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FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
FEOM VAUQUOIS HILL 
 TO EXERMONT 
 
 A HISTORY OF THE THIRTY-FIFl H DIVISION OF THE 
 UNITED STATES ARMY 
 
 BY 
 
 CLAIR KENAMORE 
 
 1919 
 
 GUARD PUBLISHING CO. 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 

 Copyright, 1919 
 By Clair Kenamore 
 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
 ©CI.A529898 
 
 Printed in the U. S. A. 
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
 
 The author is indebted to many friends for as- 
 sistance in the preparation of this book. He is 
 particularly grateful to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
 for permission to reprint dispatches and articles 
 which had already appeared in that paper. He 
 wishes also to acknowledge his obligation to the 
 many officers and men of the 35th Division who 
 have helped him. 
 
Illustrated with photographs taken by the 
 author, by Lieut. C. A. McCoy of the 110th 
 Engineers, and by the United States Army 
 Signal Corps. The drawings were made by 
 W. A. Byrnes from photographs. The maps 
 are made from the Battle Maps of the French 
 Army. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. The Morale of Private Simpich 9 
 
 II. Training at Camp Doniphan 20 
 
 III. The Voyage to France 27 
 
 IV. Arches, "Wesserling, and the High Hills ... 37 
 
 V. Into the Trenches in the Vosges 43 
 
 VI. The Trench Eaid at Hilsenfirst 53 
 
 VII. Other Vosges Fighting 64 
 
 VIII. In Eeserve at St. Mihiel 67 
 
 IX. Planning the Argonne Drive 76 
 
 X. Officers Changed on Eve of Battle 78 
 
 XI. The Plan of Battle 85 
 
 XII. ''Let's Go'' 87 
 
 XIII. Vauquois Taken — The 138th Before Cheppy . . 93 
 
 XIV. Nels Wold's Glorious Death 98 
 
 XV. Major Sauerwein Falls 107 
 
 XVI. Captain Skinker's Bravery 112 
 
 XVII. The 138th Takes Cheppy 117 
 
 XVIII. The 139th Jumps Over the 137th 125 
 
 XIX. Confusion on the Field 131 
 
 XX. Failure of Liaison 135 
 
 XXI. Night on the Battlefield . 141 
 
 XXII. Crossed Orders for Second Day's Attack . . . 144 
 
 XXIII. The Artillery Presses Forward — The Morning 
 
 Attack 148 
 
 XXIV. The Night Attack — Charpentry and Baulny 
 
 Taken 152 
 
 XXV. RlSTINE IN THE GERMAN LiNES 162 
 
 XXVI. Artillery Riddles the 140th ...,,... 175 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 XXVII. The Front Line in Straits 184 
 
 XXVIII. Night in Montrebeau Wood 190 
 
 XXIX. Permission to Believe General Berry .... 198 
 
 XXX. Eieger Charges Into Exermont 202 
 
 XXXI. The 140th Advances 210 
 
 XXXII. General Traub Asks to be Withdrawn . . . 216 
 
 XXXIII. The 137th 's Firm, Thin Line 219 
 
 XXXIV. The Engineers Hold the Front 225 
 
 XXXV. The Last Day of Battle 232 
 
 XXXVI. The Relief — The Work Done 239 
 
 XXXVII. Sommedieue, Commercy and Home 244 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 A. Conclusions of Gen. Drum on Thirty-Fifth in Argonne 
 
 Battle 251 
 
 B. Gen. Traub 's Letter of Transmission 252 
 
 C. Confidential Report on Vauquois Hill 254 
 
 D. Report of Capt. Hoffmann 256 
 
 E. Gen. Clark's Letter to His Men 258 
 
 F. Organization of the Division on Three Dates .... 260 
 
 G. Record of Changes in Higher Officers ' 263 
 
 H. Assignment of Missouri Guard Units 266 
 
 I. Assignment of Kansas Guard Units 267 
 
 J. Roster of the National Guard of Missouri 269 
 
 K. Roster of the National Guard of Kansas 369 
 
CHAPTER I 
 
 THE MORALE OF PRIVATE SIMPICH 
 
 Private Joseph Simpich was fairly tired when the ad- 
 vance on Exermont began September 29. He had lost 
 himself for a while the day before, and ran across the 
 field through a heavy fire until he was on the edge of 
 the broken German lines. His shoes and leggings were 
 soggy from the rain-soaked dead grass and the stream 
 he had waded twice. He was winded and in no condi- 
 tion for a fight when he met suddenly and violently an 
 enormous German soldier jUst coming round the end of 
 a hedge. Simpich regarded him as one of the biggest 
 men he ever had seen, and to make matters desperate, 
 Simpich 's rifle was empty. He had been firing it so 
 rapidly that it was hot and the breach block had jammed. 
 He could not eject the empty cartridge and put another 
 in the chamber. 
 
 He lunged at the German with his fixed bayonet, but 
 Fritz went back like a dancer, and came forward again 
 with a fancy stroke which Simpich had learned at Doni- 
 phan. He also had learned how to parry it, and a fine 
 bayonet duel was on. In the cold autumn rain on the 
 open field, the two lone representatives of the opposing 
 armies fought. Mud formed in the trampled wet grass, 
 machine guns rattled in the distance, artillery pounded 
 steadily away, and near at hand the spectral shattered 
 trees and the shivering hedge dripped with rain, but the 
 two men fought grimly what was to be the last fight for 
 one of them. 
 
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 Simpich slammed at his opponent everything the crafty 
 Scotch sergeant had taught him back in the states, and 
 the German took it all in the manner prescribed by the 
 instruction book, and gave back just as good as was 
 sent. 
 
 Bayonet fighting is hard work, and after his run, Sim- 
 pich felt himself about done. Not a word had been 
 spoken. Out of his inextinguishable high spirits and the 
 boyish swagger and undying bravery, the very American- 
 ism of the lad, Simpich said gaily : 
 
 **Geht's gut, Fritz?" which in English, would have 
 been something like *'How goes it. Bill?'* 
 
 The words in German from this enemy caused the sur- 
 prised German soldier to open his mouth, which was 
 ludicrous, but he also opened his guard, which was fatal, 
 for the American bayonet passed briskly through his 
 chest, and he went down to rise no more. 
 
 Simpich, utterly exhausted, stretched himself on the 
 wet grass beside his recent foe to regain his breath. 
 When that came back, he noticed that the man seemed 
 strangely small for one who recently loomed so large. 
 He felt a momentary pity for the man, hardly as big as 
 himself, who had fought so well, but there was little time 
 for sentiment. There was a battle on that day, and he 
 had to find his command and tell the other fellows about 
 this affair. 
 
 The next day was September 29, and the 35th Division 
 was making its last great stroke at Exermont. The lit- 
 tle town never had more than five hundred population, 
 and the total value of its contents never exceeded a few 
 hundred thousand francs, but the Germans held it as reso- 
 lutely as if the Crown Prince were quartered there. 
 
 In the ranks of H Company, 139th Infantry again 
 
THE MORALE OP PRIVATE SIMPICH 11 
 
 marched Private Joseph Simpich, tvs^enty-one years of 
 age and one hundred sixty-two pounds of weight. He 
 had regained his wind. Ahead of him were Major Rieger, 
 Capt. McQueen, Lieut. McManigal, and alongside, in ex- 
 tended order were his fellows with whom he had learned 
 the trade of soldiering. Everybody was very tired. 
 The advance over the bare ground to the right of Montre- 
 beau Wood brought a torrent of fire out of the German 
 positions on three sides. A machine bullet clipped Sim- 
 pich on the ankle, and he sank down and examined his 
 shoe. 
 
 *' Going back?" asked Capt. McQueen. 
 
 ''No, it don't amount to anything," Simpich replied 
 scornfully, and went ahead down the hill. Soon a ma- 
 chine gun bullet caught Capt. McQueen in the calf of 
 his leg, jarring him violently. 
 
 ''Going back?" asked Simpich. 
 
 "No," said McQueen scornfully, "it don't amount to 
 anything. ' ' 
 
 They came to the edge of the town. The extended 
 order closed up for the street fighting. Squads and 
 platoons mixed and mingled. Officers and men went 
 down. Lines were formed and broken, but slowly and 
 surely the Americans pressed on through the rough street 
 of the wrecked village, slowly northward, fighting hard 
 every step. 
 
 McManigal's platoon saw Capt. McQueen again. More 
 machine gun bullets had found him, and finally a high 
 explosive shell had put him out, and he lay still by the 
 side of the road. Slow attrition of distant machine guns 
 and hand to hand street fighting had melted McManigal's 
 platoon until only a handful of men were with the lieu- 
 tenant as they approached the bridge which spanned a 
 
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 stream. Machine guns from two emplacements crossed their 
 fire over this bridge. A burst from the one straight 
 ahead knocked out all McManigal's men but two, just 
 before they reached the bridge. They were McManigal 
 himself and Simpich and they pressed on alone. 
 
 The back of McManigal's tunic was coated with dried 
 mud. Simpich, the lone follower, saw a puff of dust 
 break from his officer's back and he knew that a bullet 
 had caught McManigal in the chest and passed through 
 his body. McManigal crumpled up on the floor of the 
 bridge. The other machine gun put three bullets through 
 Simpich before he could reach his lieutenant. One broke 
 his thigh, one shattered his knee-cap, one passed through 
 the calf of his leg, and he went down. Lieut. McMani- 
 gal's platoon of H Company had ceased to function. It 
 was wiped off the muster-roll. 
 
 When consciousness returned to the two wounded men 
 on the bridge, the thirst which always comes with loss 
 of blood was upon them. They crawled down from the 
 bridge and to the water's edge, one on either side. This 
 was about ten o'clock in the morning of September 29. 
 The bank on Simpich 's side was nearly level where he 
 lay on the sand. On McManigal's side it was very steep, 
 and the lieutenant had difficulty to keep from slipping 
 into the water. Most of the time both of his feet were in 
 the water. 
 
 Simpich put a tourniquet around his knee to stop the 
 flow of blood. McManigal filled his canteen and drank, 
 and then the officer and man discussed across the little 
 creek the chances of the day. 
 
 From w^here Simpich lay he could look under the bridge 
 and see clearly the bare hill up which Rieger had ad- 
 vanced. Simpich emploj^ed proper military courtesy in 
 
THE MORALE OF PRIVATE SIMPICH 13 
 
 addressing his superior, always putting a sir or lieuten- 
 ant in each, speech. McManigal could not talk much 
 for the blood bubbled out of this wound whenever he filled 
 his lungs. Presently Simpich dropped the military 
 swank. ''Mac, it looks like it's all up with us. The Boche 
 is counter-attacking. Our fellows are falling back.*' 
 
 The Americans beyond Exermont had received the or- 
 der to retire, and they were going back to the American 
 lines directly, not passing through Exermont. The Ger- 
 mans were following the retirement closely. This left 
 McManigal and Simpich within the German lines. Soon 
 Germans began to drift across the bridge. Presently 
 four Americans, each pair carrying a litter came along. 
 McManigal yelled to them: ''Come and get us." 
 
 "We can't," they replied, "we are prisoners, and they 
 won't let us handle anything but German wounded." 
 
 About the middle of the afternoon a German soldier of 
 most evil visage plodding over the bridge saw McManigal 
 lying on the edge of the water and stopped and gazed at 
 him. He slowly brought up his rifle, a short cavalry car- 
 bine, and with elaborate care took aim at the lieutenant. 
 McManigal, who spoke no German, was in that neutral 
 state between consciousness and delirium. He watched 
 the soldier with mild interest. As the German's finger 
 commenced to tighten on the trigger, McManigal won- 
 dered if there was as much slack to be taken up in the 
 German trigger as in the American service rifle. Then 
 Simpich said something to the man in German which was 
 answered, and soon a violent argument in German was 
 going on. The rifle up to that time was aimed at the 
 spot between McManigal's eyes. After a particularly 
 violent flow of German words from Simpich, the soldier 
 
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 lifted the weapon and strode angrilj^ away, apparently 
 offended. 
 
 **Wliat did you say to him?'' McManigal asked. 
 
 *'I told him that this spot was under observation by 
 the Americans," Simpich replied, ''and that our men 
 undoubtedly could identify him through their powerful 
 telescopes, and that if he shot you, they would take him 
 apart, joint at a time." 
 
 Then came the long stretch of waiting. Occasionally 
 one of the men would become unconscious. McManigal 
 fell into delirium in which he believed that his soul had 
 left his body and was hovering about above them, look- 
 ing down on the physical forms of McManigal and Sim- 
 pich and expressing sympathy with them. Then he would 
 fancy that he had been picked up by stretcher bearers, 
 taken back to a hospital, his wound dressed, his body 
 washed, and put into a clean and comfortable bed with 
 white sheets, where a nurse fed him hot soups out of a 
 teapot. **This surely is the most comfortable bed I ever 
 was in," he said to Simpich. ''I wish you could be 
 brought to this hospital, too." Then he would revive 
 just as he was sliding into the water. 
 
 Simpich had half a box of hard bread, but he could 
 not eat it, and did not feel particularly hungry. Mc- 
 Manigal had a bar of chocolate. He was afraid to try to 
 throw half to Simpich for fear it would fall into the 
 water and be lost. He wrapped paper around it, put 
 it into the middle of a ball of mud and threw it across 
 to his comrade. 
 
 They had lain two days and two nights at that place, 
 gazing across the water at one another by day, and grow- 
 ing weaker and weaker, when the cold rain set in. Mc- 
 Manigal suggested that they endeavor to crawl into a 
 
THE MORALE OF PRIVATE SIMPICH 15 
 
 half ruined building about thirty yards away. They filled 
 their canteens from the stream and made the start. Mc- 
 Manigal completed his journey in an hour, but it took 
 Simpich, dragging a useless leg, all the afternoon. The 
 next day they were both exhausted. Thirst and hun- 
 ger had come back, too. 
 
 The shock of their wounds and the incidental nausea 
 had delayed their hunger at first. Simpich had his con- 
 diment can containing coffee and sugar. After an ex- 
 haustive discussion of the situation, they decided it would 
 be a good idea to make some coffee. They had no 
 matches, but a French cigarette lighter which seemed still 
 willing to work. 
 
 Simpich being quite helpless, McManigal took the two 
 canteens and crawled to the bank of the stream to fill 
 them. While he was making his painful journey a Ger- 
 man working party came up and took him prisoner. In 
 spite of all his efforts and arguments, they would not go 
 into the building and get Simpich, doubtless fearing a 
 trap. 
 
 Neither would they allow him to communicate with 
 Simpich nor permit him to throw one of the full can- 
 teens in to his wounded comrade. McManigal was taken 
 to the rear by the Germans immediately. 
 
 Simpich lay alone through the afternoon and the next 
 night in the building. Occasionally he heard Germans 
 passing, but his hope that American troops soon would 
 come swarming into the town, cheering and cursing, and 
 send him dashing back to a hospital in an ambulance 
 never left him. The next morning, American artillery 
 opened fire on Exermont, and this spurred his hopes. It 
 was fine to be shelled by his own guns for this must be 
 the bombardment preliminary to a charge. 
 
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 About the middle of the afternoon, some twenty-four 
 hours after McManigal disappeared, he was lying on his 
 back in the bare room, staring up at the rainy sky through 
 the holes in the red tile roof, and listening to the shells 
 bursting in the town, when one of the American shots 
 landed squarely on the old building in which he lay. 
 In a pandemonium of shattered tiles, falling walls and 
 flying debris, he was hit violently in the face and on the 
 head, and lost consciousness. 
 
 When he became conscious again, there was a sting- 
 ing pain in his eyes, and they were useless. He could 
 see nothing. He had to accept the situation. He was 
 blind. It occurred to him that it was particularly tough 
 that an American shell had put out his eyes. He set 
 himself to calculating how long it probably would be 
 before he could reasonably expect relief, and to speculate 
 on what callings would be open to a man without eyes. 
 He recalled and canvassed the opportunities in several 
 occupations which he might take up. That is morale. 
 He thought of his brother, Fred, a consul in Mexico, and 
 wondered if he could find a job for a blind man. 
 
 What had happened to him was that the stone which 
 hit him on the head had rendered him unconscious and 
 his eyes had filled with lime from the mortar. His un- 
 consciousness lasted until after nightfall, and so he lay 
 through the night, between the overthrown walls, listen- 
 ing to the far artillery and the near shells, staring up- 
 ward in the darkness as a blind man. Not till dawn came, 
 and he had finally mopped the lime from his eyes, did 
 he find that sight was still his. 
 
 The next day he decided to surrender. He heard Ger- 
 mans fairly near him, and he raised a shout. A German 
 climbed over the wall, and looking down through a hole 
 
THE MORALE OF PRIVATE SIMPICH 17 
 
 in the wreckage above, covered Simpich with a pistol 
 and asked him what he wanted. Simpich said he was 
 willing to surrender himself as a prisoner of war, and 
 that he wanted some medical attention, a little food and 
 a lot of water. He was taken to the rear and that after- 
 noon was put on the operating table in a German field 
 hospital. That was October 3 and he had been wounded 
 September 29. His wounds had been unattended, he had 
 had no food and little water. It was time to surrender. 
 
 When his platoon started out for its attack on Exer- 
 mont, six hand grenades had been issued to each man. 
 When he was wounded Simpich still had one buttoned 
 up inside his blouse, and when he was put on the table 
 October 3 for examination (after all German wounded 
 had been attended to, of course) he unbuttoned his blouse 
 and handed the grenade to a medical man. There were 
 some ten doctors and sanitary men in the room then. 
 Thirty seconds later there were but three, the patient 
 and two stout surgeons slow of foot, who had been the 
 last to reach the door and had wedged in it. When the 
 wild cries had died down, Simpich called them back, and 
 explained his peaceful intentions and that he had sur- 
 rendered with all arms. 
 
 They continued the examination, said his leg ought to 
 have splints on it at once, but they could not put them 
 on as they did not have enough for the German wounded. 
 Two days later he was examined again, and the doctor 
 said his leg should be put in splints at once, and that 
 he would do it, too, if he had them, but that he did not 
 have enough for the German wounded. Finally, on Oc- 
 tober 10, they amputated the leg, and sent him on to the 
 rear. On November 7 at Trier, he got a bath. He had 
 not so much as washed his hands for six weeks. When 
 
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 he returned to an allied hospital late in January, 1919, 
 he weighed 82 pounds, approximately half of his original 
 weight, but his morale still was 100 per cent. 
 
 It is with a division made up of officers and men like 
 McManigal, McQueen and Simpich that this history con- 
 cerns itself. When the 35th Division of the United States 
 army landed in France May 11, 1918, it was as fine a 
 body of fighting men of equal number as ever set forth on 
 the desperate venture of war. 
 
 When they were called to the colors nine months be- 
 fore, they had been civilian soldiers of the best type, 
 the National Guard of Missouri and Kansas, keen for 
 the task and for the training which was to precede it. 
 They carried the vim and enthusiasm of restless youth, 
 and the brain and brawn of midland Americans. They 
 were the pushing, boisterous products of a smiling, sunny 
 land. 
 
 On Sept. 29, 1918, what was left of them lay in an 
 irregular line across the Aire valley, fighting desperately. 
 Grimly and sullenly they held the front against a re- 
 lentless foe. On that stricken field, the division had 
 ceased to function as a unit. The action was of smal- 
 ler units, each virtually an independent command, and 
 out of the wreckage and waste of war, the only landmarks 
 left where those set up by the stamina of the men. 
 
 It was like a piece of soft bottom land through which 
 a flood had swept. The clutter of dead weeds and the 
 top soil was gone. The flimsy organization which was 
 supposed to control and direct was washed away. But 
 above the surface showed firmly set rocks and solid 
 stumps of oak trees which the flood could not move. 
 These were the fighting men, the lads who had turned 
 aside for a while from factories, farms, offices and stores. 
 
T^HE MORALE OF PfelVATE SlMt^ICK 19 
 
 to take up the trade of a soldier and to follow the wars. 
 It is the purpose of this book to show the events which 
 brought so fine a division to such a sorry pass, and 
 the spirit which revived it again. The author will re- 
 count the events and record the history, but he will leave 
 to the reader the task of making the deductions. 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 TRAINING AT CAMP DONIPHAN 
 
 It is necessary to review very briefly the organization 
 and training of the 35th Division to make clear some of 
 the things which came afterward. There were happen- 
 ings in the Argonne battle which could be accounted for 
 only after the searcher had trailed back to the old train- 
 ing days at Doniphan. Other events, desperate and tragic 
 things, too, went even further back to the foundations of 
 the controlling system. 
 
 To make up the 35th Division, the National Guard or- 
 ganizations of Missouri and Kansas were combined. The 
 Missouri Guard contributed, according to the record, 
 14,282 men, and Kansas 9,781 men. When the divisional 
 strength was placed at 27,000, the additional men were 
 taken almost entirely from Missouri and Kansas drafts, 
 so that the division started out and continued to its mus- 
 tering out, a Missouri-Kansas outfit. 
 
 All that these two states had of the men and means 
 with which Avar is waged went into the national reser- 
 voir. On August 5, 1917, the units passed from under 
 the control of the states and became part of the United 
 States army. 
 
 The amalgamation of the forces caused a general shak- 
 ing up of officers. Commissioned men of all ranks found 
 themselves in new jobs, or in no jobs at all, soon after 
 they reached Camp Doniphan, near LaAvton, Ok., to which 
 place the division Avas sent for training. In National 
 
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TRAINING AT CAMP DONIPHAN 21 
 
 Guard divisions, it was tlie custom to unite two regiments 
 to make one regiment of the strength required by the 
 new tables of organization. This left virtually half the 
 officers without commands. In Regular Army divisions, 
 skeleton units were enlarged, thus not only insuring 
 commands for all officers, but making it necessary to ad- 
 vance nearly all officers in rank. 
 
 Major-General William M. Wright, a classmate of Gen. 
 Pershing and a regular army officer of high reputation, 
 was put in command of the division. Lieutenant-Colonel 
 R. MacCleave was his chief of staff. Soon after Major- 
 General Wright took command at Camp Doniphan, he 
 and his chief of staff went to France on a tour of inspec- 
 tion, and the command of the camp fell to Brigadier- 
 General Lucien G. Berry, commander of the artillery 
 brigade. To Gen. Berry also was left the task of elimi- 
 nating undesirable National Guard officers. 
 
 It seemed that all National Guard officers who occupied 
 positions of prominence soon disclosed traits which made 
 them unsatisfactory to the acting commander of the 
 division. 
 
 Gen. Berry was a Regular Army officer of fixed ideas. 
 He had spent his life in the service, and his viewpoint 
 was always that of the soldier. His knowledge of men, 
 as such knowledge is understood in civilian life, was 
 necessarily limited. He viewed everything with a mili- 
 tary eye. He believed implicitly in his unerring ability 
 to estimate a man at first glance, and he felt that once 
 he had made that estimate, he must abide by it. He hon- 
 estly believed that his patriotism and loyalty to the flag 
 was the genuine unadulterated brand and all other va- 
 rieties fell under suspicion. 
 
 I do not know of any sure rule by which to determine 
 
22 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 before he has been tried, which man will prove himself 
 a great soldier. But I am sure that an army officer sit- 
 ting in the high and aloof place which his imagination 
 creates, cannot determine at first glance whether a man 
 has in him the stuff of which a warrior is made. 
 
 Success in leading men in battle is about 15 per cent 
 technical knowledge and 85 per cent common sense. 
 Even West Point cannot make a great soldier of the man 
 who is a born stamp collector or miniature painter. It 
 can give him the 15 per cent technical knowledge but it 
 cannot supply an aptitude for soldiering or the 85 per 
 cent of common sense if the candidate has not got it in 
 him. 
 
 When Gen. Berry saw Col. ''Bill" Raupp of the Second 
 Missouri, it doubtless did not take him long to decide 
 that Raupp could not command a regiment in his army. 
 The struggle to unseat Raupp occupied most of the fall, 
 winter and spring. His regiment was broken up and 
 made into machine gun battalions, he was tried on charges, 
 he was sent before efficiency boards, he was rushed into 
 examinations, but he came through with credit after each 
 trial. 
 
 The strict life of the army does not qualify a man to 
 judge his fellows who have followed civilian pursuits. 
 It would be like asking a cloistered nun to decide at first 
 glance whether the worldly woman she met was good or 
 bad. Only after a board had put Raupp through the 
 gruelling test of an examination would it be shown what 
 sort of a scrapper he was, and that he knew more about 
 the textbooks on war than his judges. It finally was 
 necessary to send him to the school at San Antonio and 
 detach him from the division. They could not put him 
 out of the army. 
 
TRAINING AT CAMP DONIPHAN 23 
 
 Brigadier General H. C. Clark, commander of the Mis- 
 souri National Guard, was *' found" by a physical ex- 
 amination. General Clark was the father of the Missouri 
 National Guard as it existed at that time. He had re-or- 
 ganized it after the Spanish-American War, and had com- 
 manded it ever since. After the declaration of war with 
 Germany he had pushed recruiting and organizing so that 
 in three months he had raised, organized, trained and 
 equipped a force which under the Defense Act the State 
 was given five years to raise. By August 5, 1917, the State 
 had organized every unit authorized by the Militia Bureau. 
 His energy was unending, and his strength never waned, 
 but when he went before the examining board, composed 
 of three surgeons of the regular army, it was found that 
 his blood pressure was too high. Blood pressure in officers 
 of the National Guard increases with their rank. The 
 board also said that his lungs were affected as a result 
 of an attack of pleurisy. 
 
 The War Department on December 26, 1917, issued an 
 order honorably discharging him from the service on the 
 ground of physical disability. 
 
 The moral effect of General Clark's presence with the 
 troops in France would have been of incalculable value. 
 His deep and sound military judgment and knowledge 
 would have been a tower of strength. 
 
 Brigadier General Arthur B. Donnelly, who had been a 
 prominent figure in the St. Louis guard, finally resigned, 
 rather than contest the unceasing war against him. 
 
 Col. Leroy Robbins of a St. Louis regiment was forced 
 out. 
 
 Col. Perry L. Hoisington of Kansas was eliminated by 
 a physical examination, after having been subjected to 
 
24 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 many humiliations by the camp commander. He was a 
 capable officer of 22 years service. 
 
 Many other Kansas officers were removed. Col. Hugh 
 Means, of the 130th Field Artillery had passed the school 
 for field officers at Fort Sam Houston and the school of 
 fire at Fort Sill. Gen. Berry sent him before an efficiency 
 board, and he was found to be not inefficient. Just be- 
 fore the Division sailed for France, Gen. Berry relieved 
 him of his command, and he stayed at Camp Doniphan 
 throughout the war. 
 
 Lieut. Col. Chas. S. Flanders, of the 137th Infantry, 
 was * 'found" by an efficiency board just before the Di- 
 vision sailed. He had been a captain in the Philippines 
 under Funston, and had served in the Guard for twenty- 
 one years. 
 
 Lieut. Colonels Alex A. Sharp and Bruce Griffith, and 
 Majors Aaron L. Hitchens and Albert H. Krause were put 
 out for minor physical disabilities. 
 
 Major Frank W. Butler Avas relieved from duty. He 
 was transferred to another division, sent overseas and 
 gained his Lieutenant Colonelcy. 
 
 Major William A. Pattison, of the 130th Field Artil- 
 lery, was mustered out. The officer in charge of artillery 
 in the Militia Bureau had pronounced him the best artil- 
 lery officer in the National Guard of the United States. 
 
 Colonel Raupp 's was a typical case. Before the Second 
 Regiment arrived in Doniphan Sept. 27, there had been 
 something of a row in Missouri about the orders consol- 
 idating the troops with the Kansas troops. When Colonel 
 Raupp and Lieut. Paul Tucker reported. General Berry 
 took them to task for this row and requested them to 
 resign. They refused. The regiment was cut up into 
 
TRAINING AT CAMP DONIPHAN 25 
 
 machine gun battalions and Raupp and Tucker, being 
 surplus, were assigned to the Depot Brigade. 
 
 Raupp, on October 10, was ordered before an efficiency 
 board. October 15, Berry sent for Raupp and told him 
 the findings were unfavorable and he would give him an- 
 other chance to resign. Raupp refused again, asked for 
 a copy of the proceedings, and was bluntly told he could 
 not have it. The case was reversed in Washington. No- 
 vember 12, Raupp was ordered before a physical exam- 
 ination board. He passed. Nov. 18 he was appointed on 
 a board to examine into and make recommendations con- 
 cerning difference in weight in a number of cars of hay. 
 This job took about one half hour and was the only work 
 Raupp was permitted to do in Doniphan from Sept. 27 to 
 Feb. 5, 1918. December 10, he was ordered before an 
 efficiency board and ** found." 
 
 He tried to see Gen. Wright but Col. MacCleave told 
 him he was too busy to see him. The finding was again 
 reversed in Washington. On Feb. 5, 1918, he was ordered 
 to the Brigade and Field Officers School at Fort Sam 
 Houston. The school had started Jan. 2, Raupp joined 
 Feb. 7. Twenty-five per cent of the class failed to qualify 
 but Raupp starting five weeks late passed. He was or- 
 dered to Camp WadsAVorth, South Carolina, and reported 
 there April 6. April 10, he was appointed Camp Guard 
 Commander and held the place until demobilization. July 
 7, he was assigned to command the 60th Pioneer Infantry 
 and held this place until demobilization, receiving the 
 highest praise from Major Gen. Carleton. Raupp had 
 commanded the Second Missouri for 12 years. He had 
 refused a Brigade Generalcy to stay with it. The record 
 of the regiment after being transformed into machine gun 
 battalions was second to none in France. Its officers held 
 
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 their commands all the way through, which applied to 
 few other outfits. 
 
 The training of the men for war was pressed with all 
 possible speed. The camp was in a dry valley surrounded 
 by mountains. Virtually all the men under canvas, the 
 business of providing stoves for the tents proceeded very 
 slowly, and cold weather came, with a fiendish wind 
 which swept down out of the hills, and there was con- 
 siderable sickness in camp. The base hospital was not 
 completed, and facilities for caring for the sick were 
 poor. Dispatches sent from Camp Doniphan to newspa- 
 pers made this condition apparent to the public, and re- 
 sulted in a censorship which Gen. Berry put on all news 
 dispatches sent out of the camp. This was the first camp 
 censorship in the country. 
 
CHAPTER III 
 
 THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE 
 
 The training went ahead with vigor through the fall 
 and winter and into the spring of 1918. At that time, 
 the war on the western front, where our battalions were 
 to take their places, was a fixed one of the kind known 
 as trench warfare. Our national guardsmen, in their 
 camps and armories, had never trained for such a conflict. 
 So experts in the new art of war — French, English and 
 Scotch — were sent from the battlefields to teach them. 
 The men were hardened and toughened by constant hard 
 work, just as if the war was to be the open warfare they 
 had studied, but the technique, the implements and the 
 methods all were new. 
 
 By the time Gen. Wright returned from France, the 
 men knew a lot about digging trenches and throwing 
 hand grenades, and in the use of the bayonet they had 
 made amazing progress. Gen. "Wright seemed to think 
 that they had devoted too much time to these specialties 
 and not enough to the straight, standard lines of military 
 training. He wanted them to be as nearly perfect as pos- 
 sible in the use of the rifle, accurate in firing at all ef- 
 fective ranges and skilled at maneuvering in the open or 
 in woods by day or by night. 
 
 The theory of the bayonet, I believe, is that if the sol- 
 dier has acquired sufficient proficiency in its use, and has 
 got what is called the ''spirit of the bayonet," he will 
 not have to use it, because then the enemy will never 
 stand against his charge. If this is right, those months 
 
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28 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 devoted to the bayonet were not lost. But very few men 
 of the Thirty-fifth Division ever stuck bayonets into Ger- 
 mans. 
 
 Virtually all elements of the new division had reached 
 Camp Doniphan by the middle of October. The late win- 
 ter and early spring were filled with rumors of approach- 
 ing departure. Nobody ever \uiew where all the rumors 
 started, or how they spread over the camp A'vdth such 
 swiftness. When the authentic one finally began to get 
 about, it Avas accepted as avidl}^ and with the same as- 
 surance as had been its false predecessors. But on April 
 11 the men began entraining for the East. The news- 
 papers and many individuals seem to have known of the 
 troop movement, but nothing was printed. An immense 
 crowd saw the troop trains pass through St. Louis, but 
 the identification of the units in the printed reports was 
 not such as to give the enemy intelligence service any in- 
 formation. 
 
 On the Atlantic seaboard, the division was assembled 
 at Camp Mills, near Hempstead, Long Island, and on 
 April 24 and 25, the Middle Westerners, many of them 
 smelling salt water for the first time, moved over to New 
 York and Hoboken, they "set a foot aboard a ship" and 
 sailed away. The world was wide and the great war lay 
 toward. 
 
 The first convoy left Hoboken April 25, the transports 
 Adriatic, Aeneas, Coronia and Shropshire carried Divi- 
 sion Headquarters, Headquarters Troop and Detachment, 
 Headquarters 70th Brigade, 137th Infantry, 139th Infan- 
 try, 140th Infantry, and the 128th ]\Iachine Gun Battalion. 
 On May 3 the second convoy left on the transports Car- 
 pathia, Missanabee and Leicestershire, carrying the 
 Headquarters 69th Brigade, Headquarters Trains and 
 
THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE 29 
 
 Military Police, 138tli Infantry, 129th Machine Gun Bat- 
 talion, 130th Machine Gnn Battalion and casual companies. 
 A number of the smaller units crossed mth other divisions 
 which were embarking* at the time. The first convoy 
 landed in England May 7, the second May 16. The 110th 
 Engineers embarked from Camp Merritt on the Great 
 Northern May 1 direct to Brest without convoy and landed 
 there May 10. 
 
 The 60th Field Artillery Brigade followed the division 
 landing in England June 1 to 7. They sailed on the 
 transports Ceramic and Saxonia. The Trench Mortar 
 Battery and the 110th Field Signal Battalion also crossed 
 later. 
 
 It was a cold, windy trip on a boisterous sea. The ships 
 traveled in convo}^ and the submarine war was at its 
 height. The convoy was routed far to the north, so that 
 at one time it was in the latitude of the southern point of 
 Greenland. It turned southward when near the Scottish 
 coast and passed through the Irish Sea between England 
 and Ireland, and when Liverpool finally rose out of the 
 water it got a cheer from that convoy. That was on May 
 7, and there was little sightseeing done in the British port, 
 for the same day the men were marched onto trains and 
 shot through to Winchester. 
 
 Clay Berlin, an enlisted man, died of diphtheria in Win- 
 chester. His was the first death overseas in the 35th di- 
 vision. 
 
 On May 10 the first half of the division entrained again 
 and rode to Southampton, again embarked and in the night 
 steamed down the Solent and through the submarine in- 
 fested waters of the channel safely to Le Havre, landing 
 there May 11. 
 
 By 11 a.m. that day all outfits in that convoy had 
 
30 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMON!* 
 
 landed on French soil or were in course of landing. Just 
 six montlis later to the hour the armistice was signed. 
 
 From Le Havre the troops moved as rapidly as pos- 
 sible immediately after landing to the vicinity of Eu, 
 where Divisional Headquarters was set up in the town 
 hall. Excepting the units to come later the division was 
 assembled, finally, in France, and the war was not very 
 far away. By June 1 the outfit was quartered within easy 
 range of Eu. Le Treport, a peacetime summer resort on 
 the sea, but now a hospital center for convalescents, was 
 three miles aw^ay. Dieppe was 17 miles to the southwest, 
 and due east was the battle line. 
 
 These were parlous days in the great war, especially 
 in the camps of the high commands to which certain 
 knowledge of the enemy's intention was brought by the 
 intelligence services. The German had been attacking 
 since March 21, and indications were that he was gath- 
 ering his strength for a determined offensive whose pur- 
 pose was possibly to break through the line and menace 
 the channel ports. 
 
 What force he would bring to this task was problemat- 
 ical, but it was certain to be a dangerous one. The loss 
 of the channel ports with the consequent limiting or de- 
 struction of cross-channel traffic would have been almost 
 a mortal blow to the allies, cutting off, as it would, the 
 certainty of a normal flow of men and munitions from 
 Great Britain. 
 
 The enemy was pressing along the whole line, appar- 
 ently feeling for a weak spot, and Foch could not know 
 where he would strike. The French army of maneuver 
 was kept somewhere in the neighborhood of the Cham- 
 pagne, and the new American troops in the north of 
 France remained back of the British. The long point of 
 
THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE ^1 
 
 the advance was about to be pushed in at Chateau- 
 Thierry, and the Marines were to make their gallant and 
 successful fight at Belleau Wood and add bright garlands 
 to their wreaths of fame. 
 
 There was at that time no real American sector. We 
 held a little stretch of trench up Luneville way, and at a 
 spot or two down in the Vosges we were in very quiet 
 sectors. The British army guarded the path to the Chan- 
 nel, while the French legions stood watch and ward along 
 the road that led to Paris. 
 
 The First Division already had tasted blood at Can- 
 tigny. Foch shuffled some other American divisions and 
 put them into the line along with the French. They were 
 the Twenty-sixth, from New England ; the Thirty-second 
 from Wisconsin and Michigan, and the Forty-second 
 called the ** Rainbow" Division. It looked very big to us, 
 but we knew in sober thought that our American contri- 
 bution to the army which was holding back the Hun was 
 very small. The enemy was using a mobile force of 700,- 
 000 men, the intelligence section said. Foch knew he 
 could stop them on the Marne. If the attack should slide 
 farther to the west and north, the British would be in a 
 bad way. It doubtless was at the direction of the high al- 
 lied command that Gen. Pershing lent all his forces in the 
 training areas of the North of France to the British. 
 There were nine divisions of them, one of which was the 
 newly arrived Thirty-fifth. 
 
 These were to be reserves to the British army. Amer- 
 ican newspapers at that time spoke of these American 
 troops as having '' finished their training" and of their be- 
 ing attached to the British army. Their training really 
 was not finished, but they had straightened out the kinks 
 left by the long sea voyage, they had acquired a hurried, 
 
32 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 but acceptable, knowledge of the British rifle with Avhich 
 they were equipped and they would have been able to 
 put up a desperate fight if the British lines ever had 
 given way and the Americans had been called upon to 
 help stop the advancing enemy in the narrow stretch 
 along the sea. But they would have paid a terrible price, 
 for they were not as capable then of taking the field as 
 they were four months later, and the price paid at the 
 later date was dear enough. 
 
 The parts of nine American divisions there exceeded in 
 the aggregate 175,000 men. American newspapers at the 
 time made their larger headlines day by day upon the 
 gradual increase of enemy artillery fire on the British 
 front. These nine divisions were gathered in the little 
 corner at the north of France and they lay, nearly all of 
 them, in the territory west of a line dra^'vii from Arras to 
 Amiens. Our engineers were sent further north than any 
 other elements of the Thirty-fifth Division. There they 
 dug reserve trenches, erected barbed wire entanglements, 
 and otherwise labored in the preparation of a line of de- 
 fense to which the British could fall back if forced to do 
 so, or into which some of the American reserves could be 
 thrown to stop a rush to the channel. The enemy never 
 reached that line. The infantry regiments got in some 
 time at drill, and in reviving and polishing up their knowl- 
 edge of the specialized methods of warfare which then en- 
 grossed all military minds. 
 
 The 35th Di^dsion did not get along very well with the 
 British. They did not like the British noncoms, or the 
 British soldiers, or the British officers. They conspicuously 
 disliked the British rations, and they loathed tea for break- 
 fast. It is almost impossible to make Missourians and 
 Kansans drink tea for breakfast. 
 
THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE 33 
 
 ^'But WE have ALWAYS drunk tea for breakfast," a 
 British mess sergeant pleaded. 
 
 ** Maybe that's vrhat is the matter with you," the 
 American mess sergeant answered coldly. 
 
 There were occasional fights between our men and 
 theirs. That did not aid in cementing the entente. A 
 British noncom who was a bit of a wag, heard an excel- 
 lent wheeze at his own headquarters, and hurried to tell 
 it to the Americans. He found three of them together on 
 a sidewalk in Eu. 
 
 * ^ I say you fellows ! Did you know the next war is to 
 be fought between the two yellow races ? Yes, the Japanese 
 and the Americans. Haw" — gentle hands bore him away 
 to a hospital. 
 
 There was one thing about the British service which 
 was appreciated by many of our men of all ranks, coming 
 as they did from the dry lands of Oklahoma, and the ad- 
 ditional drouth which had touched everything in khaki. 
 That was the British canteen system, both wet and dry. 
 A dry canteen, in the British zone, did not mean prohibi- 
 tion had made headway, but that liquors were not sold 
 at that particular canteen. They specialized in' canned 
 goods or clothing. At wet canteens there were stocks of 
 drinkables to fit any thirst. English beer did not always 
 evoke rousing cheers, but the whiskies, wines and liquors 
 were above reproach, and always quite moderate in price. 
 Americans had access to these canteens on an equal foot- 
 ing with the British, but the business they might have 
 given to this new institution was somewhat lessened by 
 the fact that there had not been a payday since leaving 
 Camp Doniphan. 
 
 It was in the region about Eu that we first began hav- 
 ing our struggles with the French language. The name 
 
34 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 of the town was called by the natives something like 
 ''Uhr," but we called it **You" until we had heard some 
 Frenchman pronounce it, then we usually employed a 
 grunt such as a red Indian is supposed to use, like 
 ''Umgh." 
 
 All men of the division could feel the approach to the 
 war, and could get much of the atmosphere of it from 
 long trains of camouflaged trucks which plugged along 
 the magnificent roads, or from the hospital cars which 
 the trains carried daily down to Le Trepoi*t, where sick 
 or wounded might recuperate by the sea, or from the air- 
 planes which flew over in formation on their way to the 
 front or back again. Only one unit had a touch of war 
 in that area. That was E Company of the 138th, which 
 had tarried at Mills to clean up the camp and had missed 
 the division in England. 
 
 Coming by a later boat, E Company ^s fortunes laid it 
 up at night on a sidetrack in the railway station at Abbe- 
 ville. This happened to be a night which enemy aviators 
 had chosen to bomb the Abbeville railway station. 
 
 The town was dark as pitch, war regulations having 
 forbidden all lights, and the few dim ones about the 
 tracks at the station were put out as soon as the alarm 
 was given by the listening posts, miles nearer the front. 
 
 The men of E Company were on open flat cars in the 
 yards about the station. Night bombers always throw at 
 the railway station. It was a trying thing to stay on the 
 cars while the black sky above was filled with the whirr 
 of angry motors, but there they stayed and waited for the 
 crash of the first bomb of their part of the war, and they 
 knew in reason it was coming soon. These men later on 
 became pretty well acquainted with the detonation of 
 high explosive, but on that night they heard their first. 
 
THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE 35 
 
 **Kazzz-ZAM!'* it went, not a hundred yards away, 
 and it sounded like it was almost under the car. The 
 men took what little cover could be found in the neighbor- 
 hood of the station, but some of them stayed on their 
 cars and watched the air barrage. 
 
 ''Mark 41!" a doughboy shouted, as he had done be- 
 fore on the rifle range when asking the scorer to mark 
 his target. The spirit was infectious, and the strafing 
 Germans got a verbal strafing from the ground which 
 they could not hear, and which doubtless they could not 
 have understood had they heard, but heard and under- 
 stood, it would have given a fine idea of what these 
 Americans thought of such night flying vultures, and how 
 little regarded were their poisonous eggs. 
 
 ''Missed it a mile," "Set 'em up in the other alley," 
 "Try the other barrel," they yelled as the succeeding 
 bombs exploded, and they yelled many other things which 
 it would not be proper to record. After a while the raid- 
 ers flew back home and the next day the company, still 
 intact, rejoined the regiment. 
 
 The adventure of E Company did not bring the regi- 
 ment or division any closer to the war. The feeling still 
 was that they were getting on, but that the big show was 
 well ahead. 
 
 The night of May 26 and the morning of May 27, the 
 Germans attacked on a 40-mile front, between Rheims 
 and Soissons, against the British and French, and the 
 endeavor to extend the gains made in the March offen- 
 sive was apparent. Then they attacked below Ypres. 
 The 35th Division came mighty near to getting into the war 
 then, but we knew at the time little about how close we 
 were to participation. A few officers and men went as 
 observers to the front held by the Australians. The battle 
 
36 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 developed rapidly along the Vesle and the Aisne, and 
 on May 28 a crossing of the Aisne was made. The French 
 from Rheims westward braced themselves against the push 
 and the foe slipped further westward. June 1, the foe 
 again threatened the Marne, and only the desperate French 
 resistance held him to the northern bank. 
 
 The concentration of the attack along the line held by 
 the French made it appear that the German design was 
 to make another attempt on Paris, rather than toward 
 the channel. The need for the Thirty-fifth in the British 
 area passed, and they were booked for other fields. 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 
 ARCHES, WESSERLING, AND THE HIGH HILLS 
 
 On June 7 the Division resumed its travels. The enemy- 
 lay along the Marne, and he could threaten the British 
 as he did a few days later around Montdidier, but be- 
 tween the German hordes and Paris lay the grim French- 
 men, whose confession of faith and declaration of prin- 
 ciples and litany were all embraced in the phrase **They 
 shall not pass. ' ' Foch could again devote his energies to 
 arranging his forces for his own offensives to come, and 
 one of the details of this arrangement made it necessary 
 for Gen. Pershing to send the 35th Division further to the 
 eastward. 
 
 Virtually all of the division entrained at Bushy or at 
 other railroad points near there, after three days of dif- 
 ficult marching. The usual line of march was Londinieres 
 — Neuchatel — Bushy. At Bushy the troops got the Amer- 
 ican Enfields. It was the third kind of rifle in four weeks. 
 On this journey the men came to understand why some- 
 one had written ''sunny France," for good weather at- 
 tended. There had been much spring rain at Eu and an 
 impression was spreading that it always rained in France, 
 but on the trip to the south and east the division passed 
 through a beautiful green country usually flooded with 
 sunshine. The farms were tended to the last inch, and 
 the chateaux which rose from the tops of gently swelling 
 hills were like old pictures from a book of travels. 
 
 The men rode in the famed "Hommes 40, chevaux 8," 
 as the little French freight cars were universally called. 
 
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38 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 This legend was painted on the side of every car, testify- 
 ing to its capacity for carrying that number of men or 
 horses. The four-wheeled cars looked flimsy and frail 
 to eyes used to considering the big, sturdy American box 
 cars, but when one of those long trains got under way it 
 moved with a dash and abandon which gave a good idea 
 of French at war. 
 
 The route was through Rouen, Versailles, Troyes, Cha- 
 tillon and Epinal. Headquarters was next set up at 
 Arches, which the natives called *^Arsh," but which we 
 usually referred to as ''Archie." The 69th Brigade had 
 headquarters at Hadol and the 70th at Pouxeux. Ele- 
 ments of the division were scattered about the country- 
 side, and some of them unloaded at the \\T?ong places, so 
 that they drew long hikes as the result. The 138th had 
 headquarters at Dounoux, which gave the M. P.'s an op- 
 portunity to answer the usual question, ''What town is 
 this," in the usual manner "Dunno." The Arches area 
 was to the south of Epinal. It was a farming country 
 near the Moselle River and the hills Avere becoming a 
 little steeper and a little higher than those through which 
 the division had passed on its way from Eu. 
 
 It was not far to the German border of pre-war days, 
 the majority of the people in the towns spoke German. 
 It was an enlightening and entertaining thing in Dou- 
 noux to watch Lieut. "Rollie" Reinholdt, regimental bil- 
 leting officer, and the w^ife of the Mayor of the town dis- 
 cussing in fluent German the Lieutenant's plan of billet- 
 ing an Irish captain in her home. 
 
 There was considerable opportunity for drill about 
 Arches, and the men by this time were back in the excel- 
 lent form they had shown when they left Doniphan. 
 
 Ranges were selected in fields and the training and tar- 
 
ARCHES AND WESSERLING 39 
 
 get practice of the men went on steadily. In the hikes 
 back and forth between towns and ranges the men had 
 glimpses of the life of rural France. Some of it they liked 
 and some they did not. 
 
 Our men observed that virtually all the farm work was 
 done by women. Occasionally a French soldier was to be 
 seen working with them, but there was a battle going on 
 away to the west, and few soldiers had been released for 
 the hay harvest. The Missourians and Kansans were not 
 accustomed to this. Men did the work in the hayfields at 
 home. Col. Edmund J. McMahon of the 138th said that 
 all men of his regiment who wished to do so might vol- 
 unteer to assist the women in the fields on Sunday after 
 church service. Eight hundred men volunteered. 
 
 Father Thomas D. Kennedy, who had just been made 
 senior divisional chaplain and was about to leave the regi- 
 ment, preached that day in the open place where the main 
 roads crossed in Dounoux, and I remember that he 
 '* bawled 'em out something fierce" (to quote a dough- 
 boy) for swearing in English where the French women 
 could hear. At that church service after the prayer, 
 everybody sang ''Onward, Christian Soldiers," and then 
 the band played "Star-Spangled Banner" and the ''Mar- 
 seillaise." 
 
 At one corner of that old-world space in Dounoux 
 there was a grotesque stone carving on the building and 
 beneath it the cross of Lorraine, that ever-present testi- 
 monial to the province's loyalty to France. Out nearer 
 the road was a stone monument topped by a cross, the 
 work of a long-forgotten donor. Over the door of the 
 house was engraved: "1821 Dieu soit beni," but on the 
 corner itself was a new sign. It read "Grand and 
 Olive." That means home to a St. Louisan. 
 
40 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 The American Army ration is a good, substantial diet, 
 but it becomes very tiresome. The men crave a change, 
 and they usually prefer something sweet. Not many of 
 our men could buy sweets in this area, because there had 
 not been a payday since March, in far-away Camp Doni- 
 phan, and now it was June. Almost any soldier will tell 
 you that the paymaster's department has as high a de- 
 gree of incapacity and inefficiency as any branch of the 
 service. 
 
 One of the results in the area south of Epinal was that 
 beehives began to disappear. They would be discovered 
 in the early morning by the thrifty French peasant 
 woman, lying in a concealed place, and expertly looted 
 of honey. This custom became so widespread in the army 
 that it finally brought a general order from expedition- 
 ary headquarters setting a special penalty on the offense 
 of robbing beehives. 
 
 Our men had regarded it as a sort of joke. They had 
 come all the way over here to fight for France, so they 
 would just help themselves to a little French honey. The 
 French peasants regarded it as a high crime. 
 
 Our men were amazed to find what a row a French 
 farmer's wife would raise about a dead fruit tree which 
 had been cut down by a couple of doughboys who needed 
 a fire to dry their clothing. Later they learned how valu- 
 able wood was in France, and that even the smallest 
 twigs were gathered into faggots and saved for fuel 
 against the coming winter. 
 
 One claim made against Maj. Sauerwein's battalion 
 was that 100 liters of wine had been stolen by his men. 
 The Major declared there was no justice in the claim be- 
 cause ''there was no singing in camp that night." 
 
 As a general rule our men were very popular with the 
 
ARCHES AND WESSERLING 41 
 
 French women of whatever age or degree of winsomeness. 
 If a doughboy saw a girl or woman wheeling a barrow 
 along a road he took the handles and wheeled it for her, 
 or, if she was carrying a bundle, he carried it for her. 
 Their own men had been away at the front for four years 
 so these little attentions were a pleasant surprise and 
 much appreciated. I have never been able to figure out 
 how our men and the French girls, without the medium 
 of a common language, became such good friends in so 
 short a time, but they did, and many a homesick dough- 
 boy supplemented his ration at dusk in the generous 
 kitchen of a French farm. 
 
 On June 15 Major-General Wright was put in command 
 of a corps and he left the division. Brigadier-General 
 Nathaniel F. McClure, who had commanded the Sixty- 
 ninth Infantry Brigade since May 26, took over command 
 of the division, and Col. McMahon was acting commander 
 of the brigade. 
 
 On June 17, when the rain had commenced again, or- 
 ders were received to prepare to move. June 17 also pro- 
 duced a big mail delivery and a payday. Altogether it 
 was a large occasion. 
 
 The second Battalion of the 138th had the honor of be- 
 ing the first unit in the Thirty-fifth to go to the front. 
 Maj. Norman B. Comfort commanded it, and the com- 
 panies were under Capts. Hundley, Lloyd, McDonald and 
 Crist. Seventy trucks carried the men on a day lit by 
 brilliant sunshine. The course lay through Arches, and 
 up the valley of the Moselle. It wound between moun- 
 tains which became higher and steeper with each mile, 
 mountains to whose side clung farms which appeared from 
 the valleys far below to be pasted on like green postage 
 stamps, and whose houses seemed to be set in niches cut 
 in the slope. 
 
42 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 At 5 :55 p. m. the first truck passed through a tunnel at 
 Bussang, and started down into a beautiful valley. They 
 were now in the country which had been Germany up to 
 the beginning of the war. The tunnel wsls the boundary 
 line. 
 
 Yellow-haired Alsatian girls from the dusty roadside 
 shouted welcomes, waved their hands hospitably and 
 threw flowers into the trucks. The men were unanimous 
 in the belief that it was a bully neighborhood to hold a 
 war in, and everyone felt sure he was going to do well in 
 this country. 
 
 In the town of Wesserling in the Vosges mountains 
 the men slept in a great barracks which formerly had 
 been a German headquarters. The town was really a 
 little city set high in the mountains, with good hotels, 
 and many shops and little cafes scattered about. These 
 received a flattering business from the boys whose pock- 
 ets held their first pay for three months. 
 
 Wesserling is a pleasant memory. There was a large 
 rambling hotel and there were many officers who were 
 hungry and thirsty and there was a large, rambling wait- 
 ress named Louise. She was of pleasing appearance and 
 she had an unlimited capacity for work. She spoke only 
 French and German. Our restaurant French, which later 
 became so exquisite, was undeveloped at that time. Pri- 
 vate Max Lander, always willing to oblige, translated one 
 or two orders for her and thereby greased the wheels of 
 commerce. I can still see the powerful and perspiring 
 Louise, hours later in the gloaming, dashing from table 
 to table and leading Max firmly by the hand. 
 
CHAPTER V 
 
 INTO THE TRENCHES IN THE VOSGES 
 
 The battalion moved on June 20, and the divisional 
 headquarters was established at the same place when the 
 division moved to the front later. The night before the 
 battalion Avent ahead, Maj. Comfort had a meeting of 
 his captains in his room and told them in effect that while 
 it was a new kind of war, the battalion would follow its 
 principles learned long ago, to stick to the traditions, to 
 keep clean, be courteous and always willing to learn. 
 He instructed that it was to be seen to that all men bathed 
 and cleaned up before going into the trenches. 
 
 That march on the night of June 19 from Wesserling 
 to Bussat is already beginning to take on the moss and 
 ivy of tradition. It was a killing hike on the men, who 
 carried full pack up a switchback mountain road. 
 
 Each man carried more than 60 pounds of equipment, 
 and some of them several pounds more. One man, I re- 
 member, quarreled and grumbled all night long about 
 a 25-pound bag of machine-gun ammunition which he had 
 been detailed to carry. He was always just about to 
 throw it away, and a dozen times he swore fervently that 
 he would not carry it another step even if they court- 
 martialed him and shot him, but he arrived at camp at 
 4 the next morning with it. Private Bob Hoard carried 
 his own pack and rifle, and the pack of his bunkie. That 
 was a classic feat of endurance and strength, for the dis- 
 tance was nearly 10 miles, and it was up hill all the way. 
 
 The weariness and the gloomy forests along the moun- 
 
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44 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 tain side, the occasional clouds which blew against the 
 mountain or the dashes of rain all tended to dull the 
 keenness of perception, but every man felt the thrill of war 
 when at some point on the black road, it became sure to 
 him that the rumble of distant thunder was what he had 
 half suspected all the time. It was The Guns. They were 
 growling away at one another up yonder where we were 
 going. After all the months of work and training, it had 
 come at last. The War was just ahead. 
 
 Toward the end of the march, the rumble disintegrated 
 into its component sounds. The bellow of each gun could 
 be heard and occasionally the valley would fill with a 
 rush of sound as some big-calibered piece turned loose. 
 
 Each succeeding unit had a similar experience, but the 
 Second Battalion of the 138th felt very proud that it had 
 been the first to make the grade. The experience of all 
 units was much the same, the trench systems and dugouts 
 were much alike, and the story of one battalion is the 
 story of every other. 
 
 In the days that followed, the Thirty-fifth Division 
 learned many things about war and how it is waged. In 
 the De Galbert subsector, where the first men of the Thir- 
 ty-fifth went, they found the line held by a very tired 
 French regiment, the Nineteenth. It was a meeting of 
 the East and the West, a joining and clashing of old world 
 and new world ideas. These French had been but a few 
 days in the Vosges, but they had been four years in the war. 
 Our men had not been in the war yet, but they had been 
 training for it for nearly a year, they had sweated at 
 Doniphan, had sailed thousands of perilous miles through 
 the blue sea water, had ridden and trudged their way 
 across France, and here they were at the trenches, in easy 
 rifle range of the foe. So why not let the fighting begin? 
 
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 **No, it is much better to lie quiet," the French com- 
 mander said. *'If we do not bother the Boche the Boche 
 will not bother us, and we can rest and hold our ground." 
 
 ''Hell's bells and forget-me-nots," the Americans would 
 reply. ''That's a fine way to win a war! Let's go right 
 through them! We can raid those trenches, drive the 
 enemy back, and with proper artillery help, push right 
 through to the Rhine Valley." 
 
 *'But to what good end?" the patient French would 
 ask. "The war will not be decided in these hopeless 
 mountains. It is in the fertile valleys of the Somme, the 
 Aisne and the Marne, it is in the Champagne and in Pi- 
 cardy that the war must be fought. The high command 
 does not desire a battle here. The high command has 
 many battles in progress with which to worry. We could 
 do the Boche no great harm even if we drove him out of 
 the Vosges. These mountains have little strategic im- 
 portance." 
 
 "Well, what sort of an old soldiers' home is this we 
 have been sent to? We are not wood choppers or moun- 
 tain goats. We did not come here looking for a pleas- 
 ant resort to spend the summer." 
 
 ' ' No, my men are not so old, ' ' the French commandant 
 said. "I am not nearly as old as I look and in a little 
 while we will be quite fresh again. Soon, I am sure, we 
 will be withdrawn and our American comrades will be 
 put in charge of this line of trenches. Then you can make 
 battles at will. A week ago we were fighting on the 
 Chemin des Dames. We lost 65 per cent of our men. 
 The regiment lost 42 officers, among them our Colonel 
 and two Majors, killed. The Lieutenant on your left was 
 a Sergeant but yesterday. He probably will offer us 
 champagne presently to celebrate his promotion. At any 
 
46 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 rate, new Lieutenants sometimes do that. All that we 
 wish to do here is to rest for a little while, show your 
 troops the way about the trenches, receive our replace- 
 ments, work them into our companies, and then return to 
 the great battle, wherever France needs us most. ' ' 
 
 The battalion slept in barracks at Bussat after they 
 reached that camp about 4 in the morning after the great 
 hike, rested the next day and at night two companies 
 went into the trenches. The relief was a sort of half- 
 relief, as half of the French soldiers staj^ed in the front 
 line. A strong point, for example, would be manned by 
 16 French poilus. Eight of them came out and eight re- 
 mained in. Eight Americans joined them. 
 
 Here a peculiar thing was observed. It was a dark 
 night. The trenches were close together and no lights 
 could be shown and there could be no talking except in 
 whispers. Four Americans would be put in a dugout with 
 four Frenchmen, a dark, wet place it would be, and they 
 would have no word of common speech. Four others would 
 be assigned to stand sentry duty with four other French- 
 men. The next morning at breakfast time the warmest 
 friendships would have been established. They slapped 
 one another on the back and swapped cigarettes and pooled 
 rations. It was a great night for the cordiale. 
 
 The trenches, as they were seen by the light of the fol- 
 lowing day, were far from charming. They had been 
 located when the French made an advance into Alsace 
 the first year of the war. When they stopped they dug 
 in, and the gradual improvement of the defenses had 
 built up the trench system. There was no such thing as 
 parallel lines, and sometimes you could not tell exactly 
 where the enemy's first line trench was. 
 
 In front of our trenches was the inevitable tangle of 
 
INTO THE VOSGES TRENCHES 47 
 
 barbed wire wrapped around or tied to posts and stumps 
 and trees, or to wooden or steel frames like overgrown 
 saw-bucks. These would be thrown into the mass to 
 strengthen places suspected of weakness. These masses 
 of wire were usually as high as a man's waist and some- 
 times higher than his head. Never less than 10 feet wide, 
 they usually were 40 or 50 feet, and at places where 
 changes or other necessities had arisen, one would find a 
 band of wire 100 or 200 yards deep. Behind this might 
 be a trench or passage, probably invisible from the en- 
 emy's position, and back of the trench another tangle 
 of wire. 
 
 The trenches usually were deep enough to conceal a 
 man standing upright, but sometimes one had to stoop to 
 keep below the parapet. The trenches would swing in 
 near together at places, as that sensitive place at the top 
 of Hilsenfirst where they were but 30 yards apart or 
 spread apart 300 or 400 yards, if the lay of the land made 
 such a distance better for the combatant who placed his 
 trench last. On the top of Hilsenfirst we had a camou- 
 flaged sniper's shield set above the trench, and through 
 the hole in the middle of the steel plate, you could look 
 through the tangle of wire right down into the German 
 first line trench, but you never saw any Germans. They 
 stayed in their dugouts by day and went through visible 
 parts of the trench only at night. 
 
 On one occasion some Ozark lads threw rocks at and 
 into a German trench until the enemy machine guns opened 
 furiously. 
 
 Communication with the rear was through trenches 
 which set in at angles to the front-line trenches. On both 
 the German and our sides, these always were shielded 
 from observation, well camouflaged if there was possible 
 
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 visibility, and they were so constructed as to permit the 
 passage of carriers with ammunition, rations, or cans of 
 coffee. In our sector in the Vosges, the mountains were 
 so steep that at times the trench was nothing but a fortified 
 and defended stairway. 
 
 The men had difficulty in understanding the elaborate 
 precautions against discovery in the Vosges. Kilometres 
 back of the line when a movement of troops was made, 
 even through a dense forest and at night, for the purpose 
 of discipline strictest orders were enforced. All conversa- 
 tion must be in a whisper. The men were not allowed 
 to smoke, and singing also was forbidden. On one of 
 these hikes through a dense forest and on a pitch black 
 night, a pack mule relieved his tortured soul by lifting 
 up his voice in song. He probably was thinking of Mis- 
 souri and home. The soldier leading the mule patted him 
 on the neck and said **Shut up ! there don't nobody know 
 we're up here except the Boche." 
 
 By July 1 we had a brigade in line, under the command 
 of the Thirty-third French Army Corps. The sector was 
 called in proper military language ''the Benoit and De 
 Galbert subsectors of the north sector of the Wesserling 
 sector," and its geographical location was east of the 
 town of Wesserling. The regimental and brigade head- 
 quarters were in barracks and dugouts built by the 
 French on the sides of the mountains soon after they re- 
 conquered the territory three years before. Supplies 
 were brought to the foot of the mountain by train stand- 
 ard or narrow gauge, and much of the rations came up 
 the mountain side in the baskets of an aerial tramway 
 which started from Kruth and ended at Bussat. From 
 the distributing points in the mountains wagons could 
 haul the provisions to nearly all battalion and company 
 
INTO THE VOSGES TRENCHES 49 
 
 headquarters, and those inaccessible in this way were 
 served by pack mules. 
 
 Beyond the German lines we could look down into the 
 little valleys and from the observation posts three little 
 deserted Alastian towns could be seen. 
 
 We had great admiration for the French intelligence 
 service when we learned how many of the German tele- 
 phone and telegraph wires back on the German side of 
 the trenches had been tapped. The second day after we 
 had entered the trenches, the French commandant was noti- 
 fied that a message had been sent to the German rear 
 from the front saying, ''The Americans entered the 
 trenches at 3 o 'clock in the morning. ' ' So we knew that 
 they knew. 
 
 It was not long until we knew that they had tapped 
 our wires also. An American soldier was killed at mid- 
 night, and headquarters notified. At noon, another mes- 
 sage was sent from the front saying that the body was 
 being brought back. Headquarters replied that the fu- 
 neral would be at 3 p.m. at the military cemetery. At 
 3 precisely, the Germans shelled the cemetery. 
 
 It was at Mitlach that this funeral was held. The dead 
 man was a private in F Company of the 139th. Chaplain 
 Myron S. Collins preached the funeral. The discourse 
 was short but eloquent. It was to show that long life 
 was not the most desirable thing in the world. A life 
 short and clean, which ended gloriously in service for 
 one 's country and humanity was a better thing, the Chap- 
 lain said. Just then the first German shell whined over 
 and exploded very near. Burying squad, listeners and 
 preacher all dived for cover. The adherent of the long 
 life still had many votes. 
 
 The French spoke of headquarters always as ' ' Poste de 
 
50 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXEEMONT 
 
 commande," and it was usually, even in orders, abbre- 
 viated to ^'P. C." This term took hold and became uni- 
 versally used. No one spoke of Capt. Smith's headquar- 
 ters, but always of ^'Capt. Smith's P. C." 
 
 For most of the first month the French corps kept the 
 command, but by July 27 the French doubtless decided the 
 outfit could stand alone, so they gave the Fecht sector 
 into the hands of the General commanding the Thirty- 
 fifth. The area was that already held with the Garibaldi 
 subsector added. Gen. Traub took command of the divi- 
 sion, headquarters were kept at Kruth, the new territory 
 was taken in hand, and the recurring series of duty and 
 rest were continued as before, except that rest periods 
 were shortened. On Aug. 10 the south sector of the 
 Gerardmer sector was added, and the whole stretch of 
 line was called the sector of Gerardmer, at which beauti- 
 ful place division headquarters established itself. A nar- 
 row gauge electric railway ran from Gerardmer to Col-de- 
 Schluct. The full sector was between 30 and 35 kilome- 
 tres in length, probably the longest divisional sector in 
 the line. 
 
 Troops which moved north and went into new parts of 
 the line found a different kind of country. There were 
 fewer of the dense forests which had spread over portions 
 of Hilsenfirst and the adjoining mountains, and there was 
 more smooth greenness to the hills. This section of the 
 country in peace times had been a summer playground 
 for rich Alsatians and Germans. Even the Kaiser him- 
 self, it was said, had a castle somewhere about. The hold- 
 ers of each different piece of trench show^ed you a differ- 
 ent building in the distance and assured you it was one of 
 the summer seats of Wilhelm. 
 
 Two regimental P. C.'s were at little lakes deep in 
 
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 the hills. Round, cup-like things they were, with water 
 of great depth and icy cold. Summer villas built about 
 them in peace times had long since been rocked up and 
 concreted to furnish protection. Occasionally the enemy 
 gunners in their methodical way would try to drop shells 
 on the P. C. and some of them went into the lake mth 
 spectacular effect. 
 
 It seemed to be a sort of understood thing that P. C. 's 
 of higher officers were to be shelled only in special cases. 
 We always knew pretty well where the enemy command- 
 ers ' were, and they seemed to know where ours were. If 
 they shelled our Colonel, we shelled their Colonel, or if 
 they tried to get our Brigadier-General we tried to get 
 theirs. 
 
 Now the artillery, while as a rule not conspicuously 
 modest, do not like to have visitors of high degree com- 
 ing around at odd hours asking to see the guns fired. 
 They did not blame the visitors, but the Colonel or Gen- 
 eral who permitted the visit. Usually the visitor was 
 some officer passing through. So they would fire the gun 
 for him after working out on the map the exact location of 
 the enemy Colonel's P. C. After a few rounds had been 
 fired they would stand hy waiting for the telephone call 
 from the Colonel of their OT\m outfit. He would say, 
 '*The Boche is shelling my P. C. Can you silence his 
 battery?" Visitors to batteries in the Vosges were very 
 scarce late in the summer. 
 
 Even the Chaplains were not immune from the attacks 
 of the jokers. One of these men of religion one day in 
 the Vosges was so unwise as to go near the front line 
 without a gas mask. The soldiers immediately filled him 
 with horrible stories of the persistency with which the 
 Boche was gassing the line and of the violence of the 
 
52 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 gas. The Chaplain explamed that he had no mask. The 
 men said they were sorry that they did not have one to 
 lend him, but that he would probably be safe if he took 
 proper precautions, as the gas then being used was very 
 heavy and clung closely to the ground. Therefore, if the 
 Chaplain, upon hearing a gas alarm, would immediately 
 climb a tree he could save himself from disaster. It was a 
 bad day for gassing. It seemed to the Chaplain that he 
 would no sooner descend from one tree than someone up the 
 line would yell *'Gas." He climbed eight trees that day, 
 and not until he got home did it occur to him that he had 
 not heard a single shell explode, but he could not be- 
 lieve that the men were kidding him. 
 
 When the Americans came to the Vosges, the trenches 
 were in the positions established more than three years 
 before when the French invaded Alsace and dug in Avhen 
 stopped. The opposing armies had seemed to agree that 
 the decision would be gained to the northwest, on other 
 fields of fame, so they sent tired troops to the Vosges to rest 
 or filled the line with territorials. A few shells were sent 
 over each day, a few infrequent raids were made at night to 
 learn what troops were opposite, wire was kept in good 
 shape and trenches and dugouts were maintained in good 
 repair, but little beyond this was done. The great war 
 was allowed to rage elsewhere. No. men were sacrificed 
 in this part of the world. 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 
 THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 
 
 Americans changed the quiet Vosges sector to a fairly- 
 lively one. They had men to be trained, battalions to be 
 blooded, schemes to try and nerves to test. How were 
 they going to do it? 
 
 It was on July 6, 1918, that the men of the 35th Di- 
 vision had their first fight, and they won it. It was a 
 glorified trench raid of 250 men, and all the settings 
 joined to make the scene one of impressive grandeur. In 
 the battle line from Switzerland to the sea, I never saw 
 a field more magnificently ordered for the pageantry of 
 battle. 
 
 This was in the High Vosges, that land of the sky to 
 which the division's destinies had carried it. The pe- 
 culiar detached existence we led in the high hills made 
 life seem unreal in many ways, with the most certain and 
 the material things being an occasional lazy bellow of 
 artillery or the vicious crackle of a machine gun. We 
 were on another stratum of human existence. Connec- 
 tion with the usual level of earth on which people lived 
 was by the wire cables of the aerial tramway or by the 
 trucks or ambulances which sometimes wound their way 
 to the top. 
 
 Patches of forest were spread over the mountains. The 
 pine, spruce and fir trees rose straight as arrows, some- 
 times a hundred feet. From the top, the mountain would 
 descend sharply and sometimes break into a precipice 
 and end in a wall of a canyon far below. Sometimes the 
 
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54 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 slope would permit a steep grazing field. The region was 
 like those mountains to which Kim followed his lama. 
 
 Rain storms would blow up quickly and as quickly 
 clear away. After these storms a sky of perfect blue 
 would have a few fleecy clouds scudding across it and 
 the hot sun would fill the whole beautiful land. On other 
 days there would be a sky of intense blue with the burn- 
 ing sun known in high altitudes. Still other days would 
 be filled with blown white clouds which would hit the 
 mountains and drift over the summits in mist. 
 
 When there were clouds in the west and the air was 
 clear about our own mountains, there would be a sunset 
 to rival those of Arizona or Italy or Alaska. 
 
 Across the barren, forlorn top of Hilsenfirst, the twin 
 trenches ran. The mountain was held, half and half, by 
 the opposing armies. On our side the communicating 
 trenches, on the western slope were lost in a forest a 
 little way below the top. On the German side the moun- 
 tain was bare and the slope sank sharply to the second 
 trench which lay across the saddle ridge which connected 
 Hilsenfirst with Steinmauer. Steinmauer, another high 
 mountain, was strongly held by the enemy. From the 
 sides of the saddle connecting Hilsenfirst and Steinmauer 
 the fields dropped sharply to the valleys and to the south 
 was the pleasant town of Lautenbach, while to the north 
 were the villages of Colmar, Blankerstan and Muelbach. 
 To the east of Steinmauer was the valley of the Rhine. 
 From all of these towns the heights of Hilsenfirst were 
 visible, but the towns were deserted except for a few per- 
 sistent old people. This brow of Hilsenfirst was like a 
 great stage, facing the Germans. It might have been 
 planned for a gigantic show for the assembled hills to 
 witness. 
 
THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 55 
 
 As the sun was setting after a cloudless day July 6, 
 1918, the brow of Hilsenfirst w^as pitted with an iron pox. 
 Every battery in range was pounding it and the burst- 
 ing of shells was a steady roar. The rank fumes of high 
 explosive and shrapnel blew away in ugly clouds, when 
 through the dust and tangle of war there marched toward 
 the front ot the stage two lines of men. Steady, sure and 
 slow, they advanced through the smoke past the shell- 
 torn wire and out to the open. It was *'H" Company 
 of the 138th Infantry registering for the division on the 
 fighting field. 
 
 French batteries for miles around thundered their ap- 
 plause. German guns pounded the crest in rage and 
 hate, and the air was sibilant with the disdainful hiss of 
 machine guns. 
 
 The play had begun. The guns were the orchestra, 
 the sky was the proscenium arch, and it was the part of 
 our actors to advance to the front of the stage, pass 
 through the footlights which would be bursting shells, 
 and play their parts all the way do^vn the two aisles, 
 which were the enemy's communicating trenches. 
 
 To not many was it given to see this brave show. Some 
 scores of German machine gunners had the orchestra 
 seats, some dozens of German observers were in the bal- 
 cony on the slope of Steinmauer, some hundreds of Ger- 
 man troops were in the dugouts in the low saddle of the 
 connecting ridge, while from the wings, Americans hid- 
 den in the grass or wire watched their comrades sally 
 forth. On the mountain tops for miles around other Amer- 
 icans watched the artillery as it flamed like fireworks, 
 rivaling and finally eclipsing the gorgeous sunset. 
 
 Five days before the raid H Company had been taken 
 out of the line to a well protected slope several kilometres 
 
56 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 in the rear, and a trench system as nearly as possible a 
 duplicate of the one to be attacked, was constructed there. 
 The engineers designed the practice trenches from airplane 
 photographs. Here the raid was rehearsed under com- 
 mand of Lieut. Wm. H. Leahy, who was to lead it, and the 
 Lieutenants who were to assist him. 
 
 The rehearsals and the raid itself were under the gen- 
 eral direction of Maj. Comfort, who commanded the bat- 
 talion. Col. McMahon commanded the regiment. 
 
 The objects of the raid were to take prisoners and ma- 
 terials to identify the units opposing us, to overcome all 
 opposition and establish our supremacy, and to destroy the 
 enemy's dugouts and defences, and return to our lines. 
 
 On the German side of the line from either side of the 
 brow, communicating trenches led from the front line 
 trench backward to join in a V, some 800 yards down the 
 steep side of the mountain. In the middle area of the V, 
 along both branches, and just below the point, it was known 
 that there were German dugouts, strong points and pos- 
 sibly stores. 
 
 There was an artillery preparation of 45 minutes and 
 it was of a thoroughness and efficiency that I would not 
 have thought possible in those mountains. 
 
 How the great number of guns which opened at 7:45 p. 
 m. July 6 ever were got up the hills in such positions 
 as to range on that mountain is still a mystery to me. 
 They opened with a roar behind the line and almost at the 
 same time came the crash of their shells on the German po- 
 sitions in our front. They pounded the points our men 
 were to enter, the high explosive tore great paths through 
 the barbed-Avire entanglements, and at the end of the prep- 
 aration they lifted and laid their shells on the enemy bat- 
 tery positions to do as much as possible toward reducing 
 the opposing fire. 
 
THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 57 
 
 From the beginning of the bombardment to the end of 
 the raid our machine guns whined away constantly. We 
 were using the French St. Etienne (called familiarly *' In- 
 sanity Ann) but with whatever gun and on whatever 
 field, we had no better troops than our machine-gun bat- 
 talions, which had been the old Second Missouri, or the 
 machine-gun companies with the infantry. 
 
 They played their part well, these machine gunners 
 who are the stormy petrels of war. When a bombardment 
 is on, everybody but the machine gunners takes refuge in 
 the dugouts. Even the party soon to make a raid takes 
 cover, waiting for the ''zero" hour, but the machine gun- 
 ners stay in their hazardous positions outside, and play 
 their venomous spray upon the points indicated in their 
 orders. 
 
 It did not take the German guns long to answer our 
 artilleiy. Their fire was aimed at the top of Hilsenfirst, for 
 the German officers knew the preparation indicated that 
 was the spot at which the raiders would come across. Our 
 men had been taken to the top of Hilsenfirst before the 
 bombardment started, and placed in dugouts there. At 
 8 :15 p. m. they were led out by the Lieutenants to our 
 front line trenches, a place of magnificent terror, there to 
 crouch until the ' ' zero ' ' hour. 
 
 That was the hardest time of all. Scores of German guns 
 were shelling the brow of the hill just outside and there 
 was no protecting shelter of a dugout roof above them. 
 Immense shells hurtled over them with the swish of an ex- 
 press train, hundreds of other shells broke just in front 
 of them beyond the wire, there was the constant hiss of 
 machine-gun bullets, and, almost as terrifying, there was 
 the constant roar of gun and shell. Every officer and man 
 knew that just as soon as he climbed out of the trench he 
 
58 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 would be in the face of all that current of fire. All watches 
 had been synchronized, and as the hand moved nearer to 
 the set time the strain grew tenser. One man watching 
 the face of his wrist watch in the last few minutes twice 
 saw it disappear from sight when shell-thrown earth 
 covered it. Every man who went over the top that evening 
 knew into what danger he advanced. 
 
 As the men waited three French airplanes, flying low 
 and seemingly indifferent to the rain of shells, come out 
 like war eagles from their eyries back in our mountains, 
 and flying straight and sure, lifted over the crest of Stein- 
 mauer and went on over the German gun positions and 
 into the valleys beyond. Our waiting men cheered the 
 fliers through the smoke and crash of shells. 
 
 Lieut. John Moll and his scouts who had cut the wire 
 the night before, showed the way through the gaps, and 
 the fighting men went out on the field. Lieut. Leahy was 
 in command of the raid. With him on the branch of the V 
 on our right were First Lieutenant Oliver W. Spencer and 
 Second Lieutenant William F. Sweeney. On the other 
 branch of the V was Second Lieutenant William S. Bryan 
 with a platoon and a half, and Sergt. George 0. von Land, 
 with half a platoon. First Lieutenant John E. Mitchell 
 had charge of the 22 moppers up. 
 
 The lane in the wire was some 100 yards from the en- 
 trance to the communicating trench, and the men walked 
 over the high bald brow, through shell and machine gun 
 fire, with superb calmness. Barring the tense waiting un- 
 der the storm of noise raised by the cannonading, this was 
 perhaps the most trying time of the raid, the moving out 
 to the brow of the mountain, swept by all machine gun 
 crossfire which could be concentrated there and beaten by 
 all the heavy guns which could be directed against it. 
 
THE TRENCH RAID AT HILSENFIRST 59 
 
 No man wavered, or if he did, the mass courage of the 
 platoon used as a community supply, picked up his spirits, 
 and they moved steadily on to the brow, over it into the full 
 view of the enemy territory and down the steep declivity 
 to their objectives. 
 
 Spencer and Mitchell led out their commands, and be- 
 hind them came Leahy and Sweeney. On our left Bryan 
 led the way with von Land's party next. Into the tor- 
 rent of fire the men marched like veterans. Some went 
 down, and the stretcher-bearers gathered them up and took 
 them back. The riflemen pressed ahead at the set speed ap- 
 pointed, and with a calmness and courage which could have 
 been excelled by no troops in the world. Down the moun- 
 tain side they went, some in the trench, others on either 
 side on the surface above, every German machine gun in 
 range trying desperately to play upon them. 
 
 As the raiders went down the hill at the opening of the 
 advance the German trench mortars were throwing their 
 torpedoes known as ''Flying Pigs" at the American lines, 
 and the admiring travelers from the Middle West strolled 
 along through the open field pleasantly looking up at these 
 engines of death hurtling over them. 
 
 As the line moved out, I noticed one fine young fellow 
 who seemed full of wonder and interest at his first sight 
 of battle. A shell broke just in front of him and he fell. 
 I had never seen him before and I never saw him again, but 
 at his funeral the next day I learned that he was Private 
 Clarence Walker. We came from the same town and his 
 grandfather had been orderly-sergeant in my grandfather 's 
 company in the civil war. 
 
