The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-03
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Sergt. Tom Whitworth of Company F (Gadsden), 167th infantry, has writ ten one of the most detailed letters yet received in Alabama regarding the work of the old Fourth Alabama. While he devotes most of his attention to the men of his own company, what he has to say will be of interest all over the state.
 Sergt. Whitworth has just returned to the United States to act as instruc- tor and his letter is to a friend in Gadsden. He writes:
 q guess you will be some surprised to find me back in the U. s. A. again I was sent back as instructor for the next draft, and made a quick trip over, as it has been but 12 days since I left the old outfit It doesn't seem possible that last Sunday two weeks ago I was iii one of the biggest battles of the war Guess you will want to hear about what we did while we were ever there, so here is history from the time WIS landed up to the present, 50 here goes:
 LANDED IN ENGLAND
 Landing in England, we stayed thers for five or six days and then went across the channel, and as there were not very many of our troops in France at that time it was hard for us to get supplies. We made 90-miic hike IT. two feet of snow, weren't fed any to0 well, and as we hadn't been paid of for couple of months, smoking to- haccc. cigarettes and money were as scarce as Y. M. c. A. men n the front trenches. We hiked in snow. ate iii snow and slept in snow. We finally reached our training quarters and drilled until late in February.
 We then took over quite sector, which was being held by the French 1t was quiet at that time, but after the Americans had been in there for a while business picked up. Our artillery woke them up and they soon found out who being pulled off every night on all parts of the sector. When they would come over on us, very few of them would go back, and when we pulled a raid we generally brought back few Boches.
 We stayed on this sector for three months when we were relieved by an- other division. We thought we were gong DdCk TOT rest, so caught d train and rode couple of nights and then hiked 20 miles the next night. When we came to rest camp, all of the boys were tickled to death as they thought we were there for long rest.
 READY FOR DRIVE
 'swell, we did rest Gall that day) and hiked IS miles the next night into an- other sector. We learned that the Boche were going to make big drive in a few days. We stayed there and waited until July 15. when the drive started.
 They put over six-hour barrage, and we kept our gas masks on for six hours. We then pulled them off, as the Boche began to advance. They ad- vanced in mass formation, and they were so thick you would shoot at one, miss him and kill another. When they would get close to our trenches we would give them few hand grenades and thin them out. They tried to drive us back, but our line was firm and they gave it up after five and one half hours. We had them stacked up in front of our wire two and three deep and it was the same way all over the 5o-mile front. officers told me.
 'I was sent out on patrol two nights later and we walked on the dead for a couple of miles. and as dead Boche doesn't smell any too good, the odor was something fierce. We had to put on our gas masks to keep from getting sick.