The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-01-10

am gay as q bird as everybody
seen Ito be since the armistice.
Well u guess ! win see you all
again before long. as ! understand
they ere eoineto send a million Of
us ba K across the pond as soon as
possible. Am sure | can not get.
back by Christmas but expect to be
there BY Spring. You emember |
told Yen all before ! went to the
the frrnt that if | didn't Get back
by sistmas | would be there by
Eaef.
mill tell you some things that
hal hned while at the front. We
were stationed near the city Of Lem
ons and when We left there boarded
a train for the front. We landed
abopt forty miles front about sum.
down. and with our heavy packs
|hiked until midnight The rest Of
the night we lay out by 1.-THE road
~
side in the chilled open. The next
day we we're all separated and boys
that ! knew were put in strange
companies and ! did not know a
single man In my company We
slept in very good places that night.
Had wire cots with straw on them
and q blanket. The next day we
Drilled. taking bayonet and other
: Uses and at night we started
veline toward the front. We
would march q while and rest
awhile till about three o'clock in
the morning. We stopped in the
woods, unrolled our packs, put our
little tent covers overs. and having
good rain coats, made II very well
that night. We got up in the
morning and had to stay in the
woods all day except some few thai
went out for water. We had a good
sleep that day and at night started
again In the rain, travelling mos,
all night The next night we trav'
eled again all night and had t.
stop and rest many times. Il
seemed. at times that | could hardl,
make 1t, but did. Some Of the
Lboys fell out and had to come on Ii
the day time We travelled ont
more night until 2 o'clock, and un
der shell fire, got into the dug-outs
1t rained the latter part Of ever,
might and part Of the day. w
lstayed about two miles from tn,
main front for nearly two weeks
The Americans had lots of artiler!
and thousands and thousands o
iboys were going up to the front
When we were prepared order
came on the 18th Of September tina
we we're going to start a big driv'
1.-THE next day. That was when tn
big drive started on the VerduI
front. We were under enemy shell
/ fire a week before going over ans
of course some were killed. w,
started over that night and stopped
Fclose to the Huns. Our artiller.
boys began a heavy barrage. throw
ling the big shells from behind Vi
lat the Huns. 1t was a solid roal
and every shot was like a rea
heavy clap Of thunder close by. ant
| the shells sounded like trains owe
Jour heads. At daybreak we started
forward; the machine gun compan
les turning loose their fire, The
artillery had driven the Huns ouI
Of their trenches We kept goint
through wire nets for miles with
Jour raincoats on. stopping and rest
ling at times. About IL o'clock the
Huns stopped and being very Close
10 therl. hid under fallen trees ant
lin brush and shell holes. They
turned their machine guns loose
! on US and we fell on our faces te
Save our lives. We lay In the
shell holes and low places all the
evening, The Germans could see
us but we could not see hem. We
were completely worn out and some
lieu asleep lying there. and some. Of
course were dead At night while