Company C 3d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Gip. L. McGhee= 23d. Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. James McGlon= Company H 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jesse McGlon= 64th Engineers R.O.T.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Curtis McNaron= Company L 115th U.S.G.N.A.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Brant F. Maguire= 13th Company 5th Platoon]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. J. T. Manley= Battery D 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Luther Martin= 39th Company 10th Training Btn. 157th
+Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Earnest R. Mitchell= Hdqtrs. Company 152d Depot
+Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Lofton Mitchell= Company E 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Cluster Morgan= Company M 70th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Edd L. Newby= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Newsome= Company A 168th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Eugene Oliver= Company H 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Calvin Parker= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Henry M. Parker= Quartermaster Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Watson Phillips= Quartermaster Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. George C. Pryor= Medical Dept. 6th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. William C. Raines= Headquarters Band 116th Field
+Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Willie Rogers= Company A 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles E. Sanders= Motor Truck Co. 332]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles Sedinger= Company D 6th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jimmie Seymour= Company A 101st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas M. Simms= Company E 307th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Grady Smith= Medical Dept. 157th Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe Smith= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Ollie Smith= Company C 321st Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John W. Stewart= Company H 43d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. James Stearns= Battery C 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Harvey D. Stephens= Company C 321st Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Eugene Stiff= Company G 122d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles Tally= Hdqtrs. Troops 314th Cavalry]
+
+[Illustration: =Horseshoer Thomas Tally= Battery D 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Lomas Thomaston= Company A 1st Infantry Regl. and
+Trn. Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Thomas Thomaston= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Hugh Turner= Company D 19th Btn. U.S.G.N.A.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. James Ward= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Quincer W. Whittle= Company B 116th Supply Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Ocie T. Wilbanks= Company E 20th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Colvin Wilbanks= 71st Company 6th Group M.T.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Williams= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Jesse Von Williams= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Sailor Charles Winningham= U.S.S. Camden Detail League
+Island Navy Yard]
+
+[Illustration: =Charles H. Yarbrough= Ph. M.3 Bay Ridge Rec. Ship]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Dan H. Hart= Company H 123d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Carl Smith= Company H 123d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. William D. Purcell= Company A 306 Ammunition Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Geter= Company 21 R.R.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Chester D. May= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Eugene Herring= Company C 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Hollis= Company K 16th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. James E. Robinson= 8th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Hobson Cummings= S.A.T.C. Auburn, Ala.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Peppers= Company 39 New Receiving Camp]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jim B. Morris= Hdqtrs. Company 115th Field
+Artillery]
+
+
+Roll of Honor
+
+  ¦_Killed in action_
+  +_Died of disease_
+  *_Photo_
+
+  *ADAMS, J. F.
+  ALLEN, MARSHALL
+  ALEXANDER, BEN
+  *ALEXANDER, GEORGE
+  *ALLEN, LOYD
+  *ANDERSON, WILL
+  +*ANDREWS, CLYDE
+  ANDREWS, J. C.
+  AUGHTMAN, JOHN
+
+  ¦*BACHELOR, HARRY
+  BAKER, WILLIAM
+  *BANKSTON, GEORGE
+  BARNETT, CLAUDE
+  BARNETT, CHARLES H.
+  BARTON, TEBE
+  *BEAL, EARL
+  *BERRY, JESSE
+  *BLACKMON, JAMES
+  *BLACKMON, MARK
+  *BLAKELY, EDGAR
+  BOGGS, JAMES G.
+  BOWLING, I. L.
+  *BREWER, WILLIE H.
+  BREWSTER, EARNEST G.
+  BROWN, JESSE
+  BRUMALOE, C. C.
+  *BUCHANNAN, EDWARD E.
+
+  *CALDWELL, GEORGE
+  *CARLISLE, HENRY
+  ¦*CARLISLE, MERRITT
+  CARMICHAEL, GEORGE
+  CARMICHAEL, JIM
+  *CASON, THOMAS
+  *CHAPMAN, JOHN
+  *CLEMENTS, T. G.
+  *COFFEE, EWELL
+  *COFFEE, GUY
+  *COFFEE, TIPTON
+  *COFFEE, WENDELL
+  *COLEMAN, J. W.
+  *COLLINS, HARVEY R.
+  ¦*COX, FENNIMORE
+  *CROWDER, HOYT
+  ¦*CROWDER, LESTER D.
+  *CULPEPPER, OREIN W.
+  CUMMINGS, HOBSON
+
+  *DAILEY, ROBERT
+  *DANIEL, ELIJAH
+  *DANIEL, LEROY
+  *DELOACH, WINFRED L.
+  *DENHAM, HUBURT
+  *DOBSON, RADNEY
+  *DUNN, LONNIE G.
+
+  EAST, ALBERT
+
+  *FREE, ISAC
+  *FREEMAN, WILLIAM E.
+  *FINCHER, EUGENE
+  *FINCHER, GEORGE
+  ¦*FOSTER, WESLEY
+
+  *GETER, WALTER
+  *GILL, WILL
+  *GRAY, TOLBERT H.
+  *GRIER, JOE B.
+  *GRIFFETH, BEN W.
+  *GRIFFIN, ALLIE
+  *GUNN, ALVER T.
+  *GUNN, JOHN B.
+
+  *HADAWAY, RICHARD
+  *HALL, BRINTON
+  *HAMMOCK, ROBERT L.
+  *HAMMOCK, WILL H.
+  *HARMON, CLYDE
+  *HARMON, GRADY
+  *HARMON, HOBSON
+  *HART, DAN
+  *HEARD, PHILLIP
+  *HEARD, JAMES E.
+  *HEARD, SHAEFER
+  *HEGGOOD, BUFORD
+  *HEGGOOD, F. M.
+  *HEGGOOD, HOBSON
+  *HENDERSON, EMMIT
+  *HERRING, EUGENE
+  *HERRING, S. CALLOWAY
+  *HILL, CHARLES FRANK
+  HILL, CHARLIE
+  *HOLLIS, ROBERT
+  *HOLLOWAY, DAVID
+  *HOOD, MINOR
+  *HOWARD, JACK
+  *HOWARTH, JOHN M.
+
+  JENKINS, HAMP
+  *JENNINGS, RUBE J.
+  *JOHNSON, JOHN
+  *JONES, FRANK P.
+
+  KENDRICK, JOHN
+  *KING, BELAH
+  *KING, OSCAR
+  *KNIGHT, MARION
+  *KNIGHT, JOE
+  KNIGHT, HORACE
+  KYNARD, O. D.
+
+  *LEONARD, JOHN C.
+  *LEWIS, HOBSON J.
+  LEWIS, EDD
+
+  MANNING, E.
+  MARTIN, CLARENCE
+  *MAY, CHESTER D.
+  *MITCHELL, EARNEST
+  *MITCHELL, LOFTON
+  *MORGAN, CLUSTER
+  *MORRIS, JIM B.
+  *MAGUIRE, BRANT F.
+  *MANLEY, J. T.
+  *MARTIN, LUTHER
+  *MCGHEE, EVANS
+  MCGHEE, GIP L.
+  *MCGLON, JESSE
+  *MCGLON, JAMES
+  *MCNARON, CURTIS
+
+  NEESE, KENNY
+  *NEWBY, EDD L.
+  *NEWSOME, WALTER
+  NORMAN, RAEMON
+
+  *OLIVER, EUGENE
+
+  *PARKER, CALVIN
+  *PARKER, MOSE HENRY
+  PEPPERS, WALTER
+  *PHILLIPS, WATSON
+  *PRYOR, GEORGE C.
+  *PURCELL, WILLIAM D.
+
+  *RAINES, WILLIAM C.
+  ROBINSON, JAMES E.
+  ROBINSON, OSCAR
+  *ROGERS, WILLIAM
+
+  *SANDERS, C. E.
+  SANDS, L. C.
+  *SEDINGER, CHARLES
+  *SEYMORE, JAMES
+  *SEYMORE, JOHN J.
+  *SIMS, THOMAS M.
+  *SMITH, CARL
+  *SMITH, GRADY
+  *SMITH, JOE
+  *SMITH, OLLIE
+  *STEARNS, JAMES
+  *STEVENS, HARVEY D.
+  STEVENS, OTIS
+  *STEWART, JOHN W.
+  *STIFF, EUGENE
+
+  *TALLY, CHARLIE
+  *TALLY, ROBERT
+  ¦*THOMASTON, THOMAS
+  *THOMASTON, WILLIAM L.
+  *TURNER, HUGH
+
+  *WARD, JAMES
+  *WHITTLE, QUINCER
+  *WILBANKS, COLVIN
+  *WILBANKS, OCIE T.
+  *WILLIAMS, JESSE VON
+  *WILLIAMS, ROBERT
+  *WINNINGHAM, CHARLES
+  WINSLETT, R. D.
+
+  *YARBROUGH, CHARLES H.
+
+
+Colored
+
+  ASKEW, FRANK
+
+  BROCK, BILL
+
+  COLLINS, JIM
+  COLLINS, JOHN
+  CHAPPEL, DOCK
+  CHEERY, ABRAHAM
+
+  DALLIS, WILLIE
+  DUNCAN, JAMES D.
+  DUNCAN, JOHN
+  DUNCAN, WILL
+  DUNCAN, LINDSEY
+
+  FITSPATRICK, HENRY
+
+  GATES, RICHARD
+  GIPSON, CHARLIE
+  GORDON, W. M.
+  GOSS, JIM
+  GOSS, NAPOLEON
+  GREENWOOD, ENOCH
+  GREER, WILLIAM A., JR.
+
+  HARRIS, HOSEA
+  HILL, CLARENCE
+  HILL, STANLEY
+  HUGULEY, DOCK
+
+  JORDON, EDD
+
+  MCKINLEY, JEFF
+
+  OLIVER, WESLEY
+  ONEAL, ALVA
+
+  ROBERSON, EARLY
+
+  SCOTT, LEE
+  SMITH, ELIJAH
+
+  TOWLES, WILLIE
+  TRAMMEL, LUTHER
+
+  WATKINS, ROBERT
+  WESTON, GILBERT
+  WESTON, WILLIE
+  WINSTON, JEFF
+  WINSTON, ZACK
+
+
+Extracts of Appreciation
+
+"To know that the people at home are squarely back of us just doubles our
+determination to lick the Boche.... Our first Battalion was the first
+American troops to capture prisoners without the aid of the French or
+British."
