The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-02-11
GOT THROUGH TO
WH|TTLESEY, But
he WAS SCARED
DsIehanty Sent to Support Fa-
nous Lost Battalion.
IS GIVEN PERILOUs MISSION

Fermsr New York Architect Takes TT
Yanks, Leads Way In Dark Along
hallway Track and Obtain In
formation 81 Great Importance to
Americans, Which Later Got Whit
4Iooey Out Of Hls Death Ravine.
How Capt. Bradley Delehanty of the
Three Hundred and Eighth got
through to Whittlesey" when that now
famous battalion commander was cut
bR In the Argonne forest is a story
hat ranks with the heroic defense of
vhittlesey itself.
Like Whittlesey. Delehanty Is a
Eity man, q New Yorker. He is a
lappor little architect. But he comes
lighting blood. He Is a son of the
Rte Capt. Daniel Delehanty of the
navy. who hoped down from the
Ridge Of his gunboat off Matanzas,
euba, In 1893, and himself pointed the
M that sent the last Spanish flag
cppling on the battlements of the
~ forts there. He is o nephew Of
)upreme Court Justice Francis u. Del
hanty Of New York.
Before the war he had studied In
hnrls, 20 when he arrived In France
knowledge OF the language soon
nded him on the regimental staff as
Ikelligence officer.
But during that fierce month OF
hitting up through the gu~n-blasted
|rgonne, as Delehanty says. revert
: 70 the navy. st was a case OF
hands and the cook" and so II
= that on the night Of this par
cular exploit he was In command OF
company OF the Three Hundred and
.ehth infantry of the Seventy-seventh
vision. the draft division of New
,rk city.
OsIehanty Ordered Up.
EWhittlesey, In command of his i'm
,rtal battalion. was leading the adj
nee. With his grim jaw set and
! shoulders hunched he was form
the tough spearhead of the Amer
in advance to the west of the
,use. He had got orders to go ahead
A no had done Il. He had done 1t
her than anyone thought he could
md be had been surrounded. A
Ason lneifectual attempts had been
0e TO pierce the screen of German
chine guns and trench mortars that
Uttered In behind him. When
nc fell the colonel Of the Three
ndred and Eighth sem for Dele
~.
60 up to the support" he said.
AXE command Of X company and
Into touch with Whittlesey.
~ getting nothing but a pigeon
oD4oe from him now"
IT. tough country. that Argonne."
ohanty told the story later. "It's
country to get through in the
time. It's worse at night. And
~ I got up to X company, ma
~ gun bullets were flying like
1ots, and whixx-bangs out Of those
- mortars were Topping over
y 90 seconds and blowing boys
omithereens when they hit. 1
out half Z dozen But
o. them ever came back.
ally I sent out two whole patrols
orders to reach WhIttlesey by
5Gent routes. Then / reported to
colonel. Anything else meant
Ing the whole company, and I
- Ark him about that.
hen every half hour or so he'd
~ the telephone and ask me IL
card from these patrols. Finally.
midnight, he couldn't stand 1t
longer.
pelshsnty Got There.
sDolehanty,' he said, you've got a
I'D and seventy-seven men there
You You take them all. You
, through the woods until you
oct with Whittlesey and you keep
until you do get him, If you
have seven men left when you
hnre.sn
Delehanty got there-not
seven, but with the whole hun
md seventy-seyen. But he frank
mits he wal scared.
~" he said. turning with a grin
outenant Scott, General SCOTS
no WAS with him. "This is good.
ia Md"
~ replied Scott, 1T looks like
Ay.*
SANITY called the company
him. He told them what the
were. Not d man finched.
5oeo'o one chance OF getting up