The sun., 1919-04-13
BY ARTHUR MeKEOGH,
Former Lieutenant Of 30eth Infan.
try, u. 8. A.

w nth a heavy pail over every
M mans soul after the losses
among our officers on the
fateful night of August 81, the LIST
Battalion, 3OSth. made a relief attack
the following night on the Vesle.
Lieut.. Richard B. Sheridan was killed
at the head of his men. Lieut.. Clin-
ton L. Whiting. afterward MORALLY
wounded in the Argonne, did admirable
work in getting the majority of de-
pleted Company A across the vesle,
where they dug in and held.
others Jared Worse.
This was the experience of but a
single battalion. Other battalions were
farlng even worse. Only two officers
out of twenty-six were left for duty
after the Third Battalion Of the 305th
bad been in the line one day. Major
Kenneth Budd-now Lieutenant-C Colo
nel-and nearly his entire staff Of the
Second Battalion, 30Sth, were sassed
in Vile Savoye. One of his companies,
H. with the exception of two men, was
total casualty from gas.
Lieut.. Luther J. Callahan of the
3o5th Medical Staff was tending the
wounded in the Vile Savoye first aid
station one night when shells fired the
roof Of the building. Aided by Private
Arthur Cotter he whipped Off mis- mask
and climbed to the roof and under
heavy shell and machine gun fire beat
out the flames. The citation award
ing them the d. S. G. states that
Lieut.. Callahan lat once resumed the
care OF the wounded and carried on
until his eyes became so irritated from
the gas that 1t was impossible for him
to see."
Instances of individual bravery al
most without end could be told here,
and even then countless acts of fear
less daring and noblest self sacrifice
would have been omitted, because in
the melee they were not witnessed,
or because actors and spectators
never lived to tell of them.
Other Heroic Deeds.
How Lieut.. Peter Wallace of the
305th with a patrol of eight men swan
the wire entagled Vesle and did not
return; how Lieuts. William Mack
Leonard Cox and Sergeant John
Blohm, all of the 305th. with nine men
crossed the Vesle by means of a rope
penetrated the German advanced ma
chine gun posts in Bazoches and after
INJECTING losses returned with infor-
nation that the enemy were retiring
how men of the 302d Engineers, under
Capts. Gilbert Crawford and Harry La
Fetra. worked night after night under
demoralizing fire TO bridge the river
how Lieut.. Arthur Robinson of the
305th Field Artillery dashed into q
smouldering ammunition dump neal
Cherry Chartreuvre to save the body
OF brother officer from incineration;
how Corporal Forrest Carman of the
302d Military Police left shelter dur.
ing bombardment to go to the aid Of
infantrymen, twenty-eight of whom
had been wounded and five killed by 9
single shell, and as result was him.
self wounded-these achievements thai
earned the ID. s. C. and many cour.
ageous feats TO rival them will glow
from the pages OF the divisions his
tory.
II any single engagement stood out
during the three weeks Of death while
the Seventy-seventh held the vesle 1,
vas a mopping up attack by Company
q. supported by Company II OF the
306th. together with machine gun de-
tachments. on Bazoches. The raiders
were 70 enter the village from thre'
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