+
+  DAVID HOLLOWAY
+
+July 8, 1918
+
+"I beg to inform you that there are boys here from the largest cities in
+the country who have been here a long time and never have received as much
+as a card from the numerous organizations in their home cities while I
+have had letters from Lanett Service Station and only been here a month.
+The boys all admit that they have to take off their hats to Lanett for the
+spirit the folks at home show in backing up the boys."
+
+  HOBSON G. HEGGOOD
+
+"And if it so be I will stand on the vine clad hills of sunny France and
+give my life for a cause that is just and right."
+
+  EVANS MCGHEE
+
+June 14, 1918. _Eagle Pass, Texas_
+
+"Our motto is 'Over the Top and give them H--' and you can take it from me
+that is just what they are doing. Our boys are fighting like our
+grandfathers fought back in the sixties and they are making for themselves
+a name which will never be forgotten."
+
+  DAVE HOLLOWAY.
+
+September 21, 1918. _Musician, 167th Inf. Band, Somewhere in France_
+
+"And I am glad that I have such a patriotic town to back me while I do a
+little to help beat the Beast of Berlin."
+
+  SGT. EUGENE C. STIFF.
+
+July 23, 1918. _Company 9, 122d Infantry_
+
+"I wish to thank you for the interest the Service Station is taking in me
+and I am sure all the boys from dear old Lanett feel the same as
+myself.... We had three battles with the 'Subs' on my last trip and I am
+proud to say we got three 'Subs' out of three battles."
+
+  CHAS. H. YARBROUGH.
+
+_On Board U. S. S. Zeelandia_
+
+"We drove the enemy out of places that looked impossible for it to be
+done, tunnels and under hills and mountains several hundred feet deep, but
+believe me we went in after them without any mercy and finally got them
+going so fast we had to put doughboys in motor trucks and hook the
+kitchens on behind to keep up with them."
+
+  THOMAS M. SIMS.
+
+November 30, 1918. _Company E, 307th Engineers_
+
+"Again I offer you a rising and unanimous vote of thanks for your kind
+letters. Number 10 reached me this week and did me more good than a check
+for $50.00 would.... You will have to admit that when the world wanted
+Germany licked they sent over the A. E. F. (After England Failed) and
+three days after I reached the front the second time, the Kaiser packed
+his trick clothes, threw his crown into the garbage pail, put on his
+rubber boots and let himself out the back door."
+
+  CORP. W. D. PURCELL
+
+November 21, 1918
+
+"You have no idea how we love to hear from home and to feel that you
+remember us. We can fight a _heap_ better when we're reminded once in a
+while that our loved ones are helping us by keeping us in touch with home
+and sacrificing in numerous ways that we may be more comfortable."
+
+  GEORGE BANKSTON
+
+July 16, 1918. _The Rhode Island_
+
+"It is just beginning to seem like 1919 to me and it will be a happy year
+I am sure because it means that I am coming back to the only country on
+earth with all my feet and hands still attached to me.
+
+"Don't close the station until all of us are out of France. I would miss
+your letters and I want to see all the folks at the station and thank them
+for their backing and the interest taken in the boys."
+
+  CORP. WM. D. PURCELL
+
+January, 1919. _Somewhere in France_
+
+"My chum called to me and we counted two hundred air planes going over to
+Germany and they were all in sight at one time and they made me think of a
+flock of wild geese back in the States."
+
+  ALVER GUNN
+
+October, 1918. _Somewhere in France_
+
+"I thank God I am an American and will go down with my comrades if the
+good Lord so wills that I go that way."
+
+Extract from letter dated August 27, 1918, from Thomas Thomaston, Company
+F, 167th Infantry, who was killed before his letter reached the Service
+Station.
+
+"Yesterday was Christmas and believe me we had some dinner--turkey, pies,
+California cake, dressing, mashed potatoes, celery, tangerines, cigarettes
+and one cigar and a few other things I did not know any name for--and that
+makes me think, I thank you many, many times for the Christmas box. You
+could not have sent anything that would have pleased me more and I assure
+you it was appreciated by myself and friends."
+
+  CORP. WM. D. PURCELL
+
+December 26, 1918. _Co. A, 306th Am. Train_
+
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, _Lanett_
+
+  J. I. WARNER, CHAIRMAN
+  LILLIAN WARNER, SECRETARY
+  J. L. WELDON
+  J. H. HORRARTH
+  J. A. SIMMONS]
+
+[Illustration: RECEPTION ROOM. WAR SERVICE STATION. _Lanett_]
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE STATION, _Lanett_]
+
+[Illustration: RED CROSS WORK ROOM, _Lanett_]
+
+
+Managing Committee of Lanett
+
+  GEO. H. LANIER
+  GEO. S. HARRIS
+  R. W. JENNINGS
+  J. H. HOWARTH
+  J. J. JORDAN
+
+TEAM NO. 1
+
+  GEO. S. HARRIS, _Captain_
+  J. D. ANDERSON
+  JOHN KNOWLES
+  EDGAR MITCHELL
+  W. W. WALLIS
+  JOHN KING
+  JOHN SIMMONS
+
+TEAM NO. 2
+
+  R. W. JENNINGS, _Captain_
+  JOHN I. WARNER
+  W. H. GRAY
+  BRITT VEAZEY
+  GEO. HEARD
+
+TEAM NO. 3
+
+  D. A. JOLLY, _Captain_
+  TOM SWAN
+  P. SORRELL
+  W. HOLLIS
+  GEO. CROMER
+  B. PENNINGTON
+
+TEAM NO. 4
+
+  W. S. LEATHERWOOD, _Captain_
+  C. E. LUNCEFORD
+  H. E. MATHEWS
+  A. J. WELDON
+  J. N. BARROW
+
+TEAM NO. 5
+
+  TIPTON COFFEE, _Captain_
+  REV. D. M. JOINER
+  G. F. PARTRIDGE
+  E. J. GILBERT
+  R. D. KING
+
+TEAM NO. 6
+
+  D. J. CROWDER, _Captain_
+  J. T. AUGHTMAN
+  H. C. HAMILTON
+  C. E. DELOACH
+  SAM JONES
+
+TEAM NO. 7
+
+  LEWIS WRIGHT, _Captain_
+  C. M. BRADY
+  G. B. AVERY
+  CLYDE BLAKELY
+  GEO. LANIER
+
+TEAM NO. 8
+
+  SAMUEL HAYES, _Captain_
+  K. KITCHENS
+  PATRICK SULLIVAN
+  KEIL HOWELL
+  NEAL HOLSTUN
+
+TEAM NO. 9
+
+  W. F. SIMS, _Captain_
+  E. R. CUMMINGS
+  JOHN BREWER
+  JNO. STRICKLAND
+  SMITH LANIER
+
+TEAM NO. 10
+
+  DAWSON SWINT, _Captain_
+  W. W. WHITSON
+  SAM GOODMAN
+  RAY COFFEE
+  ARTHUR HAGEDORN
+  L. S. PHILIPS
+
+TEAM NO. 11
+
+  J. J. JORDAN, _Captain_
+  W. H. KNIGHT
+  J. H. STEVENS
+  TOM MCCLENDON
+  U. S. WATERS
+
+TEAM NO. 12
+
+  JOHN HAGEDORN, _Captain_
+  C. C. WILBANKS
+  LEE HEYMAN
+  C. W. MILFORD
+  W. R. HARRISON
+
+TEAM NO. 13
+
+  DR. J. L. WELDON, _Captain_
+  DR. WHATLEY
+  J. H. ALLEN
+  CARL CROUCH
+  H. M. GAY
+
+TEAM NO. 14
+
+  T. L. CROUCH, _Captain_
+  V. M. WOOD
+  AMOS PRIESTER
+  J. A. WHEELER
+  O. K. WAITES
+
+TEAM NO. 15
+
+  O. A. BONNER, _Captain_
+  HARVEY WELDON
+  LUTHER BOYD
+  WM. Z. TAYLOR
+  O. C. MCCLENDON
+
+TEAM NO. 16
+
+  R. C. STANFIELD, _Captain_
+  J. T. WINNINGHAM
+  A. C. LYNN
+  S. T. JONES
+
+TEAM NO. 17
+
+  JAMES WALLACE, _Captain_
+  EMORY COFFEE
+  W. H. WRIGHT
+  E. P. RUTLAND
+  PARKER HORN
+  A. L. SMITH
+
+TEAM NO. 18
+
+  J. C. BERRY, _Captain_
+  JESSE LAUDERMILK
+  DR. MCCULLOH
+  HOMER WILBANKS
+  BOB HARRISON
+
+TEAM NO. 19
+
+  W. L. OSBORNE, _Captain_
+  ED RAINEY
+  W. H. HARVEY
+  J. E. RIDGEWAY
+  JOHN HARRISON
+
+
+Committee of Ladies
+
+TEAM NO. 20
+
+  MRS. GEO. HARRIS, _Captain_
+  MRS. C. W. WARNER
+  MRS. J. L. WELDON
+  MRS. DAWSON SWINT
+  MRS. BRITT VEAZEY
+
+TEAM NO. 21
+
+  MRS. J. H. HOWARTH, _Captain_
+  MRS. PATRICK SULLIVAN
+  MRS. WILLIE GREY
+  MRS. D. A. JOLLY
+  MRS. C. E. DELOACH
+
+TEAM NO. 22
+
+  MRS. CHAS. STEVENS, _Captain_
+  MISS CORDELIA MICOU
+  MISS ESTELLE HEARD
+  MRS. HOMER WILBANKS
+  MISS RUBY PEARCE
+
+TEAM NO. 23
+
+  MRS. GEO. H. LANIER, _Captain_
+  MRS. JOHN HAGEDORN
+  MRS. LEE HEYMAN
+  MRS. MORRIS DARDEN
+  MISS KATIE SMITH
+  MRS. JAMIE JOHNSON
+
+TEAM NO. 24
+
+  MRS. JOHN KING, _Captain_
+  MISS FLORA CLYDE WARNER
+  MISS HELEN HOWARTH
+  MISS FLORENCE WELDON
+  MISS HATTY KNOWLES
+
+TEAM NO. 25
+
+  MRS. S. L. HAYES, _Captain_
+  MRS. ADAH STEVENS
+  MISS GERTRUDE CROWDER
+  MISS GRACE STEVENS
+  MISS FRANCES WALLACE
+
+
+Committee Report
+
+  Second Liberty Loan            $1,650.00
+  Third Liberty Loan             53,700.00
+  Fourth Liberty Loan            55,850.00
+  Victory Liberty Loan           30,300.00
+                                ----------
+            Total              $141,500.00
+
+  United War Work Fund           $2,451.00
+  First Red Cross War Fund       $1,822.56
+  Second Red Cross War Fund      $5,294.00
+  War Stamps                   $104,707.00
+  Salvation Army Drive             $313.40
+
+
+From Lanett Red Cross
+
+  Sweaters                       38
+  Sox, pairs                     23
+  Pajamas, pairs                 21
+  Towels                         44
+  Bed shirts                     78
+  Bandages                       65
+  Comfort kits                    5
+  Convalescent robes              6
+  Refugee garments             1006
+
+
+  Letters written to boys in Service              1972
+  Letters received from boys in Service            423
+  Other letters written                            291
+  Number of packages forwarded                      57
+  Number of visitors at War Service Station       2515
+  Total now in Service: white 164, colored 37      201
+  Number of Bulletins mailed                      2648
+  Killed in action                                   6
+  Died of disease                                    1
+  Wounded                                           16
+
+
+
+
