Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-21
THRILLING SIDELIGHTS ON
STATE 5 FIGHTERS IN FRANCE
Harrisburg Represented in the Gallant 10th; Letters From
the Front Give Inkling of Dangerous Work Well Done

man shell which destroyed the 10th
iregimental headquarters. Several
men were killed. This was on
August goth, when the headquarters
were located in an old stone struc-
iture. A French officer who was
lacting as an interpreter while some
German prisoners were being ques-
toned was also killed.
Another interesting chapter tells
of the capture of an important posi-
ton by Major Andersons battalion
and pays eloquent tribute to Major
Anderson himself who led his four
companies Gncluding Captain Stack
pole's) into battle. This battle was
against the Prussian Guards. ad-
tmittedly the picked German troops.
The advancing American lines were
as straight as a parade line, says
the writer, and the fellows all had
a joke as they went over. These
men had been especially trained in
bayonct work at Camp Hancock.
An American newspaper published
at Paris said of the 110ths advance
"A unit as yet unnamed took Hill
- through hail of all kinds of
artillery and machine gun fire.
When American history is written
and this regiment is recorded in 1t
people who know men of the unit
will stand aside and lift their hats as
they pass" This same writer speaks
highly of the service of the Y. Nj.
Z. A. and the Red Cross.
/ Another story tells of a great shelf
falling in the midst of Company NJ
while the soldiers were sleeping,
exhausted from constant fighting for
several days. This bomb shattered
rock and killed seven members
of the company and wounded 26
others. During the heavy fighting
in the last week of July,H Company
Nj was on the front line for three
days and out o touch with the rest
of the regiment, the men being with
out food for time. When they
went over the top the men of this
company came into close quarters
with the Hun and used the bayonet
to good effect. Company NJ went
into the fight with 230 men and
returned with but 100 available for
service, the rest having been killed,
wounded, gassed or reported miss
ing. Then came the bomb which
decreased the company to ~ men.
Captain Stackpole, Captain Wood
end, Lieut.. Crawford and Liut. Clush
were the only commissioned otf1-
GERS who were not killed or wounded
in this engagement.
Punctured German Line
Lieut.. Barron in a letter home.
and who was later wounded, says:
"All l know is that we hit the best of
the German army and punctured 1T
badly" Daniel l.. Marsh writing
after the hard fighting in the last
week of July says: Il worked all
night in. a hospital in Chateau
Thierry and saw the fellows who
were brought in, many of them from
Company NJ"
One officer writing to the home
folks at Latrobe, referring to the
impromptu celebration held in that
place the night the news came of
the big allied counter offensive says:
Gould it have been known what
our boys (the boys of Company NJ
and the 110th) did on the 29th and
30th of July, the lid would have been
pulled off and kept off for week.
enemy, but it was the Dutchman's
backbone; they started north and
have been moving ever since. The
final charge under a barrage was
said by our superiors and the French
to be one of the finest of the war.
This letter declared that the Third
battalion of the 10th broke the
very backbone of the German army
and started the retreat. Another
letter from Sergeant Hillman tells
how Company Nj went over the top
three times.
Major Anderson was killed Sep
tember 5th in the same engagement
in which Captain Stackpole of Har-
risburg, commanding Company NJ,
was severely wounded in both legs
by machine gun fire. Lieut. Barron
is now in this country recovering
from wounds.
Two Moltz brothers, of Harris
burg are fighting with the 10th
and one boy, Private Hawk, was
killed some time ago. There is also
Private Meyer, of Harrisburg, in
Company NJ.