The Elbert County tribune., 1919-07-04
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CORPORAL Walter f. Gaultney Eleventh In
fantry Fifth Division.-Corpora Gaultney was
picked out by his commander as an example OF
his finest type of soldier. Gaultney was wounded;
that couldn't stop him. Alert. ingenious, speedy,
needless of personal danger, he went at the Hun
like Samson with the well-known jaw bone-only
this young Samson's jaw bone was that nice long
trench knife you see strapped along his pack
Just what this young fellow did is not told evil
IDENTITY he is natural-born fighter and the regular
army training has made him pretty nearly 100 per
cent efficient al-around fighting man.
Private II. ]. Devereaux. Company NJ. One Hun
dred and Twenty-ffth Infantry, Thirty-second d.
visIon.-When his company crossed the River
Ourcq and captured the Bols Pelger. the corporal
of his squad fighting beside Private Devereaux
wounded by machine gun fire. The corporal
fell to the ground and the enemy continued to fire
on the wounded man. Mad clear through Dever-
eaux sprnted across the open and, snglehaHded.
attacked and put the machine gun out Of action.
Greatest Feat of War.
1t Is also known that Chase has painted a por-
trait of Sergt. Alvin C. York of Pail Mall, Fentress
county. Tenn. Company G, Three Hundred and
Twentyeighth infantry, Eighty-second division. 1t
Is be hoped that the painter did first-cass job,
for Yorks exploit was probably the greatest ndi-
vidual feat of the York, then corporal, on
October g. 1918. killed 20 Germans, captured 1872
prisoners, including major and three lieutenants.
put 35 machine guns out of business. and thereby
broke up an entire battalion which was about to
countefattack against the Americans on Hill 225
In the Argonne sector. Chatel- -Chehery. He
outfought the machine gun battalion with his rifle
and automatic pistol. There other
Americans with York, but it was York's fight and
but for him not man of them would have come
out alive except as prisoner.
Moreover, the man and his home and his sur
roundings intensely interesting, being entirely
out of the ordinary. Here few outstanding
facts
He was born December 49, 1885, stands feet
and tips the scales at 2O5 pounds. He is red head
ed. He is dead shot-absolutely sure death with
either rifle automatic; in the of his fight
he killed Il German lieutenant and seven men who
charged him from distance of 20 yards He is n
fighter who gets cooler and cooler the danger
grows.
He used to drink. gamble and He quit
in 1915 and joined the Church of Christ and
Christian Union, of which he is second elder and
singing leader. He a conscientious objector
until convinced by Capt. e. @. B. Danforth at
Camp Gordon that the Bible proved 1t his duty to
fight. He believes in n personal God and looks
upon his successful exploit a miracle. Blessed
is the peacemaker,'" he says
He is farmer and blacksmith and provides for
his mother, one brother and three small sisters (;
the other six brothers and sisters married.
His forbears for generations were Tennesseeans.
When York landed the other day the Tennessee
society took possession of him and tried to make
him feel that New York city was his.
OF course York having the time of his life,
yet really, you know, he regretting that he
wasn't home to lead the singing at the Possum
Trot spring revival.
And ut the Possom Trot revival, In the valley
of which Pail Mall with its 20 houses is the cross
roads metropolis, Yorks neghbors prouder
over the fact that he had kept straight" than
over what he had done to the Hun Besides while
Alvin was "all right" God had had him in charge
since the day he enlisted "It wasn't Alvin" said
Grace Williams who Is waiting for him, "it was
the hand Of God"
Which reminds us of the first words Of the Hun
major captured by York
'sBritIsh?" he asked.
american" said York
Good Lordl"