+_Shawmut_
+
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Curtis Avery= Amer. Military Com. Q.M.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Herbert Avery= S.A.T.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John J. Baker= Company C 39th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. J. C. Barnes= Company I 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. D. H. Barnes= 5th Aero Squadron Rep.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Floyd Blackwelder= S.A.T.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Capt. J. I. Bowles= Company E 106th Supply Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. James Bridges= Company H 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Hoyt A. Canady= Company K 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John Carmack= 7th Co. 13th M.P.C. Embarkation Center]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Elige Champion= Battery E 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Claudius H. Cole= (Marine) Balloon Det. H.A.F.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. J. W. Conway= Company C 151st Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Cliff Conway= Company F 103d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Marion L. Connell= Company A 48th Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Geo. Cottle= Battery D 18th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Roy D. Coulter= Marine]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Jones S. Davis= Base Hospital 21]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jakie S. Edge= Company K 1st Pioneers Inf.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. H. H. Elloit= 20th Co. 5th Tr. Btn. 156th Depot
+Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Howard S. Fling= Company I 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Kenon Foster= 11th Infantry Nov. Repl.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. G. W. Hollis= Cas. Company 43 162d Depot Brigade Tent
+Area 4]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. John F. Hollis= Squadron 488 Const.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Clyde Huff= Company I 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Floyd Hughey= U.S.N.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Reuben Howell= Company I Development Battalion]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. T. B. James= 40th Co. 10th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot
+Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. J. M. Jarrell= Battery D 129th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Jarrell= 4th Prov. Company]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Adolphus Johnson= Oversea Casual Co. 24th Camp Pike.
+A.R.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Burl D. Jones= Company E 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Wag. R. L. Jones= H.S. Company 106th San. Tr.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Hiram A. Keel= Company B 52d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Geo. Kemp= Battery C 6th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Mac Lackey= 4th Provisional Co.]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. T. B. Lanier= Bakery Co. 366 Quartermaster Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. C. M. Lawhorn= Company H 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. J. C. Lyons= Company I 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. W. F. McCarley= Company I 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Wm. P. Mangrum= Company H 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Wilfred O. Mangrum= Company D 17th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Rance A. Milam= Company I 327th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Otis B. Newman= Company M 331st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. N. D. Phillips= 243d M.P. Co.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Frank Pitts= Company H 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Horace L. Pratt= 801. 343 Q.M.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Harold Pritchard= S.A.T.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Lee Ruff= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Von Stubin]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. J. C. Sewell= Company E 106th Supply Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. J. R. Sharpe= Company B 102d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =T. A. Simms= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Mt. Vernon]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Alva Smith= 17th Co. 5th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot
+Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. L. C. Smith= S.A.T.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =1st Lieut. A. C. Smith= 301st E. Remount Sqd.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. E. L. Spivey= 22d Co. 6th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot
+Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. J. H. Stephens= Bakery Company 2 Q.M.C. Det.]
+
+[Illustration: =J. S. Sledge= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Louisiana]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas H. Still= Company C 161st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Bugler C. T. Terrell= Company I 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas M. Aikens= Battery D 18th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Bennie Thomas= Marine]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas G. Tyson= Company I 6th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Wag. John T. Wallace= Supply Company 11th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =W. L. Warren= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Oklahoma]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Sam J. Warren= Cas. Company 63 162d Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Kyle Waters= 327th Field Hospital 307th San. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Roy Watkins= Machine Gun Co. 56th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Clinton Waters= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Rathhurn]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John D. Whatley= A. & B. School Camp Sevier, S.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John Deward White= Hdqtrs. Company 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Olin Whitlaw= Cas. Company 33 Cas. Detachment 162d
+Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. Paul W. Smith= Company G 1st Pioneers Infantry 2d
+Btn. H.Q.I.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Floyd White= Company D 23d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe Word= 122d A.C. 106th San. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Bernard Manley= Company A 113th F.A.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. N. B. Murphy= Student Marine Training Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Private A. E. Beaird= Company I 327th Infantry]
+
+
+Roll of Honor
+
+  ¦_Killed in action_
+  +_Died of disease_
+  *_Photo_
+
+  ADCOCK, COY
+  *AIKENS, THOMAS
+  *AVERY, CURTIS
+  *AVERY, HERBERT
+
+  *BAKER, JOHN J.
+  *BARNES, D. H.
+  *BARNES, J. C.
+  ¦BEARD, A. E.
+  *BLACKWELDER, FLOYD
+  *BOWLES, J. T.
+  ¦*BRIDGES, JIM
+
+  *CANADY, HOYT A.
+  *CARMACK, JOHN
+  *CHAMPION, LIGE
+  *COLE, CLAUDIUS H.
+  *CONNELL, MARION L.
+  *CONWAY, CLIFFORD
+  *CONWAY, J. W.
+  *COTTLE, GEORGE
+  *COULTER, ROY D.
+  CROWDER, LEE
+
+  ¦DABBS, H. L.
+  *DAVIS, J. S.
+  DELOACH, BIRDIE E.
+  DELOACH, O. D.
+
+  *EDGE, J. S.
+  *ELLOIT, HOMER H.
+
+  *FLING, H. S.
+  *FOSTER, KENON
+  FOSTER, RUFUS M.
+
+  GARRETT, CARL
+
+  HESTLEY, DAN M.
+  *HOLLIS, G. W.
+  *HOLLIS, J. F.
+  *HOWELL, REUBEN
+  *HUFF, CLYDE
+  *HUGHEY, T. F.
+  HUMPHREY, JEWELL
+
+  *JAMES, T. B.
+  *JARRELL, J. M.
+  *JARRELL, WALTER
+  *JOHNSON, ALDOLPHUS
+  *JONES, BURL D.
+  *JONES, ROBT. L.
+
+  *KEEL, HIRAM H.
+  *KEMP, GEORGE
+  KENNINGTON, GRADY
+  KENNINGTON, JAKE
+
+  *LACKEY, MAC
+  *LANIER, T. B.
+  *LAWHORNE, C. M.
+  LINDSEY, O. L.
+  *LYONS, J. C.
+
+  *MANGRUM, WILFORD
+  ¦*MANGRUM, WM. P.
+  MANLEY, BERNARD
+  *MILAM, RANCE
+  MURPHY, N. B.
+  *MCCARLEY, W. F.
+
+  *NEWMAN, OTIS B.
+
+  *PHILLIPS, DENSON
+  *PITTS, FRANK
+  *PRATT, HORACE L.
+  *PRITCHARD, HAROLD
+
+  *RUFF, LEE
+
+  *SEWELL, J. C.
+  SHARPE, A. E.
+  *SHARPE, J. R.
+  *SIMMS, A. T.
+  *SLEDGE, J. S.
+  *SMITH, ALVA
+  *SMITH, A. C.
+  *SMITH, COOPER
+  SMITH, ELISH
+  SMITH, ERNEST
+  *SMITH, PAUL W.
+  SMITH, JOHN WILL
+  *SPIVEY, E. L.
+  SPIVEY, FORREST
+  *STEPHENS, J. H.
+  *STILL, T. H.
+
+  TAUNTON, JESSE
+  TAYLOR, C. Z.
+  *TERRELL, C. T.
+  ¦*THOMAS, BENNIE
+  *TYSON, THOMAS
+
+  *WALLACE, JOHN T.
+  *WARREN, SAM
+  *WARREN, W. L.
+  *WATERS, CLINTON
+  *WATERS, KYLE
+  *WATKINS, ROY W.
+  ¦*WHATLEY, JOHN D.
+  *WHITE, FLOYD
+  *WHITE, JOHN D.
+  *WHITLOW, OLIN
+  *WORD, JOE
+
+
+Colored
+
+  BOYD, CHARLIE
+  BOYD, OCIE
+  BROOKS, AMOS
+  BROOKS, JESSIE
+  BROOKS, WILLIE LEE
+
+  CHAMBERS, JOHN
+  COOPER, JEFF
+  COPELAND, GEORGE
+
+  GIBSON, B. C.
+
+  ¦HAFFNER, RICHARD
+
+  LITTLEFIELD, B. K.
