The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-11
GENERAL ORDER COMMENDS
COLORED OFFICERS
ENTIRE UNIT AND INDIVIDUALS CITED FOR BRAVERY UNDER
FIRE OF HUN. CASUALTY LIST COMPARATIVELY SMALL.
476 TAKE THE "L0MG TRAIL.

guns of Metz, and held the Germans
at Bay while the Seth regiment re-
treated, but not until it had suffer-
ed heavy loss, The LIST Battalion
was commanded by Major Charles
L. Appleton Of New York. with com
pany commanders and lieutenants
Colored.
In the 92nd Division of the Ameri-
can Army IA Colored officers and
43 Colored enlisted men have been
cited for bravery in action and
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross. This is a splendid showing,
and especially when it is considered
that prior to the drive on to Metz,
Sunday morning. November 10th, this
division. with the exception Of the
36Sth. Infantry, had been in no big
engagement Up until November, the
10th with the exception of the S6Sth
which got into action in the Arg0nne,
the 92nd had to content itself with
making daily and nightly raids on
the German front line trenches to
capture prisoners. This, however;
required daring and courage, and,
in some ways, more trying and more
dangerous than being in a big en-
gagement. A total Of 81 citations
for meritorious service, with he
port from one brigade not yet IN, ir
splendid showing cor the ggnd
Division.
92nd Has Comparatively Small Cas-
ualty List. =.
The total casualties suffered by the
92nd. (Colored Division since bening
in Franco have just been obtained
by me. The Division suffered to-
tai of 1478 casualties. Among the
killed were six officers, and one off,
Ger died from wounds received in
action, while 81 enlisted men died
from wounds. 40 enlisted men died
from diseases; % enlisted men were
listed as missing" 16 officers and
| SAB enlisted men were wounded; and
80 officers and 661 enlisted men were
gassed. The divisions number of gas
sed is unusually large. A reason is,
perhaps, that the Colored soldiers
/, in the front line trenches of this
division were unusally daring in
making raids into the enemy's ter
ritory.
Considering, especially, the des-
perate advance the Colored soldiers
Of this division made out from Pont-
a-Mousson the morning of November
10th, through a valley swept by the
heavy German guns of Metz, and
nests of German machine guns, the
casualty is slight; for on the morn
ing / saw them make the advance,
and knowing the dangerous ground
they were to cover to make their
objective, 1t appeared miraculous that
'the division was not wiped out. The
casualty in that advance was, per-
haps, as light as 1t was because of
the rapidity with which their oine
advanced. Officers could not hold
then back, and the German guns
and aoldiers could not stop them.
They alunged on the Prem and
/ Pagny and they rushed into the
Bois l ehaut, and held, for SO hours,
after they took Il, this plf &c from
which picked Moroccan and Sene-
galese troops were forced to retreat
in ten minutes after they had enter
/ tered it. Occupying this Boise Ere
haut for 36 hours against murder
GUS fire from the enemy, remaining
there until hostilities ceased, it e
surprising, miracle, that the cas-
ualty LIST of the 92nd Division did
not mount to many times ATS.