The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-14

ing in. Evacuation hospital No. ' was the only one left, so we gave first aid.
 sandwiches and coffee to 1100 in one
 night and evacuated some to Paris.
 There were only 31 nurses in our unit and as I had lived in Alabama for seV- eraI years they always let me have all patients from Alabama. In that way
 was able to see a large number Of Ala
 bama men and it was here that waited on Capt. Mortimer Jordan, who was mortally wounded at Chateau Thierry.
 ALABAMA'S LOSSES
 "The American soldiers are not only
 the most wonderful fighters in the world, but the way in which they en- dured their suffering and hardship3 was wonderful to see. The people at home will never know just what those men went through snd to look back on the time of the Chateau Thierry drive, when Alabama's own suffered such losses. it seems more like a dream to me. These men can never be repaid for the service they have rendered this country, and every man should be Giv- en his job back without even asking
 for it. Many of the men who were
 with the army of occupation in Ger many say they were never treated bet ter than by the German people, who did everything they possibly could for
 the men. Will the people of America do less?
 An American aviator came over the hospital the morning after we had cared for HOO men and dropped note paying beautiful tribute to the work of Red Cross and the splendid work done by our organization that night. This same aviator was killed a few days later when he engaged in a battle with four German planes and succeeded in bringing down two of | them. For this act he was presented with distinguished service cross post hum onsly
 While we were at Chateau Thierry we were located four successive nights without single casualty. although a few machine gun bullets passed through our property tents. One of our patients had miraculous escape when ma
 chine gun bullet passed through the edge of his cot.
 Rumors in the army are always be- ing circulated, and it was said that Von Hindenburg's dugout was located at Chateau Thierry. After the Ameri- cans had driven the enemy back one of the nurses and myself. after working 23 hours, and been given four hours for rest, so we decided to visit this dug out. On our way over we met a young
 private who was also going to see the same thing. As we neared the dug out I remembered that perhaps there might still be some Boche in there, so thought it would be shame for us to get killed when the nurses were needed so terribly. The soldier was of the same opinion and we decided not to venture in. However, I peeped in and I could see couch and everything looked so pretty in there that I decided to walk up closed to the door and look in. In stopping to look in I stepped on a piece of corrugated iron and slid into the dugout. You can imagine how I felt when I looked up to see a German by the wall with a grenade in his hand.
 Well, Of course expected to be killed the next minute, but I was so shocked I couldn't move. The soldier came back
 to look for me and when he saw the Roche he ran yelling. run for your life. He evidently remembered he was sol dier and should protect me, so he came
 back and we discovered the man was dead. It was certainly a relief but it took me several hours to recover from that fright.
 While awaiting for the drive at St.
 Mihiel to begin We visited old French evacuation hospital. In the well kept cemetery were buried among their heroes IS Americans. They had erected a lovely monument about four feet nlSh With the American Statue or llD- erty on one side and inscribed on the other was, May the soil of Lorraine be sweet to our allies of yesterday and to- day-17S1- -191S.' Thirteen stars were planted in grass on one side represent ing the 13 original colonies,
 MOVED TO ARGONNE We were only kept In this section for two weeks for the drive had seem ingly been a walkaway. From here we went to the Argonne, which, as you all know, was one of the largest drives made by the Americans. am very proud to say that the 167th regiment played a most prominent part in each of these drives and made wonderful record. In fact members of the French and English armies stated they had never seen such courage and spirit as was displayed by these men from Ala bama. The people of Alabama should indeed be proud of the record made by these men overseas, for everyone is a hero and one has only to visit the American cemeteries where small crosses mark the graves of those who have made the supreme sacrifice to re- alize how many now sleep their last sleep.
 Little has been said of the ambulance driver or the stretcher bearer, but these