+
+  MASON, JOHN
+  MITTS, JOHN
+
+  OLIVER, WESLEY
+
+  REESE, JOHN T.
+
+
+Extracts of Appreciation
+
+"The people here are different from any other section of France. Their
+customs and dress are very peculiar, in fact, reminds me very much of the
+people of Holland. They wear wooden shoes and have a dialect all their
+own. French people from the more up-to-date parts of France have
+difficulty in speaking to and understanding them. The country is flat and
+marshy, and windmills like those of Holland can be seen. It is very
+pleasant in summer but in the winter I think it must be very cold, for
+already it is getting very cold at night and in the morning. I do not
+think we will be here long, though I do not know where we will go from
+here. Perhaps where the big guns roar and the bombs drop from the skies.
+Well, we have been anxious to go up front, and no doubt our chance will
+come some day. We have been doing some mighty important work back here in
+the S. O. S. but it is the nature of an American to want to be where the
+excitement is thickest."
+
+  J. F. H.
+
+October 8, 1918
+
+"This helmet was picked up on the morning of October 16th as we were
+returning to the rear from a convoy in the heart of the Argonne, near the
+village of Cheppy. The wearer who had fallen earlier in the day was an old
+soldier perhaps sixty-five years old and belonged to the 419th Division of
+the Saxon Bombardiers. More than a hundred German and American Troops lay
+dead within sight.
+
+"The probable cause of his death was high explosive, as he was torn up
+very badly.
+
+"In an area of two square miles many hundred of these could have been
+gathered. I took an interest in this one on account of its high polish for
+camouflage purposes, something new to us at that time."
+
+  A. C. S.
+
+"We spent quite a different life from this in the English waters where we
+put in many monotonous months waiting for the Hun to come out. We were
+sorry he came out the way he did for we were just aching to exchange
+broadsides with him.
+
+"My ship convoyed one-half million troops through what is called the
+'Submarines' Graveyard,' off the coast of Ireland, during the months of
+September and October."
+
+  W. W.
+
+January 1, 1919
+
+"The boys in the outfit I belong to were the first to cross the Meuse
+River and were in the first lines when the guns stopped firing at 11
+o'clock on the 11th day on the 11th month in the year 1918."
+
+  J. T. W.
+
+December 21, 1918
+
+"I now belong to the Army of Occupation. We are going through what is to
+my thinking the prettiest country yet. My battery has hiked some four
+hundred and twenty-five kilometers since we fired our last barrage--and
+believe me, that was some barrage--'The Million Dollar One'. It will take
+a long time before I forget it. I stood on a hill and watched and
+listened. IT WAS GREAT. I guess about ten or twelve regiments of the
+American Artillery and I don't know how many of the French took part. The
+best of old Heinie's guns were being used. If he knew the sound of them as
+well as we did, he knew that we were firing his OWN guns at him. They have
+a very peculiar and creepy sound, see?"
+
+  G. F. K.
+
+December 4, 1918
+
+"I had the pictures struck yesterday. And to show you how much speed there
+is here in France--for this is an instance of real speed--
+
+"The guy who runs the shop pounded me on the back and said, 'Bon,
+bon-apres un mayr photo finie'. Anybody that has to put up with that kind
+of lingo and fight this war has sure got some job. Well, after tearing out
+about all of my hair and using three different Franco-American
+dictionaries I finally managed to get this out of the scraps, 'Good, good,
+after one month, picture finished'.
+
+"Remember that was only yesterday."
+
+  C. H.
+
+October 25, 1918
+
+"If this letter reaches you safely you can say it came through from the
+infernal regions, for if there was ever a 'Hell's Half Acre' this must be
+it. Put your finger on the biggest forest in France and say I'm there. Six
+weeks like a rat, three of which is like a whirlwind sweeping through
+Hades day or night, no rest, but forever watching, waiting, working by
+candle light deep down in a dug-out, or no light at all. This certainly
+cannot last much longer. It does us good to know there is one place where
+everything is like it used to be. I certainly am glad SHAWMUT is still
+natural and hope someday soon to get back there and take up my work where
+I left off."
+
+  A. C. S.
+
+"I wish to express my sincere appreciation of the personal letter service
+which has been rendered me. It is the wonderful and unselfish spirit of
+the folks back home, which has made the men of the A. E. F. willing and
+eager to 'carry on'."
+
+  J. S. D.
+
+December 22, 1918
+
+"I was sitting on my bunk trying to write these few lines, when my bunkie
+jumped up all at once and said a few words (I can't tell you what he
+said). At first I thought that he was shot but I found out what the
+trouble was, only a 'cootie bite'."
+
+  D. H. B.
+
+September 23, 1918
+
+"If there is one thing that stands out preeminently in a soldier's daily
+schedule across the sea, as to helpfulness it is 'that letter' or little
+bit of news from home (America). If you good people who are carrying on
+the work of the 'Home Guards' could see the eager faces of the Yanks at
+mail time, as they congregate for mail distributions, I am sure you would
+agree that time spent in writing to 'Over There' boys, is at least
+appreciated to the fullest."
+
+  J. H. S.
+
+September 22, 1918
+
+"I appreciate having my name on the list at the War Service Station very
+much. I enjoy the Bulletin from the first to the last and hope I'll never
+miss one as long as the war lasts."
+
+  H. A.
+
+October 6, 1918
+
+"I was indeed surprised, a few days since, to receive a letter from you
+good people of my old home town reminding me that you still remember me
+and appreciate the effort that we boys are making to do our 'bit' for the
+just and righteous cause in which we are all enlisted.
+
+"Your promise to write us from time to time of the items of interest at
+home especially gratifying, for local news nowadays, possesses far more
+interest and diversion for us than does the doings and happenings of the
+remainder of the 'great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world'."
+
+  C. T. T.
+
+July 10, 1918
+
+"It makes one feel good to know that he is remembered back home, not only
+by his parents, but by his friends as well. You don't know, you can't
+know, just how much good you are doing and just how it makes us feel when
+stationed at a remote camp, where we know no one, to get a letter from
+friends at home, who are interested in us. It makes us feel as though
+nothing on earth could prevent us from winning this war--and _we shall
+win_."
+
+  R. D. C.
+
+June 21, 1918
+
+"We leave this port the tenth of December and proceed nine hundred miles
+off this coast and meet President Wilson and his party, who are coming
+over to the Peace Conference on the George Washington, convoyed by the
+super-dreadnaught, Pennsylvania, and six destroyers.
+
+"There are nine big dreadnaughts in our fleet lying here who will go out
+and convoy them to Brest, France."
+
+  W. L. W.
+
+December 8, 1918
+
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE STATION, _Shawmut_]
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, _Shawmut_
+
+  G. C. WAGNON
+  C. A. SINGLETERRY
+  J. T. HOLLIS
+  GEO. W. MURPHY
+  MRS. JACK PLAUT, ASS'T SEC'Y
+  J. R. EDWARDS
+  MRS. MARY M. BUGG, SEC'Y]
+
+[Illustration: RED CROSS WORK ROOM, _Shawmut_]
+
+[Illustration: RECEPTION ROOM, WAR SERVICE STATION, _Shawmut_]
+
+
+Committees
+
+Y. M. C. A. DRIVE
+
+Subscription, $338.35
+
+
+RED CROSS CHRISTMAS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
+
+  EDWARDS, J. R.
+  MURPHY, G. W.
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+
+Subscription, $100.00
+
+
+RED CROSS WAR FUND DRIVE
+
+  BUGG, MRS.
+  EDWARDS, J. R.
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+
+Subscription, $1,186.00
+
+
+RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL
+
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+
+Subscription, $150.00
+
+
+UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE
+
+  COLE, LOYD
+  CROWDER, J. J.
+  CROWDER, WALT
+  HERRING, DR.
+  HOLLIS, J. T.
+  JOHNSON, E. J.
+  JONES, T. T.
+  KEMP, F. S.
+  MURPHY, G. W.
+  PRITCHARD, MRS. P.
+  SINGLETERRY, C. A.
+  UNDERWOOD, W. L.
+  WAGNON, G. C.
+  WALLS, J. S.
+
+Subscription, $1,944.10
+
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+ARMENIAN RELIEF FUND
+
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+
+
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+
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+
+
+SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  JONES, T. T.
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+
+Subscription, $1,750.00
+
+
+THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  CROWDER, J. J.
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+  KEMP, F. S.
+  KEMP, MISS GRACE
+  MURPHY, G. W.
+  MURPHY, O. G.
+  SINGLETERRY, C. A.
+  WAGNON, G. C.
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+
+Subscription, $24,350.00
+
+
+FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  CROWDER, J. J.
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+  JOHNSON, E. J.
+  JONES, MRS. T. T.
+  JONES, T. T.
+  KEMP, F. S.
+  MURPHY, G. W.
+  MURPHY, O. G.
+  PRITCHARD, DR. P.
+  SINGLETERRY, C. A.
+  UNDERWOOD, W. L.
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+
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+
+
+VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN
+
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+
+
+WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
+
+Subscription, $10,500.00
+
+                                              Total
+
+  Liberty and Victory Loans                $61,800.00
+  War Saving Stamps                         10,500.00
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+  Membership and Subscription Red Cross      1,436.00
+  Y. M. C. A.                                  338.35
+  Salvation Army                               100.70
+  Armenian Relief                              101.50
+
+
+Committee Report
+
+  Number of boys who left for Service from Shawmut                  111
+  Number of colored boys                                             14
+  Number of boys discharged before War Service Station started        5
+  Number of boys whose address was unlocated                         10
+                                                                   ----
+                                                                     29
+
+  Number of boys on writing list                                     82
+  Number of boys who died in Service                                  7
+  Number of boys known to be wounded                                 20
+  Number of boys who have written to War Service Station             61
+  Number of visitors to Station                                    2950
+  Number of letters sent to boys in Service                        1267
+  Number of other letters mailed                                    464
+  Number of Bulletins mailed                                       1650
+  Number of packages forwarded                                      125
+  Number of letters received from boys in Service                   283
+  Number of pieces of mail sent out from War Service Station       3188
+
+
+From Shawmut Red Cross
+
+  T bandages                                    91
+  Bed shirts                                    48
+  Triangular bandages                          103
+  Abdominal bandages                            79
+  Sweaters                                     116
+  Sox, pairs                                    11
+  Refugee aprons                                20
+  Helpless case shirts                          12
+  Pajamas, pairs                                20
+  Refugee dresses                               10
+  Comfort bags                                   5
+  Refugee shirts                                 5
+  Convalescent robes                            10
+  Garments to Belgian and French refugees      482
+  Towels in shower                             125
+  Influenza masks for influenza epidemic      1000
+  Garments in Christmas box                    160
+  Inspection of boys' Christmas boxes.