 Spencer's objective was the dugouts lying below the 
 point of the V, but as he passed another cluster of dugouts 
 on the way down, he stopped to bomb them, just to get go- 
 
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 ing properly and to loosen up the throwing arms of his men. 
 
 Mitchell and his moppers-up came charging down the 
 hill jealously. 
 
 ' ' Here, you quit that ! ' ' Mitchell shouted. ' ' That 's my 
 objective. Get on down the hill where you belong." 
 
 Spencer went on down the hill, bombed his dugouts, but 
 found no prisoners. They had escaped or had been killed 
 by the artillery. Mitchell took the job of handling the 
 dugouts nearest him, and sent Sergt. Michenfelder with 
 two men to clean up those in the middle of the field. He 
 sent Corp. Omar Carroll with five men, including Me- 
 chanic William Hand to work on the dugouts farther up 
 the trench. Mitchell got no prisoners. All the Germans 
 he encountered showed fight and all were killed with pistol 
 shots or hand grenades. Carroll and his party had great 
 luck. They took eight prisoners and got back with five of 
 them. One died of wounds and two were killed while try- 
 ing to escape. They had fighting all the way, and killed 
 more men than they captured. 
 
 After working through the dugouts at his own place, 
 Mitchell moved up to where he had sent Corp. Carroll, but 
 he left on top of a dugout, which had not yet taken fire, 
 Private Kohm, to watch for any who tried to escape. After 
 running into Corp. Carroll's treasure trove of prisoners 
 and booty, Lieut. Mitchell forgot about Kohm, who shouted 
 at him from the top of the smoking dugout and asked 
 whether he should stay longer. Mitchell told him to come 
 on in a hurry, and then learned for the first time that 
 Kohm was wounded in the face. Kohm refused assistance 
 and walked to the dressing station. 
 
 On the other branch of the V, Lieut. Bryan's band 
 ran into a most active machine gun before they had pro- 
 gressed far. Bryan ordered his men to take cover, and he 
 
THE TRENCH RAID AT HlLSENElRST 61 
 
 gave Sergt. Errott the task of silencing the gun. Errett 
 took a few men armed only with pistols and hand grenades, 
 crept forward until in range, and killed the gunners and 
 silenced the gun with hand grenades. He did not know 
 he was winning the Croix de Guerre, but he was. Bryan 
 had little difficulty after that. He followed his branch of 
 the V to its junction with the one on the right, found 
 Spencer there and with him started back up the hill. 
 
 On the way back up the trying hill, Spencer did a clever 
 thing, which doubtless saved many lives, not only of his 
 own but of the other commands as well. As they were pro- 
 ceeding up the same stem of the V down which they had 
 come, the Germans with automatic rifles attempted a 
 counter attack from a distance of two or three hundred 
 yards. Spencer had his men throw smoke grenades in the 
 direction of the enemy and thus formed a smoke barrage 
 behind v/hich the Americans retired. Because the aim 
 was thus destroyed, the casualties here were light, when 
 otherwise they would surely have been heavy. 
 
 Sweeney had little opposition in entering the field, but on 
 the return, when he commanded the rear guard, he was 
 called upon to beat off a counter attack made by automatic 
 riflemen, which he did with his own automatic rifles. 
 
 The entire operation w^as under the direction of Lieut. 
 Leahy, and the success is a testimonial to the careful 
 preparation which he supervised. Once the troops entered 
 the field, each Lieutenant's outfit acted as a unit, and car- 
 ried out its work without further direction from the com- 
 mander. 
 
 There was daylight to the end of the raid. They came 
 back in the dusk, with the glow of the fading sunset on 
 their grimy faces, and their hearts full of the exaltation 
 of the fray. They were soldiers now, but not yet veterans 
 
62 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 who could quickly relapse into calmness from the high 
 fervor of battle. They toiled up the long, steep hill with 
 the steady, even gait of men returning from their day's 
 work. The German batteries shelled the brow of the 
 mountain incessantly, and poured high explosives and 
 shrapnel into the German communicating trenches through 
 which the Americans naturally would withdraw. The 
 enemy machine guns fired incessantly. 
 
 The retirement was, by order, without formation. The 
 men straggled back with a strong rear guard. The wounded 
 were carried by members of the band, whose work through- 
 out brought praise from all officers, and men who saw it. 
 These men without arms and without identifying brassards, 
 took their stretchers onto the field, watched the work of 
 their fighting comrades, and bore the wounded back up 
 the steep slope. The position of an unarmed man on a 
 battlefield is always a most trying one, but these musicians 
 worked magnificently. 
 
 When the Americans started back up the slope, every- 
 thing inflammable in the German position was burning. 
 The dugouts had been destroyed with the thoroughness 
 which high explosive and incendiary hand grenades per- 
 mit. Many of the men carried their rifles slung on their 
 backs in the climb up the steep mountainside, although the 
 machine guns were giving them a terrible lashing, and 
 Sweeney's rear guard v^as having a lively tilt with the 
 counter attack. 
 
 The raiders carried trench knives lent by the French, 
 long dagger-shaped weapons, with good grips and brass 
 hilts. Upon the blade near the hilt was engraved '^Re- 
 venge for 1870." Many of these were "lost." They were 
 almost the ideal souvenir of the war, and what would a 
 man desire more than to take home with him the weapon 
 he first carried into battle? 
 
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 In Col, MeMahon's headquarters divisional staff officers 
 had gathered to hear of the result of the first action in 
 which the division had taken part. Besides the chief of 
 staff and others from the division, the commander of the 
 brigade and his staff were there. 
 
 The men returning from the raid were required to turn 
 in all souvenirs they had gathered, for examination by In- 
 telligence Department. They were to be returned later. 
 These men, still full of the glow and afflatus of battle, told 
 Colonels and Generals just how it had happened, and gave 
 the stories quaint embroidery. The soldiers just back 
 from the fray used soldier language, and they talked to 
 their chiefs as friends and brothers. Although they proud- 
 ly reveled in the blood and dust which stained them, there 
 was no condescension in their attitudes to the men of high 
 commissions. 
 
 Our losses were four men killed and 18 wounded. Seven 
 prisoners were brought back, at least 25 of the enemy had 
 been killed, and dugouts, defenses and communications 
 in the selected area had been destroyed. According to the 
 scales of war, it was a highly profitable raid. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 
 OTHER VOSGES FIGHTING 
 
 The 137th regiment made a raid on the morning of July 
 20, at Mattle to the north of Hilsenfirst. Company C went 
 over the top at 4 :45 a. m., after an artillery preparation of 
 45 minutes. They were opposed by a very heavy machine 
 gun fire, but they pressed resolutely on to their objectives 
 and destroyed the enemy's works and returned with five 
 prisoners. They had three men killed and 10 wounded. 
 
 Second Lieut. Thomas Hopkins of the 139th who was not 
 a member of the raiding party voluntarily left his combat 
 group and passed through an enemy barrage to aid a 
 wounded soldier who had been caught in the wire. He was 
 fatally wounded in assisting this man to cover. 
 
 The French Government later bestowed the Croix de 
 Guerre on the following officers and men for valor shown 
 in the Vosges. The first 19 won them in- the Hilsenfirst 
 raid: First Lieutenants William H. Leahy, John E. 
 Mitchell and Oliver W. Spencer ; Second Lieutenants Wil- 
 liam S. Bryan and William F. Sweeney ; Sergeants Albert 
 Michenf elder, George 0. von Land, Charles E. Newman, 
 Peter G. Errett, Fred L. Edwards and Albert E. Elsea; 
 Corps. Clayton H. Moore, Walter E. Ficke and L. Bartels; 
 Privates Herman Harrison, Elmer Grupe, Joseph Reynolds, 
 Francis M. Fierce and Fred L. Laird. Of the 137th In- 
 fantry, Capt. Roy W. Perkins and Lieut. Emil Rolfe re- 
 ceived the same decoration, as did also Lieut. Thomas Hop- 
 kins of the 139th. 
 
 The months of July and August spent in the Vosges saw 
 
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OTHER VOSGES FIGHTING 65 
 
 the culmination of the training period for the Thirty-fifth, 
 for, while they held sectors of trench, there was no quieter 
 place among the line except when the Americans stirred 
 up trouble. The real business of the Americans was to fit 
 themselves for the big fight which they knew they would 
 get into some day. 
 
 The training in the Vosges did not prove of great value 
 to the men in the Argonne battle. There they learned 
 trench warfare, but that form of fighting was finished. 
 There were few places in the sector held by the division 
 where it would have been possible to maneuver much more 
 than a company of troops, and we were so near the enemy 
 and under such constant observation that the few available 
 open places could not be used, because such an assemblage 
 of men would be sure to draw fire. Men in rest billets at 
 the rear, where they went after a spell in the trenches, got 
 some training, but it was not in the open warfare known 
 of old, but in trench warfare. 
 
 Quietude of sectors in a war such as the great one just 
 ended is altogether comparative, and many men of the 
 Thirty-fifth did not know how peaceful and serene was 
 their summer home in the high mountains until they moved 
 into other sectors, called ' ' lively. ' ^ In later days the men 
 of the division came to know just how grim war could be, 
 and the Vosges became in recollection a pleasant vacation, 
 where the summer days were spent in the high, cool forests. 
 
 But we left about 100 of our men there in the foothills 
 of the Alps. They were killed in action, died of wounds or 
 of disease or accident. I had not realized the number was 
 so large until I came to count them up. It shows how 
 heavy is the toll of war even in the quietest of sectors. 
 
 The 60th Field Artillery Brigade, which was a component 
 of the 35th Division and which had enviously watched 
 
66 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 the infantry depart and leave the big guns behind, reached 
 England about June 1. It landed in Liverpool, and, after 
 a stop of a week, proceeded to France, landing at Le Havre, 
 and moving June 12 to Angers, where it received its equip- 
 ment. From there it went to Camp Coetquidan for train- 
 ing. Five weeks were put in there getting acquainted 
 with the guns and perfecting technique, and on Aug. 14 
 the artillery joined up with the division, which then had 
 headquarters at Gerardmer. 
 
 Up to that time all artillery behind the Thirty-fifth had 
 been French. Under the French system, artillery units 
 held their places in the mountains, because of the difficulty 
 in moving guns into and out of the emplacements, and be- 
 cause of the additional value a prolonged experience gave 
 to the gunners in that difficult territory. 
 
 The 110th Sanitary Train and the UOth Field Signal 
 Battalion, though they had not traveled together reached 
 the division at the same time, June 12, and joined up at 
 Arches. 
 
CHAPTER VIII 
 
 IN RESERVE AT ST. MIHIEL 
 
 Pleasant, easy or comfortable days for the Thirty-fifth 
 had now come to an end. The men had sworn mightily at 
 the discomforts of the Vosges, and had been much disgusted 
 with fighting above the clouds, sleeping in old French bar- 
 racks, and wearing overcoats in mid-summer as the high 
 altitude made necessary, a land where it was dusk at 9 :30 
 p. m. and dawn at 3 :30 a. m. They were also vexed with 
 those absurd and unseen officers in high places who would 
 not let them fight. They wanted to walk through the Boche 
 lines and right into Germany. 
 
 A war of action had developed in the Marne Valley 
 while the Thirty-fifth lay in the Vosges. The enemy had 
 attacked on June 15 and had been stopped. The allied 
 troops had attacked on July 18 and for the first time in 
 four years, things had a very roseate glow. Gren. Pershing 
 had applied for and obtained permission to reduce the 
 salient above Saint Mihiel. The German army had occu- 
 pied this position in 1914 in an attempt to flank Serrail 
 who stubbornly kept the line of fortified hills which up- 
 held Verdun. They are called the ^' Grand Couronne de 
 Nancy.'' The Germans failed to flank Serrail but they 
 had held onto the salient ever since. 
 
 Many a time Verdun seemed the only rock which kept 
 the Hun tide from sweeping over France, and the Grand 
 Couronne de Nancy was what supported Verdun. The 
 point of the salient left by the early operation reached to 
 the town of St. Mihiel on the Meuse. 
 
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68 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 After the failure of the long and bitter battles against 
 Verdun, where the Crown Prince's thin glory faded, the 
 salient had no value to the Germans for offensive purposes, 
 but as a part of the defense of Metz it was most valuable. 
 The French had attempted to straighten the line, but the 
 enemy held most tenaciously, for at the time, he still hoped 
 successfully to attack Verdun. The field called Les Es- 
 parges was one of the most sanguinary of the war. There 
 France lost the flower of its new class of soldiers, youths 
 who had just finished their training after being called to 
 the colors. 
 
 What degree of resistance the Americans would meet 
 and what forces would be necessary to overcome it was un- 
 known, but it was to be an all- American affair and plenty 
 of men, munitions and guns were provided to take the sali- 
 ent, however hard the enemy fought. Most of the divisions 
 in the fighting were the older, well-tried ones. In support 
 were other divisions ready to enter the fray, while behind 
 them was the reserve, ready to go to the needed point. The 
 35th Division was in the army reserve and its business 
 was to be mobile and ready to strike wherever needed. 
 
 Of course, none of the men of the Thirty -fifth and few 
 of the officers had any idea of the operation to which they 
 were assigned. Troop movements usually look very silly 
 to the man in the ranks who has no knowledge of the un- 
 derlying purpose. That is why confidence in higher of- 
 ficers is one of the best sustainers of morale. The soldier 
 should be able to say, ''Well, the old man is doing it, and 
 he knows his business. I'm willing." One of the reasons 
 morale usually is high in National Guard outfits is that 
 the men know their officers and have confidence in them. 
 
 The Saint Mihiel operation plans were guarded with 
 great secrecy and knowledge of the purpose kept within a 
 
IN RESERVE AT ST. MIHIEL 69 
 
 circle as restricted as possible. But our men suspected 
 there was a hen on when the shuffling commenced. 
 
 On Aug. 27, 28 and 29, those elements of the division not 
 in the line were grouped about the town of Gerardmer, and 
 on the thirty-first the division was relieved. The last ele- 
 ments came out on the night of Sept. 2, and on the fourth, 
 fifth and sixth the division entrained for what was known 
 vaguely as the Rosieres area, some 100 kilometers away. 
 That first of September was a notable day, although it did 
 not appear so at the time, for it was the last time the men 
 were to sleep under cover for more than a month, and that 
 month the most trying in their histories. 
 
 Few of the men had opportunity through that Septem- 
 ber to remove their clothing, except to change underwear or 
 socks. They were not able to do that often, possibly once 
 or twice, for there was a chronic shortage of new stuff to 
 change into. Very few of them had a bath that month. 
 
 Rosieres-aux-Salines proved to be a pretty good sort of 
 town in a pretty, little, flat valley. Headquarters was 
 there, and the other sections of the division were scattered 
 about the countryside. 
 
 Then came days of waiting and policing and equipping 
 and rain. Just about the time the pup tents were well set 
 and drained and a fellow had a chance to make himself ap- 
 proximately comfortable there would come the order to 
 march. Everything was done by night in that period, to 
 avoid enemy observation, and the feeling that something 
 was about to happen was heavy in the air. 
 
 Our men refused to take the St. Mihiel operation serious- 
 ly. Once in the rain a corps inspector saw a sentry walk- 
 ing his post carrying an umbrella. It almost threw the in- 
 spector into apoplexy, and it did throw the joking soldier 
 into the guard house. 
 
70 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 The directors of the operation, sitting in conference back 
 at Souilly, would look at their immense battle maps, and 
 after calculating angles and distance for a while, one 
 would say : ' ' It seems to me the field would be better bal- 
 anced if the reserve was a little further down the valley 
 here," and that would be discussed and finally agreed to. 
 ' ' Do it, " the commanding General would say. A code tele- 
 gram would be started to the headquarters of the 35th 
 Division, the pins indicating the reserve on the bat- 
 tle map moved and the 'conference would proceed. 
 
 At headquarters of the Thirty-fifth, as soon as the tele- 
 gram was received, there would be much bustle and pre- 
 paring of orders. Motor cycle orderlies would stream 
 away in a deafening clatter, and soon in all the towns and 
 fields where units of the Thirty-fifth were stationed, pup 
 tents would be coming down, blankets rolled, packs made 
 up, and at the given hour the men would fall in and the 
 long column take up again the same old hike. 
 
 It grew very, very tiresome, and the conviction that great 
 things were soon to happen did not make the work easy or 
 pleasant. There is a fearful monotony to marching, march- 
 ing, marching. It is hard work. Making a pup tent of two 
 shelter halves and setting it up in the rain is not a pleasant 
 pastime, and there is a physical revulsion against the dis- 
 comforts of living outdoors in the rain. 
 
 The two or three weeks preceding the Argonne battle 
 seemed very disagreeable. Knowing as we do now that the 
 division was just about to go on the stage in one of the 
 greatest dramas in history, does not help to gild those days. 
 They were days of mud and rain and weariness, not com- 
 plete exhaustion, but weariness which demanded sound sleep 
 and there was no comfortable place to sleep. Soon the 
 eyes of the world were to be upon this division and its 
 
IN RESERVE AT ST. MIHIEL 71 
 
 eight companion divisions, but that was a matter of not 
 much interest. They had no stage fright. They wanted 
 more grub and wanted it oftener and hotter, and they 
 wanted a dry place to sleep and they wanted somebody to 
 kill ''that damned bugler" just before time for reveille. 
 
 The march of the night of Sept. 10-11 was into Tom- 
 blaine, Jarville and Maron, which are suburbs of Nancy, 
 but that beautiful city few of the men were able to see at 
 that time. The next night the division marched again — 
 through the edge of the city of Nancy and into the Foret 
 de Haye, where they went into concealed bivouac. 
 
 Those were trying times. The roar of the guns seemed 
 very near, and the men knew that a big fight was on close 
 at hand, and it was quite impossible to rest easy. Some- 
 times they could see the flash of the guns, like distant light- 
 ning near the horizon. At night enemy airplanes came 
 over and dropped bombs on the forest, and a good part of 
 the time it rained. The Missouri and Kansas doughboys 
 found it difficult to comprehend the denseness of a com- 
 mander who would let a good division like theirs lie out in 
 the rain night after night and rust when there was a fight 
 going on right close by that they might just as well be in 
 as not. Really, Pershing ought to know better, they 
 thought. 
 
 As a matter of fact, the St. Mihiel affair proved very 
 easy. The operation was tactically perfect, and the Ameri- 
 cans crashed in at will. There was no occasion to call up- 
 on the reserves, who had to content themselves with being 
 present with a "willingness to serve." 
 
 The part the Thirty-fifth played was not big, but it was 
 very important. Gen. Pershing was able to order his com- 
 bat battalions in whatever way he chose because he had a 
 reserve behind them. The reserve is an essential part of 
 
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 the attacking force, even if it never moves a foot or fires a 
 shot. The 35th Division was the essential, unseen force be- 
 hind the line. It was ready to fill any gap the enemy might 
 make, or to take the place of any weakening or shattered 
 force in front of it. 
 
 I believe the division would have been better prepared 
 for the Argonne fight if it had had a place in the line in 
 the St. Mihiel operation. Its losses would have been light, 
 and it would have then gone into the Argonne with battle 
 experience and with the assurance and confidence which 
 the other divisions gained at St. Mihiel. 
 
 On Sept. 15 new orders came, and the air began to 
 charge again with the electricity of coming action. That 
 night the division moved to the region about Charmentois. 
 The most of the infantry moved in motorbuses, those im- 
 mense lumbering cars which were stripped from the 
 streets of London and Paris at the beginning of the war, 
 and which had rambled all over the North of France since, 
 hauling soldiers to many threatened fields, carrying 
 wounded back and at times playing the part of trucks and 
 taking supplies forward. 
 
 In the Charmentois area the division came under the 
 Third Army Corps, and, as a result, was in the Second 
 French Army for tactical control and supply. At this 
 stopping place, which also was out of doors, the air bombs 
 became more frequent. 
 
 The Sixty-ninth Brigade moved up near Auzeville on 
 the night of Sept. 19-20, and the next night the remainder 
 of the division went to the neighborhood of Grace-le-Comte 
 Farm and into the woods east of Beauchamp, where the 
 division relieved the Seventy-third French Division in 
 charge of the sector. Because of their familiarity with 
 the sector and that the relief might not be noted by the 
 
IN RESERVE AT ST. MIHIEL 73 
 
 enemy, the French outposts remained in position. Thus 
 there was a screen of French between the Americans and 
 the enemy. 
 
 The Sixty-ninth Brigade held the line, with the Seven- 
 tieth in support. The formation was for each regiment of 
 the Sixty-ninth to have two of its three battalions in the 
 line, each battalion having a machine gun company at- 
 tached. One battalion and a machine gun company was in 
 reserve to each regiment. This formation was maintained 
 up to the morning of Sept. 26. 
 
 Our division was now just behind the scenes, the stage 
 was set, and our actors ready. The Sixtieth Brigade of Ar- 
 tillery was in its place, and tuning up its guns. That was 
 about all they were allowed to do before the great artillery 
 preparation began. 
 
 Major Barngrove was put out of action on September 24. 
 His task had been to get forward the ammunition for the 
 big artillery preparation. He was establishing new dumps 
 near Neuvilly. The orders were that the main road could 
 be used only at night. The magnitude of the preparations 
 being made for the advance jammed this road with traffic 
 from every conceivable source. He found that it would 
 be impossible for him to get his quota of shells into posi- 
 tion by September 25. At that time it was thought that 
 the advance would begin September 25. He asked per- 
 mission to work by day. This involved the very gravest 
 danger, as the road was under constant shell fire by the 
 enemy guns and under observation of their balloons and 
 airplanes. He finally appealed to the corps ammunition 
 officer and obtained permission to work by day. 
 
 Four trucks were disabled, but the men on the ammuni- 
 tion train hitched on to them and towed them to the dumps, 
 unloaded the ammunition and took the trucks back, all un- 
 der constant shell fire. 
 
74 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Major Barngrove was wounded and evacuated but not 
 before he saw that everything that had been ordered for our 
 artillery was in its place. 
 
 The Thirty-fifth was a division of men formerly 
 of the National Guard, in which they had had a certain 
 training in open warfare, the kind of war for which the 
 American soldier is primarily, essentially and everlastingly 
 fitted. They had been more than a year in the Federal serv- 
 ice, undergoing intensive training nearly all of which was 
 designed to fit them for the peculiar conditions incident to 
 the fixed and established conflict known as trench warfare. 
 
 They had had two months of trench service in the Vosges, 
 but the Vosges was a territory where their officers could 
 not train them for open warfare, however anxious they 
 might have been to do so, and however keenly they may 
 have felt the troops needed such training. Now the last 
 battles of the war w^ere about to begin, and they were to be 
 fought, as many persons had suspected they would be 
 fought, out in the open. 
 
 Trench warfare and open warfare are as unlike as night 
 and day and they have some of the same diiferences. 
 
 In trench warfare there is the fiLxed series of trenches, no 
 movement, seldom seeing the foe, fighting and raiding near- 
 ly always in the dark, the specialized work of throwing 
 hand grenades, sapping, mining and counter mining, keep- 
 ing wire fields in repair and maintaining listening posts 
 for the detection of the smallest movement of the enemy. 
 Formations are not used and there is no maneuvering of 
 troops. 
 
 Open warfare is a war of movement with the field con- 
 stantly changing, and the endeavor always uppermost to 
 drive the enemy back and off the field. Troops try to keep 
 in sight, or surely in touch with the enemy, the action 
 
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 continues day and night except for some special cause, 
 the weapons are artillery, machine guns and the master 
 tool of all, the rifle, to which issues in modern wars al- 
 ways come for settlement. There is no burrowing in the 
 ground, except when a soldier scoops out for a foxhole 
 to sleep in. There is no sapping or mining, wire-works are 
 passed over and forgotten and the field is won or lost 
 above ground and out in the open. 
 
CHAPTER IX 
 
 PLANNING THE ARGONNE DRIVE 
 
 The offensive started by American troops in the Argonne 
 on Sept. 26 was a part of the great battle plan of Gen. 
 Foch. It was perhaps the most essential piece on the whole 
 battle line of similar length. The allies had been pinching 
 the enemy out of one place and luring him into another, 
 until his lines were in what military men considered an un- 
 tenable position. He had adventured too far to maintain 
 himself at such distance from his bases against the allies 
 strengthened as they were in men, munitions and morale. 
 
 The operation had been set, tentatively, for the spring 
 of 1919, but the ease with which the St. Mihiel salient was 
 reduced, the obvious weakening in the enemy before the 
 British in the north of France, and the success of the allied 
 attacks which followed the retreat of the foe from the 
 Marne, all combined to convince Gen. Foch that he had an 
 excellent opportunity to force a decision in what was left 
 of the fall of 1918. His strategy, as daring in 1918 as it 
 had been in 1914 at the first battle of the Marne, lent itself 
 with particular fitness to such an alluring scheme. So he 
 set the forces of the allied armies to the task of preparing 
 for the Avar's last great battle. 
 
 At the conference of allied leaders when the great gen- 
 eral attack was planned, the French commander in chief 
 asked : 
 
 ' ' Where will the American army fight in this battle 1 ' ' 
 
 * ' Wherever you wish it to fight, ' ' Gen. Pershing replied. 
 
 Gen. Foch then indicated the line between the Meuse and 
 
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PLANNING THE ARGONNE DRIVE 77 
 
 the Argonne, and asked if they would take that part of the 
 line. Gen. Pershing assented. It was the part of the line 
 where the heaviest fighting undoubtedly would be if the 
 battle plans worked out, and if the judgment of the mili- 
 tary men proved true. Every officer present knew that. 
 The allies were at a point in the operation where a continua- 
 tion of their strokes would drive the enemy out of France, 
 or he would suffer disaster, possibly annihilation of his 
 armies in the field. To get his armies out, he must main- 
 tain his communications, the four-track railroad at Mezieres 
 in front of us, and the business of the Americans was to 
 threaten, and if possible to cut his communications. 
 
 It was a field where there was a certainty of the hardest 
 fighting. It was probable that the Germans would bring 
 their best battalions there to make the vital fight. As a 
 consequence, there could be no spectacular gains on the 
 American front. Every foot of ground would be con- 
 tested bitterly, and those who advanced must pay the price. 
 While on other fronts, large and glittering gains would be 
 made in a day, it would be against a retreating foe, and he 
 would be retreating all the more hurriedly because of the 
 pressure the Americans were bringing on his vitals. The 
 enemy could not retreat on our front. If he did, we would 
 cut his railroads and the French and British to the west 
 of us would capture his armies. It was with a full under- 
 standing of what was ahead that the American commander 
 took this post of high honor, where hard blows were to be 
 given and taken, and where there "svas little to gain. 
 
CHAPTER X 
 
 OFFICERS CHANGED ON EVE OF BATTLE 
 
 It was about 5 o'clock on the evening of Sept. 22 that 
 the 35th Division Headquarters received Field Order No. 
 57 from the first Army Corps, thus learning officially for 
 the first time of the projected Argonne-Meuse offensive. 
 This was a document of 62 typewritten pages. The Di- 
 vision issued its Field Order No. 44 just 48 hours later, at 
 5 p. m. Sept. 24. The Division P. C. was in dugouts on the 
 Southern edge of the woods on Les Cotes de Forimont. 
 
 The battle order was considered a model of conciseness, 
 but it was a voluminous thing at that. The advance was to 
 be made by nine divisions on a 16-mile front at the same 
 moment, 5 :30 a. m., after artillery preparation of varying 
 duration and density at various parts of the line. The first 
 Army (American) which was under command of Gen. 
 Pershing, in person, had three corps in the line, each com- 
 posed of three divisions. The First Corps, to which the 
 Thirty-fifth was attached, was on the left. The Thirty- 
 fifth was the right hand division of the corps. It had about 
 two miles of front. On the Thirty-fifth 's left was its corps- 
 mate, the Twenty-eighth Division. On the Thirty-fifth's 
 right was the Ninety-first Division of the Fifth Corps. 
 
 The country lying in front of the Thirty-fifth, and 
 through which it was to advance, was as difficult as any 
 on the American front, and in some ways, the task was the 
 most desperate of all. Two kilometers out from the step- 
 ping off place was the Hindenburg Line most heavily wired 
 and prepared for defense in every way the four years of 
 
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OFFICERS CHANGED ON EVE OP BATTLE 79 
 
 war had taught the Germans. I am writing now of what 
 was known before the battle. 
 
 Just in front of the Hindenburg Line, the defensive 
 works mingling with and making it part of the line, was 
 Vauquois Hill, a place of sad and sanguinary memory. 
 The French had never been able to retake it at the price 
 they were willing to pay, and many troops had been lost 
 in fruitless attempts. A high French officer told me their 
 losses there probably totaled 40,000. It was known to be 
 thoroughly mined, to have excavations and tunnels of great 
 length for quick communication and transferal of troops 
 from one point to another. It had once been covered with 
 trees for the most part, but these were now merely shat- 
 tered stumps, so much artillery fire had been addressed 
 to it. 
 
 Vauquois Hill (pronounce it Vo-quaw, please,) was con- 
 sidered the strongest point in the German line between 
 Verdun and the Aisne. 
 
 The Ouvrage d'Aden was known to be a strong point 
 alongside the secondary road, and the towm of Cheppy 
 was strongly organized for defense. 
 
 Students of French history will remember that when 
 the French revolution was brewing and occasionally be- 
 coming threatening, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette en- 
 deavored to escape from France, and that they got as 
 far as Varennes, where the Postmaster's son, consulting 
 the monarch's picture on a coin, recognized the royal 
 fugitives and stopped the carriage at the bridge, turn- 
 ing them back to Paris and, eventually, to the execu- 
 tioner. The 35th Division's left flank was to go through 
 Varennes and by the eastern end of the bridge. The 
 Twenty-eighth had the other side of the river. 
 
 The other towns we were to take, Cheppy, Very, Char- 
 
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 pentry, Baulny, Exermont, Fleville, etc., were typical 
 French villages, which in peace times had been the homes 
 of the farmers tending the adjoining acres, and the little 
 shops where they traded. Each village, of course, had 
 a church of more or less importance. Since the begin- 
 ning of the war, there had been few if any civilians in 
 the territory. Those who could had escaped into the 
 French lines. Those who could not had been sent further 
 north and east by the German invaders. 
 
 The course laid out for the Thirty-fifth was in the 
 valley of the Aire with occasional hills, and sufficient 
 clumps of trees and brush to afford excellent cover for 
 machine gun nests. As a rule, it was open country. The 
 main road from Neuvilly to Varennes, and thence through 
 Baulny to Exermont had been an excellent one, a na- 
 tional highway, before the war. 
 
 Shortly before the battle radical changes were made 
 in the officer personnel. Brigadier-General Nathaniel F. 
 McClure, who had commanded the division for more than 
 a month in the Vosges, and who commanded the Sixty- 
 ninth Brigade up to Sept. 21, was relieved on that date, 
 and Brigadier-General (then Colonel) Louis M. Nuttman 
 put in command. The 138th Infantry had had many 
 leaders. Col. Edmund J. McMahon, who brought it over, 
 was relieved July 25, Col. George P. White taking his 
 place and holding it until Sept. 14, when he was relieved 
 by his Lieutenant-Colonel, Henry W. Parker, who was in 
 turn displaced by Col. Harry Howland the day before the 
 fight. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Carl Ristine took over the 139ti 
 Infantry Sept. 21. A regular army Colonel was on his 
 way to take this job, but he did not get there in time. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Channing E. Delaplane took com- 
 
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mand of the 140th Infantry on Sept. 22. Col. Frank 
 Rumbold was relieved of his command of the 128th Field 
 Artillery on Sept. 24, two days before the fight. Rum- 
 bold 's health was bad, but he had held on grimly, hop- 
 ing to command his regiment through the action. 
 
 In making his reconnaissance Rumbold had worn his 
 heavy field boots for five days and nights. While cross- 
 ing a hill below Neuvilly on Sept. 23 one leg gave way, 
 and he had to be assisted from the field. The divisional 
 surgeon ordered that he be evacuated, and Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Pim reluctantly sent Rumbold to a hospital in 
 the rear. 
 
 It was no new thing to Brigadier-General Charles I. 
 Martin to lead men into battle. His had been a long and 
 distinguished career. He was a sergeant in the Kansas 
 Guard in 1890, and in 1898 he was a captain in the 20th 
 Kansas volunteer infantry. His colonel was Frederick 
 Funston. In the battle of Manila, he attacked with his 
 company over an open road and his company's casual- 
 ties were the heaviest in the regiment. Out near Calu- 
 can, on one occasion his company had been thrown into 
 the trenches to hold them for two days, and they held 
 them without relief for six weeks. He came out of that 
 war a major, and Funston a general. 
 
 Gen. Martin is a quiet, studious man who excels in or- 
 ganizing. His brigade had a staff organization which 
 would continue to function whatever cog of it dropped 
 out. The first impression of Gen. Martin is not always 
 good. One may think him too quiet, or that he lacks force. 
 But to look into his organization, and to examine the re- 
 ports show the power the man carries behind his quiet 
 front. 
 
 He was the only National Guard general officer left 
 
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 with the division, and so Avell had he handled his brigade, 
 and so favorable were the reports on him, that it began 
 to be rumored about that possibly this was another Fun- 
 ston case, a National Guardsman who was so capable that 
 the professional soldiers of the Regular army would have 
 to acknowledge his worth and give him a fitting reward. 
 Every attempt to unseat him had failed, and they had 
 been many. 
 
 While the division was moving toward the Argonne, 
 Martin was studying the terrain. The French liaison 
 officer attached to his brigade had fought over the iden- 
 tical territory on which the Thirty-fifth was to attack. 
 They spent all their spare time at the maps, until Martin 
 knew just what was behind each hill, what each valley con- 
 tained, how the roads ran, and all the things essential to 
 fighting a battle on that terrain. 
 
 Sometime before the battle, Lieutenant-Colonel Dela- 
 plane was attached to the 70th Brigade headquarters. He 
 was a regular army officer. Soon after his arrival I was 
 at brigade headquarters one day, and an officer of the 
 staff took me aside and said: 
 
 "They are trying to 'get' the old man again. They 
 have sent Delaplane down here as a spy." 
 
 ''What does the general say about it?" I asked. 
 
 "He has instructed us all to take him in as one of the 
 family, give him our fullest confidence, and help him all 
 we can," he said. 
 
 My personal belief is that Delaplane was sent down 
 there to find some reason for relieving Gen. Martin, but 
 being a capable and honest officer, he had reported that 
 Martin should not be relieved, and that he was handling 
 the brigade wisely and ably. 
 
 The date set for the great advance drew near. Martin 
 
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 had studied the ground before his brigade so intensively 
 that he was probably more familiar with it than any 
 other officer in the corps. Rumors concerning him grew 
 more numerous. He was to be taken to corps headquar- 
 ters and given a staff job; he was to have a division to 
 command; he was to be sent to the rear, to make sure 
 that there would not be another Funston case. 
 
 On Sept. 21 orders came for him to report to corps 
 headquarters. Gen. Martin did not know what was to 
 happen further than that he was taken away from the 
 brigade he had commanded, and away from the Kansas 
 troops he had led so long. The report spread through the 
 brigade. He called his staff together, told them of the 
 order, instructed them to give the same loyalty and in- 
 telligent aid to his successor that they had given to him, 
 and started away. 
 
 As the general came out of his quarters, many officers 
 stood about, and among them Delaplane, the newly ar- 
 rived officer of the Regulars. Tears were running down 
 his cheeks and he said over and over as he shook hands 
 with the General: 
 
 ''I can't understand it, I can't understand it.'' 
 
 Then Martin knew. He was going to the rear. He 
 was not to be permitted to lead his troops again into bat- 
 tle, or any other troops. He was done, finished. The 
 blind fight against the Kansas general was being carried 
 to the very opening of the great battle. I can conceive of 
 no action more poorly advised or shorter sighted. A fine 
 brigade was taken out of the hands of a strong, able man, 
 of abundant physical powers to withstand the strain and 
 stress of battle. The brigade was given to Col. Kirby 
 Walker of the regular army, whose powers and prowess 
 will be shown in due time. 
 
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 As General Martin drove away, hundreds of men and 
 officers of his brigade stood beside the road in the forest 
 to say *' good-bye" to their old commander. One reason 
 given for relieving Col. McMahon in the Vosges was that 
 he wept while standing beside a soldier's grave. If 
 tears are valid cause for relief, that whole brigade should 
 have been sent to the rear on Sept. 22. 
 
CHAPTER XI 
 
 THE PLAN OF BATTLE 
 
 The plan of battle was for the infantry to advance in 
 column of brigades, with the Sixty-ninth Brigade leading. 
 The regiments were to advance abreast within the 
 brigades, each with one battalion in the front line, one 
 in support and one in reserve. From each of the two 
 rear battalions two companies were sent forward and at- 
 tached to the front battalions. Two of these were to mop 
 up Vauquois Hill and the other two were to perform a 
 similar service for the Rossignol Wood. 
 
 The machine gun companies were scattered about in 
 advantageous positions. One battalion and one com- 
 pany were in position on Hill 253, Mamelon Blanc and 
 La Maize, a similar number were in position at Buzemont, 
 two companies were in the rear of the support line ready 
 to take position on Hill 239, while four companies were 
 attached to the front line battalions ready for the ad- 
 vance. 
 
 A company of engineers was to go with the leading 
 brigade to cut wire, two platoons were to accompany the 
 moppers up, and one company, less one platoon was to 
 accompany the tanks. The 344th Tank Battalion was 
 distributed along the front ready for the advance. 
 
 The First Aero Squadron was attached to the 35th 
 Division for the action, and it was provided that at 
 least one plane was to be constantly over the division 
 sector. 
 
 There were four of our observation balloons over the 
 
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86 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 35th Division sector on the first day of the battle, but 
 so -anmistakable was the German control of the air that 
 three of them had been sent down in flames before noon. 
 
 One squadron of cavalry was assembled south of Aubre- 
 ville, with scouts assigned to accompany the rear elements 
 of the infantry. 
 
 The Sixtieth Field Artillery was reinforced by the 219th 
 E. A. C. and the 282nd, 317th and 451st E. A. L., and one 
 battery of light artillery was to go with the advance to 
 be used as forward guns. These are French artillery 
 regiments, the first one light, and last three heavy. 
 
 Two days' "iron" (emergency) rations were issued to 
 all men, and the night of Sept. 25 found everybody on his 
 toes. 
 
CHAPTER XII 
 
 ''LET'S GO!" 
 
 Nine American divisions were in the Meuse-Argonne 
 line ready to attack on the night of Sept. 25. They were 
 divided into three corps. Each corps had, besides its 
 three in the line, a division in support and a division in 
 reserve, so that we were 15 divisions strong going into 
 battle. Four hundred thousand American fighting men 
 heard the artillery prelude to the attack. It was the 
 greatest army America ever has sent upon the field. 
 
 The battle line extended from the Meuse River at a 
 point a few kilometres above Verdun, westward to a point 
 in the Argonne Forest, where it connected with the French 
 Fourth Army which was attacking on our left. 
 
 At 11:30 p.m., Sept. 25, our artillery opened a decep- 
 tive fire to the east of the Meuse and to the Avest of the 
 Argonne Forest. Between these two active spots lay the 
 defenses against which the Americans were to move. 
 
 The 35th Division had been in the Forest of Hesse 
 the most of four days and nights. On the after- 
 noon of the 25th, a large hot meal was served to the men. 
 Afterward, all packs were rolled and placed in a pile. 
 Lieutenants commanding platoons called their Sergeants 
 and Corporals together and explained the nature of the 
 action which they were to fight the next day, as far as the 
 officer knew it. Detail maps of the country were shown, 
 and the noncoms instructed to fix as much of it in their 
 memory as possible, but maps were not given to the non- 
 coms. 
 
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 The days and nights of waiting in the forest had been 
 Tinder almost constant shell fire, and there had not been 
 a great deal of sleeping. After dark, the infantry moved 
 forward through the woods in approximately the forma- 
 tion they were to employ the following day. The men 
 lay down among the big guns and tried to sleep. Each 
 one, according to orders, first loaded and locked his rifle. 
 
 Each infantryman carried his rifle, bayonet, steel hel- 
 met and gas mask. He had 250 rounds of rifle ammuni- 
 
 THE LINE-UP FOR THE BATTLE 
 
 tion, carried in a belt, and two bandoliers, each one SAvung 
 over one shoulder and under the other arm. On his back 
 was his combat pack, in his pack carrier. This contained 
 his raincoat, if he was not wearing it, his mess-kit and 
 two days' ''iron ration," which usually was two cans of 
 corned beef and six boxes of hard bread. This is the im- 
 proved form of the famed hardtack of the Civil War, 
 and as issued now is a thick cracker, palatable and full 
 of nutrition, but hard. A few men had ^ loaf or half a 
 
'^LET*s go!" 89 
 
 loaf of the excellent white army bread fresh from the 
 baker. This usually was carried on the rifle with the 
 fixed bayonet run through it. All carried a full canteen 
 of water, about a quart. Occasional details carried 
 Stokes mortar ammunition, four shells to a man, each 
 shell weighing 10 pounds, 11 ounces. Infantry also car- 
 ried ordinary explosive grenades, gas grenades, rifle 
 grenades and incendiary grenades, but the most of these 
 were thrown away. 
 
 The cannonading, which commenced before midnight, 
 was intended to deceive the enemy as to the place at 
 which the attack was to come. It was hoped that he would 
 assume it was to be east of Verdun or west of the Ar- 
 gonne, and that he would begin at once the work of shift- 
 ing there some of the good divisions he was known to 
 have back of the 16-mile front on which the Americans 
 were to attack, and which lay between these two points. 
 
 At 2:30 a.m. all the other artillery concentrated be- 
 tween the Meuse River and the Argonne Forest Avent into 
 action. 
 
 All adjectives fail to give even a fair impression of 
 the awful grandeur of such artillerying. No combination 
 of words is effective. It seemed that for a while the lid 
 of Hell had been pushed back a little space. The long 
 line on either hand leaped into flame, the horizon was lit 
 by the bursting shells, and from the trenches where the 
 enemy had lain so long there rose the many colored rock- 
 ets with which he appealed to his guns for succor. What 
 each signal meant I do not know, but they plentifully 
 told the tale of his distress. 
 
 Twenty-six hundred guns were firing at 3 a.m., every 
 one with a carefully laid out mission, and with the rest, 
 
90 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 the Sixtieth Brigade of Field Artillery delivered its quota 
 of hardware as promptly as the seconds clicked off. 
 
 The long-range guns were aiming at the concentration 
 points back of the German line, cross roads and such places, 
 where moving troops might reasonably be expected to 
 be. If the enemy was trying to get his men to the points 
 indicated by the early bombardment — that is, to the east 
 of Verdun or to the west of the Argonne forest — long- 
 range guns playing on concentration points might inflict 
 punishment on him there. Or if he tried to bring men 
 into our sector, they w^ould come under our fire at the 
 same places. 
 
 At any rate, this harassing fire, as it is called, would 
 slow up any movement he attempted. Other guns were 
 throwing gas shells on the enemy artillery. If they 
 managed to put out any of the enemy gunners, so much 
 the better, but the main advantage was to slow up their 
 fire, for men must work slowly when wearing gas masks. 
 
 The men of the Thirty-fifth got little sleep, although 
 they had a hard day's work ahead. It was their first 
 very big artillery action, and they were lying, figura- 
 tively, between the wheels of the guns. For three mortal 
 hours the artillery pounded away. High explosives rid- 
 dled the wire and destroyed dugouts. 
 
 The guns of the 35th Division fired more than 40,000 
 shells that day, nearly all of them in the three hours be- 
 tween 2 :30 and 5 :30 a.m. 
 
 At 5:30 a.m. the infantry Avent over all along the line. 
 There was no breakfast and little ceremony about it. The 
 lieutenant or sergeant who was leading the platoon, when 
 his watch told him the zero hour Avas but a few minutes 
 off, would give the order: ''Prepare to advance." 
 
 The men would crawl out of their foxholes, pick up 
 
''let's go!" 91 
 
 their raincoats, look to their rifles, and wait. At ''H" 
 hour the platoon leader would say: ''All right, let's 
 go," and leading the way, he would set his face to the 
 north and move out, his men following. 
 
 In front of the 35th Division, as in most other 
 places, a rolling barrage from the 75s preceded the men 
 100 meters, which for all practical purposes is 100 yards. 
 The men were to advance at the rate of 100 meters in 
 4 minutes. This barrage kept up to 7 :40 a.m. when it 
 ceased. 
 
 The advance of the Thirty-fifth was in column of bri- 
 gades with regiments abreast within the brigades. Within 
 the regiments the formation was column of battalions. The 
 Sixty-ninth Brigade, commanded by Col. Louis M. Nutt- 
 man, was to lead the way. His brigade front was to be as 
 wide as the divisional front. The brigade consisted of the 
 137th and the 138th Infantry. The 138th was to have the 
 right or eastern half of the divisional area, while the 137th 
 was to cover the left half. 
 
 The 138th was commanded by Col. Harry S. Howland, 
 who had taken the job the day before, Sept. 25. He had 
 just been advanced to the rank of Colonel, and had been, 
 as a Major, acting as Divisional Intelligence Officer. 
 The 137th was led by Col. Clad Hamilton who had been 
 its commanding officer since April 20. 
 
 Both regiments sent their advanced elements over the 
 top at the tick of the watch. Once fairly in the field it 
 became apparent that the going was to be very bad. 
 The autumn frequently brings to that part of France a 
 thick, clinging fog which only a bright sun or a strong 
 wdnd can disperse. The heaviest fog of the season had 
 descended on the valley of the Aire that morning. At 
 first thought, it appeared that this might be of assistance 
 
92 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 to the Thirty-fifth, for it would conceal the advancing 
 troops from the waiting machine gunners, but very soon 
 it became apparent that the maintaining of liaison would 
 be most difficult. 
 
 Lieut. Bancon, flying over the sector, dropped a message 
 at headquarters at 8:15 a.m., saying: ''Impossible to find 
 line. Our sector is a solid white snoAv-bank of clouds." 
 
CHAPTER XIII 
 
 VAUQUOIS TAKEN— THE 138TH BEFORE CHEPPY 
 
 We will first watch the 138th Infantry. Orders were 
 not to attack Vauquois Hill frontally, but to proceed 
 around it, one party to the right and one to the left, and 
 to attack it from its flanks, which would be the eastern 
 and western ends of the hill. 
 
 This job was attended to by Rieger's battalion of the 
 139th Regiment. When he learned of the plan of bat- 
 tle, Rieger volunteered to mop up Vauquois and Bois de 
 Rossignol. There was some severe fighting, but the dug- 
 outs and trenches on the slopes were thoroughly cleaned 
 and many prisoners taken. 
 
 Rieger figured that he had four good companies in this 
 battalion. E and P were better marksmen. G and H 
 were better with the bayonet. He decided that when they 
 went into battle with two companies in the fighting line 
 and two in support, he would work E with H Company 
 and F with G Company. He thought in this way that he 
 would have two teams of equal strength. 
 
 In a little open field north of Nancy, at the beginning 
 of the St. Mihiel drive they talked it over and decided 
 that Capt. Wilson, commanding G Company and repre- 
 senting F and G, was to lead off. Capt. McQueen, com- 
 manding H Company and representing E and H, was to 
 support. They trained for battle in that order. The mo- 
 mentous decision was made by flipping a franc and call- 
 ing heads or tails. It was in this manner that Capt. Wil- 
 son obtained the privilege for his companies of mopping 
 
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94 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 up Vauquois Hill. Capt. McQueen, with E and H, mopped 
 up Rossignol Wood. 
 
 Never before or afterward did the 35th Division find 
 a place better defended than Vauquois. It was the re- 
 sult of four years intensive work by the Germans. Among 
 the many good men killed on this slope was Lieut. Mal- 
 colm MacDonald who made up in dash and daring what 
 he lacked in stature. When he joined the guard he 
 weighed 102 pounds and a kindly examining board, ob- 
 serving his earnestness, had written down the weight 
 as 122. 
 
 Lieut. MacDonald was not in the first line in the forma- 
 tion, but he asked for that assignment, and it was given 
 to him. He was killed leading his men up the smoking 
 slopes of Vauquois Hill. His father, Major Clay Mac- 
 Donald, was at the time at Division Headquarters only a 
 few kilometers away. 
 
 The 138th went to the right of the hill, which is less 
 than 1000 feet long and 100 feet high. Not knowing, of 
 course, that a fog of such density was to descend upon 
 the land, orders had been given to the artillery to throw 
 smoke shells at the foot of the hill to conceal our troops. 
 This intensified the gloom, and when the Third Battalion, 
 Capt. Bottger commanding, which was leading the way 
 got into the open and through the paths they had cut 
 in our wire, it was found that no landmarks were visible, 
 and that it was necessary to travel altogether by com- 
 pass. 
 
 It was possible to see 40 yards at times, but bej^ond 
 that the fog shut in like a wall. A squad of men would 
 be observed marching ahead, but a moment later they 
 would entirely disappear, and there would be nothing 
 to see but the opaque gray bank of fog. It was impos- 
 
VAUQUOIS HILL TAKEN 95 
 
 sible to tell friend from foe 25 yards away. Maj. Sauer- 
 wein led his battalion, the First, on next, as a sort of 
 second wave. It had disappeared from sight in the gloom 
 when the headquarters detachment set out immediately 
 following. This detachment consisted of Col. Howland, Lieut. 
 ''Chuck" Venable with the signal section of headquarters 
 company, Capt. Reinholdt with his intelligence squad, 
 some 20 band men detailed as runners, the regimental 
 headquarters outfit, Capt. Ehrhardt, the French liaison 
 officer, Capt. Lyons of headquarters company, and others. 
 Back of the headquarters came the Second Battalion un- 
 der Capt. Gunther Meier, brigade reserve and under di- 
 rection of the brigade headquarters. A half hour's time 
 was betw^een battalions. 
 
 At the risk of adding further to the confusion, it seems 
 best to let the narrative continue for a distance with the 
 headquarters detachment, although two battalions were 
 ahead of it. 
 
 Howland learned that Sauerwein's battalion had been 
 held up for 15 minutes by our divisional machine guns. 
 They had taken position and played awhile on the slopes 
 of Vauquois Hill to discourage any ambitious Boche there 
 who might contemplate a sortie. In spite of this delay, 
 there was no sign of the battalion when headquarters 
 got to the point, so Howland rightly deduced that they 
 were getting along all right, but Sauerwein was going 
 ahead too rapidly for headquarters to keep in touch with 
 him. 
 
 Headquarters, pushing ahead through the fog, guiding 
 by the compass and steering 30 degrees west of north, 
 picked up two German prisoners from whom they learned 
 that regiments of the Prussian Guard were in the sector. 
 This confirmed intelligence reports that the advance 
 w^ould meet the Kaiser's best troops. 
 
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 About 8 a.m., while the fog was as thick as ever, the 
 detachment came upon the Varennes road, and were able 
 to figure their approximate position on the map. About 
 the same time a message by runner was received from 
 Sauerwein saying that he was progressing rapidly, travel- 
 ing 30 degrees west of north. 
 
 Howland realized that this was not sufficient data to 
 keep him in touch with his troops, so he pressed ahead. 
 There had been firing on his left, apparently not far 
 away, and the map indicated that it came, first from the 
 slopes of Vauquois and later from the Bois de Rossignol. 
 The detachment picked up a dozen or so men from the 
 Ninety-first Division, who had become lost in the fog, 
 and later a part of a platoon from A Company of the 
 First Battalion of the 138th, and still later part of a pla- 
 toon of B Company of the 129th Machine Gun Battalion. 
 
 By 8:30 it was apparent that the detachment was in a 
 position which possessed serious possibilities. Howland 
 then put his augmented detachment in combat formation 
 and sent it forward, under Capt. Reinholdt, to reconnoiter 
 toward Cheppy, with instruction to take up position as 
 soon as the enemy was sighted and to send back word 
 immediately. Within 10 minutes Reinholdt sent back 11 
 prisoners, one of them an officer, all from crack guard 
 regiments. From them it was learned that the guards 
 held the line of defenses before Cheppy, that they were 
 in force, and that their orders were to hold at all costs. 
 
 Bursts of machine-gun fire were becoming more fre- 
 quent around the headquarters detachment, and one was 
 heard spitting away methodically almost to the south. 
 
 ''That's a Boche gun behind us. Colonel," Venable said. 
 
 "That's in our rear," Howland answered. "Surely 
 it can't be a German gun." 
 
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 '*Is that the sound of a German gun?'* Venable asked 
 Capt. Ehrhardt. 
 
 '^ Without a doubt," answered the calm Frenchman 
 from Chicago. 
 
 The headquarters detachment was up against it. A 
 makeshift outfit, mostly noncombatant, it had penetrated 
 the fog until it was alongside the Hindenburg line, and 
 the line was held by the Prussian Guard, the best troops 
 in the German empire, and, according to the prisoners, 
 they were in a tangle of woods and steel and wire which 
 bristled with machine guns. To make the case absolutely 
 desperate, enemy machine guns had opened in the rear 
 of the Americans. They had penetrated the German de- 
 fenses and were surrounded. The headquarters detach- 
 ment was ordered to take cover in the ditch alongside 
 the road, and under protection of the bank left by a 
 small cut in the side of the hill. Reinholdt placed his 
 men in a brush-covered ditch on the right of the road. 
 The fog Avas clearing away rapidly in places and the ridge 
 and copse before Cheppy were coming out of the fog like 
 the landscape on a photographic plate in the developing 
 chemicals. Ahead, to the left, was a wayside shrine, a 
 broken cross shaded by three low trees. 
 
 A German battery opened fire. It appeared to be very 
 near and it dumped high explosives on the road where 
 the 138th headquarters had taken cover. Probably a 
 dozen men were killed at the first round of shells. Simul- 
 taneously enemy machine guns in the front and on both 
 flanks opened on the spot. Howland and what was left 
 of his detachment made the best of all available cover 
 and waited for supports. Above them in the fog, in- 
 visible, but quite near, they heard an airplane roar past. 
 
 While Col. Howland thus lay in dire straits, he had 
 three battalions somewhere in the field, whose location 
 and activity should now be made clear. 
 
CHAPTER XIV 
 
 NELS WOLD'S GLORIOUS DEATH 
 
 The Third Battalion, commanded by Capt Bottger, had 
 led the way. When it stepped off and pushed ahead, it 
 was through the dense fog, and guiding was difficult and 
 liaison, that is keeping in touch with other units and main- 
 taining communication with superiors to the rear and 
 units on either side, was almost impossible. There was 
 much incidental and sporadic firing from the front and 
 both flanks, but the battalion pushed ahead, each com- 
 pany acting virtually as a unit, because, in the dense fog, 
 it was impossible to maintain a battalion formation or to 
 know where the other companies were. 
 
 Lieut. George M. Hagee, who was acting intelligence 
 officer of the battalion, advanced with a squad of 10 run- 
 ners. He was to send one back each half hour with re- 
 ports to regimental headquarters. This system proved of 
 little or no value, as the runners were wounded or became 
 lost as the}^ returned, or if they were able to return to 
 the appointed places they would find that the headquar- 
 ters to which they were to report had moved forward, 
 and when it finally was reached, if ever, the news borne 
 by the runner was stale and valueless. 
 
 Lieut. Hagee and his squad were stopped before Cheppy 
 in the fog by machine gun fire. This was some time be- 
 fore Howland got there. Capt. Harry Thompson came 
 along pretty soon with M Company, and Hagee told him 
 what he thought of the machine guns opposing them, 
 
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 VICLNITY OF CHEPPY 
 
100 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 and tried to borrow a platoon for the purpose of trying 
 to clean them out. Tliompson said his orders were to go 
 ahead, and that he did not have time to stop for machine 
 gun nests which did not directly oppose his progress. 
 Hagee had no orders, Thompson pointed out, so he could 
 wait where he was until support came up. He refused to 
 lend Hagee the platoon, and went ahead. 
 
 Thompson had managed to keep his company together 
 in the advance from the jumping off place below Vau- 
 quois, and when he got into the zone of fire in front of 
 Cheppy, his outfit was virtually intact. He had lost a few 
 men and had picked up a good bunch of prisoners, so he 
 knew that further ahead, somewhere in the fog, was the 
 Prussian Guard. His objective on the map was a ridge 
 well beyond Cheppy. When he met Hagee on the little 
 bridge just outside of Cheppy and was asked to delay his 
 forward progress to clean up the machine gun nests on 
 the side, he figured rightly that that was a job for some- 
 body else later, and that his part of the battle was to 
 press on through the gloom to his assigned position. 
 
 To the right was the little wood, all except the near 
 edge invisible in the fog, but it seemed a seething mass 
 of enemy machine guns. On the left was the unknown 
 little valley of the creek, and the rattle of machine guns 
 there told how it was protected, but nothing could be 
 seen. Dead ahead was Cheppy, also invisible, but pre- 
 sumed to be the stronghold. Thompson took M Com- 
 pany straight ahead into Cheppy. This action, one of the 
 most reckless in a day full of reckless deeds, was also one 
 of the most successful. Good luck marched beside the 
 Captain. The fog, which everywhere on the field 
 was working units into hopeless confusion, was almost 
 as thick as night in Cheppy. The company passed by 
 
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 the very ports of pill boxes and dugouts, which at the 
 time they believed to be deserted. 
 
 They v^ere, in fact, doubtless all armed and manned, 
 but in the dense fog, the German gunners were unable to 
 tell who the advancing troops were until they were vir- 
 tually on top of them, and then it was wiser to keep very 
 still and let them pass by. The machine gun emplace- 
 ments, pill boxes and open ones, were designed to repel 
 an attack from the front, and they would have been of 
 little use in fighting an enemy who already had them sur- 
 rounded. The guns could not be turned toward the rear. 
 If they had opened fire and revealed their presence, M 
 Company would have cleaned them quickly with hand 
 grenades. 
 
 Thompson pushed ahead and had no serious fighting 
 until he had reached the far edge of the town. He 
 probably was out of Cheppy and had a bag of prisoners 
 by the time Col. Howiand and headquarters detachment 
 were stopped on the other side of the town. 
 
 Close behind M Company, as it went over the top, was 
 L Company of the same battalion. Sergt. Ross M. Koen, 
 commanding the third platoon, endeavored to keep within 
 50 or 100 feet of M Company because the denseness of 
 the fog made it impossible to get any guiding data from 
 the terrain. Within half an hour Capt. Clarence J. Sode- 
 man and the first and second platoons were missing. T 
 suspect that they had gone too far to the left and taken 
 a course which carried them to the left of Cheppy and 
 between Cheppy and Varennes. Koen's outfit picked up 
 six prisoners before reaching Cheppy and a little farther 
 on they took 80 more. These w^ere formed and started to 
 the rear under Sergt. Grant of the fourth platoon, but 
 the enemy, doubtless hearing the movement, opened on 
 
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 them with machine guns and the prisoners scattered and 
 Grant and his detail rejoined the command. Koen with 
 his part of the company remained in touch with M Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Sergt. Joe Britton, commanding the first platoon of 1 
 Company, was instructed to maintain liaison between 
 the battalion and the 137th Infantry, which was on its 
 left. Immediately after going over the top at 5 :30 and 
 starting forward into the fog, the platoon lost contact 
 and liaison with its own battalion and did not regain 
 it until some time the following day. 
 
 Sergt. Britton commenced to feel for the 137th, but 
 failed to get them, and so he and Sergt. Eckhardt or- 
 ganized the platoon into combat groups and proceeded 
 forward as a combat patrol. About 11 a.m. they ran 
 across Lieut. John Wingate, regimental scout officer, and 
 about a dozen scouts. He attached the free-ranging first 
 platoon of 48 men to his outfit and they proceeded in 
 search of adventure. 
 
 The little band thus adventitiously joined up in the 
 gloom of the mist-filled field held some of the best 
 mettle in all the great and gallant army which that day 
 warred for the liberties of the world. 
 
 Strangely met in the fog, there was but one officer 
 among them, Wingate, and he had not been an officer 
 long. Among the people who knew him, he was the best 
 loved man in the division. He was well past 50, I would 
 say, and I have no doubt that he perjured himself stoutly 
 to gain admission to the army. He looked like the train 
 robber of fiction, long drooping mustaches, and a sort of 
 swaggering, undaunted air, which did not deceive you at 
 all after you came to know him, for he had a sort of 
 child-like faith, and a gentle, kindly heart of pure gold. 
 
NELS wold's glorious DEATH 103 
 
 Sergt. Joe Britton commanded the platoon. He was a 
 man of high daring, clear headed and a promising sol- 
 dier. He had been given the difficult task of maintaining 
 liaison between the two regiments of the division. This 
 was not a task he was particularly keen about, but he 
 was a good soldier, and he intended to fulfill his duties 
 to the last button if they did not interfere with the fight- 
 ing. 
 
 Then there was Nels Wold, who came from Minnesota, 
 but whose forebears must have sailed the seas in the good 
 old days when every youth went a-vikinging, and every 
 maid wore two long braids of yellow hair. And there was 
 many another just as sturdy of heart and fit for just as 
 high emprise. Behind old John Wingate was ranged as 
 reckless a band of free companions as ever trod the glades 
 of Sherwood Forest, and in their leather jerkins, they 
 looked like Robin Hood's men. Somewhere there was 
 higher command, but until it ordered otherwise, Wingate 
 conceived it to be his duty to clear the fairway of the 
 enemy that our troops might pass unscathed, and to inflict 
 upon the enemy as much damage as possible. 
 
 Wingate designing to inflict what damage he could, 
 set about working his men into the rear of the German 
 line that he might attack them in the rear. By the time 
 they had done this the sun had eaten up the fog. They 
 were on a hillside, and a clump of trees gave them con- 
 cealment for the time. The whole field was filled with 
 the din of crashing artillery and shells, near and far. 
 On all sides, in the short view allowed them by the lay 
 of the country, were clumps of bushes or trees, which 
 doubtless held enemy machine gun nests or riflemen wait- 
 ing for their prey. The nearest one suddenly spluttered 
 out a machine gun burst. Wingate ordered his men to 
 
104 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 rush, it, and they swept into it as if they had been invited 
 there to a banquet. The gunners were killed at their 
 guns, and the weapons were turned against the next posi- 
 tion to determine whether it would draw an answering 
 volley. There was no one there, so the combat patrol 
 moved on, always in the rear of the German line. When- 
 ever a dugout was found it was bombed. A clump of 
 bushes appeared which was so well placed that to rush it 
 seemed impossible. 
 
 Nels Wold suggested that he be allowed to investigate 
 by cautiously creeping upon it. Wingate agreed, and 
 putting his men under cover, waited for the Scandinavian 
 to creep around to the rear of the position. It seemed a 
 long wait, although it was but a few minutes. There was 
 a rattle of shots in the thicket. Then three Germans with 
 hands aloft walked out with Wold behind them, motion- 
 ing his comrades forward. There had been only five men 
 at the guns. He had killed two and captured three. 
 
 The rangers carried on. They never grew drunk with 
 the excitement of victory, but worked calmly and warily. 
 How many gun positions, ambuscades, dugouts and sni- 
 pers' posts they cleaned, I do not know, but they sent 
 60 prisoners to the rear, and Britton estimated that the 
 toll of dead Germans would have been seven for each 
 American engaged. 
 
 Five times that day, Nels Wold, volunteering each time 
 and pointing each time to his increasing list of victories 
 as the reason he should have the assignment, five times 
 he went forth single handed against machine gun nests. 
 Four times he killed or captured the gunners, took the 
 guns and waved his companions that all was well. Each 
 nest cleaned out was a great power for evil removed from 
 the path of the American army. How many lives his 
 
NELS wold's glorious DEATH 105 
 
 daring saved only Le Bon Dieu knows. The fifth time 
 was the last. It was behind the camouflage screen along- 
 side a road. He advanced alone, made an opening in the 
 camouflage, and started through, when machine gun bul- 
 lets got him. He fell inside the camouflage. The *'Big 
 Swede" did not come back to the breached camouflage 
 to wave his hand, and Wingate knew what had happened. 
 He had every man look to his weapons, creep as near as 
 possible to the machine gun nest and, from a kneeling 
 start, to charge the guns. They went over without a 
 yell or shout, like good workmen, and cleaned the place 
 thoroughly. No prisoners were taken there. They car- 
 ried Nels Wold's body out into the open, laid it straight, 
 and by his side stuck up his rifle, fixed bayonet driven into 
 the ground, that the burial squad might find him. Then 
 they went ahead. 
 
 Our republic devised a Congressional Medal of Honor 
 as the reward of superlative deeds of daring, for gal- 
 lantly beyond the call of duty and of such merit as to 
 demand a conspicuous and special fame. Neither Gen. 
 Pershing nor Gen. March can wear this medal, but Nels 
 Wold won it and the general order bestowing it upon 
 him has been read to every unit of the army overseas. 
 
 There was many another deed of dash and daring. 
 Sergt. Eckhardt believed the rifle grenade was a power- 
 ful weapon. This is a bomb attached to the end of a 
 stick. The stick is stuck in the rifle barrel and fired. 
 Eckhardt and Private Hobart Howard extinguished two 
 machine gun nests with this weapon. They attacked them 
 simultaneously by wading and crawling through a swamp 
 until they were in a good position to attack both at 
 once. 
 
 Corporal Louis Forbes, commanding one of the combat 
 
106 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 groups, tried to take at least one prisoner in each nest 
 or dugout lie raided. From this prisoner he extracted 
 minute information as to the aext nest, and took ad- 
 vantage of it in the attack. His toll of captures was 20 
 German prisoners and five French soldiers captured by 
 the Germans the night before, freed from a dugout prison. 
 
 A German officer who had pretended to surrender, sud- 
 denly drew his pistol to shoot Lieut. Wingate in the back. 
 Corp. Noah La Brueyer leaped between them and firing 
 his rifle from the hip, killed the German. 
 
 Another German officer leaped from a ditch a few feet 
 distant just as Private Harry Pierce was firing at a nest 
 of gunners some distance further on. The German shot 
 at Pierce, point blank and the bullet hit his thumb, went 
 along the butt of the rifie and wounded him in the face. 
 Pierce calmly turned his rifle and killed the officer, and 
 then kept on with his squad, after one of his comrades 
 gave him flrst aid. 
 
 After Wold's death, Wingate 's riflemen careered ahead, 
 seeking some new deed of chivalry which might advance 
 them in the profession of arms. They found a bunch 
 of enemy machine gunners and infantry, and they charged 
 without preamble. About half of the enemy were slain, 
 and the other half ran away. This was unusual. As a 
 rule, the survivors surrendered. Wingate ordered a pur- 
 suit. This took him, m less than half a mile, into the 
 outskirts of Varennes, where a lively fight was going 
 on. This was entirely out of his regimental area, he 
 learned, and almost out of his divisional area, but being 
 of a generous nature, he joined up to lend a hand and 
 help out the other regiments, which were the 137th and 
 the 139th. 
 
CHAPTER XV 
 
 MAJOR SAUERWEIN FALLS 
 
 We return now to the first battalion of the 138th, 
 which formed the second wave of our advance. It went 
 over the top close behind the third battalion. Maj. Sauer- 
 wein was in command. Capt. Crist commanded A Com- 
 pany, Lieut. Brightfield B Company, Lieut. Anderson C 
 Company and Lieut. Brown D Company. 
 
 On the way forward in the early advance, Maj. Sauer- 
 wein and Lieut. Elzie McGinnis had a peculiar experience 
 which startlingly gave them a strong taste of what was 
 to come. In the enveloping fog they were moving for- 
 ward through the rank grass which filled the valley, a 
 field which, having been just back of the first line for 
 at least three seasons, had seen no crops planted or har- 
 vest reaped. 
 
 The two men stopped for a minute to listen to the guns, 
 and try to locate new machine guns by the sound. On the 
 front and on both flanks the guns, hidden by the opaque 
 fog, were whirring away like rattlesnakes. One could 
 see possibly 10 yards and near at hand it was possible 
 to see clearly. As they started forward again, a move- 
 ment in the grass at their feet drew their attention. 
 It was the path of a stream of machine gun bullets, com- 
 ing from a mist-hidden gun on their left. The grass was 
 melting away. Another step would have put them in its 
 current. They backed up, found a ditch going their di- 
 rection, and pushed ahead, after diverting the troops 
 into their own path. 
 
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108 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 From the beginning liaison was very bad. The fog 
 swallowed the first battalion, as it had the battalion 
 ahead, and they pushed to the north, guiding by compass 
 30 degrees to the west of north. Once through the wire 
 each platoon had to do its own guiding, making contact 
 with its fellows wherever it could, but relying mainly 
 on its individual guide to get well forw^ard toward the 
 objective as soon as possible. 
 
 Sauerwein's battalion kept together pretty well, but 
 guided more to the right than the third battalion had 
 done. This brought them to the line of Cheppy at the 
 right of the town. No other troops had passed that way 
 and there was fighting most of the time. The nearer to 
 Cheppy they came the stiffer the opposition grew and 
 because of the all-enveloping fog each unit which ran 
 into a fight, whether squad or platoon or company, had 
 to take care of itself and fight its own action. 
 
 Lieuts. Anderson, Rugh, Abernathy and Kobel all saw 
 desperate fighting on the way up and Rugh and Aber- 
 nathy were wounded. It was in a crossing of Baunthe 
 Creek that Rugh got his wound when machine guns from 
 the surrounding fog banks suddenly opened upon his 
 advancing party. He fell into the creek. The water was 
 more than knee deep and the banks which rose three 
 or four feet above the surface of the water gave pro- 
 tection from the traversing machine guns out in the fog. 
 But Rugh was badly hurt. His men gave him first aid 
 in the creek and then some of them stayed with him 
 more than an hour. He grew w^eak and if they had not 
 held his head above the water he would have drowned. 
 
 When finally stopped before Cheppy, Maj. Sauerwein 
 had all of B Company and parts of A and C Companies, 
 probably as much as two platoons from each. 
 
MAJOR SAUERWEIN FAIiLS 109 
 
 The advanced units of the battalion had captured two 
 young German soldiers on the rise of the approach to 
 Cheppy. They appeared to be signal corps men work- 
 ing on wires, and their job probably was to watch the 
 American advance and report on the progress by tele- 
 phone to headquarters in the rear, or it is possible that 
 they were artillery observers. The fog had been so thick 
 up to this time that they Avould have been of little use 
 as observers, but they had stuck at their posts and were 
 picked up by the advancing elements. Sauerwein ques- 
 tioned them, particularly as to the location on the map 
 at which the capture took place, for in the dense fog it 
 was impossible to make sure of one's position in this 
 unknown country. 
 
 The prisoners answered with apparent frankness, and 
 said that Cheppy lay just over the hill. 
 
 ^'Then if we go right on up this road we will come 
 into Cheppy?" the Major inquired. 
 
 *'Yes, just go right ahead. It will take you right into 
 Cheppy," was the reply. They did not mention that the 
 ground between where they stood and the entrance to 
 Cheppy was strewn with machine gun nests and gunners 
 ordered to offer every resistance to the advance. 
 
 Maj. Sauerwein was not deceived or made overconfi- 
 dent by the prisoners. He sent them to the rear and or- 
 dered his own men forward. 
 
 By this time the sun was beginning occasionally to 
 show through the fog like a ball of silver, and there was 
 a general assurance that the day would clear up. It 
 could be seen that there were broken clumps of trees and 
 brush on either side of the road, and Sauerwein sus- 
 pected that the enemy would have used these for machine 
 gun shelters. 
 
110 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXEBMONT 
 
 He ordered Sergeant-Ma j or Bacon to assign two bayo- 
 net men to lead the way for the purpose of rushing any 
 machine guns which opened at short range. Bacon as- 
 signed one man to the task and, fixing his own bayonet, 
 went forward to make up the team. 
 
 Sauerwein organized his forces for combat, and went 
 ahead, the bayonet team leading. Next was the Major 
 with Lieut. McGinnis, who was in charge of the Stokes 
 mortars at the beginning of the battle. Next were run- 
 ners and incidentals, while the battalion was some 50 
 yards in the rear. 
 
 Suddenly out of the fast-disappearing fog in front, 
 there came the crackle of many machine guns. They 
 were very numerous and they were too far away to be 
 rushed. 
 
 ''Take cover and give 'em hell!" Sauerwein shouted, 
 and the men, both those with him and the main body fol- 
 lowing, spread out, taking advantage of the inequalities 
 in the ground for protection and opened rifle fire on the 
 machine guns. 
 
 One of the German guns, traversing over the dim front 
 which it covered, feeling out and searching the scene, 
 sent a score or more of shots into the ditch where Sauer- 
 wein and McGinnis were. This was at 9:45. Major 
 Sauerwein was hit in the forehead and instantly killed. 
 In his hands were his message book and pencil. He had 
 just started to write a message to send back presumably 
 to advise the following units of his position and condi- 
 tion. 
 
 Two bullets caught McGinnis, one through each leg, 
 but no bones were broken. He made tourniquets of his 
 field glass strap, threw off all equipment and started 
 to crawl to the rear as soon as he could. An apple or- 
 
MAJOR SAUERWEIN FALLS 111 
 
 chard, Tintended for four years, was on the gentle slope 
 of the hill. There was a slight ridge along the line of 
 trees and a corresponding depression between the rows. 
 Along this depression McG-innis crawled toward the dress- 
 ing station. 
 
 Just as he crept into the edge of the orchard, a German 
 automatic rifleman in a big oak tree caught sight of him, 
 and put another bullet through his leg, this time below 
 the knee. McGinnis believes it was this man also who 
 shot him first and who killed Maj. Sauerwein, but this 
 is problematical. At any rate, the doughboys whom 
 Sauerwein had led figured out about where the tree- 
 sniper was, and even before the ground nests had been 
 silenced, they had riddled the top of the tree with rifle 
 bullets and the automatic rifleman tumbled through the 
 branches and crashed to the ground, dead of the haK 
 dozen bullets through him. 
 
 The invisibility of the Germans was one of their strong 
 points. Their camouflage was good, and they took ad- 
 vantage of every possibility for concealment. Some of 
 our men never saw a German except those who had sur- 
 rendered. A typical experience was that of Sergt. C. G. 
 McCorkle of E Company, of the 138th, who fought from 
 the "jumping off" day up to the 29th, when he was 
 wounded, but in all that time he never saw a German 
 with a rifle in his hands. All he saw either had their 
 hands high in the air, surrendering, or were using them 
 to work a machine gun. 
 
 Another man, he was a south Missourian and we spoke 
 the same language of the Ozarks, said to me in the Char- 
 pentry dressing station: 
 
 ''I've fought three days and I hain't seen a German 
 yet while he was fighting. Now I got shot through the 
 knee and I won't get me airy one." 
 
CHAPTER XVI 
 
 CAPTAIN SKINKER'S BRAVERY 
 
 A mile to the west of the scene of Maj. Sauerwein's 
 last fight, the Colonel of the 138th and his headquarters 
 detachment lay in a bad way. After Capt. Thompson 
 and M Company passed by, other elements came along, 
 and Lieuts. Hagee and Hamilton, with a small body of 
 men, went through the lower end of the wood on the slope 
 of the hill toward Cheppy, and took a number of prison- 
 ers. As they were returning toward the bridge, Hagee 
 saw a flash of uniform whisking through the brush, and 
 shouted *'Halt!" The flying man did not halt, so Hagee 
 shot twice with his pistol, the second shot bringing down 
 his man. It proved to be a German officer, who spoke 
 English well. He was sure the Americans never would 
 take Cheppy. The prisoners were lined up and searched, 
 the wounded officer's leg was bandaged, and Hagee and 
 Hamilton offered to match him for his camera. 
 
 Half an hour later Capt. Skinker came up. Enemy 
 machine gun fire had become very active, and Hagee 
 and all others in his neighborhood took refuge in shell 
 holes. It was while moving from one of these protec- 
 tions to another that Hagee got a machine gun bullet 
 through his leg. Thinking he would be taken to the 
 rear at once, he gradually abandoned his equipment to 
 make his progress easier, and had shorn himself of pis- 
 tol, pack and gas mask when a gas alarm was shouted. 
 
 He threw himself into a shell hole and was lying face- 
 down trying to keep out the gas when something fell 
 
 112 
 
113 
 
 on top of him. He cautiously investigated and found 
 that it was Lieut. ''Chuck" Venable, also seeking cover. 
 Hagee climbed out of the hole and soon worked his way 
 to the rear. The next shell hole had Col. Howland and 
 Capt. Ehrhardt in it, so Hagee went still further and 
 continued to the rear as best he could, taking shelter 
 when the enemy fire became very intense. He finally 
 reached a dressing station, where Lieut. Lindsay, a den- 
 tal officer, dressed his wound and sent him back to the 
 hospital, and out of the war. 
 
 Lieut. Claud Hampshire also was wounded the first day. 
 He had been hit across the back, narrowly missing the 
 spine, while he was reconnoitering a trench, and had fal- 
 len in a shell hole full of gassed water. He lay there 
 for hours before being taken to the rear in a serious con- 
 dition. 
 
 As Hagee worked his way back along the road, Capt. 
 Alex. R. Skinker, with three platoons of I Company of 
 the 138th was in position probably the most advanced 
 on the American contingent on that side of Cheppy. Col. 
 Howland was well back on the road, taking what cover 
 the ground offered against the very heavy machine gun 
 and artillery fire. Capt. Reinholdt and his detachment 
 were on the right of the road, in combat formation, 
 fronting the enemy. They were in a ditch which gave 
 fair protection against the machine guns which they faced. 
 
 To the front of Skinker was the road which led to 
 Cheppy, and the little bridge by which it crossed Buanthe 
 Creek. The low lands along the creek were protected 
 by a wire entanglement. 
 
 Skinker was a highly intelligent young officer, of un- 
 questioned courage and nerve. He was noted for the 
 care he took of his men and the lengths he would go for 
 
114 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 them. It was clear that he would lose heavily if he tried 
 to advance through the terrific fire which was pouring 
 from the side of the hill. The fog had nearly disap- 
 peared and he doubtless calculated it would be better to 
 uncover the location of the guns at the expense of a few 
 men, and conceived the idea of sending an automatic 
 rifleman against the position, probably in the hope of re- 
 ducing it by luck and skill. In choosing the men to do 
 the trick, it would be thoroughly in keeping with his 
 trend of thought to decide upon himself as one of them. 
 He would not have asked of his men anything he would 
 not do himself; he understood the Chauchat automatic 
 rifle, and could use it if the rifleman fell, and there was 
 no question of his own nerve. It was quite typical of 
 him to undertake the task himself and leave his com- 
 pany under what scanty cover there was. 
 
 This French automatic rifle can be carried and fired by 
 one man while advancing. He shoots from the hip. The 
 cartridges are fed from a half-moon clip which snaps into 
 place below the lock. A feeder walking alongside the 
 rifleman can remove the empty ''pans" and affix full 
 ones to the rifle without losing step. 
 
 Capt. Skinker called a rifleman and a carrier, explained 
 his plan, took plenty of ammunition and started for- 
 ward to breach the Hindenburg line. Very soon the car- 
 rier was shot dead. Skinker took his supplies of am- 
 munition and pressed ahead, himself feeding the rifle. 
 Skinker fell next, killed instantly with his face to the 
 foe and advancing. Then the rifleman was killed, and 
 while I do not know, I like to think he was still pressing 
 on alone. 
 
 I regret that I have been unable so far to learn the 
 names of the two men who died with Capt. Skinker. 
 
CAPtAIN SKINKER S BRAVERY 
 
 115 
 
 Several names have been suggested, but no one I have 
 found seems to know certainly who these brave men 
 Avere. Their names doubtless are in this list, which I 
 copied from the metal identity tags on the crosses over 
 the row of graves beneath the three forlorn trees at this 
 bloody angle. The first grave is Capt. Skinker's. The 
 
 CAPT. SKINKER'S GRAVE UNDER THREE 
 TREES AT CHEPPY 
 
 others are George Feld, Walter G. Ivie, Robert Adkison, 
 Maurice G. Walter, Sergt. Roscoe Robertson, Monroe 
 Jacobs, Harry C. Bowker, Andrew B. Corrigan, George 
 H. Durfee, Will Gray, Virgil C. Penz, William Prost, 
 James Meehan and Alfred A. Youngquist. 
 
