Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-11
HEROES OF VIRGINIA
RELATE WAR TALES
Wounded Men at Newport News
Say State Can Well
Be Proud.
FOUGHT WITH BOTH DIVISION
Prefer Girls of This Common
wealth to Those of France,
Is Their Declaration.
FOUGHT WITH BOTH DIVISION
Bl. sTAFF connEspoNDENT.

BY STAFF CoRREspoNDEST.
NEWPORT NEWS. Feb. 1o.--The
undyins glory of the E;ghtieth Div!-
sion. gained on many hard fought
fields from the A-to;s front to the
Argonno Forest, is attested 10 by Vir-
ginla veterans who have come back
wounded to the United States dcba-ka-
zion hospital at Hampton.
You can just tell en-" said one of
them. that the Eigh,ieth is made up
Heinies won't forge, en- SOON
Something like thirty wounded Vir-
g!nians from tho Old Dominions divi-
slon in the National Army and other
units were among the patients landed
az Newport Ncws on Sunday morning
from the Dutch ship Rijndam. All of
them we're taken TO the dcbariSntton
hospital At Hampton, which in other
days was the home OF disabled soldiers
and sailors Of the United States. princi-
paliy those who fought in the sixties
The old veterans were scattered con-
rcn!ently among other institutions in
tac country 10 make room for the he
roes Of another var and another age
VIRGINIA CASUALs
With the wounded men there came
three casual companies conta ming
Nirsin!ans who took part in the g~at
VAT In the two companies OF white
troops there We're cighty-two men and
enc officer. The third company con-
tanned abou; :hc same number OF COL
orcd veterans. These for the time be-
on; Of Newport News. In the course
Of fcw days they will be transferred
TO Camp Lee for final disposition, mary
OF them TO be discharged 10 civil life
train. containing 500 wounded men.
will be started from Newport News to
WesthaInpso:i. This contingent will
contain a few Virginia men. Those
hampton only long enough TO be dis
tributed to the hospitals nearest their
homes.
For his pains in destroying Ger
man pillbox on the morning Of No
vembcr 4, Private J. s. Parr. of the
Three Hundred and Seventeenth In
marie County, received nasty ma
chinc-gun wound in the arm.
TELLS OF ENCOUNTER
WITH HUN FIGHTERS
1t xas w9rth 1 i, sl!ongh; PTiya,e e
us on patrol that morning. Just a.,
eSversd that Meine is'sh' had pet pssi i
eeaers @ - for @ this sort f" OF work bu, naS Shas @
gives The 'inviia.ions u VASE Was asiing stt
and pS VIC decided ths; Heine "vi Was " a Ts. lie,
tie too fresh. Wo crept back, came
up on both sides of tho pill-box. and
e IsErX result TO Sas sh9w %e s coofl Sack
our lines With three Germans and two
max!ms, Three of ihe Jerry:s didn't
S ye; tho he; wa Var hi has ended. e "a" got ""Hm oMe
and my pal two. My arm had n hoie
IN it.. and TWO OF the fellows had pune
,urcd legs. but The captain shook hands
SO what's the difference"
Corporal r. J. anderson. of Alexan-
dria; di; who fought With The Three Hun
almost speechiess as TO his experiences
in The big show until. by, chance he
mentioned the name of his captain,
PRAISES HIS CAPTAIN
AS BEST IN FRANCE
, Anything you say about him won't
ne hey was the best officer in the regi.-
ne was the best in the army. He was
a good fellow and 4 erea, captain.
ana a,n., that's goi,n;g sUms Anybody, in
the Hcincs missed him | doni know.
nu; he was the only commissioned
officer left in, the company when /
Corporal Anderson said he missed
the smiles OF tho statue OF Liberty,
but Newport News didn', seem 10 be
draapcd in mourning.
Il don't know whether I'm dream
Ing or not" the corporal declared, hut
I'm feeling kinda different anyhow
The old u. :. y. surely seems good
nov. J see the newspapers say a lot
about US fellows failing in love with
tho French natlamoisellcs. but the
ones around Alexandria vii! look more
like queens than ever TO nc
EIGH H'TIETII HAS SEEN SOME
OF HARDEST FIGHTING
The EiEhticth Division. hcadquar-
ters OF which arrived in France on
May 8 Of last, year. has seen some OF
the hardest lighting on the western
front The men received their first
while serving with the mon Of Great
Britain. Later they took part in driv-
ing, the Germans from tho old ST. Mi
hiei salient, which marked the first
great drive of the American army act
ing as an individual unit. Nlr,os,
continuously it fought with tho allied
forces which swept. the Germans
through the, ttrgonnc forest until the
fateful day when Prussian nigh, dis
cardcd machine guns for white naE
of mercy. During the war the d!vi-
sion captured l03 officers and l.71O
men. Sc pieces of artillery and 64l ma
chine guns. and advanced it's lines
thirty kiIometers.
Among the other Virginians i'm the
hospital al Hampton wero Corporal
Grant Kennedy. of the Fourth Infan-
try, who in ten months OF service was
twice wounded. at Chatcau-Thierry and
In the Argonne. and Private IT. r.
Williams. of the Ninth Infantry.
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