+
+
+Junior Red Cross
+
+  Collected 1917-1918        $60.00
+  Collected 1918-1919         50.00
+  Sweaters                        6
+  Hospital blanket                1
+  Sox, pairs                     15
+  Utility bags                   10
+  Monthly hospital booklets.
+
+
+
+
+_Langdale_
+
+
+[Illustration: =Grady Allen= U.S.S. Susquehanna]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. William F. Bailey= Battery E 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles Bailey= Battery D 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. James Arthur Bates= 38th Co. 10th Tr. Btn. 157th
+Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. William A. Blanks= Hdqtrs. Military Police]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Blackwell= 57th Company M.T.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Lieut. J. Mem Bohannon= Company I 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter T. Bohannon= Cavalry Camp Remount]
+
+[Illustration: =Bugler Henry J. Brannon= Battery F 50th Artillery C.A.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Douglas Brittingham= U.S.S. Pennsylvania]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Poet Canady= Company C 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Alsberry Carlisle= 9th Company 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Johnnie E. Carriker= Truck Company 2 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Cook Eddie L. Crawford= Hdqtrs. Troop 4th Division]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert R. Crawford= Company A 29th Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. J. Ben Crenshaw= 57th Company M.T.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Amos M. Crenshaw= Cas. Company 465]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Roy Culberson= Company H 328th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Ocie Lee Deloach= F.R.S. 327]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Richmond Earles= Company 5 H.Q.R.S.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Joseph A. Fobus= Battery E 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Rufus M. Foster= 327th Field Hospital 307th San.
+Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Luther Frazier= Sub Chaser 204]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. W. A. Fuller= Supply Co. 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Jessee L. Glass= A.P.O. 927]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Keener Gray= 3d Prov. Company O.A.R.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Austin M. Hornsby= Hdqtrs. Company 17th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Ronald E. James= Battery D 114th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Olin Johnson= Company D 89th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. James Lee Johnson= 21st Company R.R.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Cook Ellis Joseph= Base Hospital]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Oscar W. Kent= 260th Company 130th Btn. M.P.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Hugh S. Bates= Naval Training Station]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Ocie Laney= Supply Company 10th F.A., A.P.O. 740]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Thomas Landreth= Company F 17th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. S. H. Lauderdale= 69th Company 6th Group]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Homer McClendon= Company B U.S.A. Gen. Hosp. 36]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Sam McDonald= Company F 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Benjamin F. McGarr= Battery F 7th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. William C. Manning= Company B 47th Reg. T.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Eulos Moon= U.S. Naval Air Station]
+
+[Illustration: =Clarence Morris= U.S.S. Cincinnati]
+
+[Illustration: =James M. Newton= U.S.S. Anniston]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Will O'Neal= Cas. Company 61 162d Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Amos Orrick= Troop A 14th Cavalry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Fred Perryman= Company M 49th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Luther Shelnut= Cas. Company 43 162d Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Lee Smith= 4th Company O.A.R.D. Automatic]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Douglas M. Smith= Hdqtrs. Company 57th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. G. F. Tankersley= Battery E 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Zachery Thompson= 71st Company 6th Group M.T.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. J. O. Threadgill= 17th Company 162d Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =Ellis Waller= Naval Training Station Reg. 4 Sec. 9]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Luke Wesson= Supply Company 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter H. Whatley= 3d Ordnance Guard Co.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Johnnie Williams= Bakery Company 358]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Tommy Young= Company G 2d Training Regiment]
+
+
+Roll of Honor
+
+  +_Died of disease_
+  ¦_Killed in action_
+
+  ALLEN, GRADY
+
+  BAILEY, CHARLES
+  BAILEY, WILLIAM F.
+  BASSETT, BRYANT
+  BATES, HUGH S.
+  BATES, JAMES ARTHUR
+  BLACKWELL, WALTER
+  BLANKS, WILLIAM A.
+  ¦BOHANNON, J. MEM
+  +BOHANNON, WALTER T.
+  BOON, GRADY
+  BRANNON, HENRY J.
+  BRITTINGHAM, DOUGLAS
+
+  CANADY, POET
+  CARLISLE, ALSBERRY
+  CARRIKER, JOHNNIE E.
+  CRAWFORD, EDDIE L.
+  CRAWFORD, ROBERT R.
+  CRENSHAW, AMOS M.
+  CRENSHAW, J. BEN
+  CROWDER, OTIS
+  CULBERSON, ROY
+
+  DANIEL, EUGENE R.
+  DELOACH, OCIE LEE
+
+  EARLES, RICHMOND
+  EARLES, SCHUSLER
+
+  FOBUS, JOSEPH ADIE
+  FOSTER, RUFUS M.
+  FOSTER, WALTER LEE
+  FRAZIER, LUTHER
+  FULLER, W. A.
+
+  GLASS, JESSEE L.
+  GRAY, KEENER
+
+  HORNSBY, AUSTIN M.
+
+  JAMES, RONALD E.
+  ¦JOHNSON, JAMES LEE
+  JOHNSON, OLIN
+  JOSEPH, ELLIS
+
+  KENT, OSCAR W.
+
+  LANDRETH, THOMAS
+  LANEY, OCIE
+  ¦LAUDERDALE, S. H.
+
+  MANNING, WILLIAM C.
+  MOON, EULOS
+  MORRIS, CLARENCE
+  MCCLENDON, HOMER
+  MCDONALD, SAM
+  MCGARR, BENJAMIN F.
+
+  NEWTON, JAMES M.
+
+  O'NEAL, WILL
+  ORRICK, AMOS
+
+  ¦PERRYMAN, FRED
+
+  ROBERTS, ANDREW
+
+  SHELNUT, LUTHER
+  SMITH, CHARLES M.
+  SMITH, DOUGLAS M.
+  SMITH, WALTER LEE
+  ¦STANFIELD, CHARLIE D.
+  STEPHENS, ALBERT E.
+
+  TANKERSLEY, GEORGE F.
+  THOMPSON, ZACHARY
+  THREADGILL, J. O.
+  TYSON, FRED
+
+  WALLER, ELLIS
+  WESSON, LUKE
+  WHATLEY, WALTER H.
+  WILLIAMS, JOHNNIE
+
+  YOUNG, TOMMY
+
+
+Colored
+
+  BROOKS, JESS
+  FINLEY, ALTON
+  ISON, GUSS
+  TAYLOR, GUY
+  TAYLOR, MANUAL
+  WINSTON, FRANK
+
+
+Extracts of Appreciation
+
+"I appreciate all the letters which you have written to me and it
+certainly livens a fellow up and makes him feel good to receive all the
+news from home and know just what is being done."
+
+"I am proud to be represented in the service flag."
+
+"Am glad to hear from you and to know that you are doing such wonderful
+work for the boys."
+
+"Thanking you all for the joy that comes with your ever welcome letters."
+
+"I want you to tell your fellow members in the War Service Station that as
+a man in the service I can heartily appreciate the work you are doing for
+the benefit of the men in the service and I think it is a splendid thing."
+
+"Please accept my sincere thanks for all the letters, magazines and other
+things you have sent."
+
+"Thanking you for remembering me and wishing you much success with your
+work."
+
+"Am sure this system will prove a success as the boys will all appreciate
+the work of the Service Station."
+
+"I am grateful to you and proud of our War Service Station."
+
+"I am sure the good work that the Langdale War Service Station is doing
+for the boys in the service is very much appreciated. No one has an idea
+what it means until they are in the Service and are remembered as we are
+by the Service Station."
+
+"Can assure you that your letters and all good work is more than
+appreciated."
+
+"My best wishes for a prosperous Station, but then how could it be
+otherwise when it is for the good of Democracy and especially for the
+Liberty of these dear old 'United States'."
+
+"I am not going to try to thank you for all the good news and letters I
+received when I reached port, this time. It was just grand."
+
+"If you could visit this place once, my dear friends, you would know what
+a good place the U. S. A. is. Everything is out of date, even the women
+are all curious looking."
+
+"It may be six or eight months before I get back to dear old Langdale. Of
+course it seems very hard to stay, but if my country needs me I am
+willing."
+
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, _Langdale_
+
+  W. H. ENLOE, CHAIRMAN
+  W. T. DRAPER
+  A. C. BOYD
+  C. M. MOORE
+  W. L. CLARK
+  MISS OLLIE GARDNER, SECRETARY]
+
+[Illustration: RED CROSS WORK ROOM, _Langdale_]
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE STATION, _Langdale_]
+
+[Illustration: INTERIOR WAR SERVICE STATION, _Langdale_]
+
+
+Committees
+
+Subscriptions to First Liberty Loan were through the bank and we have no
+record of them.
+
+
+SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
+
+Subscription, $5,000.00
+
+
+THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  L. LANIER, _V.-Chairman of Chambers Co._
+  W. H. ENLOE, _Chairman of Langdale_
+
+Subscription, $40,600.00
+
+
+FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  L. LANIER, _V.-Chairman of Chambers Co._
+  CARL. M. MOORE, _Chairman of Langdale_
+
+Subscription, $14,900.00
+
+
+UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
+
+  A. C. BOYD, _Chairman of Langdale_
+
+Subscription, $1,797.75
+
+
+Y. M. C. A.