 Capt. Skinker's performance was of such tremendous 
 
116 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 courage, such pure inspiration and of such calm thought, 
 that dispassionate review of it by high officers back in 
 headquarters convinced Gen. Pershing that it was one of 
 those rare deeds worthy of the Congressional Medal of 
 Honor. Capt. Skinker never knew that the nests he 
 moved against were steel and concrete, and impervious to 
 the fire of his automatic rifle. 
 
CHAPTER XVII 
 
 THE 138TH TAKES CHEPPY 
 
 Regimental headquarters and staff of the 138th infan- 
 try were in a ditch beside the road some 300 yards back 
 of the scene of Skinker's valorous death. The fog had 
 cleared away and the rattle of enemy machine guns from 
 the front was incessant. Shells had killed many of the 
 headquarters' detachment, and had wounded many more. 
 The road was a shambles of human ^vreckage. 
 
 Two small French tanks came bowling over the hill. It 
 was feared an American might not be able to make the 
 crews understand the situation. So Sergt. Morel, the 
 interpreter assigned to the regiment by the French army, 
 took the job upon himself. Morel was a debonnair young 
 man of 35, with a generous heart and a discriminating 
 taste in wine. He had been a prominent sportsman be- 
 fore the war, and since had been a gunner toiling in the 
 defenses about Verdun. When he was wounded the sec- 
 ond time the French decided he was not much good for 
 further service with the guns so they made him an inter- 
 preter. He w^as not the best interpreter in the army, 
 but he was one of the very best fellows and a most de- 
 lightful companion. 
 
 Morel lifted himself out of the ditch and ran across 
 the field, swept as it was by machine-gun fire from the 
 whole woods across the creek. He sprinted in front of 
 a tank and waved his arms and yelled. The tank stopped 
 and the little trap door opened. Instead of the expected 
 
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118 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 poilu, an American soldier stuck his head out and asked 
 calmly : 
 
 '^Well, what the hell do YOU want?" 
 
 Morel showed where the enemy machine guns were 
 hidden. They had ceased firing to avoid revealing their 
 position. Then he went back to headquarters in the 
 ditch. That was how Morel won the Croix de Guerre 
 after four years of war. I asked him afterwards how 
 the Americans fought. ^^They were too brave," he an- 
 swered sadly. 
 
 The tanks tried hard, but they could not cross the 
 creek, and their light fire was not enough to clear the 
 hill of the enemy. Artillery, doubtless promptly advised 
 that the tanks were there, began dropping shells around. 
 Col. Rowland, fearing that the artillery fire drawn by 
 the tanks would do more damage to his forces than the 
 work of the tanks would benefit them, ordered the tanks 
 to the rear. '^-^ 
 
 The French Lieutenant in charge of the tanks had 
 himself charged a machine gun nest near the wire, killed 
 one gunner and captured two others and the gun. When 
 he turned these over to Col. Rowland he said there Avere 
 eight big tanks some distance to the southwest. Rowland 
 ordered him to hurry off and bring them at once. The 
 Frenchman departed through the rain of artillery and 
 machine gun fire. 
 
 Enemy machine guns became more active still after the 
 two small tanks disappeared and Col. Rowland ordered 
 all his men to cease firing and wait for supports. It was 
 at this time that Lieut. Ragee, wounded and trying to 
 reach the rear, reported to Col. Rowland on conditions 
 further up the road. Rowland estimates that he had lost 
 a third of his detachment at that time. Re decided to 
 
THE 138th takes cheppy 119 
 
 dispose what he had left in battle formation in a trench 
 near by, and crawled out of the ditch to rally his men, 
 but in the road he found none but dead men. From 
 shell holes over the field he got what men were taking 
 cover there and forming them in the trench, was pre- 
 pared to hold or repel an attack. 
 
 Then he made his way forward to where Capt. Rein- 
 holdt, despite hea\^ losses, was holding fast. The shell- 
 ing was very heavy and a shell fragment shattered Col. 
 Rowland's hand. Rowland returned to his place by the 
 side of the road and held on. 
 
 For three hours there was virtually no movement of 
 these men. The enemy machine guns sought out any 
 spot where the slightest movement was observed and the 
 shells pounded the area constantly. 
 
 Finally, after what seemed an age of waiting, eight tanks 
 appeared on the left. Maneuvered perfectly, they swung 
 out of column and into line, crossed the open between the 
 two roads and took position about 10 paces apart. All ef- 
 fectives in that neighborhood formed in squads behind the 
 tanks. While the infantry with rifle and machine guns 
 fired on suspected places in the brush and woods on the 
 hillside, the tanks, with all their armament, pounded the 
 nests and pill boxes to pieces. The one-pounders fired high 
 explosive into the defenses and the machine guns cut down 
 the evicted gunners. It was but a work of minutes for these 
 wheeled forts and the front was cleared of an enemy which 
 had delayed the advance for hours. 
 
 The tanks then turned to the right flank, and when they 
 had pounded it awhile, Capt. Reinholdt took his command 
 forward, in combat groups, and mopped up the whole flank. 
 Thus that road into Cheppy was cleared. 
 
 In the final attack and the actual taking of Cheppy, the 
 
120 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Second Battalion of the 138th was very active also. Lieuts. 
 Humphrey Price, Everett Vogt and John Moll, each with 
 about a platoon of men, attacked on the west, a little to 
 the north of the position where Howland and his head- 
 quarters was held. Each one led his platoon against ma- 
 chine gun nests, and all entered the town among the first. 
 Lieut. Price, who is a grandson of Gen. Sterling Price, got 
 the Distinguished Service Cross for his work there. 
 
 When Howland started to the rear he found lying in 
 the road 12 dead and mangled men, and among them Capt. 
 Ehrhardt, the gallant French liaison officer, suffering from 
 four wounds. The French doctor with the tanks examined 
 Howland, found him weak and faint from loss of blood 
 and ordered him evacuated. Lieutenant-Colonel H. W. 
 Parker took command of the regiment. 
 
 With the defenses to the south and southwest of Cheppy 
 reduced, the town was at the mercy of the 138th. Sauer- 
 wein's battalion, with Capt. Crist now in command, en- 
 tered from the east. Thompson 's outfit, which was M Com- 
 pany, and incidental squads and platoons he had picked 
 up, had gone through the town very early and had thor- 
 oughly cleaned the northern part with a profit of 300 pris- 
 oners, all Prussian guardsmen. From the southwest the 
 regimental headquarters and parts of the Second and First 
 Battalions entered. 
 
 I do not know which company's men first entered Chep- 
 py. Many outfits claim the honor, and all probably be- 
 lieve they are right. The town w^as entered from many 
 sides by many groups of men. I incline to the belief that 
 Lieut. Haller and about a platoon of G Company were 
 among the first, if not the very first to enter the town. 
 
 General Traub sent this message from his advanced 
 P. C. in the afternoon: 
 
THE 138th takes cheppy 121 
 
 From Okla. 1, at % k. S. of LaForge Min. 200 m. W. 
 of Cheppy- Vauquois Road, 9/26 hr. 2:38 p.m. 
 
 Just arrived here and taken charge. Right of 138th 
 Regt. beyond Cheppy, probably now on Corps Ob- 
 jective. Left Regt. exact position unknown, but 
 probably near Varennes. Have ordered advance to 
 corps objective all along the line, with liaison through- 
 out. Leading bns. of Regts. became disorganized in 
 fog resulting in loss of touch and enabling M. G. 
 nests to remain undiscovered. Tanks have done good 
 work. Am sending French tanks to attack between 
 Cheppy and Varennes. Amer. tanks from Cheppy 
 to Varennes. As soon as we reach Corps. Obj. will 
 let you know. Div. P. C. cannot be placed at La- 
 Forge Moulin, too heavily shelled. Enemy now put- 
 ting down shells on line S. W. of Cheppy. When 
 I know definitely just where our advanced troops are 
 will call for Art. barrage. In meanwhile Art. should 
 move up and take position in Bois de Rossignol. 
 They can get around on road to E. of Vauquois. They 
 should be well supplied with ammunition, and trench 
 mortars ammunition should be brought up. I ask 
 for aviation protection between Varennes and Cheppy 
 as Boche machines have been flying back and forth 
 between these points at an altitude of a few hundred 
 feet only. Telephone wire badly needed. Repeat 
 to Corps Commander. 
 
 Sgd: Peter E. Traub. 
 
 In the Second Battalion E Company had fared well in 
 the preliminary bombardment, but it began to suffer with 
 the advance. Corp. Reeves was the first. He was hit by 
 shell fragments immediately after the start. To make its 
 advance, E Company came out of the fringe of woods and 
 ascended a steep bank some 10 or 12 feet high, and then 
 pushed forward through the thick mist over a compara- 
 tively level country. There was wire everywhere but 
 paths had been cut through it by the men the night be- 
 
122 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 fore, and by the troops which preceded E Company that 
 morning. Lieut. Watson was hit in the first 10 feet of the 
 advance. A machine gun leveled him. Sergt. C. G. Mc- 
 Corkle of the platoon following, shouted for stretcher 
 bearers for the stricken Lieutenant, but did not delay the 
 platoon an instant. It is the rule of the game. The com- 
 pany lost 10 men in the first half minute. Sergt. Hart- 
 man was one of them. Three shells which hit in the First 
 and Second Platoons immediately after going over caused 
 most of the loss. 
 
 About halfway to Cheppy the company was joined by a 
 Sergeant and four men from the Ninety-first Division 
 lost in the fog. They stayed with E Company three days. 
 
 Cheppy had been a pleasant little town, with three 
 roads wandering through it. There had been the main 
 part of town in the neighborhood of the road crossings, 
 and out each of the routes ran a line of buildings. There 
 also was a string of residences on the little hill above the 
 town. The St. Louisans found many things to interest 
 them in Cheppy. 
 
 Every house was fortified, although they were nearly 
 all little more than ruins from years of shell fire. Dug- 
 outs were plentiful and comfortable. The town appar- 
 ently had been a headquarters of the officer commanding 
 the front in that section, and his staff. They had lived 
 comfortably, planted gardens, raised chickens, hares and 
 pigs, and some attempt at ornamentation was to be seen. 
 
 Altogether more than 300 prisoners were taken, all 
 fine troops and the most of them Prussian guardsmen. In 
 one dugout, our men came across a mystery. A German 
 Captain lay in his bunk as if asleep. But he was dead, 
 newly dead, with many bulletholes through his body. 
 The dugout was not in range of our machine guns, as it 
 
THE 138th takes cheppy 123 
 
 was behind a hill. He must have been killed by his own 
 men. 
 
 Part of the booty taken there was a consignment of 
 100 anti-tank guns which had never been used. They 
 were like great rifles, with 7-foot barrels, a bore of an 
 inch and an A-shaped rest swinging from the barrel. Two 
 complete sets of field surgical equipment were taken, and 
 soon were being employed. Maj. Emil Burgher took one 
 and sent the other to Capt. Wald. They found the ma- 
 terial of excellent quality and the drugs and chemicals of 
 good strength and purity. 
 
 A battery of enemy guns captured in the woods near 
 Cheppy had been made by the Bethlehem Steel Works 
 for the Russian Government, the inscription stated. From 
 Russia they had been brought by the Germans to this 
 front, and now, through the fortunes of war, had come 
 back into American possession. 
 
 Another interesting capture was a German canteen, 
 well stocked and open for business. Its supplies included 
 three kegs of lager beer. 
 
 Corp. Reynolds was at first suspicious, and kept the 
 men away from the beer until he had sent for two 
 prisoners and tried the beer on them. The prisoners 
 smacked their lips and approved of it. They were sent 
 back to their guards, and the beer, with the rest of the 
 spoils, went to the victors. 
 
 Maj. Burgher set up his aid station in Cheppy, and the 
 battalion medical officers went on with the troops. Vir- 
 tually all the wounded of the regiment henceforth were 
 cleared through Burgher's 'Hriage" there, although the 
 Major himself was often in the front with his Lieutenants 
 at the first aid dressing stations. 
 
 Capt. Thompson had virtually reached the corps' ob- 
 
124 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 jective by the time tlie fog lifted, so he moved over to 
 the right. At 10:30 there was good visibility, and 
 Thompson was unable to see Americans anywhere, but 
 he could see a party of Germans approaching on either 
 flank. He disposed his company in an old German artil- 
 lery position and prepared for a fight. As soon as he 
 opened fire the Germans divided into two bands, one of 
 which retreated and the other held up hands, cried 
 ''Kamerad" and surrendered. His flanking platoons also 
 brought in prisoners and at the end of the day he had re- 
 ceipts, which he demanded as zealously as a bank cash- 
 ier, for 262 men and three officers. This was more than 
 the total strength of his company. 
 
 He pushed Lieut. Seamon out to the northwest feeling 
 for the enemy or for liaison, with the Ninety-first Division 
 on his right. Seamon found and cleaned a big machine 
 gun nest, and brought back 17 prisoners. One of these 
 was a bicycle orderly, w^ho had messages and maps of 
 much value to our intelligence department. 
 
 Being on the line of his objective, Thompson reported 
 by runner and dug his company in to wait for the rest of 
 the regiment. At 1 p. m. he had liaison on his right, but 
 none on his left. Other elements passed through after 
 the taking of Cheppy, and Lieutenant-Colonel Parker re- 
 organized the regiment. By 7 p. m. they had advanced 
 to a position a kilometer south of M Company's line, and 
 Capt. Thompson, on orders, took his company back to 
 them. There the regiment lay during the night, the of- 
 ficers trying to assemble their men, to find lost or strayed 
 squads and platoons and to count the cost. 
 
CHAPTER XVIII 
 
 THE 139TH JUMPS OVER THE 137TH 
 
 There is no way to calculate the losses of the 138th hi 
 the first day's fighting, but they had been heavy enough 
 to stun. The doctors worked all night in Cheppy and in 
 the advanced dressing posts, for the enemy fire was con- 
 stant and there was a steady grist of wounded and dead. 
 
 Col. Howland was wounded and out of the fight. Maj. 
 Sauerwein, Capt. Skinker and Lieut. Watson and other 
 officers were dead, and a dozen or more line officers were 
 wounded and had been sent back to hospitals. How 
 many effectives had been removed from the ranks by 
 death and wounds one can but estimate, for there was no 
 chance for a muster on the field, and some of the scattered 
 squads did not find their companies till the fight was 
 over. 
 
 The most serious loss, from the cold military viewpoint, 
 was in the officers. There were plenty of men left to do 
 the work, but the division had started in woefully short 
 of Lieutenants, Captains and Majors, and every loss of 
 that kind hurt. 
 
 The regiment had fought its way through defenses of 
 the Hindenburg line to its objective, it had inflicted 
 heavy damage on the enemy, had taken many prisoners, 
 and had captured, besides the booty taken in Cheppy, 
 probably 20 machine guns. 
 
 Up to March 25, 1919, the American army headquarters 
 had found but 62 men in this war whom they deemed 
 worthy of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Two of 
 
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l26 FROM VAUQUOIS UIIAj TO EXERMONT 
 
 these medals went to the 35th Division, and both, strangely 
 enough, had been won in the 138th Eegiment, and, nar- 
 rowing it still further, in I Company of that regiment, by 
 Capt. Skinker and Private Nels Wold, both of whom were 
 dead before noon of the first day's fight, and the battle was 
 just beginning. 
 
 The 35th Division attacked, as has been told, in 
 column of brigades, with the Sixty-ninth Brigade leading 
 and the Seventieth Brigade following in support. Within 
 the brigades the regiments were abreast. In the Sixty- 
 ninth Brigade the 137th Regiment was on the left and the 
 138th on the right. All the account of the action which 
 has been written up to this point concerns the 138th Regi- 
 ment, which we have foUow^ed through the first day. We 
 now take up the 137th Regiment of infantry which at- 
 tacked just on the left of the 138th and at the same time 
 and, theoretically, in constant touch and liaison with it. 
 
 The 137th Infantry, all Kansas, under command of 
 Col. Clad Hamilton, attacked to the west of Vauquois 
 Hill, and their left was along the river Aire, a stream 
 which usually could be forded or waded. . It was fairly 
 clear water, but the men were forbidden to drink it, an 
 injunction frequently disobeyed in the next few days. 
 
 The dense fog, abetted by the smoke screen thrown by 
 the artillery around Vauquois Hill, caused confusion and 
 intermingling of units from the first, but they pushed 
 through to the ruins which once had been the town of 
 Bouruielles. To this point the regiment's left boundarj^ 
 was the national highway which runs from Neuvilly to 
 Varennes and on northw^ard. This had been a fine road, 
 but across it was the first defense of the Hindenburg 
 line. It was a powerful barricade of concrete interplaced 
 with heavy steel railroad rails, and bigger than a railroad 
 
tHE 139th jumps over the 137th 127 
 
 **filL" Over the whole ran the mevitable tangle of 
 barbed wire. The men went over this, cutting the wire 
 where the artillery had failed to do so and into Bonrui- 
 elles, whose two well-built concrete machine gun emplace- 
 ments were captured. Lieut. Breeze, who was in combat 
 liaison with the 28th Division on the left, had charge of this 
 part of the work. 
 
 A little way beyond this ruined tovm the road crossed 
 the river and thereafter the stream was the divisional 
 boundary. 
 
 The leading battalion pressed forward, cleaned out the 
 Aden strongpoint, and in the hopeless fog, and with 
 artillery fire which they had met from the first were 
 stopped before the well constructed defenses of Varennes. 
 Many machine guns opened, and there was no chance to 
 look ahead into the gloom. There had been much mixing 
 of units, and it was a well shuffled outfit which took 
 cover before the Varennes defenses and searched the fog 
 with rifle fire while Avaiting for the day to clear and the 
 rest of the regiment to come up. The greater part of the 
 town Varennes lies on the west of the river, which was 
 in the area of the 28th Division. On our side of the river 
 there were many ruined houses, a big roofless church and 
 many strong machine gun positions built of stone from 
 the shell-wrecked houses. 
 
 Behind the 137th was its supporting regiment, the 
 139th of the 70th Brigade. Lieutenant- Colonel Carl L. 
 Ristine commanded this outfit. He was a keen soldier, 
 had been a football player at the University of Missouri, 
 was a ** hard -boiled" commander and a man-driver, who 
 firmly believed that his regiment was the best in the serv- 
 ice anywhere. He had kept his command fairly clear of 
 intermixture in the advance from the jumping-off place 
 
128 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 to Varennes. It vv^as in column of battalions, with com- 
 panies and platoons in '^staggard" formation. That is, 
 the formation nowhere made long straight lines through 
 which machine guns or artillery might plow a path with 
 great loss. 
 
 Some distance below Varennes, Histine's scouts re- 
 ported to him that the 137th Regiment, or elements of it, 
 were just ahead, held up by a concentration of enemy 
 machine guns in front of them. Ristine ordered his men 
 to dig in, as there was considerable shell fire at that place, 
 and so he waited for the procession to move. While wait- 
 ing, his second battalion joined up. This was about 9 :30 
 a. m. It had been engaged in mopping up the west end 
 of Vauquois Hill and the Bois de Rossignol. The bat- 
 talion, attached to the 137th, had been dropped off as the 
 advancing regiment passed the works and it had methodi- 
 cally cleaned them of all enemy elements, killing or cap- 
 turing all defenders. It was commanded by Major James 
 Rieger, a tall, spare man, with graying hair and a soft 
 voice, a lawyer in Kirksville, Mo., in times of peace. He 
 is of a religious turn of mind, very earnest, a hard student 
 and in the opinion of many persons, nearly the ideal civil- 
 ian soldier. Rieger was not with his battalion before Var- 
 ennes, and Ristine believed he had been killed. 
 
 At about 9 :45, the support battalion of the 137th Regi- 
 ment came up behind the 139th. The other two battalions 
 were in front of the 139th. This seemed strange to Ris- 
 tine, who was sure that he had swept the country be- 
 tween the jumping-off place and his present locatibn, and 
 he had not passed a stray battalion anywhere. Still the 
 137th had started before him, and here was one of its 
 battalions behind him. He doubtless had passed them 
 
AIRPLANE PHOTOGRAPH OF VAUQUOIS HILL 
 
THE 139th jumps over the 137th 129 
 
 in the maze of wire, and the darkness of the fog and 
 smoke. 
 
 Ristine waited two hours, and then went forward him- 
 self and asked Col. Hamilton what had stopped the ad- 
 vance. Col. Hamilton said that his command had be- 
 come badly mixed np in the early morning, and that he 
 did not believe he could advance them through the well- 
 knit defenses ahead of him without artillery or other 
 support. 
 
 Ristine returned to his regiment and sent by runner to 
 the brigade commander, Col. Kirby Walker, a message 
 telling of conditions. After a while he sent another mes- 
 sage asking permission of the brigade commander to take 
 his regiment through the 137th and continue the action. 
 He received no reply to any of his messages to brigade 
 headquarters that day. The inability of regimental com- 
 manders to get replies from Brigade and Division Head- 
 quarters continued through the battle. 
 
 The constant cannonading to which his men were be- 
 ing subjected was beginning to tell on them. It was the 
 first time they had been constantly and furiously shelled. 
 A fringe of stragglers from the 137th had commenced to 
 filter through his lines from the front, he was advised, 
 and this tended to weaken the morale of his command. 
 Ristine decided that the case needed action on his part, 
 so he ordered his men out of their foxholes, put them in 
 formation, went right through the lines of the 137th and 
 proceeded northward. 
 
 His formation for this ** passage of lines" and the ad- 
 vance afterward was column of battalions in this order 
 from the front : Scouts, a skirmish line, Third Battalion, 
 First Battalion, Second Battalion. 
 
 They had proceeded no great distance, probably less 
 
130 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 than a kilometer, when the scouts and skirmish line be- 
 gan to slow up, and Ristine, with the thought of keeping 
 his regiment at the highest pitch feared the morale might 
 suffer from another stop. So, after instructing Maj. Wil- 
 liam D. Stepp to take charge of the regiment, he went 
 forward and took command of his own skirmish line. 
 
 The advance proceeded some 200 yards, when he came 
 across Maj. Rieger, who had pressed ahead with less than 
 100 men of the Second Battalion, the rest being in the 
 column. Seeing the 137th stopped, Rieger had tried to 
 break the enemy's line, and had driven a wedge into it 
 and was holding. Ristine put these men in the skirmish 
 line, along with some from the 137th which he picked up. 
 He ordered Rieger to command the right wing, and to 
 push to the east toward Very, which the Major did. 
 
 Ristine then plunged forward with his strong skirmish 
 line, destroying everything which opposed him to a point 
 about a kilometer and a half south of Charpentry. A 
 heavy enfilading fire of artillery and machine guns on 
 his left caught him here and he ordered his men to dig in 
 and wait for the regiment to come up. It did not come, 
 so Ristine started back to find out the reason. He dis- 
 covered that it had had heavy fighting and a serious bom- 
 bardment just after he had left it; that Maj. Stepp had 
 been killed and that the regiment was where he had 
 left it. 
 
 He reformed again and, still in column of battalions, 
 moved forward and dug in just back of his skirmish line 
 at nightfall. 
 
CHAPTER XIX 
 
 CONFUSION ON THE FIELD 
 
 The 137th in the meantime was badly mixed and its 
 elements out of touch. The first Battalion, pressing on, 
 was in touch with the 139th regiment when darkness 
 came, but it was out of all touch with its own regiment. 
 Elements of the regiment dug in for the night wherever 
 they happened to be, mostly on the slopes leading to 
 Baunthe Creek. 
 
 Behind the 138th Regiment on the right was the 140th, 
 commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Delaplane, who 
 had been divisional ordnance officer. The regiment had 
 trouble with the fog and smoke, as every other regiment 
 did, but after passing through the wire in the path taken 
 by the 138th it straightened itself out well and set about 
 its work. 
 
 They moved on, bombing dugouts, beating clumps of 
 woods and otherwise making the neighborhood safe for 
 democracy as they went, and dug in for the night be- 
 hind the 138th on the high ground south of Very. The 
 140th had an easy time the first day. There was no 
 fighting and not a casualty in the regiment. 
 
 The Sixty-ninth Brigade, in which were the 137th and 
 138th Regiments, had headquarters on Mamelon Blanc 
 the night before the attack. Col. Nuttman, commanding 
 the brigade, and Maj. D wight F. Davis, the brigade Ad- 
 jutant, moved forward early on the morning of Sept. 26, 
 in the wake of the brigade. Headquarters were to be set 
 up next at Le Forge Moulin, a spot on the map near Chep- 
 
 131 
 
132 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 py which some contended would turn out to be a black- 
 smith shop, and others said was the old ruined mill. 
 
 The Adjutant with five men was leading the head- 
 quarters detachment, guiding by compass in the dense 
 fog, when after a time he became aware that the brigade 
 commander and the remainder of the outfit was not with 
 him. Apparently they became convinced that Davis was 
 not taking the right direction, or they guided by their 
 own compasses and went another way. At any rate, the 
 Major found himself in a strange field well marked by 
 battle, and advancing through fog and mist towards the 
 firing. 
 
 After awhile he came upon a platoon of men sitting be- 
 side the road. They had lost their officer and did not 
 know what their orders were. The meeting was auspi- 
 cious. Here were men without an officer, there was an of- 
 ficer without men. Davis picked them up and proceeded 
 forward. 
 
 Pretty soon they picked up a machine-gun company 
 of the Ninety-first Division, who were not only out of 
 their position, but out of their sector. He took them 
 along also, and after assimilating some incidental infan- 
 try further along, he had quite a sizeable little army, all 
 his own, and only needing a scrap to prove itself. This 
 he found at Cheppy, which was before him when the fog 
 lifted. Other strays fighting about there told the Major 
 there were many snipers in the neighborhood. Some 
 Frenchmen had just been killed at that spot. The sight 
 of the dead Frenchmen spurred the men, and Maj. Davis 
 deployed his mob to attack Cheppy. The town had al- 
 ready been taken, but he did not know that and it did 
 not matter. When the formation was perfect and they 
 were about to advance, a German ran out of a dugout 
 
CONFUSION ON THE FIELD 133 
 
 nearby, crying ' ' Kamerad. " Davis' outfit, infuriated by 
 the sight of the sniped French soldiers and sure that this 
 was the sniper, were about to kill him, but the Major ar- 
 rived before the prisoner had felt the bayonet pricks. 
 
 The attack on Cheppy was delayed until discipline and 
 order were restored, and then three more prisoners ran 
 out. Soon some more, and then more, until a big bunch 
 w^as lined up. The number exceeded the total strength of 
 Davis' scratch army, which he was obliged to weaken 
 further by a detail to take the prisoners to the rear. The 
 delayed attack on Cheppy now Avas seen to be unneces- 
 sary, as American troops were observed in the town, so 
 the Major entered Cheppy and dealt out his command, as 
 nearly as he could, to their parent bodies and sent the 
 machine gunners back to their own division. Thus he 
 gave up command of his Free Rangers and returned to 
 the business of adjutanting a brigade, the location of 
 whose headquarters he did not know. 
 
 Col. Nuttman wandered on after leaving Davis, got 
 worse tangled in the fog and bore too far to the east. Af- 
 ter a while when the light grew better, he saw troops 
 ahead, and when he got up to them, he discovered that 
 they belonged to the Ninety-first Division. He had wan- 
 dered clear out of his divisional area. 
 
 Orienting himself as well as he could, he retraced his 
 steps, and finally along about midday, came in behind 
 Cheppy, which had already fallen. 
 
 The artillery, which had taken so big a part in pound- 
 ing the line in the early morning, had laid a rolling bar- 
 rage ahead of the advancing troops, and kept it up until 
 7:40. By that time the range had increased to a point 
 w^here it w^as not practical to throw a barrage because 
 
134 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 sufficient accuracy could not be assured to make it valu- 
 able and safe. 
 
 So the artillery was ordered forward with all speed 
 to place itself in a position to help out the infantry. At 
 8 :30 a. m. the 129th Field Artillery Regiment was ordered 
 forw^ard toward Cheppy. At 8:50 one battalion of the 
 130th Field Artillery was ordered to Varennes, and at 
 10 :15 the other two battalions were ordered to follow. At 
 9 o'clock, the whole regiment of the 128th moved out to 
 take position to the east of Varennes. 
 
 The main road from Neuvilly was not available, be- 
 cause the bridge near Bouruielles had been blown up by 
 the Germans, and an immense mine crater blocked the 
 way in another place. About the only way for our ar- 
 tillery to go forward was along the road which the map 
 gave as our *'axis of liaison," as the division's main ar- 
 tery of supply is called. This was a poor road, and the 
 artillery horses were very tired. Indeed, the hard work 
 of the days preceding had almost worn them out. 
 
 The ground over which the guns had to move had been 
 virtually a No Man's Land for years and was soggy and 
 full of rank weeds. At every little creek or ditch, the 
 wheels sank in the mud and stuck. Officers' mounts and 
 all the horses of mounted details were put into harness to 
 move the guns, but there was not much progress made. 
 Only one battery, which was of the 129th regiment, got 
 into position again that day. It took position in the north 
 edge of the Rossignol Wood. So that after 8 a.m. that 
 day, the infantry had virtually no artillery support. The 
 German fire never slackened. 
 
CHAPTER XX 
 
 FAILURE OF LIAISON 
 
 For the purpose of keeping the headquarters in the 
 rear informed of conditions at the front, the usual meth- 
 ods presumably had been provided before the attack, but 
 they all broke down, from one cause or another. Gen. 
 Drum's report laid this failure to the inefficiency of the 
 division signal officer. 
 
 Signal flags were, of course, useless where one could 
 not see a hundred yards, as were also flash lamps and 
 heliographs, or any other method which relied upon visi- 
 bility for its success. Wires were carried forward, but 
 according to regimental signal officers, divisional head- 
 quarters failed to connect up with them, so that regi- 
 mental headquarters were left up in the air, telephonical- 
 ly, with nobody on the other end of the wire. 
 
 Col. Dickey sent the following message: 
 From Dickey, near Triangle Crossroads s. of LaForge 
 Min. 1 :35 p.m. 9/26. Have just succeeded in getting 
 chain of runners back. S.C. has no wire to connect 
 us. Am with 69th and 70th Brig. Hqrs. which are 
 together. Other messages from them accompany this. 
 Location of front line unknown. 
 
 The signal platoon of the headquarters company of the 
 138th had a wireless set working in a shell hole before 
 Cheppy very soon after the advance was stopped there. 
 They called repeatedly for headquarters, divisional or 
 brigade, to tell them of the plight of the detachment be- 
 
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136 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 fore Cheppy, but they got no answer. They got the time 
 from the Eiffel tower in Paris, and heard other outfits 
 speaking, but could not raise their owti. Later it Avas 
 said that divisional headquarters detachment, not expect- 
 
 THE BALLOON GOES FORWARD 
 
 ing a call so early, had not put up their set at that time. 
 The *'T. P. S." also was tried by the 138th, but there was 
 no receiving set installed by headquarters. This is a sys- 
 tem of telephoning without wires, using the ground as a 
 
FAILURE OF LIAISON 137 
 
 conducting medium. It is most successful for distances 
 up to a few miles. 
 
 Carrier pigeons refused to fly true, either bewildered by 
 the dense fog and smoke, or benumbed b}^ the din of ar- 
 tillery and smaller gun fire. 
 
 Kunners were the only means left, and they had almost 
 no landmarks to guide them through the fog and smoke. 
 These things account for much of the confusion of units 
 in the division at nightfall. 
 
 The failure of liaison and all mechanical means of com- 
 munication cost the lives of many brave men in the front 
 lines in the course of the battle. If the troops located 
 machine gun nests or battery positions, as happened 
 many times, the fact was immediately reported. The In- 
 telligence section worked out the map co-ordinates to 
 ask the artillery to shell the spot. This would have re- 
 sulted in silencing the battery which was driving fur- 
 rows through our ranks. The wire from regimental 
 headquarters (if regimental headquarters was located) 
 would get no answer from the brigade, and through bri- 
 gade headquarters was the course which the appeal to 
 the artillery must take. Runners would be dispatched. 
 If they were not killed or wounded en route, they prob- 
 ably would find the agile brigade headquarters had 
 moved from the shell hole in which it had last been seen, 
 and there would be no one there to tell where it was gone. 
 The search for the headquarters would continue while 
 the battery or machine gun nest would continue to take 
 its toll of American lives. 
 
 Quick communication would have been invaluable, but 
 the headquarters did not provide it, or make proper pro- 
 vision for it before the battle. Runners are good means 
 of communication, but they are much slower than tele- 
 
138 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 graph, telephone * ' T. P. S. " flash lights, flares, or rockets. 
 Besides this, even from the hard army viewpoint, it is 
 wrong to waste human flesh and the lives of men in do- 
 ing work which could be done just as well and more 
 quickly by mechanical means and devices. 
 
 Gen. Traub had assumed that his officers would need 
 a stiff spur to keep them far enough forward. Before 
 the battle he called them together and made a speech, in 
 which he told them that he did not want them to stay in 
 the rear in their dugouts during the action, but with the 
 front lines, where the bullets were flying, where a soldier 
 justifies his existence. 
 
 Those things sound fine in a speech, but in a battle, a 
 general can do his work much better from a known and 
 established headquarters than he can while wandering 
 about the field. Col. Nuttman took Gen. Traub 's words 
 literally, and endeavored to keep his headquarters near 
 the front of his brigade line. He had come to the brigade 
 at almost the last moment before the battle, he did not 
 know his colonels by sight or by name, he did not know 
 his staff, and worst of all, he did not know his men and 
 what their capacities were. Gen. McClure whom he had 
 relieved knew all these things thoroughly. There never 
 was any question as to the courage of any of these officers, 
 and it was not necessary for them to prove their bravery 
 at the expense of efficiency. 
 
 Nuttman kept his headquarters as far advanced as pos- 
 sible, moving from one shell hole to another, and the 
 chains of runners designed to keep him in communica- 
 tion with the elements of his brigade, were constantly 
 being broken by casualties to the runners. When a run- 
 ner would return to brigade headquarters, he might find 
 that it was gone. Col. Nuttman 's conception of liaison 
 
FAILURE OF LIAISON 139 
 
 and its functions and values seems to have been very 
 vague. He moved headquarters so frequently that run- 
 ners could not find it, and there was not time to set 
 up the wireless. This caused and continued the confusion 
 in the elements of the brigade. Major D wight Davis, his 
 Adjutant, and Lieutenant Sylvester Judge, his aide, both 
 told him this, quite bluntly. 
 
 The brigade signal men had prepared 2 kilometers of 
 telephone wire for the advance to keep the brigade in 
 touch with the division headquarters. The first move- 
 ment was four kilometers forward. Half way up the 
 headquarters saw the last of that signal officer sitting on 
 the empty spool at the end of his wire. 
 
 About 3 p. m. on the first day of the fight, a wounded 
 officer reached division headquarters and informed Lt. 
 Col. Gallagher and Capt. Fullerton that Cheppy and 
 Varennes had been taken. This seems the first reliable 
 information they had. In the conversation following, the 
 officer, who wanted to return, asked where the regimental 
 headquarters were. 
 
 ''I wish I knew," said Col. Gallagher, *'and I wish I 
 knew even where the brigade headquarters are." 
 
 The French and British officers had pounded into the 
 Americans the vital importance of liaison, but the 35th 
 Division leaders never seemed to have much of an idea of 
 it. They accepted it as one of the new fangled things 
 which had come in with the war. A high French of- 
 ficer said that the army with the best liaison, which would 
 function at all times and keep the command informed of 
 movements and which would transmit orders promptly 
 and accurately, was the army which would win the war. 
 
 Some of the arrangements and plans in the 35th di- 
 vision were pitiful. ''Very" pistols were issued to be 
 
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 used for signaling. Then ammunition was issued. It was 
 for pistols of another bore. Just a few hours before the 
 battle, an appendix to the battle orders was issued, giving 
 the code readings of the rockets and flares. It was a 
 long and valuable thing. Six white balls of lights in a 
 rocket was a call for a barrage, one white and one green 
 meant one thing and two reds and a blue meant another, 
 and so on down the list. 
 
 Then the materials were obtained, and they were all 
 ** yellow smoke." There was no code on the list for yel- 
 low smoke. The signallers could only fire that one sign 
 and it did not mean anything. 
 
 The wire issued to the 137th was hopelessly damaged 
 and spliced, and wound on an immense spool much too 
 large to be carried by a man. Lieut. Goessling unwound 
 it and had it put on spools which had held barbed wire. 
 
 Confusion in the front inevitably resulted, from the 
 failure of higher command to establish headquarters and 
 keep in communication with the units. These units could 
 not learn for themselves where other units were, and 
 thus must surely move into the same territory with other 
 units and mix with them. 
 
CHAPTER XXI 
 
 NIGHT ON THE BATTLEFIELD 
 
 On the night of Sept. 26 the division lay in a fairly co- 
 hesive line, from a point a little south of Very to a point 
 a little south of La Forge, on the Aire Eiver. Sentries 
 were posted, and patrols working to the front found the 
 enemy at various distances away, nowhere very near. 
 
 Of all the hard work incident to soldiering, the very 
 hardest is the fighting itself — the pressing ahead through 
 whatever country, climbing hills, fording streams and 
 ditches, clambering through mud, and the work of the 
 battle, which is the most trying on muscle and nerve. 
 The men of the Thirty-fifth were tired, and the most of 
 them slept, although the enemy artillery fire never ceased. 
 
 Out on the battlefield the tangled units lay in seem- 
 ing order, organized for defense or quick attack. Besides 
 the prowling patrols there was little movement among 
 the infantry except where an officer would succeed in 
 finding a lost platoon or squad and would take it back to 
 its parent company. The sleepless runners pounded away 
 on the eternal task of trying to find in the darkness an 
 unknown Colonel and deliver to him a message from a 
 Brigadier-General who would assuredly have moved be- 
 fore the runner returned. 
 
 But back of the lines, still in the darkness, for one 
 dared not show a light, on every road for 20 miles there 
 was the tangle of vehicles trying to get up with supplies, 
 and the counter current of ambulances trying to get 
 back with the wounded. The roads were bad in the ter- 
 
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142 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 ritory captured that day, and our system of traffic control 
 was not good. Immense numbers of negro troops, turned 
 into labor battalions, worked constantly to repair the 
 roads. In the tangle of traffic they plugged away. Bound 
 northward toward the battle line were heavy guns and 
 light guns, horse or motor drawn, and in some instances 
 75s were mounted on trucks that they might be carried 
 with greater dispatch. 
 
 There were automobiles of all kinds, and innumerable 
 motor trucks carrying everything used in war, there were 
 wagons, rolling kitchens, water carts, limbers, ambu- 
 lances, ammunition wagons, ration wagons, machine gun 
 carts, staff cars and mixed in between horses' feet and 
 truck wheels, were the motor cycle orderlies speeding 
 through every crack in the traffic jam. 
 
 The first day for the Thirty -fifth had been brilliantly suc- 
 cessful, the artillery had done its work magnificently well, 
 our machine gunners were effective even beyond their 
 own expectations, while the backbone of the division, the 
 infantry, had proved itself the equal in skill, address and 
 bravery of the enemy, and they had shown a big superior- 
 ity in the dash and boldness which gives spring and vi- 
 vacity to an attacking army. 
 
 The first prisoners taken were from the second Land- 
 wehr Division, and from the 15th Landsturm. But then 
 came captives from the 1st and 5th Divisions of the Prus- 
 sian guard. From prisoners it was learned that the 53d 
 line Division, one of the best, was in reserve, and the grim 
 work in the offing was clearly seen. 
 
 It is a cruel necessity of war which requires, under con- 
 ditions such as existed that first night, that ambulances 
 taking wounded to the rear must be held up to let the 
 guns and ammunition go forward. Hour after hour the 
 
NIGHT ON THE BATTLEFIELD 143 
 
 long trains of ambulances lay in the congested roads, 
 some of the wounded singing in defiance, some moaning 
 in pain, some would become silent for a while and some be- 
 came silent forever. One of the few advantages of a 
 regular battle is that there is no restriction on noise. You 
 may talk, sing or shout, curse or pray and nobody cares. 
 Occasionally a man of the Salvation Army, the Y. M. C. 
 A., the K. of C. or some other service would work his way 
 through, giving cigarettes to the wounded, but usually it 
 was the ambulance drivers who supplied their passengers 
 with smokes. 
 
CHAPTER XXII 
 
 CROSSED ORDERS FOR SECOND DAY'S ATTACK 
 
 The first day of the Argonne battle had gone well on 
 the whole field. Each of the nine divisions had advanced 
 on its territory and the forward movement along the 16- 
 mile front, attended by varying fortunes in the various 
 areas and at a stiff cost everywhere, showed that our 
 troops with artillery support could go through the de- 
 fenses of the Hindenburg line. 
 
 On the left of the 35th Division, between a mile 
 and two miles away, was the Argonne Forest. The orig- 
 inal battle plan was to have the artillery pile gas into the 
 forest so as to tie up enemy activity there and for the troops 
 outside the forest to advance on either side of it, uniting 
 at Grand Pre at the northern tip of the forest. The Sev- 
 enty-seventh Division, in whose sector the most of the 
 forest lay, would then have only the task of mopping up 
 a surrounded territory. These things were all incident 
 to the main object of the advance, which was to get to 
 the enemy 's railroads at Mezieres. 
 
 Between the Thirty-fifth and the forest was the Twen- 
 ty-eighth Division, Pennsylvania National Guardsmen. On 
 the other side of the forest was the French fourth army, 
 which also was meeting desperate resistance. 
 
 The headquarters of the 69th Brigade, Colonel Nuttman 
 commanding, was near the junction of the Baulny Road 
 and the Varennes-Cheppy Road on the night of Septem- 
 ber 26. 
 
 The 70th Brigade headquarters, Colonel Walker com- 
 
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CROSSED ORDERS FOR ATTACK 145 
 
 manding, was in Cheppy. Colonel Walker was physically 
 exhausted and virtually in a state of collapse. 
 
 At midnight, a mounted orderly instructed both Bri- 
 gade Commanders to report at once to the Divisional 
 Chief of Staff. Colonel Walker was unable to go, so 
 Major Norman B. Comfort went in his stead. 
 
 The Chief of Staff, Colonel Hawkins, was in a shell hole 
 about a mile south of Cheppy. With him were Colonel 
 Klemm, of the Artillery and a French liaison officer. The 
 Chief of Staff had not seen General Traub since five 
 o'clock the preceding afternoon. An order had been re- 
 ceived from corps headquarters to resume the advance 
 at 5:30 in the morning. The situation was thoroughly 
 canvassed, and it was clear to all that there could be no 
 artillery support before 8:30. Colonel Hawkins there- 
 fore dictated an order to resume the advance at 8 :30 a. m. 
 The business of reproducing this order and transmitting 
 it to the various headquarters devolved upon the 70th 
 Brigade Headquarters. Major Comfort took this order, 
 which was to cause the movement of 14,000 men, mounted 
 his horse and rode away in the darkness. At the 70th 
 Brigade P. C. he read the order aloud, and the other of- 
 ficers made copies of it for transmission to the regimental 
 commanders. 
 
 At 3:10 Colonel Nuttman and Colonel Ristine appeared 
 at 70th Brigade headquarters. They had gone astray in 
 the night, and moving in the wrong direction, had wan- 
 dered up to the front lines, Colonel Nuttman relying up- 
 on his sense of direction to guide them. The orders were 
 sent out by runners, and because of the distance, the 
 darkness of the night and the uncertainty of the position 
 of the troops, great fear was felt that the orders would 
 not reach the troops in time. 
 
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 At 4:20, a mounted orderly reached the 70th Brigade 
 P. C. with an order instructing that the advance should 
 be resumed at 5:30. It was signed in code by the Divi- 
 sional Commander. This presented a situation of fearful 
 possibilities. An order had been sent out instructing 
 the troops to advance at 8:30 after three hours artillery 
 fire. Here now was another order seeming to make it 
 imperative that the Chief of Staff change his original or- 
 der and send the troops ahead three hours earlier. It 
 seemed almost impossible to prepare the new orders and 
 get them to the troops in time. Among the dangers was 
 the one that the orders might reach the Infantry and not 
 reach the Artillery, and that our men might advance in- 
 to our own artillery fire. There was also the possibility 
 that the new orders might reach one unit in time for it to 
 advance at 5 :30, and not reach another, in which case one 
 regiment would project itself into the enemy's line, while 
 the regiment on its right or left would not, thus leaving 
 the advancing regiment with at least one flank exposed. 
 
 Corporal James Smith, of Eureka, Kansas, the only 
 runner who knew the way to Colonel Hawkins' shell hole, 
 was dispatched with all speed to obtain additional in- 
 structions from the Chief of Staff. He came back at 4 :55 
 with the answer that the original instructions were to 
 stand — that the troops were to advance at 8 :30 after three 
 hours artillery preparation. The 70th Brigade Head- 
 quarters at that time was in that old and very strong 
 German abri in Cheppy, which had been an enemy head- 
 quarters. It was well placed under a hill for protection 
 against French artillery fire, but since the Germans had 
 been driven back and the Americans occupied the head- 
 quarters, the open side of the building was to the north 
 and therefore unprotected against German artillery fire. 
 
CROSSED ORDERS FOR ATTACK 147 
 
 A dramatic thing happened. There was considerable 
 enemy artillery fire to which nobody paid much attention 
 until a shell came through the window of the headquar- 
 ters and exploded inside the room with a great crash. All 
 the candles were blown out, and it was feared that great 
 damage had been done. When the candles were lighted 
 again, inquiry was made whether anyone was hurt, but the 
 only man who answered had a few cuts on his face from 
 broken glass. Just then General Traub entered, accom- 
 panied by Captain Sammens. He asked if his order to ad- 
 vance at 5 :30 a.m. had been received. 
 
 The situation was explained to him, that the quickest 
 possible communication with the forward battalions was 
 forty minutes, barring accident, that the artillery sched- 
 ule could not be changed short of an hour, and that an 
 advance at 5 :30 a. m. was impossible. The decision of 
 the Chief of Staff, sent by runner to let his first order 
 stand, that is, the one instructing the advance to begin 
 at 8:30 a. m., was explained to the General. General 
 Traub said of the 5:30 order ''It is General Pershing's 
 order; it must be done.'* After more argument and ex- 
 planation it was decided that the artillery was to begin 
 fire at 5 :30, and the infantry should advance at 6 :30. This 
 made it necessary to get orders to the artillery at once, 
 so that they might lift their fire at 6 :30. It was now 5 :15 
 in the morning. Ristine hurried away to his regiment. 
 Corporal Smith, the only enlisted man who knew the way 
 to the artillery headquarters, was called to take the mes- 
 sage. He was lying in a bunk and failed to answer. Com- 
 fort shook him before he discovered that the man was 
 dead. The shell which pased through the window had 
 killed him instantly. Comfort himself mounted and took 
 the order to the artillery. 
 
CHAPTER XXIII 
 
 THE ARTILLERY PRESSES FORWARD— THE 
 MORNING ATTACK 
 
 The artillery had worked all day of the 26th and all 
 that night getting forward, for the infantry would of 
 course, attack again to follow up its success of the first 
 day and it must have artillery support. 
 
 At 4 a. m. on the second day, Sept. 27, one battalion of 
 the 128th Field Artillery went into position near Cheppy 
 and was the only unit of artillery which was able to assist 
 the infantry, which could have used two brigades on its 
 task. The 129th Field Artillery was in position by 7 a. 
 m. and the 130th Regiment took its place at 4 :30 in the 
 afternoon. Throughout the day of Sept. 27 the entire 
 brigade threw less than 1200 shells, against more than 
 40,000 fired the preceding day. 
 
 That the artillery was able to move at all, considering 
 the shortage of horses, is a very high tribute to the energy 
 of that arm of the service. The arrangements for sup- 
 plying additional horses had not worked out. There were 
 horses in the south of France and there were many horses 
 in America, but they could not be brought to the Argonne 
 in time for the battle. Our army bought from the French 
 all the horses they could get. Remount officers and vet- 
 erinarians were instructed to pass anything. Prices were 
 very high, but they paid the prices to get the horses, and 
 they were a sorry lot. Our own fine artillery horses were 
 worn down by the work of getting the guns in position 
 
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THE ARTILLERY PRESSES FORWARD 149 
 
 for the preliminary bombardments. When the killing 
 work of moving forward over bad roads began, Septem- 
 ber 26, some of the new horses lasted two days, and some 
 only two hours, but guns went forward. It was a slow 
 and painful progress but they went ahead. 
 
 The orders were for the regiments of the Seventieth 
 Brigade, consisting of the 139th and the 140th Infantry, 
 to leap-frog over the regiments of the Sixty-ninth Bri- 
 gade, the 137th and the 138th, and to attack. The Sixty- 
 ninth Brigade was to follow the advance at a distance of 
 1000 meters. 
 
 Gen. Traub knew that he would have no artillery to 
 support the attack at the early hour. Nothing was farther 
 from his desire than to lose troops or to sacrifice men, but 
 he did not feel that he was justified in taking the matter 
 in his own hands and delaying the hour for the attack to 
 8 :30. In the early morning, about 1 :30, he had left his 
 headquarters on Mamelon Blanc back of the original line, 
 and gone forward himself with some of his staff in an en- 
 deavor to see brigade and regimental commanders to 
 make sure the orders were understood, and, to quote the 
 words of his report, * ^ thus assuring liaison and co-ordina- 
 tion. ' ' That was how he appeared at the last moment with 
 the change in orders. 
 
 The passage of lines necessary to permit the Seventieth 
 Brigade to attack was not required on the left, for Eis- 
 tine had made it the day before. The formation for 
 the attack was with two battalions of the attacking regi- 
 ment in the front line, and one in support. The regi- 
 ments of the Sixty-ninth were to form in column of bat- 
 talions. 
 
 A machine gun company was attached to each front 
 line battalion, and the 128th Machine Gun Battalion was 
 
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 attached to the Sixty-ninth Brigade. Tanks were as- 
 signed to the attacking brigade of infantry, to be used as 
 the brigade commander thought fit. 
 
 Col. Delaplane of the 140th, on the right, received at 
 5 :05 a. m. his orders to attack at 5 :30. This hardly gave 
 him time to send word to his battalion commander. The 
 orders said a five-minute artillery barrage would precede 
 the attack. He passed his regiment through the 138th, 
 and was ready approximately on time, but the artillery 
 was silent. In the growing daylight the enemy's fire was 
 becoming stronger and more accurate each minute, both 
 artillery and machine guns playing on the ground over 
 which the regiment was to advance. Delaplane decided 
 it was useless to sacrifice men waiting for our own artil- 
 lery to open, so he ordered the advance without it. 
 
 How vital the artillery is to the infantry was made 
 clear as soon as the 140th began to move over the high 
 open ground which lay between them and the enemy. Un- 
 hampered by fire from our guns, German machine guns^ 
 apparently in great numbers laid a withering fire across 
 the flat top of Hill 218. Charpentry and the road leading 
 to the northeast out of the town seemed alive with enemy 
 gunners and guns. 
 
 The heavy artillery fire and the more accurate fire from 
 anti-tank guns made it impossible for the tanks to advance. 
 The 140th was paying a fearful price for the little ground 
 it was gaining, and the advance slowed up and stopped. 
 Orders were to dig in and hold the ground gained. 
 
 In the 138th, which was supporting the 140th, Capt. 
 Thompson was put in command of L and M companies, 
 and ordered to maintain combat liaison between the right 
 flank of the 35th Division and the left flank of the Ninety- 
 first Division. He moved out on this mission. 
 
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 The other elements of the regiment were hardly moved 
 by the morning attack, as they were to follow at a dis- 
 tance of 1000 meters, and the advance of the 140th did 
 not seem to exceed that. A steady fire from artillery fell 
 on the position they held, and with it a constant attrition 
 of dead and wounded. The dressing stations were up 
 with the troops and an endeavor was made to evacuate 
 all casualties immediately, but it was not entirely success- 
 ful. 
 
 On the other half of the field Ristine's orders to ad- 
 vance had been changed to 6:30 a. m. as a result of the 
 compromise between the first order for 8 :30 and the second 
 order for 5:30. 
 
 Up to 6:30 the artillery was silent. Eistine notified 
 brigade headquarters of this, and also that he was ready 
 to attack as soon as the artillery opened. 
 
 He received no reply from the brigade and there was 
 no sound of any important artillerying except from the 
 enemy, and the hour had passed, so he attacked without 
 it, as Delaplane had done an hour before. His formation 
 caught the full fire of the enemy artillery and machine 
 guns. Ristine was able to advance, but as he saw the 
 swaths the opposing fire was making in his ranks, he de- 
 cided the price was too heavy. He halted his regiment, 
 ordered the men to dig in, and sent a message to brigade 
 headquarters that he could not advance further without 
 artillery support. 
 
CHAPTER XXIV 
 
 THE NIGHT ATTACK— CHARPENTRY AND 
 BAULNY TAKEN 
 
 The situation at 10 o'clock on the morning of Sept. 27 
 was about like this : 
 
 Although badly tangled by the fighting through the 
 fog on the first day the infantry had attacked on the 
 morning of the second day while still in the spirit of vic- 
 tory, but before there had been time or opportunity to re- 
 organize the units. The morning was cold and cheerless, 
 threatening with rain, but the spirit of the division was 
 not of the volatile kind which would change, because of 
 the weather. The men were uplifted and upheld by a con- 
 viction that they could whip the Germans, given an even 
 break in big gun fire, aerial observation and the other 
 side lines of battle. 
 
 They advanced the second day along the whole division- 
 al front, Avithout artillery preparation or a barrage, or at 
 best with a very thin one. The enemy was strengthened 
 at every point and he had brought fresh troops, espe- 
 cially machine gunners, to stop the American advance. It 
 was not a common line of German troops, battered by a 
 thorough artillery pounding, against which the Thirty- 
 fifth moved the second day. It was a rebuilt line of 
 thoroughly tried troops, nearly all machine gunners, 
 equaling the best men in the German army. The artillery 
 advantage was with the enemy. 
 
 The troops started out under Gen. Traub's orders. The 
 
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CHARPENTRY AND BAULNY TAKEN 153 
 
 price paid for the ground gained was too great. It was 
 an unprofitable commerce. By command of their regi- 
 mental commanders, they stopped and dug in. 
 
 Throughout the division there was always much argu- 
 ment and boasting and knocking going on between the 
 guardsmen who had sei*ved on the Mexican Border 
 and those w^ho had not. Those who had not called the 
 others the ''Cactus Veterans." As the men lay before 
 Charpentry, held up by all the fire the Germans could 
 give from three sides, a tall, red-headed sergeant rose 
 from his foxhole, and looking about the prostrate lines, 
 yelled, ''What have you Cactus birds got to say about 
 this?" 
 
 Approximately a thousand meters behind the regiments 
 of the Seventieth Brigade (the 139th and the 140th) were 
 the 137th and 138th, of the Sixty-ninth Brigade. They 
 were in support, but there was such a profusion of German 
 fire that each of them was constantly taking casualties. 
 
 It is a distressing thing for troops to lie under fire, and 
 wait for aid. It was impossible to reorganize under con- 
 ditions such as existed on the morning of the 27th, and 
 while little additional intermingling of units resulted, the 
 mixing done the day and night preceding was not rem- 
 edied. 
 
 Ristine heard of tanks in his rear, sent for them, and at 
 noon tried to move forward again. He placed the tanks 
 on his right and formed his right wing behind them. That 
 part of the line moved faster than his left, but the artil- 
 lery and anti-tank fire was too heavy, so the tanks turned 
 and retired from the field. This left Ristine's right well 
 ahead of his left, but the troops dug in again and held 
 the crooked line. 
 
 Our guns were beginning to open occasionally, and 
 
154 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 noting this, Eistine sent word to brigade headquarters 
 that if it would give him 30 minutes' destructive fire on 
 Charpentry and Baulny, and a barrage in front of that 
 part of his line which was east of the road, he could 
 move forward. It was out of Baulny and Charpentry 
 that the heaviest opposing fire was coming. Ristine 
 feared to move his left forward because of the artillery 
 fire which came from across the river in the sector of the 
 Twenty-eighth Division. It was apparent that the Twen- 
 ty-eighth had not advanced as far as the Thirty-fifth and 
 this left the Thirty-fifth's left flank exposed to the 
 enemy. 
 
 Receiving no word as to artillery support, Ristine 
 pulled his right back to the line of his left, ordered the 
 men to dig in and called a meeting of battalion and com- 
 pany commanders to see how he stood. Then at 5 p. m., 
 he received orders to attack at 5 :30. 
 
 The attack for 5:30 was ordered by divisional head- 
 quarters when it became apparent that the morning at- 
 tack had failed of its purpose. The corps and the army 
 demanded an advance. The division had tried, but was 
 stopped and held in its tracks. The other eight divisions 
 were attacking with varying results, but for the success 
 of the operation, all must go ahead. 
 
 Gen. Traub received this message from General Pershing 
 and immediately ordered the night attack: 
 
 27 September, 4 :30 p. m. 
 From C in C. 
 
 He expects the 35th Division to move forward. He 
 is not satisfied with the Division being stopped by ma- 
 chine gun nests here and there. He expects the Divi- 
 sion to move forward now in accordance to orders. 
 
 Officers and men of the Thirty-fifth believed it was one 
 
CHABPENTRY AND BAULNY TAKEN 
 
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 of the best divisions in France. At 5:30 the division stood 
 upon its feet amidst its dead, and prepared to advance, 
 to show whether it was as good a fighting outfit as it 
 believed it was. 
 
 Just before the hour of the attack, nine tanks, probably 
 the same ones which had fought so well before Cheppy, 
 came chugging over the road from Very, through the 
 position of the 138th and out onto the front of the 140th. 
 
 GERMAN PRISONERS 
 
 The infantry attacked with them. That was on the right 
 of our line. On our left Ristine gave orders quickly to 
 his officers in conference, and sent them hurriedly back 
 to their commands. His intelligence officer, Lieut. Cos- 
 grove, formerly of the 138th, and Capt. Brown, regi- 
 mental Adjutant, already were dead in the day^s fighting. 
 There was less than half an hour for preparation. 
 
 Guiding well to the left and attacking Charpentry and 
 Baulny almost from the south, the 139th came out of its 
 
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 foxholes like war dogs off the leash. They took a singe- 
 ing fire full in the face, charged over the machine guns 
 and stamped them out like nests of rats and with assist- 
 ance of other units, had taken both Charpentry and 
 Baulny before stopping to count the cost. The line they 
 could not breach in the morning was no weaker. It did 
 not crumble. But it was as if our men had gathered 
 strength as they lay waiting through the day, and in the 
 afternoon the Germans could not stop them. 
 
 Captain Haftle led the 3d Battalion of the 139th against 
 Baulny and took it. 
 
 Some men of the 2d Battalion of the 138th also assisted 
 in the taking of Charpentry, as did parts of the 137th 
 regiment. 
 
 Lieut. Axline of E Compan}^ 139th, was wounded as 
 his outfit was passing through the wire, a mile northwest 
 of Charpentry. A machine gun bullet passed through 
 his chest. He put his hand over the hole, concealing the 
 wound, and stayed with his men until they were out of 
 the dangerous path through the wire, then fell behind, 
 dropped into a shell hole and died. 
 
 Ristine thought he could prevent his regiment from 
 mixing more than it had already if he kept well to the 
 front, so he accompanied the advancing line. Rieger and 
 the other battalion commanders were to handle the rest 
 of the regiment as it was disposed for battle. 
 
 They went forward fast, once the stiff crust of the Ger- 
 man position was cracked. The Second Battalion, Eieger's, 
 pulled up near to Montrebeau wood. Ristine went even 
 faster, too fast altogether, as will be shown. 
 
 The 137th had started to advance in the morning be- 
 hind the 139th, had halted when the leading regiment 
 
CHARPENTRY AND BAULNY TAKEN 157 
 
 halted, and had lain all day on the wet field, under shell 
 and indirect machine gun fire. 
 
 At 5:30 p. m., Maj. O'Connor of the 137th received or- 
 ders to attack at 5:30, and at the same time he was ad- 
 vised that Col. Hamilton was *'out," whether by wound, 
 sickness, or orders not being explained, and that Maj. 
 O'Connor was in command of the regiment. O'Connor' 
 set his troops in motion and hurried to regimental head- 
 quarters to get the stait' and learn just what the situation 
 was. Near there he met the brigade commander, who or- 
 dered him to advance with the troops. 
 
 He hurried ahead and caught up with his outfit just 
 as the Fii'st Battalion was advancing against Baulny. 
 O'Connor got together a scratch detachment, including 
 part of L Company of the 139th, and went through Baulny, 
 I)robably as early as Ristine's men did. There was some 
 fighting in Baulny, 20 prisoners were taken, and 'Connor 
 pushed ahead. 
 
 With his outfit he pressed on in the darkness for prob- 
 ably four kilometers, which would have carried him into 
 the outskirts of Fleville, meeting no opposition anywhere. 
 The Germans seemed to him to be withdrawing. 
 
 His scouts found no other elements of the Thirty-fifth 
 on either side, so he decided that he must be too far ahead 
 of the others, and that it would be wise to get back in 
 liaison. On both sides of his detachment he heard work- 
 ing parties, and the rumble of wheels, indicating that the 
 Germans were retreating. 
 
 On the way back he found part of the 139th Machine 
 Gun Company, and he also ran across in the darkness, Col. 
 Shannon, of the general staff, who had come up to ob- 
 serve the action. Shannon returned to the line with Maj. 
 'Connor. 
 
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 They heard a voice in the woods yelling, in German, 
 ''Oh, Gus.'* O'Connor had one of his men who spoke 
 German to shout a reply. In this way they drew the 
 German up to them and captured him. He said he had 
 left the retreating troops to try and find his "bunkie" 
 who had become lost from the main body. 
 
 O'Connor's detachment returned to the established 
 line north of Baulny. He found it was composed of most 
 of the First Battalion of the 137th, and the machine gun 
 company of the 137th and three companies of the 139th 
 and the 139th machine gun company. Into these were 
 mixed, and badly mixed, men of several other companies. 
 The whole bunch was in a little hollow too much crowded, 
 Maj. O'Connor thought, and badly organized for resist- 
 ance. He tried to improve the disposition for resistance, 
 but did not essay to redistribute the units, which would 
 have been a hopeless task in the darkness. It was after 
 midnight, so there they dug in, and lay for the rest of the 
 night. 
 
 The late afternoon attack on the right was meeting al- 
 most as much success. Behind the tanks, Delaplane's 
 140th went surging ahead, cleaned the machine gun nests 
 which had held them up, took a battery of artillery, and 
 rested on the edge of the hill to the north, when renewed 
 violence of artillery met them. The first battalion of the 
 140th went well beyond Charpentry, and was out of touch 
 with the regiment until the following day. 
 
 The 138th advanced behind the 140th. It had been un- 
 der fire all day, held in its place, suffering casualties, and 
 unable to return a blow. The machine guns felt out the 
 enemy positions, but there was nothing of the winning 
 action of the day before. 
 
 From Charpentry there ran to the northeast a fine, 
 
CHARPENTRY AND BAULNY TAKEN 159 
 
 straight road, 2000 years old, for it was built by the Ro- 
 mans to connect up their outposts when they first invaded 
 Gaul. Tall trees, many of them shell-shattered, stood at 
 equal distances along the road. At the foot of every tree 
 there was a machine gun emplacement. The gunners 
 placed there were of the kind who fight to the last and 
 who do not surrender. No prisoners were taken along 
 that line of trees, but our men went through. 
 
 At about 3 p. m. the enemy put a concentration of fire 
 on the position held by the First Battalion. It was largely 
 high explosive and gas, and it did considerable damage. 
 Lieut. Brown was wounded and Col. Parker, commanding 
 the regiment, ordered the battalion to withdraw to the shel- 
 ter of a ravine, which it did. Capt. Crist was gassed and 
 Lieut. Brightfield took command of the battalion. 
 
 When the advance came at 5 :30, the 138th moved up 
 behind the 140th, and its position when it dug in was not 
 far from that occupied by the 140th during the day. The 
 fire which daylight observation permitted the enemy ar- 
 tillery to put on this section continued through the night, 
 and the 138th suffered heavily. 
 
 Lieut, Bazan, commanding G Company, was killed, and 
 Capt. Meier, commanding the battalion, was wounded at 
 the same time, about 10 p. m. Lieut. Leahy, who had done 
 so well in the Vosges raid, took command of the battalion. 
 The Third Battalion, under Capt. Bottger was on the right, 
 and Capt. Thompson, with two companies, maintained com- 
 bat liaison with the Ninety-first Division. 
 
 Lieut. Bazan, a boy from Moberly, Mo., had commanded 
 G Company from the beginning of the action. He was ly- 
 ing on the ground, and around him were scattered many 
 men of his company. Sergeant Rives started to give his 
 company commander first aid. Bazan said: "Don't waste 
 
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 any time on me. Take care of these other men first. I am 
 going to die. You can save them." He gave the same or- 
 der to Sergeant Ferguson, when he wanted to bandage the 
 Lieutenant's wound. Bazan died while waiting for his 
 turn. I do not know of a case of higher heroism or purer 
 devotion to duty and the cause. It is the purpose of the 
 medical men to salvage as many men as possible. Bazan felt 
 that there was little salvage left in him and he deliberately 
 turned away the men who would have endeavored to save 
 his life, in order that they might attend other soldiers, less 
 seriously wounded, that they might come back and fight 
 another day. Pie believed that he was dying and his 
 thoughts were aimed at making the force in whose service 
 he had taken this fatal wound a stronger force in the days 
 to come. Only a very brave man, even if he believes his 
 own chance is slight, can deny himself the help of the men 
 who will give him his one little chance of life. 
 
 On the night of the 27th, after L Company had moved 
 forward, Capt. Clarence Sodeman was killed instantly. 
 He had disposed his men and ordered them to dig in, and 
 was walking along the position to see if they were prop- 
 erly placed when he was hit. 
 
 So ended the second day, Sept. 27, with increasing cas- 
 ualties among men and officers, only a small part of which 
 casualties I have mentioned. 
 
 When the men finally dug in for the night, the main 
 mass of the troops were beyond Baulny, and some of the 
 more dashing elements probably were as far advanced as 
 Montrebeau Wood. Rieger was in Montrebeau Wood. 
 
 There was a fairly distinct line, but the mixing of ele- 
 ments was growing worse. Every regiment, in its space, 
 doubtless had elements of every other regiment. De- 
 tachments were strung along back toward Cheppy, and 
 
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 there was a determined, but seldom successful effort, by- 
 all commanders to get up rations from Cheppy. 
 
 The men were physically tired, many of them thirsty, 
 and some hungry, although the iron rations were not yet 
 exhausted. But the spirit was excellent. Despite the 
 mixing of elements and the loss of officers, the morale 
 was high, and it was a fine, determined fighting organiza- 
 tion that filled the foxholes which dotted the ground from 
 Baulny eastward. 
 
 In all four regiments on the second day, there was a 
 scarcity of water. The water carts had not come up, and 
 virtually every available source of water on the field was 
 under suspicion, and its use forbidden to the men. It was 
 supposed that the Germans, before retiring, had poisoned 
 the wells and springs. Canteens had been emptied, and 
 the men felt badly the need of water. 
 
 Close behind the infantry in every advance went men 
 of the sanitary train to test the water in newly taken ter- 
 ritory. Every well, spring or creek was labeled *' Poi- 
 soned, " ' ' Do not drink : May be used for washing, " ' ' Good 
 drinking water,'' or whatever the analysis showed. Tests 
 were made rapidly and the men who made them, soldiers 
 for everything except that they carried a testing set in- 
 stead of a rifle, worked under the same conditions of shell 
 fire and machine gun fire that the infantry did. 
 
 In the area over which the 35th Division advanced 
 there were found seven wells or springs which the tests 
 showed should be labeled *' Poison.'* 
 
CHAPTER XXV 
 
 RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 
 
 It was nearly dark when Charpentry was taken on the 
 evening of September 27. The objective of that attack 
 was a line running through Exermont, 4 kilometers 
 further north. Col. Ristine decided to push forward and 
 follow up the success of the late afternoon, believing the 
 troops would reach the objective. His two runners were 
 killed in the barrage before Charpentry, and the troops on 
 both sides of him killed or wounded by machine gun fire 
 or artillery. Only his Adjutant, Lieut. James H. McCord, 
 accompanied Ristine when they reached the valley of 
 Charpentry. There in the dusk some of our troops were 
 taking prisoners from dugouts, others were fighting on 
 the right and left and some troops were going up the hill 
 across the valley. In the late dusk he could not tell 
 whether they were Americans or Germans, but supposed 
 they were forward elements of our lines. 
 
 Lieut. McCord was severely wounded and Ristine pro- 
 ceeded alone, expecting to get with our leading elements, 
 get hold of some more runners and keep things going, while 
 they were going good. 
 
 Just before Charpentry cemetery he was met with 
 heavy machine gun fire. He lay low for some time, until 
 the fire in his immediate front died down. 
 
 He finally went forward into the cemetery and emerged 
 from it to the west, and some distance off ran into a 
 Lieutenant and five privates from the 137th. They told 
 
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 him the front Imes had gone forward and the party set 
 out to catch up with them. They cut such wires as they 
 could, and bombed dugouts. They could hear fighting 
 on their right, left and front. The party of seven had 
 three automatic rifles. 
 
 Ristine had no idea our troops had stopped long before 
 and that he was headed for the enemy lines. 
 
 When they reached a point near Camp Drachen or the 
 hill just south of the valley which leads to Exermont they 
 ran into the Germans. No one was talking, although 
 they could hear troops all around and some very near. 
 Ristine yelled at them, ' ' What outfit is this ? ' ' There was 
 no answer, but he soon learned it was part of the German 
 Army, in retreat. Ristine did not know what to do. It 
 was so dark he could tell very little about the terrain, he 
 had lost his flash light, although he could not have used 
 it if he had had it. He did not want to be surrounded 
 and he hated to retire from a retiring foe. 
 
 Ristine believes if he had not called to the Germans, he 
 could have joined them with safety. The Americans de- 
 cided to move back to the top of the crest behind them, 
 and there they crawled into a new shell hole, large 
 enough to accommodate all. They set in to organize it 
 and dig it out in the bottom to make things more com- 
 fortable and decided they could hold out until the other 
 troops arrived. They figured they would not be discov- 
 ered before morning and in the daylight they could fight 
 it out for awhile. They constructed auto rifles positions 
 on four sides of the hole and had themselves comfortable 
 in the bottom when the German machine gunners began 
 to get active. Soon it became apparent that two ma- 
 chine guns were crossing their fire over the shell hole. 
 This indicated the enemy intended to stay where he was 
 
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 until he got the Americans. The seven Americans talked 
 the matter over and Ristine finally decided that he could 
 not justify himself in compelling the men to accompany 
 him. They were surrounded by the Germans and any 
 movement of as many men as were in the shellhole would, 
 indubitably be observed, whereas one man or two men 
 might move about unhindered. Finally Col. Ristine gave 
 the men permission to go whatever way they chose. ** Ev- 
 ery man for himself,'* he ordered. 
 
 The matter was discussed in detail. Ristine felt sure 
 that the enemy would have placed men in the rear of the 
 shell holes, and on both flanks, in the hope either of kill- 
 ing or capturing the Americans when they tried to es- 
 cape. He argued, therefore, that the best tactics was to 
 crawl out and move forward toward the GeiTrian lines. 
 After an advance of one or two hundred yards in that 
 direction, he suggested turning to the right or left, cir- 
 cling the troops guarding the shell hole, and returning to 
 the Americans' own lines. The others did not like this 
 plan, so Ristine set out alone. He crawled out of the hole 
 and for a long distance directly toward the enemy, then 
 turned and walked parallel to the positions he supposed 
 the lines to occupy. 
 
 After Ristine had had time to get a hundred meters 
 away, two other men crawled out of the shell hole. They 
 were never seen again and doubtless were killed soon after 
 emerging. Next, one man made the attempt and he was 
 hit just as he went over the edge and fell back into the 
 shell hole dead. The other four remained in the shell 
 hole and were taken prisoners by the Germans. 
 
 By that time, Ristine was walking about inside the Ger- 
 man lines. It was very dark and he could not look at 
 his map, and he knew it would be poor policy to stop 
 
RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 165 
 
 for any length of time and examine closely his prismatic 
 compass. On these compasses the needle is illuminated 
 like the hands on the illuminated dial of a watch. 
 
 He found the Germans in hurried retreat. It was al- 
 most a rout. From the American guns there came a slight 
 ''interdiction" fire. There was not sufficient artillerying 
 to do any great damage, but it w^as enough to keep the 
 Germans from forming or getting into groups. This was 
 a great assistance to the wandering American, because if 
 the Germans themselves were scattered, one man wander- 
 ing alone would excite no comment and there would be 
 no question as to why he was not connected with his or- 
 ganization. It was a very dark night, and a cold, steady 
 rain was falling, as no one will forget who was in the val- 
 ley of the Aire on the night of September 27th, 1918. 
 
 The armies were very close together. No one knew ex- 
 actly how close. No lights were shown in the open by 
 either army. The only lights were in dugouts with well 
 blanketed doors, and the flash lights under cover at the 
 dressing stations where the surgeons worked over wounded 
 men. The retreating Germans were going about their busi- 
 ness with the greatest haste possible. While virtually all 
 the movement was backward there was the incidental nec- 
 essary movement of men forward and in directions parallel 
 to the front. 
 
 Ristine came across a dugout apparently deserted which 
 had been headquarters for a German officer. The officer's 
 kit was laid out ready to be packed for departure. Ris- 
 tine, who was very hungry, thoroughly chilled and wet 
 through, had no overcoat of his own so he took the Ger- 
 man officer's coat and put it on. I don't know whether 
 it occurred to him at the time that this action would have 
 made him a spy in the eyes of the enemy if he had been 
 
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 captured and that it would doubtless have brought the 
 summary punishment a spy received. 
 
 He adopted a course of action which he thought would 
 be the most like that employed by a German officer mov- 
 ing about within his own lines at that time. Whenever he 
 passed near a working party, he moved as if he had some 
 pressing business on hand. He had always to pretend by 
 his actions that he was very busy and had to hurry some 
 place to attend to this business. He figured that the 
 chances of being discovered were slight as long as the 
 darkness covered him and as long as he did not try to es- 
 cape from the German lines. The fact that he wore an 
 American helmet did not cause him great concern because 
 in the darkness it would be almost impossible for an ob- 
 server to discover that. 
 
 I am not sure that it would have meant instant dis- 
 covery even if the identity of the helmet had become 
 known. In our own lines I have seen American soldiers 
 wearing German helmets without drawing any comment 
 except ridicule. There was a general belief that the Ger- 
 man helmet gave more protection to the neck than the flat 
 American metal hat. 
 
 Whenever he came to a road Ristine walked along it 
 just as if he had all the business in the world there. When 
 there was no one near, he endeavored to orient himself 
 and discover the best way back home. When anyone ap- 
 proached he immediately again took on the air of being a 
 very industrious person going on some very important 
 mission and brazened his way through. 
 
 There was very little talking among the Germans. From 
 weariness or because of orders, or possibly because it was 
 their training, they talked very little in their work, and 
 always in a low tone of voice. 
 
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 Ristine decided that if he were challenged he would 
 respond gruffly if forced to respond at all and if the chal- 
 lenger became insistent, he would shoot him and do his 
 best to escape in the darkness. He would have had a very 
 good chance at this. To carry out this plan, from the time 
 he left the shell hole until he was within the American 
 lines at the 28th division headquarters he carried his Colt 
 automatic in his hand constantly, more than 24 hours. 
 
 It seems strange now that in all this time he was never 
 challenged, but it is only from the viewpoint of civilian 
 life that such a thing does seem strange. 
 
 It was my observation that a battle field at night in 
 open warfare was unlike anything that I had conceived 
 it to be. In an organized trench system, of course, there 
 would be a proper arrangement of sentries and guards 
 and it would be impossible for one to move about much 
 without being challenged. But in the open field where 
 the tired men lay down to sleep at night, there is endless 
 confusion. And if the army is in retreat there is no sleep, 
 which only adds to the general appearance and feeling of 
 disorganization. Almost the only guards are in the open 
 out in front of the foe, watching for a counter attack. 
 There are none except traffic men within the lines. Offi- 
 cers and men are moving in all directions on a hundred 
 different missions. They are endeavoring to get their own 
 outfits in shape for movement. They are trying to find 
 their commands. They are looking about to see if the ma- 
 terial under their control is being properly handled and 
 cared for. They are seeking comrades to whom they have 
 entrusted their belongings. They are going back to the 
 dugout last occupied to get the papers and maps left there. 
 They are going forward to see if the traffic jam has been 
 cleared and the road is open for them. They are going 
 
168 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 to the left or right to find if the unit they are to follow 
 is ready to move. 
 
 It would be impossible for all this work to be done with 
 speed (and speed is the prime essential), if every man 
 moving about had to stop at sentries placed one hundred 
 yards apart and give the countersign and explain his 
 business before being allowed to proceed. It was often 
 commented upon by correspondents that whereas one must 
 be armed with all proper papers and credentials, passes 
 and passwords when he was twenty kilometers back of the 
 line, yet if he once got to the front he could wander at 
 will without let or hindrance. 
 
 Through the first night, because of the darkness and 
 rains, proximity of troops and his inability to locate him- 
 self, Ristine found no opportunity to return to his own 
 lines. His wanderings took him almost to Chatel Che- 
 hery. The point to which he did go was not always left 
 to his decision. If he happened to be proceeding in one 
 direction and Germans appeared, it became necessary for 
 him to speed up and pretend to be going about this im- 
 portant affair that he had on his mind. 
 
 The enemy was destroying ammunition near Fleville. 
 From a hill hear Chatel Chehery, Ristine could see by the 
 light of the flames of other accumulations of ammunition 
 or supplies nearby. He made a mental note of this to be 
 referred to when he could next look at his map. 
 
 In the dusk and fog of the early morning the Germans 
 became very active. Ristine thought the Americans were 
 in Apremont and he was endeavoring to reach the river and 
 at that time he heard and saw troops moving out of it 
 towards him. He figured at once that they could not be 
 Americans because if the 28th division was in Apremont 
 they would not be coming into the sector of the 35th. He 
 
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 crept as close as he could to the movmg column and lis- 
 tened attentively until he heard something said in German. 
 Then he crept back and sought for cover against the com- 
 ing day. 
 
 There was a hedge which ran across a vacant field. The 
 rank grass was dead and rain soaked. The field had been 
 untended for four years and the hedge untrimmed for the 
 same time. There was a road nearby which Eistine had 
 to come down and on this road he had passed many Ger- 
 mans and he had been forced to pass very close to some 
 of them. He knew that with the daylight his discovery 
 was certain unless he found concealment. He crawled un- 
 der the boughs of the hedge and stealthily creeping for- 
 ward some 30 yards, found a place from which he could 
 watch both sides of his position and there he composed him- 
 self to spend the day. 
 
 By raising his head slightly he could see, on one side, the 
 main highway to Fleville. By looking the other way, he 
 could see the road that led to Apremont. He observed 
 a battery of four cannon coming from his right. They 
 pulled into the field alongside of the hedge, limbered and 
 within 30 minutes were in action. They were German 
 guns. 
 
 Soon many machine gunners appeared and also took 
 position in the open field. Under the accepted rules of the 
 game, these machine gunners would have taken position 
 along the hedge but the Germans dug foxholes in the open, 
 put the excavated earth in bags and carried it away. With 
 a few boughs in front of their position they were ready 
 to work. All day long Eistine lay in the hedge watching 
 the enemy battery and machine gunners work. 
 
 Within the American lines that day Captain Nesbit of 
 the 130th Machine Gun Battalion was ordered to take his 
 
170 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 company over the hill and down the road towards TEsper- 
 ance. As soon as he crossed the top of the hill he ran into a 
 very heavy fire from the opposing machine guns. He had 
 many killed and wounded. Finally his men took cover in 
 the ditches and foxholes in the side of the road and he was 
 able to bring back over the hill only about 15 men. A 
 higher officer seeing him there, said, ''Who are you?'* 
 
 '*I am Captain Nesbit of the 130th Machine Gun Com- 
 pany," he replied. 
 
 ''Where is your company?" 
 
 "This is my company," said Nesbit, pointing to the lit- 
 tle group of 15 men. 
 
 ' ' Well, you don 't want to be wasting time around here, * * 
 said the high officer when Nesbit had explained the disas- 
 ter which had befallen his command. 
 
