The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-09-13
son on Mr.. AND MRs. COwGu-L
WOUNDED N FRANCE

AH' h"hN iHifiH 'hiNl'h wv hH'H'
Of Everett n. Cowgill. Of Columbus.
New Mexico Tuesday. ~ wounded
severely. The parents Of the hoy,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. Cowgirl. had re-
ceived the information Of his be-
ing wounded several days before,
aud since that time have received
letter from him. which Is publish
ed below.
Everett w. CowRil Is member
of the 18th Infantry, and was here
with his regiment IN 1918. lie was
member of The punitive expedition
IN Mexico, and hardly stopped after
coming out of Mexico until he ar
rived IN France.
The letter rs dated August 7. The
writer Is now in a hospital some
where In France.
DEAR Mlnhrr:
VIII try Ia write you another let
ter la lei YOU know that am In the
hospital again. don't know how long
I will stay. hut suppose u will be
for some time at least. for my nerves
are all shot 10 pieces. and at times
cant control the muscles IN my
arms. hut gucs viii get over II
after a good rest
viii try Ia write you an account
nf the ilghi ! was In, ! don't know
what they will call The battle, hut I
should think that ihe 'scgaUi hattie
NJ tho Marine would hc a good name
fnr A. II started On the morning
of the 18th of July At i:3b n. m We
had hiked all night over the most
conReslrd roads I ever saw. Col
umns of troops. hig guns on motor
trucks. tanks. and everything else
that n takes tn make mp an army II
iook us all niRht Ia hike about ten
kilomelcrs eight miles and Il was
awiuly dark. We arrived at our
Jumping uiT place That is wiwrr our
ndVance started nj about ism and
the Germans sure we're getting cN-
cited for he sure was sending up
lots of distress signals.
There was an awful noise FninF
IN behind ~. made ht the tanks,
artillery. and yarious other things,
moving forward. hul II such a little
thing like that excited him sup
pose at i:35 he gol 81 excited that
hc thought he'll had broke loose Tor
that was when our artillery started
aud II sure was some harrafc, too.
and We followed right behind II lor
about eight kilomeicrs I've milr-l
before We stopped, and encountered
very little resistance, because the
Germans would throw mp their
hands and hollow "kamcradc' a.
fast as We could get 10 them, and
there sure was a iol uf them put M
their hands too, ! guess you have
learned that from the papers. My
company also captured four small
and Ave large guns, and another
thing. IN the whole first days lpht-
iup I never saw hut lwn Amerirau
soldiers that had been killed, hut I
saw several thai were wounded
suppose the reason for that Is
that We encountered such little r..
sistance The tanks done good work
too. hut we advanced toward three
German guns lill within 2OO yards
and they kept firing, and they caught
seven tanks on hill behind MS aud
destroyed four Of them before they
got away We then stopped for the
day and dug ms little holes IN The
ground for protection and every
thing was quiet from them until the
next morning, the stiffness only bro
ken occasionally by the roar of our
guns, or by tho hum Of an aeroplanc
or the rattle of machinc gun.
There were several deep dug outs
In the line of advance where the
Roche were stubborn and would moi
Surrender. So all we done was io lass
four or five hand Rrenades into II
and then " there were any able 10