+
+Subscription, $625.00
+
+
+VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN
+
+  W. H. ENLOE, _Chairman_
+
+Subscription, $10,100.00
+
+
+FIRST RED CROSS WAR FUND
+
+  W. H. ENLOE, _Chairman of Langdale_
+
+Subscription, $2,353.02
+
+
+SECOND RED CROSS WAR FUND
+
+  L. LANIER, _Chairman of Chambers Co._
+  W. H. ENLOE, _Chairman of Langdale_
+
+Subscription, $2,390.03
+
+
+WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
+
+  A. C. BOYD, _Chairman of Chambers Co._
+  GEO. T. JOHNSON, _Chairman of Langdale_
+
+Subscription, $32,000.00
+
+
+LANGDALE CHAPTER RED CROSS
+
+  MRS. L. LANIER, _Chairman_
+
+
+FOUR-MINUTE-MEN
+
+  CARL M. MOORE, _Chairman_
+  A. C. BOYD
+  W. H. ENLOE
+  W. L. CLARK
+  W. T. DRAPER
+
+
+SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
+
+  CARL MOORE, _Chairman_
+
+Subscription, $160.00
+
+
+                                                 Total
+
+  Liberty and Victory Loans                   $70,600.00
+  Membership and Subscription Red Cross         4,743.05
+  Y. M. C. A.                                     625.00
+  Salvation Army                                  160.00
+  United War Fund                               1,797.75
+  War Saving Stamps                            32,000.00
+
+
+Committee Report
+
+  Letters written boys in Service               894
+  Letters from boys in Service                  263
+  Miscellaneous letters written                 564
+  Number of parcels or packages forwarded       363
+  Number of visitors at Station                1623
+  Boys leaving during month for Service
+  Total number in Service                        74
+  Number of Bulletins mailed                   1153
+  Killed in action                                4
+  Died of wounds                                  1
+  Died of disease                                 1
+  Wounded                                         2
+
+
+From Langdale Red Cross
+
+  Sweaters                            56
+  Sox, pairs                         166
+  Triangular bandages                326
+  T bandages                         292
+  Abdominal bandages                 255
+  Bed shirts                          92
+  Hospital shirts                     10
+  Refugee aprons                      45
+  Refugee dresses                     20
+  Pajamas, pairs                      24
+  Operating robes                     12
+  Refugee garments                  1202
+  Bath towels                        100
+  Shoes, pairs                        13
+
+
+Junior Red Cross
+
+  Triangular bandages                 50
+  Refugee garments                   167
+  Cash                             $5.00
+  Scrap books                         30
+  Barrels of nuts collected            4
+  Pounds of tinfoil collected         15
+  Property bags                       20
+
+
+
+
+_Fairfax_
+
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Edwin Abernathy= Company F 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Young T. Abernathy= Company B 46th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Albert Carl Austin= Company F 3d Training Regiment]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Sam A. Bradshaw= 325th Ambulance Co. 307th Sanitary
+Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. James P. Bradfield= Company C 1st Gas Regiment]
+
+[Illustration: =Ensign Frank L. Branson= Naval Flying Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Seaman Alvin F. Bradfield= U.S.S. Shaw]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Calvin G. Bradfield= Company E 1st Regiment
+Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Herbert Bradshaw= Detached Infantry Adj. Gen. Office
+Georgia]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John W. Brittain= Company C 45th Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas A. Broome= 2d Battery R.A.R.R.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Claude L. Carter= Company H 26th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Leonard Carter= Company D 307th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Y. Toxie Chambley= Company C 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. James E. Combs= S.A.T.C. Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Homer D. Chambley= Battery D 70th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Leonard M. Chapman= Mach. Gun Company 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. E. T. Combs= Quartermaster Corps Naval Aviation T.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Forest Davis= Company 39 Recruiting Camp]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Nello M. Dixon= Company H 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. I. Grady Dixon= Hdqtrs. Troops 82d Division]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Leon Duffey= Company A 165th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Terry Aubrey Dunn= Company H 167th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Ennis= Hdqtrs. Company 55th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. J. T. Franklin= Bakery Company 365]
+
+[Illustration: =Cook Curtis R. Gauntt= Battery B 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Wm. P. Gilliland= Company E 106th Am. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles W. Glass= Company F 151st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jno. V. Haerenborgh= R.R.D. No. 3]
+
+[Illustration: =Sailor Jos. E. Hall= U.S.S. ----]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. R. E. Wilson= 634 Aero Squadron]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Henry Hodnett= Company 17 5th Receiving Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Arthur Hollis= Battery D 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas E. Kinney= Company E 106th Sup. Train]
+
+[Illustration: =2d Lt. H. B. Kirkpatrick= 21st Company Infantry Reserve
+Corps]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jessie E. Landers= Company E 1st Development Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Polie L. Lilly= Battery D 114th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Will McIntyre= 21st Company R.R.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =2d Cl. Fmn. B. F. Martin= U.S.S. Newton]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. W. Evin Martin= Company I 327th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. T. E. Middleton= 106th Trench Mortar Battery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Johnnie Moore= 19th Company 5th Training Btn. 157th
+Depot Brigade]
+
+[Illustration: =1st Lt. J. C. Morgan= 233d Amb. Company 9th Sanitary
+Train]
+
+[Illustration: =Sailor Carl Newton= U.S.S. Orion]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Nichols= 7th Regiment M.P. School]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. George W. Norrel= Battery D 18th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =1st Cl. Fmn. C. Oliver= U.S.S. Patterson]
+
+[Illustration: =Yeoman T. M. Piper= U.S.S. Baltimore]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Rubin Powell= Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Geo. W. Reaves= Company A 51st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Wm. D. Satterwhite= Company D 20th Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Tom W. Smith= Field Remount Sqd. 33]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John T. Smith= Field Remount Sqd. 330]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John L. Smith= Company D 321st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Fred L. Stalnaker= 76th Group 6th M.T.D.]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. W. L. Stalnaker= Company D 161st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. C. D. Stalnaker= 64th Company 16th Receiving Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Henry Taunton= Company D 5th Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jesse Taunton= Company M 182d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Dewey Taylor= Company C 20th Mach. Gun Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Henry Guy Taylor= Supply Company 2d Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Cephas Taylor= Company B 3d Regiment]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. William C. Taylor= Battery B 149th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Homer E. Thomas= Company G 161st Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. T. Howard Turner= Company B Development Btn.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Emmett Welch= 5th Company Air Service]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Harvey A. Welch= 106th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe Wessinger= Battery F 114th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =William M. Whittington= Company I 167th Reg. 42nd Div.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. A. C. Williams= Aero Squadron Roosevelt Field]
+
+[Illustration: =Corp. James E. Williams= Battery E 117th Field Artillery]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. G. Harold Williams= Company B 17th Engineers]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Oscar L. Williams= Headquarters Company 321st
+Infantry Band]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John O. Williams= Company C 1st Division Battalion]
+
+
+Roll of Honor
+
+  ¦_Killed in action_
+
+  ABERNATHY, EDWIN
+  ABERNATHY, YOUNG T.
+  AUSTIN, ALBERT CARL
+
+  BOZEMAN, HUGH
+  BRADFIELD, ALVIN F.
+  BRADFIELD, CALVIN G.
+  BRADFIELD, JAMES P.
+  BRADSHAW, HERBERT
+  BRADSHAW, SAM A.
+  BRANSON, FRANK L.
+  BRITTAIN, JOHN W.
+  BROOME, THOMAS A.
+  BRYAN, C. JESSE
+
+  CARTER, CLAUDE L.
+  CARTER, LEONARD
+  CAUSEY, R. M.
+  CHAMBLEY, HOMER D.
+  CHAMBLEY, Y. TOXIE
+  CHAPMAN, LEONARD M.
+  COMBS, ELISHA T.
+  COMBS, JAMES E.
+
+  DAVIS, FOREST
+  DIXON, I. GRADY
+  DIXON, NELLO M.
+  DUFFEY, LEON
+  ¦DUNN, TERRY A.
+
+  ENNIS, ROBERT
+
+  FRANKLIN, J. T.
+
+  GILLILAND, WILLIAM P.
+  GAUNTT, CURTIS R.
+  GLASS, CHARLES W.
+
+  HAERENBORGH, JOHN V.
+  HALL, EDGAR
+  HAMER, ERNEST
+  HERRON, R. A.
+  HILL, A. L.
+  HODNETT, HENRY
+  HOLLIS, ARTHUR
+
+  JACKSON, ERBY L.
+
+  KINNEY, THOMAS E.
+  KIRKPATRICK, HAROLD B.
+
+  LANDERS, JESSE E.
+  LASTER, WILLIE
+  LILLY, POLIE L.
+
+  MARTIN, B. FRANK
+  MARTIN, W. EVIN
+  MIDDLETON, THOMAS E.
+  MILLS, GEORGE J.
+  MOORE, JOHNNIE
+  MORGAN, JAMES C.
+  MCINTYRE, WILL
+
+  NEWTON, CARL
+  NICHOLS, WALTER
+  NORREL, GEORGE W.
+
+  OLIVER, CLAUDE
+
+  POWELL, RUBIN
+  PIPER, TALLY W.
+
+  REAVES, GEORGE W.
+  ROBERTS, JAMES B.
+
+  SATTERWHITE, WM. D.
+  SMITH, JOHN T.
+  SMITH, JOHN L.
+  SMITH, THOMAS W.
+  STALNAKER, CHARLES D.
+  STALNAKER, FRED L.
+  STALNAKER, WILLIE L.
+
+  TAYLOR, CEPHAS
+  TAYLOR, DEWEY
+  TAYLOR, HENRY GUY
+  TAYLOR, WILLIAM C.
+  TAUNTON, HENRY
+  TAUNTON, JESSE
+  THOMAS, HOMER E.
+  TURNER, THADIUS H.
+
+  WELCH, EMMETT
+  WELCH, HARVEY A.
+  WESSINGER, JOE
+  WHITTINGTON, WM. M.
+  WILLIAMS, A. C.
+  WILLIAMS, G. HAROLD
+  WILLIAMS, JOHN O.