 The burst of machine gun fire which had shot up Nes- 
 bit 's outfit came from the 20 or 25 guns which had been 
 hurriedly placed near Ristine's point of concealment. 
 Later investigation showed they were placed so as to com- 
 mand that stretch of road. 
 
 The location of any point on the map is given ordinarily 
 by the use of numbers, a series of numbers will run across 
 the top of the map and a series of different numbers 
 along the sides. Thus if the co-ordinates given were 27.2 
 66.1 one would go to the map, follow the line from the 
 top down the parallel and decimal given, then run a line 
 from the side along the parallel and decimal given and 
 where the lines cross would be the identical point on the 
 map which the co-ordinates indicate. This method is used 
 almost entirely in directing the fire of artillery. 
 
 Eistine noticed that the German airplanes flying back 
 from over the American front would swoop low above the 
 battery alongside of him and then seem to be telegraphing 
 
RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 171 
 
 with their machine guns. ''Tap tap — tap tap tap — tap — 
 tap tap tap tap tap — tap" it would go. Very soon there- 
 after, in just about sufficient time for the gunners to make 
 their adjustments, the battery would open again. It seems 
 reasonable that this method was employed by the aviators 
 to communicate the locations in the American lines which 
 they desired the battery to fire upon. 
 
 Eistine believes that the German machine gunners also 
 employed this method of communication with one another. 
 Of the 25 guns which had emplacement near him none 
 seemed to be firing in straight bursts or firing out a clip or 
 belt at a time, but they were worked spasmodically and 
 brokenly, exactly as if they were transmitting a telegraphic 
 message. Some of the machine guns seemed to fire through 
 the hedge in which Ristine lay. Little clipped pieces of 
 leaves kept falling about him. 
 
 From the direction of the American lines came sounds 
 which occasionally had meaning for him. Twice during 
 the day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, 
 he heard tanks enter Baulny. These were the French 
 tanks coming up to assist in the next attack. 
 
 In the afternoon, the American artillery fired sporad- 
 ically upon the machine gunners and artillery in Ristine 's 
 neighborhood. They failed to get the artillery, but one 
 machine gunner about 75 feet from Ristine was hit. The 
 gunner made one loud cry and lay still. 
 
 Some of the shells fell very near to Ristine, and he 
 thought, ' ' What rotten luck it would be to be killed by an 
 American shell at such a time and place as this." The 
 screech of one shell told that it was coming very near. 
 He instinctively pulled his head between his shoulders and 
 waited. He felt the impact as it hit the earth and threw 
 dirt upon his head. He held his breath and waited for 
 
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 the explosion which meant extinction. But it did not come. 
 The shell was a dud. He cautiously extended his arm 
 forward and felt the smooth bore the shell had made in 
 the wet earth, only three feet from his head. 
 
 Ristine had plenty of time as he lay under the hedge to 
 meditate on the art of war. He decided that henceforth 
 when his regiment attacked, it would be at night. He felt 
 it was all wrong to subject his men to the terrific fire of 
 machine guns, automatic rifles and artillery which had had 
 direct observation. He figured out a scheme whereby all 
 arrangements for a night attack should be made in ad- 
 vance, the artillery to lay a barrage on a point which was 
 to be 100 meters beyond the objective. The firing would 
 begin, the infantry would go over and move forward 
 through the darkness to a line just back of the barrage 
 and there they would dig in and hold fast until morning, 
 organizing the position during the night. When morning 
 came they would mop up by daylight, kill or capture all 
 the enemy that lay between their new position and the one 
 they advanced from in the night. 
 
 The advantages of this plan, he conceived, would be 
 many, and chief among them was that the enemy artillery 
 could not fire on the advancing troops with flat trajectory. 
 
 If machine guns were met, they could be easily dis- 
 patched because a machine gun firing at night in the open 
 must reveal its location by the flash and show the direction 
 of its fire also by the flash. It would be simple work, Ris- 
 tine decided, to go against this sort of opposition in the 
 open field by night, whereas by day it was slaughter. 
 
 The passage of the day, the movement of the sun be- 
 hind the heavy clouds, the direction of the German ar- 
 tillery, the arrival of the American shells, the glimpses he 
 had of the terrain about him all helped Ristine to locate 
 
RISTINE IN THE GERMAN LINES 173 
 
 himself pretty accurately and when darkness came he knew 
 which way to go to get home. As soon as the covering night 
 gave him sufficient protection he crawled out of the hedge 
 and started down what doubtless was the main National 
 Fleville Highway. 
 
 He passed few German soldiers along the road although 
 there was an occasional dead horse to be seen. In the 
 darkness he could observe alongside the road gun emplace- 
 ments identified only because they were in a deeper gloom 
 than the surrounding territory. There would be two or 
 three of these, then a dugout. He is convinced that these 
 were all full of Germans but still he was not challenged. 
 Anyone seeing him pass doubtless would assume that he 
 was merely an officer going about some business. Leaving 
 the road he bore to the right and soon came to what he at 
 first thought was a lake. It was a wide place in the River 
 Aire. 
 
 Between him and the river was a heavy band of barbed 
 wire. He crawled along the wire for a long way trying to 
 find an opening, but there was none, and he had to climb 
 over. The posts were rotten, and some of them broke. 
 A flare went up behind him, and Ristine lay back on the 
 barbed wire as on a feather bed. He lay there a while and 
 rested, for he had watched machine guns playing across 
 that wire all day long. When he went ahead again he 
 twice became tangled in the wire, and made noises which 
 caused flares to go up again, but at last he won through 
 and to the river's bank. He slid down into the water to 
 wade across, found it too deep, and returned to the shore 
 and continued southward seeking a shallow place. 
 
 As he started forward, from a great distance he could 
 hear voices. He knew they were not German, because the 
 Germans did not talk that loud at night. They were Amer- 
 
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 leans and they were swearing, apparently at the mules. 
 
 Ristine at this time had been without sleep, or had had 
 very little sleep, for 72 hours. He had had no food for a 
 day and a half. He had been wet through and thoroughly 
 chilled. He was carrying his helmet and gas mask, his 
 automatic pistol, his cartridge belt, ditty bag and was 
 wearing the heavy German overcoat. In his exhausted 
 condition he did not believe he would be able to swim the 
 river in spite of his usual splendid physique. 
 
 Three times he made the attempt to wade but on each 
 occasion the river was too deep. He finally found a tree 
 which had been felled across the river by the Germans, 
 went over it and reached a brigade headquarters of the 
 28th division. There was a steep bank to ascend just be- 
 fore he came to this place and he had not the strength to 
 climb it. He called to some soldiers to help him up. Once 
 within the divisional headquarters he was given food and 
 coffee. Brig. Gen. Darrah was just being relieved of his 
 command and was very much excited about it. 
 
 Ristine wrote a long telegram to General Traub, gave 
 him the map co-ordinates of the German battery which 
 he had observed working, the machine gun positions, de- 
 scribed the machine gun positions, gave the location of the 
 dumps near Fleville, and asked that destructive artillery 
 fire be laid on these points. He reported that he was 
 on his way back and would be present for duty in the morn- 
 ing. He then crossed the river again and rejoined his 
 command. 
 
CHAPTER XXVI 
 
 ARTILLERY RIDDLES THE 140TH 
 
 The night of Sept. 27 was employed to the utmost on 
 both sides of the weary battle line. Back of the Ameri- 
 cans, the greatest effort was devoted to getting up ammu- 
 nition and rations, evacuating the wounded and preparing 
 for the next day 's work. 
 
 The Germans assembled large reserves, sorted them, and 
 during the night they pushed the pick of their army for- 
 ward to the positions in front of our lines. They were 
 the veteran machine gunners. It is probable that addi- 
 tional artillery also was brought to the sector, but it is 
 certain that the morning of the 28th found the machine 
 guns very strongly increased. The whole front seemed 
 to bristle with them. 
 
 The Germans saw the desperate situation which would 
 confront them if the Americans were not stopped. The 
 Mezieres line of communications w^as threatened. If it 
 should be cut the German armies in Northern France and 
 Belgium were lost, for they could not be fed, supplied 
 with ammunition or brought out of the country, if any 
 part of that four-track railway line fell into our hands. 
 
 Dawn of Sept. 28 found the 35th Division lying 
 in front of Baulny and Charpentry, approximately a kilo- 
 meter back of the road which runs from I'Esperance past 
 Chaudron farm and Serieux farm, to Eclisfontaine. It 
 was a badly mixed up division. 
 
 The 139th was mostly around Baulny and Charpentry. 
 Its Colonel, Ristine, was missing. He was inside the Ger- 
 
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 man lines and in dire peril, but tlie officers of the regi- 
 ment did not know this. Each battalion assumed that he 
 was with some other battalion. Eieger did not know of 
 Ristine's absence, or he would have taken command of the 
 regiment, which had suffered severely during the preceding 
 day. The regimental adjutant had been killed, the Lieu- 
 
 ACROSS THE RIVER AIRE 
 
 tenant who had succeeded him had become a casualty, the 
 liaison officer, the signal officer, and the three officers who 
 had charge of the Stokes mortars and the one-pounder, all 
 were casualties. As these were virtually all of the officers 
 of the headquarters detachment, there was no one left to 
 establish a regimental P. C. Rieger's Second Battalion 
 
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ARTILLERY RIDDLES THE 140tH 177 
 
 had suffered heavily. The Third Battalion was commanded 
 by a Lieutenant and two of the four companies were with- 
 out any officers. The First Battalion was commanded by 
 a Captain, and he had but one officer to a company. 
 
 During the night, the Second and Third Battalions of the 
 137th had moved up and mixed with the 139th. There 
 seemed to be no distinct organization in the 139th at that 
 time. 
 
 Maj. O'Connor, after his return from his incursion to 
 the north, had worked all night organizing the position, 
 but he did not know where his other two battalions were, 
 assuming that he was in command of the regiment. In 
 the early morning, the enemy sent a skirmish line against 
 O'Connor's position, apparently more to feel him out than 
 to force him to retire. Machine gun and rifle fire swept 
 it back, with a good percentage of loss. 
 
 Another attack was ordered for the morning of Sept. 28. 
 It was to be launched on the two halves of the divisional 
 front at different times, the left or western half in which 
 were the 137th and the 139th, was to attack first at 
 6:30 a.m. 
 
 Capt. D. H. Wilson, who had taken command of the 
 Third Battalion of the 137th when Maj. Koch was wouzided 
 at the Balkans trench on the first day, led his men out in 
 this advance, although he was suffering from a painful 
 wound. The order to advance does not seem to have 
 reached Maj. O'Connor, but he was advised that the Second 
 Battalion would pass through the lines. He received no 
 further information as to whether he was in command of 
 the regiment, or whether Col. Hamilton had returned to 
 duty. For the 139th, Rieger joined the attack with his 
 force, which was already well ahead. 
 
 The attack was made against terrific odds. It was across 
 
178 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 open fields, with no protection of woods or brush. Mon- 
 trebeau Wood and the strip of woods to the right of it 
 were seething with machine guns. From Exermont light 
 artillery had direct fire on the advancing troops, and from 
 the hill behind Exermont, enemy observers watched the 
 whole field and directed artillery fire. 
 
 On the left, in the sector of the Twenty-eighth Division, 
 was the town of Apremont, which the Twenty-eighth had 
 not taken. Out of it came a deadly flanking fire of artil- 
 lery and machine guns. Beyond this, artillery in the edge 
 of the Argonne Forest had the Thirty-fifth in easy range. 
 The Germans had orders to stop this advance, and they 
 disposed their armament to do it, or to make us pay the 
 cost. 
 
 Our own artillery was a little livelier than on the 27th 
 but the enemy had an immense predominance. 
 
 The mixed units advanced. It was under the lowering 
 sky of a cold, dark fall day. All the glory was gone out 
 of the war, with the glitter and pageantry of the first day's 
 successes, but they went ahead. They were not the dashing 
 lads who went over the top two days before, but they were 
 veterans of battle, hardened soldiers who no longer had any 
 delusions about a soldier's life. 
 
 But they advanced across the fire-swept open fields, 
 gained the lower edge of the Montrebeau wood and dug a 
 hold along its perilous fringe, as Eieger had done. The 
 wood itself speaking of it as a whole and in the military 
 manner, still remained in the hands of the enemy. 
 
 Montrebeau Wood was a thick tangle of trees and under- 
 brush about the size of a square kilometer. It contains, I 
 should say on a guess, 240 acres. There were many lines 
 and systems of barbed wire entanglements thrown through 
 it. The Americans had to cut paths through this wire. 
 
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 The Germans had trails already made, which they knew, 
 but it was difficult and dangerous for our men to find them. 
 
 The wood adapted itself to the kind of warfare our fore- 
 fathers made against the Indians. With a sufficient force 
 in the edge of the wood, and a source of supply, our men 
 could have cleaned out the enemy machine guns and snipers 
 by stalking and sniping, but there was no time for this 
 more artful war for which they were well fitted. The 
 division must advance, so the elements in the wood fought 
 slowly and steadily ahead. 
 
 The records begin to show confusion now. This was 
 Saturday, Sept. 28. There had been two days of very hard 
 and wearying fighting, and three nights in which sleep was 
 impossible, unless superinduced by absolute physical ex- 
 haustion. The men were tired physically, but they were not 
 exhausted. They still had in them the stuff to deliver many 
 a blow, or to carry over another charge or two. 
 
 On the right of the sector the 140th was in the lead, and 
 the 138th lay just behind it. At 3 :30 in the morning Col. 
 Delaplane received an order presumably from the brigade 
 commander, to take his regiment forward with all speed 
 to protect the flank of the troops on his left, who were 
 to advance. These were, of course, the 139th and the 137th 
 Eegiments, who were to attack at 6 :30, and who lay in ad- 
 vance of the two regiments on the right or eastern side of 
 the sector. 
 
 Delaplane got his regiment under way at 5 :30, an hour 
 before the advance on the left, and had made but little 
 progress up to 8 a. m., when the withering concentration 
 of artillery and machine gun fire stopped him. The regi- 
 ment dug in. 
 
 Behind the 140th, the 138th was formed to support the 
 
180 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 attack, with orders to follow at 1000 meters. Maj. Cocke 
 of divisional headquarters took the orders to regimental 
 headquarters and saw the battalion commanders also. 
 
 Lieut. Leahy moved forward with the second battalion 
 (138th) just before daylight, and through heavy opposing 
 fire advanced about a kilometer, which placed him to the 
 right and fairly well up with the position at which the 
 140th had dug in. 
 
 At 6 a. m. Lieut. Brightfield took his battalion, the first, 
 ahead, also meeting heavy fire. He gained and dug in on 
 the right of the second battalion. 
 
 The third battalion, under Capt. Bottger, was on the right 
 and echeloned to the rear. Capt. Thompson, with company 
 M, and another platoon or two, was maintaining combat 
 liaison with the Ninety-first Division on the right. 
 
 The territory over which this liaison had to be main- 
 tained was constantly being widened by the nature of the 
 action. The divisional line of advance was swinging to 
 the westward, which caused each advancing unit to guide 
 more and more to the left. 
 
 This brought about a greater concentration of troops on 
 the left and a consequent thinning out of the lines on the 
 right. The opposition was heavier on the left half of the 
 sector, both because of the stronger positions held by the 
 Germans, in front of us, and because, owing to the Twenty- 
 eighth Division being unable to keep up, our left flank 
 w^as constantly exposed to enfilading fire from across the 
 River Aire and out of the Argonne Wood. 
 
 Concerning the Twenty-eighth Division, it would seem 
 that this excellent fighting organization was not held up 
 so much by opposition on its front, but it, in turn, suffered 
 by the division on its left. That was the Seventy-seventh, 
 which was tangled in the Argonne Forest, where Maj. 
 
ARTILLERY RIDDLES THE 140tH 181 
 
 Whittlesly was to achieve fame with his lost battalion, and 
 many other daring things were to be done. But the divi- 
 sion was not even in signaling distance of the divisions 
 fighting in the open. It is to me one of the mysteries of the 
 war — ^why was a division from the paved streets of New 
 York City sent to fight in the thick woods of the Argonne 
 Forest? 
 
 At 9 :45 the tanks came np again. With them was what 
 was left of the gallant fleet which had lain before the 
 Cheppy defenses on the first day of the fight, like naval 
 war craft cannonading the forts before a hostile harbor. 
 The enemy fire which met the tanks and the 140th Regi- 
 ment which advanced with the tanks, was far more deadly 
 than it had been before. The advance was very slow. The 
 men were occasionally able to use their rifles against out- 
 posts of machine gunners, and our automatic riflemen and 
 machine gunners kept constant fire going, but the officers 
 and men felt that they received little assistance from our 
 artillery. The enemy dominated the air and his planes in 
 formation, sometimes as many as 15 at a time, flew over 
 the regiment and machine-gunned it. 
 
 It was the bloodiest hour the 140th Regiment had seen. 
 The regiment advanced, but paid a heavier price than it 
 ever had before. The tanks were not as effective as they 
 had been. The enemy had supplied his front line with 
 anti-tank guns, long, armor-piercing squirrel rifles. Light 
 artillery pushed forward fired pointblank at the slow mov- 
 ing tanks, and a hit with a high explosive shell would de- 
 stroy a tank. Artillery usually fires by the map, with a 
 compass for direction, a scale on the gun to give elevation, 
 and a book of tables to compute the necessary elevation 
 for the given range. Against these tanks, the gunner 
 could disregard his scales and compasses. He would sight 
 
182 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 through the bore of the gun at the clearly visible tank, 
 slam in a shell, close the breech and pull the lanyard. 
 The following message went back at noon: 
 
 From : C. 0. 3rd Bn., 140th Inf. At Hostile 2nd posi- 
 tion CHAUDEON FARM. Sept. 28th, 12 noon. 
 Via Capt. Compton, Tanks. 
 To: C. a, 35th Division: 
 
 14i0th Infantry being cut all to pieces by German 
 artillery, half or more of first and third battalions 
 casualties ; no contact with second battalion or on our 
 right or left; we are in severe straits and Boche are 
 attacking, artillery from two sides; our line runs 
 through the woods of MONTREBEAU along North 
 side thereof, and for four or five hundred yards along 
 thin strip of woods due East of MONTREBEAU. 
 Disaster will result unless we have assistance barrage 
 and counter barrage. 
 
 Davy. 
 
 In spite of all resistance, the 140th finally crossed the 
 Chaudron road, and pushed 500 yards ahead to the crest 
 of the ridge to the north, where they dug in. On the way 
 up they were brought to a stop on the ridge above Char- 
 pentry and driven back into the ravine. They reformed, 
 advanced over the hill again, faced the fire and went ahead. 
 The regiment's left was just about due north of the Chau- 
 dron farm, and east of the Montrebeau Wood. 
 
 The Commanding General sent this message to Corps 
 Headquarters just before noon: 
 Sept. 28—11 :30 A. M. 
 For Buster 3. 
 
 Our line is now approximately in through EXER- 
 MONT ahead of American army objective. Front is 
 wide and both fianks badly exposed. Reenforcements 
 urgently needed to insure advance being continued. 
 
ARTILLERY RIDDLES THE 140tH 183 
 
 and flank protected. Artillery and machine gun fire 
 from left front in sector of Road Eunner. 
 
 Traub. 
 
 Col. Nuttman reported as follows to the Chief of Staff 
 late in the afternoon : 
 
 28 September, 4:45 p. m. 
 
 From Commanding Officer, 69th Brigade, at north of 
 
 12 :45. 
 
 To Chief of Staff. 
 
 One hundred fortieth regiment apparently much 
 scattered. It started to advance from east of BAULNY 
 at 9 :30 on eastern side of EXERMONT. It has suf- 
 fered heavily from shell fire. I have been unable to 
 maintain liaison as runners are not trained. Wireless 
 has not kept up. Artillery fire from our left flank has 
 caused the casualties. I had difficulty this morning in 
 collecting and organizing units, getting them forward. 
 There are many wounded to be collected. Supports 
 and small parties coming up in rear are often held 
 up by machine gun nests found by the first lines. 
 Colonel Hamilton gave up command at 5:30 p. m. 
 yesterday to Major Connor. He said he was exhausted. 
 Have not seen nor heard from 138th Inf. as I have con- 
 fined my attention to western half of Division sector. 
 Liaison patrol to 35th Division has furnished no in- 
 formation. Troops seem to need training especially 
 officers. Some of my brigade staff are casualties. 
 Have sent you three reports before this one. 
 
CHAPTER XXVII 
 
 THE FRONT LINE IN STRAITS 
 
 Messages which pass in a battle always are full of in- 
 terest and significance. They tell parts of the story bet- 
 ter than any story can. The following are some of the 
 messages which came back from Montrebeau Wood on the 
 afternoon of Sept. 28 : 
 
 From 1st Lt. Verne Breese, Co. D., 137th at North 
 edge of Montrebeau Woods. Sept. 28, 12 :30 p. m. 
 To Oklahoma: 
 
 Are being shelled from both flanks and front. Will 
 be impossible to hold without artillery support. Al- 
 most out of ammunition. Must have at once. 
 
 1st Lt. Breese, Comdg. 
 12 Noon— 
 
 Our lines are in North edge of woods Montrebeau 
 (15-95) along a strip running East from those woods. 
 Our second line on the line shown on map as second 
 hostile line. Receiving artillery fire from Exermont, 
 Greaumont, and Le Comple Farm. Must have artil- 
 lery counter batterywork and barrage as Germans are 
 counter-attacking South. 
 
 12:10 p. m. 
 
 140th Inf. being cut to pieces by German light artil- 
 lery and Minnewerf ers coming from 3 sides. We must 
 have barrage and counterbattery work or disaster will 
 occur. What is left of 1st and 3rd bns. are here with 
 some of the 138th. No communication with either 
 right or left. Have dug in but being slaughtered by 
 artillery. 
 
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THE FRONT LINE IN STRAITS 185 
 
 From CO. Co. B. 139th Inf. at 01.25-79.30 3 :05 p.m. 
 
 28 Sept. to CO. 70th Brig. 
 
 Am located in northern edge of Montrebeau Woods. 
 Am holding these woods with a part of the machine 
 gun company of the 137th and a part of A and B of 
 137th. D company is with me. I think we can hold 
 it but we need support badly. Artillery has flank- 
 ing fire on us and is causing severe losses. Have been 
 out of touch with Regimental Headquarters all day. 
 
 Sgt. Smith. 
 
 From Lt. Stradel, Liaison from 13Sth Inf. to 69th 
 Brig. 4:40 p.m. 28 Sept. At point in valley 400 
 yards N. W. of Very. 
 Herewith messages from 138th CO. : 
 
 Can you give me location of 69th Brig. Hdq. I 
 have received message from 70th Brig. Hrq. at 1 :15 
 stating 138th and 140th are ordered to advance to 
 army objective and organize for defense. Also 138th 
 and 140th under command of Walker 70th Brig. CO. 
 If possible notify 69th Brig, to this effect: I have 
 sent out many runners and at present cannot locate 
 69th Brig. At 9 :30 a.m. 138th Inf. CO. reports about 
 65 men per company. 138th need grenades and chau- 
 chat ammunition. I have tried to locate 138th Am- 
 munition Train, but could not find it. Have also 
 sent by runner via 138th I.O. message of the defense 
 plan as above mentioned. If possible to inform them 
 by phone, please do so. 
 
 When the 140th fell back from the slope of the ridge 
 just north of Charpentry, Lieut. Leahy took his second 
 battalion of the 138th down the ravine in which they were 
 lying and moved forward to the support, thinking 
 the 140th would be unable to advance against the opposi- 
 tion. When the 140th was reformed and moved on, he 
 followed at the ordered distance in their rear, and though 
 the enemy fire was constantly growing more effective be- 
 cause of increase in volume and accuracy, the battalion 
 
186 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 advanced and took position in the line with the 140th. 
 This advance was made through a gruelling fire, and the 
 casualties were very heavy, especially from high-explosive 
 shells which the sharp-shooting artillerymen threw among 
 the lines. 
 
 Brightfield's first battalion of the 138th held its en- 
 trenched position, to which it advanced at 6 a. m., until 
 noon. Then the Lieutenant took them forward again and 
 crossed to the hill south of Chaudron farm. 
 
 He suffered heavily in this advance, and in the positions 
 taken by both the first and second battalions, they con- 
 tinued to suffer from artillery fire, to which they were 
 able only to reply by rifle fire against the infantry posi- 
 tions in their front. Lieutenant- Colonel Parker, com- 
 manding the regiment, seeing the loss his regiment was 
 suffering, and knowing what a further attempt to advance 
 without better artillery support would mean, ordered the 
 battalions to retire to the little valley to the southeast of 
 Charpentry and to dig in for the night. 
 
 Brightfield's battalion Adjutant, Lieut. Leslie Campbell, 
 was killed, and Lieuts. Anderson and Bluhmwere wounded. 
 Campbell had been very active, and had spent nearly all 
 the preceding night in directing the evacuation of the 
 wounded. He was leading his men steadily forward when 
 he was killed by a shell. 
 
 The advances and retirements that day were not always 
 performed as well as they would have been under more 
 favorable circumstances, and the movements were not as 
 satisfactorily synchronized. A company of the 138th ad- 
 vanced at 10 :30 a.m. to the hollow one kilometer southeast 
 of Chaudron farm. There they rested a while, the lee of 
 the hillside giving them a little respite from the direct fire. 
 At noon Lieut. Sweeney, who commanded the company, 
 
THE FRONT LINE IN STRAITS 187 
 
 took them forward again, over the desolate hill, across the 
 road, past the Montrebeau Wood, which was on their left, 
 and into the strip of timber and brush which lies to the 
 northeast. They had plenty of fighting with stray ma- 
 chine gunners, but their rifles and automatic rifles were 
 effective and they gained and took and held the strip of 
 woods, where they dug in. 
 
 In this position they felt the full tide of war. Artillery 
 played on them both by direct and indirect fire, machine 
 guns from three sides poured lead into the w^oods, and 
 enemy airplanes in formation flew above them and bom- 
 barded them with air bombs and machine-gunned them 
 from the sky. 
 
 At 6 p.m. a cold rain began to fall. At 7 p. m. they 
 retired, on orders from the regimental commander, to a 
 little valley lying between Chaudron farm and the Ser- 
 ieux farm and south of the road. They carried with them 
 Lieut. Sweeney and 15 other men who had been wounded. 
 They buried their dead in the wood. Sergt. Clyde E. 
 Heath commanded the company that night. 
 
 The following messages transmitted that day throw a 
 grim light on conditions. 
 
 28 September, 5;00 p. m. 
 
 From Cavalry Patrol at MONTREBEAU, 4 :30 p.m. 
 
 to CO 35th (Brigade) 
 
 MONTREBEAU Wood held by our forces. A mix- 
 ture of 137, 139 and 140. Cannot find any headquar- 
 ters. Infantry held up on north edge of wood by 
 heavy machine gun and artillery fire. 
 
 Signed: J. D. Taylor 
 Captain 2nd — 
 28 September, 6:45 p.m. 
 From Delaplane 
 To Division Headquarters. 
 
 Have been separated from my Regiment, 140th Inf. 
 
188 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Have collected 1 company, 129 Machine Gun battalion, 
 3 guns from 91st Brigade, 60 riflemen from various 
 organizations. Have entrenched at CHAUDRON 
 Road. Have been shelled from east and west by high 
 explosives and gas. Filtration of enemy observed 
 from directions ECLIS FONTAINE. Shall endeavor 
 to hold situation until receipt of instructions. No 
 information. 140 A. sent message you have, signed, 
 David. No friendly artillery action that I can observe. 
 
 Signed : Delaplane. 
 
 From Major Loy, at Baulny, Sept. 28, 1 :30 p.m. 
 To Lt. Col. Hay. 
 
 I am unable to get any information from our bri- 
 gade headquarters, can 't find them, still pushing ahead 
 but am getting heavy artillery fire from hills on our 
 left causing heavy losses trying to get you by phone 
 but cannot. 
 
 Major Loy. 
 
 Most of the men had eaten their two days^ supply of 
 iron rations, and in spite of the tireless work of supply 
 companies, wagon trains, truck trains and every unit en- 
 gaged in providing and transporting rations, many men 
 went hungry. 
 
 It seems grewsome now to turn over a dead comrade to 
 search his pack and take out his emergency rations, but 
 this was done many a time, and some men lived the last 
 three days of the fight on dead men's rations. At that 
 time it seemed the most natural thing to do. And it was. 
 It gave more power to the living to complete the work the 
 other man had died trying to do. It was the dead man's 
 last contribution to the cause. 
 
 Rations always were taken from dead Germans also, 
 and eaten with impunity. 
 
 The rolling kitchens were sent forward as fast as possi- 
 ble, and put into commission as near the line as was con- 
 
THE FRONT LINE IN STRAITS 189 
 
 sidered wise. They were slow in getting up, as everything 
 else was, due to congestion in traffic and shortage of horse 
 and motor transport, but they squeezed through wherever 
 they could and followed the doughboys. 
 
 When a kitchen had been established, the mess Sergeant 
 or whoever was in charge would try to get into communi- 
 cation with his company in front, and when this was done, 
 which was all too seldom, a detail would be sent after ra- 
 tions, but it was physically impossible to get hot food to 
 troops who were fighting nearly all the time. 
 
 Details could get renewals of the ''iron" rations from 
 ration dumps, such as the one established in Cheppy, but 
 the detail, returning to the line, would be likely to have 
 great difficulty in finding its outfit again. 
 
 It is not likely that any two units had the same experi- 
 ence in the matter of rations. Everybody went short, and 
 some men had nothing but their two days' iron rations 
 during the five days. They supplemented this ration with 
 what they could get from the packs of dead men. 
 
 In Cheppy on Sept. 28 I came across Henry J. Allen, who 
 was soon to be elected governor of far-away Kansas. Chep- 
 py was being shelled pretty lively, and we walked away 
 from the cross road to talk a moment. Cross roads are a 
 bad place in a bombardment. I remembered this meeting 
 afterwards when Gen. Traub said Allen did not know any- 
 thins: about the battle. 
 
CHAPTER XXVIII 
 
 NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 
 
 That enemy planes had domination of the air on Sept. 
 28, as they had predominance of artillery, was plain on 
 all sides. The 129th Machine Gun Battalion advanced in 
 the morning and took position along a hedge which is some 
 200 yards to the north of Chaudron Farm. There they 
 were admirably placed to repel a counterattack, and their 
 fire tended to keep beaten down enemy activity along to 
 the east of Exermont. At 2 p.m., 10 enemy planes swept 
 over their line, every one firing on the Missourians with 
 machine guns. The machine gunners stayed in front with 
 the 140th when the 138th was drawn back after dark. 
 
 The object of this withdrawal, which applied to all 
 units of the 138th with which communication could be 
 had, was to bring that regiment back and endeavor to 
 put it in such shape as to enable it to lead the attack on 
 the following day. The 140th was to hold the advanced 
 line that night. 
 
 Meantime, the 137th and elements of the 139th had been 
 fighting all day long in Montrebeau Wood with the de- 
 termined snipers and machine gunners the enemj^ had 
 planted there. Col. Hamilton of the 137th was about worn 
 out, physically, and Maj. O'Connor, who had not been 
 able to get in touch with his colonel for two days, dis- 
 posed what he had of the regiment as well as he could 
 and ordered them to dig in for the night. O'Connor was 
 exhausted and went back to Baulny, where a semblance 
 of regimental headquarters was supposed to be, to rest. 
 
 190 
 
NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 191 
 
 Maj. p. C. Kalloch, a young officer of the general staff, 
 had been acting as Divisional Intelligence Officer. When 
 reports of the shortage of officers in the front line reached 
 divisional headquarters, the forv^ard echelon of which 
 had been moved to Cheppy, all available officers were 
 rounded up and sent forward. Maj. Bruce MacGruder, 
 who had come up to help if he could, was put in the in- 
 telligence job, and Kalloch was instructed to report to 
 Col. Hamilton. At 8 p.m. he found Col. Hamilton in the 
 rain and darkness of Montrebeau Wood. The colonel in- 
 structed Kalloch to act as his lieutenant-colonel, and Kal- 
 loch set about trying to find whatever parts of the regi- 
 ment were available, with the idea of learning what 
 strength there might be in the tangle of the wood. But 
 at 4:50 a.m. (Sept. 29) he was shown an order which 
 gave him another piece of work to do. It was for an 
 attack by the division at 5:30 a.m. on the 29th. 
 
 The order assured the infantry that there would be a 
 satisfactory artillery barrage to precede the advance, the 
 object of which was to take the town of Exermont and 
 the crests of the ridge running to the east and west of 
 it. 
 
 Col. Hamilton instructed Maj. Kalloch to prepare the 
 first wave and lead it in the attack. Col. Hamilton was 
 to lead the second one himself. 
 
 Montrebeau Wood was black dark, except for the oc- 
 casional brief flash of a German shell sent into it. The 
 rain was falling heavily, and the business of collecting 
 and organizing the attacking wave was a hard one, so 
 many of the sleeping men he tried to rouse were dead. 
 By the appointed time, which was 40 minutes after the 
 order was received, he had marshalled his line. Their 
 work is a part of the next day's story. 
 
192 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Anotlier officer who went forward that afternoon wab 
 a grim old man, as age is reckoned in the army, Maj. 
 Clay C. MacDonald, who had been a national guardsman 
 for 25 years. He was divisional mail officer, and it seemed 
 to be the general impression about headquarters that, 
 despite his long experience, he was a little too old for 
 the front line. At noon that day in Cheppy, a lieutenant 
 had approached Maj. MacDonald, saluted respectfully, 
 and in a brief and soldierly manner, told him that his 
 son, Lieut. MacDonald, had been killed while leading his 
 company in the attack. This w^as the Lieut. MacDonald 
 killed on the slopes of Vauquois. Maj. MacDonald did 
 not wince. I noted as I watched him, this self-control. 
 His training did not permit that while under the gaze 
 of so many sympathetic people. His eyes seemed to be 
 looking wistfully to the north, where the guns were 
 pounding on the battle line three miles away. He sa- 
 luted, turned and entered headquarters, explained the 
 case briefly and demanded of the chief of staff that 
 he be given a command in the front line. He was at 
 once sent forward. 
 
 Maj. MacDonald was working through the rain in 
 Montrebeau Wood at the same time Kalloch was as- 
 sembling and organizing scattered elements of the 137th. 
 
 Maj. Kieger, who also had entered Montrebeau Wood 
 on the night of the 27th, had pushed a persistent path 
 through the tangle, fighting carefully, adroitly and ef- 
 fectively, and always going ahead. Before dark he had 
 gained the northern edge of the wood and looked out 
 upon the enemy strongholds ahead — Exermont, the line 
 of the ridge to the east and west, and behind the town, 
 the hill known as 240, which looked over all the territory 
 for four kilometers to the south. There were the enemy 
 
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 s. 
 
NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 19^ 
 
 observation posts from which artillery ranges were cor- 
 rected, the cannon which had worked such havoc among 
 our troops, and the hill itself held much artillery and 
 very many machine guns. 
 
 Kieger had organized and held a line in the north edge 
 of the woods, and in the darkness had gone back into 
 the woods to get more men, if possible, and what he 
 needed worse, some officers to help him handle his line. 
 He ran across Maj. MacDonald, and soon MacDonald was 
 in command of a part of the line. 
 
 Another arrival was Col. Americus Mitchell. He was 
 one of the regular army officers assigned to the division 
 just before the battle, and was now arriving a little late. 
 Bearing orders dated Sept. 24, he reported at division 
 headquarters in the afternoon of Sept. 28, and was in- 
 structed to report to the commander of the 70th brigade. 
 
 It had been the intention to put Col. Mitchell in com- 
 mand of the 139th Regiment, but because of his failure 
 to arrive in time, Col. Ristine had continued in command. 
 From divisional headquarters he went forward at 6 
 p.m. to the Seventieth Brigade, to find his regiment. The 
 division had been rebrigaded, in order to give each 
 brigade one-half of the divisional front constantly, in- 
 stead of all of it on alternate days, as had been the orig- 
 inal plan. Col. Mitchell learned that his regiment 
 was on the other side of the sector, in Col. Nuttman's 
 brigade. He went ahead with his search. A stiff regu- 
 lar army colonel plodding along over unknown territory 
 through a black night and a heavy rain, looking for his 
 regiment which he has never seen and whose location 
 he does not know is a situation which has many attractive 
 possibilities. 
 
 He finally found two companies, and was told that the 
 
194 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 rest of the regiment was in line on the left near Baulny. 
 Mitchell went to Baulny, reported to Col. Nuttman, told 
 him he had found parts of A and C companies of his 
 regiment, and asked where the rest of his regiment 
 was. Nuttman said the troops were badly mixed. He 
 himself had been out to the front that afternoon, he said, 
 and had found 250 men of the 139th, and had posted 
 them as outposts in front of the 137th Kegiment. 
 
 Mitchell also learned that Ristine, commanding the 
 139th, had not been seen for 24 hours and was supposed 
 to be dead, that the officer casualties in the regiment were 
 very heavy, but no one at brigade headquarters seemed 
 to know anything about the headquarters of the regi- 
 ment. 
 
 Mitchell fared forth again, and proceeded toward the 
 front. It was very dark and raining hard, and the run- 
 ners who were guiding him were not always sure of the 
 way. He found two dressing stations, with many 
 wounded men in and about them, waiting in the rain 
 their turns with the doctors or waiting for some way to 
 be taken to the rear. Finally he reached the front line 
 of the 137th, and was taken to Col. Hamilton. The com- 
 mander of the 137th was sure that there was none of the 
 139th in front of him, where Col. Nuttman thought he 
 had posted them. 
 
 Considering the rain and darkness. Col. Mitchell was 
 convinced that there was little chance of finding his com- 
 mand in the night, so he returned to Baulny. The scout 
 officer of the 139th and a few scouts he had found, ac- 
 companied him. 
 
 He was awakened at 3 a.m. by an order from the com- 
 mander of the Sixty-ninth Brigade to attack at 5:30 a.m. 
 He went to Col. Nuttman and explained that he could not 
 
NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 195 
 
 obey that order because he could not find his regiment. 
 Col. Nuttman told him to take what he had and form a 
 reserve for the 137th. Mitchell instructed Capt. W. C. 
 Williamson to form what troops he could get for this pur- 
 pose. 
 
 The feeling at division headquarters was that the field 
 was not going well. The iron resistance of the reinforced 
 enemy, fighting on ground he knew well, and ground 
 which he must hold at all cost, seemed firm enough to halt 
 the division, as the battle was vieAved from headquarters. 
 The morale of a division is nearly always higher in the 
 front lines than back at headquarters. The spirit of 
 fighting pervades the front, the actual conflict is in the 
 blood of the men, and their sergeants and lieutenants are 
 convinced that they can whip the Boche, and the feeling 
 finds its way to the men and upholds them. 
 
 To headquarters come most depressing reports from 
 men drifting back, the slightly wounded, the slightly 
 gassed and the physically exhausted. Each one who hap- 
 pens to pass through headquarters is eagerly questioned, 
 and the returning man is very prone to believe that his 
 personal experience and emotions are those of his whole 
 company or regiment. He believes that the ills he has 
 suffered, mental and physical, are common to the whole 
 command. 
 
 Bad as conditions were on the front of the 35th Divi- 
 sion, they were not as bad as headquarters seemed to 
 think, for the weakness and exhaustion from which the 
 men suffered had not yet affected their minds and hearts. 
 They were very tired in body, but that intangible part 
 called ** morale," which is the soul of the troops as a 
 whole, the soldier spirit and the will to victory, was 
 
196 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 stanch and firm, despite all the grim fighting. To para- 
 phrase, ''their heads were bloody but unbowed." 
 
 Col. Hawkins, the efficient and conscientious Chief of 
 Staff, felt that he could do more good at the front than 
 at headquarters. Liaison was so poor that the functions of 
 headquarters seemed to him of much less importance. 
 It was a matter of fighting now. Division headquarters 
 did not know what officers were out and what were in, 
 it so seldom heard from any of them. All reports said 
 that the 137th was badly tangled, and some reports had 
 it that Col. Hamilton was wounded, or gassed, or ex- 
 hausted. 
 
 Col. Jens Bugge came from Corps Headquarters to re- 
 lieve Hawkins as Chief of Staff, and Hawkins went for- 
 ward. He found that Col. Hamilton had brought some 
 sort of reorganization out of the remains of his regiment, 
 that he had a line in the forward edge of Montrebeau 
 Wood, and that he was confident he could hold it. Haw- 
 kins started back to rejoin the Brigade Commander, Col. 
 Nuttman, but got lost in the darkness and failed to find 
 him again that night. 
 
 The division had been rebrigaded and Col. Walker now 
 had command of the right half of the divisional front, 
 with the 138th and the 140th. Col. Nuttman with the 
 137th and the 139th, commanded the left half. 
 
 The Infantry of the 35th Division on the morn- 
 ing of September 26 was brigaded in the manner shown 
 in the first diagram. That was the arrangement used 
 with such success in the St. Mihiel operation, but it will 
 be remembered that the enemy offered little opposition 
 there. 
 
 After Col. Ristine had effected his passage of lines, 
 
NIGHT IN MONTREBEAU WOOD 
 
 197 
 
 the formation on the morning of September 27 was as 
 shown in the second diagram. 
 
 This increased the difficulty of communication, but it 
 did not bring about the confusion the diagram might in- 
 dicate at first glance. It was immediately seen that the 
 arrangement under which the division had started out 
 was not the best one, and two days later the plan was 
 
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 changed by rebrigading the division and putting the 
 two regiments on the right, that is, the 138th and the 
 140th, in one brigade, and the other two regiments, which 
 were on the left, in the other brigade. Thus the 138th 
 changed brigades in the middle of the battle, but the 
 change was without much effect, either good or bad. Af- 
 ter the change on Sept. 28 the arrangement was as shown 
 in the third diagram. 
 
CHAPTER XXIX 
 
 PERMISSION TO RELIEVE GENERAL BERRY 
 
 The third day's fighting had brought to the 35th Division 
 a profit of about two kilometers gained. The cost had be- 
 come heavier for each forward step, and only the welfare 
 of the whole field justified the expense. The line ran 
 straight westward from the right limit of the sector to 
 the Montrebeau Wood, went through the front of the wood, 
 and coming out of it, dipped sharply to the south, where it 
 turned to present a front to the enemy across the River 
 Aire in the sector of the 28th Division, which was being 
 held to a much slower rate of advance than the Thirty-fifth. 
 
 The Thirty-fifth had gained in the day nearly, but not 
 quite, as much ground as it had on the second day. The 
 first day 's advance had been more than both the second and 
 third days' advances, but the first day had had magnificent 
 artillery support. 
 
 The casualties continued heavy but not out of propor- 
 tion to the nature of the fighting, the dogged resistance, 
 and the masses of machine guns and cannon which the 
 enemy had brought to hold his line. 
 
 The Americans fought with consistent bravery, but not 
 with the superlative boldness which invites disaster. They 
 had grown wary, adroit and capable, and they had ad- 
 vanced. 
 
 The men were hungry and very tired. The cold rain 
 which kept up all night soaked them, of course, as there 
 was no cover, but it was hardest on the wounded. The 
 doctors worked without ceasing, and the stretcher bearers 
 
 198 
 
PERMISSION TO RELIEVE GEN. BERRY 199 
 
 toiled until they dropped in their tracks, but many 
 wounded men lay all night in the rain. I saw that night 
 a stretcher bearer who had wires looped around his wrists 
 and fastened around the stretcher handles, to help his tired 
 hands. Both wrists were bleeding. 
 
 During the day of the 28th the artillery was still trying 
 to get into position to give more assistance to the infantry, 
 and to counteract, as far as it could, the tremendous! ef- 
 fectiveness of the German artillery. 
 
 At 8 a. m., Gen Berry had ordered the 128th Field Ar- 
 tillery to move its Second Battalion into position at Very, 
 and the First Battalion to Charpentry. The Second Bat- 
 talion was in position soon after 11 in the morning, and 
 the First was firing from its new place at 4 p.m. 
 
 In all the day of the 28th the artillery brigade fired 
 only 3200 shells. 
 
 At 1:30 on the morning of Sept 29, Ristine's message 
 from the 28th division brigade headquarters reached Gen. 
 Traub. It read as follows : 
 
 29 September, 1918, 1 :30 a.m. 
 
 Telephoned from Road Runner 3. 
 
 To: Oklahoma 3, (Letter from Colonel Ristine.) 
 
 Scouting from Boche lines to here, south of Apre- 
 mont. Been as far north as CO. 6-79.3. Boche in re- 
 treat everywhere, leaving nothing behind but ma- 
 chine guns, 77s and other artillery. Last night 3 large 
 dumps burned at Fleville. Stayed today in Boche 
 lines at 01.5-77.3, on road north of river. Boche has 
 many machine guns and 77s. He uses 77s in front 
 lines. At 7 o'clock he had three 77s at .01.5-77.3, be- 
 tween main road and river. Had one 77 at 01.1-77.2. 
 His machine guns are in field in most cases. Has em- 
 placements in hedge corners, but does not use them 
 often. Our artillery today was not very effective. 
 Machine guns fire from flank in most all cases and in- 
 
200 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 fantry should approach guns from the front. I am 
 weak, tired and hungry, soaked to the skin, otherwise 
 all right. More particulars later. Will join you to- 
 morrow. 
 
 Gen. Traub forwarded it to Gen. Berry with the follow- 
 ing endorsement: 
 
 Headquarters 35th Division, American Expeditionary 
 Forces, 29th September, 1918. 
 
 The Commanding General desires to call your espe- 
 cial attention to the above letter which shows the dis- 
 position of enemy 77s and machine guns. It will be 
 noted that his method must be met with similar 
 methods, and it is directed imperatively, that you get 
 as many 75s as you can furnish with ammunition for- 
 ward to support the Infantry. Colonel Eistine has 
 been in the Boche line near territory where our artil- 
 lery fire fell, and claims it was not effective. The Com- 
 manding General directs that you take the necessary 
 steps to make your fire more effective and that the 
 closer it is to the infantry the more effective it will be. 
 
 It seems rather too much to have expected Gen. Berry 
 to allow himself to be influenced by the report of a mere 
 National Guard officer. He replied to Gen. Traub with 
 the following message : 
 
 Headquarters 60th Field Artillery Brigade, 29 Sep- 
 tember, 1918, 3 :30 a.m. 
 Returned : 
 
 1. Direct hits on one hostile battery were observed, 
 caisson was seen to blow up. It is believed that in all 
 cases the artillery fire was as accurate as could be ex- 
 pected. Constant effort is made to improve the accu- 
 racy of the artillery and assist the infantry. The 
 present condition of Col. Ristine's command makes 
 me unwilling to accept him as a military critic. 
 
 2. The orders of the Division commander will be 
 carefully studied by me and thoroughly complied with. 
 
PERMISSION TO RELIEVE GEN. BERRY 201 
 
 Following this exchange of courtesies, it would appear 
 that Gen. Traub made certain representations to his next 
 higher commander, who was General Liggett, command- 
 ing the corps in which the 35th Division was fighting. 
 
 In the early morning messages had passed indicating 
 that the Artillery was not cooperating with the air planes. 
 The planes would go forward and observe the front line 
 and then fly back and tell the artillery where our line was, 
 so that the artillery would be certain to plant its shells 
 beyond our own troops. 
 
 The air observers reported to division headquarters that 
 they could not get answers from the artillery. 
 
 Then came messages saying that our shells were falling 
 on our own men. One of these was : 
 
 ''Artillery on left flank falling short. Traub." 
 
 Another, addressed to Gen. Traub, at 7 :25 that morning, 
 was : * * Our own artillery is hitting our own men at % mile 
 north of Chaudron Farm.'' 
 
 Another, later in the day, apparently from a brigade 
 headquarters, said: 
 
 ''Our artillery fire falling on our troops in Montrebeau 
 Wood. Sent similar message earlier.'' 
 
 Finally the following messages were received by Gen. 
 Traub from the corps headquarters. "Oklahoma" was 
 code for 35th Division headquarters, and "Buster" was 
 code for the Corps. 
 
 From Buster 1 to Okla. 1, at 8 :40 a.m. 29 Sept. 
 
 If your artillery Brigade Commander is not giving 
 full support and is not to you a satisfactory and loyal 
 commander you are authorized to relieve him. 
 
 From Buster 3 to Okla. 3 
 
 The Corps Commander wants to know if our artil- 
 lery is all up and supporting the infantry. If not, 
 why not? 
 
CHAPTER XXX 
 
 EIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 
 
 It was a dreary Sunday morning which. Sept. 29 pre- 
 sented to the soldiers of the 35th Division. The 
 chilled and rain-soaked men from Missouri and Kansas 
 looked from the line which ran to the right and left from 
 the edge of Montrebeau Wood, upon a wet, gloomy, un- 
 tended field, and they cursed the Germans and all their 
 works. 
 
 They had thought the two preceding days had been of 
 some value because those days must have displayed the 
 worst the enemy could do in cannonading and machine 
 gun fire. Now they saw they were wrong. The sky snarled 
 with passing shells from batteries which must have been 
 much increased during the night. The ground over which 
 the men were to advance, and the points they were to take, 
 hissed with the constant whirr of machine guns. 
 
 The line where the divisional front had dug in the night 
 before had been shelled all night long, and there were 
 many dead men between the Aire River and Exorieux 
 farm. The enemy had control of the air. 
 
 The attack was to be at 5 :30 a. m. according to the orders 
 which sifted down from corps headquarters. It was worded 
 thus: 
 
 28 September, 1918 
 
 From Buster 3 
 
 To Oklahoma 3, Received 10:31 p.m. 
 
 Plans for tomorrow exactly same as for today, ex- 
 cept no definite objective. Division will push forward 
 
 202 
 
RIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 203 
 
 at 5 :30 a.m. without regard to Division on right or left. 
 Maintain liaison with detachments between flanks. 
 
 Signed : Liggett, by Craig. 
 
 I have heard the plan and the order criticized by officers 
 who contended that the division should never have been 
 sent forward on that day, since it was already so far in 
 advance of the division on its left that the Thirty-fifth 
 left flank had been for two days exposed to an enfilading 
 fire. A line had to be held fronting the river, from a point 
 about even with Apremont to whatever point to the north- 
 ward the division advanced. These critics contend that the 
 divisions on either side should have done the advancing, and 
 that the Thirty-fifth should have not been compelled to 
 push a salient into the German line on its own front. 
 
 Divisions on both sides of the Thirty-fifth were to at- 
 tack at the same hour on the morning of the 29th, and 
 there was assurance, corps headquarters said, that the 
 flanks of the Thirty-fifth would be protected. 
 
 In the brigade handled by Col. Nuttman, there was dif- 
 ficulty in transmitting the orders for the attack which 
 reached him from the division. The rain and darkness, 
 the shortage of runners and the exhaustion of those who 
 were left, the constant shelling of the ground over which 
 the runners must pass, all made it a question of grave 
 doubt whether the orders were delivered. But they were. 
 
 Nuttman was able to find but one battalion of the 139th, 
 and he did not know how much there was of the 137th, 
 but he knew that it was in Montrebeau Wood. 
 
 Gen. Traub went forward to look things over and re- 
 ported to his Chief of Staff: 
 
 From C. G. at Baulny, Sept. 29", 6 :25 a.m. to C. of S. 
 
 I find that Brigade commanders know little about 
 their brigades and the actual location of the units of 
 their regiments. Am in command of reserves. We 
 
204 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 will do our level best. Are being heavily shelled. 
 Recommend reinforcements be sent at once to back up 
 this Division. It has lost its punch account of so many 
 officer casualties resulting in disorganization of units 
 which the remaining officers appear unable to have re- 
 assembled. Gas, shrapnel and high explosives being 
 received from hill across river and our left meeting 
 with machine gun resistance. The line is out between 
 Charpentry and Cheppy but party out to repair it. 
 Col. Walker's P. C. at Chaudron Farm and being 
 heavily shelled. Col. Nuttman has gone forward to 
 Montrebeau Woods to be in closer touch with his com- 
 mand. It is now 6 :42 and we have received no reports 
 
 P. S. You can reach me at phone central at Baulny. 
 
 The British say that the battle of Waterloo was won 
 on the cricket lawns of Eton and Harrow. The 35th Di- 
 vision had lost its punch on the dancing floors of West 
 Point, in the Efficiency Board rooms at Camp Doniphan, 
 and in the United States Army system which replaces 
 National Guard officers, however competent, with Regu- 
 lar Army officers, however incompetent. 
 
 Col. Walker, commanding the other brigade, received 
 the order from division headquarters at 45 minutes past 
 midnight on the morning of the attack. He sent his 
 brigade orders, which required some work and tran- 
 scription, to the regiments at 2:55 a.m. He ordered the 
 138th, which was lying behind the 140th, to pass through 
 the 140th 's lines, and lead the attack on the right half 
 of the sector, and the 140th, to follow behind and support 
 the 138th. Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, commanding the 
 138th, said that he did not receive his orders until 7 a.m. 
 Where the delay was I do not know. Col. Delaplane re- 
 ceived his orders at 5 :25 to attack five minutes later. 
 
 Exermont, a village of no particular importance or 
 
RIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 205 
 
 value even in its palmy days, was a well shelled place 
 that morning. Tolerably well placed for defense, and 
 on that rainy dawn, it was ringed three-quarters of the 
 way round with cannon and machine guns. Through the 
 fourth quarter the 35th Division had to attack. 
 
 The first to make the brave attempt was Maj. Kalloch 
 with his thin line. In the 40 minutes he had to prepare, 
 he had got together about 125 men, mostly of the 137th 
 regiment. He had two automatic riflemen with Chauchat 
 rifles, but they were very short of ammunition, having 
 but a few clips apiece. He formed a skirmish line, with 
 100 men in the front line, and a patrol of six men on 
 each flank. The rest of the men were in the rear in re- 
 serve, to fill the places of casualties. So scant was his 
 force that he had to put ten paces between each two 
 men to cover the brigade front. He gave Lieut. Allen 
 command of the right half of the line, and Lieut. Hodg- 
 son the left. 
 
 The line was ready, kneeling at the edge of the wood 
 at 5:30, waiting for the barrage, but the barrage did not 
 come. The only artillerying was done by the enemy. 
 
 At 5:34 he started without a barrage, and had advanced 
 300 yards when a stiff machine gun nest opened just 
 in front and killed a few of his men. The gunners doubt- 
 less had crept to the position in the night. In a 10-min- 
 ute fight, the nest was destroyed. Three hundred meters 
 further on, more machine guns were found and destroyed, 
 after another fight and more losses. When the second nest 
 had been cleaned, it was observed that many more machine 
 guns were filtering in on both flanks of the advancing 
 skirmish line, but it went ahead against very heavy artil- 
 lery and machine gun fire, and finally reached the ravine 
 running west from Exermont. 
 
206 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 There was no sign anywhere of the supporting wave 
 Col. Hamilton was to bring out, so Kalloch sent two run- 
 ners, one a few minutes behind the other, to say that 
 he could go no farther without support. His losses had 
 been very heavy. 
 
 At 6 :15, Kalloch saw the support line of about 100 men 
 come out of the Montrebeau Wood and begin advancing 
 toward him. He saw them start up the rise, then he turned 
 and looked toward the front for a time. When he looked 
 back again the line had disappeared. No further supports 
 appeared, and Kalloch held on until 8 o'clock. By that 
 time, enemy machine guns had become more numerous and 
 deadly, and he retired with what was left of his men. He 
 had to leave his dead and wounded on the field, and when 
 he reached the edge of the wood again his command was 
 practically dissipated. It simply had melted under ma- 
 chine gun fire. 
 
 While Kalloch was forward with his forlorn hope Maj. 
 O'Connor, who had become exhausted the night before, re- 
 turned to the front. He found the 1st battalion staff 
 functioning as 137th regimental staff, and learned that Col. 
 Hamilton was on duty. After a brief search, he found Col. 
 Hamilton a hundred yards in front of the woods, in the 
 open field, sitting alone in an old artillery emplacement. 
 O'Connor learned that Kalloch had joined and was at that 
 moment leading a wave against Exermont. Hamilton told 
 O'Connor to organize and lead forward a supporting line. 
 
 O'Connor hurriedly got together what men he could of 
 the 137th, and marshaled them to the front of the woods 
 and out into the open. It was now full daylight, and there 
 was terrible fire of machine guns from the front and both 
 flanks. From the front and left flank, artillery fired on 
 them with flat trajectory. 
 
RIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 207 
 
 The men were willing and brave, but much disorganized, 
 largely, I suspect, through their great physical weariness. 
 The officers were unable to maneuver them. When they 
 reached the top of the rise and got the full force of the fire, 
 they seemed just to fade back into the woods. Without 
 panic, but beyond the power of their officers to stop them, 
 they retreated into the woods. That was the line which 
 Kalloch saw once and saw no more. 
 
 While Kalloch was moving up, and while 'Connor was 
 seeking his Colonel in Montrebeau Wood, every infantry 
 officer of the division who was still effective was preparing 
 his command for the attack on Exermont. Among others 
 was Maj. Rieger, grooming his battalion of the 139th for 
 the grim advance. To the left and rear of Montrebeau 
 Wood, where he had made a line fronting the Argonne For- 
 est, he marshaled them in the rain and took them around 
 behind the wood with the intention of marching through it, 
 hoping to pick up some more men. It was a ghastly dawn, 
 and doubtless Maj. Rieger made a prayer to Jehovah of 
 The Thunders as he moved his devoted band eastward 
 through the cannonade. For Maj. Rieger is a religious 
 man and a deacon in the Baptist church back home in 
 Kirksville, Mo. It was he who formed the Sunday school 
 class of 300 members at Camp Doniphan. His employment 
 on Sept. 29 was far from being the way in which he usually 
 spent Sunday morning. 
 
 His battalion was well battered, but game. It had been 
 at the mopping up of Vauquois Hill and the Bois de Ros- 
 signol, it had spent the first night before Charpentry, the 
 second night in Montrebeau Wood, the third night in the 
 open facing the Argonne Forest, and now it was going to 
 essay the dread assault of Exermont. 
 As Maj. Rieger was starting into the wood, he met Col. 
 
208 TROM VAUQUOIS HUjL TO EXEEMONT 
 
 Nuttman, who pointed eastward and told him to go on and 
 attack. Eieger explained that his way lay through the 
 wood, that he was going to take its protection as far as he 
 could and pick up any available men to help out his scanty 
 force. 
 
 Nuttman said Exermont was in the direction in which 
 he was pointing, eastward. Rieger said he was sure the 
 brigade commander was wrong, and that unless he had posi- 
 tive orders otherwise, he would attack through the wood. 
 
 ''I order you to move that way around the wood and at- 
 tack Exermont," Col. Nuttman said. ''You can see the 
 town very soon." 
 
 Rieger obeyed and moved ahead. He had to take his 
 battalion between Montrebeau Wood and the strip of woods 
 to the east, and attack through the open. 
 
 His orders had been for 5 :30 a.m., with the regiments 
 on the right to come up and attack on his right. They had 
 not come and he had delayed an hour waiting for them. 
 He picked up a party of the 140th in the meantime. There 
 was good daylight when he reached the open field before, 
 and to the right of Montrebeau Wood. 
 
 The full fury of the enemy fire reached them when they 
 went over the rise, like the full current of a poisonous wind. 
 They pressed ahead. Never before had these men faced 
 such a concentration of artillery and machine gun fire, and 
 it took its toll. German machine gunners, brought with all 
 speed from reserve and from points on the French and 
 British fronts, hundreds of kilometers away, were lying 
 ahead grinding out their deadly hail. The opposing front 
 was thick with them, behind defenses, in foxholes, or lying 
 out in the grass. 
 
 Rieger 's men, benumbed with the cold rain, the lack of 
 warm food and the days of ceaseless work, did a peculiar 
 
RIEGER CHARGES INTO EXERMONT 209 
 
 thing, and the officer who saw and told me of it said it 
 swept him with a great gust of sorrow and pity; sorrow 
 that such things had to be and pity for the brave men going 
 to their deaths. 
 
 In the stunning, dumbing gust of war the men sensed 
 with their physical bodies rather than their minds, that 
 death was pouring past them in a flood. As if they were 
 walking forward through a driving hailstorm they turned 
 their faces to leeward and, leaning forward against the 
 blast, pushed ahead with the point of shoulder offered to 
 the gale. 
 
 Across the open they went. The barrage had failed to 
 come, and if our guns were helping the attack, there was 
 no assistance appreciable to the infantry. 
 
 Across the little valley and the creek they went, through 
 a fiendish fire, and without barrage or artillery support, 
 they charged and took the town of Exermont. This was the 
 Rieger whom Gen. Berry had declared was "absolutely 
 hopeless. ' ' 
 
 The enemy machine gunners were killed at their guns, 
 and the grim column moved on through the town out to 
 the heights beyond. There they dug in on a line ex- 
 tending to the northeast and lay down to hold and wait 
 for supports. An incident of this attack is told in the 
 first chapter of this book. 
 
CHAPTER XXXI 
 
 THE 140TH ADVANCES 
 
 In the meantime, on the right of our line of the night 
 before were the 140th and the 138th Regiments. They 
 also were to attack at 5:30, but the orders reached them 
 late. What was left of the 140th was in position at 
 6 a.m., waiting for the 138th to pass through it and lead 
 the attack, as the orders provided, but the 138th did not 
 come forward. 
 
 Soon after 6 a.m. Col. Delaplane received orders from 
 Col. Nuttman, commanding the other brigade, and Col. 
 Hawkins, to proceed with the 140th and lead the attack. 
 Delaplane asked his own brigade commander. Col. Wal- 
 ker, if he should advance or Avait for the 138th, as his 
 former orders read. Walker said for him to lead the 
 attack and he would have the 138th follow, and at the 
 same time, before his deployment was complete, Nutt- 
 man or Hawkins ordered him to move without further 
 preparation. This caused the regiment to move with less 
 order and formation than it would have had otherwise, 
 and resulted later in Col. Walker gaining the erroneous 
 impression that the whole regiment had stopped. 
 
 The same terrific machine gun fire from every availa- 
 ble position caught Delaplane 's men and artillery from 
 three sides pounded him, but adroitly taking advantage 
 of the terrain and handling his very brave men with ad- 
 dress, he took them into Exermont despite heavy losses. 
 Lieut. "Duke" Sheahan, commanding the 140th Scouts, 
 led the way into the town. Delaplane had with him parts 
 
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THE 140th advances 211 
 
 of his second and third battalions, and with these he 
 manned the town and connected with Rieger's line to the 
 east. 
 
 Captain Milligan was in charge of the advance, and 
 he took and held the most advanced part of the line 
 gained by the 140th. 
 
 The second wave of the 140th was stopped within 300 
 yards, and it was ordered back to its original line to 
 reform. Col. Walker thought that this was the entire 
 regiment. He did not know that a part of his command 
 had won through to Exermont. He sent this report: 
 
 29 September, 9:40 a.m. 
 
 From CO at CHAUDRON FARM, Sept. 29, 9 :35 a.m. 
 
 To C. 0. 35th Div. 
 
 140th Infantry began advancing at 6 :25 a.m. 138th 
 Infantry evidently did not receive orders because I 
 could not find them. Two companies of 139th Infantry 
 are mixed in with the 140th Infantry. No tanks ap- 
 peared. Advance was stopped within I/2 kilometers of 
 starting by artillery and machine gun fire. Have or- 
 dered another attack to begin 8 :15 a.m. Elements of 
 91st Division on our right but they did not advance at 
 5 :30 and are not advancing now. Apparently they have 
 no orders to advance. No evidence of advance on our 
 immediate left of any column. 138th Infantry just 
 now appeared and will put 2 battalions in the attack 
 which I have ordered. Holding 3rd battalion in re- 
 
 ^^^^®- Signed: Colonel Walker. 
 
 This attack faced conditions as desperate as any of 
 the preceding ones. Better light helped the German 
 gunners and the tired troops were mown down. At 10:30 
 a.m., it looked to Col. Walker that this attack also had 
 failed. Enemy machine guns were filtering far down 
 on the flank, so he ordered the troops back to their old 
 positions. 
 
212 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 But many of these troops also had gone ahead. At 
 6 a.m. Lieut. Leahy, commanding the Second Battalion, 
 received orders from Col. Parker to advance to the woods 
 north of Chaudron Farm (these are the woods to the 
 northeast of Montrebeau Wood) and there to wait for 
 the third battalion which would take position on his 
 right. It was Parker's plan to attack out of these 
 woods. 
 
 As Leahy moved forward, Col. Nuttman, commanding 
 the other brigade, ordered him to move through Montre- 
 beau Wood, which was on his left. Leahy explained that 
 he was acting under orders from his regimental com- 
 mander, and on a plan which involved the regimental at- 
 tack. Nuttman made his own orders positive and pointed 
 the way. Leahy took his battalion forward through Mon- 
 trebeau Wood, as ordered. He had no opposition in the 
 wood, but as he passed out of it he caught the full sweep 
 of the machine guns lying in the territory to the west of 
 Exermont. 
 
 His losses were extremely heavy, but he pressed for- 
 ward to the west of Exermont, passing over the ground 
 Kalloch had been driven from with almost total loss, and 
 crossed the ravine of Exermont. His men drove the 
 enemy before them or destroyed them when they stood 
 and fought. They stubbornly plunged ahead, even after 
 they came under the fire on their right flank from Hill 
 240. From the time they left Montrebeau wood, Leahy 
 had no protection on his left flank. His runners did 
 magnificent work in that destructive advance. Among 
 them were Corp. Brady, Supply Sergt. John Muese and 
 Mechanic William Hand, who had served him so well in 
 the big raid in the Vosges. 
 
 Leahy gained a point well to the north of Exermont, 
 
THE 140th advances 213 
 
 but westward, almost on a line between Exermont and 
 Fleville. There, about noon, Leahy was wounded and 
 put out of action. His only remaining runner took 
 back the battalion commander, leading him, half carrying 
 him, and later trundling him on a wheelbarrow. 
 
 Leahy turned the command over to Lieut. John E. Mitch- 
 ell, who was wounded 10 minutes later. 
 
 The battalion fell back slowly, fighting steadily, but 
 there were not enough men left to fight and care for the 
 wounded also. Most of the wounded and all the dead 
 were left on the field. 
 
 In the meantime, Lieut. Brightfield took the First Bat- 
 talion of the 138th forward to the woods Leahy had 
 aimed for until deflected, there to await the regimental 
 organization for the attack. He came under heavy shell 
 and machine gun fire, and dug in to hold the position 
 until the other battalions came up. 
 
 The third battalion under command of Capt. Bottger 
 was to attack on the right of the three battalions of the 
 138th. This battalion had been from the first charged 
 with the duty of keeping in combat liaison with the di- 
 vision on our right. The battalion caught a very heavy 
 fire as it advanced, but passed through the strip of woods, 
 and when a short distance in front of them, slowed up 
 and stopped. Then the men began to filter back into the 
 woods. 
 
 Sergt. Ross M. Koen was commanding L Company in 
 which command he had succeeded another sergeant, Rob- 
 inson, who had been gassed the night before. Koen en- 
 deavored to hold his men out in front, but he could keep 
 but six of them. With these he dug in and lay an hour 
 firing with rifles against the plentiful machine gun nests 
 opposing like a lone outpost attacking an entrenched 
 
214 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 army. Then he fell back into the woods. There he could 
 find none of his company or battalion, so he marshalled 
 his six men again, advanced again into the fire-swept 
 open and dug in on the crest of the ridge. 
 
 When Major Constable was ordered to move his post 
 back he replied: 
 
 29 Sept. 9 a.m. 
 
 From Constable at P.C., 3.20 a.m. 
 
 To Hay 
 
 All my companies are in line firing, one with 140th 
 one with 139th two with 137th. Brigade C. 0. di- 
 rected me to remain here last night as my P. C. was es- 
 tablished, and all my companies were familiar with 
 its location. Have an officer forward to Brigade C. 0. 
 at this time to find out what he desires. With one com- 
 pany of my battalion in my own brigade sector and the 
 other three companies in the other brigade sector, it 
 it a serious question as to where I can best direct my 
 battalion. You can surely see my position. Am en- 
 deavoring in every way to use my best judgment. 
 Will wait until I hear from Brigade C. O. 
 
 If I move back of 70th Brigade will lose contact 
 with my three companies on the left. 
 
 Later he sent this message : 
 
 29 September, 10:45 a.m. 
 
 From Constable at P.C., 10 :10 a.m. 
 
 Message from Nesbitt with 137th Inf. says he has 
 only three squads left. All other knocked out. Would 
 like to have relief, but I have no companies left. Com- 
 pany B reports very heavy casualties with 140th Inf. 
 Can you do anything for us ? All my companies are in. 
 
 Signed : Constable. 
 
 The medical men also were near the end of their rows : 
 
THE 140th advances 215 
 
 29 September, 10:40 a.m. 
 D.S. Charpentry, 9 a.m. 
 
 Have 100 bearers of mule Amb. and 2 wagons and 
 1 Ford out collecting in wounded, and there seems to 
 be no end to them. There must be 500 yet to come. 
 They are in all directions from me. Collecting is diffi- 
 cult as snipers and machine gunners are sweeping the 
 field, also aeroplanes. Our artillery fire is feeble. 
 
 Signed : Gist. 
 
 Send up blankets and litters. I am covering entire 
 field or sector in front of me. 
 
CHAPTER XXXII 
 
 GENERAL TRAUB ASKS TO BE WITHDRAWN 
 
 Capt. Bottger, commanding the 3rd battalion of the 
 138th, had got into the heavy fire, as he advanced, and 
 had been knocked over by the concussion of a shell. He 
 got into a shell hole to avoid the machine gun fire, and 
 with two privates, sick and slightly gassed, lay there 
 many hours, because the infiltration of enemy machine 
 gunners cut him off from his command. He finally es- 
 caped and made his way into the sector of the Ninety- 
 first Division. 
 
 Unable to find his battalion commander, Capt. Thomp- 
 son of M Company took command of the battalion. He 
 put Second Lieut. Harry B. Steele in command of I 
 Company; Sergt. Richter, K Company; Sergt Koen, L 
 Company, and Second Lieut. Hickam, M Company. Then 
 he prepared for a new advance. As he w^as forming, a 
 runner brought a verbal message from Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel Parker instructing him to organize a position, but the 
 position assigned could not be understood, being too in- 
 definite. Thereupon he started out to find the colonel. 
 
 He arrived at the bare place by the roadside, which 
 was regimental headquarters, only to learn that Col. 
 Parker had been killed a few minutes before, and that 
 the regimental adjutant, Capt. Clarence Schnelle, had been 
 badly wounded. Col. Parker was a regular army officer 
 who had orders to return to the states before the be- 
 ginning of the battle, but he had stayed to help, if he 
 could, the regiment to which he was greatly attached* 
 
 216 
 
GEN. TRAUB RECOMMENDS WITHDRAWAL 217 
 
 Schnelle was hit in the groin by a splinter of shell, prob- 
 ably from the same shell which killed his colonel. He 
 walked to brigade headquarters, and after reporting on 
 conditions, and that the colonel had been killed, said that 
 he had a wound himself, but he did not know how bad 
 it was. He was hurried to a dressing station, then back 
 to the triage and on to the rear, but too late. He died 
 soon afterward. 
 
 Since Maj. Comfort was detached, Capt. Thompson, who 
 was 25 years old, was at that time, I presume, the rank- 
 ing officer of the regiment. He assumed that he was, as 
 he could not find a superior, and hurried back to the 
 firing line. Before he had reached his battalion, he saw 
 troops retiring all along the line, which greatly astonished 
 him, and asking an officer, was informed that they had 
 been ordered to fall back to their original positions. 
 
 About this time, probably 11 a.m., Gen. Traub came to 
 the front to see for himself how conditions were. Mix- 
 ture of elements and shortage of officers was everywhere 
 apparent, and he ordered the troops withdrawn from 
 Exermont and reorganized behind a line of resistance 
 to be established by the division reserve. He reported to 
 Corps Headquarters: 
 
 Eecd. 11:15 a.m., 29th Sept. 1918. 
 
 From North slope of Montrebeau Woods to Oklahoma 
 
 3 for Buster 1, at 11 :00 a.m. 
 
 Regret to report that this Division cannot advance 
 beyond crest south of EXERMONT. It is thoroughly 
 disorganized through loss of officers and many casual- 
 ties, for which cannot give estimate, owing to inter- 
 mingling of units. Recommend it be withdrawn for 
 reorganization and be replaced promptly by other 
 troops in order that the advance may be continued. 
 
 Traub. 
 
218 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Soon after Col. Walker had sent the Sixty-ninth Bri- 
 gade forward the second time, he became convinced that 
 the second attack, too, must fail, and he gave orders that 
 the 138th and the 140th fall back to the positions they 
 held the night before. He sent this message : 
 
 29 September 12 M. 
 From CO 70th Brigade, 11 :05 a.m. 
 To Commanding General, 35th Division. 
 The troops in front of the 70th Brigade P. C. at 
 CHAUDRON Farm are falling back and we are going 
 to try to take up a position just south of this point. 
 
 Signed : Walker, 
 At CHAUDRON Farm. 
 
 Headquarters was growing a little twittery. There was 
 a fear that a determined attack by the Germans might 
 result in the capture of General Traub. This excited mes- 
 sage went back : 
 
 70th Brigade is falling back almost to BAULNY. 
 The Germans are rushing them back. General orders 
 are to get Divisions on our right and left to help im- 
 mediately. General now leaving BAULNY. Germans 
 are coming right on us. 
 
 From officer at Baulny, telephoning 
 
 by orders of General. 
 
 The first feeling of relief comes with these messages: 
 From CO 1st Bn., 110th Eng., at Foret Argonne 
 03.3-77.64., 29 Sept., 9 :35 a.m. I am moving this bn. 
 forward to draw one kilometer north of this post. 
 B.C. Avill be at 030-780. 
 
 E. M. Stayton. 
 
 The engineers are now digging in just North of 
 CHAUDRON Farm. We need help badly. Are falling 
 back to ravine between CHARPENTRY and BAUL- 
 NY. 
 
 Signed : Walker. 
 
CHAPTER XXXIII 
 
 THE 137TH'S FIRM, THIN LINE 
 
 In Montrebeau Wood Col. Mitchell, who had joined up 
 the night before under such disadvantageous circum- 
 stances, was technically in command of the 139th. Af- 
 ter Rieger and Delaplane had advanced in the woods, he 
 organized a regimental headquarters, made Lieut. Marcus 
 J. Morgan Adjutant, turned his scouts into runners and 
 tried to establish liaison with elements on both sides. He 
 did get in touch with the 138th on his right, but never 
 could find anybody on the left. 
 
 At about 9:30 a.m. he sent a message to Col. Nuttman 
 saying that the situation was unchanged, and suggesting 
 that the brigade commander come out and look things 
 over for himself. 
 
 Sometime after noon Lieut. Ridlon brought Mitchell 
 a verbal message from the commander of the Seventieth 
 Brigade, directing that the troops be withdrawn from 
 Montrebeau Wood to a line near the Chaudron Farm. 
 As his command was not in that brigade, he thought 
 there must be some mistake, so he sent his regimental 
 adjutant back to the Sixty-ninth Brigade headquarters to 
 find out about it. The adjutant returned and informed 
 the Colonel that the troops were to be withdrawn from 
 Montrebeau Woods under cover of darkness, but that there 
 were troops in Exermont, and that the troops in Montre- 
 beau Wood were to cover their retirement. The Colonel 
 sent Ridlon, with runners, as an officer patrol to give the 
 order for retirement to the troops in Exermont. 
 
 219 
 
220 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 At 2:40 Lieut. Heiny, the 139th intelligence officer, re- 
 turned from the 138th and said the Seventieth Brigade had 
 sent orders to the 138th that the right of the line should 
 withdraw. Soon his messengers told him that the Ger- 
 mans were moving forward on his right flank, apparently 
 attempting an enveloping movement, so he sent a hurried 
 request to the Seventieth Brigade to advance again and pro- 
 tect his flank. I think that Ristine, who had made his way 
 out of the German lines and had just rejoined the regiment 
 took this message. Very soon afterward the Germans ap- 
 peared on his right flank and Col. Mitchell ordered a with- 
 drawal from Montrebeau Wood to keep from being cut off 
 from the Chaudron Farm line. 
 
 Maj. O'Connor, who had fallen back early in the day 
 when he tried to advance to Kalloch's support, found it 
 impossible to reform his men in the woods. They were so 
 tired that they would fall into shell holes or foxholes and 
 sleep despite their own endeavors. The rain made every 
 movement difficult, and the constant shelling kept the men 
 down. 
 
 He formed a thin line on the left front of Montrebeau 
 Wood to protect against a counter attack, as the enemy was 
 filtering in on that side also. Two light attacks were re- 
 pulsed and when the third, a more serious one, threatened, 
 he called upon the artillery for a barrage and got an excel- 
 lent one, which scattered the threatening German skirmish 
 line. All day he kept up an action on that side of the wood, 
 but the disorganization in the woods was too great to allow 
 of his attacking, and late in the afternoon he received or- 
 ders to withdraw to the Chaudron Farm line prepared by 
 the reserve. 
 
 In all of Montrebeau Wood that day, there had been a 
 constant and searching fire from enemy guns, shrapnel, 
 
THE 137th 'S FIRM, THiN LINE 221 
 
 high-explosive and gas shells were pouring in upon the men 
 there, and the losses were heavy. 
 
 The confusion of orders in the 138th meanwhile was as 
 bad as the confusion of units. Sergt. Clyde E. Heath was 
 commanding A Company. He advanced at 8 a.m. to the 
 position held the day before, and at noon received orders to 
 advance two kilometers to the northeast and entrench be- 
 fore Exermont. While he was forming his sadly wasted 
 company for this movement, an orderly gave him a message 
 signed Walker, ordering the 138th and the 140th to drop 
 back to the positions held the night before. 
 
 He started to obey this order when Col. Ristine appeared 
 and said he had orders countermanding all previous orders, 
 and that the brigade was to move on Exermont as at first 
 ordered. Thirty minutes later the Adjutant of the Sixty- 
 ninth Brigade showed Heath orders from brigade head- 
 quarters to hold the battalion and wait further orders. Up 
 to 2 :30 p. m. the new orders had not been received and 
 Heath, when he saw the 140th dropping back, took his com- 
 pany back to a position 75 yards in front of the one they 
 had held two nights before. 
 
 Col. Walker's message ordering a withdrawal reached 
 Col. Delaplane in Exermont before Col. Mitchell's officer 
 patrol had got there, and Lieiit. Ridlon, who later became a 
 casualty, found preparations for the retirement under way. 
 
 The order to the troops in Exermont came none too soon. 
 Rieger's line to the northeast was fighting continuously to 
 hold the place it had dug in. Constant pressure was 
 brought on him by infantry and machine gunners, in addi- 
 tion to the shelling, but he was able to hold his line with- 
 out exceptional losses. Not long after noon Rieger ob- 
 served the enemy massing on his front in force which he 
 knew he could not withstand without disaster. He hurried 
 
222 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 MOniSlAlNVlUCA 
 
 messages to brigade headquarters telling of conditions and 
 asking for reinforcements. Instead, lie received the order 
 to withdraw. 
 
 He ordered the retirement and pulled his men back past 
 Exermont, fighting steadily all the way. Enemy infantry 
 and automatic riflemen were pressing in on him constantly, 
 but he kept them back by a 
 skillful rear guard action, 
 and marched without much 
 damage past the eastern end 
 of Exermont from which 
 town Col. Delaplane and his 
 portion of the 140th had 
 just departed. 
 
 From there Rieger fell 
 back, still fighting sullenly, 
 and inflicting all possible 
 damage on the enemy, and 
 so took back to the line of 
 the divisional reserve the 
 remnant of his fine com- 
 mand. By death, wounds 
 or gas he had lost all his 
 officers but one, and 65 per 
 cent of his men, but what 
 was left fought steadily all the way back. 
 
 The 35th Division had made its last advance. With the 
 exception of Capt. Harry Thompson and his battalion of 
 the 138th, all infantry elements were at dusk falling back 
 to the line of resistance prepared by the divisional reserve. 
 Most of them already had reached it. The retirement was 
 not as orderly as it might have been, but it was not in much 
 worse confusion than the division had fougrht in for four 
 
 lOORCUILUS 
 
 THE DAY'S ADVANCES 
 
THE 137th 'S FIRM, THIN LINE 223 
 
 days. Behind them, step for step, came the Germans, and 
 the rear guards, like Rieger's and O'Connor's and Bright- 
 field's, stubbornly kept them back, with their faces toward 
 the gathering gloom in the north. 
 
