The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-12-30
MEN OF FAMED Both
NOW AT OCLEIhORPE
TENNESSEANS WHO BROKE
HINDENBURG LINE.


HINDENBURG LINE.
South Carolina Boy Relates
Stirring Story of Eleven
Days Attack.
Some fifty members of the famous
Thirtieth division, which is COM
posed principally of Tennessee, NORTH
and South Carolina units. are among
the group OF wounded men from
overseas who are stationed at general
hospital II at Chickamauga park
Thirty-six members OF the fighting
division were included in the fifty
four wounded men who arrived al
general hospital IA at Chickamauga
park Saturday evening. No boys
from Company K, the local nationa
guard company. are included in the
list OF the latest arrivals, though
there are several from other COM
panies of the 117th. The wounded
doughboys arrived at the Termina
station via the Southern in tourist
cars direct from the rehabilitation
hospital at Staten Island. New York
The soldiers were met at the station
by q long train OF ambulances and
removed to the big hospital. wher,
they were assigned to various wards
In the bunch were some men more
or less seriously maimed. There was
only one litter patient. One dough.
boy was minus leg, while. another
Of the arrivals 10 minus all but q
fragment Of "A once perfecss> Eoes
william J. Correll. Company q
120th infantry. Thirtieth division. hal
the remarkable record of going ovel
the top eleven times In eleven day.
, and each time for big dent in thu
once formidable Hindenburg line. Or
the twelfth day. as the old Thirtieti
men sprang fearlessly over the tor
In the face of the withering machin,
gun and shrapnel fire, Private Cor
rell was struck in the back OF III,
head by five or six fragments o
bursting shrapnel. which put him ou
OF the fight in an unconscious con
dition. The young man halls from
| Greenvilie, s. c., and wears two golt
service stripes. He has not beer
home In nearly four years, havini
been In the Philippines and later II
Mexico with the national guard
| which he Joined at the border durinl
/ the recent trouble. He secured
, five days furlough this morning an'
left for home early this afternoon
His Homecoming will be a complet,
surprise. He has been back onl.
about two weeks and has not com
municated with his parents since hi
arrival. since he believed he would b.
sent home very shortly. He state
he Is as well as ever, the wound
having healed, and he seems none tn
worse for his narrowing experience.
1t was near st. Quentin that his com
pany made the record of going owe
week and a half. According to Privat,
: Correll's statement. the Germans hat
, themselves securely dug in and hat
constructed concrete dugouts equipped
with electric lights and fitted up in rea
style. for a good long stay. so the,
thought. poster was found in on,
sector OF the Hindenburg line whlcl
| was taken over by the doughboys VIII,
got the Huns started toward the Rhin'
and KEEP, them going until the day tn,
armistice was signed. which stated tha
the line could never be broken by th'
Americans since 1t had successful,
| withstood the French and English.
A number of the wounded men whit
! have arrived at the hospital within tn,
! last few days have been given fur
1 loughs to return to their homes for
| short visit Some fifteen or twenty o
| the soldiers secured furloughs thi!
morning.
The list OF wounded doughboys wht
| arrived Saturday evening contains 6
number OF names familiar Throughout
the state. Frank Cheek, of Nashville
and Glenn Jones. presumably OF thu
Athens family. among them
The list follows:
l avI t,,fn
try; Corpl. Walford J. Stephens, 11stf
infantry; Pvt. Dave Wilson. 117th in.
! fantry; Pvt. Herman l.. Dhoron, 117tt
infantry; Pvt. James A. Forster. 1l7tt
infantry; Corpl. Charlie B. Ewell. 117tf
infantry: Corpl. Walter w. Kennedy
1l7th infantry; Pvt. Carl b. Fuqua
, 18th infantry; Pvt. Tracy T.. Felter
120th infantry; Pvt. Joseph +. Adlan
145th infantry: Pvt. John Cubba, l40tt
field artillery; Pvt. Oscar S. Holder
117th infantry; Pvt. Colon Melvin. 119tt
infantry; Pvt; Frank Polly. 1l9th In
fantry; Pvt. Benz. Gallentine. s2oth in
fantry; Pvt. Oscar Campbell. 12oth In.
fantry: Corpl. Frank s, Cheek, s56th
Infantry; Pvt Winford B. Armstrong
354th infantry; Pvt. Knox Ammons
listh Infantry; Pvt. Frank Stayale
12Oth infantry; Pvt. Norris Booten
157th aero squadron; Pvt. Lonnie Un-
derwood. Iisth infantry: Pvt. Walter c.
johnson, 343rd infantry; Pvt. Fred H.
Haynes. 345th infantry; Pvt. Albert C.
Harris. 117th infantry: Pvt. William L.
Mowery. Hath machine gun battalion;
Pvt. Harry Wagner. cath regiment;
Corpl Albert Kennedy. 10th infantry;
Corpl William Johnson. 11sth infantry;
Pvt. James Jones. 117th infantry; Pvt.
Fred Williams. 12oth infantry: Pvt. John
l.. McGee. 117th infantry; Pvt. Dewey
Kinds. 26th infantry; Pvt. Tob l.. links.
120th infantry; Pvt. Ciem Jones. casual
infantry; Pvt. Leonard Huckaby. 12th
infantry: Pvt. Thurman Fox. 12oth in
fantry; Pvt. Marion Gray. 119th infan-
try: Pvt. James A.. Scott. 117th infan-
try: Pvt. William H. Bragdon. 120th
infantry; Pvt. David Rains 117th in
fantry; Pvt. William A. Almond. 117th
infantry; Corpl. Melvin Hutchins, 12oth
infantry; Pvt. Henry ]. Arnold. 18th
infantry; Sergt. James d. Childress,
117th infantry ;Corpl Claude X. Win
gate, 11sth infantry: Pvt. Alfred French.
167th aero squadron ASSC.: Pvt James
T. Moore. l14th machine gun battalion;
Pvt. william ]. Correll. 120th Infantry;