+  WILLIAMS, JAMES E.
+  WILLIAMS, OSCAR L.
+  WILSON, ROBERT L.
+
+
+Colored
+
+  ALEXANDER, JOHN, JR.
+
+  BURDETTE, WALTER
+  BURTON, BOB
+
+  DUKES, ABE
+
+  FORD, OTTO
+  FORD, ROBERT
+
+  GATES, G. G.
+
+  HEARD, FISHER
+  HEART, ERNEST
+  HEEL, LEWIS
+  HOWARD, JEFF
+  HUTCHINSON, WILLIE
+
+  MOODY, BOB
+
+  PETTILLO, J. L.
+
+  ROSS, JIM
+
+  WARE, ERLEY
+  WILKINS, SAM
+
+
+Extracts of Appreciation
+
+"It's a tough proposition; it's a terrible thing, but we know that some
+blood has to be spilled and we are willing to let it flow for the cause
+and the best country on earth."
+
+"I am always overjoyed to hear or receive news from my dear friends at
+home."
+
+"The French people go wild over the U. S. boys. One can't get lonesome or
+homesick, they treat you too good."
+
+"I am still on the destroyer, _Shaw_, and we hunt 'subs' most every day."
+
+"'Tis needless to say that the letters and Bulletins which I received
+today brought one grand little message and a feeling of comradeship into
+my heart. I appreciate them very, very much and I enjoy them more and
+more."
+
+"I don't want to quit until the job is finished."
+
+"Your encouragement, our bullets, and it's all over."
+
+"I am happy that it fell my lot to serve for our grand and noble country
+in her fight for Democracy."
+
+"I hear that we are going to France. I am just 'crazy' to go."
+
+"Your letters have given me a great deal of pleasure and I can imagine the
+joy they cause the fellows who have gone across."
+
+"I have been living under the ground since I have been on the front. Don't
+know how I would feel if I could get into a house again."
+
+"If it wasn't for the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and the Service Station,
+I don't see how we could get along."
+
+"I have been in action and I feel more than ever that there must be no
+peace without victory and every soldier I have met shares that feeling."
+
+"You would feel a deep new tender feeling for France and her people if you
+could see them carry the Stars and Stripes so proudly, and note the
+feeling toward the American soldier."
+
+"Well, they say that we have had a war in France and that it has come to
+an abrupt close. Isn't it strange how easily and how swiftly we put a
+serious crimp into the great German mass? I can't realize it--it seems a
+long dream."
+
+"I have been in England, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and on the line of
+Germany since I have been in Europe."
+
+"Since the Armistice we have been on quite a long hike; followed the great
+and final retreat of the Kaiser's _grand army_. We are stationed now a few
+kilometers beyond the River Rhine, on a hill overlooking the city of
+Coblenz."
+
+"Sorry that the other boys didn't get to see France; they missed the real
+fun, a trip that they wouldn't ever forget."
+
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, _Fairfax_
+
+  P. C. RAMSEY
+  J. L. BOWLES
+  A. G. POPE
+  R. E. SMITH, CHAIRMAN
+  OZELLA BRADSHAW, SECRETARY
+  P. T. SPARKS]
+
+[Illustration: RED CROSS WORK ROOM, _Fairfax_]
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE STATION, _Fairfax_]
+
+[Illustration: INTERIOR WAR SERVICE STATION, _Fairfax_]
+
+
+Committees
+
+FIRST LIBERTY LOAN
+
+Some subscribed, but no organized work done.
+
+
+SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  F. L. BRANSON, _Chairman_
+  C. KIRKPATRICK
+  P. C. RAMSEY
+  LON COMBS
+  J. E. HOWELL
+
+Subscription, $1,500.00
+
+
+THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  F. L. BRANSON, _Chairman_
+  R. E. SMITH
+  P. C. RAMSEY
+  C. KIRKPATRICK
+  J. E. B. MARTIN
+  VANA COMBS
+
+Subscription, $33,700.00
+
+
+FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  R. E. SMITH, _Chairman_
+  C. KIRKPATRICK
+  P. C. RAMSEY
+  J. E. B. MARTIN
+  LON COMBS
+  F. P. BRADFIELD
+
+Subscription, $25,700.00
+
+
+FIRST RED CROSS FUND
+
+  F. L. BRANSON, _Chairman_
+  P. C. RAMSEY
+  LON COMBS
+  J. E. B. MARTIN
+  MISS MAUD JAMES
+
+Subscription, $1,200.00
+
+
+SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
+
+  T. G. STANFIELD
+  MISS MAUD JAMES
+
+Subscription, $140.00
+
+
+SECOND RED CROSS FUND
+
+  R. E. SMITH, _Chairman_
+  P. C. RAMSEY
+  J. E. B. MARTIN
+  C. KIRKPATRICK
+  LON COMBS
+  F. P. BRADFIELD
+
+Subscription, $2,150.00
+
+
+Y. M. C. A.
+
+  C. KIRKPATRICK, _Chairman_
+  R. E. SMITH
+  J. E. B. MARTIN
+  VANA COMBS
+  J. E. HOWELL
+
+Subscription, $572.75
+
+
+UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
+
+  R. E. SMITH, _Chairman_
+  F. P. BRADFIELD
+  VANA COMBS
+  J. E. B. MARTIN
+  P. C. RAMSEY
+
+Subscription, $1,740.00
+
+
+WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
+
+  J. E. B. MARTIN, _Chairman_
+  J. M. BROWN
+  J. L. BOWLES
+  D. W. SIMMS
+  R. E. SMITH
+  P. C. RAMSEY
+  A. G. POPE
+
+Subscriptions, $17,700.00
+
+
+VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN
+
+  F. L. BRANSON
+  D. W. SIMS
+  JACK DAVIS
+  J. C. DAWE
+
+Subscription, $14,800.00
+
+
+                                                  Total
+
+  Liberty and Victory Loans                    $75,700.00
+  United War Fund                                1,740.00
+  Membership and Subscription Red Cross          3,350.00
+  Salvation Army Drive                             140.00
+  War Saving Stamps                             17,700.00
+  Y. M. C. A.                                      572.75
+
+
+Committee Report
+
+
+  Total number of letters written to boys in Service      1158
+  Total number of letters received from boys in Service    205
+  Total number of other letters written                    447
+  Total number of packages or parcels forwarded            326
+  Total number of visitors at War Service Station         1232
+  Total number of boys in Service                          101
+  Total number of Bulletins mailed                        1496
+  Total number killed in action                              1
+  Died of disease or wounds                                  1
+  Total number wounded                                       6
+
+
+From the Fairfax Red Cross
+
+  Bed shirts                                                       36
+  Helpless case shirts                                             40
+  Convalescent robes                                                4
+  Pajamas, American                                                 5
+  Triangular bandages                                              48
+  T bandages                                                        8
+  Abdominal bandages                                                4
+  Comfort bags                                                      5
+  Pillow cases                                                     12
+  Sheets                                                           24
+  Hand towels                                                     206
+  Bath towels                                                     100
+  Wash cloths                                                      24
+  Table doilies                                                    60
+  Tray cloths                                                      24
+  Aprons, women's refugee                                          12
+  Dresses, children's refugee                                      22
+  Housegowns, women's refugee                                       6
+  Morning blouses, women's refugee                                  6
+  Petticoats, women's refugee                                      12
+  Helmets                                                           3
+  Mufflers                                                          5
+  Sweaters, sleeveless                                             24
+  Socks for soldiers                                               52
+  Influenza masks for home use                                    600
+  Total weight of garments donated for refugee boxes, pounds      881
+  Total number of Christmas boxes packed for soldiers              28
+
+
+Junior Red Cross
+
+  Triangular bandages      36
+  Towels                   72
+  Wristlets                 6
+
+
+
+
+Riverview
+
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. W. C. Anthony= Headquarters Company 321st F.A. Band
+American Ex. F]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Roy B. Anthony= 28th Company 157th Depot Brigade Camp
+Gordon, Ga.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Marvin Baker= 82d Field Artillery Battery A Fort
+Bliss, Tex.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Fonzy O. Barnett= Company B 46th Engineers American
+Ex. Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Archie L. Blackmon= Hdqtrs. Troop 8th Cavalry Marfa,
+Texas]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe Chappell= M.G. Repl. Co. 1 Amer. Ex. Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. John Gay= Company I 123rd Infantry Amer. Ex. Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Tyler Grant= Base Hospital Ward 19 Camp Sevier,
+S.C.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Fred Hunt= U.S.A. Training Det. Auburn, Ala.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Crew Hunt= U.S.A. Training Det. Auburn, Ala.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Elbert E. Lewis= Company B 30th U.S. Infantry Amer.
+Ex. Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jasper J. Lewis= Hdqtrs. Company 56th Infantry Amer.
+Ex. Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe McCann= Battery D 118th Field Artillery Amer. Ex.
+Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Levi McKinney= Company E 12th Infantry Camp Hill,
+Va.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. James D. Milner= Company 5 Depot Brigade Camp
+Wheeler, Ga.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Jesse B. Milner= Company 8 Repl. Camp Camp Wheeler,
+Ga.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Glenn Milner= Company C 321st Infantry Amer. Ex.
+Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. R. O. Ogletree= 32d Div. M.P. Amer. Ex. Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Nute Paschal= Battery C 54th Field Artillery Camp
+Travis, Texas]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Henry Paschal= Company I 148th Infantry Amer. Ex.
+Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. William G. Prather= Battery E 117th Field Artillery
+Amer. Ex. Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Sgt. Maj. L. L. Scales= 1st Battalion 328th Infantry]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Dock Smith= Company H 107th Infantry Amer. Ex.
+Forces]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Arnold Waller= 53d H.A. Batt. D Field Artillery Camp
+Travis, Texas]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Logan Ware= 19th Co. 5th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot Brigade
+Camp McClellan, Ala.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Watson Ware= Development Det. Camp Sheridan
+Montgomery, Ala.]
+
+[Illustration: =Pvt. Luther E. Williams= 36th Company 3d Gr. M.T.D., M.G.,
+T.C. Camp Hancock, Ga.]