 Col. Mitchell, as he retired, posted Capt. D. H. Wilson 
 with 75 men at a hedge between Chaudron Farm and the 
 Montrebeau Wood to cover the evacuation of the wounded. 
 
 Soon after noon of that day, Capt. Thompson, command- 
 ing the Third Battalion of the 138th, after Bottger's mis- 
 hap, had observed the beginning of the retirement, and he 
 did not understand it. Orders were to advance, he had no 
 contrary orders, and he thought the officer who told him of 
 orders to retire was mixed up. Thompson became con- 
 cerned, fearing the troops were retreating, and an unor- 
 dered retreat of such a number of men would have meant 
 disaster. To offset this as much as possible and to restore 
 morale, he ordered his battalion forward with all speed. 
 He passed through the line of the retiring 140th, working 
 his way through a heavy barrage the Germans had laid to 
 catch the retreating troops, and at 7 p. m. had intrenched 
 a line before the right of Montrebeau Wood. 
 
 He received a verbal order from Maj. Norman J. Com- 
 fort, who had been sent from division headquarters to take 
 command of the 138th, to withdraw to Charpentry for the 
 reorganization of the regiment. Thompson was sure Com- 
 fort did not understand the conditions, nor the situation 
 the battalion was in, so he held his position out in front of 
 the prepared line of resistance. His position might have 
 been considered as the right of the prepared line, and 
 Thompson considered that, as he had good contact with the 
 enemy, it might be better than a position farther back of 
 which he was not sure, so he held his place. 
 
 On the night of September 29 Col. Turck, divisional sur- 
 
224 FROM VAUQtJOIS HILL TO KXERMONT 
 
 geon, was making his rounds in Cheppy, when in a dug-out 
 near the triage he found Col. Kumbold of the 128th Field 
 Artillery. The Colonel had stayed in the hospital two 
 days, could stand it no longer, and had dressed and pushed 
 to the front in an endeavor to get to his old command. He 
 never quite reached it because the doctors got him again, 
 saw that his physical condition was such that he could not 
 possibly stand the work, and sent him again to the rear. 
 At this time his left leg was virtually paralyzed. He had 
 fought in the war with Spain, in the Philippines, had 
 served on the border and had been with the Militia Bureau 
 in Washington, where he had formed the idea which re- 
 sulted in the Rainbow division. He had been a National 
 Guardsman for forty years, but he could not lead his old 
 command in battle. His fifty-eight years held him. 
 
CHAPTER XXXIV 
 
 THE ENGINEERS HOLD THE FRONT 
 
 The line of resistance to which the infantry fell back 
 from Exermont and Montrebeau Wood was prepared by the 
 110th Regiment of Engineers which that day came into its 
 own. 
 
 It was under command of Lieut.-Col. Edward M. Stay- 
 ton, a Missourian, and Capt. Edward P. Rankin, Jr., of El 
 Paso was acting adjutant. The Colonel, Thomas C. Clarke, 
 a plump and pleasant gentleman from New York, had been 
 taken to Division headquarters as divisional engineer. 
 
 At the opening of the offensive Sept. 26, besides the com- 
 panies assigned to accompany the tanks and cut wire, the 
 main force of engineers was to follow closely behind the 
 infantry and prepare the roads for the horse-drawn ve- 
 hicles, in order that supplies, rations and munitions might 
 be brought up. Their place was, then, between the in- 
 fantry fighting its way forward and the transport. Build- 
 ing roads for heavier traffic, such as motor trucks, was not 
 part of their work, according to the battle order. That was 
 for corps or army engineers. 
 
 The engineers had very clear ideas of many things in the 
 game of war. One of these was a most lively appreciation 
 of the value of liaison, of keeping the commander of the 
 outfit in constant communication with every unit under 
 his command. Because of this, the runners of the engineers 
 were chosen from among the best and most reliable men of 
 the regiment. Colonels and majors and captains worked 
 them into exhaustion without scruple, put in new relays, 
 
 225 
 
226 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 rested the tired men and again worked them into exhaus- 
 tion, but they kept communication, and all through the en- 
 gagement. Col. Stayton knew where his various outfits 
 were and what they were doing as well as how it was going 
 with the infantry ahead. 
 
 The rear P. C, followed the advance as closely as its 
 functions would permit. It was the ganglion to and from 
 which the runner-nerves radiated. Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Stayton occupied the forward P. C, handled things there 
 and kept in touch with Col. Clarke. 
 
 On the night of Sept. 28, the 110th Engineers became, 
 by order, division reserve, and at noon Sept. 29 they were 
 ordered to prepare a position for defense extending two 
 kilometers across Chaudron Farm. This line, which was 
 chosen by Lieutenant-Colonel Stayton, was about one kilo- 
 meter north of Baulny, and ran along behind the Chaudron 
 Farm road. Gen. Traub told Col. Clarke to take command 
 of the divisional front. 
 
 By the time the infantry had begun the general retire- 
 ment, the line was prepared and the engineers, now become 
 combatants, had equipped themselves with rifles and gre- 
 nades, laid out ammunition, and were ready to hold the 
 line themselves. 
 
 Back across the road came the wornout infantry and up 
 the slope of the hill. By the time each bunch reached the 
 engineers* line, the confusion and disorganization was 
 about as bad as it could be. In the absence of officers, or- 
 ders and rumors of orders drifted about from man to man, 
 and many of them thought the place they were to stop was 
 much further back. In no case that I have heard of 
 did the men fail to stop and take position when they had a 
 recognizable order to do so. Most of the infantry was 
 well back of the line at night. 
 
THE ENGINEERS HOLD THE FRONT 227 
 
 Col. Stayton and his officers and non-commissioned of- 
 ficers rounded up and faced about tired, leaderless groups, 
 put them in place and encouraged them in every way possi- 
 ble. Before the covering troops were out of Montrebeau 
 Wood the newly-taken position on the slope of the hill was 
 heavily shelled. 
 
 Sergt. Sam W. Cobb of the engineers headquarters de- 
 tachment, a St. Louisan, had a good idea just about this 
 time. To inspirit the infantry and to show the high heart 
 of his own outfit, he led his detachment forward. This ac- 
 tion, which he did on his own initiative and without orders, 
 had an excellent moral effect. It was Cobb who, at Cheppy, 
 worked all night on a heavy machine gun the enemy had 
 left, after disabling it, and who used it next day against 
 airplanes. 
 
 Thus, with two battalions of engineers on the left and a 
 remnant of a battalion of infantry (Capt. Thompson's) on 
 the right, and various pieces of other outfits strung along, 
 the line was organized and held. The entire division front 
 was in this way put in command of a Colonel of Engineers 
 to hold, and it was held. It never went back a foot. Two 
 machine gun companies took position with them and 
 fought with accustomed bravery in repelling a counter at- 
 tack and in harassing the enemy. 
 
 When the engineers' line was beating off its counter-at- 
 tack, Maj. Horace Rumsey of the Artillery was informed 
 that their greatest need was for machine guns. He took 
 the anti-aircraft machine gun from in front of a battery 
 position and hurried it forward to the line, along with 
 abundance of ammunition, and it was used against the Ger- 
 man infantry. 
 
 The work of the artillery never gets sufficient credit, it 
 seems to me. Without the artillery, the infantry might 
 
228 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 have advanced, but it would have been destroyed utterly. 
 The preliminary bombardment of the enemy's position on 
 the night of Sept. 25 was as fine a piece of work in crafts- 
 manship and effectiveness as the war has seen. In the fol- 
 lowing days and nights, the artillery toiled ceaselessly to 
 keep the guns going and to move them forward to positions 
 of effectiveness. There is a high courage and stamina in 
 the ceaseless toil through the mud, over shell holes and al- 
 ways under fire, and no one is more keenly aware than the 
 writer that he has failed to tell sufficiently well that part 
 of the story. 
 
 The tremendously important part the artillery plays of- 
 ten is not a conspicuous one. The plant is established back 
 of the line, the goods are delivered far up ahead. You do 
 not see the artillery often, and only after an advance do 
 you see what its work has been. 
 
 The difficulty of moving the guns, with the chronic short- 
 age of horses, was almost insurmountable, but our artillery 
 pressed ahead as fast as it could, and when the infantry 
 was relieved, the artillery stayed in position and helped the 
 First Division. 
 
 The total number of shells sent across by the Sixtieth 
 Artillery Brigade in the Argonne was nearly 80,000. These 
 are the exact figures : 
 
 Size of shells. 
 
 Date 75s. 155s. 
 
 Sept. 26 37,033 4,486 
 
 Sept. 27 1,090 
 
 Sept. 28 2,624 581 
 
 Sept. 29 10,418 2,313 
 
 Oct. 30 12,227 1,115 
 
 Oct. 1 4,189 249 
 
 Oct. 2 348 1,380 
 
THE ENGINEERS HOLD THE FRONT 229 
 
 On Sept. 28 Gren. Pershing came to the divisional head- 
 quarters of the 35th Division. Gen. Traub explained the 
 situation to the army commander, told him of the flanking 
 artillery fire which his troops got out of Apremont and 
 the Argonne Forest, and spoke of the order which forbade 
 divisional artillery firing on points outside of its own divi- 
 sional area. 
 
 ''But surely you do not obey that order?" Gen. Persh- 
 ing asked. 
 
 ''It is the order," Gen. Traub replied, but after that our 
 artillery pounded Apremont. 
 
 In the night renewed attempts were made by all effec- 
 tive officers to organize and reassemble the mixed units, 
 but with little success. Men sound asleep in the rain on a 
 dark night do not answer readily when the command is 
 given. 
 
 Food and ammunition were brought up during the night, 
 and in spite of the continuous bombardment, the men slept. 
 
 Thompson 's was the only outfit ahead of this line, except 
 the camp in the lee of the hedge from which the wounded 
 were being carried to the rear after they were collected 
 from the field. 
 
 The tired stretcher bearers were so weakened that it took 
 six of them to carry a man, instead of four, and they plod- 
 ded very slowly that night. 
 
 The wounded were thick about there, lying on the ground 
 or on the very scarce stretchers. Its quota of stretchers 
 never was given to the division. The long days of fighting 
 and cold and rain had benumbed the men, and softened 
 their suffering. Among them lay old John Wingate, chief 
 of scouts, dying of a wound in his stomach, and smoking a 
 cigarette. 
 
 They buried him near the hospital between Liieutenant- 
 
230 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Colonel Dickey, Adjutant of Col. Walker's brigade, and 
 Lieut. Ralph Oldham, the gallant lad who was hit by a 
 shell on the Charpentry road, while taking ammunition to 
 the front. 
 
 The spirit of the wounded was always good, and there 
 are incidents without end to show that gallant deeds did 
 not end on the battle fields. 
 
 Corp. D. C. Satterfield was wounded in the leg, refused 
 to go to a dressing station, bound his wound himself and 
 fought on until he was hit through the body. 
 
 Capt. Wilson, in charge of the evacuation of wounded 
 on the night of Sept. 29, had himself been wounded two 
 days before. 
 
 This fourth day also saw more brave work by the ambu- 
 lance drivers, orderlies and stretcher bearers. While the 
 infantry was advancing and paying for each rod gained by 
 the wounded it left behind, out onto the field came the 
 mule-drawn ambulances. Into the fire and across the open 
 they went. The infantry advanced in dashes, lying down 
 to fire at times, but the ambulances had to get their loads 
 and hurry back without these pauses. 
 
 Many men of the infantry regiments, the 110th Sanitary 
 Train and the sanitary detachments of the machine gun 
 battalions were cited in orders for gallantry shown that 
 day. 
 
 One of the showings of the fine spirit which animated 
 the men of the division was witnessed by Capt. F. Hurwitt, 
 who commanded Ambulance Company No. 137. This com- 
 pany was stationed in Charpentry and because of the short- 
 age of transport, on Sept. 29, Capt. Hurwitt had been sort- 
 ing out the "slightly gassed" cases as they came into the 
 station and was putting them in a large barn where they 
 could lie down and rest, this bein^ the treatment most de- 
 
THE ENGINEERS HOLD THE FRONT 231 
 
 sired. The more serious cases and the wounded were sent 
 back. A Lieutenant- Colonel came to Capt. Hurwitt and 
 asked if there were many slightly gassed cases in the sta- 
 tion. 
 
 ''About 200, sir. They are in that barn/* the Captain 
 replied. ': : ' 'l^U 
 
 The Lieutenant-Colonel went into the barn and standing 
 at one end, looked over the prostrate men and said : 
 
 "Men, I want you to listen to me for a minute. I have 
 just come from the first line and they are in a bad way up 
 there. It looks very bad to me. Now you men have been 
 gassed, I have been gassed, too. But they need us up there, 
 and I am going back. And I want every one of you that 
 thinks he can stand it, to go back with me. There are 
 plenty of rifles and ammunition on this salvage dump. 
 How many of you gassed men will take another try to help 
 out those fellows up there on the line ? ' ' 
 
 The men had already begun to get up from the floor, 
 some were sitting, some kneeling and some standing, and 
 when the Colonel went out of the bam every man followed 
 him. Capt. Hurwitt stopped three of them and made them 
 return to the bam. These were men to whom the exertion 
 would mean certain death, but all the rest, every man of 
 them, armed himself with the rifle of a wounded man, and 
 went back northward and again into the fight. 
 
CHAPTER XXXV 
 
 THE LAST DAY OF BATTLE 
 
 When the 35th Division established itself on the line pre- 
 pared by the engineers, and organized for defense, it had 
 been stopped temporarily by the opposition, and in that re- 
 gard its position was very similar to that of every other 
 division on the American front. 
 
 The first phase of the battle was over. The defense sys- 
 tem against which the division had thrown itself was called 
 the Kriemhilde-Stellung line, and the Germans had been 
 able to join up along this line, which was a part, one layer, 
 it might be called, of the Hindenburg line. 
 
 In the area of the 35th Division, we knew only of the 
 situation and condition in our own sector and on our own 
 front. Back in corps and army headquarters, it was pos- 
 sible to consider the front as a whole, with the condition 
 of each of the nine divisions having its proper weight in the 
 decision of the high command. 
 
 Reports from the vital fronts, including the Thirty- 
 fifth's, showed that prisoners recently captured proved 
 that new, rested divisions of Germans were being put in 
 against the Americans. 
 
 Gen. Pershing had the option of sending his forces 
 again to the attack, or of holding the ground already 
 gained while he prepared for another general advance. 
 This preparation would include getting up artillery, the 
 replacing of those divisions which had suffered most and 
 rehabilitating the others with replacements, hot food, 
 equipment and clothing. 
 
 S3§ 
 
THE LAST DAY OF BATTLE 233 
 
 The General decided that it would be unwise to send his 
 tired divisions against the new German divisions, and 
 adopted the latter course. 
 
 The insertion in the German line of the new troops 
 showed not only the enemy's determination to hold the 
 line at whatever cost, but also how severely he was suffer- 
 ing under the attack. Heavily as we suffered his losses 
 were severe enough to compel him to bring fresh troops to 
 our front, which showed that the American strokes were 
 going home. The German was feeling the steel as keenly 
 as was the attacker. 
 
 When the Thirty-fifth lay on the engineers' line, three 
 of the original divisions had been taken out of the line. 
 First was the Eightieth, which had been pulled back for 
 reorganizing and reforming, and then was sent in again. 
 On Sept. 30, the Thirty-seventh, which was the second di- 
 vision on our right, was relieved by the Thirty-second, and 
 on the same date the Seventy-ninth, which was the third 
 division on our right, w^as relieved by the 3rd Division. 
 
 AVhile the situation was developing in headquarters of 
 the army staff, the Thirty-fifth, among others, must hold 
 the line. Our artillery was now up and in position. The 
 engineers' line was manned, but nowhere quite as strongly 
 as it might have been, and there was great comfort in the 
 fact that scattered all along were our machine-gun battal- 
 ions and companies, whose courage, wakefulness and 
 strength never seemed to fail. 
 
 The ''line of resistance" was organized on the line 
 I'Esperance-Chaudron Farm— Hill 231. Outposts were 
 placed and a second line of resistance was established a 
 short distance behind the first, beginning on the ridge north 
 of Baulny. The majority of the troops had sifted back of 
 the line, and laj in foxholes, dugouts, ditches, trenches 
 
234 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 and hollows over all the territory almost back to Cheppy. 
 They were anywhere that they could sleep and get a little 
 rest. Officers were very few, and many non-coms com- 
 manded platoons and companies. 
 
 Col. Clarke took over for his forward headquarters a 
 massive German pillbox which had been an enemy head- 
 quarters. Stayton was in the front line. 
 
 The greatest mass of troops, of course, was on the line. 
 Officers there had spent the night of Sept. 29 preparing 
 the position, disposing the troops for resistance and in the 
 very earnest endeavor to get up rations and ammunition. 
 
 Neither officers nor men knew whether the next day 
 would see them put again to the attack, or withdrawn, but 
 there were continual rumors, which would spread rapidly 
 along the trench, that the division was to be relieved. 
 
 A second line of resistance was formed soon after mid- 
 night. Col. Mitchell gathered what men he could from the 
 territory about him and took them to the line. Some ma- 
 chine gunners came up also, and he had 300 or 400 men 
 behind the engineers with eight or ten machine guns. 
 
 The tangle of units was worse than ever. Col. Hamilton 
 had gone to hospital, a casualty, and Maj. O'Connor, com- 
 manding the remnants of the 137th Regiment, brought 
 it back to the engineers' line. He inserted parties of his 
 men in the line wherever they were needed, thus mixing his 
 own outfit worse than ever, but strengthening the line. 
 
 The engineers had dug the line, and during the day 
 (the 30th), the greater number of men in it were engineers. 
 Elements of infantry were scattered through, without 
 much order, but if order there were, one might say that the 
 137th was on the left and the 138th on the right. Machine 
 guns were in position and the line was ready. The men 
 who saw to that were the engineers. In some places ma- 
 
THE LAST DAY OF BATTLE 235 
 
 chine gunners alone held the front. It was a desperate 
 day. 
 
 This message went to the Divisional Machine Gun officer : 
 
 30 September, 10 a. m. 
 
 From Commanding Officer, Co. A, 128th M. G. Bn., at 
 
 Baulny. 
 
 To D. M. G. 0. 
 
 Machine guns unassisted by infantry are being left 
 to hold enemy. Our best men have already been killed. 
 If the sacrifice is necessary we do not complain, but is 
 it necessary? Signed: Schrantz, Capt. 
 
 Only the most immediate action can save the re- 
 maining machine guns of the Division. 
 
 Here are other messages of the day : 
 
 From Major Mabrey, 140th Inf., At 03.1-77.9 Foret 
 
 d 'Argonne. 
 
 9 :50 a. m., 30th Sept. 
 
 There are no patrols or companies in the woods that 
 we know of. Artillery is firing in own lines again. 
 Boche are advancing on our front. 
 
 Signed: Mabray. 
 30 September, 1918, 11 :10 a. m. 
 
 From: R. T. Gibson, Captain, C. A. C, Aerial Ob- 
 server. 
 To G-2, 35th Division. 
 
 1. Tried to call 1st Battalion 128th F. A. Enemy 
 shells falling at B5 JO. Phone No. 22. 
 
 Thompson and his Third Battalion of the 138th were 
 still outside the works. He had skillfully taken a position 
 which the enemy would find difficulty in driving him out 
 of and from which he could constantly harass the Ger- 
 mans. He was exactly where the enemy did not want him 
 to be, and from 3 to 6 a. m. his position was heavily and 
 accurately shelled. Thompson's line was unmoved by the 
 cannonading, in spite of casualties. This fire came mostly 
 
236 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 from Thompson 's left flank and his left rear, doubtless out 
 of the Argonne Forest. 
 
 After daylight on the morning of the 30th the Germans 
 tried to drive him from his position by a counter attack 
 out of Montrebeau Wood, which the enemy had re-entered 
 immediately after the American withdrawal. At 9 a. m. 
 one German ran out with a tripod for a machine gun and 
 dropped in a shell hole. Then came another man with the 
 gun. Then another with ammunition. Three guns were 
 advanced in this way, and Thompson, knowing an attack 
 was imminent, called on our artillery for a barrage. The 
 Germans came out of the woods in a charging wave, and 
 our artillery came across with a perfect barrage at the 
 same time. 
 
 The co-ordinates given were perfect, and the aim of the 
 guns was no less perfect. The infantry with Chauchats 
 and rifles kept up a killing fire on the wave, and it hesitated, 
 stopped and retreated into the woods with heavy^ loss. 
 
 During the day three such attacks were repulsed, and 
 the enemy machine guns which were constantly being 
 pushed forward were fought all day long and many put 
 out of commission. 
 
 Major Loy gave Thompson aid, as this message shows: 
 
 30 September, 12:55 p. m. 
 
 From C. 0. 129th M. G. Bn., 300 meters north of Char- 
 
 pentry Evacuation Sta., 12 M. 
 
 To Division M. G. Officer. 
 
 With remnants of Company A, C, and D about 150 
 men and 17 guns have taken up position covering 
 points of hill 210 along same ridge to extreme right 
 flank of Division sector. 128th M. G. Bn. I have 
 turned over to C. 0. 138th Inf., who is occupying the 
 ridge immediately in our front. Co. B, 129th M. G. 
 Bn., has left about 75 men, has lost all its guns, need 
 about 12 guns complete. Please answer by phone. 
 
THE LAST DAY OF BATTLE 237 
 
 Sergt. Koen, who had been in command of L Company 
 had rejoined, and, in addition to his other work, he made 
 four trips back through the engineers' line and into Char- 
 pentry for Capt. Thompson, carrying messages and getting 
 rations for the men in the line. Nightfall again found 
 Thompson 's men in the line before Montrebeau Wood, grim- 
 ly holding on. 
 
 Col. Nuttman, commanding the Sixty-ninth Brigade, had 
 become ill, and Col. H. S. Hawkins, chief of staff, had tak- 
 en over command of the brigade. Col. Nuttman was evac- 
 uated to a hospital in the rear. 
 
 The engineers' line was shelled all day long, and en- 
 deavors were made by the enemy to filter machine gunners 
 back, but these were prevented. Two light counter at- 
 tacks against the line were easily repulsed. 
 
 Some officer, probably Col. Bugge, conceived the idea 
 of attacking again to clear the Germans off the immediate 
 front. This message replied to the suggestion : 
 
 30 September, 12 :55 p. m. 
 
 From Captain Vallee, 12 :50 p. m. 
 
 To Oklahoma 3. 
 
 Unable to locate the General to secure his O.K. or 
 disapproval of plan to advance at 2 o'clock. Have, 
 however, seen Colonel Hawkins who states advance to 
 be a physical impossibility as men are in the last stages 
 of exhaustion and can do nothing more than hold on 
 until relief comes, which should come soon. 
 
 At nightfall, the position was where it had been the night 
 before, and it was better organized and stronger than it had 
 been the preceding evening. 
 
 Soon after dark on the night of Sept. 30, orders were 
 received that the 35th Division would be relieved by the 
 First Division at 3 a. m., Oct. 1. 
 
 Most everybody was willing but Thompson. He was 
 
238 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 still out in front with his battalion, fighting the enemy in 
 the edge of Montrebeau Wood, keeping perfect touch with 
 the Ninety-first on our right, and connecting with the en- 
 gineers' line by his patrols. 
 
 At nightfall he again received orders to withdraw, hav- 
 ing failed to do so when first ordered, but he felt that his 
 position was too vital to permit of his abandoning it until 
 a relief had come, so he stuck to the line. He had received 
 some rations and ammunition, and was ' ' sitting pretty. ' ' 
 
 At 3 'clock on the morning of Oct. 1, the First Division 
 came in for the relief, which it accomplished smoothly and 
 with speed. The men came in standing in the shell fire, 
 and they took many casualties. Our men, taught the hard 
 lesson, presented as little of their bodies to the enemy fire 
 as possible. As fast as one of our sections was released it 
 was marched to the rear. 
 
 The company of the Twenty-eighth Regulars sent to 
 relieve Thompson came in echeloned in depth, with but 50 
 men in the front line to take the place of the probably 200 
 Thompson had left. Thompson sent his men back under 
 other officers and Sergeants, and stayed six hours longer 
 with the relief, showing them the lay of the land. When he 
 rejoined his outfit near Cheppy, Capt. Bottger had again 
 taken command of the battalion. 
 
CHAPTER XXXVI 
 
 THE RELIEF— THE WORK DONE 
 
 Elements of the Thirty-fifth were grouped just south of 
 Charpentry before dawn of Oct. 1 and from there marched 
 south to Cheppy and into the area between Cheppy and 
 the Forge Moulin, to be sorted, grouped and reassembled. 
 
 The division looked more like a band of refugees than a 
 military organization. The men were unshaven, dirty and 
 haggard. Their clothing was soiled and torn, their shoes 
 muddy and worn out. Many had minor wounds and the 
 white bandages were plentiful. A great deal of equipment 
 had been lost or abandoned. The men lay about their vari- 
 ous grouping spaces, two or three together sleeping under 
 one or two raincoats. Many had grown hoarse from cold or 
 gas, and nearly every one 's eyes were red from gas and loss 
 of sleep. 
 
 A serious dysenteric condition had broken out. Its cause 
 was variously ascribed to the water, to eating canned food 
 continuously, to the lack of hot food for five days. The epi- 
 demic greatly weakened the men and made the reas- 
 sembling of units still more difficult. 
 
 It was a sorry band as for looks, but it had played a 
 great part in a great battle. The guns were pounding 
 heavily just ahead. Airplanes, our own and the enemy's, 
 flew above, and the air was full of fighting, shells snarled 
 above, but the men slept. 
 
 For this weary, dirty, lousy band of men had in the last 
 five days fought with and taken prisoners from six German 
 divisions, the First and Fifth Prussian Guard, the First 
 
240 PROM VAUQttOIS HILL TO EXERMdl^f 
 
 and Second Landwehr, and the Thirty-seventh and Fifty- 
 second Divisions of the line. 
 
 They had advanced 12^4 kilometers into enemy terri- 
 tory and through the defenses of the Hindenburg line. 
 They had organized and held a line 10 kilometers forward 
 of the original front. 
 
 They had captured and turned in through their own 
 cage as prisoners 751 men and 13 officers. Besides these, 
 some 250 prisoners had been cleared through the Ninety- 
 first Division's cage. 
 
 Included in the great mass of material captured were 
 the following: 
 
 Eighty -five machine guns. 
 
 .One hundred and sixty autorifles. 
 
 One hundred anti-tank guns. 
 
 Four telephone systems. 
 
 One engineer dump. 
 
 Two ammunition dumps. 
 
 Five six-inch howitzers. 
 
 Two machine-gun belt fillers. 
 
 Three 77mm. field pieces. 
 
 One 60 cm. gauge gas engine. 
 
 Four whiz-bangs. 
 
 One anti-aircraft battery. 
 
 Three trench mortars. 
 
 Eleven pieces artillery. 
 
 One one-pound gun. 
 
 The 35th Division had in the meantime suffered 8023 
 casualties in four days of desperate fighting. The War 
 Department records show 960 killed, 6894 wounded and 
 169 captured. Those who died of wounds almost im- 
 mediately after being taken to the rear made the num- 
 ber of dead exceed 1000. 
 
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 ^' ^^A^'^f 
 
 TOP— TANKS IX ACTION 
 
 MIDDLE— CHEPPY 
 
 BOTTOM— GERMAN PRISONERS 
 
THE RELIEF — THE WORK DONE 241 
 
 The 35th Division had lost in the Argonne approximate- 
 ly 7000 men. These were not killed, but any eventuality 
 which removes a man from the line takes one effective sol- 
 dier from the division. The man taken prisoner or slightly 
 gassed and sent to a hospital in the rear, is just as certain- 
 ly lost to the effective strength of the organization as the 
 man who is killed on the field. 
 
 These 7000 casualties of the Thirty-fifth would look at 
 first something like 25 per cent of the division, count- 
 ing it at 27,000, but it was much more serious than that. 
 Any good division ought to be able to stand 25 per cent cas- 
 ualties and keep on fighting. In the first place, the division 
 was under strength when it went into the fight. But much 
 more important than that, when one endeavors to calculate 
 the force remaining, was the fact that nearly all these cas- 
 ualties were among the foot soldiers of the advanced ele- 
 ments. The Infantry and machine gunners had suffered 
 the heavy losses. 
 
 I am sure that on the morning of Sept. 26 the four 
 infantry regiments did not average more than 2500 men 
 each, and that machine gunners, engineers (ordinarily not 
 counted with the combatants) signal corps, intelligence, 
 and every other element which had men forward, did not 
 total more than 15,000 men. Counting out the men who 
 did not bear arms, the division probably sent 14,000 rifles 
 on the field. Seven thousand casualties meant virtually a 
 50-per-cent loss and weakening of the division. 
 
 The Division went into the battle woefully short of of- 
 ficers of all ranks. Full officer strength would have given 
 the division two brigadier generals of infantry, but there 
 was none. Both brigades were commanded by Colonels. 
 Two of the infantry regiments were commanded by Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonels. The regiments greatly needed battalion 
 and company officers. The average was about three to a 
 
242 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 company, when it should have been six, one Captain and 
 five Lieutenants. If a company was fortunate enough to 
 have four officers, one of them was requisitioned by some 
 other company which had but two officers. There was one 
 Major in the 138th, Sauerwein. Comfort had been at- 
 tached to headquarters. After the second day two of the 
 battalions were commanded by Lieutenants, Leahy and 
 Brightfield. 
 
 The brilliant action on the Eiver Aire, the Thirty-fifth 
 on the right and the Twenty-eighth on the left, brought 
 from the American command the signal honor of mention 
 in the communique. We had been at war for more than 
 a year, but the communique had not yet identified the units 
 when telling of their work. The communique issued after 
 the first day 's fight said : 
 
 ''Pennsylvania and Missouri and Kansas troops, serving 
 in Major-General Liggett 's corps, stormed Varennes, Mont- 
 blainville, Vauquois and Cheppy after stubborn resist- 
 ance. ' ' 
 
 The captures of other towns along the line were men- 
 tioned, but no other troops specified. The Pennsylvanians 
 were in the Twenty-eighth Division, and the Missouri and 
 Kansas troops made up the Thirty-fifth. 
 
 The distinguished Generals who saw the troops in the 
 British area in May all predicted they would make magnifi- 
 cent soldiers and said that they would watch with great 
 interest to see whether the predictions were verified. 
 
 I took Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, the English artist, and 
 some British writers down to look at the division once, and 
 they all said they never had seen better looking soldiers. 
 
 The good predictions came true. At no time in the fight 
 was any unit called upon for any action that it did not im- 
 mediately try to perform. They advanced just as gallantly 
 
tse relief — THE work: done 243 
 
 to the last attack as they did in the first, and they under- 
 went the exhausting trial, privations and continuous work 
 with rare stamina. 
 
 The physical weariness of the men; the losses, which in 
 the infantry were nearly 50 per cent among the men more 
 than that among the officers; the intermingling of units 
 which began in the fog of the first day and continued 
 through the action ; all these tended to reduce the efficiency 
 of the division. Behind the lines and ready to enter the 
 fight was the fresh First Division. The army command put 
 the strong, rested unit into the line in the place of the 
 weary one which had carried the fight to the enemy during 
 the desperate first phase of the battle. 
 
 The First Division held the line the Thirty-fifth turned 
 over to it for four days, waiting for the artillery to get 
 ready, then it attacked in the second phase of the battle. 
 When it advanced, 750 cannon were firing behind it. It 
 fought for eight days, bitterly, and lost 9000 men. It ad- 
 vanced beyond Fleville but the whole month of October 
 did not show a gain in that area greater in depth than that 
 the Thirty -fifth had made in the last five days of Septem- 
 ber. 
 
 The 35th Division played its glorious part in the Ar- 
 gonne-Meuse battle, the decisive battle of the great war. 
 It captured strongholds which the enemy had held firmly 
 for three years. It went over open lands and sought out 
 and whipped the best soldiers of the German Empire. Un- 
 der the dull, autumn sky, and through the steady, cold 
 rain it pushed ahead, and it reddened that gray field of 
 France with the blood of a thousand dead. When it had 
 spent its force, it stepped aside to let another refreshed 
 division take its place and carry on the work. 
 
CHAPTER XXXVII 
 
 SOMMEDIEUE, COMMERCY AND HOME 
 
 From Cliepp3% the Division marched south into the area 
 lying generally north of Bar-le-Duc, where after a few 
 days' rest, they pushed on eastward across the Meuse, and 
 took over the very quiet sector south of Verdun, called 
 Sommedieue sector. 
 
 It appeared at this time that they would go back in the 
 heavy fighting again almost immediately, and the ordnance 
 department was ordered to re-equip the men with all speed. 
 This was done on the march and at each nightly stopping 
 place. The wear and waste of battle had been such that 
 150 loads from three-ton trucks were necessary to do this. 
 Among other things needed were 6000 steel helmets, which 
 had been lost in the fight, a striking commentary on the 
 fierceness of the conflict. Ordnance includes almost every- 
 thing the soldier carries about him and the machinery by 
 which he attaches it to himself. 
 
 The march into Sommedieue was a trying one on the ex- 
 hausted men. They seemed to march in a sort of daze. A 
 cold rain fell most of the time through which the soldiers 
 plodded dumbly. The kitchens came along and the hot 
 food and coffee, consumed in great quantities, slowly re- 
 vived the men. 
 
 A stiff, neat, energetic colonel from Corps Headquarters 
 bounded into the Division on the march, to inspect it. His 
 report showed how appalled he was by these ragged men. 
 They did not salute him in the manner he desired, and he 
 
 244 
 
SOMMEDIEUE, COMMERCY AND HOME 245 
 
 observed on several occasions officers and men talking to- 
 gether on conditions of apparent equality and friendship. 
 It was most deplorable. In his report to his superiors, he 
 said the most cutting thing in his vocabulary, which was: 
 ''This Division has all the earmarks of a National Guard 
 outfit, which it is. ' ' 
 
 These men had descended into hell aud had remained 
 there five days in dreadful battle. They had now come out 
 again, but they still reeked with the fumes of the brimstone. 
 After the manner of National Guardsmen and other hu- 
 mans the world around, they had to talk it over. They 
 were sick, tired and hungry, and their military courtesj^ 
 had lost its snap, but it is difficult to believe that they were 
 not just as good soldiers as they were two weeks before, 
 when the sight of a Sam Browne belt would have brought 
 every man to attention. 
 
 There were issues of new clothing in the Sommedieue 
 Sector, but not enough, and shoes, socks and underwear 
 were provided, but still not enough to go around ; but best 
 of all there was plenty of grub, and with it the return of 
 the men to physical fitness. The dysenteric condition dis- 
 appeared. Occasionally a man got a bath, everybody 
 shaved, and veiy soon the talk was of "When will we get 
 back into it again ? ' ' 
 
 On October 10, Brigadier General Dugan joined the Di- 
 vision and took command of the brigade. When he started 
 on his first tour of inspection, his keen sense of military 
 neatness was violated by the first soldier he saw. Turning 
 to the Colonel who accompanied him, he demanded fiercely, 
 ''Why do you allow these men to wear these German 
 souvenirs ? ' ' The Colonel did not understand. 
 
 "Don't you see those knives they are wearing?" 
 
 "But, General, that is the American trench knife of the 
 
246 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 regular issue. ' ' The General passed on in silence. He had 
 never seen the weapon before. 
 
 Although General Dugan did not join the Division un- 
 til ten days after it came out of the battle, the Distin-. 
 guished Service Medal was awarded to him for his good 
 work in handling the 70th Brigade in the Argonne-Meuse 
 offensive, according to the citation. 
 
 In the Sommedieue sector, there was little doing, al- 
 though it was, generally speaking, much livelier than the 
 old days in the Vosges. All four regiments were in the 
 line, each having two battalions in the line and one in sup- 
 port. Strong patrols went out nightly, seeking prisoners, 
 and one of these patrols under Captain Truman, pene- 
 trated nearly to Etain. 
 
 The sector will be remembered by men of the Thirty-fifth 
 particularly as the place where the enemy one night put 
 over 7000 gas shells, for no particular reason that we could 
 learn. We had about 200 casualties, but nearly all of them 
 slight. 
 
 On Nov. 1, the Division passed under the 17 French 
 army corps and on Nov. 5, was relieved by the 81st Divi- 
 sion. The artillery and ammunition train stayed in the 
 Sommedieue sector to support the 81st. 
 
 As the Thirty-fifth was being relieved by the ''Wild Cat" 
 Division, as the Eighty-first called itself, the telescope used 
 by Lt. Heiny disappeared. This riled the Intelligence Officer 
 of the 139th. He detailed two sergeants to the search and 
 instructed them to stay in the sector until after the peace 
 was signed if they did not get the telescope before that time. 
 He sought the ''Wild Cat" Colonel and explained the mat- 
 ter to him. Later in the day Heiny discovered where his 
 telescope had been concealed, took it and packed it with his 
 materials. Then he called upon the "Wild Cat" Colonel 
 
SOMMEDIEUE, COMMERCY AND HOME 247 
 
 again, saluted very formally, reported that he had discov- 
 ered his telescope and bade him ' ' Good-bye. ' ' 
 
 *'I hope you did not think any of our men were trying 
 to steal your telescope, ' ' said the Colonel. 
 
 ''Oh, that didn't annoy me," Heiny replied, ''stealing 
 is all right. I have no objection to that, but the thing that 
 makes me sore is that anybody in this outfit thought he 
 could put anything like that over on us." 
 
 Our men knew a lot of the tricks of soldiering by the 
 time they were relieved in the Sommedieue Sector. They 
 looked upon the "Wild Cats" as children who had just 
 come into the game, and the men of the Thirty-fifth took a 
 kind and fatherly interest in the newcomers. 
 
 The veterans sold the "Wild Cats" all their rubber boots 
 at stiff prices, sold them, and collected cash on the spot, all 
 the trench stores and surplus ammunition lying about, 
 (which of course would remain in the trenches anyway) 
 and also disposed at a good figure of a small French mule 
 which was used to haul a car along the little narrow gauge 
 railway. Then the 35th Division marched happily away 
 with the virtuous consciousness that it was spreading light 
 in dark places. 
 
 On Nov. 6 and 7, the division marched out of the sector, 
 and proceeded, first west and then south, into the area 
 about Commercy. There a miserable winter was spent in 
 the rain and snow, training, drilling, and being instructed 
 in military courtesy. 
 
 Leaves were granted, and officers and men took trips 
 through Paris to the South of France, and wandered about 
 Nice and Monte Carlo, and through the Riviera, buying* 
 post cards and eating restaurant food. Back in Commercy 
 old faces began to return. Officers and men who had been 
 wounded in the Argon we came back from hospitals, some 
 
248 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 limping, some with scars, but all of them glad to join up 
 again with the old bunch. Others came back too; the of- 
 ficers who had been detached and sent to other divisions. 
 By the time the outfit started for the coast it looked like an 
 Old Home Week. Bennett Clark was a full colonel. He 
 and many others had won their promotions with other di- 
 visions. Our officers from the regulars were detached one 
 by one and sent to other tasks, and the original 35th Divi- 
 sion officers took again their old jobs. Everybody was much 
 happier. 
 
 Back in their states, the home folks of Missouri and Kan- 
 sas gave them royal welcome. Not since the Civil War, if 
 ever before, had the towns known such pageantry with the 
 rataplan of drums and the march of columned men. 
 
 Ristine, a full colonel now, marched with the 139th in 
 its parades. Rieger raised to lieutenant-colonel and wear- 
 ing his Distinguished Service Cross, commanded the 138th. 
 Clay MacDonald wore on his arm a mourning brassard for 
 the son he had lost on Vauquois Hill, and on his shoulder 
 the silver maple leaves of the lieutenant colonelcy he had 
 won in Montrebeau Wood. 
 
 Both states rose to welcome their soldiers home from 
 the wars. In Southwest Missouri the Houn' Dog again 
 bayed gloriously. 
 
 The three machine gun battalions once more became the 
 2nd Missouri, and Colonel Raupp again watched the 
 march-past and took the salute. 
 
 They were mighty men of war, these long boys from 
 the Ozarks, and they will not be soon forgot. The windy 
 heights of the Vosges and the sodden valley of the Aire 
 long will remember those tall men and their clattering 
 guns. 
 
 Nor will the world soon forget all the men of the 35th 
 Division and the brave part they played on the fields of 
 France. 
 
SOMMEDIEUE, COMMERCY AND HOME 
 
 249 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 APPENDIX A 
 
 CONCLUSIONS OF GEN. DRUM ON THIRTY-FIFTH 
 IN ARGONNE BATTLE 
 
 CONCLUSIONS OF GEN. H. A. DRUM, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE 
 FIRST ARMY, A. E. F. 
 
 HEADQUARTERS, FIRST ARMY 
 AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, FRANCE 
 Office of the Chief of Staff 
 
 October 26, 1918. 
 From: Chief of Staff, 1st Army, 
 To : Commanding General, 35th Division. 
 
 Subject : Conclusion of an inspection of the conduct of the 35th Division 
 during attack in recent operations. 
 
 1, The Army Commander directs me to transmit to you the following con- 
 clusions of an inspection of the conduct of the 35th Division during its attack 
 in our recent operations. He desires that these conclusions be given the 
 greatest weight in the organization and training of your Division. 
 
 2, These conclusions have been deduced from the testimony of several 
 eye-witnesses and are transmitted to you with the desire not only to point 
 out the causes for undesirable conditions but also to give you a basis for 
 the future training of the 35th Division. 
 
 Conclusions: 
 
 1st. That the 35th Division at the commencement of operations, Sep- 
 tember 26th, was not a well disciplined combat unit, and the many ofScers 
 with the Division were not well-trained leaders. 
 
 2nd. That the Division Staff was not efficient or well organized. 
 
 3rd. That the changes in the Staff and Brigade and Regimental Com- 
 manders greatly handicapped the Division Commander in the proper func- 
 tioning of his Division. 
 
 4th. That after the attack started there was no system of liaison. Even 
 the runners failed to follow the axis of liaison prescribed. 
 
 5th. That brigade and regimental commanders failed to make use of the 
 means of liaison at their disposal and failed to keep in touch with their 
 higher commanders. 
 
 6th. That the failure of all commanders to keep a headquarters estab- 
 lished where communications could be received was inexcusable. 
 
 7th. That the action of brigade and regimental commanders in going far 
 to the front and out of all communication resulted in their having no more 
 effect on the action than so many company or platoon commanders, and pre- 
 vented the headquarters in rear from sending orders to units in front. 
 
 8th. That if commanders had remained in their headquarters or made pro- 
 visions for messages reaching them immediately, they would have been 
 
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252 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 able to have had a fair knowledge of conditions, and perhaps have straight- 
 ened out the many difficulties that arose. 
 
 9th. That the intermingling, confusion and straggling which commenced 
 shortly after H hour showed poor discipline, lack of leadership, and prob- 
 ably poor preparation. 
 
 10th. That it was a serious error for both the Division Commander and 
 the Chief of Staff to leave their Headquarters at the same time. 
 
 11th. That the five attacks which the Division made followed each other 
 so closely that there was no opportunity after the evening of September 26th 
 to reorganize, and get the various units in hand. 
 
 12th. That after September 27th the Division was really one in name only 
 as maneuvering power with intact units, except the Engineers ceased to 
 exist. 
 
 13th. That the casualties among the officers was undoubtedly responsible 
 for a great deal of the disorganization. 
 
 14th. That most of the straggling and confusion was caused by men 
 getting lost and not having leaders, and not from any deliberate design to go 
 to the rear in order to avoid further fighting. 
 
 15th. That the fighting spirit and bravery of officers and men was ex- 
 cellent. 
 
 16th. That the failure to have telephone and wireless communication 
 forward to include Regiments, and the failure to use the proper code call to 
 Corps Headquarters, was due to the inefficiency of Lt. Colonel George A. 
 Wieczorek, Signal Corps, then Division Signal Officer. 
 
 17th. That the Artillery Commander, Brig. Gen. L. G. Berry, failed to 
 co-operate with and make full use of the Air Service until ordered to do so. 
 
 H. A. DRUM, 
 Chief of Staflf. 
 
 APPENDIX B 
 
 GEN. TRAUB'S LETTER OF TRANSMISSION 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 35TH DIVISION 
 Office of the Division Commander 
 
 October 30th, 1918. 
 SECRET 
 
 From : The Division Commander. 
 To: The Commanding General 60th Field Artillery Brigade. 
 
 The Commanding General 69th Infantry Brigade. 
 
 The Commanding General 70th Infantry Brigade. 
 
 East Division Staff Officer. 
 Subject : Orders : 
 
 1. There is furnished herewith copy of a letter from the Chief of Staff, 
 First Army, A. E. F., dated October 26, 1918, transmitting to the Division 
 Commander, the conclusions of an inspection of the conduct of the 35th 
 Division during its attack in our recent operations. 
 
 2. I direct that Regimental and Battalion Commanders be assembled and 
 have this paper read to them, with a view to assuring their knowledge of 
 the defects in this Division when it went into battle, and during the battle 
 of September 26-October 1st, and with a view to their making the most 
 strenuous eiTorts not to have the errors repeated. These errors in liaison. 
 
APPENDIX 253 
 
 establishment of fixed P. C.'s, control and self-control, intermingling of units, 
 confusion and straggling must be eradicated — they had been pointed out 
 strongly by the Division Commander before the battle — and the loss of 
 leaders was not sufficient excuse for their being almost universal in the battle. 
 When a Commander falls his place must be taken by the next in command. 
 This is assured by proper designation in advance and by the proper func- 
 tioning of liaison. 
 
 The excuse for a commander to leave his battle station is when he finds 
 it necessary to exert his own personality with the forward troops. He must 
 not only return when this mission is performed, but he must secure proper 
 functioning at this P. C. during his absence, and keep informed as to his 
 movements. 
 
 Strict iron discipline is the remedy for disorganization and straggling, 
 as well as instruction and training in what to do when separation from or- 
 ganizations and loss of leaders have taken place. 
 
 That this Division was not well trained and fit for battle, was not a 
 well-disciplined combat unit, and that many officers were not well-trained lead- 
 ers are very true statements. This Division had had no opportunity to really 
 train for battle as its life for months preceding had been a life in Sector, 
 occupying at the end a 35 kilometer front and when relieved from Sector, 
 spending its time in marching at night, camping and bivouacking under 
 a strict injunction against enemy observations. The Division is once again 
 occupying an extensive Sector, has been replenished with, in considerable 
 part, green replacements, and it is therefore incumbent on every officer and 
 non-commissioned officer to make the most conscientious efforts, the efforts 
 of his life that the Country expects of each and every one of us, in order 
 that we may overcome our defects and be able to make full use of the wonder- 
 ful personnel in our ranks to the complete discomfiture of the enemy and the 
 success of our arms. I count on each one in the Division to do his utmost 
 to help me in meeting the expectations of the Commander-in-Chief, Ame'"- 
 ican Expeditionary Forces, France. 
 
 PKTER E. TRAUB, 
 Major General, U. S. Army, 
 
 Commanding. 
 
254 
 
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 appi:ndix c 
 
 CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ON VAUQUOIS HILL 
 
 confide:ntial. ist army corps, u. s., 
 
 Not to be taken into SE:C0ND SECTION, G. S., 
 
 front line trenches. September 22, 1918. 
 
 VAUQUOIS 
 
 VAUQUOIS may be taken as the perfect example of German fortification, 
 combining an elaborate trench system with the use of mines. 
 
 (1) The trenches, during the day, are occupied by sentinels, as few as 
 are absolutely essential. The garrison is in deep dugouts affording protec- 
 tion from our largest shells. These are very comfortably equipped, having 
 electricity, water supply and kitchens close at hand. All necessary supplies 
 are brought in by a railroad. On the slightest signal, everyone can be at 
 his post of combat. 
 
 (2) The fortress of VAUQUOIS, dominating the plain for 100 miles, is 
 one of the points on the front where the Germans have installed themselves 
 with great thoroughness. 
 
 In the defensive system of VAUQUOIS mines figured very prominently 
 throughout 1916, and the beginning of 1917. Since the month of June, 1917, 
 mining activity has steadily decreased. At the present date galleries are 
 known to be in existence, but there have been no recent explosions. 
 
 From captured documents dated December, 1917, it appears that VAU- 
 QUOIS must be held at any cost. 
 
 If the tactical situation eventually necessitates a retirement the Com- 
 mandant of VAUQUOIS is ordered to blow up all mined galleries. 
 
 The garrison of VAUQUOIS, consisting of 18 officers and about 1370 
 men, is composed as follows: 
 
 1 Bn. Infantry 6 Off. Approx. 750 men 
 
 Yi Co. Regtl. Pioneers 1 Off. Approx. 100 men 
 
 1-3 Co. Div. Fngrs 1 Off. Approx. 70 men 
 
 1 Co. of the 30th Bn. of Pioneers, sector troops, 
 
 of which the rear echelon, about 100 men, is at 
 
 VARENNES 1 Off. Approx. 130 men 
 
 M. K. 392 (Mining Co.) sector troops, of which 
 
 the rear echelon, about 80 men, is at VA- 
 
 RENNES or CHEPPY 2 Off. Approx. 100 men 
 
 M. K, 298, sector troops, of which the rear 
 
 echelon, about 80 men, is at VARENNES 
 
 or CHEPPY 2 Off. Approx. 100 men 
 
 1 Co. heavy machine guns 4 Off. Approx. 100 men 
 
 1 Detachment of M. W. from the Div. Co. of 
 
 M. W's 1 Off. Approx. 20 men 
 
 Total iT Off. Approx. 1370 men 
 
 DUGOUTS: 
 
 Most of the dugouts are situated on the slopes N. of VAUQUOIS, be- 
 tween Hills 265 and 270. 
 
APPENDIX 255 
 
 COMMUNICATION TRENCHES AND TRACKS: 
 
 Two important communication trenches enter VAUQUOIS from the W. ; 
 the Boyau de GRATZ and the Boyau d' AGREM. These lead to a point 
 to about 100 m. from the entrances to the dugouts. From this point the 
 reliefs come across open ground to the foot of the ladders which lead to the 
 tunnels of the dugouts. 
 
 The VARENNES-VAUQUOIS road seems to be the one most used. The 
 paths alongside the Boyau de GRATZ are also much frequented. 
 
 RAII.WAYS : 
 
 A narrow gauge railway leads from VARENNES to VAUQUOIS over 
 the VARENNES-Pont des QUATRE ENFANTS road as far as the BOURE- 
 VIEIvES road. A branch line leads to the Pioneer depot. Another branch 
 line leads to the Bois du GRAND BEC to supply the ammunition depot. 
 
 ELECTRICITY : 
 
 The electricity for VAUQUOIS is furnished by a power house installed 
 in the caves of the Moulin VARENNES. The current is transported to 
 VAUQUOIS by two isolated cables 15 mm. in diameter, fixed on posts 1 m. 
 high; these cables leaving the Moulin cross the fields to the S. and follow 
 the river as far as the Pont des PIONNIERS 1 km. from VAUQUOIS. 
 From there the cables pass to the S. of Hill 213, across the Boyau de 
 EUNUQUES, and through the Bois du ROSSIGNOL. From there the 
 cables follow the line of the Boyau de GRATZ into VAUQUOIS. 
 
 TUNNELS: 
 
 The tunnels opening on the N. slope of VAUQUOIS come out on the 
 perpendicular line of the second trench. Shafts about 15 m. deep, in which 
 ladders are placed, constitute the means of communication between the tun- 
 nels and the trench. These tunnels were constructed by an electric drill. 
 The tunnels are 1^ to 2 m. wide. The walls are not propped except in a 
 few places where there is risk of them falling in. The exit of the shafts is 
 protected by a roof consisting of a bed of rails covered with a slab of 
 reinforced concrete and a layer of sand bags. There are probably 4 tunnels 
 in actual use now. Dugouts have been built on the right and on the left by 
 simply enlarging the tunnel. 
 
 TRENCHES: 
 
 The trenches of the front line, often not well kept up, are only occupied 
 by sentinels. The trench of the second line is reinforced with brick on the 
 side towards the enemy. In the parapet steel plates are embedded about 4 
 to 5 mm. thick, containing loopholes. Empty sand bags conceal these steel 
 plates from view. The Germans use less sand bags for reinforcing their 
 parapets than the French. A good number of the trenches are covered. 
 
256 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 APPENDIX D 
 
 REPORT OF CAPT. HOFFMAN 
 
 REPORT OF CAPT. HOFFMAN, DIVISION PSYCHIATRIST 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 3STH DIVISION 
 
 Office Division Psychiatrist 
 
 AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES 
 
 October 24th, 1918. 
 From: The Division Psychiatrist, 35th Division. 
 To: The Senior Consultant in Neuro-psychiatry. 
 Subject: Report of work during September and October. 
 
 1. From September 1st to September 26th, 1918, the Division was con- 
 stantly on the move and only routine work was done, except sitting as a 
 member of a Medical Board in the cases of two Colonels, referred by Com- 
 manding General. These cases were sent back for reclassification. 
 
 2. F'rom September 26th to October 2d, 1918, this division was actively 
 engaged in the allied offensive. My station during this time was at the triage. 
 
 3. Captain Henschel, M. C, U. S. A., was sent from Corps Headquar- 
 ters and did splendid work. 
 
 4. The first day of the ofifensive the rest hospital, i.e., one of the Field 
 Hospitals of the division was not yet established. This was due to the 
 intense congestion of traffic, the roads being blocked for over twenty-four 
 hours, hence our sanitary troops with tentage could not reach the triage. 
 So many cases came through the triage that it was necessary to evacuate 
 all psychiatric cases, as the triage was filled to more than capacity. It was 
 raining and cold, and it would be necessary to keep the men in the mud 
 without litters or blankets if they remained at the triage. 
 
 5. A total of 6301 cases of all kinds passed through the triage of the 
 35th Division. These came from many divisions as follows: 
 
 35th Division 
 
 4623 
 
 37th Division 
 
 87 
 
 28th Division 
 
 443 
 
 91st Division 
 
 798 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 350 
 
 Total, 
 
 6301 
 
 6. From the second day, only cases which I thought would not be fit 
 for duty in a very short time, were evacuated, the others being sent to our 
 rest hospital. 
 
 7. In the great rush of cases during the next few days the rest hospital 
 was constantly filled to capacity and it was absolutely necessary to 
 evacuate everything, hence, many cases which would have cleared up in a 
 few days were sent to the rear. At one time there were 1400 cases in the 
 triage, 800 in the advance dressing station and all transportation at a stand- 
 still. 
 
 8. Many foreign trucks, i.e., trucks from Corps, Army and other divisions, 
 evacuated cases from the front. Many of these went direct from the front 
 
APPENDIX 257 
 
 to the evacuation hospitals, the cases not being triaged. No doubt many 
 of these cases were of this division. 
 
 9. The Corps Psychiatrist reported daily and appeared favorably im- 
 pressed, at least not making suggestions. 
 
 10. It has come to my attention that the Chief Surgeon of the 1st Army 
 rendered a complaint to the Division Surgeon of the 35th Division con- 
 cerning the large amount of psychiatric cases evacuated to the rear. The 
 foregoing is my explanation, i.e., the blocking of all transportation, the lack 
 of transportation on the first day, the inclement weather and the large 
 amount of casualties. HARRY R. HOFFMAN, 
 
 Captain, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, 
 
 Division Psychiatrist. 
 
 35TH DIVISION CODE NAMES FROM BATTLE ORDER 
 
 Clear Code 
 
 Division headquarters Oklahoma 
 
 Commanding general Oklahoma 1 
 
 Aides Oklahoma 2 
 
 Chief of Staff Oklahoma 3 
 
 G-1 Oklahoma 5 
 
 G-2 Oklahoma 6 
 
 G-3 Oklahoma 7 
 
 60th Artillery Brigade. . . . ; Octave 
 
 128th Artillery Osock 
 
 129th Artillery Ogee 
 
 130th Artillery Omlet 
 
 69th Infantry Bg Oriley 
 
 137th Infantry Obispo 
 
 1 38th Infantry Ogrady 
 
 70th Infantry Bg Okonite 
 
 1 39th Infantry Oakleaf 
 
 140th Infantry Oblong 
 
 28th Division Roadrunner 
 
 91st Division Maroon 
 
 Battalions had code names of Head, Foot and Tail, respectively, 
 for first, second and third battalions. 
 
258 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 APPENDIX K 
 
 GEN. CLARK'S LETTER TO HIS MEN 
 
 Copy of letter written by Gen. H. C. Clark to officers and men of the 
 35th Division on their departure from Camp Doniphan for France. 
 
 TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 35TH DIVISION: 
 
 In wishing you godspeed on the eve of your departure for France, it is 
 not necessary for me to tell you that it is the supreme sorrow of my whole 
 life that I cannot go with you. Your Division is composed of members of the 
 National Guard of Missouri and Kansas. I have served continuously with 
 the former from the day I left military school a young boy, twenty-nine 
 years ago. I served with many of you during the Spanish-American War, and 
 the Missouri National Guard was under my command during the six months 
 we were on the Mexican Border in 1916. I commanded the thirteen thou- 
 sand National Guard troops furnished by this state from the time they en- 
 tered the federal service on August 5, 1917, until they moved to Camp Doni- 
 phan. I served with you at your present station until my discharge be- 
 cause of my inability to meet the physical tests of the examining board on 
 December 22, 1917, and it would be strange indeed if this long association 
 with you had not resulted in an affectionate regard for you and a spirit of 
 comradeship known only to those who have served together in the field. 
 During the time I was with you at Camp Doniphan, I had opportunity to 
 observe the Kansas National Guard and to know many of its officers inti- 
 mately and well, and what I say to my own people apphes to our comrades 
 from our sister state who come from the same stock, having the same ideals 
 and characteristics and separated only by an imaginary line marking the 
 boundary between the two states. It is your good fortune to be commanded 
 by a Regular officer of the highest standing in the army and whose service 
 in the field had won him this command. His miUtary ability is beyond ques- 
 tion. 
 
 You represent the highest type of the American Volunteer. You are vol- 
 unteers pure and simple. You entered the National Guard of your own 
 accord and with motives of unselfish and disinterested devotion to the high- 
 est duty which an American citizen can perform. You took an obligation 
 to serve your state and to answer the call of the nation should the emergency 
 arise. The emergency has come and you have not faltered. Many of you 
 have given your very lives to this service; no one knows better than the 
 undersigned of your faithful and unswerving loyalty under the most dis- 
 couraging circumstances and surroundings. You have been ridiculed and 
 made light of, but you have not faltered. You have kept the faith. You 
 have been given the acid test and the scoffers' lips have been forever 
 silenced. The people of Missouri are proud of you and they pay homage 
 to you, knowing that you will measure up to the best traditions of the 
 American volunteer. You represent the first line troops furnished by Mis- 
 souri and Kansas and you will soon demonstrate to the world on the battle- 
 fields of Europe that the virile manhood and rugged citizenship of your 
 state, as exemplified in the Mexican War, the Civil War, the expedition com- 
 manded by a Missourian whose name your camp bears, and in the Spanish- 
 American War, is not surpassed in any army in the world. 
 
 The heart of every loyal Missourian goes out to you and you will be in 
 
APPENDIX 259 
 
 their thoughts constantly until you return. They do not tell you to do your 
 duty; they know you will do that and more. And be assured that when you 
 return they will welcome you with everlasting gratitude and undying ap- 
 preciation. I can only keep camp for you while you are gone, but I will 
 not fail you and yours, and if I am alive I will be here to welcome you 
 when you return. If I could shake the hand of each officer and man in this 
 Division I could not express to him what is in my heart ; I could only say, 
 "Good-bye, old man, and God bless you." Harvey C. Clark. 
 
260 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 APPENDIX F 
 
 ORGANIZATION OF THE DIVISION ON THREE 
 DATES 
 
 According to the official records of the division, which contain a few 
 errors, the division, when it was attached to the British forces, was organ- 
 ized as follows : 
 
 The Commanding General 
 
 Chief of Staff 
 
 The Asst. Chief of Staff G-1 
 
 The Asst. Chief of Staff G-2 
 
 The Asst. Chief of Staff G-3. 
 
 The Division Surgeon 
 
 The Division Signal Officer 
 
 The Division Engineer 
 
 The Division Adjutant 
 
 The Division Personnel Adjutant 
 
 The Division Veterinarian 
 
 The Division Inspector 
 
 The Division Judge Advocate 
 
 The Division Ordnance Officer 
 
 The Division Gas Officer 
 
 Liaison Officer from British 
 
 128th Machine Gun BattaHon 
 
 69th Infantry Brigade 
 137th Infantry 
 138th Infantry 
 129th Machine Gun Battalion 
 
 70th Infantry Brigade 
 139th Infantry 
 140th Infantry 
 
 130th Machine Gun Battalion 
 110th Engineer Regiment 
 110th Engineer Train 
 110th Train Hdq. & Mil. Police 
 
 60th Field Artillery Brigade 
 128th Field Artillery 
 129th Field Artillery 
 130th Field Artillery 
 110th Trench Mortar Battery 
 110th Ammunition Train 
 110th Field Signal Battalion 
 110th Motor Supply Train 
 110th Sanitary Train 
 Field Hospital Section 
 Field Ambulance Section 
 110th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop 
 112th Mobile Section Vet. Unit 
 Sanitary Squad No. 1 
 Sanitary Squad No. 2 
 
 Major General William Wright 
 Colonel Robert McCleave 
 Major Dwight F. Davis 
 Captain Parker C. Kallock, Jr. 
 Major W. V. Gallagher 
 Lt. Colonel Raymond Turck 
 Major George A. Wieczorek 
 Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney 
 Major J. M. Hobson 
 Captain William Moreland 
 Captain Ora P. Davis 
 Major John F. Clapham 
 Major George P. Whitsett 
 Major C. E. Delaplane 
 1st Lieut. William J. Knox 
 Capt. B. Fitz G. Wilson 
 Major Wesley Halliburton 
 Brig. General Nathaniel McClure 
 Colonel Clad Hamilton 
 Colonel Edmund J. McMahon 
 Major Thomas H. Loy 
 Brig. General Charles I. Martin 
 Colonel John D. , McNeely 
 Colonel Albert Linxwiler 
 Major John F. Constable 
 Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney 
 1st Lieut. Peake Vincil 
 Colonel Willie Rowan 
 Brig. General Lucien G. Berry 
 Col. Frank M. Rumbold 
 Col. Karl D. Klemm 
 Col. Hugh Means 
 Capt. Fred. W. Manchester 
 Lt. Col. Fred. R. Fitzpatrick 
 Major Milton R. McLean 
 Major George M. Faught 
 INlajor Herbert C. Woolley 
 Major Oliver C. Gebhart 
 INlajor William L. Gist 
 2nd Lieut. Henry McDonald 
 1st Lieut. Calvin F. Bennett 
 1st Lieut. Oliver C. Wenger 
 1st. Lieut. Thomas Wilson 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 261 
 
 On the inorni 
 
 ng of the Argonne Battle, this was the organization 
 
 Commanding General 
 Chief of Staff 
 Asst. Chief of Staflf G-1 
 Asst. Chief of Staff G-2 
 Asst. Chief of Staff G-3 
 Division Surgeon 
 Division Signal Officer 
 Division Engineer 
 Division Gas Officer 
 Division Machine Gun Officer 
 Division Adjutant 
 Division Personnel Adjutant 
 Division Veterinarian 
 Division Quartermaster 
 Division Inspector 
 Division Judge Advocate 
 Division Ordnance Officer 
 128th Mach Gun Batn. 
 
 69th Infantry Brigade 
 129th Mach. Gun Batn. 
 137th Infantry 
 I38th Infantry 
 
 70th Infantry Brigade 
 130th Mach. Gun Batn. 
 139th Infantry 
 140th Infantry 
 110th Engineers 
 110th Engineer Train 
 110th Field Signal Batn. 
 110th Train Hdq. & Mil. Police 
 110th Supply Train 
 110th Sanitary Train 
 Field Hospital Section 
 Field Ambulance Section 
 
 60th Field Art. Brigade 
 128th Field Art. 
 129th Field Art. 
 130th Field Art. 
 110th Trench Mortar Battery 
 110th Mobile Ord. Rep. Shop 
 
 Major General Peter E. Traub 
 Col. Hamilton S. Hawkins 
 Col. W. R. Gibson 
 :\Iajor Parker C. Kalloch 
 Lt. Col. Walter V. Gallagher 
 Lt. Col. Raymond C. Turck 
 Et. Col. Hans O. Olson 
 Col. Thomas C. Clarke 
 Capt. William W. Wise 
 Et. Col. Donald D. Hay 
 Major William Ellis 
 Capt. WilHam R. Thurston 
 Capt. Ora P. Davis 
 Major Arthur Parker 
 Capt. Edward C. Sammons 
 Major Victor E. Ruehl 
 Capt. Mark Weatherford 
 Major Westley Halliburton 
 Colonel Louis M. Nuttman 
 Major Thomas H. Eoy 
 Colonel Clad Hamilton 
 Col. Harry S. Howland 
 Col. Kirby Walker 
 Major John T. Constable 
 Lt. Col. Carl L. Ristine 
 Lt. Col. Channing E. Delaplane 
 Col. Thomas C. Clarke 
 1st Lieut. Peake Vincil 
 Major Milton R. McLean 
 Col. Willie Rowan 
 Major George M, Faught 
 Major Herbert C. Woolley 
 Major Oliver C. Gebhart 
 IMayor William L. Gist 
 Brig. Gen. Lucien G. Berry 
 Col. Frank M. Rumbold 
 Col. Karl D. Klemm 
 Major William W. Thurston 
 Capt. Fred W. Manchester 
 1st Lieut. Edward C. Rose 
 
 On March 30, when ready to sail for home, the division was organized 
 
 thus : 
 
 Commanding General 
 Chief of Staff 
 Asst. C/S G-1 
 Asst. C/S G-2 
 Asst. C/S G-3 
 Division Surgeon 
 Division Signal Officer 
 Division Engineer 
 Division Gas Officer 
 Division Adjutant 
 Division Personnel Adjt. 
 
 :Major General Wm. M. Wright. 
 Col. R. McCleave 
 Col. Bennett C. Clark 
 Major Jelks H. Cabaniss 
 Lt. Col. Dwight F. Davis 
 Lt. Col. Carl R. Phillips 
 Major Milton R. McLean 
 Lt. Col. Edward M. Stayton 
 Major Andrew LeB. Russell 
 Lt. Col. William EHis 
 Capt. James A. Brewer 
 
262 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Division Quartermaster 
 Division Inspector 
 Division Judge Advocate 
 Division Ordnance Officer 
 128th Mach. Gun Batn. 
 
 69th Infantry Brigade 
 129th Mach. Gun Btn. 
 137th Infantry 
 138th Infantry 
 
 70th Infantry Brigade 
 130th Mach. Gun Batn. 
 139th Infantry 
 140th Infantry 
 110th Engineers 
 110th Field Signal Batn. 
 110th Supply Train 
 110th Sanitary Train 
 110th Train Hdqs. 
 
 Lt. Col. Arthur Parker 
 Lt. Col. Edward C. Sammons 
 Major Victor E. Ruehl 
 Major Mark Weatherford 
 Major Westley Halliburton 
 Col. Willie McD. Rowan 
 Major Thomas H. Loy 
 Lt. Col. John H. O'Connor 
 Major Warren L. Mabrey 
 Col. Albert Linxwiler 
 Major Ward L. Schrantz 
 Major Randall Wilson 
 Lt. Col. Smith A. Harris 
 Lt. Col. Edward M. Stayton 
 Major Milton R. McLean 
 Major Charles J. Hall 
 Major Oliver C. Gebhart 
 Major James F. Going. 
 
APPENDIX 263 
 
 APPENDIX G 
 
 RECORD OF CHANGES IN HIGHER OFFICERS 
 
 Partial List of Changes in Higher Officers of Division — From Division Records 
 
 COMMANDING 35TH DIVISION 
 
 From To 
 
 Maj.-Gen. William M. Wright Oct. 1, 1917 June 16, 1918 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel F. McClure June 16, 1918 July 20, 1918 
 
 Maj.-Gen. Peter E. Traub July 20, 1918 Dec. 27, 1918 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Thomas Dugan Dec. 29, 1918 March 1, 1919 
 
 Maj.-Gen. William M. Wright March 1, 1919 Muster out 
 
 COMMANDING 69TH INFANTRY BRIGADE 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Arthur B. Donnelly Oct. 1, 1917 May 9, 1918 
 
 Col. Edmund J. McMahon May 9, 1918 May 26, 1918 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel F. McClure May 26, 1918 June 16, 1918 
 
 Col. Edmund J. McMahon June 16, 1918 July 20, 1918 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel F. McClure July 20, 1918 Sept. 21, 1918 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Louis M. Nuttman Sept. 21, 1918 Nov. 21, 1918 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Thomas W. Darrah Nov. 27, 1918 
 
 137TH INFANTRY 
 
 Col. Perry M. Hoisington Oct. 1, 1917 Jan. 14, 1918 
 
 Col. George H. McMasters Jan. 18, 1918 April 20, 1918 
 
 Col. Clad Hamilton April 20, 1918 Sept. 28, 1918 
 
 Maj. John H. O'Connor Sept. 28, 1918 Oct. 9, 1918 
 
 Maj. Edward C. Sammons Oct. 9, 1918 Oct. 13, 1918 
 
 Col. J. M. Cullison Oct. 13, 1918 Oct. 28, 1918 
 
 Ivieut.-Col. Martyn H. Shute Oct. 28, 1918 Nov. 27, 1918 
 
 Col. Ira L. Reeves Nov. 27, 1918 
 
 138TH INFANTRY 
 
 Col. Leroy K. Robbins Oct. 1, 1917 Nov. 3, 1917 
 
 Col. Philip J. Kealy Nov. 3, 1917 Jan. 21, 1918 
 
 Col. Julius T. Conrad Jan. 21, 1918 April 9, 1918 
 
 Col. Edmund J. McMahon April 9, 1918 July 5, 1918 
 
 Col. George P. White July 25, 1918 Sept. 14, 1918 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Henry W. Parker Sept. 14, 1918 Sept. 25, 1918 
 
 Col. Harry S. Howland Sept. 25, 1918 Sept. 26, 1918 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Henry W. Parker Sept. 26, 1918 Sept. 28, 1918 
 
 Maj. Norman B. Comfort Sept. 28, 1918 Oct. 9, 1918 
 
 Col. Americus Mitchell Oct. 9, 1918 
 
 129TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION 
 Maj. Thomas H. Loy Oct, 1, 1917 
 
 128TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION 
 Maj. Wesley HalHburton Oct. 1, 1917 
 
264 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 70TH INFANTRY BRIGADE 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Charles I. Martin Oct. 1, 1917 . Sept. 21, 1918 
 
 Col. Kirby Walker Sept. 21, 1918 Oct. 13, 1918 
 
 Brig.-Gen. Thomas B. Dugan Oct. 13, 1918 Dec. 27, 1918 
 
 Col. Alonzo Gray Dec. 27, 1918 Feb. 14, 1919 
 
 Col. Carl h. Ristine Feb. 14, 1919 Feb. 20, 1919 
 
 Col. Albert Linxweiler Feb. 20, 1919 April 14, 1919 
 
 130TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION 
 
 Maj. Elmer B. Trowbridge Oct. 1, 1917 Dec. 1, 1917 
 
 Maj. John F. Constable Dec. 2, 1917 Sept. 27, 1918 
 
 Capt. William S. Moore Sept. 27, 1918 Nov. 6, 1918 
 
 Maj. Ray R. Powers Nov. 6,1918 Jan. 4, 1919 
 
 Capt. Paul A. Frey Jan. 5, 1919 Feb. 2, 1919 
 
 Maj. Ray R. Powers Feb. 3, 1919 Feb. 20, 1919 
 
 Capt. Paul A. Frey Feb. 21, 1919 Mar. 23, 1919 
 
 Maj. C. H. Fitzgerald March 24, 1919 Mar. 28, 1919 
 
 Maj. Ward L. Schrantz March 29, 1919 May 7, 1919 
 
 139TH INFANTRY 
 
 Col. John D. McNeeley Oct. 1, 1917 June 12, 191S 
 
 Col. Kirby Walker June 13, 1918 Sept. 21, 1918 
 
 Lieut-Col. Carl L. Ristine Sept. 21, 1918 Oct. 13, 1918 
 
 Col. Kirby Walker Oct. 13, 1918 Oct. 15, 1918 
 
 Col. Carl L. Ristine Oct. 15, 1918 
 
 140TH INFANTRY 
 
 Col. Albert Linxwiler Oct. 1, 1917 June 18, 1918 
 
 Col. Pierce A. Murphy June 18, 1918 Sept. 16, 1918 
 
 Maj. Fred L. Lemmon Sept. 16, 1918 Sept. 22, 1918 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Channing E. Delaplane Sept. 22, 1918 Oct. 16, 1918 
 
 Col. Alonzo Gray Oct. 16, 1918 Jan. 3, 1919 
 
 Lt.-Col. Sidney D. Maize Jan. 3, 1919 Feb. 18, 1919 
 
 Lt.-Col. Smith A. Harris Feb. 18, 1919 Mar. 29, 1919 
 
 Lt.-Col. Fred L. Lemmon March 29, 1919 April 14, 1919 
 
 Col. Albert Linxweiler April 14, 1919 ' May 14, 1919 
 
 60TH FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE 
 Brig.-Gen. Lucien G. Berry Oct. 1, 1917 
 
 128TH FIELD ARTILLERY 
 
 Col. Frank M. Rumbold Oct. 1, 1917 Sept. 24, 1918 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Walter J. Warner Sept. 24, 1918 Nov. 16, 1918 
 
 Col. George A. Taylor Nov. 16, 1918 
 
 129TH FIELD ARTILLERY 
 Col. Karl D. Klemm Oct. 1, 1917 
 
 130TH FIELD ARTILLERY 
 
 Col. Hugh Means Oct. 1, 1917 May 9, 1918 
 
 Maj. Thomas H. Jennings May 9, 1918 May 30, 1918 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Roy F. Waring May 30, 1918 July 5, 1918 
 
 Maj. Thomas H. Jennings July 5, 1918 Aug. 3, 1918 
 
 Lieut.-Col. James E. Wilson Aug. 3, 1918 Sept. 7, 1918 
 
 Lieut-Col. William W. Thurston Sept. 7, 1918 Nov. 8, 1918 
 
 Col. Hugh S. Brown Nov. 8, 1918 
 
APPENDIX 265 
 
 llOTH TRENCH MORTAR BATTERY 
 Capt. Fred W. Manchester Oct. 1, 1917 
 
 llOTH ENGINEERS 
 
 Col. Sherwood A. Cheney Oct. 1, 1917 Aug. 4, 1918 
 
 Col. Thomas C. Clarke Aug. 4, 1918 
 
 llOTH FIELD SIGNAL BATTALION 
 Maj. Milton R. McLean Oct. 1, 1917 
 
 llOTH TRAIN HEADQUARTERS AND MILITARY POLICE 
 
 Maj. Lute P. Stover Oct. 1, 1917 Mar. 30, 1918 
 
 Col. Willie McD. Rowan April 4, 1918 
 
 llOTH AMMUNITION TRAIN 
 Lieut-Col. Fred R. Fitzpatrick Oct. 1, 1917 
 
 llOTH MOTOR SUPPLY TRAIN 
 
 Maj. Carl O. Houseman Oct. 1, 1917 Feb. 16, 1918 
 
 Maj. William A. Pattison Feb. 16, 1918 Mar. 10, 1918 
 
 Maj. George M. Faught March 10, 1918 
 
 llOTH SANITARY TRAIN 
 
 Lieut.-CoI. W. T. Davidson Oct. 1, 1917 Feb. 12, 1918 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Herbert C. Wv^olley Feb. 12, 1918 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 APPENDIX H 
 
 ASSIGNMENT OF MISSOURI GUARD UNITS 
 
 HOW THE 35TH DIVISION WAS MADE UP 
 (Missouri National Guard) 
 
 Former State Designation 
 Headquarters 1st Infantry 
 
 Brigade 
 
 1 st Infantry 
 
 2d Infantry : 
 
 1st Battalion and Machine 
 Gun Company 
 
 Supply Company and Head- 
 quarters Company, less 
 band 
 
 2d Battalion 
 
 3d Battalion 
 
 Band 
 
 3d Infantry 
 
 4tli Infantry : 
 
 Less band 
 
 Band 
 
 5th Infantry: 
 
 Less band 
 
 Band 
 
 6th Infantry : 
 
 Less band 
 
 Band 
 
 Troop B Cavalry 
 
 1st Regiment Field Artillery. . 
 2d Regiment Field Artillery... 
 
 Battalion Engineers 
 
 Battalion Signal Corps 
 
 Supply Train 
 
 1st and 2d Field Hospital 
 
 1st and 2d Ambulance 
 
 Companies 
 
 Reorganized as or Assigned to 
 
 Division 
 
 Headquarters 70th Infantry 
 
 Brigade 
 
 138th Infantry 
 
 128th Machine Gun Battalior 
 
 110th Trench Mortar Battery 
 129th Machine Gun Battalion 
 130th Machine Gun Battalion 
 
 311th Cavalry 
 
 140th Infantry 
 
 139th Infantry... 
 
 Camp Custer, Mich 
 
 138th Infantry 
 
 Camp Wadsworth, S. C 
 
 140th Infantry 
 
 Camp Pike, Ark 
 
 i29th Field Artillery 
 
 128th Field Artillery 
 
 129th Field Artillery 
 
 1 1 0th Engineers 
 
 117th Field Signal Battalion 
 
 1 10th Supply Train 
 
 1 1 0th Sanitary Train 
 
 do 
 
 35th 
 35th 
 
 35th 
 
 35th 
 35th 
 35th 
 
 35th 
 
 35th 
 
 35th 
 
 P D C. A. 
 
 Troops 
 
 35th 
 
 35 th 
 35 th 
 35th 
 35th 
 42d 
 35th 
 35th 
 
 35 th 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 267 
 
 APPENDIX I 
 
 ASSIGNMENT OP KANSAS GUARD UNITS 
 
 (Kansas National Guard) 
 
 Former State Designation 
 
 Reorganized as or Assigned to 
 
 Division 
 
 Headquarters 1st Kansas 
 
 Infantry Brig-ade 
 
 1st Infantry: 
 
 Brigade Headquarters, 70ih 
 
 Tnfantrv Rricraflp 
 
 35 th 
 
 137 th Infantry 
 
 35th 
 
 
 
 35 th 
 
 
 137th Infantry 
 
 35th 
 
 
 1 39th Infantry 
 
 35th 
 
 1st Squadron Cavalry: 
 Troop A 
 
 Division Headquarters Troop. . 
 110th Headquarters and 
 
 l\/rilifarv Pnlirp 
 
 35th 
 
 Troops B, C, and D 
 
 35th 
 
 First Regiment Field Artiller} 
 1st Separate Battalion 
 
 1 ^nth Field Artillerv 
 
 35 th 
 
 1 1 0th Engineers 
 
 35 th 
 
 Ist Battalion Signal Troops... 
 1st Ammunition Train 
 
 110th Field Signal Battalion... 
 
 117th Ammunition Train 
 
 110th Engineer Train 
 
 1 1 Oth Sanitarv Train 
 
 35th 
 42d 
 35th 
 
 Field Hospital Companies 
 
 Nos. 1 and 2 
 
 Ambulance Companies 
 
 Nos. 1 and 2 
 
 35th 
 
 do 
 
 35 th 
 
ROSTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NATIONAL GUARD OF MISSOURI 
 
 Inducted into Federal Service August 5, 1917. 
 
 The organization consisted of two Brigades of Infantry, two Regi- 
 ments of Field Artillery, one Signal Corps Battalion, one Battalion of 
 Engineers, one Motor Truck Supply Train, two Field Hospital Com- 
 panies, two Ainbulance Companies and one Troop of Cavalry. The 
 entire National Guard of Missouri was commanded by Harvey C. 
 Clark as Commanding General, with Headquarters at Nevada. The 
 Signal Corps Battalion became part of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. 
 
