The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-11-10
CITADEL MEN IN FRANCE.
Lieut.. Morarity Tells Of Seeing Old
College Mates at Different Points
OH Battle Front.
News and Courier.

Lieut.. james L. Morlar4ty, OF the
United States marine corps, some
where in France" has written the
following letter, under date of Au-.
gust 26 to a former fellow cadet at
the Citadel:
For the e/first time in quite while
will settle down to answer a few
letters which seem to collect very
seriously. Your letter was an agree
able surprise and 1 enjoyed reading
every line. 1t sounded like a Citadel
letter.
believe 1 have met the whole
crowd over here from the Citadel.
Jimmie Holmes, Mood, Barney Legge
ana Spann are in the army. Floss
Elmore is helping the quartermaster
OF the Third battalion back at the
landing port about a couple Of hum
dred miles from here. i have seen
Hope a couple of times. Yarborough
Is tugging at the harness somewhere
lthe place I don't know I think
he is still at the base. Muldrow and
myself are the only Citadel men upon
the front; 1 mean, of course, in the
marines. 1 haven't seen Mood or
Holmes; 1 have seen Spann and Legge
somewhere around here. Muldrow
and myself hang together pretty we'll.
You see both of us have been pri-
Yates and drum majors.
L have a young fellow in my
platoon named Dobson who put in
three years at Fort Moultrie in the
coast artillery. Last night he made
remark by chance about the Isle of
Palms and Ciadel Square At first
L thought l was half asleep when he
started to talk real stuff SO I
checked him on it. 1 then found out,
that he had served in Fore Moultrie.
Last night the band played down
in the village. G was and am still
on anti-aircraft duty for twenty-four
hours). They played the same pieces
which 1 heard SO many times at Sum
4
| dress parade Even the pieces played
at our mess halls One in particular
made me feel as though could spend
a few more years at the Citadel. 1t
was the song which you and I put
words to in order to sing at the Cit
adel-Clemson game at Orangeburg. I
think it was The Return of the
Forty-seventh Regiment Anyhow,
the words run:
Goodbye for you, poor Clemson:
AT last your race is run
And we have come here lust tn see
the fun etc.
Tl -
Remember it? Well, I do.
The Y. NJ. G. A. has put up q shack
mere and is starting the good work
OF supplying the men with writing
material and reading meter.
several interesting things have
happened here within the last two
weeks. I had a chance to see what
night attack was like. 1t surely .
is a funny thing to watch. Every
thing black as coal, then. suddenly
up goes rocket or a little balloon
to light up the ground front. Men
crawl around and strip.s barbed wire
or go out to clean UP a .rench. or to
raid. l have seen several Boche air
planes fly at great altitude overhead
and have seen two shot down.
THE eats are fine. You know
what fine means. We are living on
the fat of the lamb and incidentally
some Of the gristle. A chicken came
up to the galley and gave itself up.
We tried it out on our plates. I haven't
seen any hard tack since have ar
rived, except at inspection of the packs
when each man must show his emcr.
gency ration.
by the way, this place, some
where in France is more than two
thousand years old. The old Roman
walls, now crumbling pile of ruins,
can be seen and covers have been
found, one which was made SAC years
before Christ.
L am going to try to get permits
sion to send the explanation of the
new French drills to Major John w.
Moore. 1 think that he would like 70
try them out. No more parade ground
STUFF. We have formations for pa
rades, reviews, etc, but ehey are very
simple. 1 am glad Major Moore Is
the commandant of cadets. The col
lege needed him for SucL