The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-04-03
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,

They were present on every battle
field in the Spanish-American War
and with Dewey in Manila Bay. But
this is not all In less militant times
they were conspicuously in evidence
Pietro Alonzo, man of color, was
pilot of the Nina in 1892 under Co
lumbus. They were with Lewis and
Clark, 1804-1806, and with J. c. FIRE.
mont in 1912 in his explorations of
the Rocky Mountains. One of their
race stood beside Admiral Robert
Peary at the North Pole and waved
the American flag on the roof Of the
world
Now let them tell their own story
of their patriotism in the Great War.
Here it is:
What Did the Black Troops Actually
Accomplish?
After their training behind the line
they were first assigned to the COM
paratively quiet sector of the Vosges
in AIsace-Lorraine, where they re-
lieved the Fifth American Division
and the division of French troops
August $, 1918. The very first night
in the front line the Germans sheiIed
us and sent out raiding party which
attacked our Third Battalion front
Colored Soldiers Capture Five Ger
mans First Night
They were repuIsed, and Corp. Ros-
coe Brooks, of Company K, Three
Hundred and Sixty-hfth Infantry,
Third Battalion, single handed cap
tured FIVE German soldiers and ex-
hibited theiif st 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
i our whole front line, which was held
by two regiments There were no or
ders given for offensive save to take
small position TO stEaighteE up our
front line, whid iI1 Three Hundred
and Sixty-seventh Infantry did. The
usual reconnaissance were made
"Perchance the change by promo
tions 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
seventh), 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.
| (BuIIard 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 hin.)
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
tember ~, to advance its third bat
talon to an objective which was sur
rounded by dense woods and heavy
bsxb=wire entzngicments. with nests
Of machine guns. It was dark and a
drizzling rain was falling. Despite
the fact, Company X Of this regiment
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