FIRST MISSOURI INFANTRY BRIGADE 
 
 (Composed of the 2d, 4th and 6th Regiments of Infantry) 
 
 Brigadier General, 
 
 Major, 
 
 Harvey C. Clark, 
 
 Norman S. Pearman, 
 
 Commanding 
 
 Adjutant 
 
 BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS 
 
 Brigade Sergeant Maj( 
 Mains, Charles E. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Atkeson, Ralph W. 
 
 Cooper, Joseph D. 
 Madden, Frank J. 
 Parker, Dale 
 Wolff. Charles H. 
 
 Ansell, Frank 
 Weir, Frank 
 Sutton, Wilbert h. 
 Miller, Theodore B. 
 
 1st I/ieut. and Bn. Adjt. 
 Bradford B. Minor 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 Pierce City 
 
 Colonel, Major, 
 
 William A. Raupp, Thomas H. I^oy 
 
 Commanding Major, 1st Lieut, and Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Ueutenant Colonel, ^i^^^. g Trowbridge John F. Williams 
 
 Paul Tucker ^, ,. ,, ^ . . -r ■ , ^ *,• 
 
 Major Chaplain and 1st L,ieut. 1st Ivieut. and Bn. Adjt., 
 
 Wes'ley Halliburton Rowland Q. Mackintosh James K. Saunders 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 
 Pierce City 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Harold W. Brown 
 Rgt. Sgt. Maj., 
 
 Ivaridon, Charles 
 Bn. Sgt. Maj., 
 
 Le Sieur, Joseph V. 
 Bn. Sgt. Maj., 
 
 Purdy, Clifford H. 
 Bn. Sgt. Maj., 
 
 Weber, Walter W. 
 Color Sergeants : 
 
 Blue, Carl 
 
 Barris, Dalzell D. 
 Sergeant Bugler, 
 
 Harbison, Douglas 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Mann, Harlen G. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Faulkner, Richard 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Lowe, Floyd 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Leavitt, Alpheus 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Allen, Frank 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Walthall, Flmer 
 
 Band Section Bolivar 
 
 Cooks : 
 
 Moore, Hollis A. 
 
 Painter, William D. 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Parker, William R. 
 Asst. Band Leader, 
 
 Loy, Gene H. 
 Band Sergeants : 
 
 Evans, Don C. 
 
 Loy, Paul W. 
 Band Corporals : 
 
 Bickers, Le Vergne N. 
 
 McCracken, Joe H. 
 
 Shankland, Harry Rex 
 
 Vickrey, Elbert R. 
 1st Class Musicians: 
 
 Ellis, A. G. Neil 
 
 Lee, Homer 
 2nd Class Musicians: 
 
 Marcell, Miles K. 
 
 McCracken, Barnett 
 
 James, William W. 
 
 Jarratt, Claude 
 3rd Class Musicians: 
 
 Brown, Richard H. 
 
 270 
 
 Collins, Loren E. 
 
 Davis, Glen L. 
 
 Morgan, Walter D. 
 
 Suttles, Austin M. 
 
 Seamans, Loren W. 
 
 Shelton, Jacob N. 
 
 Sperry, Alva J. 
 
 Wiek, Earl F. 
 
 Wasson, Lowell T. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bandy, E. Ralph 
 
 Hinerman, Waldo T. 
 
 James, Richard R. 
 Privates : 
 
 Boyce, Alvah E. 
 
 Browning, Cecil E. 
 
 Douglas, John A. 
 
 Faulkner, Homer L. 
 
 Kemper, Carlin H. 
 
 Koon, James O. 
 
 Kuklenski, John A. 
 
 Lamun, Bernard S. 
 
 Lewis, Walter 
 
 Phelan, Dennis B. 
 
 Wicks, Alan F. 
 
 Wells, Herbert L. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 271 
 
 Captain 
 
 Fred W. Manchester 
 2d lyieutenant, 
 
 Clyde A. Narramore 
 Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 
 
 Baldwin, Thomas C. 
 Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 
 
 Higgs, Noah F. 
 Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 
 
 Baker, Chester F. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Ballinger, Homer J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 King, Charles B. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Burney, Thomas J. 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 JOPLIN 
 
 Corporal, 
 
 Hughes, Donald S. 
 Cook, 
 
 Hunter, lyawrence O. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Hardman, James C. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Martin, Bernard B. 
 Wagoners : 
 
 Anderson, Lowell 
 
 Baker, Lee 
 
 Balden, Archie A. 
 
 Binns, Archie Z. 
 
 Binns, Kddie 
 
 Birchfield, Moss 
 
 Bledsoe, Walter 
 
 Boyce, Flva V. 
 
 Conner, Harry M. 
 
 Cooper, Vincil 
 Day,\ Melvin 
 Dent, Lee W. 
 Derkoski, John 
 Privates: 
 Hogue, Samuel V. 
 Hood, William D. 
 Hopkins, Albert L. 
 Horn, Buford J. 
 Houchin, Wm. T. 
 McCoy, Floyd 
 McCoy, William O. 
 Miller, Ray 
 Palmer, Arthur D. 
 Redlinger, Jack J. 
 Rutherford, Clarence 
 Stark, Nathaniel L. 
 Tattom, Samuel L. 
 Watson, James R. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 
 Nevada 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James J. Corey 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry J. Beagles 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Kdwin Samuel 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 James L. S enter 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Harrel, Ival W. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Teel, Roy F. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Scroghem, Alphus 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Cubbin, J. Alex 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Bishop, John H. 
 Sergeants, 
 
 Casenburg, Frank K. 
 
 Inwood, W. Clarence 
 
 Mikesell, Chester H, 
 
 Smith, Fred W. 
 
 Teel, Emmet 
 
 Whaley, William 
 
 Wilhelmson, George 
 Corporals: 
 
 Bratton. Lew H. 
 
 Ftter, James C. 
 
 Phillips, Laton F. 
 
 Schuman, Fdd 
 
 Ulrich, Elwood 
 
 Wardin, Herbert B. 
 
 Williams, John 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Boyd, Lora 
 
 Johnson, Herbert R. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Kpperson, David A. 
 
 Wareing, Harry 
 Buglers: 
 
 Dempsey, Gomer W. 
 
 Lynch, Bernice F. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Boyd, James F. 
 
 Braswell, Mack A. 
 
 Corp, George A. 
 
 King, Orville W. 
 
 Kinkead, William B. 
 
 McClease, Frvine 
 
 Mann, James F. 
 
 Maze, Henry S. 
 
 Price, Thomas A. 
 
 Rader, Edwin V. 
 
 Wallace, Robert IT. 
 
 Wingate, Barnes I. 
 Privates: 
 
 Barnes, William B. 
 
 Bolinger, John W. 
 Braswell, Walter E. 
 Charles, George E. 
 Davis, Harry R. 
 Driver, Don 
 Harvey, Samuel R. 
 Hays, Ira 
 Hughes, Floyd C. 
 Kinkead, John P. 
 Lock, William F. 
 Lovell, Lafe W. 
 McElwain, Dewey 
 McSpadden, Leo 
 Milligan, Worth B. 
 Morley, Charles E. 
 Ogles, Otis E. 
 Phillips, Emery T. 
 Pierceall, Paul E. 
 Pope, Harry E. 
 Purcell, William H. 
 Rehmel, Ira K. 
 Rinehart, Brice 
 Rooney, William J. 
 Snell, Roy 
 Snyder, Pearl E. 
 Strader, Walter E. 
 Thomas, Archie 
 Wells, Oran N. 
 Whitlock, Robert E. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Ward L. Schrantz 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Louise E. Dottwiler 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 Carthage 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank L. Snyder 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Snyder, George A. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Havens, David H. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 Glenn, Robert D. 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Brown, Willard 
 
 Edwards, Charles S. 
 
 Ellis, Ernest K. 
 
 Hines, James A, 
 
 Hopwood, Nerval R. 
 
 Wiggins, Edwin W. 
 
 Ford, Warren A. 
 
 Hopkins, William M. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Havens, William P. 
 
 Clark, Fred R . 
 
 Stuckey, Lloyd J. 
 
 Kaselack, Otto E. 
 
 Hooten, Louis E. 
 
 Davis, James M. 
 
 Miles, Albert C. 
 
 Cain, Carl J. 
 
 Bradley, Richard C. 
 
 Roach, Robert E. 
 
 Ford, Paul 
 
 Bonner, Virgil H. 
 
 Matchael, John S. 
 
 Stuckey, Lyle E. 
 
 Taylor, Joseph E. 
 
 Amerman, James W. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Newman, Harry E. 
 
 Cronk, John F. 
 
 Jones, Harry C. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Daugherty, Thomas M 
 
 Chapman, Thomas O. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Powers, John L. 
 
 Starcher, Norman T. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Babcock, Guy 
 
 Bennett, Charles R. 
 
 Breckenridge, Vern H. 
 
 Burke, Arthur C. 
 
 Comer, Dewey 
 
 Cone, Claude L. 
 
 Culbertson, Richmond 
 E. 
 
 Harlow, Thomas J. 
 
 McKinney, Charles K. 
 
 Moore, William N. 
 
 Parker, Fred H. 
 
 Palmer, Harry H. 
 
 Smith, Austin L. 
 Sparks, Joe 
 Springer, Garnett A. 
 Thomas, Clinton E. 
 West, G. Wallace 
 Privates: 
 
 Akin, Leaford J. 
 Allen, William 
 Amick, Erwin E. 
 Anderson, Frank O. 
 Baker, John C. 
 Baker, Roy C. 
 Baldwin, Jesse 
 Bays, Alvin 
 Black, William B. 
 Blackford, Henry C. 
 Blue, Harry M. 
 Brewer, Albert L. 
 Brown, Harry 
 Capps, Ernest C. 
 Cash, Samuel E. 
 Clark, Herman 
 Clark, Thomas E. 
 Cook, Fred 
 Devers, William L- 
 Dudley, James A. 
 Eastin, Carl N. 
 Epperson, Carl B. 
 Ford, Raleigh B. 
 Ford, Ray P. 
 Fox, Joseph J. 
 French, Harry J. 
 Frost, George D. 
 Gardner, George D. 
 Gilliland, Lester F. 
 Glass, John M. 
 Glenn, William J. B. 
 Gouty, John C. 
 Gragg, Vertil C. 
 Grissom, Charles O. 
 Hannum, Edward A, 
 Harvey, Joseph W. 
 Havens, E. Glenn 
 Herron, George B. 
 Hickman, Harry E. 
 Hier, Isaac E. 
 Hilton, Theo. E. 
 Hines, William H. 
 Hornback, John D. 
 Hufif, Robert B. 
 Hunt, Noel R. 
 
 Jacksouy Frank H. 
 Keller, Harley E. 
 Kelton, Leonard 
 Landers, Joe L. 
 Luke, Charles W. 
 McAshland, Sam A. 
 McFadden, John H. 
 McKinney, Earl F. 
 Manier, Ralph E. 
 Mayabb, Leonard 
 Mealey, Rex B. 
 Medcalf, Henderson 
 Mertins, Charles L. 
 Moody. Bert I. 
 Moorman, John I^. 
 Morris, Leonard H. 
 Mort, James D. 
 Moss, Hugh O. 
 Moyer, Morgan J. 
 Nickell, J. Ford 
 Parsons, Dote S. 
 Patterson, Clarence H. 
 Powers, Earnest 
 Prickett, Carl L. 
 Prince, Earl F. 
 Rapp, Daniel H. 
 Redding, Ira C. 
 Ring, Eugene 
 Robinson, Fred D. 
 Robinson, Ward P. 
 Roos, Guy A. 
 Saunders, Mark 
 Schmidli, Paul H. 
 Sinclair, John F. 
 Smiddy, Verna D. 
 Smith, Chas. D., 
 Smith, Mark 
 Starcher, Ferreld J. 
 Tangner, Carl A. 
 Tavlor, Bert E. 
 Tyler, Jesse C. 
 Vaughn, Lewis L. 
 Voorhis, Arthur E. 
 Watson, Chancy J, 
 Weaver, Al 
 White, Charles C. 
 Wood, Harry W. 
 Wright, Delbert 
 Ziler, Estel C. 
 Zogg,, Martin F. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 George L. Caruthers 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William O. Jackson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 John C. Frazier 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Keeser, Floyd 
 
 COMPANY B 
 Butler 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Haynes, Richard E. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Burner, Thomas J. 
 
 Yates, Charles B. 
 
 Muchmore, Omer S. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Nicolay, Clark 
 
 Barker, Lewis H. 
 Grant, William T. 
 Abbott, William R. 
 Gerby, James 
 Quails, Delbert R. 
 Hayes, Emmett W. 
 Herrell, Henry A. 
 Orear, Ed S. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 273 
 
 Welch, Clarence L- 
 
 Weldon, Harry L,. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Wells, Pearl h. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Scheurich, Elmer L. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Biser, Ramon W. 
 
 Johnson, Harley W. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Grow, Leland 
 
 Huddleston, Oria 
 
 Smith, Lester C. 
 
 Wright, Charles H. 
 Privates: 
 
 Agee, Peter O., 
 
 Anderson, Carl A. 
 
 Argenbright, Grover 
 
 Atkinson, Charley 
 Bain, Henry E. 
 Baugher, Clee B. 
 Bingham, Roy M. 
 Bishop, \Villiam F. 
 Blankenship, William 
 Bowles, Everett 
 Bowles, Lewis J. 
 Branscum, Russell 
 Brown, James E. 
 Butler, Clyde B. 
 Caviness, James 
 Cawood, Charley E. 
 Chapman, Earl 
 Chapman, Elbert F. 
 Chapman, Roy F. 
 Clark, James Riley 
 Close, Glenn W. 
 Cofifman, Frank E. 
 Colvin, Roy D. 
 Courtney, Willard 
 Davis, Hugh R. 
 
 Davis, Richard D. 
 Davis, William H. 
 Dixon, Cloyde G. 
 Dubbs, John C. 
 Elliott, Hoyt J,. 
 Forbes, Ruby E. 
 Fuller, Edward D. 
 Gibbs, Floy F. 
 Greenlee, John Earl 
 Grow, Raymond D. 
 Haney, Francis N. 
 Hayes, Howard V. 
 Hawley, Casper L. 
 Hedger, Frank R. 
 Hendricks, Ira C. 
 Henry, William C. 
 Hinrichs, Herman 
 Howell, Oris E. 
 Inskeep, George 
 Jackson, William M. 
 Keen, Guy V. 
 Kornhaus, William 
 Lance, Kelly 
 Lehnherr, June L. 
 LeMasters, Russell 1< 
 Lewis, Abraham H, 
 Lewis, Joe S. 
 McClure, Marvin 
 McGrew, Charles V. 
 McSpadden, Sam 
 Martz, William D. 
 Mason, Rhoby 
 Mefford, Homer B. 
 Menefee, Harry E. 
 Miller, Fountain R 
 Moles, James A. 
 Moore, Christy L. 
 Morrow, Fred R. 
 Mustard, Biney 
 
 Nrsterrode, Nelson M. 
 
 H. 
 Newman, Fred 
 Norris, Charles W. 
 Cakes, Thomas E. 
 Gates. William S. 
 Orr, Leslie 
 Owens, Charley H. 
 Patterson, Omer 
 Flew, James O. 
 Ruble, George W. 
 Ruble, Richard H. 
 Scott, Irl T. 
 Scott, John L. 
 Scott, Warren D. 
 Selby, Louis H. 
 Shumate, Ben F. 
 Skates, Simon 
 Sollars, Guy O. 
 Stacy, Luther L. 
 Strait, Charles G. 
 Tabler, George A. 
 Taft, Wells L. 
 Terry, Ernest 
 Thomas, Charles D. 
 Thurman, Orel E. 
 Tweed, George 
 Walters, John 
 Walters, John W. 
 Warnken, Frank E. 
 Warnken, Lawrence 
 
 W. 
 Williams, Richard A. 
 Wilson, Ray E. 
 Wilson, William D. 
 Wiser, Claud 
 Wisherd, Ray 
 Wolfe, Harvey 
 Yates, Frank L. 
 Young, Ben H. 
 Zwahlen, Leslie C. 
 
 COMPANY C 
 
 Lamar 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James A. Frow 
 1st Lieutenant 
 
 Robert P. Thompson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Fred D. Hays 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Sheppard, Clarence W 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Schubert, Edward 
 Supply Sergeant 
 
 Reed, Wm. H. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Hess, Lee H. 
 
 Hickman, Charley W. 
 
 Anderson, Lawrence 
 
 Rains, Jesse 
 
 Inglish, Gordon 
 
 Wine, Robert Y, 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Benford, William 
 
 Cooper, Frank 
 
 Lockwood, Arthur M. 
 
 Thompson, Paul B. 
 
 Cox, Edgar A. 
 
 Gordon, Arthur B. 
 
 Beall, Edgar 
 
 Vlazny, Frank D. 
 
 Jones, Milton 
 
 Wills, Lester 
 
 Daetwyler, Carl 
 
 Magers, Elmer 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Boyd, David W. 
 
 Stewart, Walter E. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Dainty, Allen 
 
 McKissock, Archie L. 
 
 Buglers: 
 
 Shipman, Joseph 
 
 Pierce, Ross 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Haddon, James R. 
 
 Patterson, Roy E. 
 Privates: 
 
 Allen, Joseph T. 
 
 Arft, Carl M. 
 
 Arnold, James H. 
 
 Barber, John 
 
 Bays, Earl 
 
 Beisner, Henry W. 
 
 Black, John 
 
 Bloomfield, Sherman 
 
 Bond, Robert E. 
 
 Bouton, Harry J. 
 
 Bowker, Roy 
 
 Butler, James W. 
 
274 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Briley, Clyde T. 
 Cabodier, Tony 
 Chandler, Cecil D. 
 Conrad, Lloyd B. 
 Cooper, Charles 
 Coring, Don 
 Cox, Albert 
 Cunningham, Oran F. 
 Custin, Perry S. 
 Dale, Robert N. 
 Davidson, James 
 Davis, Amos, B. 
 Day, Marshal D. 
 DePriest, Noble O. 
 Devine, Earl 
 Dickey, Chauncey L. 
 Dryden, Cecil V. 
 Duff, William E. 
 Duggan, Thomas A. 
 Duncan, Jesse Y. 
 Earp, George 
 Erwin, Roy E. 
 Fletcher, Ray E. 
 Gage, Amos 
 Gooseman, Emmett V 
 Gossy Clinton C. 
 Greenstreet, Craig 
 Griffith, Frank W. 
 Griffith, Ray 
 Hackney, Alfred D. 
 Handy, Chauncey E. 
 Harrell, Emmett 
 Hassen, Edward 
 
 Hedgecorth, Jesse 
 Hedrick, Charles P. 
 Hensley, Orvil 
 Herrell, Roy 
 Hill, Hurley W. 
 Hill, James 
 Hughes, Wady H. 
 Jackson, Ewart C. 
 Janes, Harold E. 
 Jobe, James 
 Johnson, Herbert W. 
 Jones, Harry G. 
 Jones, Ray E. 
 Jones, William 
 Kessler, Claude E. 
 Knight, Allen 
 Labove, Levoda 
 Landers, Vernon 
 Lawson, James W. 
 Lewis, George 
 McAlexander, Harold 
 
 E. 
 McCary, Lyle B. 
 McHoney, Joseph R. 
 McKee, Charlie 
 McKinney, Mally B. 
 Massey, Harold G. 
 Millard, Elvin A. 
 Moody, Hobart 
 Moreland, Thomas 
 Morris, Phillip 
 Norvell, Otis W. 
 Page, Ben L. 
 
 Peak. Troy C. 
 Prigmore, Bert 
 Pruitt, William F. 
 Ramage, William Jr. 
 Rapp, Guy 
 Reed, Harrison H. 
 Roberts, Glenn E. 
 Robertson, Perry H. 
 Ross, Guy L. 
 Rouse, Bryan 
 Russell, Leslie C. 
 Schubert, Lawrence 
 
 B. 
 Seth, Dewey 
 Shaw, Albert J. 
 Shaw, Elver 
 Shearer, Earl H, 
 Shreve, Dewey 
 Smith, Alva 
 Smith, Marion J. 
 Smith, William R. 
 Sparkman, Seth E. 
 Stahl, Ira L. 
 Stone, Andrew 
 Summers, Earl 
 Swift, Jesse 
 Taylor, William N. 
 Teal, Ray H. 
 Tennant, Maurice E. 
 Underbill, Thomas J. 
 Vail, Jesse L. 
 Wilson, Ernest C. 
 Wine, Charles C. 
 Witherspoon. Arley B. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Mark D. Springer 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Wayne T. Boles 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Felix G. Halstead 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Mullins, Bob 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Thomas, Fred A, 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Bishop, Sterling A. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Morgan, John F. 
 
 Waters, Clyde 
 
 Myers, Nathanie J. 
 
 Mapes, Homer 
 
 Hogan, Mason S. 
 
 Dwyer, Harry J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Walker, George W. 
 
 Myers, Lewis W. 
 
 Hollingshad, Will 
 
 Morrison, Frank E. 
 
 Parker, Harvey L- 
 
 Ozburn, Fred L. 
 
 COMPANY D 
 
 West Plains 
 
 Wilkerson, Earl 
 
 Gray, Clarence B. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Mallory, Nathaniel 
 
 Kendricks, William H. 
 
 Scott, Christopher C. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Wilcox, Hubert 
 Bugler, 
 
 McKinstry, Paul 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bloomer, Paul 
 
 Mashburn, William S. 
 
 Trower, Samuel F. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbott, Alfred R. 
 
 Acklin, Albert A. 
 
 Allen, George 
 
 Alsup, Barton 
 
 Alsup, James F. 
 
 Alsup, Martin 
 
 Atkinson, Bryan 
 
 Bailey, Earnest J. 
 
 Barker, William 
 
 Baughman, Isaian I. 
 
 Best, Acel 
 
 Billups, Frank 
 Bly, Thurman C. 
 Bray, Carl 
 Britain, Robert H. 
 Brown, Charles 
 Brown, Samuel F. 
 Buker, Charles E. 
 Burns, David C. 
 Calhoon, Ramon M. 
 Calhoon, Roy J. 
 Callahan, William H. 
 Carlock, Dorsey E. 
 Childers, Leaman J. 
 Coats, Jack 
 Coffey, Harvey A. 
 Coke, Adam 
 Collins, Shafter 
 Countryman, Cecil P. 
 Cowan, Frank L. 
 Crockett, Maurice A. 
 Crossland, Ralph 
 Curtis, Owen D. 
 Dold, Fred 
 
 Donaldson, Charles H. 
 Duffy, Arthur N. 
 England, Raymond D. 
 
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 Files, Paul 
 Fisher, Floyd F, 
 Forester, Manuel 
 Foster, Charles K. 
 Frost, Wayne W. 
 Glinn, Archie 
 Hamilton, Fred P. 
 Hardin, Carl 
 Hardin, Colman D. 
 Harvey, Carl P. 
 Harvey, Guy 
 Heselton, Russell C. 
 Hollingshad, Guy W. 
 Hook, Troy A. 
 Horsman, Sherd. 
 Horton, Oscar S. 
 Hull, Tony R. 
 Huston, Leslie F. 
 Ingold, Oscar O. 
 Ingalsbe, Harry O. 
 Johnson, James A. 
 Jolliff, Dan B. 
 Jones, Leonard A. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Walter Tydings 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Warren S. Perry 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 George N. Cale 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Manning, Fdward L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Deputy, Louis L. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Randall, Paul 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Almegourd, Salem D. 
 
 Cale, Harvey A. 
 
 Hasselbring, Fritz 
 
 Hawkins, Lester R. 
 
 Johnson, Arthur F. 
 
 Johnson, Carl O. 
 
 McDermitt, Charles 
 M. 
 
 Swindle, Harold R. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Allcock, William L. 
 
 Bartkoski, Anthony 
 
 Bradford, John L. 
 
 Crisp, Jess 
 
 Hammar, Hobert 
 
 Hanes, Lester B. 
 
 Houston, Mace 
 
 Knighten, Earl A. 
 
 Lynn, Clarence 
 
 McGuire, Will J. 
 
 Patton, Roy W. 
 
 Reeves, Herschel G, 
 
 Ridpath, McKinley 
 
 Jones, Ralph 
 Layman, Clarence 
 Leasher, Clyde C. 
 Lewis, Harry G. 
 McCracken, Jesse J. 
 McMillian, Alonzo 
 McMillian, Earnest 
 McMillian, George W. 
 Myers, Thomas A. 
 Marcum, George 
 Messer, Harry L. 
 Mitchell, Harry 
 Myers, Thomas A. 
 Orr, James D. 
 Parker, Richard 
 Parks, Joe H. 
 Peterson, Lonnie 
 Petri, Henry 
 Piper, Alfred L. 
 Piper, William L. 
 Provost, Lawrence R. 
 Reese, Fred H. 
 Remick, Cant J. 
 
 COMPANY E 
 
 Sarcoxie 
 
 Ruskoski, Albert J. 
 
 Williamson, James A. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Yazell, Charles G. 
 
 Houston, Hugh 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Sprague, Edison 
 Musicians : 
 
 Gill, Thomas O. 
 
 Jones, Rufus 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Abegg, Joseph A. 
 
 Barnard, Clyde 
 
 Casey, Sidney 
 
 Childers, Roy 
 
 Lacewell, Milles 
 
 Moneyham, John H. 
 
 Overall, George W. 
 
 Overall, Golden R. 
 
 Plummer, Loren W. 
 
 Stephens, George C. 
 
 Trentham, Lee C. 
 
 Vaught, Glenn 
 
 Wells, Joe D. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abramovitz, George 
 
 Atwood, Stanley 
 
 Barnett, Charles 
 
 Bartkoski, Henry 
 
 Bartkoski, John S. 
 
 Beck, John D. 
 
 Belch, Rush 
 
 Bell, William A. 
 
 Bergen, Clarence 
 
 Bethel, Hoyt T. 
 
 Bingham, LeRoy 
 
 Bishop, Frank J. 
 
 Ross, Charley S. 
 Schauffler, Theodore J. 
 Shadwell, James W. 
 Shepherd, George A. 
 Shannon, Marvin 
 Sloan, Earnest 
 Sloan, Harry 
 Smith, Oliver D. 
 Sterling, Clyde 
 Stine, Lester E. 
 Taylor, Alvin S. 
 Thomas, Waymon W. 
 Thompson, Connard 
 
 H. 
 Thompson, Walter 
 Thrailkill, George C. 
 Todd, Earl 
 Verdot, John 
 Ward, Clifford S. 
 Warren, Paul R. 
 Welch, John D. 
 White, Luther S. 
 Wilcox, Roscoe 
 
 Bobski, Edward 
 Box, Lester J. 
 Brewer, Plorace 
 Carpenter, Lawrence 
 Chandler, Charley 
 Chandler, Roy 
 Coffee, Hugh E. 
 Cook, Lee G. 
 Cox, Nelvey E. 
 Cross, William D. 
 Crumley, John E. 
 Decker, Harvey A. 
 Dobbs, Orville 
 Dombroski, Florence 
 Douglas, Earl G. 
 Eiskina, John 
 Elbert, George 
 Elbert, Robert 
 Gabriel, Leonard E. 
 George, Harold H. 
 Gorman, Frank 
 Gregory, Charles E. 
 Griffin, Arthur 
 Griffin, William A. 
 Griffith.Oakley 
 Hagebusch, Edward 
 Hagedorn, Ben 
 Hamilton, Charles J, 
 Hammer, Harry T. 
 Harbour, Joseph N. 
 Hopkins, Charles C. 
 Horn, Harry J. 
 Jackson, Harvey 
 Kelley, Albert M. 
 Kenski, Joe J. 
 Kinchloe, Alvin G. 
 Koerper, Harry J. 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Kresymore, Tony A. 
 Lamb, Hubert 
 Leary, James C. 
 McKinney, Will 
 Meador, Louis 
 Merrifield, Arthur 
 Mills, Earnest W. 
 Mitchell, Forest M. 
 Mize, Harry 
 Morris, James L. 
 Musick, Paul F, 
 Osborn , Dennis L. 
 Overall, Herman L. 
 Peeples, William R, 
 Phipps, William 
 
 Rhoades, Walter 
 Robb, William H. 
 Roberson, Paul J. 
 Russell, Noland M. 
 Sandison, Claude C. 
 Sapp, Chad 
 Scott, Peter T. 
 Seaton, John W. 
 Silvey, Ellis 
 Spencer, Carl K. 
 Southern, Sam 
 Stopanski, Victor J. 
 Testerman, Orval 
 Trader, Joe 
 
 Tuck, Jim 
 Velton, Edward J. 
 Velton, Fred J. 
 Vermillion, Reason 
 Waldron, Harvey 
 Warner, Francis M. 
 Weatherman, Charley 
 Wicke, Noel 
 Wiley, Dewey 
 Wiley, Dolphy 
 Woolridge, Leslie 
 Woolford, Harold 
 Wroblewski, Albert J. 
 Zebert, Frank 
 Zebert, Joe M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Courtney A. McKinley 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Clement P. Dickinson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Taylor L. Francisco 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Sperry, Floyd L. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Carter, William E. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Walter, Edwin A. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Gregory, Paul 
 
 Eraser, Grover C. 
 
 Harris, Ira E. 
 
 Hicks, James W. 
 
 McCormick, William 
 V. 
 
 White, Joseph G. 
 
 Burris. Ira E. 
 Corporals: 
 
 McGinnis, William H. 
 
 Locke, Raymond I. 
 
 Walker, Louis C. 
 
 Baker, Fay E. 
 
 Farley, Charles E. 
 
 Mea, Ray 
 Cooks: 
 
 Douglas, Walter B. 
 
 Downing, Ralph E. 
 
 Stephens, William B. 
 Musicians: 
 
 Murdock, Ernest 
 
 Weir, Frank F. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Jackson, George R. 
 
 Wright, Harold B. 
 Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Eugene W. 
 
 Bagby, Hubert 
 
 Baker, Belmont G. 
 
 Ball, James A. 
 
 Bennett, William R. 
 
 Bourke, Edgar 
 
 COMPANY F 
 Clinton 
 
 Bowen, Jesse G. 
 Branstetter, Robert J. 
 Breeden, William F. 
 Briggs, Bryan 
 Briggs, Samuel 
 Brown, Roy L- 
 Brown, Sherman 
 Bunch, Clayton I. 
 Bunch, William C. 
 Burns, William 
 Campbell, Carl L. 
 Campbell, Lee E. 
 Carlton, Arleigh 
 Cecil, Rodney 
 Chalmers, Clarence L. 
 Chaney, William 
 Chastain, J. Earl 
 Clark, Edward 
 Clark, J. Franklin 
 Collins, James Guy 
 Colson, Burlle D. 
 Conger, Arthur 
 Cornelius, Jesse E. 
 Crawford, Walter S. 
 Darden, Henry L. 
 Daugherty, Jesse L. 
 Denny, Gordon 
 Dickinson, T. Seldon 
 Doty, _ Ralph E. 
 Downing, Ben 
 Downing, Donald 
 Durbin, Arthur C. 
 Dutton, William Henry 
 Fassler, Ambrose A. 
 Fassler, Joseph L. 
 Faulkner, John F. 
 Firsick, Charles A. 
 Gray, Guy P. 
 Green, Donovan H. 
 Gumm, Fern M. 
 Halfen, Herbert H. 
 Hanger, Charles O. 
 Hicks, Edward R. 
 Hill, Rolla E. 
 Hodges, Flemon 
 
 Hollingsworth, George 
 
 M. 
 HoUoway, Fred 
 Howard, Henry 
 Hutson, Clarence M. 
 Jones, Charles B. 
 Jones, Ezra M. 
 Julian, John M. 
 Justis, William A, 
 King, George D. 
 Kitchen, Frank P. 
 LaHue, Walter H. 
 Lambert, Jesse M. 
 Langford, W. Perry 
 Lawler, Robert G. 
 Leet, Frank 
 Long, Lewis L. 
 McVay, Clarence 
 Mann, Earl V. 
 Mansfield, Ralph V. 
 Marsh, Fred J. 
 Marshall, J, Ross 
 Mason, Charles E. 
 Mason, John E. 
 Matthews, C. Ray 
 Mitchell, Myro 
 Mock, Roy L. 
 Mock, Troy L. 
 Moffett, Hugh W. 
 Neal, John 
 Nida, Arthur W. 
 Odle, Ed 
 
 Overbey, Clinton S. 
 Page, Frederick H. 
 Park, Arlie H. 
 Park, Verna T, 
 Parrish, Henry J. 
 Peninger, Ely J. 
 Phelps, James E. 
 Poague, Lorence H. 
 Sherman, O. Finley 
 Short, Charles E. 
 Smith, Arthur C. 
 Smith, Thomas H, 
 Smith, Thomas J. 
 
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 Spangler, Homer M. 
 Stacy, John W. 
 Starkey, Glen R. 
 Stewart, John B. 
 Stewart, Samuel H. 
 Stogsdill, Thomas 
 Sumner, John T. 
 
 Swan, Glenn J. 
 Terry, Claud 
 Thompson, Albert D. 
 Tribble, Ernest 
 TuU, Ottis W. 
 Vaughn, Willie 
 Wallace, A. Hayden 
 
 Wardrip, Otto L,. 
 Weakley, M. Ray 
 Wells, Eugene E. 
 White, James M. 
 Willis, George W. 
 Wise, James I,. 
 Wooden, Sidney H. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Myron F. Bundy 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Eudwig L. Everson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Ralph D. Henderson 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Elsea, Albert E. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Grant, Edward D. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Freeman, Leslie V. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Hutchins, Frank 
 
 Horn, Pearl 
 
 Beasley, Alvin M. 
 
 Corder, Corwin H. 
 
 Malott, Charles 
 
 Quinn, Perry M. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Fannon, Frank M. 
 
 Overlees, Joseph L. 
 
 Hunter, Elmer E. 
 
 Strauss, Lester F. 
 
 Shivley, Hayden W. 
 
 Fetty, Victor G. 
 
 Zehr, Roy M. 
 
 Counts, Glenn H. 
 
 DeMott, Lonnie F. 
 
 Steger, John W. 
 
 Davis, Grant L. 
 
 Bartlow, Charles H. 
 
 Love, Charles M. 
 
 Harbin, James F. 
 
 Buchanan, Earl M. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Cain, William J. 
 
 Dougherty, Roy J. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Butcher, Jesse L. 
 
 Ackers, Walter H. 
 
 Richardson, Buel C. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Hyde, William G. 
 
 Clark, Walter L. 
 1st Class Private, 
 
 Williams, Clarence 
 Privates: 
 
 Adams, Herbert 
 
 Alderson, Walter E. 
 
 Archer, Virgil D. 
 
 Atkinson, Vere W. 
 
 Augter, Emil F. 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 JOPLIN 
 
 Bicknell, John T. 
 Blackweil, Earl B. 
 Brogan, Francis R. 
 Brooks, James A. 
 Brown, Dwight W. 
 Brown, Joseph 
 Caldwell, Oakley P. 
 Campbell, Ray W. 
 Cheesman, Myron M. 
 Chew, Alvin F. 
 Clark, George 
 Cook, Francis 
 Cole, Robert R. 
 Conrad, Clifton 
 Cox, Elvin V. 
 Crawford, Sidney J. 
 Curran, Charles H. 
 Davis, Napoleon B. 
 Denton, Ralph 
 Dunham, Will M. 
 Ferrell, Otis L. 
 Fletcher, Joseph T. 
 Floyd, Byron 
 Forrest, Thomas 
 Fox, Cyril V. 
 Garrard, Taylor C. 
 Gibson, Clyde R. 
 Glenn, Joseph 
 Graham, Craig H. 
 Haill, Charles W. 
 Hamilton, Ellis D. 
 Hamilton, Roy Lee 
 Hamilton, Vaughn S. 
 Handy, Floyd 
 Harrington, Oscar A. 
 Harrison, George W. 
 Harrison, Virgil T. 
 Hatfield, Jesse L. 
 Hatfield, Roy 
 Hayden, William O. 
 Henderson, Egbert K 
 Henderson, Robert O. 
 Hendricks, Louis H. 
 Hendry, Alva D. 
 Hites, Miller E. 
 Hooker, John F. 
 Hopkins, Obert D. 
 Hubbard. Charles R. 
 James, Carl R. 
 Jones, Marvin W. 
 Jones, Waitsel A. 
 Karr, James A. 
 Karr, Jesse L. 
 
 Koontz, James L. 
 Krause, Irvin G. 
 Krieg, Charles R. 
 Largen, Logan J. 
 Lawder, Winslow F. 
 Lipps, Samuel L. 
 Livingston, James 
 Lochart, George T. 
 Love, Joe W. 
 McConnell, Luther F. 
 Madden, Joseph P. 
 Meek, Forrest E. 
 Mering, Clarence R. 
 Metsker, Henry 
 Miller, Dewey O. 
 Moreland, Stanley P. 
 Moss, Bennie H. 
 Myers, Earl F. 
 Newman, Durand 
 Newton, Datus 
 Newton, Perry I. 
 O'Banion, Frank M. 
 Owen, R. A. 
 Patterson, Cordell C. 
 Protherow, Elmer C. 
 Purvis, Ruloff 
 Raskin, Israel H. 
 Renner, Jacob V. 
 Richardson, Robert O. 
 Roach, Walter R. 
 Sage, Guy 
 Schahill, Frank B. 
 Showers, Wesley H. 
 Sinor, Jesse W. 
 Spoon, Jesse M. 
 Stanfield, Sam S. 
 Stiles, Edward S. 
 Storey, Ralph J. 
 Suman, Alonzo R. 
 Switzer, Andrew J. 
 Tansey, Guffra T. 
 Taylor, Meredith 
 Tilden, William 
 Tucker, Chester H, 
 Warren, George L- 
 Watts, Donald W. 
 Webb, Elwood P. 
 Weldgen, John G. 
 Williams, Lemuel 
 Wood, Lee 
 Yocum, Cecil B. 
 Young, Oral 
 Zumbrunn, Sentman L. 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Douglas D. McDonald 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Roy W. Butts 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles Hughes 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Callison, James M. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Jones, Floyd W. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Hough, Porter C. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Conner, Paul W. 
 
 Palmer, Stanleigh K. 
 
 Shellman, George W. 
 
 Kaffenberger, Lewis L. 
 
 Barrows, Carl R. 
 
 Wills, Virgil M. 
 
 McSpadden, Donovan 
 M. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Fuller, William C. 
 
 Harris, Mark 
 
 Senn, Everet S. 
 
 Mills, Sylvester A. 
 
 Webb, Herbert E. 
 
 Dye, Guy A. 
 
 Osborne, Raymond i^. 
 
 Roberts, Thomas H. 
 
 Williams, Headley 
 
 Davis, John L. 
 
 Atkinson, Orville 
 
 Frank, Burton 
 
 Hawk, Elbert 
 
 McKesson, Neal D. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Lorance, Russell D. 
 
 O'Dell, Roy C. 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Smart, Huber 
 
 Hurt, James D. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Crumb, James 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Barker, Raymond J. 
 
 Blickensderfer, Her- 
 man 
 
 Butler, Vernon H. 
 
 Claiborne, Homer B. 
 
 Coffman, Guy O. 
 
 Dalton, Thomas C. 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Lebanon 
 
 Dent, Thomas A, 
 Duckworth, Joe O. 
 Dye, Donald E. 
 Johnson, Floyd 
 Joslin, Merlin F. 
 Lambeth, Glenn W. 
 McKesson, Robert D. 
 McNellis, Louis H. 
 Maples, Horace B. 
 Mawhiney, Hyman L- 
 Norris, Ben F. 
 Nudelman, Adolph W. 
 Parker, Jesse N. 
 Parrick, Roy 
 Pidcock, Harry R. 
 Ruble, George M. 
 Towers, Russell 
 Weissgerber, Walter 
 
 c. 
 
 Young, Buford R. 
 Privates: 
 
 Adams, Alva 
 Adams, James A. 
 Allen, Marion C. 
 Baker, Spursey A. 
 Bates, Earnest 
 Beiswinger, Warner 
 Cafifey, Samuel C. 
 Carlton, John M. 
 Chastain, Orestus 
 Clifton, Roy 
 Copeland, Jesse A. 
 Davis, Ben A. 
 Davis, Lee 
 Davis, Ralph H. 
 Devore, Robert C. 
 Dibben, Edwin F. 
 Elder, Ralph 
 Elder, Raymond 
 Epstein, Walter A, 
 Francis, Joseph L- 
 Franklin, Allen 
 Gage, Arthur 
 Garrett, Homer R. 
 Harrill, Dewey 
 Harshaw, Marion B. 
 Hartman, Herbert C. 
 Hays, Clarence H. 
 Hendricks, Ferman J. 
 Holland, Nelson 
 Hooper, Floyd 
 Hunter, William J. 
 
 Jaynes, Andrew 
 Jones, Andrew C. 
 Jones, Roy H. 
 Jones, Sam 
 Lillard, Wilber 
 McDowell, Homer H. 
 McKee, Robert 
 Mayfield, Randolph C. 
 Montgomery Clarence 
 
 L« 
 Montgomery, Lowell 
 Nobles, Lonzo C. 
 Norton, Joseph J. 
 Osborn, Lonnie 
 Owen, Oscar S. 
 Paul, Columbus N. 
 Ponder, William C. 
 Pritchett, Burl C. 
 Reading, Lionel O. 
 Rhodes, Isaac 
 Riley, Will S. 
 Roney, Morris E. 
 Scrivener, Reese M. 
 Shank, Eli 
 Sharp, Emma 
 Sharp, Homer C. 
 Shockley, George W. 
 Skiles, Roy 
 Smith, Edmond H. 
 Snow, Elmer 
 Snow, F'loyd J. 
 Stagner, Claude A. 
 Starns, Homer 
 Starns, Orvil L. 
 Stonecipher, Charles 
 Sullivan, Clarence 
 Sullivan, Granville M. 
 Sumner, Adam R. 
 Teavor, Orla 
 Thompson, Jasper L. 
 Tozer, Norman L. 
 Trower, Everett C. 
 Vermillion, Rufus 
 Webb, Earl L. 
 West, John W. 
 Westerman, Toba 
 Whitaker, Carl G. 
 Williams, Ezra 
 Wills, Roy F. 
 Windsor, Willie 
 Wofford, Dock A. 
 Wofford. George O. 
 Wynn, Clarence M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Fred H. Nesbitt 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles R. Marquiss 
 
 COMPANY I 
 Webb City 
 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Ernest V. Arbuckle 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Traux, William S. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Higgs, Clyde 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Marquis, Louis A. 
 
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 Sergeants: 
 Gault, Erwin 
 Layton, Roy 
 Hart, Frank 
 Davis, Ben F. 
 McMechan, Addison 
 
 K 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Rhoads, Cecil 
 Whitescarver, Robert 
 
 W. 
 Harrison, Otto 
 Hoffman, Carl N. 
 Gove, Charley 
 Frings, Godfrey 
 Cheek, Burl 
 Williams, Earnest H. 
 Campbell, Everett 
 Cooper, Baldwin 
 Bly, Ernest 
 Hunt, Harold F. 
 Frankeberger, Ralph 
 
 L. 
 Forester, Clifford B. 
 Vawter, Marion F. 
 Scholes, William W. 
 Lowry, Charles I. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Smith, John W. 
 Pilgrim, Walter 
 Wright, Harold J. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Davenport, Edwin F. 
 
 Mort, Howard T. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Erwin, Don 
 
 Flournoy, Linn E. 
 Privates: 
 
 Adkins, Garland R, 
 
 Allen, Clay C. 
 
 Ashcraft. Edward B. 
 
 Avery, Lee C. 
 
 Beeler, James A. 
 
 Birkes, Fred 
 
 Box, Harley R. 
 
 Breeden, Hobart 
 
 Bryan, Oscar 
 
 Bullock, Preston S. 
 
 Byersdorf, Louis Iv. 
 
 Camerer, Harvev 
 
 Cardwell, Carl R. 
 
 Carlisle, Walter L. 
 
 Cartright, Jack D. 
 
 Cash, Stanley 
 Cline, James V. 
 Cline, Mont 
 Corker, Hamilton C. 
 Craig, Charles M. 
 Crohn, Louis H. 
 Cunningham, Frank 
 Cunningham, Hobert 
 Currington, Hugh 
 Cusick, Newton F. 
 Davis, Eddie 
 Dean, Harry N. 
 DeWitt, John K. 
 DeWitt, William 
 Dorrell, Bryan 
 Drugg, Walter C. 
 Dunn, William 
 Elliff, Charles M. 
 Ellis, Henry H. 
 Faass, Clarence 
 Finn, Elbert B. 
 Fisher, Mode 
 Fleming, Russell 
 Frings, Louis J. 
 Gates, Edward 
 
 Gedney, Ben 
 
 Gibbons, John A. 
 
 Hall, Leonard T. 
 
 Hamick, Charles H. 
 
 Hargis, William L. 
 
 Harlan, Glenn L. 
 
 Harmon, Fred M. 
 
 Harp, Walter 
 
 Hill, Robert 
 
 Hinamon, Hubert B. 
 
 James, Raymond 
 
 Jarmin, Kenneth 
 
 Jeffries, Lucian 
 
 Jeffries, Seth M. 
 
 Johnson, Carl C. 
 
 Johnson, Ernest M. 
 
 Johnston, Oscar 
 
 Tones, Henry 
 
 Keith, Arthur E. 
 
 Kendall. William D. 
 
 King, Frank 
 
 Lamberson, Lloyd B. 
 
 Lands, Fred Z. 
 
 Lawrence, Hershal 
 
 r,inn, Delmar 
 Long, Walter 
 
 McCormick, Edward 
 F. 
 
 McCown, James L. 
 McCuUough, Clarence 
 
 McGarrah, Bruce 
 
 McKay, Jerome R. 
 
 McKee, Joe 
 
 McKinley, Charles W. 
 
 Mickels, Ralph R. 
 
 Miller, Thomas W. 
 
 Mummey, Lester R. 
 
 Odom, James 
 
 Owens, Robert 
 
 Palmer, Lee E. 
 
 Paul, Roy E. 
 
 Patrick, Charles E. 
 
 Parks, William R. 
 
 Paxton, George 
 
 Reeves, John H. 
 
 Richardson, Charley 
 E. 
 
 Roberts, Edgar T. 
 
 Rose, Thomas 
 
 Ross, Bud 
 
 Ross, Edd 
 
 Sanders, Harry E. 
 
 Schoenherr, Raymond 
 C. 
 
 Shoemaker, Gilbert W. 
 
 Siler, Byard 
 
 Slinkard, Charley 
 
 Smith, Archie 
 Smith, Ollie 
 Smith, Jim 
 Stanbery, George E. 
 Steel, Pinkey 
 Still, James R. 
 Stringer, Carl E. 
 Sturgeon, Roy 
 Swindle, John M. 
 Tabor, Dressier 
 Thompson, Roy B. 
 Vawter, Arthur L. 
 Viser, Harry 
 Welch, Keefie W. 
 West, Earl 
 Whitton, Jack 
 Wilkerson, John 
 Williams, Bruce H. 
 Williams, Jim 
 Womack, Lionel 
 Woodmansee, Leslie 
 Woodward, Martin 
 Workman, Jesse 
 Wright, Claud 
 
 COMPANY K 
 Springfield 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Paul A. Frey 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Louis E. Eslick 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 John H. Helfrecht 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Edmonson, Walter B. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Hagel, Carl W. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Blain, James R. 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Witty, Clifford G. 
 Young, Julius V. 
 Gates, Curtis B. 
 Eslick, Everett 
 Gideon, James M. 
 
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 Kelso, Page 
 
 Erickson, Jess 
 
 Gates, Lutie C. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Baker, Zell Z. 
 
 Brown, Earl A. 
 
 Farris, Harold 
 
 Gates, Curtle C. 
 
 Hannah, James H. 
 
 King, Emmett 
 
 Langley, William L. 
 
 Puckett, Arthur A. 
 
 Rountree, Ben 
 
 Steele, Walter A. 
 
 Welhoelter, Coulter V. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Friedhofen, Pete 
 
 Friedhofen, William 
 Musicians : 
 
 Nichols, Harlan H. 
 
 Wright, Leonard A. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Brewer, Chauncey 
 
 Nevatt, William D. 
 Privates : 
 
 Acock, Bank C. 
 
 Armstrong, Angus 
 
 Baker, Paul L. 
 
 Bauder, Frank G. 
 
 Bean, George 
 
 Bickford, Elsworth E. 
 
 Boyd, Earl J. 
 
 Branam, Pritchet 
 
 Breedlove, Glenn 
 
 Bringleson, August 
 
 Brooks, Midford F. 
 
 Brookshire, Charles E. 
 
 Brown, Willard J. 
 
 Bruce, John 
 
 Brumfield, Clarence 
 
 Cardwell, Glenn 
 
 Carmen, Ben 
 
 Carter, Clifford 
 
 Carter, Everett 
 
 Gates, Roy L. 
 
 Caudle, James Y. 
 
 Cawlfield, Christopher 
 
 Childers, Lloyd 
 Courtney, Bert L. 
 Cox, Ira T. 
 Christ, Corodon 
 Cunningham, Guy 
 Cunningham, John K. 
 Dawson, Roy L. 
 Doe, Everett 
 Due, John 
 Dyson, Calvin 
 Ege, Harry W. 
 Eidson, John R. 
 Elkins, Cecil 
 Elsey, Harry 
 EsHnger, Everett 
 Evans, William C. 
 Farrell, Luther I. 
 Gann, Gilbert L. 
 Gaylor, James W. 
 Goforth, Vincent C. 
 Green, Emery 
 Green, James E. 
 Harris, Cecil 
 Hixon, Hubert 
 Hollingshad, Fred 
 Hufft, Martin J. 
 Hughey, Clarence 
 Her, Clyde O. 
 James, Richard 
 Janss, Harold 
 Jones, William P. 
 Kelin, Howard A. 
 Killingsworth, Paul 
 Lamb, Charles 
 McCutcheon, Oscar K. 
 McKenzie, Ralph 
 McMahon, Fred R. 
 McNabb, Dewey 
 Marckel, Harry 
 Massey, William S. 
 Matthews, Lloyd L. 
 May, Silas E. 
 Mayers, Cletus 
 Mendenhall, Arthur L. 
 Miller, Lee W. 
 Montague, Benjamin 
 F. 
 
 Montague, Carl D. 
 Morris, Lawrence 
 Morrison, Charles D. 
 Nelson, James 
 Peck, Fahy 
 Peters, Joseph 
 Phillips, Warren 
 Pickett, Richard 
 Plummer, Max B. 
 Pranter, Lawrence J. 
 Pruess, Kirk F. 
 Rainey, Charles 
 Ramsey, Harry W. 
 Rebori, Ralph 
 Richter, Clarence 
 Roach, James W. 
 Robinett, Charles W. 
 Roper, Leon 
 Sanders, Claude 
 Schwanic, Harvey S. 
 Shockley, Howard 
 Singleton, William R. 
 Skaggs, Budd 
 Smades, Arthur L. 
 Stevens, William C. 
 Stewart, Charles 
 Stewart, William B. 
 Stokes, Leonard F. 
 Swearinger, Cecil 
 Thomas, Sidney L. 
 Thomas, Vere 
 Thompson, Edward 
 Turner, Charles 
 Turner, Harry 
 Tweed, Homer L. 
 Wallace, Roy F. 
 Weihs, Ray F. 
 Weller, John F. 
 Whaley, Newton P. 
 White, Arthur 
 Whitlock, Thomas D. 
 Wilkerson, Paul R. 
 Williams, Otto F. 
 Walton, Walter 
 Weaver, Horace 
 Whittaker, Albert C. 
 Woody, Charles J. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William S. Moore 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Lee Ruthven 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Schnell, Roy M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Betts, George J. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Crutcher, James R. 
 
 Humphrey, Roland O. 
 
 COMPANY L 
 Jefferson City 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Kremer, Earl F. 
 
 Hott, Warner O. 
 
 Engelbrecht, Segel L. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Holden, Charles B. 
 
 Tones, John W. 
 
 Schneider, William F 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Taake, Martin 
 Buglers : 
 
 Prentice, Warren W. 
 
 Bohner, Eugene W. 
 Privates : 
 
 Affolter, Alfred 
 Allen, Blaine M. 
 Amos, Lloyd 
 Amos, Virgil C. 
 Arnett, Eddie J. 
 Asel, Ralph M. 
 Bailey, Hamilton A. 
 Basnett, Oscar 
 Beard, Elmer 
 Bennett, Clifford K. 
 
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 Bennie, A. Crittenden 
 Bishop, Jule 
 Bittick, Hiram Jr. 
 Blank, Ralph F. N. 
 Booney, Harvey M. 
 Bose, Joseph 
 Bowlin, Clarence E. 
 Boyce, Clarence 
 Breen, Clair A. 
 Bremerkamp, George 
 
 T. 
 Brown, James W. 
 Bruner, John H. 
 Burchett, Bruce 
 Burton, Charles 
 Byrd, Edgar 
 Camden, Oscar F. 
 Cook, William A. 
 Cooper, James A. 
 Dalley, Donless S. 
 Dougherty, McKinley 
 Druce, Charles T. 
 Dulle, Joseph B. 
 Dunn, August V. 
 Dunn, Russell B. 
 Dunnavant, Joseph C. 
 Edgar, Charles 
 Kggers, Edward 
 English, Clifford 
 Enloe, Haywood P. 
 Enloe, Robert 
 Enloe, Roscoe 
 Feig, Emil C. 
 Feig, Joseph 
 Foster, lyawrence 
 Freeman, Perry E. 
 Gallitin, Walter S. 
 Gardner, Earl 
 George, Rufus 
 Glavin, William F. 
 Gorsuch, Leon M. 
 Gragg, Emmett R. 
 Graham, Orval 
 
 Green, Ewing G. 
 Grisham, John W. 
 Grisham, Tom 
 Gungoll, Alvin A. 
 Haake, Lawrence M. 
 Hale, William F. 
 Hanie, Ward 
 Hartman, George M. 
 Hert, Bertram B. 
 Hodges, Major W. 
 Hubbard, Clarence E. 
 Huegel, Thomas J. 
 Ingram, Harvey H. 
 Jones, Andy J. 
 Kiely, John M. 
 Kleindienst John R. 
 Knife, John 
 Lucas, John H. 
 Luebbert, Gerard B. 
 McDaniel, Joseph 
 McGhee, Roy L. 
 McGirk, Clyde W. 
 McKinley, Joseph W. 
 Maginnes, Leo J. 
 Maire, Hugo 
 Melton. Oscar 
 Moir, James W. 
 Moore, Earl H. 
 Mueller. Wesley H. 
 Murray, Christopher 
 
 H. 
 Nichols, Luther E. 
 Nilges, James R. 
 O'Dowd, Austin J. 
 O'Dowd, Martin 
 Opel, Andrew M. 
 Opel, Fred 
 Paden, Frank G. 
 Parker, Lester F. 
 Parker, Roy W. 
 Propst, Julius H. 
 Rackers, John W. 
 Rader, William 
 
 Redtor, Jake F. 
 
 Rice, Samuel F. 
 
 Riner, Charles E. 
 
 Robben, Joseph F. 
 
 Robinson, Roy 
 
 Schell, Norbert C. 
 
 Schrader, Henry C. 
 
 Scott, Charles 
 
 Scrivner, George A. 
 
 Shamel, Leonard W. 
 
 Sheldon, Claude 
 
 Skinner, James G. 
 
 Smallwood, Edwin P. 
 
 Smith, Charles B. 
 
 Smith, John W. 
 
 Snodgrass, Everett B. 
 
 Snodgrass, Leonard 
 T. 
 
 Stewart, James S. 
 
 Suggett, John L. 
 
 Taber, Enoch J. 
 
 Taber, Frank P. 
 
 Thee, Victor R. 
 
 Thompson, John W. 
 
 Tyree, Joseph N. 
 
 Upton, John 
 
 Van Eeckhoute, Phil- 
 lip 
 
 Vandiver, Clyde 
 
 Wadley, Edward T. 
 
 Wardrip, James E. 
 
 Weeks, Jasper 
 
 Weeks, Ralph M. 
 
 Wheeler, Morris 
 
 White, Lester B. 
 
 Wilson, Norman J. 
 
 Wise, Roy 
 
 Wolverton, Uriel T, 
 
 Wyrick, Clarence 
 
 Wyrick, Ora 
 
 Zeitz, Arthur H, 
 
 Zugmaier, Frank G. 
 
 Zumalt, Vernal E. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William A. Oglesby 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Pierre Grigg 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Ben C. Oglesby 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Wolf, Hollis M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Crawford, Raymond 
 H. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Wells, Charles B. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 McPherson, John V. 
 
 Seburn, Charles C. 
 
 COMPANY M 
 Aurora 
 
 Foundray, Frank W. 
 Oldaker, Clarence S. 
 McPherson, Joe, F. 
 Lemaster, Floyd A. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Estes, Helser G. 
 Raubinger, Floyd B. 
 Paschal, Walter J. 
 Shipman, Elbert 
 Bunch, William T. 
 Seburn, Hugh G. 
 Reynolds, Roy N. 
 Hudson, Bartlett B. 
 Rucker, John W. 
 Duckworth, William B. 
 Hadley, Luther 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Reid, Clyde S. 
 
 Alexander, Wash N. 
 
 Michael, William H. 
 INIechanic, 
 
 Zinn, George 
 Musician, 
 
 Parnell, William C. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Cook, Murell 
 
 Cook, Ralph H. 
 
 Crawford, Hobart 
 
 Cryderman, John M. 
 
 Drake, Charley C. 
 
 Gee, Leslie 
 
 Hillhouse, William N. 
 
282 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Hitt, Osee K. 
 Heagerty, Clarence C. 
 Jennings, Darrell D. 
 McClure, Herbert 
 Mason, Joseph H. 
 Newcum, Earl 
 O'Kelley, Herbert 
 Ray, Arch B. 
 Shipman, Ray 
 Towers, Henry 
 Ware, Loyd C. 
 Privates : 
 
 Arwood, Riley A. 
 Ashens, Ranson J. 
 
 Bailey, Ira E. 
 
 Ballard, Ersell B. 
 
 Bennett, Weaver R. 
 
 Berry, Julian S. 
 
 Beyers, Raymond H. 
 
 Bohanon, Leonard L. 
 
 Bond, William I. 
 
 Brady, Henry W. 
 
 Brown, Joy L. 
 
 Brown, Ralph C. 
 
 Bryant, Will 
 
 Buttry, Charles 
 
 Clopton, Jerry O. 
 
 Cochran, Earl W. 
 
 Cox, Allie H. 
 
 Cummings, Herman 
 H. 
 
 Davenport, Walter R. 
 
 Daugherty, Preston 
 
 H. 
 Davis, Dutton W. 
 Eddington, Claud B. 
 Eddington, Earl W. 
 Estes, Gifford T. 
 Estes, Percy I. 
 Flood, Purd 
 Ford, Albert H. 
 Gaskins, Wirt H. 
 Gastineau, Frank R. 
 Godard, Ora 
 Graber, Samuel A. 
 Hall, Floyd W. 
 Harvey, Edward M. 
 Hicklin, Earl S. 
 Hill, James C. 
 Holt, Charles B. 
 Holt, Frank J. 
 Holt, Willie K. 
 Hudson, Wesley V. 
 Hughes, Albert C. 
 Humphreys, Floyd L. 
 Johnston, Frank B. 
 Jordon, John R. 
 Kellog, George K. 
 Leffingwell, Roy 
 Lemaster, Vernon L- 
 Lewis, Earnest B. 
 Lewis, Robert E. 
 Long, Archie R. 
 McKinley, Robert R. 
 
 McPherson, Kenneth 
 Miller, Joseph R. 
 Miller, lycwis E. 
 Miller, Wyatt W. 
 Morley, V/illiam E. 
 Moungo, James 
 Owens, James D. 
 Pannel, Troy N. 
 Pope, Oliver 
 Reid, Guy A. 
 Ross, Carl L. 
 Ross, Jewel A. 
 Rowe, Efton J. 
 Sawyer, Norman J. 
 Schmideskamp, Harry 
 
 R. 
 Sims, John 
 Sink, Frank 
 Smith, Orlando F. 
 Spicer, Benjamin T. 
 Stowe, Herman E. 
 Swindler, Clayton 
 Thomas, Walton J. 
 Volpoel, Fred W. 
 Walters, Charles W. 
 West, Everett J. 
 Weatherwax, William 
 Williams, Loy R. 
 Williamson, Loy A. 
 Worth, John J. 
 Young, Buford H. 
 Zinn, Earnest J. 
 
 SANITARY DETACHMENT 
 
 JOPLIN 
 
 Major, 
 
 Earl H. Welcome 
 Captain, 
 
 Harry A. Leaming 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William M. Hoel 
 1st Lieutenant D. C. 
 
 Barney M. Russel 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 
 Loggains, Walter W. 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Bassman, George H. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Grim, Charley L- 
 
 Hawkins, Roy 
 
 Myers, William C. 
 Yeakey, Scott 
 Privates : 
 
 Allen, Clifford J. 
 Amos, Darwin W. 
 Anderson, Clyde M. 
 Armstrong, Searcy S. 
 Beaman, Orin E. Jr. 
 Brackney, Charles H. 
 Dawson, Charles PI. 
 Gordon, Austin 
 Grigg, Edward W. 
 Haines, Charlie B. 
 Inns, Francis E. 
 Ivey, Horace F. 
 Keenan, Harry E. 
 
 Long, Sherman D. 
 McCune, Charlie F. 
 Millsap, Leslie R. 
 Morris, Dewey R, 
 Moss, Pleasant A. 
 Payne, Glen G. 
 Phillips, Miles B. 
 Richey, Glen T. 
 Shannon, Homer H. 
 Smith, Thomas T. 
 Stevenson, Robert PI. 
 Tennyson, Harry C. 
 Turner, Roy V. 
 Walls, William F. 
 Watkins, Vincent L. 
 
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 FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 John D. McNeely, 
 Commanding 
 
 Major, 
 
 Clay C. Macdonald 
 
 Major, 
 
 James E. Rieger. 
 Major, 
 
 William D. Stepp 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Donald M. Macdonald 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 James H. McCord, Jr. 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 Guss B. Ridge 
 
 HEADQUARTEES COMPANY 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Captain & Adjt. 
 
 Walter M. Mann 
 Rgt. Sgt. Mayor 
 
 Graham, Charles W., 
 Jr. 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Maulding, Harold E. 
 Bn. Sgt. Major, 
 
 Schmitz, Joseph O. 
 Bn. Sgt. Major, 
 
 Mills, Charles B. 
 Bn. Sgt. Major, 
 
 Allen, William A. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Phipps, Ezra 
 Sgt. Bugler, 
 
 Porter, George E. 
 Color Sergeants : 
 
 Holley, Francis J. 
 
 Van Brunt, Frederick 
 C. 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Lavelle, John 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 King, Herman B. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 McMahon, James R. 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Steland, Francis A. 
 Band Sergeants : 
 
 Atherton, William H. 
 
 Mitchel, Sam W. 
 Band Corporals: 
 
 Ballard, Cleo L- 
 
 Canon, Leon 
 
 Weeks, Irving H. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Tarpley, Carl H. 
 
 Maffit, CalUp J. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Madden, John L- 
 1st Class Musicians: 
 
 Blair, Russell William 
 
 Milbourne, William 
 2nd Class Musicians : 
 
 Evans, Roy Albert 
 
 Smith, Merville O. 
 
 Spraul, D. Nevell 
 
 Woodard, Bert F. 
 3rd Class Musicians : 
 
 Bramble, WilUam O. 
 
 Buhler, Henry 
 
 Corum, Glenn 
 
 Daily, William F. 
 
 Eicher, Ben 
 
 George, Carl J. 
 Rmman, Erville C, 
 Sproul, Arthur C. 
 Stafford, Robbins 
 Vert, Orville E. 
 Wallace, Charles W. 
 Wagers, Newcomb C. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Connett, Carroll 
 Lindensmith, Arthur 
 
 S. 
 Miller, Charles C. 
 Spencer, Jack 
 Privates : 
 
 Bear, James D. 
 Channel, Floyd V. 
 Ennis, Everett B, 
 Gilbert, Clark O. 
 Glaze, Walter C. 
 Hopkins, Woodworth 
 
 N. 
 Johnson, Karl 
 Lange, Karl H. 
 McCord, Charles P. 
 Meyers, Ferdinand W. 
 
 Jr. 
 Welty, Charles 
 White, Byron T. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Charles J. Hall 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Arthur F. Amick 
 Rgt. Sup. Sergeants: 
 
 Donnell, Calvin 
 
 Kennedy, Leo J. 
 
 Martin, Rulif M. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Zacharias, Frederick 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Hall, Albert M. 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Wade, Harry H. 
 Corporal 
 
 McCutchen, Robert J. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Blake, Martin 
 Saddler, 
 
 Applebee, Amos W. 
 Cook, 
 
 Sparks, George W. 
 Wagoners: 
 
 Bailey, Don K 
 
 Barnes, Eddie A. 
 
 Bodle, Hugh 
 Byer, Walter J. 
 Carter, Arthur R. 
 Carter, Frank F. 
 Casselman, Gideon 
 Corum, Roy J. 
 Cummings, Charles C. 
 Deerfoot, Richard 
 Denton, Robert Henry 
 Duncan, Roy P. 
 Fennell, Jesse A. 
 Gerlach, Philip 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Keener, Arthur F. 
 Letcher, Fred 
 Lovejoy, Daniel 
 Lowe, George 
 
 Maxwell, Joseph L. 
 Montgomery, George 
 
 M. 
 PuUem, Emerald A. 
 
 Rossie, Charles 
 Smoot, Charles S. 
 Stevens, William H. 
 Wilson, Jefferson W. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 Sedalia 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William F. Logan 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Walter A. Wood. 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Joseph L. Darr 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Farl G. Pitts 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Meriwether, Philip S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Rose, Frederick G. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Barnett, Lawrence 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Schneider, Charley H. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Nelson, William A. 
 
 Miles, Marvin 
 
 McCabe, Russell E. 
 
 Elton, Roscoe R. 
 
 Jared, Marvin W. 
 
 Holland, Carl E. 
 
 Telford, Allen F. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Smith, Luther M. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Lambirth, Harry N. 
 
 Elkins, Walter E. 
 
 Urban, Carl F. 
 
 Wheeler, Frederick H. 
 
 Codding, Almeron B. 
 
 Cunningham, William 
 D. 
 
 Greer, Elmer 
 Cooks : 
 
 Wright, Benjamin C. 
 
 Withrow, Floyd T. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Creegan, Marvin J. 
 
 Cone, Albert B. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Cleveland, William 
 
 Starr, Joseph A. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Baum, Leonard H. 
 
 Croy, William C. 
 
 Greene, Albert L. 
 
 Lasiter, Ora Z. 
 
 Long, Chester S. 
 
 Norris, Willard M. 
 
 Overby, Dick R. 
 
 Reed, Nolan P. 
 
 Shackles, Pete 
 
 Sibert, Harvey L. 
 
 Withrow, Jessie W. 
 
 Wood, Clarence R. 
 Privates : 
 
 Bennett, Ray E. 
 
 Doyle, Vander 
 
 Dufif, Allen E. 
 
 Duff, Ernest M. 
 Englund, Lawrence N. 
 Farin, Charles J. 
 Ford, Roy V. 
 Franklin, Forrest C. 
 Glover, Charles C. 
 Good, Thaddeus B. 
 Henderson, Bert E. 
 Henderson, Robert C. 
 Jackson, Dan S. 
 Lessley, John T. 
 MacCurdy, Clyde E. 
 Marshall, Charles E. 
 Mitchell, Frederick S. 
 Nelson, William K. 
 Nicholson, Jay 
 Reimler, Charles W. 
 Rich, Guy W. 
 Russell, Benjamin C. 
 Sibert, Ernest L. 
 Simpich, Joseph S. 
 Smith, Louis E. 
 Strain, Edgar D. 
 Temple, Oliver T. 
 Thomas, Leo R. 
 Wagner, Antone F. 
 Warren, John W. 
 Wilson, Earl K. 
 Witte, William M. 
 Wood, Estle 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Thomas E. Herridge 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Morris H. Hall, Jr. 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Homer Yale 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Guthrie, Belt D. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Shandy, George P. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Nichols, Irvin 
 
 Cheesman, William M. 
 
 Cheesman, Theodore 
 
 Morgan, William O. 
 
 Henson, Jason 
 
 Hanni, Warner 
 
 Judkins, Cecil 
 
 Vinyard, Jess 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 Tarkio 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Carter, Daniel 
 
 Hurst, Millard 
 
 Bennett, Jess 
 
 Hall, Harvey 
 
 Harmon, Fred 
 
 Leigh, Lee 
 
 McElfish, Earl E. 
 
 Neal, Harry 
 
 Welsh, John 
 Cooks: 
 
 Medley, Owen W. 
 
 Carroll, Daniel 
 Buglers: 
 
 Searcy, Alvie 
 
 Duncan, Paul 
 Alechanics : 
 
 Farley, Grover 
 
 Vernon, Joseph F. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Benedict, Harry 
 Berg, Earl 
 Blatter, Berghold 
 Cartwright, Claude 
 Chambers, Lyle 
 Crosley, Oral E. 
 Gunderson, Fred 
 Henson, Everett C. 
 Henson, Lloyd 
 Hull, William 
 McNeal. Glen 
 Meek, Charley 
 Mowery, Mearl 
 Mutchler, Harry 
 Ross, William 
 Scott, Abner 
 Stebbins, Chancey 
 Traub, William 
 
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 Wheeler, Fred 
 Withrow, Floyd 
 Wood, William J. 
 Wrinkle, Ola K. 
 Yale, Walter 
 Privates : 
 
 Ages, Arthur 'L,. 
 Allen, Lee W. 
 Allen, Sylvester 
 Anderson, Charles 
 Anderson, Fred 
 Anderson, Jesse 
 Bennett, Fdward 
 Bragg, Harley W. 
 Bratcher, Jean 
 Brown, Paul 
 Brumback, David 
 Carter, Frank A. 
 Chaney, David 
 Chaney, Roscoe 
 Clanton, Thomas 
 Clark, Allen Glen 
 Coon, William D. 
 Cooper, Amos C. 
 Davis, Edgar 
 Deboard, Frank 
 Dodge, Kmery 
 Donelson, Dean 
 Dougall, Don A. 
 Dragoo, Carl 
 Dragoo, Dale 
 Kdminston, Robert S. 
 Farley. Clyde 
 
 Farley, Russell L. 
 Farris, Otha 
 Farris, John 
 Foley, Harry 
 Friend, James O. 
 Fry, Lester V. 
 Gailey, Bert 
 Garrett, Ralph L. 
 Gleason, Walter 
 Gossard, Benjamin 
 Gray, Merle 
 Green, William 
 Griffin, Willie 
 Harmon, Claud 
 Harsh, Cecil 
 Henson, Caston 
 Hicks, Luther 
 Hogue, Robert G. 
 Jackson, William W. 
 Jones, James 
 Judkins, Carl 
 Judkins, Herchel 
 Judson, Arlie 
 Kelley, Olin F. 
 Lindley, Robert H. 
 Lucas, Chester F. 
 McAdams, Merle 
 McFlfish, John 
 McElfresh, Ralph 
 McNeal, Joseph 
 McNeil, Harry 
 Marshall, Irvin 
 
 Moore, Homer 
 Morgan, Perry Lee 
 Mozingo, Ora 
 Mueller, Fred 
 Plummer, Charlie 
 Powell, Amos 
 Puckett, Fmmett 
 Renfro, Farl F. 
 Richards, Ben 
 Richards, John 
 Robinson, Jasper C. 
 Roby, Charley 
 Samak, Josef 
 Sanders, Charley 
 Schiffern, Roy 
 Sharp, Nuell 
 Simmons, Thomas 
 Smith, Herman 
 Snoderly, Demel 
 Snodgrass, Ernest L. 
 Stone, Roy 
 Sunday, Clarence 
 Tabler, Claude L. 
 Thompson, Douglas 
 Turner, Harry 
 Walker, Worlie M. 
 Warner, Millard 
 Warren, Fred 
 Werl, Herman 
 Woolhether, Lawrence 
 
 A. 
 Yale, William 
 Zeiner, Ellwood 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William B. Hitchcock 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Victor T. Malloure 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry E. Malloure 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Culpepper, Henry Gra- 
 dy 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Newberry, Walter F. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Logsdon, Shirley 
 
 Kennedy, John L- 
 
 Miles, George 
 Corporals: 
 
 Cecil, Clarence C. 
 
 Hall, Edmond W. 
 
 Langley, Joseph 
 
 Roberts, Herbert R. 
 
 Smith, William W. 
 
 Vance, Clayborne 
 Cooks: 
 
 Citius. Henry L. 
 
 Darnell, William B. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 Caruthersville 
 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Craiglow, John H. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Davis, Culbert E. 
 Edwards. Willie 
 Ingram, Joseph 
 Knight, Dan R. 
 McCallum, John L. 
 McGhee, Robert L. 
 Sutton, Wilbert L. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Abernathy, Cleburn 
 Adams, Carl 
 Adams, Shelby 
 Ayers, Richard 
 Bailey, Cliff 
 Ballinger, Henry 
 Baynes, John W. 
 Bennett, Curtiss, 
 Billington, Allen 
 Bird, Arley 
 Black, Jesse 
 Brock, Audie G, 
 Brown, Homer 
 Browning, Herbert 
 Buckley, Huston H. 
 
 Burton, Lonzo 
 Burton, Robert L. 
 Byrd, Lawrence 
 Cameron. Vernon 
 Carlton, Guy W. 
 Chaney, Leo 
 Clifton, Amos N. 
 Cratty, Ollie 
 Creason, Hardy 
 Creason, James 
 Dark, Stanley 
 Dickerson, Oscar 
 Douglas, John J, 
 Douglas, Shelton F. 
 Dupeck, Albert 
 Edwards, Thomas R. 
 Esters, Lexie C. 
 Evans, Nathaniel 
 Ferrell, Scott G. 
 Foster, Clarence 
 Foster, John W. 
 Gallion, Ruff 
 GilHliland, Gilbert L. 
 Goff, George 
 Hall, Harry 
 Ham, William 
 
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 Hardin, John 
 Harper, Lynn 
 Harris, Owen 
 Herndon, Charles Jt,. 
 Hillard. Clark H. 
 Holder, James R. 
 Holmes, Clyde E. 
 Hooper, Doyle L. 
 Hooper, Herbert 
 Howell, Thalmage C. 
 Jenkins, Loyd 
 Jennings, Carl 
 Jennings Hall 
 Johnson, Fred W. 
 Johnson, Robert L. 
 Kelley, Fred 
 Knight, James 
 Lamb, Edward 
 Lawrence, Melvin C. 
 Lewis, Henry C. 
 Little, George A. 
 Loyd, Arthur 
 McArthur, Floyd F. 
 McDaniel, Cecil 
 McDaniel, Hillary F. 
 McGowan, Paul 
 Madax, Bennie 
 
 Malin, Delmar R. 
 Marcus, Elmer 
 Marshall, Oliver D. 
 Marley, James J. 
 Maxey, Shirley 
 Mayfield, Floyd C. 
 Millikan, Loyd P. 
 Moore, Clarence 
 Murphy, Jesse 
 Neal, Lawrence C. 
 Nolen, Henry 
 Newberry, Jesse L. 
 Parker, Lawrence J. 
 Pepple, Joseph W. 
 Perkins, Dale D. 
 Powell, Odis L. 
 Price, William A. 
 Pride, Frank 
 Ray, Huey Y. 
 Rinehart, Russ 
 Roberts, Frank 
 Rogers, Samuel J. 
 Rogers, Virgil L, 
 Rolfe, Harry E. 
 Rushing, Herman H. 
 Russell, Willard P. 
 
 Scott, Rollo 
 Severn, Arnold 
 Shepard, John W. 
 Shilley, Carl 
 Smith, Shirley W. 
 Southern, Robert 
 Southern, Walter 
 Spencer, Marshall R. 
 Stout, Connie L. 
 StreiflF, John P. 
 Terrell, John W. 
 Terror, Joseph D, 
 Thornsberry, Marvin 
 Tinsley, George 
 Tysus, Robert E. 
 Ursery, Frank 
 Walker, Fred A. 
 Ware, John H. 
 Warren, Carl D. 
 Watts, Chester 
 Wells, Mervin 
 Whitson, Thomas L. 
 Wilbanks, Arthur 
 Wilbanks, Jack W. 
 Woolbanks, Jack W. 
 Woolbright, Everett 
 
 COMPANY C 
 
 KlRKSVILLE 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Jasper Newton Gates 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Raymond W. Cater 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 John D. Heiny, 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Peterson, John M. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Turner, Ben E. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Fergason, Stephen 
 Sergeants, 
 
 McDougal, Hubert 
 
 Moon, Frank B. 
 
 Fiscus, Ray 
 
 McKeenan, Carl E. 
 
 Hardester, Orbie 
 
 Wood, Oliver F. 
 
 Brasfield, Orrin 
 Corporals, 
 
 Durham, Earl 
 
 Fisher, Ernest W. 
 
 Wimber, Van 
 
 Collins, Elmer L. 
 
 Crawford, Charles 
 
 Eggert, Ralph 
 
 Glynn, Derby 
 
 Piersee, Charlie 
 
 Conley, James W. 
 
 Winn, William 
 
 Crawford, Henry F. 
 
 Daul, John F. 
 
 Bennett, Alva 
 
 Lowe, Mannie M. 
 
 Martin, Earl D. 
 Cooks, 
 
 Piersee, Wesley B, 
 
 Standforth, David V. 
 Mechanics, 
 
 Dowis, Carl C. 
 Buglers, 
 
 Paschal, Luther 
 
 Howey, Earl W. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Barnett, Edgar 
 
 Bozarth, Allen 
 
 Burris, Ross S. 
 
 Darnell, Pearl 
 
 Denton, Manuel S. 
 
 Foster, Earl 
 
 Haines, Harry 
 
 Hilt, Byrl J. 
 
 Horton, Tames L. 
 
 Kent, William H. 
 
 Kidd, James E. 
 
 Loder, John L. 
 
 Miles, Lloyd B. 
 
 Pinkerton, Joseoh J. 
 
 Rubin, Leroy E. 
 
 Runvon, Irwin M. 
 
 Rutherford. Joe R. 
 
 Shumate, George E. 
 
 Thomas, George E. 
 
 Weaver, Ben T. 
 Wright, Mike 
 Wyatt, John O. 
 Young, Ferron G. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbott, Avery 
 Adams, Frank 
 Bailey, Kenneth 
 Barnes, William 
 Beall, Ora O. 
 Boling, Worthy G. 
 Bookout, H. John 
 Brown, Lawrence E. 
 Caswell, Albert R. 
 Chapman, William A. 
 Chancellor, Clarence 
 Chrisman, William 
 Cole, John B. 
 Commack, Ralph 
 Conkin, Lowern W. 
 Cooper, Glen 
 Cowgill, Isaac M. 
 Danes, James W. 
 Dawdy, Leslie D. 
 Deaton, Walter P. 
 Denton, George C. 
 Denton, Samuel R. 
 Dupree, Wallace 
 England, Glen W. 
 Evans, Irwin 
 Fickel, Roy E. 
 Foster, Orrin L. 
 
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 Foutch, David C. 
 Gardner, Lloyd F. 
 Gardner, Orville L. 
 Gates, Alfred L. 
 Gatts, Chester A. 
 Grear, Glen 
 Grear, Ora B. 
 Griswold, Levi W. 
 Hampton, Earl 
 Hatfield, Marcus H. 
 Hayes, Bryce L. 
 Hayes, Harlin W. 
 Kaup, Harrison L. 
 Kent, Claude J. 
 Leas, Clyde A. 
 Little, Lewis 
 McDowell, Tony 
 Miller, Ralph 
 
 Montgomery, Earl 
 Mountain, Delbert 
 Nickels, Harry M. 
 Oliver, Fay E. 
 Osborne, Raymond N. 
 Parcell, Wayne E. 
 Paris, Alva R. 
 Phillips, Ora 
 Plemmons, Thomas D. 
 Potter, Ray 
 Reynolds, George W. 
 Rhodes, Carl 
 Robinson, Levy C. 
 Saunders, Clinton J. 
 Selasbery, Dave 
 Shelton, Irwin 
 Shinafelt, Ok. 
 Singley, Charley N. 
 
