The broad ax., 1926-04-10
How He Fought When He Fought Where He
Fought, to Defend the Flag and Help
to Make the Nation Great.
EXTENDED ELOQUENT REMARKS BY HON. MARTIN
B. MADDEN HIGHLY HONORED MEMBER OF CON
GRESS FROM THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
OF ILLINOIS.

paratively quiet sector of the Vosges
in Alsace-Lorraine, where they re-
Heved the Fifth American Division
and the division of French troops
August 5, 1918. The very first night
in the front line the Germans shelled
us and sent out raiding party which
attacked our Third Battalion front.
Colored Soldiers Capture Five Ger
mans First Night
They were repulsed, and Corp. Ros-
coe Brooks, Of Company K, Three
Hundred and Sixty-ffth Infantry,
Third Battalion, single handed cap
tured FIVE German soldiers and ex-
hibited them at Dennipaire, regimen
tai headquarters, from whence they
were sent to general headquarters Of
the Ninety-second Division. These
were the first zones" of General Bull
! lard's Germans that were captured.
Similar activities were carried along
our whole front line, which was held
by two regiments There were no or
ders given for offensive save to take
a small position to straighten up our
front line, which the Three Hundred
and Sixty-seventh Infantry did. The
usual reconnaissance were made.
"Perchance the change by promo
tons and transfers Of our white Off
GERS probably made the matter Of re-
cording the number Of enemy and ma
terial captured impossible"
After having gotten our seasoning
here we were shifted to the Argonne
Forest where in the emergency all of
our combat troops, save the Three
Hundred and Sixty-eighth Infantry
with the possible exception of few
of the Three Hundred and Sixty
seventy, were used to repair the
shell-torn roads over which it was abb
solutely indispensable that ammuni-
ton and supplies should pass. But
our men did this disagreeable task Of
road builders and labor battalions
without murmur behind the advancing
waves of other American troops.
though exposed to constant shell FIRE,
which killed some and injured many.
(Bullard does not mention this as per-
haps this calls for no valor, even
though one does have to be under the
same bombardment of heavy artillery
as attacking troops and has not the
inspiration of being able to fight at
the fellow who is fighting him.
Account Of the Three Hundred and
Sixty-eighth
This leaves the Three Hundred and
sixty-eighth to be accounted for. 1t
was ordered, on the evening Of Sep
TENDER q, to advance its third bat
talon to an objective which was sur
rounded by dense woods and heavy
barb-wire entanglements, with nests
of machine guns. 1t was dark and a
drilling rain was falling. Despite
the fact, Company X Of this regiment
moved forward, and after advancing
so yards under the heavy shell fire of
the enemy one Of them burst in the
first platoon, killing three men and
wounding eight.
Captain Smith, of this company,
and his men pushed on under shell
and machine gun fire, capturing 20
Germans and 4 machine guns by 10
P. M. The men were halted for the
night without cover, under high ex-
plosive and gas shell bombardment.
They stuck. AT 5 "A. M, September
Is, the first and third battalions, under
Majors Max Ellser and Norris, both
! Whlte, were ordered to advance. Inc
men Of the third battalion had had
neither food nor water for two days,
but Company K, on the right, and
Company /, on the left, advanced
through the enemy's barrage of ma
chine guns and shrapnel, arriving in
Morrow Valley. distance Of mile
away. Here, because Of the inability
of the captains of the third battalion
to keep in contact with Major Norris
(white), whose command post did not
advance with his line, decided to hold
consultation. While doing so a shell
burst 20 feet away, fatally wounding
Captain Green, leaving Captain Smith,
Company K, to command the two
companies in the line without the as
sistance Of a single officer Of his COM