The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-11-14
American Expeditionary Forces

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France, Oct. ID, 1918
Fight, fight, fight, and then fight
again, and rush on, and on and on to
fight more. This is the way we have
done now for almost month. You
simply cannot take in all. 1t is too
much for the average mans brain to
take in 1t is just one mad rush all
the time. cannot tell you or even
start, it is beyond my ability to tell
at least to write it now while my
brain is in a whirl. cannot tell you
of the killed orewounded yet awhile.
l will just say my best friend is gone.
He died leading Company l in the
most desperate fight that has taken
place this year.
| / have commanded the Sd Brigade
through all the fighting. This bat
TALON has taken more prisoners and
killed more Germans and liberated
more French people than any other
in this Division, and this Division has
made name for itself that it may
well be proud of. Some of my men
simply went wild, mad, almost in
sane. Some men in Company killed
as many as Z, 8 10 and one man l3
men,.
Great God, you should have seen
the dead, the wounded, the dying!
Men fought on for hours with severe
wounds, just simply would not give
up as long as they were needed.
| The right kind of men have no
time to think of self, to think of fear
or any thing, but simply to push the
fight and to have but one thought,
and that is to win.
Cheraw may be proud of her men,
for not man failed to do his part.
John Tracey, the best amongst the
men, next Mcdonald, Corp. Bundy,
Corp Womack and Corp Terrell-all
were shining lights There were 9TH
ers from Chesterfield county who did
nobly but l name the Cheraw BOYS
who stuck up in the right way.
OF course Mulloy did well, and
Sergt. Coward, too, until he left us
for school.
| 1t is no longer fun, it is too serious.
When you find an old lady killed
by the hand of the dogs your blood
boils, and it is hard to hold men
down, and oneself too. Oh, l tell
you 1T is hard to keep from killing
all you come across. You should see
the countenances of some Of the pris-
oners.
l am feeling we'll and can eat al
most anything from horse down to
a rat, but l have not tried the rat
yet. Horse is good eating when one
is hungry, but it is very seldom issued.
l feel that am going back hons
and then l will tell you all that can
remember.
Some of the first wounded are back
in the line again and one Company |
man has just had his second dose or
wound. In some sense of physical
courage l am more like brute than
human, but when l look at the faces
of the dead men that / loved / can't
| 'iS'P ooI Siy, put lHc nchI IlOHlent
the burning hatred in my heart, and
my ungovernable temper, have dried
the tears and nothing at that moment
would / hesitate to do if the Boche
should come my way
My best friend is gone, and hope
that God will spare me long enough
to avenge his death We left them
dead and dying in heaps, but how
many lives of Germans was Mulloy's
worth? | am not just able to say
He is. not the only one, but he wa:
so loyal, so true to me. OF late he
leaned upon me so, and had looked
upon my words as law. Not for 6
second questioning one little thing
He always went off with alright, my
Captain, you are right" "You arS
always right"
hope to get Clyde back, as he i:
tresure, too, and he would be worth
his weight in gold right now to me
l cannot tell you all about a bat
tie. l would not know which way tC
start or where to stop