Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-27
Members of Eighty-Second
Division Bring News of At
Ianta Officers in France,
1l9 Reach Fort Thursday
BY LINTON X. STARE

II was GeOrglaS own morning
when 119 casualties, three of them
officers and nineteen litter cases,
were admitted to the base hospital
at Fort MCPHERSON Thursday.
General Pershing himself brought
them in" said an excited sergeant
as the troops detrained. And, 10
and behold, it was General Pershing' S
double. for Captain Harry West Roll
llngs, of Lost City, Va, looks about
as much like the commander of the
A. +. F. as if they were twin
brothers.
There you go. Same old bull"
he said as the photographer made
crowded around for a look at Gen
eral Pershing' in disguise-sure it rs,
Buddy. l seen him in France"
Lieutenant NJ. E. Winchester. of
Thomasville, GA city in Gods
country" he described twas Sec
ond in command of the train.
The wounded brought news of Ma
jor Clark Howell, Jr., of Captain
Howard Mccall, and of Captain j..
Wade Conkling, who was killed in
action. They were boys of Atlanta,
of Georgia, of the Eighty-second..
Most of them came over on the
DeKalb. a ship the captain once, gave
ceived in the terrific lighting in the
Argonne forest when the Eighty-sec-
ond division wrote it's name in his
tory. They brought tsories of days
when their only food was hard tack
dropped them by aviators-hard-ta ok
that tasted like cake" They IN
Jones Reported Missing
Lieutenant Ernest j.. Visanski, OF
Charleston, S. c., company A, SIX
teenth infantry, and a brother of At
torney Walter Visanski and DR.. 5.
A. Visanski, of Atlanta.
Lieutenant Arthur h. Fuller, OF
Florida, a litter case, member of the
old company of Major Clark Howell.
Jr., company l., Three Hundred and
Twenty-sixth infantry.
Private Fred Crisp, of Trion, Ca,
a youngster whose voice grew husky
when he learned from a Journal re-
Conklng, was killed in action.
Private J. II. Duke, of Elmodei,
Ga. member of Captain Howard Nc
Calls company, who was scared
worser comm over" when his ship
listed to forty-five degrees, than he
was in all of half dozen battles.
Private Charles Jones, of Atlanta,
son of Jerome Jones, editor of the
Journal of Labor, who got home m
time to read in the casualty list that
he was reported missing in action,
and who told how the report started
when he was cut off from his COM
rades for a day and a half.
Also there were First Lieutenant
]. Z. Bell, company c, Three Hun
bred and Thirty-fifth engineers, a
Texan, who was wounded in the leg;
Private Joseph f. Sims, a litter case
of company d, Atlanta's own regl-
ment of Seventeenth engineers; Prl-
vate Lutt Jackson, of Lukeston, Ga.
Private ALT Lewis, Rome, Ga, One
Hundred and Sixty-fifth infantry;
Private Carl G. Moore, Bremen, Ga.
company A, Three Hundred and
go Irwin street, Atlanta, Three Hun
dred and Eighth engineers; Private
l.. G.. Pope, Leesburg, Ca, company
G. One Hundred and Eleventh intan-
try; Privates A. H. Fuller, Robert
Pring and Ben Screre, Three Hundred
and Twenty-sixth infantry, Eighty
r. Cobb, Three Hundred and Twenty
sion.
The special train with the wound
ed as its passengers reached Fort
Mcpherson several hours late. The
efficiency of the organization Of the
adjutant, Captain NJ. Nc. Dougherty,
was again demonstrated in the
speedy way with which the men were
made comfortable in the various
wards.
Private Crisp hadn't heard of the
death of his captain. J. Wade Conk-
ling, formerly Unitarian minister
here, when The Journal reporter
found him in his ward.