 Singley, Riley E- 
 Skaggs, Roy 
 Springs, Ray E. 
 Stahl, Earl L. 
 Styles, Herald E. 
 Summers, Richard 
 Sutton, Ernest 
 Talbot, Aubert 
 Talbot, Hubert 
 Thompson, Edgar 
 Thompson, George H, 
 Unfer, Louis 
 Webber, Thomas 
 Wellbaum. Fredie O, 
 Wellman. Elba E. 
 White, Ralph P. 
 ^Vinn, William C. 
 Zimmerman, Ora 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William C. Williamson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Gus S. Gehlbach 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Homer B. Loman 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 McArtor, Paul E. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Gehlbach, Albert R. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Hyten, Bea. F. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Han, Lloyd R. 
 
 Whitten, James M. 
 
 Axtell, Dale 
 
 Grant, Horatio 
 
 Crain, Frank J. 
 
 Barnes, Henry E. 
 
 Miller, Milton R. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Gardner, Elza P. 
 
 Wise, Zina L- 
 
 Davis, Ralph A. 
 
 Swepston, Melvin 
 
 Mabe, Luther B. 
 
 McCoy, Floyd 
 
 Millett, Samuel 
 
 Pettigrew, John R. 
 
 Mapes, William M. 
 
 Hemmingway, Wm, B. 
 
 Bofman, James E. 
 
 McLaughlin, Floyd P. 
 
 Moss, Wilber D. 
 
 Moss, Eugene R. 
 
 Simpson, William J. 
 
 Tittsworth, Lemuel N. 
 
 Jones, Bernice L. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Payne, Robert H. 
 
 Millett, George 
 
 COMPANY D 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Buglers: 
 
 Heins, Roy M. 
 
 Kirk, Norman 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Branson, William E. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Boon, Presley 
 
 Boyle, William A. 
 
 Burrill, Forrest C. 
 
 Collier, John W. 
 
 Collier, Woodson E. 
 
 Collins, Alva R. 
 
 Craig, Lloyd 
 
 Daniels, Claudis D. 
 
 Dennis, Henry D. 
 
 Evans, Farrol E. 
 
 Gentry, Carl C. 
 
 Gott, Loyd 
 
 Graham, Leon O. 
 
 King, Harry E. 
 
 McKinney, Henry 
 
 Miller, Claude E. 
 
 Morgan, Cecil D. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Morris, Clarence E. 
 
 Morris, Thomas B. 
 
 Nelson, John E. 
 
 Pettibon, Edgar H. 
 
 Richards, William J. 
 
 Snyder, Clarence 
 
 Tittsworth, James L. 
 
 Tomilson, J. C. 
 
 Walton, Edward 
 
 Ward, Ariel C. 
 Privates: 
 
 Allnutt, Granville 
 
 Ansel, Frank 
 
 Bennett, Norman F. 
 
 Booher, Charles T. 
 
 Boone, Audry 
 
 Bowling, Thomas 
 Brafett, Melvin 
 Bridges, Hubert C. 
 Brown, Hurshell L. 
 Burke, William H. 
 Butler, Fred 
 Carter, Russell 
 Clark, Homer J. 
 Cottrell, Harry L. 
 Cram, Harry H. 
 Culver, James E. 
 Darnaby, Harold M. 
 Day, Vane S. 
 Dean, Roland E. 
 Dean, Virgil 
 Dennis, Lafayette D. 
 DeVaul, Bailey C. 
 Dority, Arthur D. 
 Doyle, James E. 
 Dragoo, Leonard R. 
 Dunn, Wilbur E. 
 Ellington, Earl J. 
 Ellington, Lewis 
 Foster, Corwin F. 
 Franklin, Goldie I. 
 Franklin, William J. 
 French, Lawrence L. 
 Gann, Harvey C. 
 George, Hubert H. 
 Gardner, Ola W. 
 Gillett, Donnie W. 
 Grandstaff, Lowell 
 Grant, Loyd 
 Griffin, Delbert 
 Grubb, Carl F. 
 Haldeman. Oscar 
 Halden. Paul F. 
 Hall, William H. 
 Hall, Winscon S. 
 Harrelson, Clarence 
 Hatfield, Verne J. 
 
FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Holloway, Lawrence 
 
 M. 
 House, Roy F. 
 Huff, Harry C. 
 Huffman, Charles O. 
 Husted, Earl H. 
 Ingersoll, Hutlett P. 
 Lowe, Lee Roy 
 Lucas, Homer D. 
 McAuHff, Joseph E. 
 McCoy, Martin G. 
 McMullin, Cecil O. 
 Mackley, Guy E. 
 Miller, Curtis 
 Mitchell, Guy 
 Munn, Carroll T>. 
 
 O'Fallon, George L. 
 Parker, Dale 
 Powell, Charles S. 
 Prosser, Albert Neil 
 Pugh, Guy O. 
 Richards, Frank 
 Rogers, Forrest 
 Rooks, Glen 
 Rulon, Wood 
 Sandlin, Cleo L. 
 Schweppe, Edward L. 
 Shea, Daniel B. 
 Shelton, Frank M. 
 Simpson, Robert E. 
 Smith, Robert H. 
 Snyder, James R. 
 
 Snyder, William H. 
 Sperry, Clifford F. 
 Steele, Jefferson H. 
 Stevenson, Herbert L. 
 Stringer, Clyde L. 
 Tate, Alva R. 
 Thickston, Lovell J. 
 Thogrmartin, Quincy 
 
 E. 
 Thompson, Jesse E. 
 Vance, Clifford L. 
 Ward, Harry D. 
 Webster, Alva E. 
 Whorton, Cleo 
 Williams, Robert R. 
 Witten, Ralph 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Karl C. Bostwick 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William H, McDonald 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 James R. Paynter, Jr. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Gould, Jesse R. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Yheulon, Harry 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Price, Ralph L. 
 
 Yakes, Marvin 
 Corporals : 
 
 Rupert, Harry L. 
 
 Lake, Stephen 
 
 Sparks, Lee 
 
 Roland, Claude 
 
 Moss, Leroy 
 Cooks : 
 
 Slaughter, Albert 
 
 Griggs. Walter M. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Burkhardt. William 
 
 Hayes, Ellwood 
 
 Ehret, Seraphine 
 
 O'Brian, Earl R. 
 
 Paulas, Lester W. 
 
 Renner, Fred 
 
 Sexton, Jim F. 
 
 Sigler, Bryan 
 
 Stout, Henry H. 
 
 Winner, Jesse B. 
 
 Woodyard, Wesley M. 
 Privates : 
 
 Ashley, Melvin 
 
 Barbee, Gleason 
 
 Barnes, Otto H. 
 
 Barrett, Carl F. 
 
 Bastian. George 
 
 Bates, Eaf. 
 
 Bauer, John A. 
 
 Beal, Charley 
 
 COMPANY E 
 Hannibal 
 
 Beal, Clarence E. 
 Bell, Ernest L. 
 Bellowes, Everett 
 Blackburn, Guy R. 
 Bowen, Clarence 
 Branham, George W. 
 Branstetter, Jean 
 Brassell, Benjamin F. 
 Briscoe, Orval B. 
 Brown, Clarence 
 Broxton, George V. 
 Buchanan, James L. 
 Butler, James W. 
 Cartwright, John 
 Chouinard, Alexander 
 
 Cissell, Harry B. 
 Clancy, George 
 Clifton, Clyde 
 Cole, William T. 
 Connelly, James E. 
 Cornelius, Arthur D. 
 Gulp, Henry F. 
 Curtis, Samuel D. 
 Danner, Arthur 
 Davis, Leo 
 Davis, Tom E. 
 Dennison, Charles 
 Dunklin, Clarence M. 
 Dunklin, George R. 
 Eaton, Homer 
 Enslen, Roscoe 
 Epley, Roy H. 
 Fessenden, Harry A. 
 Foerstner, George C. 
 Fox, Layton V. 
 Franklin, Marley 
 Gains, Henry L. 
 Givan, Raymond 
 Gordon, Ray 
 Gregory, Fred H. 
 Hager, John W. 
 Hagerman, William F. 
 
 Haggerty, James W. 
 Hampton, Everett I. 
 Harbert, Hugh P. 
 Harden, John 
 Hooper, Othal L. 
 Hoskins, Willie A. 
 Hudson, George 
 Hyler, Normal 
 Jeffres, Lloyd 
 Jennings, Ernest P. 
 Jones, Howard 
 Jones, Troy 
 Kiess, George R. 
 King, Homer G. 
 King, William A. 
 Lane, George 
 Lawson, Jesse 
 Lee, Greenleaf W. 
 Lewis, Milton H. 
 Long, William H. 
 Lowe, Ray 
 McAdams, William 
 McArthur, James L. 
 McDonald, Frank 
 Marshall, George E. 
 Martin, Edward 
 Martin, Onie 
 Mason, Albert J. 
 Mason, Emmett 
 Miller, Paul R. 
 Miner, Henry E. 
 Miner, Ollie 
 Mines, Louis W. 
 Moody, Charles A. 
 Murray, Jesse E. 
 Murray, John T. 
 Nelson, Nels T. 
 Noble, Burl M. 
 O'Hern, George E. 
 Paul, Russell B. 
 Pettitt, Harvey R. 
 Phillips, Clifford 
 Pierce, Charles H. 
 
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 Piper, Clifford 
 Porter, William D. 
 Prather, Finis B. 
 Reed, Cecil J. 
 Reid, Coney 
 Reid, James H. 
 Rhodes, Hezekiah 
 Riley, George I. 
 Roach, Delbert B. 
 Robb, Ashel 
 Robb. Cecil 
 
 Robertson, Irwin B. 
 Saben, John, Jr. 
 Salyer, Grover C. 
 Settles, Oscar 1,. 
 Shobe, Aubrey 
 Siedler, Warren A. 
 Simms, Joseph D. 
 Stewart, Joe 
 Simmer, Claud 
 Tate, Alfred 
 
 Taylor, Raymond 
 Troutt, Edward C. 
 Via, Melvin B. 
 Webb, Roscoe 
 Webster, Wesley 
 Welker, Glenn D. 
 Welker, Harry D. 
 West, Harvey 
 Whitlock, William T. 
 Willett, Robert N. 
 Wood, Max C. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Ashbury Roberts 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William E). Galligan 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 George H. Klinkerfuss 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Norris, Henry T. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Warne, Charles T. 
 
 Sweeney, Arthur C. 
 
 McGilton, George J, 
 
 Cole, Virgil B. 
 
 Ingels, Giltner R, 
 
 Hulen, Harold A. 
 
 Maring, Wilbur F. 
 
 Calvert, John F. 
 
 Fisher, Frederick K. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Shaw, William H. 
 
 Harris, Earl 
 
 Payne, William W., 
 Jr. 
 
 Strickler, Dudley D. 
 
 Tipple, Franklin A. 
 
 Daggs, Jackson A. 
 
 Fay, James Conley 
 
 Hickman, John 
 
 Scofield, Benjamin F. 
 
 Roberts, Frank F. 
 
 Rosegren, Alfred T. 
 
 Harshbarger, Ned P. 
 
 Ketchum, Frank W, 
 
 Mullins, George 
 
 Moore, George L. 
 
 Butler, Roy E. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Oliver, Clyde W. 
 
 Richardson, Fernie F. 
 
 Griggs, James H, 
 Buglers: 
 
 Osterloh, Charles F. 
 
 Oliver, Charles L. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Robnett, James O. 
 
 Lynch, Claud L. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Adamson, Murl P. 
 
 Bell, Beverly R. 
 
 COMPANY F 
 Columbia 
 
 Berkbile, Judson E. 
 Berrey, James W., Jr. 
 Brown, John L. 
 Coleman, Charles D. 
 Connelly, George T. 
 Cooper, Frank J. 
 Douglas, Lewis 
 Ferguson, Harold E. 
 Hall, Leon C. 
 Harris, Joe W. 
 Hetzler, Leo F. 
 House, Carl 
 Hume, Ernest P. 
 Jones, Russell F. 
 Lewis, Clarence 
 Mayes, Harrison 
 Neil, Leonard L. 
 Petty, Frank S. 
 Reeder, Stuart 
 Ruether, Gustave A. 
 Smith, Marion W. 
 Tyliski, Joseph R. 
 Vaughan, Otis P. 
 Warden, Hubert P., 
 
 Jr. 
 Watson, Ernest F. 
 Wood, Cleland 
 Privates : 
 
 Altmiller, Roy C. 
 Armstrong, Bennie 
 Ashurst, Raymond M. 
 Barger, Jesse W. 
 Barnes, Henry H. 
 Beckley, Sherman D. 
 Benit, Charles R. 
 Berry, James H., Jr. 
 Brown, John L. 
 Buckbee, John S. 
 Bundy, Bert F. 
 Burgess, Garrett D. 
 Campbell, John W. 
 Carrington, Oscar V, 
 Caruthers, John 
 Coleman, Carl 
 Craft, John M. 
 Crist, Angelo 
 Daly, Everett E. 
 De Tarnette, Felix N. 
 Elder, Jesse B. 
 
 England, Kenton 
 Fisher, Roy E. 
 Garrett, Ralph L. 
 Grafford, James A. 
 Griggs, James N. 
 Griggs, Louis C. 
 Hall, Howard S. 
 Hartley, Luther A. 
 Hulen, Amos B. 
 Kassaros, Jim 
 Kite, John 
 Knox, Fred 
 Lamboy, Tommie J. 
 Largent, Thomas B, 
 Lawrence, James W. 
 McAlpin, Wilford 
 McCasky. Russell D, 
 McDaniel, Baylis G. 
 McGhee, Edward L. 
 Melloway, Frank 
 Montague, Harry A. 
 Morris, Earl B. 
 Nichols, Noah L. 
 Norman, Clyde C. 
 Ogier, Leon 
 Palmer, Bryan L. 
 Patrick, James W. 
 Reed, Arlie R. 
 Reilly, Mark B. 
 JRiggs, Young E. 
 Ross, Mervin G. 
 Sapp, Wilbur 
 Scbnabel, Charles F, 
 Schnabel, Loran J. 
 Scott, Fred J. 
 Shearer, Edward F. 
 Smith, Jesse R. 
 Snow, Julian B. 
 Tennyson, Ewell C. 
 Tilley, Hoyt G. 
 Vaughn, Lloyd E. 
 Waters, John J. 
 White, Dudley H. 
 Williams, Benjamin F. 
 Williams, Herbert C. 
 Woods, John F. 
 Young, Herbert O. 
 Zumalt, Martin W. 
 Zumalt, Roy P. 
 
290 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Randall Wilson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Arthur A. Axline 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Carlisle, R. Wilson 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Buis, Ray L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Cowan, Robert H. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Tobias, Omer M. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Hardy, Lloyd E. 
 
 Dillon, Oscar N. 
 
 Ballard, Russell J. 
 
 Bryant, George W. 
 
 Walker, Jackson E. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Higgins, Fred 
 
 Burgin, Bayard Tilden 
 
 Hollar, Everett R. 
 
 Oliver, Laben C. 
 
 Henry, Harley 
 
 Scott, Robert D. 
 
 Tobias. John B, 
 Cooks: 
 
 Moore, Ora G. 
 
 Mitchell, James H. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Yeater, Glen 
 
 Johnson, Ercelle W. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 King, Ben 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Duncan, Frank 
 
 Fruit, Orval 
 
 Maize, John, Jr. 
 Privates : 
 
 Alexander, Frank J. 
 
 Anderson, Glen 
 
 Baker, David L. 
 
 Baker, Lou E. 
 
 Baker, Orval 
 
 Banks, Harvey J. 
 
 Barnes, Scott 
 
 Bivens, George W. 
 
 Bragg, Pearl 
 
 Braley, Elige 
 
 Carmer, Roy 
 
 Carter, Charley M. 
 
 Chittim, James M. 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 Bethany 
 
 Collins, Harley L. 
 Cordle, William M. 
 Creek, Thomas 
 Dale, Joseph D. 
 Darby, Alva 
 Davis, George M. 
 Dinsmore, Herman L. 
 Dolon, Lee 
 Dolon, Olney B. 
 Estep, James K. 
 Flint, Paul O. 
 Fowler, Clyde L. 
 Franklin, John H. 
 Gale, Russell K. 
 Garrett, Ray B. 
 Gibler, Forest S. 
 Glidewell, Lee S. 
 Goodrich, Francis S. 
 Gray, Jay A. 
 Gregory, Paul A. 
 Grindstaff,' Arthur F. 
 Hall, John G. 
 Harris, Cecil 
 Harris, James 
 Harris, Otto P. 
 Harrelson, George R. 
 Hauber, Joseph M. 
 Henry, James L. 
 Hiatt, John D. 
 High, William A. 
 Hobbs, Roy V. 
 Hogan, Jerdie 
 Holliday, Elgin K. 
 Holliday, George T. 
 Hollon, Raymond E. 
 Hoselton, Emerson 
 Ishmael, Clarence 
 Johnson, Clarence M. 
 Johnson, Nicholas W. 
 Kinder, William F. 
 Larson, Edwin E. 
 Leslie, Joseph P. 
 Long, Leo. G. 
 McDaniel, Cecil G. 
 McNutt, George W. 
 McNutt, Leo E. 
 Manor, John D. 
 Marsh, Willie D. 
 Meek, Byron 
 Mersman, John 
 Meyers. Richard L. 
 Micheal. Elmer A. 
 Montgomery, Earl 
 Morgan, Joseph D. 
 
 Morris, Edward 
 Mullinex, Gurney F. 
 Nelson, James V. 
 Odam, Wilbur C. 
 Opdyke, Ted 
 Painter, Melvin H. 
 Parks, Lemiel A. 
 Payne, Cail 
 Poe, Clarence C. 
 Powell, John W. 
 Rardin, Paul 
 Richardson, Melvin N. 
 Rogers, William M. 
 Sallee, Ernest 
 Sears, Claude E. 
 Shelton, Sam 
 Shipps, Thomas C. 
 Siddens, John L. 
 Sims, Eddie 
 Six, Willie 
 Smith, Wren 
 Smothers, Ward M. 
 Spake, James 
 Standlea, William M. 
 Stanton, John T. 
 Stephen, John S. 
 Stephenson, Roy E. 
 Stevenson, Floyd E. 
 Stewart, Richard H. 
 Strait, Noel 
 Stuart, Pearson D. 
 Stuflflebean, Claude M. 
 Stufflebean, Dewey A. 
 Sutton, Herbert D. 
 Tipton, Albert 
 Tipton, James E. 
 Tobias, Vernon H. 
 Vanhoozer, Carl V. 
 Veach, Jess 
 Vedch, Robert 
 Wade, Dewey 
 Wattenbarger, James 
 
 C. 
 Wattenbarger, Verna 
 
 E. 
 Weese, Walter P. 
 West, Floyd 
 Wightman, Edwin S. 
 Wilkinson, Levi C. 
 Willis, Hugh 
 Wilson, Charley C. 
 Wood. Lemuel 
 Yardley, Marshall G. 
 Yoakum, Louis G. 
 
 Captain, 
 Joseph W. McQueen 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Carrollton 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 Dyer Brown 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 Ralph H. Cox 
 
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 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Standley, Fred J. 
 Mes5 Sergeant, 
 
 Arnold, George W. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Franke, August J. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Parkins, Ray F. 
 
 Kassens, Frank H. 
 
 Hanna, Max, 
 
 Conley, Fverett L. 
 
 Wagner, Rudolph C. 
 
 Cochran, Robert A, 
 Corporals: 
 
 Wright, Cyrus H, 
 
 Parkins, William S. 
 
 Parkins, Charlie B. 
 
 I/asser, Edward F. 
 
 Frazier, Joseph L. 
 
 McCormick, Wharton 
 J. 
 
 O'Neill, Clarence F, 
 
 Vance, Farl 
 
 Boschert, Leo 
 
 Bucholz, Charlie 
 
 Rosell, Darrell R. 
 
 Vinyard, Roscoe R. 
 
 Sparks, Bert F. 
 
 Hudson, David K. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Adkins, Oliver P. 
 
 Conley, John W., Jr. 
 
 Weaver, Robert S. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Proffitt, Charles R. 
 
 Helm, Curtiss S. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Young, Roscoe D. 
 
 Starr, John R. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Adkins, Ira 
 
 Dooley, Carl 
 
 Fulcher, Charles L. 
 
 Koontz, Sam F. 
 
 Magee, Ernest 
 
 Singleton, Walter R. 
 
 Snodgrass, John W. 
 
 Templeton, William A. 
 Privates: 
 
 Adcock, Herman A. 
 
 Adkins, Charlev 
 
 Adkins. Robert" O. 
 
 Albrecht, Edmond C. 
 
 F. 
 Auwarter, Floyd D. 
 Baker, Roy O. 
 Bales, Charles G. 
 Barrier, Hugh A. 
 Bates, Murl L. 
 Best. Earl P. 
 Brotherton, Lewis F. 
 Brouddus, Rexy 
 Burroughs, Charles 
 Calvert, John W. 
 Carter, George B. 
 Caton, William J. 
 Charles, Luther A. 
 Cobbs, Elmer W. 
 Cole, Frank A. 
 Coles, Harry E. 
 Collier, James E. 
 Collier, William S. 
 Collins, Sammy 
 Conner, Walter 
 Correll, Elvin O. 
 Coslet, Jesse E. 
 Cowan, Clarence E. 
 Cravens, Guy D. 
 Cupp, Albert H. 
 Curtis, James O. 
 Dixon, Rodger F. 
 Dockery, Elmer E. 
 Dooley, Willie D. 
 Dronenburg, Russell 
 
 N. 
 Durnell, Oscar K. 
 Earp, John B. 
 England, Robert J. 
 Faulkner, Harry B. 
 Fears, Hulbert O. 
 Flanegin, Paul R. 
 Frazier, John J. 
 Frizzell. John L. 
 Fugit, Rector E. 
 Gibson, Elden T.. 
 Glover, Daniel T. 
 Gunby, William E. 
 Halterman, William 
 
 S. 
 Halterman, Willie J 
 Harrison, John C. 
 Hayes, Perry F. 
 Heston, Alfred A, 
 Holloway, Avillia 
 
 Horn, Walter V. 
 Hulbert, Leonard F. 
 James, David R. 
 Jones, Ralph E. 
 Kemmerer, Birtrus 
 Kost, Otis A. 
 Kugler, John, Jr. 
 Lamb, Frank 
 Lovell, John C. 
 Lueders, Odes C. 
 McGuire, Dewey 
 Martin, Paul 
 Montgomery, Floyd A. 
 Newton, Herbert J. 
 Nowland, Owen W.' 
 Owens, Ben T. 
 Perreten, Henry J, 
 Pesel, Everett R, 
 Pound, John A. 
 Price, Earl E. 
 Reinhardt, Charles R. 
 Rice, Charles F. 
 Rinkenbaugh, John E. 
 St. John, Arthur P. 
 Shannon, Garland E. 
 Shields, Thomas B. 
 Skidmore, Everett E. 
 Smith, Buel W. 
 Smith, William 
 Smithpeter, William 
 
 L. 
 Spotts, Edgar 
 Stevenson, Henrv J. 
 Stith. Forrest G. 
 Swager, Den 
 Swager, Edward 
 Thomas, Frank P. 
 Tumlinson, James P. 
 Vance, William 
 Vanderpool, Leo 
 Wade, Jesse A. 
 Walker, Alexander W. 
 Ward, Fletcher T. 
 Weaver, Earl C. 
 Welch, Horace M. 
 White, Harry 
 White, Leslie S. 
 WJlhelm, Roy 
 Williams, Luther A, 
 Wilson, Clarence 
 Wilson, Russell 
 Wright. Weslov G. 
 York, Glenn O. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Alexander M. Ellett 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Robert W. Roberts 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Ross Diehl 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 ClIILLICOTHE 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Rowland, James H. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Blick, Verne 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Batta, Frank 
 
 Avery, Thomas E. 
 Foley, Claude 
 Danielson, Herbert E. 
 Blackburn, Clarence 
 
 A. 
 Howell, Paul D. 
 
292 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 McHolland, Joseph D. 
 Bayers, Arthur J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Barber, Jerome E). 
 
 Dennis, Omar 
 
 Van Hoozer, LeRoy 
 
 Dennis, Leon 
 
 Irvin, William M. 
 
 Harris, Fred K. 
 
 Montgomery, Wilmont 
 
 Mullinix, Leonard 
 
 Dietrich, Frank M. 
 
 Dietrich, Joseph H. 
 
 McClellen, Irl 
 
 Hood, Vernon 
 
 Deigelman, John 
 
 Nichols, John E). 
 
 Clark, Ora 
 
 Sloan, William T. 
 
 Cranmer, William S. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Forbis, Walter M. 
 
 Purintun, Lon G. 
 
 Ireland, Fred 
 Buglers: 
 
 Chapman, Van 
 
 Dienst, Ben 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Brant, George T. 
 
 Love, Wesley O. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Boley, Lee 
 
 Decker, John 
 
 Fowler, James C. 
 
 Grice, Wallace 
 
 Grouse, Charles F. 
 
 Grouse, John H. 
 
 Hall. Richard M. 
 
 Hopkins, Arthur B. 
 
 Howell. Lloyd S. 
 
 King, Pearcie 
 
 Lowe, Charles W. 
 
 Merrill, Owen 
 
 Miller, William B. 
 
 Ostrander, Clarence 
 
 Pearl, Vivian 
 Russell, Delbert C. 
 Sanders, Fred C. 
 Shultz, Flmer D. 
 Shultz, Harry W. 
 Stewart, Edward S. 
 White, Lysle C. 
 Privates: 
 
 Allen, James B. 
 Anderson, Fdward V. 
 Anderson, John L. 
 Aye, Russell C. 
 Baker, Wesley A. 
 Barnhart, William C. 
 Bratcher, Homer 
 Bratcher, Meredith F. 
 Brown, William E^ 
 Burgard, Lester C. 
 Burk, Ward M. 
 Burkett, Roy L- 
 Carney, James 
 Carpenter, George W. 
 Carothers, Paul 
 Cashman, Terrence W. 
 Chrisman, Ernest 
 Clark, Palmer, 
 Clowdis, Glen H. 
 Cooper, Noah 
 Cox, Floyd C. 
 Cravens, Tinsley 
 Dowell, George W. 
 Dumm, Purl 
 France, Clyde D. 
 Gash, George D. 
 Gibeaut, Eugene E. 
 Goodwin, Charlie R. 
 Goodwin, Ray 
 Gross, Walter M. 
 Gullick, Russell H. 
 Hargrove, Glen N. 
 Harvey, Wayne W. 
 Hicks, Carl 
 Hicks, Duary J. 
 Hicks, Henry W. 
 Kennedy, James A. 
 
 Kern, John C. 
 Lafferty, Fred H. 
 Leigh, Arthur F. 
 Lightner, James 
 Linn, Ralph W. 
 McDaniel, Earl 
 McDaniel, Wilbur 
 McKiddy, Ruby C. 
 Maddux, George 
 Merrill, Henry C. 
 Meyer, Roy F. 
 Moore, Samuel H, 
 Munyon, Willard M. 
 Murphy, Bruce 
 Neal, Arthur 
 Peas, William 
 Peterie, Vaughan R. 
 Portman, Maurice J. 
 Rankin, Roscoe B. 
 Rauber, Floyd 
 Rauber, Ed 
 Rauber, Ernest 
 Rauber, Henry 
 Sage, Orpha E. 
 Seaman, Elmer J. 
 Sherrow, Carl F. 
 Silvey, Stokley O. 
 Sparks, James H. 
 Spidle, Forest L- 
 Stone, William M, 
 Sturgis, George 
 Taylor, Lee R. 
 Thomas, Earl D. 
 Thompson, Johnnie F, 
 Trosper, Roy C. 
 Troutman, William J. 
 
 B. 
 Turner, Edward 
 Turner, George D. 
 Walters, Claud W. 
 Waters, Clifford L. 
 Wilkison, Ray 
 Winfegar, Trace 
 Worthington, James 
 
 H. 
 Wright, Earl 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John E. Wells 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Coburn Hull 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Oliver F. Crockett 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Champion, Cloyd B. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Stultz, Percy 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Mitchell, Thomas W. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Frazer, Eldon M. 
 
 COMPANY K 
 Weston 
 
 West, Frank 
 Arnold, Irvin 
 Arnold, Milford 
 Morrison, George E. 
 Hill, Al. P. 
 Miller, Welty A. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Donovan, Thomas W. 
 Absher, Roy 
 Crockett, Charles A. 
 Hull, Wilson E. 
 Helman, Charles H. 
 Barnett, Carl D. 
 
 Wilson, Coburn 
 Tinder, Robert L. 
 Arnold, Hobart 
 Arnold, Armstrong 
 Berry, Luther 
 Clemens, Roy H. 
 Duncan, John S. 
 Hill, James W. 
 Purcell, Miles 
 Raines, Clarence M, 
 Swearinger, Charlie E. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Melton, Louis W. 
 Morelan, Bone A. 
 
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 Clemens, Hardy h. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Denzer, Albert ft. 
 
 McMillian, James W. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Quinley, Pete J. 
 
 Ivinville, Vernard B. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Boyd, Hugh J. 
 
 Branum, Roy F. 
 
 Carter, James L. 
 
 Couchman, Charlie 
 
 Duncan, Ben F. 
 
 Duncan, Charles M. 
 
 Duncan, George E^. 
 
 Duncan, Robert L,. 
 
 Ferrell, Leslie J. 
 
 Fulk, William A. 
 
 Geer, John W. 
 
 Hall, Decatur B. 
 
 Hill, Neely 
 
 Hull, Wood B. 
 
 Marshall, Crester B. 
 
 Miller, William F. 
 
 Moberly, Harry F. 
 
 Ninemire, George W. 
 
 Royse, Elbert 
 
 Simmons, Lester L. 
 
 Sorrell, Leslie 
 
 Spinner, Richard C. 
 
 Thomason, Lilbern P. 
 
 Whallon, Victor B. 
 
 Williams, Claude F. 
 
 Wilson, William B. 
 
 Wright, Robert M. 
 Privates : 
 
 Agee, Millard T. 
 
 Armstrong, Karl D. 
 
 Arnold, Gay 
 
 Ashburn, Robert A. 
 Ball, Clarence 
 Barchus, William 
 Becker, Ralph F. 
 Black, Roy C. 
 Bowdre, Harry F. 
 Bullard, Frank W. 
 Cavanaugh, Ernest 
 Clark, Samuel S. 
 Coen, James E. 
 Connor, Lee M. 
 Conrad, William 
 Coots, James M. 
 Crawford, Oliver L. 
 Daily, Allen H. 
 Daily, Lee 
 Davis, Hermal R. 
 Davis, Robert C. 
 Deets, Stanton, E. 
 Ecton, Wiley J. 
 Flinn,^ Evert L. 
 Francis, Eugene 
 Friel, Roy 
 Garten, Robert 
 Good, Wesley F. 
 Grisham, J^sse D. 
 Hamilton, Lewis B. 
 Hanson, Elmer S. 
 Heavelow, Clarence 
 
 E. 
 Hill, William J. 
 Howard, Earl E. 
 Hurt, Grant B., Jr. 
 Hutchison, Otis 
 Kaith, Claude 
 Kelsey, Jesse L. 
 Kensler. Harold R. 
 Kith, William 
 Kurth, Charles F. 
 Lantz, Oren L. 
 
 Large, William C. 
 Linch, George I. 
 Linville, David E. 
 Long, Morris C. 
 Loubey, Louis A. 
 Lower, Fred W. 
 Lukehart, Oather 
 McClure, Hurshel A. 
 Marolf, William E. 
 Masters, Orville L. 
 Merritt, Walter L. 
 Minnick, Donald C. 
 Minnick, Roy B. 
 Myer, Frederick D. 
 Palmer, Alva W. 
 Palmer, Clyde R. 
 Park, Lloyd D. 
 Pennington, Lloyd 
 Phipps, Albert M. 
 Rainey, Leslie 
 Reed, Elmer 
 Robinson, Elmer 
 Russell, George L. 
 Schellhorn, Hubert P. 
 Shaw, Welborn T. 
 Smallwood, Harry A. 
 Smith, Albert 
 Smith, Willie 
 Spargur, Frank C. 
 Stephens, Norman A. 
 Still, Clyde W. 
 Sweger, Park G. 
 Tapscott, Silas W. 
 Tritt, James E. 
 Truitt, Cecil T. 
 Wagle, John H. 
 Wallis, Delmer L. 
 White, Wilfred H. 
 Wiggins, Richard T. 
 Wilson, Otis E. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Ray W. Carter 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 Charles E. Munn 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 Moss H. Forney 
 
 First Sergeant, 
 
 Minton, George A. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Cardinell, John H. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Gibson, Hugh J. 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Preston, George 
 Mylon, William 
 Mcjunkin, John R. 
 Jackson, Robert A, 
 Shutts. Paul P. 
 
 COMPANY L 
 Mount City 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Gehringer, Verne O. 
 
 Montgomery, William 
 S. 
 
 Bickel, Fred E. 
 
 Schoonover, Orville 
 
 Cook, William H. 
 
 Elton, Fred 
 
 Miller, Joseph M. 
 
 Duncan, Thomas H. 
 
 Ballinger, James R. 
 
 Jackson, Orville D. 
 
 Myers, William M. 
 
 Tibbetts, Roy 
 
 Bentz, Albert R. 
 
 Dovel, Tassel 
 
 Rock, Weldon 
 
 Tyson, James 
 Cooks: 
 
 Cardinell, Roy G. 
 
 Buglers: 
 
 Hadden, Harry 
 
 Roberts, Jack 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Adams, George 
 
 Blanchard, Floyd C. 
 
 Bohart, Ora 
 
 Bradley, David E. 
 
 Chesney, Grover D. 
 
 Cole, Charles H. 
 
 Cook, Avard 
 
 Cook, Charley 
 
 Curtin, Henry P. 
 
 Curtin, Joseph 
 
 Dearmont, Irl 
 
 Dillon, Paul S. 
 
 Fitzmaurice, Francis 
 
 Fleming, Claud 
 
 Hatch, Alfred 
 
 Hughes, Erwin E. 
 
294 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Meinsen, Ervin 
 Neely, Walter L. 
 Ogden, Lafe 
 Reynolds, Floyd 
 Simmons, Delbert E. 
 Smith, Walter E. 
 Stock, Emil 
 Uphouse, Loyd T. 
 Wampler, Charles 
 Webster, George C. 
 Weddle, Carl L. 
 Privates : 
 
 Allison, Albert R. 
 Anno, Trevor G. 
 Asher, Lee 
 Asher, Thomas 
 Bayha, Richard 
 Bennett, James F. 
 Bertram, William E. 
 Biggs, Donald M. 
 Boyd, Henry E. 
 Bragg, Jake 
 Brickey, Henry G. 
 Bridgmon, Orville L. 
 Browning, Frost A. 
 Brummett, Glen 
 Buckles, Carl R. 
 Burns, Velma L. 
 Carter, Russell E. 
 Chuning, Edwin F. 
 Couts, Clyde S. 
 Coyle, Willam T. 
 Dege, Adolph 
 
 Digginger, Joseph 
 Donan, Francis B. 
 Eckard, Harvey 
 Elkins, Orville A. 
 Everett, Roy T. 
 Everhart, William R. 
 Fitzmaurice, Michael 
 
 P. 
 Geib, Frederick W. 
 Geib, Henry W. 
 Gilfillan, Eugene 
 Gillenwater, Lester 
 Gomel, Louis 
 Guthrie, Robert N. 
 Hardin, Roy 
 Hopkins, Emmett 
 Hopkins, Zachariah 
 Hill, Roy D. 
 Kinser, Samuel 
 Kreek, John 
 Lawrence, Earl 
 Litts, Charles G. 
 Litts, DeWayne 
 Louden, Lester 
 Lowe, Frank R. 
 McKee, Nelson 
 Maudlin, James W. 
 Miller, Paul K. 
 Moore, Delmer O. 
 Nauman, Bryan W. 
 Nauman, Clarence J, 
 Nauman, Robert M. 
 Neely, Glen 
 
 Noll, Jacob S. 
 Nye, Elmer 
 Overlay, Anderson C. 
 Phillips, Thomas 
 Reynolds, Henry 
 Robertson, Walter S. 
 Robinson, Albert R. 
 Root, George E. 
 Schoonover, Tot 
 Scott, Francis E. 
 Sharp, Clarence G. 
 Sinclair, Glenn 
 Snodgrass, George 
 Snodgrass, Joseph M. 
 Stokes, Don D. 
 Story, Ernest 
 Story, Thomas M. 
 Strickler, Paul 
 Stuart, Vernon 
 Taylor, Henry C. 
 Thornhill, Archie 
 Van Slyke, William 
 Varvel, Luther 
 Walker, Oliver 
 Ward, Harold C. 
 Watters, Clarence C. 
 Weightman, Ray 
 Williams, James 
 Wilson, Julian 
 Wilson, Russell 
 Woodard, Jesse R. 
 Woods, Earl 
 Yount, Clyde C. 
 Zook, John F. 
 
 COMPANY M 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Charles E. Holt 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 George T. Worthen 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Walter C. Dickey 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Dalton, Morris S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Otton, George W. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 McCallan, Clarence 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Kirkpatrick, John J. 
 
 Lauder, James R. 
 
 McKinnis, Warren 
 
 Schuder, Rollie M. 
 
 Raney, George W. 
 
 Manning, Edmond P. 
 
 Hogan, Gerald W. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Kilfoyle, Frank J. 
 
 Grace, John S. 
 
 Watson. William 
 
 Stuart, Foster F. 
 
 Kenney, LeRoy L. 
 
 Gunn, Clarence T. 
 
 Prichard, John S. 
 
 Reilly, Lester F. 
 
 Swenson, Paul T. 
 
 Tomlinson, Jack 
 
 Limle, Harry 
 
 Hesehong, Ernest 
 
 Zane, Waldo C. 
 
 Clemens, Orval E. 
 
 Pauley, George H. 
 
 Caughlin, Joseph F. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Conley, Harry 
 
 Sherry, Benjamin J. 
 
 Smith, Roy 
 Buglers: 
 
 Robison, Edward 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Plummet, Charles L. 
 
 Landers, William E. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Berlin, Benny P. 
 
 Byers, Nelson T. 
 
 Carbry, Vincent N. 
 
 Dalton, Charley 
 Davis, Edwin L. 
 Edmondson, Will 
 Erickson, John J. 
 Gaunce, Charles J. 
 McAllister, James D, 
 Milbourn, Orville 
 Miller, Harold A. 
 Noll, Charles 
 Pinger, Hobart 
 Ray, Harold A. 
 Roth, Charles T. 
 Schuder, Ronnie E. 
 Sherry, Roy 
 Spencer, George W. 
 Suess, Albert E. 
 Swiercinske, Leo A. 
 Thomas, Claude 
 Torbert, Mark 
 Valentine, Howard R. 
 Whalen, John R. 
 Wiehl, George C. 
 York, Oscar 
 Privates: 
 
 Amos, Claude L- 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 295 
 
 Amos, Jake 
 Babcock, Eltee 
 Bales, William R. 
 Benedict, Myron D. 
 Benick, Albert 
 Berger, Herman 
 Bowen, Isaiah F. 
 Bowling, Ward 
 Brelsford, Harry ly. 
 Brooks, Albert ly. 
 Brott, James W. 
 Brown, Clarence O. 
 Brown, Claude P. 
 Brown, William M. 
 Burroughs, Newton 
 Chamberlin, Carl W. 
 Clift, Cecil W. 
 Cook, William S. 
 DeFord, Ray 
 Fairbanks, William J. 
 Farris, Fred 
 Florea, Glenn E. 
 Fuson, Richard D. 
 Grimm, Harry K. 
 Grooms, James F). 
 Guinn, Fstel E. 
 
 Hackney, James A. 
 Hansen, Fred 
 Hayes, Joseph R. 
 Haynes, Bert L. 
 Hays, Chester A. 
 Henry, Ernest R. 
 Hoover, Charlie E. 
 Janak, John C. 
 Jelley, Floyd E. 
 Johns, Claud I. 
 Lane, Roy W. 
 Leonard, Dewey B. 
 Lowe, Jesse L. 
 McClelland, Lester L. 
 McDowell, Alva L. 
 McKinney, George A. 
 ]\Tartinson, Oscar M. 
 Meek, Lynn G. 
 Miller, Joseph E. 
 Miller, William H. 
 Moore, Roger L. 
 Morgan, Harold L. 
 Motley, Frank L- 
 Mullendore, Lloyd C. 
 Musser, Stevie C. 
 Nelson, Nels 
 Pickrel, Archie B. 
 
 Richter, Louis T. 
 Rickel, Harry A. 
 Ricketts, Charlie O. 
 Riley, Charles E. 
 Rosenauer, Christ 
 Salisbury, Bryan 
 Schmitz, John J. 
 Searcy, Orvan O. 
 Seifert, Fred H. 
 Shawver, Howard T. 
 Shoup, Norman 
 Stein, Earl 
 Stock, Joseph C. 
 Taylor, Hugh F. 
 Taylor, Lonie M. 
 Thomas, Roy 
 Trammell, William A. 
 Truebe, George R. 
 Truitt, James E. 
 Wagenknecht, Ray- 
 mond 
 Walker, Lilburn J. 
 Wiatt, Charley W. 
 Wiehl, Noel M. 
 Wilcox, Charles D. 
 Wineland, Clare 
 Wise, Everett W. 
 
 SANITAEY DETACHMENT 
 
 Louisiana 
 
 Major, 
 
 Godfrey O. Cuppaidge 
 Captain, 
 
 George W. Belshe 
 Captain, 
 
 Charles P. Lewellen 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 George M. Bateler 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 James A. Taylor 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Walter L. Cronkite 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Naxera, Matthew W., 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 O'Brien, Harry R. 
 
 Blackstun, Lawrence M, 
 
 Berry, Fred R. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Dotson, William R. 
 
 Dudley, Russell M. 
 
 Edwards, Fornie 
 
 Eickerman, Fred A. 
 
 Graham, Sidney L. 
 
 Jackson, Forrest 
 
 Mazanec, William 
 
 Mitts, Charles S. 
 
 Newkirk, Urie 
 
 Rose, Charles 
 
 Shuck, John W. H. 
 
 Tilton, Jettie F. 
 Privates: 
 
 Babcock, William M. 
 
 Doty, James T. 
 Flaherty, Thomas F. 
 Galbreath, Ray D. 
 Gore, Paul W. 
 House, Curtis E. 
 Howden, George 
 Mansfield, Harry N. 
 Nagel, Irwin G. 
 Pappenport, James C. 
 Pratt, Charles T. 
 Schoenhals, Henry O. 
 Smith, Maynard R. 
 Sultzman, Francis E. 
 Thompson, Robert G. 
 Trawer, Marvin 
 White, Allen C. 
 
 SIXTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Jefferson City 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Albert Linxwiler 
 
 Commanding 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel, 
 
 Bennett C. Clark 
 
 Major, 
 
 Carl L. Ristine 
 Major, 
 
 Warren L. Mabrey 
 Major, 
 
 William T. Morgan 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Albert S. Gardner 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Rufus C. Kemper 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Alexander S. Oliver 
 
296 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COIVIPANY 
 
 Cape Girardeau 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Ray E. Seitz 
 Rgt. Sgt. Maj., 
 
 Jennings, Edward A. 
 Bn. Sgt. Maj., 
 
 Harrison, Robert D. 
 Bn. Sgt. Maj., 
 
 Rogers, James F. 
 Bn. Sgt. Maj., 
 
 McQueen, Frank T. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Harrison, Arthur W. 
 Color Sergeant, 
 
 Howard, (Henry W.) 
 (Harry W.) 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Schultz, Hina C, Jr. 
 Cook, 
 
 Stack, Sylvester 
 Privates : 
 
 Bell, Elmo J. 
 
 Davison, Bert 
 
 Eaken, Orvil P. 
 
 Goodin, William 
 
 Harris, James R. 
 
 Haydon, Robert D. 
 
 Hicks, William A. 
 
 Hutchinson, Wylic 
 
 King, Clarence 
 
 Melton, Ira 
 
 Miller Jesse Lee 
 
 Myers, Fred C. 
 
 Sellers, Floyd 
 
 Shirel, Thomas E. 
 
 Welch, Dean W. 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Schuchert, Clarence 
 E. 
 Asst. Band Leader, 
 
 Lesem, Rurie L- 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Danks, Thomas A. A. 
 
 Foster, Ernest F. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Hunter, Walter E. 
 
 Kassel, Elmore W. 
 
 King, James E. 
 
 Patton, Leslie E. 
 
 1st Class Musicians: 
 
 Danks, Harry E. 
 
 Thrower, Arthur C. 
 2d Class Musicians: 
 
 Crews, Lester 
 
 Foster, Moses F. 
 
 Kempe, Walter F. 
 3d Class Musicians: 
 
 Bentley, Albert E. 
 
 Bledsoe, Carl P. 
 
 Clayton, Ethelbert A. 
 Jr. 
 
 Danks, William H. 
 
 Heyle, James R. 
 
 Kaiser, Oscar C. 
 
 Kassel, Chester W. 
 
 Laswell, Gustavus 
 
 McBride, Earl R. 
 
 Pott, Clarence E. 
 
 Tibbs, Harry 
 
 Wells, Ernest F. 
 
 Wilson, William 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Oliver Guy Jones 
 Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 
 
 Wilson, Vern R. 
 Rgt. Sup. Sgt., 
 
 Hamilton, David 
 Rgt. Sup. Sgt.j 
 
 Dickison, William A. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Mankin, Dewey J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Co day, Walter C. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Hoover, Frank D. 
 Corporal, 
 
 Felin, Henry EJ. 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 Seymore 
 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 (Carger) Carter, John 
 A. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Fyan, William H. 
 Cook, 
 
 Mackey, Caleb M. 
 Wagoners : 
 
 Aelem, Everett H. 
 
 Briggs, Franklin O. 
 
 Carrick, Raymond 
 
 Carter, Garrett W. 
 
 Claxton, Howard N. 
 
 Cloud, Austin W. 
 
 Craig, William G. 
 
 Davis, Levis A. 
 
 Denney, William W. 
 
 Dugan, Ivy A. 
 
 Fletcher, George E. 
 George, Pleamon A. 
 Hailey, Joseph T. 
 Handy, Roy 
 Manning, Charley F. 
 Mingus, Epbraim L. 
 Morris, Roscoe E. 
 Norcross, Roy G. 
 Packard, Ernest A. 
 Potts, John J. 
 Richardson, Oscar E. 
 Roe, William J. 
 Spurlock, John E. 
 Tarbutton, Clyde 
 Tripp, Claude E. 
 Viles, Robert C. 
 Whittaker, Robert R. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 
 Carterville 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Vance R. Thralls 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Arch M. Baird 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Orie S. Imes 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Newell, Harvey E. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 Stewart, Louis G. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Leathers, Robert W. 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Goldsberry, William 
 O. 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Bourne, Edgar J. 
 Harlan, James E. 
 Hutchinson, Jess A. 
 McCoUum, J. Bert 
 Nelson, Frank C. 
 True, Percy W. 
 Wood, Charles B. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
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 Corporals : 
 
 Blanton, Henry H. 
 DeCIure, Archie F. 
 Hill, Leonard E. 
 Hill, Ray 
 Pierce, Forest 
 Smith, Edward 
 Stokes, Ongle L- 
 Wirth, Charles C. 
 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Plumley, Alexander 
 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Smith, John Phillip 
 Young, Ferol J. 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Darrah, Loyd E. 
 Dixon, Thomas 
 
 Buglers: 
 
 Horine, Sidney F, 
 Sims, Rudy S. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Andrews. Hadley J. 
 Arthur, Henry 
 Barnett, Lee D. 
 
 Binning, Charles L. 
 Bishop, Earl N. 
 Ely, Joe D. 
 Brown, Ralph L. 
 Caughenbaugh, John 
 
 C. 
 Cobb, Luther W. 
 Collier, Henry 
 Cook, Al. J. 
 Crook, Thomas C. 
 Daugherty, Jessie C. 
 DeWitt, Lawrence 
 Edgar, Sam H. 
 Fultner, Phillip 
 Gabriel, Clarence O. 
 Gordon, George H. 
 Griner, John H. 
 Harbin, John W. 
 Hawks, Leslie W. 
 Ha3'^ward, Orville C. 
 Killian, Maynard 
 Klein, Harold H. 
 McCloud, Claude D. 
 McCoy, Guy 
 
 McCoy, Jesse 
 McGuinn, William 
 
 Francis 
 Manley, Edgar Rill 
 Mead, Harvey 
 Miller, Herbert F. 
 Montgomery, Clarence 
 
 J. 
 Moore, Robert A, 
 Mote, Guy U. 
 Murphy, Charles L. 
 Nichols, John E. 
 Payne, Claud 
 Peacock, Vernon A. 
 Points, Frank E. 
 Price, John D. 
 Ropp, Chester Allen 
 Stephens, Roy A. 
 Whitley, Jack 
 Williams, Alonzo C. 
 Williams, Rolla B. 
 Wilson, Columbus 
 Yates, Vernie W. 
 Zeller, Charles L. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Ralph W. Campbell 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry W. Boardman 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 William Stonestreet 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Nooe, Willie M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Baker. Roy D. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Howard, Robert J. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Haekker, Karl P. 
 
 Bishop, Warner J. 
 
 Erickson, John H. 
 
 Mussatto, Joseph A. 
 
 Amos, James R. 
 
 Bear, James E. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Frazier, J. Wilson 
 
 CuUey, Charles S. 
 
 Hawkins, William 
 
 Cross, Charles C. 
 
 Hammer, Oscar J. 
 
 Hammer, Karl F. 
 
 Howe, Joseph R. 
 
 Cullon, George T. 
 
 Galladay, Roscoe H. 
 
 Beisenherz, Edward 
 L. 
 
 Fizer, Bennie C. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Petty, Geo. W. 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 Lexington 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Greer, Al. 
 
 Biggs, Rufus 
 Privates: 
 
 Anderson, John P. 
 
 Attebery, Cecil H. 
 
 Aytes, Elex L. 
 
 Bailey, Hobart W. 
 
 Penning, Major 
 
 Benoist, Frank L. 
 
 Bezing, Fritz 
 
 Book, Charles 
 
 Bowman, James 
 
 Brumfield, Roger 
 
 Clark, William L. 
 
 Collins, Edward H. 
 
 Cunningham, John C. 
 
 Darrah, Forest Q. 
 
 Daugherty, Harvey M. 
 
 Douglas, John H. 
 
 Eagan, Emmett A. 
 
 Eaton, Clyde 
 
 Emery, Ormy 
 
 Fieldcamp, Dick C. 
 
 Foster, Arthur B. 
 
 Frazier, Willie L. 
 
 Geraughty, James 
 
 Gillibert, Louis C. 
 
 Gosoraski, Frank M. 
 
 Hall, Lee 
 
 Harney, Joseph F. 
 
 Head, William R. 
 
 Hill,_ Warren 
 
 Hollingsworth, Jay G. 
 
 Johnson, Ernest O. 
 
 Kincheloe, James P. 
 
 Kroencke, Emil L. 
 Legg, Arthur P. 
 Looney, Joseph 
 McClure, Clyde E. 
 McCormick, Myron 
 McFadden, Clarence 
 McGraw, Aubrey 
 McLain, William G. 
 Masoni, John 
 Martin, Theodore 
 Myers, Charles H. 
 Nelson, Dewey 
 Poe, Raymond 
 Potter, Wilfred J. 
 Redd, Willam M. 
 Riley, John W. 
 Ross, Orvill 
 Rouse, Arvil F. 
 Rouse, George S. 
 See, Clarence D. 
 Smith, Ernest C. 
 Smith, Louis G. 
 Smith, Upton B. 
 Smith, William L. 
 Stapleton, George W. 
 Stapleton, Walter 
 Steffens, Leonard II. 
 Stevens, Frank T. 
 Taney, Daniel 
 Taney, Henry 
 Thomas, Charles H. 
 Thorson, Herbert W, 
 Tucker, Aubra L. 
 Vasques, Max 
 Verwork, Julius 
 Walton, Thomas 
 
298 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Warder, John M. 
 Warren, Robert V. 
 Wiley, Otis L. 
 
 Willard, Andy J. 
 Willard, Paul J. 
 Williams, Carvin 
 
 Williams, Edward V. 
 Wolfenberger, Baxter 
 Young, William W. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James B- Weis 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Oscar L. Harper 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Edward S. Garner, Jr. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Weir, Will J. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 White, Robert E. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Leighty, Harold H. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Abbott, James B. 
 
 Charlesworth, Earl A. 
 
 Masteller, Emory L. 
 
 Robinson, Edwin B. 
 
 Miles, Ivel E. 
 
 Junken, William H. 
 
 Wilson, Dolph 
 
 Messenger, Webb 
 Corporals: 
 
 White, Leo 
 
 Farkas, Adam 
 
 Tracy, Edward 
 
 Prater, Thomas, 
 
 Sparks, Clifford W. 
 
 Harper, Ralph 
 
 Chestnut, Kirby 
 
 Lollis, Oscar 
 
 Wyant, Warren R, 
 
 John, Oscar 
 
 Williams, Harry 
 
 McLean, Earl 
 
 Brunswig, Phillip H, 
 
 Lacy, George T. 
 
 Waugh, Oren 
 
 Paden, William C. 
 
 Masteller, Harvey E. 
 
 Porter, Edward C. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Malotte, John 
 
 Robinson, Wayne H. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Pratt, Hiram 
 
 Tracy, William 
 
 Culver, Fordys 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Hovey, James A. 
 
 Williams, Harry 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Alberts, Samuel 
 Aldrich, Charles M. 
 Ball, Howard S. 
 Banister, Earl F. 
 Blackwell, Dick 
 Blotz, Thomas 
 Bowen, Alvin 
 Bowen, Charles D. 
 Brown, Bert 
 Brown, Gene M. 
 Caton, H. P. 
 Chilton, Paul J. 
 Clark, Ray 
 
 Cook, Walter 
 Cozine, Alvin 
 Cozine, Roy 
 Cramer, Clarence E. 
 Crandall, Earl 
 Crose, Albert 
 Dean, John B. 
 Decker, Daniel K. 
 Decker, George E. 
 Dennis, Bert 
 Devine, William H. 
 Dittemore, Aubrey C. 
 
 Downs, Roner 
 
 Dugger, Ross 
 
 Durkin, Joseph W. 
 
 Ecton, Frank C. 
 
 Ellis, Charles E. 
 
 Fixek, John 
 
 Fouts, Fred 
 
 Fry, Francis W. 
 
 Fuhrer, Roy 
 
 Gallagher, John P. 
 
 Gentzell, Robert 
 
 Gibson, Jake 
 
 Griffith, Earl N. 
 
 Griffiths, Lester 
 
 Gore, Ilda 
 
 Groves, Edward 
 
 Hackney, Perry S. 
 
 Haeberle, Harry G. 
 
 Hale, Frank L. 
 
 Haney, William H. 
 
 Hardman, Charles H. 
 
 Harrison, Robert 
 
 Hinkle, Lyman J. 
 
 Hollowell, .Frank 
 
 Huston, Richard 
 
 Hubbard, Robert E. 
 
 Tones, Charles A. 
 
 King, William T. 
 
 Kirtley, Arthur 
 
 Lacy, George T. 
 Lawhon, Edward F. 
 Lear, Albert O. 
 Leighty, Edward L. 
 LeRoy, Frank 
 Lewis, Fred 
 Lewis, Marvin 
 McClintock, Lloyd H. 
 McKee, Phillip C. 
 McLean, Earl 
 Miles, George T. 
 Miller, Clinton 
 Miller, Joseph W. 
 Miller, Robert 
 Moore, LeRoy 
 Morlock, Orenza 
 Morris, Garlin J. 
 Munden, Lewis E. 
 Myers, Fred W. 
 Neff, Louis J. 
 Osborn, Earl 
 
 Parker, William A. 
 Patrick, Lloyd 
 
 Patton, Ora 
 Phillbrick, Lawrence 
 W. 
 
 Pontius, Arthur C. 
 
 Reeves, Walter A. 
 
 Roberts, Coin 
 
 Roberts, Ernest L. 
 
 Ross, James 
 
 Sch,einert, Jesse J. 
 
 Shatto, William 
 
 Smart, Howard A. 
 
 Smith, Alba 
 
 Smith, Thane B, 
 
 Sparks, Arley 
 
 Stark, Charles O. 
 
 Stephenson, William 
 
 Stockton, Hugh S. 
 
 Stout, Orval V. 
 
 Tanksley, Thomas 
 
 Thompson, Henley D. 
 
 Thompson, John 
 
 Totten, Ivan R. 
 
 Tracy, Clyde 
 
 Tracy, Louis C. 
 
 View, Clarence 
 
 Walsh, John E. 
 
 White, Lemuel 
 
 Whittington, Jesse 
 
 Wright, Elmo N. 
 
 Wright, Harry 
 
 Yeakley, Hobart 
 
 Yeakley, Robert H, 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 299 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William F. St. John 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Guido J. Schaff 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank F. Tracy 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Kuehl, Frederick C. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 DeGroat, Fred E. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Schmille, Henry F. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Bruegger, Fmil G. 
 
 Compton, Cecil C. 
 
 Dovey, John 
 
 Funson, Harry J. 
 
 Hindman, Justus 
 
 Gilliespie, William R. 
 
 Showers, George W. 
 
 Stephens, Raymond A. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Bell, Earl T. 
 
 Compton, Morris G. 
 
 Cooley, William W. 
 
 Courtney, Frank F). 
 
 Flynn, Richard T. 
 
 Geyer, George D, 
 
 Guthrie, William H. 
 
 Harris, James A. 
 
 Marstella. Fred S. 
 
 Morgan, Eddie A. 
 
 Morris, Glen B. 
 
 Schatzman, Aubrey M. 
 
 Steele, Paul 
 
 Wagner, Frank F. 
 
 Weaver, Ralph P. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Dolan, Joseph P. 
 
 Sparks, Louis J. 
 
 Thomas, Robert 
 Buglers: 
 
 Blackford, Galvin 
 
 Reid, Glenn B. 
 Mechanic: 
 
 Hertzel, Peter 
 Privates : 
 
 Alvis, Reuben A. 
 
 Amend, Bryan 
 
 COMPAIsrY c 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Anderson, Samuel A. 
 Arnett. Wilson H. 
 Arnold, Earl 
 Baubits, Ross 
 Bauman, Dewey 
 Blackford, Louis S. 
 Blaga, Joseph 
 Boyle, Frank J. 
 Brigham, Robert 
 Cain, Clarence L. 
 Conner, Roy 
 Courtney, Wilbert M. 
 Craig, James R. 
 Curtin, Tom John 
 Cuzzert, Harry D, 
 Davis, Jobe 
 Davis, Louis B. 
 Davis, Milo 
 Davis, William R. 
 Dawson, William E. 
 Detweiler, Ira 
 Dow ell, Roy B. 
 Dowell, Sanford J. 
 Drake, William N. 
 Dukes, Le Roy A. 
 Ellis, Harry B. 
 Elson, Fred R. 
 Evans, Claude C. 
 Fitzpatrick, Glen 
 Fleshman, Samuel F. 
 Flowers, Grover Cleve- 
 land 
 Fritz, Mike 
 Fuson, John O. 
 Gay, Murril K. 
 Gomel, Frank 
 Goodman, Frank C. 
 Gossin, George D. 
 Green, Albert 
 Green, Frank 
 Hainline, Wallace 
 Hall, Cecil J. 
 Harris. Lester L. 
 Hartman, Lee H. 
 Hartnett, James L. 
 Haynes, Oscar 
 Hinkle. Ray S. 
 Howard, Fred McKin- 
 ley 
 
 Hunt, William 
 Imus, Wayman H. 
 Jensen, William P. 
 Jones, George E. 
 Julian, Wesley H. 
 Katon, Thomas F. 
 Kelley, Earl H. 
 Kelley, James A. 
 Kendrick, Timothy P. 
 Keyser, Edward A. 
 Kienzel, John W. 
 King, F. Cecil 
 King, Roy E. 
 Kneer, Clark W. 
 Kuhn, Alvin L. 
 Larson, Harry E. 
 Leavitt, Dewey V. 
 Leffler, Perry C. 
 Lowrie, William 
 McBrayer, Arthur O. 
 McCall, Thomas M. 
 McCoy, Gilbert G. 
 Mallory, Lee 
 Marrs, John H. 
 Merritt, Jere B. 
 Miles, James A. 
 Miller, James M. 
 Nave, Fred W. 
 Nowland, George 
 Padgett, Ivel V. 
 Palmer, Elmer H. 
 Payne, John H. 
 Peterson, Delmar Ray 
 Rader, George 
 Riordan, Michael 
 Seip, Martin L. 
 Sheffer, Charles 
 Smith, Elmer 
 Sollars, Thomas 
 Stevenson, Edward 
 Strange, Roy C. 
 Tracy, Ralph E. 
 Trant, Philip G. 
 Tucker, Arthur 
 Walker, Vessie 
 Wampler, Clarence E. 
 Wilson, Ralph H. 
 Young, Charles 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Harry B. Scott 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry O. Berry 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Joseph H. Salisbury 
 
 COMPANY D 
 
 Sedalia 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Dunnica, John Leon 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Martin, Gran Alonzo 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Scott, Lionel J. 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Triplett, William S. 
 Richter, Julius J. 
 Rissler, Charles Gor- 
 don 
 Herndon, George B, 
 
300 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Baldwin, William V. 
 
 Knox, Lloyd V. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Porter, John C. 
 
 Dowd, Lee Mack 
 
 Lowrey, William IL 
 
 Lamm, Gordon 
 
 Maness, Henry M. 
 
 Hampy, Ernest K. 
 
 Adair, Robin 
 
 Holsenpiller, James F. 
 
 Burke, John C. 
 
 Heisterberg, Edward J. 
 
 Barnett, Robert L. 
 
 Rendleman, Benjamin 
 L« 
 Mechanic: 
 
 Durham, Henry F, 
 Cooks: 
 
 Meager, Leo James 
 Bugler: 
 
 Rayhill, Finis Edward 
 Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Luther C. 
 
 Anderson, William H. 
 
 Bond, Fred Arthur 
 
 Bryant, Ellis E. 
 
 Canaday, Charles Max 
 
 Garlock, LeRoy 
 
 Cooper, Henry Ray 
 
 Croy, Harold B. 
 
 Cunningham, Henry 
 D. 
 
 Davis, Earl H. 
 
 Dickerson, William 
 Joseph 
 
 Douglas, Norman, H. 
 
 Durett, John R. 
 
 Engler, Marshall H. 
 
 Enos, Don M. 
 
 Enos, Loran D. 
 
 Falknor, Carl C. 
 
 Fletcher, William H. 
 
 Franklin, Joseph D. 
 
 Friend, Frank W. 
 
 Fullerton, Forrest T. 
 
 Garner, Charles C. 
 
 Garrett, Walter C. 
 
 Glass, James W. 
 
 Glazebrook, James G. 
 
 Gupton, Carl W. 
 
 Hamm, William M. 
 
 Harris, Jacob Jefiferson 
 
 Harris, William J. 
 
 Hayes, William Allen 
 
 Henderson, John Sam- 
 uel 
 
 Heuitt, Henry Calep 
 
 Hunt, Lester E. 
 
 Jackson, John 
 
 Jocoy, Charles Wil- 
 liam 
 
 Johnston, Herbert E. 
 
 Lane, John H. 
 
 Lawson, Ace Levi 
 
 Lawson, Edmon Rus- 
 sell 
 
 Leftwich, James W, 
 
 Lewis, Frank E- 
 
 Lewis, William O. 
 
 Lipscomb, Arthur E. 
 
 Longan, Layton L. 
 
 McCullough, James T. 
 
 Manley, James M. 
 
 March, Thomas B. 
 
 Marcum, Willie 
 
 Mathews, Walter I. 
 
 Miller, Clyde James 
 
 Mills, John Wesley 
 
 Monroe, Emmet H. 
 
 Moore, Zacharias 
 
 Mullineaux, Joseph A. 
 
 Mullins, Harry R. 
 
 MuUins, Hayden G. 
 
 Myrick, John H. 
 
 Owen, James F. 
 
 Palmer, Charles H. 
 
 Palmer, Wiley S. 
 
 Penland, William A. 
 
 Phillips, William IT. 
 
 Pursley, Thomas S. 
 
 Quick, Everett Litton 
 
 Riggs, Oscar B. 
 
 Robinson, Carter A. 
 
 Robinson, Clarence V. 
 
 Robinson, George A. 
 
 Robinson, Homer D. 
 
 Robinson, William L. 
 
 Sands, Henry C. 
 
 Scott, Alva 
 
 Scott, Genne 
 
 Siebert, Leo M. 
 
 Simmers, Henry N. 
 
 Simmers, Robert E. 
 
 Sisk, Albo H. 
 
 Speer, Brent 
 
 Speer, Ezra E. 
 
 Stephens, Charles Oli- 
 ver 
 
 Tuttle, Cecil L. 
 
 Washburn, Seth W. 
 
 Weathers, Russell 
 Olive 
 
 Welch, George W. 
 
 Weston, Harry B. 
 
 Wilson, Arthur C. 
 
 Witte, Gus E. 
 
 Wolford, George E. 
 
 Wood, DeWitt 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Henry E. Braschler 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 David M. Robertson 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Howard C. Lane 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Lewis, Samuel A. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Odom, Edley R. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Williams, Lat M. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Pope, Robert D. 
 
 Paul, John B. Jr. 
 
 King, Lewis A. 
 
 Keith, Hudson A. 
 
 Dunn, Michael 
 
 Hope, Anderson M. 
 
 COIViPANY E 
 Doniphan 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Boster, Chester A. 
 
 Bond, Edgar 
 
 Corckran, Joe 
 
 Casteel, Harve 
 
 Easter, Joe T. 
 
 Hancock, John M. 
 
 Hope, Charlie, 
 
 McKinney, Frank 
 
 Napier, Charles L. 
 
 Ponder, Arthur R. 
 
 Sanders, James L. 
 
 Wall, Herbert M. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Camp, Joseph 
 
 Blyze, Joseph H. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Richmond, Fred C. 
 
 Ponder, Arno L,. 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Ashcraft, Robert L- 
 Bevans, George R. 
 Bolin, Bennie E. 
 Boxx, Walter W. 
 Brakefield, Lee 
 Brown, Albert A. 
 Bryant, James W. 
 Bumgardner, Jacob 
 Coleman, Ralph L. 
 Crowe, Ed. A. 
 Davis, Claude A. 
 Davis, Harry 
 Dawson, Francis M, 
 Desich, Emery 
 Dixon, Kennett S. 
 Dixon, Leonard L. 
 Dizmang, Roy L. 
 Donley, Monroe L. 
 
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 301 
 
 Duncan, James M. 
 Dunigan, Lee R. 
 Dunigan, McKinley 
 Few, Walter E. 
 Garrett, Solomon M. 
 Gibson, Charles R. 
 Gibson, Homer 
 Gray, Arthur B. 
 Greer, Leonard D. 
 Hancock, Aaron S. 
 Harder, Claude E. 
 Harris, James A. 
 Helvey, Willie 
 Hill, Elmer E. 
 Hillard, Doniphan 
 Hines, Sheridan 
 Holt, Orbra V. 
 Hopkins, James S. 
 Inman, Lewis F. 
 Lawhon, Cal. M. 
 Lawhon, Frank 
 Leroux, John N. 
 Logan, John W. 
 Lokey, William M. 
 
 Long, Elijah R. 
 Lorey, James M. 
 McDowell, William J. 
 McGee, Samuel D. 
 McKinney, Noah 
 McKinney, Orason A. 
 McQuay, Aldris D. 
 McWilliams, Lewis ]\1. 
 Maberry, Olvert 
 Martin, Thomas J. 
 Mesaros, Frank 
 Miller, Lewis 
 Mills, Jesse R. 
 Mounce, Charlie S. 
 Nesca, Louis 
 Naylor, Raymond C. 
 Novock, Earl 
 Nowak, Adam 
 Perry, Harry O. 
 Peters, William Law- 
 rence 
 Pitman, Roe E. 
 Ponder, Chester H. 
 Ponder, Hubert L. 
 
 Ponder, William F. 
 Rackley, Mack 
 Reed, Oscar 
 Shoat, James C. 
 Sraelser, Clarence S. 
 Starkey, Sidney M. 
 Stucker, Walter L. 
 Sullivan, Silvester 
 Swofford, Albert 
 Taylor, William E. 
 Thomas, Jacob 
 Towner, William A. 
 Trotter, Elias Wier 
 Tyra, Joseph R. 
 Wakefield, Thomas G. 
 Wardlow, Dauca Roy 
 West, Herman R. 
 West, Jim L. 
 West, Lionel M. 
 Whitwell, Herman B. 
 Williams, Robert E. 
 Wilson, Archie A. 
 Wright, Andy R. 
 Young, Chester A. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Walter W. Durnell 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Jo. C. Ferguson 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Richard H. Stogsdill 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Fleming, Harry H. 
 
 Gray, Charles A. 
 
 Oldfather, William J. 
 
 Holloway, Guy M. 
 
 Haycraft, Philip E. 
 
 Gorman, Harold F. 
 
 Brawner, Clark E. 
 
 Caylor, Leonard C. 
 
 VoUmar, John L. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Smith, Hearl C. 
 
 Patterson, Homer 
 
 Holloway, Clyde 
 
 Thomas, Archie I. 
 
 Drymon, Floyd 
 
 Phillips, James L. 
 
 Marcellus, Mahlon G. 
 
 Hengel, Fredrick B. 
 
 Bradshaw, Walter 
 
 Winch, Raymond 
 
 James, Elum O. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Hartin, Alva 
 Cooks: 
 
 Whetstine, Lewis L. 
 
 Anderson, Thomas A. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Lane, Thomas H. 
 
 Ruby, Eric S. 
 
 COMPANY F 
 Willow Springs 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbott, Ollie E. 
 Anglin, Earnest L. 
 Baldwin, Everet W. 
 Beck, Clyde O. 
 Belshe, Lawrence L. 
 Booher, Benjamin F. 
 Bradford, George T. 
 Bridge, Louis R. 
 Brown, Willie H. 
 Browning, Merl R, 
 Caulder, John H. 
 Chaney, Walter J. 
 Chrisco, Heiibert P. 
 Collins, Ben C. 
 Cooper, Silas W. 
 Cox, John M. 
 Grain, William J. 
 Cunningham, Hugh R. 
 Dermon, John M. 
 Dirk, Henry E- 
 Dove, Fred E. 
 Duckworth, Joseph W. 
 Ferrell, Clifford _E. 
 Findley, Benjamin C. 
 Floyd, Samuel D. 
 Frank, Napoleon R. 
 Gentry, John M. 
 Goddard, Nathan J. 
 Hall, Weaver, 
 PTengel, Carl J. 
 Herndon, Joseph F. 
 Higginbotham, Her- 
 man H. 
 Hill, Bob 
 Holden, George F. 
 
 Holt, Delbert E. 
 Holt, Willie E. 
 Johnson, Frank W. 
 Laws, Orval G. 
 Lease, Martin L. 
 Linderer, Charley 
 Lingle, Walter S. 
 Loch, William A. 
 McClanahan, Tobe 
 McClellan, Ralph K. 
 McGowan, Jasper C. 
 Means, John C. 
 Miller, William F, 
 Moody, Harry L. 
 Murrell, McF. 
 Muxlow, Glenn D. 
 Myers, Roy J. 
 Noblitt, Thomas E. 
 Norris, Cecil L. 
 Oliver. John H. 
 Orr, James R. 
 Plemmons, Charles E. 
 Rader, John H. 
 Rader, Lee 
 Reed, John O. 
 Reed, Orval O. 
 Rogers, Wallace J. 
 Rust, Arch F. 
 Sanders, Lou W. 
 Shannon, William E. 
 Sheltin, Charley 
 Skyles, George W. 
 vSmith, Irvin 
 Smith, Mack J. 
 Stewart, Jasper L- 
 Stewart, William H. 
 
302 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Stogsdill, Franklin W. 
 Taylor, Iria B. 
 Taylor, Warren W. 
 Thomas, William A. 
 
 Waggener, Edgar F. 
 Weatherman, Elmer B, 
 West, Virgle 
 Whittaker, Ray 
 
 Wiles, Claudie E. 
 Willoughby, Thomas 
 
 B. 
 Winch, Everett 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Jacob L. Milligan 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Robert Kirk Brady 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Cecil M. Farris 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Littman, Arthur 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Tarwater, Roy E. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Wilkinson, John L. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Davis, Gerald H. 
 
 Sisk, Forest O. 
 
 Hughes, Howard Roy 
 
 Weber, Ivan 
 
 Saunders, Wade H. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Pifer, Ray L. 
 
 Ward, Edward 
 
 Brown, Gerald B. 
 
 Farmer, McKinley 
 
 Sexton, Charles A. 
 
 Kraft, Moses 
 
 Hutchinson, Hubert L. 
 
 Bryce, James 
 
 Rogers, Ernest 
 
 Roark, Harry E. 
 
 Brown, William E. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Ward, Flem C. 
 
 Vandiver, Jesse 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Cates, Jesse L. 
 Buglers:, 
 
 Cook, Myrel J. 
 
 Van Horn, Robert G. 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 Richmond 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Abbott, Albert W. 
 Anderson, Charlie 
 Baker, Claytin 
 Bales, Cleveland A. 
 Belle, George 
 Blann, Lawrence R. 
 Bowman, Roscoe 
 Brady, Elvis W. 
 Brockman, Guthrie 
 Burnett, Clyde 
 Burnett, Oscar P. 
 Cheek, Middleton A. 
 Coleman, Virgil 
 Cook, Ralph H. 
 Couch, Robert T. 
 Covey, Clyde E. 
 Craven, Carl V. 
 Dale, Ernest 
 Dennis, Charles J. 
 Dickey, Ward S. 
 Dixon, John 
 Elliott, Asa D. 
 Everett, Noah H. 
 Foster, Frank H. 
 Gardner, Lloyd G. 
 Gibson, Phil S. 
 Gorman, Sanford B. 
 Griffith, Fred 
 Hamil, William F. 
 Hannah, Charley 
 Henderson, Floyd H. 
 Hicks, Tillman 
 Hightower, Raymond 
 Hill, Roscoe C. 
 Jones, Harry S. 
 Keith, Glenn A. 
 Liles, Oscar P. 
 Lockard, Ernest M. 
 
 Loyd, James I. 
 Luellen, William W. 
 Maples, John F. 
 Mayabb, Orba M. 
 Michael, Gairrie E. 
 Middleton, Charles L. 
 Miller, Leonard R. 
 Mooney, George 
 Moyer, Allen B. 
 Mulliken, Elmer 
 Odell, Jack 
 O'Neal, William A. 
 Phelps, George H., Jr. 
 Price, Thomas C. 
 Prunty, James A. 
 Reed, Clarence S. 
 Richards, Henry E, 
 Richardson, Thomas 
 Rider, Earl 
 Sampson, Harold A. 
 Seaton, Virgil D. 
 Sidener, Henry F. 
 Slaughter, Grover F. 
 Snowden, Henry A. 
 Spence, George J. 
 Stevens, Fred 
 Stevens, Walter 
 Stigall, John W. 
 Swearingin, John H 
 Swearingin, Leonard 
 
 Teai, Walter 
 Teegarden, James M, 
 Thompson, Noah K. 
 Thompson, Ralph J. 
 Thompson, Richard 
 Vanhoozer, Cecil N. 
 Yoakum, Claud 
 Yoakum, Joseph 
 
 Captain 
 
 James C. Kenady 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Claude M. Skelton 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Clarence G. Smith 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Ellis, James D. 
 Mess Sergeant 
 
 Dunn, Harry 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Dexter 
 
 Supply Sergeant 
 Smith, Earl B. 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Dunn, Joel E. 
 Julian, John T. 
 Munger, Paul M. 
 Roper, Henry E. 
 
 Corporals : 
 
 Brown, Ernest 
 Buchannan Gleyn 
 Burrow, Arthur P. 
 
 Cox, Meredith 
 Day, Cecil L. 
 Fowler, John H. 
 Harris, Jesse T. 
 Hicks, Herbert 
 Lane, James T, 
 Lasater, Thomas J. 
 McGehee, Theodore 
 Oliver, Clarence P. 
 Singleton, James S. 
 Wallace, Henry 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 303 
 
 Wantland, R. Orley 
 
 Womack, Walter M. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Driskell, Robert H. 
 
 Kilmer, Elvin E. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Brooks, Earl C. 
 
 Hooker, Henry Otis 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Teel, John F. 
 
 Turner, James R. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, Henry A. 
 
 Allen, Eewdorth E- 
 
 Anderson, Roy 
 
 Ashcraft, Zibo G. 
 
 Ashworth, Ben E. 
 
 Bailey, Ralph D. 
 
 Bedwell, Samuel M. 
 
 Blocker, James M. 
 
 Bolin, John A. 
 
 Bollinger, Jesse I\I. 
 
 Brannock, Bert 
 
 Brown, Floyd P. 
 
 Brown, Lewis S. 
 
 Caldwell, Lou S. 
 
 Caldwell, Luther R. 
 
 Carlton, Ora 
 
 Carwile, James C. 
 
 Chasteen, Otto 
 
 Charman, Richard C. 
 
 Clevenger, Evert 
 
 Davis, Amos 
 
 Davis, John O. 
 
 Dickerson, Arthur L. 
 
 Dickerson, Jesse L. 
 
 Dillion, R. Thomas 
 
 Dodd, Frank 
 
 Doyle, Thomas C. 
 
 Dunning, James M. 
 
 Edwards, Herrel 
 
 Elhott, Edgar G. 
 Ford, James C. 
 Foreman, Glenn J. 
 Gaines, Benjamin L. 
 Garrison, John 
 Gray, Bub 
 Hahn, Charlie 
 Hanks, Claud 
 Harper, William E. 
 Harris, Fred B. 
 Harris, George W. 
 Hartley, Clinton N. 
 Hazlip, Robert A. 
 Hefner, Fred 
 Hill, Lawrence E. 
 Hisan, .Elmer 
 Holland, John J. 
 Hopkins, Elza 
 Horton, Jackson 
 Howell, Homer 
 Hurst, Floyd J. 
 Hurst, William A. 
 Hutson, Harry 
 Irons, Jack 
 James, Charles L. 
 Jett, Everett 
 Jones, James A. 
 Jones, John R. 
 Jones, Stanley 
 Jones, Thomas A. 
 Joseph, Oliveir 
 Julian, Elbert A. 
 Kagle, William W. 
 Keaton, Charles H. 
 Keaton, James S. 
 Keen, Charles G. 
 King, Henry W. 
 King, James A. 
 Kirby, Charles D. 
 Lindsey, Mont O. 
 Little, Andrew J. 
 McAllister, Harry 
 
 McDowell, Benjamin 
 McFarlan, Walter 
 McGehee, Gilbert 
 McGhee, Cecil 
 McGuire, Charles V. 
 Marley, Perry 
 Martin, Jesse 
 Mathney, Gardiner 
 Mayberry, Robert 
 Meeks, Cletis W. 
 Miller, Rufus 
 Milner, Bernice 
 Montgomery, Clarence 
 
 L. 
 Oglevie, George 
 Peavey, Curtis 
 Pryor, Alvin L. 
 Ramsey, John 
 Reagan, James B. 
 Riley, C'Jaude 
 Roberts, Earl P. 
 Sadler, Arthur Wm. 
 Sadler, Monroe C. 
 Shelby, Homer T. 
 Shetterly, Benjamin E. 
 Shoemaker, James T. 
 Stalion, Marcus 
 Strop, Audi J. 
 Sylcox, William M. 
 Tatum, George 
 Thackston, Curtis 
 Thorn, Charles H. 
 Tippen, Roy E. 
 Tracer, Roy 
 Turner, Claude B. 
 Walker, Oscar 
 White, Marshall 
 Whitney, Alza N. 
 Wilkie, Millard F. 
 Wolff, Robert H. 
 Woolard, Earl 
 Yates, George W. 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 Kennett 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Fred Ordway W^ick- 
 ham 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Samuel T. Adams 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Ernest A. Shirley 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Lowe, James II. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Nierstheimer, John E. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Trout, George W. 
 