+
+
+Roll of Honor
+
+  ANTHONY, ROY B.
+  ANTHONY, WAYMON C.
+
+  BAKER, MARVIN
+  BARNETT, FONZY O.
+  BLACKMON, ARCHIE
+
+  CHAPPELL, JOE
+
+  GAY, JOHN
+  GRANT, TYLER
+
+  HUNT, CREW
+  HUNT, FRED
+
+  LEWIS, ELBERT E.
+  LEWIS, JASPER
+
+  MILNER, GLENN
+  MILNER, JAMES D.
+  MILNER, JESSE B.
+
+  MCCANN, JOSEPH
+  MCKINNEY, LEVI
+
+  OGLETREE, RAYMOND O.
+
+  PASCHAL, HENRY
+  PASCHAL, NUTE
+  PRATHER, WILLIAM G.
+
+  SCALES, SGT. MAJ. LUTHER L.
+  SMITH, DOCK
+
+  WALLER, ARNOLD
+  WARE, LOGAN
+  WARE, WATSON
+  WILLIAMS, LUTHER E.
+
+
+Extracts of Appreciation
+
+"They can have England, France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany, I have
+seen them all and spent some time in each, but give me the old United
+States."
+
+  RAYMOND O. OGLETREE
+
+"I will tell you of my first experience in a dugout. When we arrived here
+it was raining, so I crawled into a dugout for the night. In the meantime
+shells were landing regularly. I unrolled my pack and went to bed and I
+had no more than got settled when Fritz sent some large ones over. As I
+was a new man at the trade it was hard for me to get to sleep, but finally
+I did and sometime in the night he sent a large one over which made a
+direct hit on my dugout. I jumped almost out of bed. It rained so much
+during the night that I was almost floating when I awoke the next morning
+and it took me nearly all day to dry out all of my stuff."
+
+  RAYMOND O. OGLETREE
+
+"Speaking of Christmas, we had a pleasant one considering the place and
+times. There are twenty-seven children in the town where we are now, the
+same place we were during the holidays. We had a Christmas Tree for them,
+so I suppose we made several little hearts happy."
+
+  GLENN MILNER
+
+"I don't know whether I will get the first German helmet or not, but I am
+going to do my bit over there. I shall take it all like a man and fight my
+best for Old Glory."
+
+  JOE MCCANN
+
+"I wish I were in good health and could do my bit over there along with
+the other boys."
+
+  TYLER GRANT
+
+"It's very nice of the Riverview War Service Station to offer a prize to
+the first boy who captures a German helmet. I'd like to have a chance at
+the Kaiser and get the one he wears."
+
+  MARVIN BAKER
+
+"I don't know how to start to thank the good people of Riverview for the
+hearty Christmas greetings through the Bulletin. I will say this much,
+they are the best ever. I send my best regards to everyone."
+
+  ARCHIE BLACKMON
+
+"You don't know how much I appreciate the kindness of the Riverview people
+while we are over here chasing the Germans as fast as we possibly can.
+You, no doubt have heard of the big American drive that is now going. I
+must say that the old U. S. boys are making it hot for those Dutchmen just
+now. I have been transferred to the band, so I am hoping to play a piece
+for the boys to march through Berlin soon."
+
+  WAYMON C. ANTHONY
+
+"I want to say that if all the boys in the Service appreciate, as I do,
+what the folks of Riverview are doing for our benefit, the work is a great
+success. The letters you send certainly are interesting to me. They keep
+me in very close touch with what is going on at home."
+
+  WAYMON C. ANTHONY
+
+"I think this is one of the grandest lives a boy can live if he will do
+his best. I am proud to be a soldier and I hope that it won't be long
+before I can go over sea to do my part. I feel like we are fighting for a
+cause that God would have us fight for. I had much rather go over the top
+than have it always said of me, 'He was a slacker'. That's enough said
+about that for we are going to get the Kaiser some old way."
+
+  ROY B. ANTHONY
+
+"I am sorry I didn't get over to help the boys. I don't feel like I have
+been in the Service at all, but I have done the best I could. I think
+those who went oversea are the ones that should have all the praise for
+winning this war."
+
+  ROY B. ANTHONY
+
+"We are here training to fight for the old flag and we will not give up
+until the last one is dead."
+
+  WATSON WARE
+
+"A German garden was captured by our boys a few days ago, so we are living
+high on cabbage, turnips, etc. You should see what fine homes the Germans
+had in their dugouts: electric lights, bath rooms, pianos and all such to
+make life pleasant. I want to tell you, however, that they are not
+spending much of their time playing pianos and taking baths now, for our
+boys are giving them all the music they are looking for, and then some."
+
+  WAYMON C. ANTHONY
+
+"For the sake of my country, I am anxious for the day to come when I shall
+have the opportunity of going over the top to capture the helmet that you
+mentioned in your last letter, not for the $50.00 reward, but for the sake
+of my country and the people who are dear to me. I trust that when the war
+is all over I can go back home and truly say, 'I have done my all'."
+
+
+Committees
+
+WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
+
+  R. H. BLEDSOE, JR., _Chairman_
+  E. I. OLIVER
+  B. B. MCGINTY
+  ARTHUR T. GOGGANS
+
+Subscription, $7,000.00
+
+
+RED CROSS DRIVE
+
+  B. B. MCGINTY, _Chairman_
+  MISS AMBER LILES
+  MISS MARION WEBSTER
+
+Subscription, $2,712.00
+
+
+Y. M. C. A.
+
+Subscription, $700.00
+
+
+UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
+
+  R. H. BLEDSOE, JR., _Chairman_
+  MISS AMBER LILES
+
+Subscription, $1,183.00
+
+
+FIRST LIBERTY LOAN
+
+No subscription
+
+
+SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
+
+  B. B. MCGINTY, _Chairman_
+
+Subscription, $105.00
+
+
+SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  R. H. BLEDSOE, _Chairman_
+  B. B. MCGINTY
+  C. L. GIBSON
+  J. M. MILNER
+  W. W. WILLIAMS
+  W. R. WILLIAMS
+  W. J. BRADFIELD
+  C. A. GOGGANS
+
+Subscription, $1,800.00
+
+
+THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  E. I. OLIVER, _Chairman_
+  M. A. SMITH
+  T. J. GOGGANS
+  R. H. BLEDSOE, JR.
+  B. B. MCGINTY
+
+Subscription, $18,000.00
+
+
+FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
+
+  R. H. BLEDSOE, JR., _Chairman_
+
+Subscription, $7,000.00
+
+
+VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN
+
+  R. H. BLEDSOE, JR., _Chairman_
+
+Subscription, $7,000.00
+
+
+                                               Total
+
+  Liberty and Victory Loans                $33,800.00
+  United War Fund                            1,183.00
+  Membership and Subscription Red Cross      2,712.00
+  Y. M. C. A.                                  700.00
+  Salvation Army                               105.00
+  War Saving Stamps                          7,000.00
+
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, _Riverview_
+
+  C. A. GOGGANS
+  C. L. GIBSON
+  R. H. BLEDSOE, CHAIRMAN
+  B. B. MCGINTY
+  J. T. SMITH
+  MISS AMBER LILES, SEC.]
+
+[Illustration: WAR SERVICE STATION, _Riverview_]
+
+[Illustration: RED CROSS WORK ROOM, _Riverview_]
+
+[Illustration: INTERIOR WAR SERVICE STATION, _Riverview_]
+
+
+Committee Report
+
+  Number of letters written to boys in Service         382
+  Number of other letters written                      243
+  Number of Bulletins mailed                           508
+                                                      ----
+                             Total                    1133
+
+  Number of letters received from boys in Service      138
+  Number of packages or parcels forwarded               27
+  Number of visitors to Station                        532
+  Number of packages or parcels forwarded               78
+  Killed in action                                    None
+  Died of disease or wounds                           None
+  Wounded                                                1
+
+
+From the Riverview Red Cross
+
+  Abdominal bandages            70
+  T bandages                    50
+  Triangular bandages           51
+  Shirts                        14
+  Sox, pairs                    13
+  Sweaters                      29
+  Belgian aprons                14
+  Little aprons                 14
+  Comfort kits                  10
+  Petticoats                     5
+  Pajamas, pairs                20
+  Boxes of refugee clothing      3
+  Towels                        75
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: GEORGE H. LANIER _Vice-President and General Manager_ WEST
+POINT MANUFACTURING COMPANY LANETT COTTON MILLS
+
+"_Whose deep and abiding interest made the War Service Stations and this
+memorial possible_"]
+
+[Illustration: R. W. JENNINGS "_Chairman of the Executive Committee War
+Service Stations during the greater part of their existence._"]
+
+[Illustration: WM. H. HUFF _Founder of the War Service Stations_]
+
+
+  _My country, 'tis of thee,
+  Sweet land of liberty,
+    Of thee I sing.
+  Land where my fathers died!
+  Land of the Pilgrim's pride!
+  From ev'ry mountain side
+    Let freedom ring!_
+
+  _My native country, thee,
+  Land of the noble free,
+    Thy name I love.
+  I love thy rocks and rills,
+  Thy woods and templed hills;
+  My heart with rapture thrills
+    Like that above._
+
+  _Let music swell the breeze,
+  And ring from all the trees
+    Sweet freedom's song.
+  Let mortal tongues awake;
+  Let all that breathe partake;
+  Let rocks their silence break,--
+    The sound prolong._
+
+  _Our father's God, to Thee,
+  Author of liberty,
+    To Thee we sing.
+  Long may our land be bright
+  With freedom's holy light;
+  Protect us by Thy might,
+    Great God, our King!_
+
+  _God save our noble men,
+  Send them safe home again,
+    God save our men.
+  Chivalrous, glorious,
+  From work laborious,
+  Send them victorious,
+    God save our men._
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _They came from town and city,
+    From factory, mill and field,
+  At duty's call, they gave their all
+        America to shield._]
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
+
+Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Defenders of Democracy, by Anonymous
+
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