Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-11-06
STORIES OF BRAVERY DISPLAYED
BY FIGHTING IRISH AMERICANS
Boys of Ninth Massachusetts and Fighting Snh Of New York
Die Fighting With Smiles on Their Lips but Huns pay
Yank, Taken Prisoner by Three Huns, Drops Gre
made and Kills Captors and Self.

mans and an American as good as
dead in Berli.l. So | let her GO
"He tried TO raise his head and
look around.
Never mind, boy, you got them
ALL assured him.
'Any--any chance for me, docT he
said.
Il didn't answer and he knew. His
remaining hand erept beneath his
blood-soaked tunic, gripped something
tight and stayed there After mo-
ment he spoke again.
Doe he said, You know all the
boys around bur square. l wish they
could know | was game.
And, doc his voice was weaker
will you-will you tell my mother
I had-I had this when-I went
SLOWLY his hand came out; slowly
it opened; that boys hand strangely
OLD and worn with the bloedstains and
CRIME, Slowly 1t opened and there In
the blackened palm glistened tiny
bright silver crucifx. He was dead"
Won't Stop Fighting.
It's Chaplain Hanley who tells the
story of the Sixty-ninth. They refer
10 the chaplain as holding the clerical
record for mileage in No Mans land
They can't keep him of patrols. Chap
lyin Hanley knows the story of most
of the casualties of the Sixty-nlnth
He subStantiaies the statement that
not man has been killed or wounded
. nv he.
the regiment has encountered in pitch
ed and open battle three of the FIVE
divisions of the PruSsian Guard at one
time and another of its career Need
less 10 say, the PruSSiau Guard divis-
I Ion can make no such boast. Father
i Haulcy says the hardest time they
+ have with casualties in the Sixty-ninth
+ Is to make them stop fighting when
they're hit. He is himself Just recov-
ering from wounded leg.
"The officers are as bad as the men. -
/ he declares. The day got this
/ wound | was working up with Captain
Huriry's company. They'd been driv-
IN back a little by vicious German
j baIrage and they were on little ridge.
They'd got orders to hold 1t, and tbs,
did. for four days When they left L
I hey went ahead
well, | was up there this day and
+ ! heard of a wounded man ahead aud
n little Ia one side, just over the ed.e
+ of the hill toward the German lines.
l told the captain I'd better 90 to him
and he wanted tn detail couple of
men to help me. l declined and start
I Ell OFF by myself. crawling on my stom-
ach underneath stream of machine
gun bullets that would have clipped
me had | raised on my elbow.
I'D gone perhaps 80 yards when |
heard a rustic in the grass behind me.
and there were two of Hurley's boys
{ They said the captain had sent them
To carry me back If anything happier d.
/ Now listen to the rest of 1t. ] sent
them chasing back to their company
and crawled ahead. Just as | got to
this ridge the bullet got me- Ny
wounded man was across an omen
, space and | knew couldn't get to him.
| was afraid if | waited till dark I'd
bleed TO death, so l put .ourniquet
on nay leg and started back.
Forgot About Wound.
Now all of this Is just preliminary.
They got me hack TO hospital a day
later and I'd hardly got settled in my
cot when who should they put down
IN .he cot next to me but Captain Hur-
ley himself. He was badly smashed
up in the leg, too. The leg had been
dressed AT the dressing station and
when they got him settled they started
to take off his clothes. AS they pulled
al his shirt he let out a howl.
The SHIRT was stuck to his chest
with blood. He had wound there
that the doctors at the dressing sta
ton had never discovered.
why captain said the doctor,
looking puzzled at the casualty tag,
ii doesn't say anything about the chest.
When did You get this oneY
What day is this? asked the cap
tain.
Wednesday, said nurse.
Now, let's see said the cantain.
Chaplain. you were up there yester-
day. l must have got this on Mon
| day.
All the time he'd been sending men
out to take care of me he'd had that
hole in his own chest and the shirt
frozen over his big heart with his own
| blood.
you're captain / said to him.
You're always cautioning the boys TO
report wounds and get them cared for
You stayed up there two days and you
| never even told me about it,
Honest, chaplain he replied, Il
| forgot all about it. You know we had
orders to hang onto that dinky hill.
And we were awful busy"
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