Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-12-02
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sosh Division Vetorans Want Amer
~n Cemterey 1t Beahcoalr,
Am not surprised at the latest
c1fort OF the New YorH people to
appropriate to their State the credit
fQr smashing the Hindenburr line IN
the great American Offensive in
France in October. 1918" yesterday
said Fort Mill veteran of the s0th
DIVISION after reading q Washington
dispatch announcing that the En-
pire State was making an effort to
induce the war department to locate
one OF the four American cemeteries
to be established In France at Bony
In honor Of the 27th division, the
New York National Guard division
ehat fought alongside the 2Oth d.
vision during a part Of its service
overseas. "Of course those OF us who
served in the s0th know that the
DIVISION did the principal part of the
hard lighting necessary to break the
seemingly impregnable HindenourE
line. but the country as q whole Is
not so familiar with the facts and
unless the Old Hickory organization
bestirs itself the credit for this Hur-
culean enterprise will be stolen from
the southern soldiers and pretty
soon the children Of the nation viii
be studying histories telling that the
Hindenburg line was broken by tho
9th New York division assisted In
a small way by the 30th division. The
Hindenburg line was broken by the
boys from South Carolina. North
Carolina and Tennessee, who consti.
tuted tho soth division, as General
Pershing has more than once said.
and We want the cemetery the New
Workers are applying for located at
Bellicourt. In honor OF our own dead.
Let me tell you a story Of the
work Of the eth division. On the
morning OF the 18th OF October.
1918. following several days contin-
nous lighting. we were relieved by
the 9th near a little town called
Bohain. We went to the rear for
rest and Reorganization. but were
again ordered to the front on October
18th to- relieve the New York divis-
Ion. much to our surprise. but II was
even more surprising that we found
the New Workers standing In the
tracks we had left them In on the
18th apparently unable to make any
headway against the enemy. We
at once began and offensive and be-
fore nightfall Of the 11th had pushed
the Germans back fivs kilometera.
The difference between tho 3Oth di-
vision and the S1th. In my opinion,
was this! The 3oth was composed
almost entirely Of native born Amer
leans and was perhaps the most all
American division In the entire army
our country sent to France, while the
9th had In Its rams thousands OF
foreign born soldiers."
The Washington dispatch to which
the Fort Mil soldier referred con-
taincd q letter from Col. Albert L.
Cox. president Of the Old Hickory
organization to Senator Simmons OF
North Carolina. In which the former
colonel OF North Carolina artillery
In the 30th division said:
There has BEEN a continuous ef-
fort on the part OF the people OF
New York State to gain to themselves
and the soldiers who in France rep
resented them the entire credit for
breaking the Hindenburs line. no.
tice now that an effort Is heing made
to locate one of the four American
Gem eteries in France at Bony. to be
known as Flanders Field. The loca-
tion Of suoh a cemetery should by all
means be at Beliicourt''
please be good enough to hrins
this matter to the attention OF the
war department In order that proper
credit may be given TO the men who
were mainly responsible for the
American offensive In Flanders"