 Smith, Roy C. 
 
 Kersey, Bronie 
 
 Hall, Robert S. 
 
 Mead, Charles 
 
 Corporals : 
 
 McGuire, Albert 
 
 Benson, Hubert E. 
 
 Evans, Fred S. 
 
 Sparks, James Ralph 
 
 Ilusband, Lesley 
 
 Hollis, Ivy D. 
 
 Eatman, John 
 
 Webb, Dock T. 
 
 Snipes, Joseph Talbcrt 
 
 Riley, Earl 
 
 Pierce, Arch F. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Lewis, Loomis 
 
 Pool, James A. 
 INIechanic, 
 
 Stewart, William J. 
 
 Cooks : 
 
 Presnell, Avery 
 
 Ayers, Elbert H. 
 
 McAnally, John F. 
 Privates: 
 
 Adams, Andrew Jack- 
 son 
 
 Ball, Ira 
 
 Ball, Ollie 
 
 Beck, James W. 
 
 Best, Will 
 
 Bishop, Odie F. 
 
 Black, Ermur 
 
 Boner, Edward 
 
 Brewsaugh, Edwin O. 
 
 Brower, Fred 
 
 Burn's, Orvil 
 
304 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Cagle, James C. 
 
 Carlile, Franklin Jo- 
 seph 
 
 Clubb, Grover 
 
 Clubb, John 
 
 Crim, Arthur i\Iack 
 
 Culbertson, Marion V. 
 
 Darlington, Willie L. 
 
 Denam, Harvey E. 
 
 Dudley, Jesse 
 
 Dunnivan, Cecil 
 
 Eadon, Herbert 
 
 ElHott, Dolph G. 
 
 Forsyth e, Walter 
 
 Frederick, David C. 
 
 Frederick, Samuel R.. 
 
 Gabriel, William 
 Elmer 
 
 Green, Beausford 
 
 Hall, John F. 
 
 Hanks, Ackland Jr, 
 
 Hanks, Jacob 
 
 Hartsoe, Otho 
 Hatcher, William 
 
 Howard 
 Hicklin, Lee E. 
 Holbrooks, Henry H. 
 Jackson, Isaac 
 Jackson, Watson 
 Jones, Albert C. 
 Kersey, Vernon 
 Killian, Charles H. 
 King, Albert F. 
 King, Ed 
 
 Knight, Cecil Andrew 
 Lemonds, Luther A. 
 Mangold, Thomas O. 
 Masters, Jacob C. 
 Mead, Alva L. 
 Mizzell, Emerson 
 Mullins, Clarence 
 Neill, John A. 
 Nichols, Orvell 
 Noe, Eric 
 
 O'Bryant, James 
 Oiler, John W. 
 Owens, John W. 
 Peel, John R. 
 Perkins, Abraham 
 Pickett, Lin 
 Ray, Guy B. 
 Reese, Verhan 
 Sackman, Leonard 
 Shelton, Ernest A. 
 Smith, Leaman 
 Somer, Raymond 
 Stamps, Samuel S. 
 Starnes, Alfred 
 Suratt, Oscar 
 Taruce, James 
 Tharp, Roy E. 
 Tharp, William 
 Walker, Pearl 
 Walker, Prentis Nu- 
 
 ten 
 White, Dewey F. 
 Williams, Baxter 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Charles L- Malone 
 1st Lieutenant 
 
 Seth T. Reeder 
 2d Lieutenant 
 
 WilUam B. Malone 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Richardson, Albert 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Malone, John R. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Bryant, Ray 
 
 Ginger, Virgil 
 
 Greenwell, Alva R. 
 
 Caldwell, Elmo 
 
 Milhorn, Ed 
 
 Gill, Glover 
 
 Lawson, Harry E. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Wilkey, Wilburn R. 
 
 Norris, Wallace 
 
 Payne, EU 
 
 Blyalock, Will 
 
 Ryan, Therman 
 
 Fowler, Edgar T. 
 
 McCormack, Tim H. 
 
 Marshall, Arthur 
 
 Simpson, William F. 
 
 Cooks : 
 
 Marteau, Vivian 
 Venerable, Luther 
 James 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Armstrong, Will 
 
 COMPANY K 
 
 SiKESTON 
 
 Arnold, Herbert 
 Arnold, Louis 
 Bacon, William 
 Bailey, Van 
 Barnett, Charles J. 
 Beal, Eugene 
 Blake, Ray 
 Branch, Arthur 
 Brooks, Charles H. 
 Browning, Claude 
 Bruner, James 
 Cooley, Harry 
 Cora, Claiborn 
 Crosby, Mason 
 Davis, John B. 
 Dillard, Johnson H. 
 Dillon, Clarence 
 
 Dobbs, Albert 
 Dobbs, Henry 
 
 Duncan, Frank C. 
 
 Edwards, Arlie 
 
 English, Thomas J. 
 
 Ethridge, Harry 
 
 Gill, Elmer 
 
 Glover, Ale 
 
 Goodwin, Bill 
 
 Greer, Alfred 
 
 Greer, Robert 
 
 Haggard, William C. 
 
 Hampton, Homer 
 
 Harbison, Everett 
 
 Harbison, Norman 
 
 Harp, Alber 
 
 Henly, Otis 
 
 Hobbs. Ules 
 
 Hogan, Sam 
 Hoover, Frank 
 Howard, Earl 
 Hummel, John H. 
 Hunt, Albert R. 
 Hunt, Irwin R. 
 James, Farris 
 Jones, Ira 
 Knupp, Charles W. 
 Laster, James 
 Lenon, Otto 
 Lofton, Boyd 
 Loucks, Ben 
 Lowry, George 
 McCormick, Marshall 
 McLard, Laurence E- 
 Mainard, Charles A. 
 Mainard, Nood 
 Modglin, Lyndolph 
 
 W. 
 Monroe, Herschel 
 Nicols, Dewey 
 Odell, Raymond 
 O'SulHvan, Allen 
 Pack, Herbert M. 
 Potter, Curtis 
 Potts, William 
 Pullman, Frankie L. 
 
 L. 
 Reynolds, Lester 
 Robertson, Fred R. 
 Roper, Joseph 
 Stephens, Joseph L. 
 Talcott, Frank 
 Tidwell, Elbert B. 
 Timmons, Jesse 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
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 Toler, Claud T. 
 Vick, E:iiza 
 Vivrett, I/awrence 
 
 Walker, Orion 
 Wallace, IJarl 
 Walters, Wilson 
 
 Watson, John W. 
 Weaver, James 
 Wilson, John 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Wilson C. Bain 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Howard N, Frissell 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry W. Gaines 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Godart, James EJ. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Rodgers, Cleveland G. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Williams, William J. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Behymer, Benjamin 
 
 F. 
 Gibbs, Claibourne R. 
 
 Jr. 
 Husserrer, Vincent 
 Pride, Jack S. 
 Stack, George W. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Beckman, Robert L. 
 Blattner, Charles F., 
 
 Jr. 
 Gaines, Norman I. 
 Halter, Albert L. 
 Hayes, John F. 
 Hensley, George C. 
 Killough, Josephus J. 
 Nichol, Arthur P. 
 Summers, George C. 
 Wilson, Landon A. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Henley, Charles F. 
 Smith, Sylvester V. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Kimmich, Robert 
 Nevins, Lynn W. 
 Mechanics : 
 Fstes, Roland 
 Althenthal, Clarence 
 G. 
 
 COMPANY L 
 
 Cape Girardeau 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Baldwin, Angus F. 
 
 Baum, George D. 
 
 Bell, King 
 
 Boon, Lemmie 
 
 Bowman, James T. 
 
 Brown, John L,. 
 
 Campbell, William 
 
 Caraker, Horace 
 
 Chappius, Pierre L. 
 
 Clifford, Courtney 
 
 Cobb, Willie R. 
 
 Coleman, James M. 
 
 Copen, Lum 
 
 David, Moritz 
 
 Davidson, Wilton W. 
 
 Davis, John 
 
 Davis, Otto J. 
 
 Demon, Roy M. 
 
 Dillingham, James M. 
 
 Fades, Fred 
 
 Fndicott, Roma 
 
 Fornes, Benjamin B. 
 
 Funk, Walter C. 
 
 Geisner, Leo G. 
 
 Gerecke, Alvin W. 
 
 Glass, Walter 
 Glastetter, Martin 
 Hager, Frank 
 Hager, Harry H. 
 Henley, Archie 
 Hensley, James R. 
 Hitt, Lawrence A. 
 Hohler, Otto 
 Hohrer, William H. 
 Hopper, Raymond A. 
 Howard, George D. 
 Howard, Jesse 
 Hutchins, Roy L- 
 Hutchinson, Charles 
 
 F. 
 Jackson, Lawrence C. 
 
 Joernes, Clark A, 
 Jones, Dephonie 
 Jones, James P. 
 Jordan, Raymond 
 King, Roy 
 Koch, Joseph F. 
 Koch, Raymond 
 Long, James H. 
 McClellan, Jesse 
 McCormack, Thomas 
 McCormick, Fdd 
 McCormick, Walter 
 Messmer, Albert 
 
 Meyers, Clarence R. 
 
 Morse, William 
 
 Newlin, Lyles F. 
 
 Nolan, Roy S. 
 
 Oxford, William F. 
 
 Prance, Joseph W. 
 
 Puchbauer, Arthur 
 
 Rasico, Paul F- 
 
 Revelle, James 
 
 Rodgers, Harper H. 
 
 Rothrock, John C. 
 
 Smith, Arthur 
 
 Smith, George M. 
 
 Smith, Henry C. 
 
 Smith, Oscar 
 
 Smith, Shelby C. 
 
 Stedham, William H. 
 
 Sullivan, Marion 
 
 Sullivan, Samuel F. 
 
 Sutton, Charles D, 
 
 Sutton, John F. 
 
 Tarr, Joseph P. 
 
 Waldron, Charles 
 
 Walker, Birdie R. 
 
 Wallace, Guy F. 
 
 Walton, Carvel H. 
 
 Walton, Malcomb R. 
 Weimer, Harold 
 Williams, Curtis 
 Witzel, Herman 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Grant Davidson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Henry F. Black 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank M. Cox 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Rafferty, George F. 
 
 COMPANY M 
 Poplar Bluff 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Sutton, Walter Baird 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Moore, Arthur W. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Adams, Roscoe G. 
 
 Branch, Richard F. 
 
 Ferguson, Harry 
 
 Meadows, John T. 
 Prestage, Norman A, 
 Raulston, Athel A, 
 Tyner, George 
 Corporals : 
 
 Campbell, Farle 
 Carpenter, David 
 Clark, Columbus B. 
 
ao6 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Guentzel, Otto C. 
 
 Harrison, Harry C. 
 
 Kearbey, Robert 
 
 Kern, O. Oscar 
 
 Malone, Charles 
 
 Maynard, Dewey 
 
 Miller, Charles 
 
 Oswald, Claude 
 
 Overton, Charles 
 
 Parce, Oscar L. 
 
 Shaw, Lee 
 
 Taylor, Roy L. 
 
 Worley, Cleburn J. 
 
 Yocum, Alan 
 Cooks: 
 
 Angelo, Liverain 
 
 Purrine, HalHe O. 
 Bugrlers : 
 
 Henderson, Joseph M. 
 
 Neff, Leol M. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Ettinger, William L. 
 Privates : 
 
 Alexander, Barnie 
 
 Allsman, Jerry 
 
 Beard, Grover T. 
 
 Black, Ellsworth 
 
 Blazier, Clarence J. 
 
 Board, Curtis 
 
 Brantley, Felix J. 
 
 Britts, Ed L. 
 
 Burgin, Walter E. 
 
 Byrd, Alva 
 
 Carrol, James W. 
 
 Cates, James L. 
 
 Clark, Myrtie 
 
 Collier, Pearcey 
 
 Conley, Mike 
 
 Coonce, Lee Roy 
 
 Cown, Roy 
 
 Cudd, Willie 
 
 Darby, Fred W. 
 
 Davis, Earl 
 
 Davis, Golden 
 
 Dodson, Harvey E. 
 Dunning, Wayne G. 
 Eads, Lee 
 Edwards, Theo. R. 
 Ervin, Sherman W. 
 Ewing, William F. 
 Felkins, Earl 
 Fisher, Roy 
 Fowler, Jesse 
 Fowler, Roy E. 
 Gibbs, Edward 
 Glllin, Miles 
 Gillispie, Ola W. 
 Givens, Allen 
 Gower, William C. 
 Greer, Herbert 
 Guard, Hays 
 Harrington Charles 
 Hays, James 
 Higgenbotham, Earl 
 Hixson, Edward 
 Hobbs, William J. 
 Howell, Charlie 
 Ivey, Albert H. 
 Ivey, Allen B. 
 Ivey, John L. 
 Ivey, Richard F. 
 Irvin, George 
 Jennings, Corwin B. 
 Jett, Delpha 
 Jones, John F. 
 Kell, James Owen 
 Kellums, John 
 Kellums, Nottley 
 Killian, Gilbert 
 Killian, Theodore R. 
 Lampston, John 
 Langley, Charles J. 
 Lee, John 
 Lee, Richard F. 
 Loyd, Claud O. 
 McClintock, Claude 
 Mclver, Lawrence 
 Macom, Clarence 
 
 Mast, John 
 Mauk, Charles 
 Mauk, Claud 
 Mauk, Hiram, 
 Mayberry, Claude 
 Melton, Charles 
 Melton, Jesse 
 Mitchell, Earl 
 Murray, Walter 
 Owens, Howell 
 Parker, Arthur 
 Parker, Harvey W. 
 Phenix, Carl E. 
 Piatt, Jilson S. 
 Pipkin, Sidney 
 Reasons, James Brit- 
 ton 
 Redwine, Thomas 
 Rice, Orb 
 Rickman, Poley 
 Riggens, Spencer 
 Riggs, Dude 
 Risinger, Ralph 
 Roark, Jesse 
 RoUand, Truman 
 Rose, William R. 
 Ross, George A. 
 Scaggs, Lee Henry 
 Schnider, Lewis J. 
 Scott, Enoch 
 Sisk, William V. 
 Smith, Oliver P. 
 Sparman, William R. 
 Spencer, James 
 Summers, Ben H. 
 Thompson, Roy G. 
 Todd, Carl 
 Townsend. Jim 
 Walker, Roscoe 
 Waller, Tames E. 
 Webb, Henry 
 Wilburn, Oscar 
 Wofley. Sam 
 York, Lenard 
 
 SANITARY DETACHMENT 
 West Plains 
 
 Major, 
 
 Albert H. Thornburgh 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 George W. Phi'pps 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Francis G. Bond 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Ford A. Barnes 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Bohrer, Charles R. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Harlin, Amos R. 
 
 Dowler, Harold C. 
 
 Woods, Wilson Otto 
 Privates : 
 
 Bacon, Amiel E. 
 
 Bates, Don Arthur 
 Cagle, Lewis B. 
 Claxton, Henry C. 
 Crider, Albert F. 
 Edwards, Harry O. 
 Edwards, Roy B. 
 Floyd, Henry Oglesby 
 Galloway, Clark S. 
 Grimmett, Alfred 
 
 Benton 
 Groce, Dallas 
 Groce, Lawrence 
 Hornidy, George E. 
 Howell, Joe R. 
 Ingold, INIarion T. 
 Krause, J. Martin 
 
 Ludwig, Carl W. 
 Males, Earl 
 Mesara, Thomas W. 
 Morse, J. Alpha 
 Payne, Elza C. 
 Pottle, Ralph L. 
 Prater, Floyd R. 
 Reed, Orr M. 
 Robertson, Page D. 
 Royle, John Leemon 
 Sinclair, Edward P. 
 Turner, Jesse L. 
 Washington, George 
 
 S. 
 Williams, Webster W. 
 
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 307 
 
 FIEST SEPARATE COMPANY INFANTRY 
 Campbell, Mo. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Louis E. 
 Arendell, Cecil B. 
 Arnold, Benjamin F. 
 Arr, Olivia 
 
 Billington, Donnie M. 
 Bodine, Martin C. 
 Bradshaw, Clarence A. 
 Bratcher, Bernie 
 Bridges, Ambrose D. 
 Bridges, Thomas W. 
 Brooks, Charlie E. 
 Brooks, Lawrence W. 
 Brooks, Robert O. 
 Brown, Otis L. 
 Brown, Paul 
 Burchett, Thomas M. 
 Byrd, William L. 
 Carmack, Louis I. 
 Cleary, Grover C. 
 Cobb, Lawrence L. 
 Crawford, Charles W. 
 Crow, Homer L. 
 Curry, Homer 
 Detrie, Ambrose 
 Dunscomb, Elmer 
 Elliott, William L. 
 Ferguson, Willie L. 
 Flanagan, Van 
 Foster, Lonnie L. 
 Fry, Robert G. 
 Gardner, Harry 
 Gaultney, Ezra F. 
 Gehrig, Clarence D. 
 Goddard, Loyd 
 Gregory, Charles R. 
 Griffin, Herlie 
 Grimes, William F. 
 Hale, Charley 
 Flail, George R. 
 Hampton, Charley 
 
 Hardy, Dewey 
 Harper, Cecil B. 
 Harris, Arthur 
 Henderson, Eugene 
 Henderson, Thebus 
 Higdon, John L. 
 Hoggard, Odra B. 
 Hutchinson, Herman 
 
 H. 
 Hutchinson, William 
 
 D. 
 Johnson, Dewey L. 
 Jones, James A. 
 Joslin, Arthur C. 
 Kee, Arthur 
 Kee, Lonnie L. 
 Keller, Martin 
 Keown, Fred L. 
 Knight, Guy E. 
 Lacey, Hey L. 
 Lacy, William O. 
 Ladyman, William M. 
 Langley, Louis J. 
 Lape, Walter 
 Lawrence, Roy A. 
 Lemons, Charles 
 Lively, Ralph E- 
 Long, Henry J. 
 Lownsdale, Edgar 
 Lonsdale, William 
 Lunyon, Alfred J. 
 McCrackew, James O. 
 McElyea, Sammie A. 
 McGinnis, Floyd 
 McKenzie, Beecher 
 
 G. 
 Malone, George 
 Manning, Joseph H. 
 Meharg, John 
 Miller, Amon E. 
 Miller, George D. 
 
 Montcalm, Lavel L. 
 Montgomery, EHsha 
 Montgomery, John B. 
 O'Hare, Sidney 
 Osborne, John 
 Osborne, Walter G. 
 Patrick, William R. 
 Perkins, Charlie A. 
 Phillips, Jesse W. 
 Philpot, Paul P. 
 Phoenix, Oscar 
 Pipkin, Porter J. 
 Pleasant, Buren S. 
 Pleasant, Olin B. 
 Potts, George W. 
 Price, Roy 
 Pride, Gorda R. 
 Reed, William F. 
 Ricks, Ora R. 
 Ricks, Ray A. 
 Roberson, Willie 
 Seisms, Louis 
 Shepard, Fuller 
 Smith, Fred 
 Smith, Rush S. 
 Spink, John L. 
 Teel, Thomas E. 
 Tucker, Elmer 
 Tucker, William R. 
 Veteto, Irwin 
 Vincent, Delmer F. 
 Vinson, Jake 
 Vinyard, Clyde 
 Wallace, Otto 
 Watson, David D. 
 Weaker, Robinson C. 
 Weathers, Henry H. 
 Weeks, Jacob H. 
 White, Earl F. 
 Williams, James F. 
 Williams, Wylie L. 
 Wilson, Robert M. 
 
SECOND MISSOURI INFANTRY BRIGADE 
 
 Brigadier General 
 A. B. Donnelly, 
 Commanding 
 
 Major, ^^ _ . 
 William H. Cocke, 
 Adjutant 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 August M. Goesslmg, 
 Aide-de-Camp 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Robert A. Roblee, 
 
 Aide-de-Camp 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel, 
 Stephen E. Lowe, 
 Commanding 
 
 ""fcan B. Comfort 
 Major, 
 
 Joseph J. Loch 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Major, 
 
 John F. Car mack 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt , 
 
 Roland R. Reinholdt 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn Adjt., 
 
 Clarence W. Schnell 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt., 
 Charles A. Marquis 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Thomas D. Kennedy, 
 Chaplain. 
 
 HEADQUARTEES COMPANY 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain & Adjutant, 
 
 Harry K. Lyons 
 Rgt. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Bauer, Theodore 
 
 Bn. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Fellows, Harry O. 
 
 Bn. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Holland, Lynn H. 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Anderson, Robert 
 Color Sergeants:. 
 Bacon, Benjamin b. 
 Kohn, Sol 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Andres, Edward L. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Messmer, Albert 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Krechel, Henry Jr. 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Gross, William H, 
 Cooks: , ^ 
 
 Clymer, Richard 
 Parlin, Edison 
 Band Leader, 
 
 McClure, John H. 
 
 Asst. Band Leader 
 
 Manhart, Edward 
 Sergeant Bugler, 
 
 Wild, Walter J. 
 Band Sergeants: 
 
 Baker, Floyd 
 
 Homan, Fred 
 Band Corporals: 
 
 Benne, Harry F. 
 
 Heidbreder, Alphonse 
 
 Lindsay, Lev 
 Moore, Clayton ±1. 
 1st Class Musicians: 
 Gerard, Oliver 
 Sharp, Jackson W. 
 ''d Class Musicians: 
 Douglas, Alonzo E. 
 Heidbreder, Henry A. 
 Jacobs, Monroe 
 
 Miggs, George H. 
 3rd Class Musicians: 
 
 Berryman, Robert t,. 
 
 Durfee, George 
 
 Gerard, John B Jr. 
 
 Heim, Vernon b. 
 
 Kuellmer, Adolph 
 
 Lawder, Ray 
 
 308 
 
 McDonald, James B. 
 Manne, Max 
 Meehan, James f. 
 Pollak, Edward 
 Schrader, Gerald J. 
 Spargo, John W. 
 Tucker, WiUiam 
 1st Class Private 
 
 Pope, Walter C. 
 Privates: 
 
 Bartle, Eugene B. 
 
 Clover, John D. 
 
 Dyer, Gerald B. 
 
 Fetcher, Robert 1. 
 
 Florreich, Edward 
 
 Grosse, Fred K. 
 Hertwig, Carl 1. 
 Justice, Martin 
 Larson, Oscar W. 
 McCoy, Hugh P. 
 Morrow, Cresent ^. 
 O'Brien, Thomas J. 
 Ryan, Joseph M. 
 Schneeberger, Fred 
 
 C. 
 
 Woodruff, Lawrence 
 
 F. 
 
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 309 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Emmett H. Cocke 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Homer C. Venable 
 Rgt. Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Miller, Ira A. 
 Rgt. Supply Sergeant., 
 
 Amos, Earle H. 
 Rgt. Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Boemler, Augusta 11. 
 1st. Sergeant, 
 
 Krechel, Henry 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Meysenburg, Hugh K. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 King, John A. 
 Corporal, 
 
 Caldwell, Arthur II. 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Cook, 
 
 Peterson, Edward V. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Bailey, Thomas 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Redman, Russell R. 
 Wagoners: 
 
 Cadwallader, Carroll 
 
 Craig,' John J. 
 
 Dixon, Leroy C. 
 
 Donlon, Clarence 
 
 Edwards, George H. 
 
 Evans, Thomas H. 
 
 Gaffney, Frank J. 
 
 Grady, Patrick 
 
 Hagemeyer, Alfred M. 
 
 Hanson, Walter L. 
 
 Hart, Frank H. 
 
 Ilickey, John M. 
 Hickman, Clinton J. 
 Hines, Edward 
 Hoppe, Gu3 
 Jackson, Leslie 
 Kelly, Gus 
 Lajeuness, Batissc 
 Lajeuness, Joseph 1>. 
 Litchtenberg, Edwin F 
 Lofton, John M. 
 McMeanmy, George 
 
 M. 
 Mitchell, Joseph A. 
 O'Connell, Richard 
 Osborn, Kennett A. 
 Pribble, Sidney W. 
 Richard, Mat 
 Wallace, William J. 
 Woods, Anthony J. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John M. Holmes 
 1st Lieutnant, 
 
 Edward H. Price 
 2d Lieutenant,, 
 
 Otis E. Keough 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Donald H. Dunavant 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Bigaouette, Martin J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Barker, Arthur M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 West, Thomas F. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Schiebalj Leonard E. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Schuster, Georg A. 
 
 Harrison, Lee R., Jr. 
 
 McFarland, Frank R. 
 
 Schulze, Benedict 
 
 Marsch, Paul 
 
 Burt, Farlow 
 
 Jolley, Russell 
 Corporals: 
 
 Eliot, William C. 
 
 Beste, William H. 
 
 Matlack, Fred 
 
 Wright, Charles L. 
 
 Fields, Charles 
 
 Baumhoff, Frederick 
 W. 
 
 Bryan, Philip D. 
 
 Leavitt, David F. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Mogannam, George 
 
 Bilpush, George 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Beahan, Elmer A. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Moeller, Edward H. 
 
 Stevens, Floyd E. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Ryan, Francis X. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Eckert, Edward H. 
 
 Eddy, John J. Jr. 
 
 Gupton, Theodore 
 
 Grammer, Alva W. 
 
 Harkins, Ward R. 
 
 Shoultz, Dan M. 
 
 Singer, Isidor 
 
 Starke, Dick D. 
 
 Stratton^ Reus S. 
 
 Wagoner, Forrest J. 
 
 Zimmerman, Wesley 
 J. 
 Privates: 
 
 Barnett, Dennis 
 
 Barrett, Herbert J, 
 
 BehrenSj Ray R. 
 
 Blust, Julius 
 Blust, Milton J. 
 Brush, Gilmore A. 
 Chape, George D. 
 Connor, Elbert 
 Crane, Walter A. 
 Deering, John M. 
 Ferguson, Robert 
 Field, David I. 
 Foehrunger, Floyd E- 
 Fowler, Green C. 
 Fox, Walter W. 
 Gupton, William L. 
 Hatfield,. William P 
 Heim, Elmer L. 
 Hoerner, Julius H. 
 Horsefield, Russell J. 
 Hubenthal, Charles A 
 Hughes, Walt R. 
 Kaiser, William E. 
 Leyden, Edward P. 
 Lublock, Winans 
 Murphy, Robert E. 
 O'Brien,^ Gregory 
 Orr, Isaac C. 
 Pride, Howard D. 
 Rasp, Oliver E. 
 Reinholz, Walter B. 
 Robertson, Robert 
 Ronat, Arthur 
 Singleton, James R. 
 Stewart, Ray 
 Thompson, William F. 
 Weber, Maurice O. 
 Wilson, Shirley 
 
310 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 George W. Stewart 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 James L. D. Rodgers 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank D. C. Sullivan 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Abernathy, John W. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Burns, Roy P. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Jantzen, Leo L. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Heath, Clyde K. 
 
 Page, James T. 
 
 Hemke, Walter A. 
 
 Kammerer, Harry O. 
 
 Grodsky, Albert A. 
 
 Lockhart, Edward M. 
 
 Wilson, Ernest R. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Doherty, Francis J. 
 
 Mueller, Carl H. 
 
 Kurtzeborn, Edward 
 H. 
 
 McCommis, William 
 C. 
 
 Ryan, Leonard 
 
 Castles, Don F. 
 
 Greggerson, Horace 
 G. 
 
 Greggerson, Bennet 
 E. 
 
 Lloyd, Robert B. 
 
 Lloyd, Benjamin II. 
 
 Zimmer, Carl 
 
 Hilgemann, William 
 A. 
 
 Sparks, Richard O. 
 
 Hopkins, Lesley B. 
 
 Murphy, Joseph C. 
 
 Bertolino, Alexander 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Bein, Arthur 
 
 Hasse, Anthony C. 
 
 Knoll, Roy J. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Herr, Elmer P. 
 
 Tucker, Lloyd A. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Keithley, Howard 
 
 Pataky, Steve 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Allen, William H. 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Bennett, Clarence E- 
 Broadway, Basil P. 
 Bruce, George W. 
 Crawford, Samuel M. 
 Darby, Floyd R. 
 DeWitt, Richard W. 
 Ford, Francis 
 Frohn, Jake 
 Gilbers, Joseph 
 Hisserich, Charles H. 
 Horten, Bernard 
 Howland, Louis P. 
 Jopps, Charles 
 Karl, Frank J. 
 Kennedy, Michael J. 
 Kruk, Joseph 
 Mathews', Louis C. 
 Nelson, Eugene H. 
 Potter, Harry N. 
 Ritchey^ Burt 
 Roberts, Irl E. 
 Robinson, Harold F. 
 Sanders, Thomas R. 
 Sutter, Oscar 
 Vick, Lloyd H. 
 Wolff, Joseph 
 Privates: 
 
 Allen, Frank M. 
 Angermund, Frank J. 
 Ault, Walter W. 
 Baker, Reuben B. 
 Bishop, Henry C. 
 Blazek, Joseph 
 Boyd, John W. 
 Buren, Robert L. 
 Busher, Harry C. 
 Callahan, Sidney 
 Callaway, William D. 
 Carroll, Lawrence A. 
 Corrigan, Andrew B, 
 Courson, Ray F. 
 Daniel, Silas Q. 
 Davidson, Stewart 
 Davis, Cushman F. 
 DeWitt, Clark C. 
 DeWitt, Paul G. 
 Dickens, Thomas A. 
 Doherty, James H. 
 Eichenseer, Valentine 
 Eudaley, Harry N. 
 Evanger, George A. 
 Factor, Raymond J. 
 Furling, William 
 Garrett, Silas 
 Grayson, Ellis 
 Handing, Louis 
 Haneline, John 
 Harbaugh, William 
 
 Hargis, Thomas E. 
 Hawkins, Clarence E. 
 Hayes, Morris 
 Hepps, Carl C. 
 Holeman, Ed. S. P. 
 Jett, Oscar H, 
 Kable, Michael 
 Keating, Timothy A. 
 Keller, Jewell 
 Landon, Elmer M. 
 Lane, Sidney P. 
 Lubic, William S. 
 jMagnusson, Gustaf H. 
 Marks, James W. 
 Matthews, Stanley A. 
 Metcalfe, Robert G. 
 Meyer, Charles 
 Milhausen, Homer W. 
 Morgan, William G. 
 Morris, James E. 
 Musgrove, Charles A. 
 O'Connell, Oliver 
 Olson, Robert L. 
 Powers, Thomas J. 
 Reardon^ Steve 
 Robinson, Isaac D. 
 Rohlfing, Albert F. 
 Sachs, Charles 
 Sappington, Charles R. 
 Sawyer, John R. 
 Schlumberger, Robert 
 
 L. 
 Schmidt^ Otto P. 
 Schuler, Leslie E. 
 Short, Walter L. 
 Smith, Arthur M. 
 Snell, Richard W. 
 Spargo, William J. 
 Stackhouse, Leo E. 
 Stewart, Carl C. 
 Stires, Sylvester 
 Stone, John R. 
 SuUivaUj Fletcher E- 
 Summer, Charles TL 
 Toy, Harry C. 
 Van Valer, William 
 
 R. 
 Voelker, Claude F. 
 Wald, John P. 
 Wania, Stanley 
 Webster, Raymond R. 
 Welch, Carl E. 
 Wernicker, Fred J. 
 White, Roy 
 Williams, Talton 
 Wilson, Clarence 
 Woodson, Henry J. 
 Zousch, Alphonsus L. 
 
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 COMPANr B 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Frank R. Larrimore 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Samuel F, Merriam 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Edgar H. B. Loehr 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Brown, Joseph A. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Hemp, Joseph L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Petsch, Charles H. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Conklin, Chester T. 
 
 Bowman, Harry 
 
 Cox, William A. 
 
 Boyer, George H. 
 
 Fishwick, George \V. 
 
 Coulter, Robert L. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Pritz, Eric 
 
 Gardner, Alfred W. 
 
 Weinberg, Samuel 
 
 Swoboda, William O. 
 
 Held, William R. 
 
 Powers, Walter 
 
 Renter, Leslie 
 
 Knoll, Roy 
 
 Wilbur, East 
 
 McMahon, Joseph 
 
 Bewig, Robert 
 
 Connelly, Clement V. 
 
 Williams, Jesse J. 
 
 Crabtree^ Chester D. 
 
 Crabtree, Jennings D, 
 
 Higgins, John F. Jr. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Schultz, William L. 
 
 Hively, Albert W. 
 
 York, Claude M. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Davidson, Lee R. 
 
 Harris, Samuel D. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Barker, Ben F. 
 
 Gayeski, Theodore E- 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Candola, Frank 
 
 Cox, Dean G. 
 
 Cunningham, James 
 H. 
 
 Darr. Charles W. 
 
 Friederiche, Julius O. 
 
 Fromm, Victor A. 
 
 Hoskinson, Buell E. 
 
 Kenealy, John F. 
 Kent, Earl M. 
 Kramer, Lester W. 
 Loehr, George A. 
 Moylan, William P. 
 McFatridge, Robert 
 
 R. 
 O'Neill, Henry N. 
 Robertson, Laurie B. 
 Sprague, George M. 
 Stiritz, Walter J. 
 Willis, Leo F. 
 Young, Lucilius A. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Adams, Leslie E. 
 Ambrose, George L. 
 Andrus, Leonard B. 
 Atwood, Edward 
 Boyd, Thomas W. 
 Brady, Francis X. 
 Bradshaw, Harry E. 
 Brown, Harry E. 
 Browne, John L. 
 Buchanan, Loy 
 Buddie, William E. 
 Carter, Rolla F. 
 Chew, Richard F. 
 Collart, John A. 
 Constantino, John 
 Cord, Jesse O. 
 Cox, Roy E. 
 Curvin, Charles L. 
 Dailey, Joseph P. 
 Dickson, Bennett T. 
 Dotson, Robert 
 Elder, Hugh A. 
 Elkins, Cyrus R. 
 Elvin, Perry A. 
 Faina, Francis V. 
 Fink, Eddie 
 Fink, Tony 
 Fore, Robert S. 
 Gillespie, William F. 
 Gould, Samuel H. 
 Gramlich, Charles B. 
 Green, Frank 
 Gregory, Sylvester S. 
 Grotpeter, Stephen J. 
 Hall, Matthew W. 
 Hamtil, John F. 
 Harper, Albert E. 
 Hazelwood, Cyan F. 
 Hefley, William T. 
 Herrell, Raymond 
 Jones, Paul F. 
 Kaddell, Paul F. 
 Keane, James 
 Klepper, James M. 
 
 Kopp, Herman 
 Krause, Joseph 
 Koger, Harry 
 Lagana, John R. 
 Leavitt, Samuel R. 
 Lorts, Austin W. 
 Luback, John 
 McCutcheon, John A. 
 McDowell, William 
 
 L. 
 Mallard, Leo J. 
 Mead, William E. 
 Mercer, John 
 Mercer, William C. 
 Miley, Jesse R. 
 Miller, Charles 
 Moore, Ralph J. 
 Nay, Murle D, 
 Nitschki, Charles 11. 
 Nolen, John L. 
 O'Connor, Merrill S. 
 O'Malley, Walter 
 Parker, Richard D. 
 
 Pennifold, George E. 
 
 Poison, Roy S. 
 
 Pressley; Clarence 
 
 Priebe, Walter L. 
 
 Ritchey, Everett 
 
 Robertson, Harold C. 
 
 Roe, Forest L. 
 
 Rogers, Paul M. 
 
 Rushton, Frank C. 
 
 Sandfelder, Max 
 
 Scott, Frank E. 
 
 Schmidt, Philip H. 
 
 Schnur, William J. 
 
 Sexton, Clarence F. 
 
 Short, Harlan 
 
 Silverstein, Max 
 
 Skelton, Joseph 
 
 Snow, Edgar 
 
 Steinkamper, Harry 
 W. 
 
 Steele, Roy E. 
 
 Stein, August H. 
 
 Stephens, William A. 
 
 Stone, Riley 
 
 Strader, Harvey E. 
 
 Sullivan, Pearl 
 
 Swift, Raymond T. 
 
 Tungate, Charles 
 
 Van Schoelandt, Fred 
 W. 
 
 Vaughn, Thad 
 
 Willoughby, George 
 P. 
 
 Wills, Robert H. 
 
 Wright, Charles E. 
 
312 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Thomas A. Dooley. Jr. 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William S. Robinson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Walter F. Vieh 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Schulz, William F. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Donnell, Warren E, 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Derbes, Ralph 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Kiely, Ralph J. 
 
 Smith, Christopher 
 
 McCarl, Elmer H. 
 
 Shannon, Hugh P. 
 
 Williams, Edgar J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Cox, John B. 
 
 Corn, Elmer 
 
 Scott, Archie D. 
 
 Klein, John M. 
 
 Plummer, Thomas H. 
 
 Haverstick, Walter W. 
 
 McAnally, Samuel W. 
 
 Goff, David D. 
 
 Woolievor, William A. 
 
 Flori, Oscar A. 
 
 Harkey, George 
 
 Stephens, Gradon L. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Duncan, Wilbern 
 
 Skinner, James W. Jr. 
 
 Falter, Gustav A. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Omohundro, Ralph 
 A. 
 
 Durham^ Clarence 
 Buglers: 
 
 Smith, James A. 
 
 Hill, Richard K. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Birke, Thomas 
 
 Carey, John W. Jr. 
 
 Grimm, John C. 
 
 King, Nelson A. 
 
 Lewis, John R, 
 
 Links, John A. 
 
 Rudroff, John C. 
 Privates: 
 
 Ahner, Arthur A. 
 
 Allen, Olin C. 
 
 COMPANY C 
 St. Louis 
 
 Allen, Theodore 
 Andert, 'Thomas E. 
 Baker, James 
 Bartlett, Wm. P. 
 Baum, William T. 
 Behrmari, August M. 
 Bender, Walter W. 
 Bogie, John E. 
 Brueggeman, Fred A. 
 Brueggman, William 
 
 F. 
 Butler, James J. 
 Cahill, John S. 
 Campbell, Charles 
 Carione, Anthony 
 Clayton, William P. 
 Cooper, Henry C. 
 Crean, Andrew J. 
 Dodd, Homer B. 
 Dodson, Clarence G. 
 Dunajcik, Martin 
 Durham. John T. 
 Eaton, Herman E. 
 Elfgen, Joseph L. 
 Falter, Elmer G. 
 Ferry, Alpha P. 
 Follette, Darwin M. 
 Frentzel, Paul J. 
 Geatley, John C. 
 Gelbach, Herbert 
 GillespiCj David W, 
 Goebel, George 
 Green, Thomas 
 Grimm, Michael 
 Gunither, Luther A. 
 Haley, Alfred B. 
 Ham, Frank C. 
 Higgins, Thomas M. 
 Hillier, Frederick H. 
 Hook, Louis 
 Hopson, John C. 
 Huck, George C. 
 Husley, Harry G. 
 Hunter, Wayne T. 
 ■Jackson, Raymond 
 Johnson,. James L. 
 Kaiser, Harry D. 
 Kanem, Joseph 
 Kirsch, Leon P. 
 Kizer, Louis E- 
 Kopsco, John 
 Krebs, Otto H. 
 Krepps, Bryan J. 
 
 Kuhlage, Vincent G. 
 Leffingwell, Marion D. 
 Leonard, Wilbur 
 Lewis, Clarence L. 
 Linden, Robert 
 McCarthy, John 
 McGee, Edward 
 McLean, Harry E. 
 McMahon, Henry 
 Malley, Alexander J. 
 Maxwellj Edward J. 
 Meckein, Charles A. 
 Mellick, Louis J. 
 Mohen, Edward F. 
 Mulkey, Max 
 Mulkey, Von 
 Munger, Eugene M. 
 Munroe, Scott 
 Nesselhauf, Gregory 
 
 P. 
 O'Hearne, Walter G. 
 Otte, Adolph W. 
 Palmer, Perry W. 
 Petty, Maurice E. 
 Price, Thomas 
 Pronsketes, Dominkas 
 Pruski, Walter 
 Quigley, Edward J. 
 Reese, Julius 
 Reining,. Edward 
 Richardson, George L. 
 Richardson, Harold A. 
 Roberts, Doma R. 
 Roderick, Percy E. 
 Roosken, William J. 
 Ruwe, Arthur H. 
 Schmittj Valentine 
 Schmitz, Ferdinand A. 
 Schneider, August J. 
 Sidman, Conway J. 
 Smith, Elmer 
 Strauss, Samuel J. 
 Tapscott, George C. 
 Tuma, William 
 VinchicK, Toma 
 Vlasak, Charles W. 
 Vrydage, Joseph 
 Ward, Eugene W. 
 Warner, Charles 
 Weiner, Frank J. 
 Woodman, Harry 
 Wyatt, Howard C. 
 Zeigler, James J. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Gunther Meier 
 
 COMPANY D. 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 George A. Bilsbarrow 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 George H. W. Rausch- 
 kolb 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 313 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 May, Beverly D. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Youngerman, Guy A. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Stucker, Frank 
 Sergeants: 
 
 MacMellon, Harry 
 
 Jones, Frank X. 
 
 Coflf, Edward J. 
 
 Cosgrove, John D. 
 
 Wehrenberg, Harry I^. 
 
 Little, Charles M. 
 
 Travis, Robert. F. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Fbling, Raymond C. 
 
 Fulgham, Thomas 
 
 Fagan, Raymond 
 
 Kugler, Rudolph 
 
 Albert, Chester 
 
 Gruner, John K. 
 
 Galvin, James J. 
 
 Mathews, Joseph T. 
 
 Myers, Eugene J. 
 
 Rinehart, Sam L. 
 
 Ackerman, Christie 
 
 Chilton, John A. 
 
 Gribble, John K. 
 
 Motts, Gus 
 
 Hill, Charles D, 
 Cooks: 
 
 Dixon, Harry I. 
 
 Jones, George W. 
 
 Lewis, Walter 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Franklin, Harry I. 
 
 Braunbeck, George F,. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Kilpatrick, Joseph 
 
 Laspe, Carl A. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Berresheim, Robert B. 
 F. 
 
 Brem, Roy F. 
 
 Childress, John D. 
 
 Fsphorst, George H. 
 
 Little, Wallace 
 
 Mockler^ William 
 
 Neis, Walter 
 
 Petering, Wm. H. 
 
 Pfeiffer, Martin G. 
 
 Porter, Charles I. 
 
 SchremR, Eugene J. 
 
 Simmons, Grant L. 
 Snider, James F. 
 Spencer, Irving G. 
 Todd, Clarence J. 
 Privates: 
 
 Adams, John Q. 
 Addison, Lyman M. 
 Allen, Daniel A. 
 Albus, Claude L. 
 Anderson, Malcolm 
 Badock, George 
 Benson, Richard C. 
 Bettag, John 
 Bierman, Henry E. 
 Blaylock, Richard 
 Brand, John H. 
 Bruer, Otis F. 
 Brown, William E. 
 Burns, Victor L. 
 Burnside, John T. 
 Caperhart, Herman D. 
 Charboneau, Leroy L. 
 Craine, Earnest D. 
 Dalberg, Rudolph L- 
 Davidson, James F. 
 DeHay, Grover C. 
 Denny, Everett B. 
 Dillman, Simmy 
 Dwan, Joseph P. 
 Eads, Jesse J. 
 Eberhart, Frank 
 Elmore, John F, 
 Elmore, William T. 
 England, James Arthur 
 Ferguson, Carl H. 
 Findley, William 
 Finney, Thomas 
 Freeman, William J. 
 
 B. 
 Gibson, John M. 
 Gififen, Fred 
 Gimpel, Charles E. 
 Glover, Fred A. 
 Goodrich, Dick D. 
 Harder, Roy 
 Hart, Elmer 
 Hart, William 
 Hausman, Walter 
 Hawkins, Charles F. 
 Hawkins, Lonnie 
 Hill, Preston J. 
 Holt, Newman 
 Hood, Orville A. 
 Hultquist, John W. 
 
 Huskey, Amiel A. 
 
 Johnson^ Everett 
 
 Karch, Elmer 
 
 Kitchen, Herman W. 
 
 Kriegbaum, Louis E. 
 
 Kronenberger, Rich- 
 ard J. 
 
 Lamoriaux, Harry 
 
 Ledbetter, Edward 
 
 Ledbetter, Luther 
 
 Long, Edward L. 
 
 Long, Roscoe 
 
 Lovelace, William E. 
 
 McColpin, Floyd 
 
 McCoy, James F. 
 
 Mclnerney, Michael 
 T. 
 
 Magnusson, George E- 
 
 Manus, Herrol J. 
 
 Martin, Walter J. 
 
 Medler, Tom 
 
 Meredith, Roy F. 
 
 Miller, Guy 
 
 Oburn, Albert R. 
 
 Oliver, John 
 
 Patton, William F, 
 
 Rabe, Henry E. 
 
 Reichelt, Arnold G. 
 
 Reser, Alfred W. 
 
 Ruckman Rupert R. 
 
 Rushing, Joe 
 
 Sabo, John 
 
 Schute, William L. 
 
 Scott, John H. 
 
 Shoemaker, John 
 
 Smiley, Samuel L. 
 
 Souders, Charles A. 
 
 Stagner, Andrew A. 
 
 Stanley, Warren P. 
 
 Strange, Russell E. 
 
 Talbot, Hale E. 
 
 Talghadar, Edward 
 
 Taylor, Victor 
 
 Walk, Paul 
 
 Walters, William W. 
 
 Warnhoff, Edward H. 
 
 WarnhofF, Herman C. 
 
 Wilcox, John G. Jr. 
 
 Wiley, Albert L 
 
 Wood, William J. 
 
 Wyatt, Raymond A. 
 
 Yates, William A. 
 
 Young, Joseph L. 
 
 Zimmerman, George 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Clarence J. Sodemann 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 James A. Kinsella 
 
 COMPANY E 
 St. Louis 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Vernon McC. Parkin- 
 son 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Sears, Gradwell L. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 Koen, Ross M. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 LaPage, Albert L. 
 
314 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Flood, Joseph P. 
 
 McCorkle, Carroll G. 
 
 Hartmann, Edward A. 
 
 Helmar, Frank G. 
 
 Cortright, Ralph E. 
 
 Bates, Percy J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Meier, Herbert C. 
 
 Shockley, Hal 
 
 Pfeifer, Walter O. E. 
 
 Svatek, Martin J. 
 
 Dunsford, Clarence C. 
 
 Maune, Martin 
 
 Saucier, Benjamin H. 
 
 Kirby, Alonzo L. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Ford, Frank 
 
 Cammi, Bartolo W. 
 
 Zack, George 
 Buglers: 
 
 Gallagher, John E- 
 
 Thomas, Henry P. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Spain, Leon 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Beard, Clifford A. 
 
 Boyer, James A. 
 
 Brooks, Norman E. 
 
 Fitzgerald, Joseph 
 
 Hecke, Louis 
 
 Merkle, Clarence J. 
 
 Mullins, Cornelius A. 
 
 Quasegarth, Edmund 
 A. 
 
 Senn, Thomas 
 
 Servan, Richard 
 
 Sutton, Gilbert L. 
 
 Wilson, Harry 
 
 Withers^ Gilbert 
 
 Yeager, Beeman C. 
 Privates: 
 
 Armstrong, Albert 
 
 Auller, Henry 
 
 Barth, Edward O. 
 
 Boerschig, George F, 
 
 Bennett, Herman 
 
 Borman, Joseph 
 
 Bourisaw, Joseph E. 
 
 Bowen, Stanley 
 Bozarth, Emery E. 
 Brown, Joseph 
 Buchanan, Thomas K, 
 Butler, Edward E. 
 Cardwell, Carbette L. 
 Chapman, Russell A. 
 Coleman, Joseph B, 
 Cordia, Michael 
 Gushing, Clarence C. 
 Cutteridge, Albert 
 Cop eland, Ridley 
 Daniel, Edward E. 
 Daugherty, Thomas T. 
 Doyle, George E. 
 Enge, Michael 
 Ferrell, John E. 
 Flynn, Vivian A. 
 Gaskill, Cleve R. 
 Gilgenberg, Frank O. 
 Goebbels, Harry P. 
 Gorman, Noah V. 
 Gorman, Warren P. 
 Graham, Louisious P. 
 Greenstreet, Clarence 
 
 A. 
 Gripp, Robert 
 Gruenewald, Otto 
 Godat, Louis H. 
 Hall, Elmer E. 
 Hane, Hubert H. 
 Hansel, Virgil M. 
 Hare, Arthur P. 
 Hart, Edward G. 
 Heltzel, John J. 
 Herlits, Andrew A. 
 Hill, Harry C 
 Hill, Thomas D. 
 Hippler, Lawrence C. 
 Holtsclaw, Fred 
 Holtsclaw, William C. 
 Horton, Norman B. 
 Houston, Glenn 
 Huebner, Louis A. 
 Jones, Arthur W. 
 Joseph, John S. 
 Juzcek, Ostap 
 Jeude, Lawrence F. 
 Kleykamp, Victor E. 
 Kraleman, Henry P. 
 Krewinkel, Joseph L- 
 
 Leach, Edgar F. 
 Lvsakowski, Albert 
 
 'Reid 
 McCauley, Andrew J. 
 McKenna, William 
 McMahon, John J. 
 Marlin, Marion H. 
 Mayfield, Fred 
 Mayhill, Melville M. 
 Maupin, Henry E. 
 Meier, Clarence T. 
 Meinhardt, John M. 
 Miles, Robert D. 
 Miller, George W. 
 Miller, Lloyd E. 
 Moon, Lacy R. 
 Moore, John P. 
 Norris, Clifford O. 
 Peabody, Sterling M. 
 Peper, Edward 
 Peters, Henry W. 
 Price, Edward O. 
 Pruitt, Robert F. 
 Plouder, Henry H. 
 Polette, Daley 
 Quasebarth, Norman 
 Reid, Reinzie B. 
 Roper, Irwin C. 
 Rose, Virgil 
 Russell, James R. 
 Sacer, Max 
 Sartori, John 
 Saucier, Charles C. 
 Schatzman, Lawrence 
 
 L. 
 Schaper, Frank A. 
 Schilling, Janies S. 
 Scale, Louis 
 Spieler, Arthur L. 
 Stroupe, William L. 
 Stubbs, Jesse J. 
 Teeter, Allen R. 
 Teeter, James H. 
 Thomas, Edwin H. 
 Veal, James Wesley 
 Visnewsky, Cestaw 
 Weineke, John W. 
 Williams, Arthur H. 
 Wimmer, William 
 Withers^ Oscar L. 
 Zeiser, William 
 
 COMPANY F 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Edwin M. Todd 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Fred W. Forgus 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 John R. Moll 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 Schmidt, Irvin 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 Sherrel, Charles 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Krudop, Harry J. 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Birch, John L. 
 Hogrebe, Amor C. 
 Weatherby, James IT. 
 Ilorack," Edmund \\'. 
 McNulty, Joseph J. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 315 
 
 Lanning, Livingston 
 
 Long, Herman A. 
 Corporals: 
 
 McCall, Frank E. 
 
 Warren, Clyde C. 
 
 Olson, Charles 
 
 Dann, Erwin L. 
 
 Lohkamp, Charles W. 
 
 Richards, Paul J. 
 
 Pool, Martin B. 
 
 Ousley, Harold P. 
 
 Davis, Clifford L. 
 
 Smith, Coit A. 
 
 Smith, Malcolm W. 
 
 Rogers, Joseph Earl 
 
 Brooks, Harris 
 
 Hunter, Eugene 
 Cooks: 
 
 Kastner, Julius 
 
 Hammond, Osborne 
 McK. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Coff, Joseph J. 
 
 Sterloenz, Frederick 
 H. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 McCombs, Sherman B. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Allen, Jack B. 
 
 Anderson, William 
 H. 
 
 Bauman, Samuel I. 
 
 Ehlers, Arthur H. 
 
 Elrod, Frank 
 
 Fairchild, Fred T. 
 
 Finkiewiez, John 
 
 Forgus, Lawrence D. 
 
 Goodman, Harry 
 
 Hopkins, William 
 
 Jones, Owen L. 
 
 Meinberg, Edwin J. 
 
 Mueller, Fred H. 
 
 Nicholas, William 
 
 Peters, Albert 
 
 Roth, Charles J. 
 
 Schomburg, Otto J. 
 
 Theiss, John C. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Albes, Henry T. 
 Akiki, Joseph A. 
 Bailey, John 
 Baker, Glenn H. 
 Basden, Glenn 
 Batts, Joseph 
 Beaver, Daniel B. 
 Beaver, Isaac A. 
 Bentley, George C. 
 Bergerson, Arthur H. 
 Boerner, Oliver L. 
 Boland, Mathew J. 
 Branson, David J. 
 Brookes, William S. 
 Butcher, Fred C. 
 Capra, John 
 Chasnick, Frank 
 Chenot, August S. 
 Clendenin, John H. 
 Cockrell, Arthur R. 
 Dalei, Tony 
 Davis, Thomas 
 Davis, Walter C. 
 Dekorsky, Antony 
 Diardano, Joe 
 Dubach, Roy 
 Eddington, Edgar R. 
 Francis, William J. 
 Gibbs, Guy S. 
 Griffith, Ralph W. 
 Gremmer, Leroy P. 
 Haile, James G. 
 Hall, Claude A. 
 Hanna, Gyrias 
 Harmon, Fred A. 
 Hollerback, John 
 Holzhauser, Anton 
 Homann, Rudolph H. 
 Jackson, Floyd W. 
 Kamper, Russell F. 
 Kehoe, Charles 
 Kennway, Thomas E. 
 King, Louis W. 
 Lacey, Wilbur G. 
 Lambert, Myron F. 
 
 McCafferty, Russell 
 
 L. 
 McDaniel, Francis C. 
 McDonnell, Joseph M. 
 McKeen, Louis 
 McVicar, Harold L. 
 Masterson, Leo M. 
 Mayes, Kenneth 
 Michael, Wilbur E. 
 Mobarak, Najab B. 
 Moresi, Joseph 
 Morley, Frank J. 
 Murphy, Henry C. 
 Myers, William Fuller 
 
 Jr. 
 Newberry, Ivan E. 
 Nitzche, William W. 
 O'Brien, Charles 
 Oglesby, Charles E. 
 Ousley, Glenn C. 
 Palmer, Samuel E. 
 Rabbitt, Robert E. 
 Rainey, Forrest 
 Rausch, John 
 Ronsiek, Henry B. 
 Russell, Loy 
 Rymer, Charles B. 
 Sanker, Louis 
 Satterfield, Duerall C. 
 Savage, David H. 
 Scott, Cornelius F. 
 Schaffer, Bernard A. 
 Seaver, William C. 
 Sheppard, Edward L. 
 Shrewsbury, Rannie 
 
 B. 
 Smith, Walter R. 
 Stubbs, James O. 
 Tillman, William M. 
 Tracy, Alonzo 
 Walsh, Sterling 
 Walsh, Joseph T. 
 Ward, Albert McD. 
 Weddle, Arthur 
 Zagib, George F. 
 Zagibo, Nakly T. 
 Ziegler, Clarence C. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Harry E. Sugden 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry Koetting 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 George P, Kohlberg, 
 Jr. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 John, George C. 
 Aless Sergeant, 
 
 Schoeppl, John 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Seeger. Phillip J. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Nesselhauf, Frank J. 
 
 Allen, Charles B. 
 
 Haller, William T. 
 
 Reynolds, William J. 
 
 Ruby, Patrick H. 
 Corporals: 
 
 O'Neal, Franklin E. C. 
 
 Wilkerson, Richard J. 
 
 Heck, Karl G. 
 Hein, George P. 
 Haemerle, Albert J. 
 Brown, Herbert 
 Meyer, Walter F. 
 Horvath, Gus 
 Cooper, William W. 
 Cuddy, Nelson D. 
 Johnson, Edward O. 
 Kruse, Karl 
 Runge, William F. 
 
316 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Cooks : 
 
 Hans, William E;. 
 
 Klenke, Owen L. 
 
 Wilhelm, Lawrence 
 Buglers: 
 
 Havens, James W. 
 
 Wakeland, i^dward F. 
 ]\Iechanics : 
 
 Lewis, Edwin H. 
 
 McMasters, Theodore 
 H. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Edward R. 
 
 Bergmann, Wilbur 
 
 Bidlingmeier, Oliver 
 
 Bohrmann, Elmer J. 
 Brown, Charles 
 Brumley, Richard H. 
 Cooke, Frederick V. 
 
 P. 
 Elliott, Ira N. 
 Ellwood, Cecil J. 
 Eyerkuss, Fred F. 
 Gash, Percy M. 
 Hewitt, John E. 
 Klasing, Mathew C. 
 Lehr, John M. 
 Manheimer, Hughes 
 
 Pfeil, Walter R. 
 Rives, Lee J. 
 Roy, Henry T. 
 Saling, Thomas W. 
 Sanguinette, Lloyd D. 
 Sauer, Nick W. 
 Stewart, Alonzo B. 
 Stone, Richard L. 
 Wakeland, Richard H. 
 Wallace, Charles B. 
 Willman, Oliver J. 
 Privates: 
 
 Andrews, James P. 
 
 Archer, George W. 
 Archer, Raymond W. 
 Baluka, Alfred 
 Becker, Charles A. 
 Benz, Walter E. 
 Berlin, Clay 
 Biggs, Fred A. 
 Bohrmann, Louis 
 Carver, George W. 
 Casciani, Joseph F. 
 Charles, Edward T. 
 Claiborne, Henry M. 
 Craycroft, Arthur W. 
 Dean, Perry ti. 
 Dekum, Joseph F. 
 Dicken, Isham S. 
 Dodge, Gordon M. 
 Dounell, Murray W. 
 Dreyer, Wesley P. 
 Dunivin, Arthur B. 
 Ecker, Irving J. 
 Edgar, Charles M. 
 Edgar, William Z. 
 Ely, Charles E. 
 Faccaro, Joseph 
 Farris, Gilbert T. 
 Ferguson, George W. 
 Fielder, Phillip W. 
 Flynn, Richard B. 
 Foster, Walter W. 
 Fowler. William R. 
 Golden, Raymond T. 
 Gray, William D. 
 Haenny, Tony P. 
 Hawkins, Billie 
 Hogan, William J. 
 Hope, Norton C. 
 Illsen, Walter R. 
 Immell, Earl R. 
 Ireland, Elmer 
 James, Alphonso 
 James, Charles L. 
 
 Jeffries, Edwin H. 
 Jones, Harry N. 
 Jones, John R. 
 King, John J. 
 Kretschmar, Oscar R. 
 Kuessner, Carl J. 
 Lem, Ralph P. 
 Lewis, George F. 
 Londe, Sam 
 Lundstrom, Ray 
 Malley, Coney 
 Meyer, Richard 
 ^lilsted, Harry S. 
 Moore, William 
 Neil, Ralph 
 O'Brien, Edward S. 
 Padgett, James E- 
 Patterson, Everett 
 Petrie, Lafayette E. 
 Preiss, Edward H. 
 Quick, Oscar L. 
 Reid, George 
 Reynolds, Archie F. 
 Richard, Getth 
 Ripley, Fred A. 
 Runge, Raymond 
 Schuler, John 
 Scott, Fred M. 
 Shelton, George W. 
 Siemer, John F. 
 Smith, Clyde 
 Smith, Felix Hill 
 Spiess, Charles 
 Taylor, Virgil 
 Vontocci, John 
 Wahl, Milton J. 
 Ward, August 
 Webb, Vincent P. 
 Whited, Alvin 
 Wilhelm, Stanley W. 
 Wilson, Mark 
 Worrell, William L. 
 Yount, Romie A. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James M. McMahon 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William J. McMahon 
 1st Sergeant 
 
 Schwarz, Paul S. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Newman, Charles E. 
 
 Kountz, Leo R. 
 
 Wolfe, Walter K. 
 
 Schroeder, Arden 
 
 Coughlin, Edward 
 
 Gerber, Edward 
 
 Mues, John C. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Schlereth, Walter E. 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Messmer, Mathew N. 
 Wyne, Henry M. 
 Petri, Roy R. 
 Errett, Peter G. 
 Von Land, George O. 
 Davis, Frank R. 
 Burke, John 
 Diebling, George J. 
 Cornell, George E. 
 Herman, Nicholas N. 
 Varwig, William H. 
 Croft, George H. 
 Woodall, Roland H. 
 Siekman, Harold H. 
 Buchanan, Roland W. 
 Edwards, George 
 
 Cooks : 
 
 Kriner, Edward 
 
 Ponce, John C. 
 
 Genrich, Henry H. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Barbee, David B. 
 
 Steffens, Henry E. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Corcoran, Andrew J. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Ashley, Wilbur 
 
 Ball, Walter B. 
 
 Benz, George 
 
 Bloom, Philip McGee 
 
 Boehm, Nevitt 
 
 Burch, Anthony W. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 317 
 
 Carroll, Roland 
 Kdwards, Arthur J. 
 Grupe, ijlmer IC. 
 Hengesbach, Frank 
 Hesser, Albert J. 
 Keelan, James 
 Kummer, Julius John 
 lyight, Clarence 
 Montrey, Henry M. 
 Schad, John 
 Voisen, William J. 
 Webb, Harry E. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, Asa J, 
 Arnold, Edward 
 Basinger, Cecil S. 
 Bryant, Melvin F. 
 Bunk, Myles W, 
 Burns, Samuel 
 Cameron, Joshe N. 
 Carroll, Leo J. 
 Carroll, Omar 
 Cleaver, Virgil 
 Conway, John 
 Cooper, James R. 
 Coudy, Seward 
 Crader, Slocum 
 Curry, Ernest C. 
 Danklef, Herman 
 Davis, George C. 
 Deaton, Illo M. 
 De Suza, John Robert 
 Dineen, Dennie E. 
 Dorr, Fred M. 
 Edwards, Frederick 
 L. 
 
 Eek, Landen 
 Emerick, Lee W, 
 England, John 
 Flora, Forrest W. 
 Forsythe, Hugh W. 
 Frommelt, William A. 
 Gates, Rietman C. 
 Grant, Alva B. 
 Gunn, Albert O. 
 Hallemann, Joseph 
 Hammett, James A. 
 Hand, William 
 Harness, Roy 
 Harrison, Fred H, 
 Harrison, Herman W. 
 Heboid, Walter P. 
 Heiken, Harry 
 Hill, Walter L. 
 Houze, Harry J. 
 Hughes, Edward 
 Hunsaker, Oscar 
 Hunt, David 
 Jaycox, Fred M. 
 Johansson, Otto A. 
 Jones, Edward M, 
 Jones, William T. 
 Keegan, Raymond P. 
 Laird, Fred L. 
 Leamy, Thomas J, 
 McKay, James J. 
 Martin, Richard H. 
 Mayer, Andrew A. 
 O'Rouke, Arnold 
 O'Rouke, Robert 
 Portell, Myrl G. 
 
 Ratz, Raymond ). 
 Reilly, Peter 
 Reinagel, Eugene H. 
 Reynolds, Joseph 
 Ridgway, Edward C. 
 Roberts, William L. 
 Rohbacher, Peter 
 Rounie, Holly 
 Russell, Walter 
 Rutherford, Edward 
 Sapp, Bennett B. 
 Sapp, Hobart 
 Schrader, Edward 
 Schulze, Gregory E. 
 Series, Lewis O. 
 Sevier, William F. 
 Shaefer, Walter Lee 
 Shawgo, Scott D. 
 Smith, Rob 
 Spoenermann, Her- 
 man 
 StefiF, Augustus E. 
 Stevens, Anthony 
 Stinson, Leo Francis 
 Stolte, Charles E. 
 Stone, William A. 
 Surgeon, James R. 
 Swailes, Guy 
 Urban, John C. 
 Ward, Walter 
 Weber, Theodore G. 
 Wegener, Robert H. 
 Werner, Joseph A. 
 Williams, Roy E. 
 Wilson, Everett ly. 
 Wright, Frank. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Alexander R. Skinker 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Ralph D. Oldham 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Roy G. Winzenburg 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Kayser, William 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Watson Willard W. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Miller, Roy M. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Wiemans, Clarence 
 Gilmore 
 
 Kraunsnick, Walter S. 
 
 Hoffman, John A. 
 
 Sorenson, Hans K, 
 
 Fehling, Harry W. 
 
 Sims, Clyde 
 
 Britton, Joseph 
 
 Shadle, Walter S. 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Muren, Edward 
 
 Steffan, Henry 
 
 Taylor, Thomas A. 
 
 Loughran, Albert J. 
 
 Oldfather, Pearl 
 
 Tegethoff, Edward 
 
 Pettus, Leslie A. 
 
 Hall. Harry P. 
 
 Ferber, Troy 
 
 Canman, Louis P. 
 
 Ellis, George D. 
 
 Carmack, Edward S. 
 
 Biederman, Willis F, 
 
 Dorst, Edward 
 
 Littlefield, Charles C. 
 
 Seemayer, Albert 
 
 Weir, David I. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Siebenmann, Rudolph 
 W. 
 
 Berry, Christian A. 
 
 Holmberg, Edward I. 
 Reschbacher, Harry 
 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Weber, Alfred 
 
 Smith, William H. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Richards, Peter 
 
 Miles, George A. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Adams, Louis K. 
 
 Adams, Samuel C. 
 
 Bagley, Harry 
 
 Callier, Dell R. 
 
 Cameron, Angus J. 
 
 Carroll, John H. 
 
 Dean, Howard G. 
 
 Eckhardt, William G. 
 
 Feld, George 
 
 Hanretty, George E. 
 
 Harrington, William 
 L. 
 
 Hartmann, William 
 
 TTiggins, Cornelius J. 
 
 Hoffman, Robert C. 
 
 Jablonski, John J. 
 
 Johnson, Frank 
 
318 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Johnson, Walter L. 
 Massingham, George 
 Mee, John J. 
 Miller, Theodore B. 
 Page, Charles A. 
 Paprosky, Michael, M. 
 Pickett, Minard E. 
 Robben, Henry B. 
 Sims, Mark V. 
 Stark, Morris J. 
 Strachan, Harley A. 
 Watson, Cedric H. 
 Privates : 
 
 Amend, Irwin 
 Arning, Elmer 
 Baker, David Paul 
 Bardgett, Alfred L. 
 Bayless, Roy B. 
 Beahan, Jack W. 
 Benson, Guy A. 
 Boucherie, John W. 
 Bright, Archie G. 
 Conover, Charles C. 
 Cook, Howard L. 
 Covert, Robert W. 
 Dimitry, John A. 
 DuBose, Sidney C. 
 Dunton, Richard 
 Eads, James M. 
 Eason, Elmer S. 
 Elfrink, Frank J. 
 Foerstel, Frank Z. 
 
 P'orbes, Louis 
 Freeman, Roy L. 
 Friend, Harold L. 
 Fuelsch, Arthur 
 Gossett, William F. 
 Gowans, George J. 
 Hayes, William J. 
 Heade, Joseph D. 
 Helfrick, Marion 
 Hofman, Lee J. 
 Howard, Hobert W. 
 Hudson, Elmer 
 Jeck, Gilbert C. 
 Jewell, Arnold B. 
 Joflfray, Clarence L. 
 Kern, Urban P. 
 Kiehnal, William L. 
 Kinealy, Daniel P. 
 Kitchell, Roy C. 
 LaBruyer, Leo H. 
 LaBruyer, Noah F. 
 Loane, Albert 
 Lockwood, Harry E. 
 McClanahan, Albert 
 
 L. 
 IMeier, Harry G. 
 Meier, William 
 Meyer, Leslie O. 
 Meyer, Paul 
 Miller, Chestine W, 
 Miller, Clarence E. 
 Mitas, August 
 jNEoeller, Gussie 
 
 Needham, James R. 
 Northcutt, Ray A. 
 Ochsner, Erwin C. 
 Parnell, Henry L. 
 Pennick, Roger C. 
 Pierce, Henry 
 Pierson, David H. 
 Plueck, John H. 
 Pratzki, Adam 
 Reynolds, Lloyd 
 Rosa, Bert 
 Rosa, Marcus J. 
 Rubottom, Ray C. 
 Schergen, Marion J. 
 Shinkle, Earl 
 Shinkle, James E. 
 Smith, Clarence L. 
 Smith, Edward J. 
 Spohr, Robert 
 Stark, Kirby M. 
 Stewart, Edward P. 
 Thompson, Dewey G. 
 Thomure, Ferdinand 
 
 Wa'dlow, Halla 
 Walters, Alexander 
 Walter, Maurice G. 
 Walton, Darrahl Dean 
 Whaley, George M. 
 White, Charles C. 
 Wilkinsin, Thomas E. 
 Wohlt, Philip C. 
 Zinkgraf, James F. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Fred A. Bottger, 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William F. Sewell, Jr. 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Austin W. Bottger, 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Scrafton, Wallace T. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Ligon, Paul M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Magnolo, America 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Pierce, Walter 
 
 Robbins, Leonard W. 
 
 Berkman, Raymond 
 
 Markle, Lorain R. 
 
 Daly, Trent A. 
 
 Strother, Clarence R. 
 
 Neville, Patrick 
 Corporals : 
 
 Dedert, Edward F. 
 
 Kriwanek, Frank F. 
 
 Kuntz, John C. 
 
 Mueller, Otto P. 
 
 Pipe, Charles D. 
 
 Stewart, John G. 
 
 COMPACT K 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Richter, Fred W. 
 
 LaMear, Robert E. 
 
 Wieden, August 
 
 Prevallet, Henry C. 
 
 Rozier, Ralph R. 
 
 INIarshall, Drain M. 
 
 Worthey, Fred 
 Cooks : 
 
 Gilbert, Commodore 
 
 Doepke, John A. 
 Mechanic: 
 
 Storman, William W. 
 Bugler, 
 
 IMayhan, Hurley R. 
 1 st Class Privates : 
 
 Braun, Mellville 
 
 Cope, Oliver C. 
 
 Denny, George T. 
 
 Eaton, Russel 
 
 Franklin, John G. 
 
 Hildebrand, Norman 
 
 Holler, Henry G. 
 
 Johnson, Hugh 
 
 Johnson, Robert 
 
 King, William 
 
 Lenceski, Frank 
 
 Link, Fred B. 
 
 Marcole, Joseph D. 
 Meglitsch, Anthony 
 Oldendorph, Walter L 
 Oswitz, Samuel 
 Power, Walter M. 
 Reese, Elton 
 Rockwell, Murray R. 
 Schnettler, Frank J. 
 Smith, WilTfam W. 
 Tapy, Henry G. 
 Wachter, Edwin J. 
 Washausen, August F. 
 Werner, Cornell A. 
 Williamson, William 
 Worthey, Harold 
 Zeisler, John J. 
 Privates : 
 
 Abraham, Henry J. 
 Adler, George J. 
 Andreoletti, Paul L. 
 Baxter, Arbie H. 
 Benoist, Arthur A. 
 Better, Allen E. 
 Brady, James J. 
 Brady, John W. 
 Bredenbeck, Elmer F. 
 Briscoe, Louis D. 
 
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 Brown, Daniel 
 Buchanan, David H. 
 Buschmann, James P. 
 Clark, Edward 1,. 
 Cobb, Samuel W. 
 Cole, Harvey C. 
 Condon, John P. 
 Cummiskey, Eugene 
 
 E. 
 Cunningham, Fred W. 
 Dick, William M. 
 Draper, Jack 
 Easton, William 
 Edgmon, James S. 
 Fitzgerald, John J. 
 Fitzwater, Daniel C. 
 Fox, Lowell A. 
 Geeson, Arthur B. 
 Gleason, Alve 
 Graham, John W. 
 Green, John K. 
 Haas, Harry 
 Hill, Roy H. 
 Hilsraan, William E. 
 Hoos, Robert G. 
 
 Hughes, Thomas t,. 
 Hunicke, Walter A. 
 King, John J. 
 Jones, George P. 
 Kellher, John J. 
 King, Archie R. 
 King, Hal A. 
 Kohl, Edward G. 
 EaBreque, John B. 
 Lake, George L. 
 Lee, Pert 
 Leiber, Allen G. 
 Lowry, Joseph D. 
 McShane, Raymond L. 
 Mangelsdorf, John F. 
 Marck, Claude H. 
 Martin, Harry A. 
 Mehl, Walter F, 
 Morgan, Whitnell F. 
 Newton, John A. 
 Nolan, Joesph T. 
 Oakes, Adolph E. 
 O'Leary, Chester L. 
 O'Leary, Eugene A. 
 
 Oswitz, Ruben J. 
 Overturf, John D. 
 J^assek, Eaward J. 
 Phelan, Raymond P. 
 Power, Anthony L. 
 Richardson, Thomas 
 
 S. 
 Schuchert, Ernest F. 
 Schwarz, Herbert A. 
 Spalding, Joseph L. 
 Spurgeon, Benjamin 
 
 O. 
 Stanley, Grant 
 Stevenson, Edward W. 
 Taylor, Vernon L- 
 Tighe, Lee W. 
 Vincent." Theron S. 
 Vogel, Christ H. 
 White, Thomas W. 
 Whitehead, Arnold S. 
 Wilhelm, James h- 
 Williams, Harry M. 
 Woodard, Ira L. 
 Youngblood, Joseph 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John S. Pearson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 John S. Schweitzer 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Dan C. Smith 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Black, George M. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Spengeman, Charles 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Boehl, Paul L. 
 
 Boland, James P. 
 
 Fleming, Howard E. 
 
 Chase, Frederick T. 
 
 French, Douglas 
 
 Shuka, Gilbert 
 
 White, Albert F. 
 
 Mills, Richard B. 
 
 Auxier, Samuel T. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Bothwell, Max 
 
 Minney, Peter G. 
 
 Bennett, Clarence H. 
 
 Field, Eugene B. 
 
 Goericke, William R. 
 
 Meier, Edward 
 
 Manville, Melvin H. 
 
 Zuckerman, Otto 
 
 Mahoney, Audrey W. 
 
 Conway, William G. 
 
 Kissane, Louis 
 
 Heim, Stanler R. 
 
 May, Floyd M. 
 
 COMPANY L 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Walker, Henry E. 
 
 Mager, Orson C. 
 
 Florence, John J. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Lavenberg, William 
 E. 
 
 LeBee, John J. 
 Mechanic: 
 
 Withington, Eugene 
 S. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bartlett, Lloyd 
 
 Betts, Vernon L. 
 
 Hagaman, Terry G. 
 
 Hempen, Alfred J. 
 
 Jacob, Charles R. 
 
 Kaesewurm, John K. 
 
 Keith, Deane 
 
 McGrath, John J. 
 
 Madden, Chas. J. 
 
 Megel, Archie 
 
 Pleus, Oliver H. 
 
 Scott, John H. 
 
 Smith, Louie, H. 
 
 Stanton, Henry T. 
 
 Stephens, Joseph H. 
 
 Tockstein, George M. 
 
 Wardan, Charles M. 
 
 Webster, Lawrence 
 Privates: 
 
 Akiki, Joseph A. 
 
 Atchison, Tohn G. 
 
 Bailey, James F. 
 
 Bainum, Ralph C. 
 Ball, Claud D. 
 Bibb, John 
 
 Britton, Frederick L- 
 Brockwell, Byran 
 Brokan, Guy H. 
 Brooks, Roy O. 
 Burgess, Lee M. 
 Byington, Charles F. 
 Caldwell, Carl A. 
 Caldwell, George D. 
 Cantwell, Frank H. 
 Catlin, Arthur 
 Cave, Walter G. 
 Clark, Dorris F. 
 Cook, John 
 Con, George T. 
 Cremer, Charles G. 
 Crowder, John W. 
 Devine, John 
 Donner, Harry E. 
 Duyer, Daniel B. 
 Ebert, Albert J. 
 Emery, Joseph 
 Evans, Arthur F. D. 
 Fagin, Isadore 
 T'lanagan, William B. 
 Fleming, Frank R. 
 Flowers, George 
 Flynn, John A. 
 Frost, George M. 
 Frowitter, Olliver E. 
 
 Gibson. Clarence 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Gibson, John B. 
 Godwin, Raymond A. 
 Goldberg, Sam. 
 Grate, Robert A. 
 Gross, William O. 
 Hall, Arthur W. 
 Hanson, Fred A. 
 Harmon, William 
 Harris, William A. 
 Hayes, Thomas F. 
 Heege, Lawrence, A. 
 Helloran, Harley H. 
 Holmes, Jesse 
 Hornick, John H. 
 Hoyle, Henry M. 
 Hubenthal, Charles 
 Jones, Marshall A. 
 Joyce, John D. 
 Katherman, Benjamin 
 
 H. 
 Kelly, James F. 
 Key, Austin 
 
 Knight, Charles 
 Koppling, Richard 
 Kuna, t rank 
 Kogeler, Emil J. 
 Layden, William A. 
 Leavitt, George A, 
 Lepper, Louis 
 Lewis, Wallace B. 
 Loftus, James F. 
 McLaughlin, Claud I. 
 Matton, Roy B. 
 Mills, Max A. 
 Moore, Fred W. 
 Moriarty, Tim 
 Moss, John A. 
 Moyle, James W. 
 Murphy,. Patrick 
 Neudecker, Harvey L. 
 O'Byrne, Harold 
 Pallardy^ Robert L. 
 Patterson, Leslie E). 
 Phipps, Jesse L. 
 Rainey, Forrest 
 
 Reith, John J. 
 Russell, Ernest C. 
 Schroeder, Dillard A. 
 Schwellemsattl, Her- 
 man J. 
 Shoults, Elmer D. 
 Slighton, Evert N. 
 Smith, Claude 
 Smith, Clarence T. 
 Speer, Edward N. 
 Stinson, Alec 
 Sullivan, James J. 
 Tate, Carroll M. 
 Trey, Edward D. 
 Upson, William C. 
 VanDover, William 
 Van Sands, Walter 
 Werner, Louis W. 
 Weis, Emil E. 
 Winkle, William A. 
 Zakibo, Nakly F. 
 Zoleman^ Harry H. 
 
 COMPANY M 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Harry W. Thompson, 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William H. Norwine 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Rudolph H. Hartmann 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Ayers, Carl V. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Wellenkotter, Herman 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Roblee, Robert A. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Koziatek, Theodore S. 
 
 Perowitz, John 
 
 Bondurant, Benjamin 
 B. 
 
 Lem, Louis 
 
 Robinson, George R. 
 
 Shields, William C, Jr. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Skinner, George 
 
 Woods, Walter 
 
 Helwig, Gunther 
 
 Bone, William N. 
 
 Snyder, Harry P. 
 
 Lindenberg, Nicholas 
 
 Unruh, Charles 
 
 Keane, Lucius, W. 
 
 Jeffries, Arthur D. 
 
 Allen, Cecil H. 
 
 Wright, Jesse E. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Hayward, Edward L. 
 
 Farrell, James E. 
 
 Lampard, William J. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Barnes, Gilbert H. Jr. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Lake, Roland E. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Baird, Ivan H. 
 
 Emig, Elmer H. 
 
 Johnson, Donald S. 
 
 Johnson^ Guy E. 
 
 Lake, Lawrence C. 
 
 Litherbury, Claude L- 
 
 McNaughton, Barney 
 W. 
 
 Patrick, Curry F. 
 
 Philibert, Bertram J. 
 
 Pugh, Ira T. 
 
 Sanguinet, Ferdinand 
 H. 
 
 Shaw, Robert 
 
 Stemmons, George II, 
 
 Vaughn, Mason 
 
 Webb, Otis 
 
 Wightman, Joseph S. 
 
 Wilkerson, Marmin J. 
 
 Withinion, Thomas 
 W. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, Oliver B. 
 
 Allyn, Harvey 
 
 Andrews, Frank W. 
 
 Aumann, Louis W. 
 
 Baker, Robert B. 
 
 Barry, Drew H. 
 
 Bauch, William F. 
 Bekebrede, George H. 
 Blade, Edward L. 
 Blandin, Walter S. 
 Blumstengel, Ludwig 
 
 A. 
 Bowers, Oscar H. 
 Brown, Louis 
 Brown, Richard T. 
 Bryant, Roy 
 Butler, Arthur J. 
 Cagle, George G. 
 Chester, John C. 
 Childers, Robert M. 
 Claypool, Edwin O. 
 Cooper, William W. 
 Cremer, Clarence 
 Daffern, James A. 
 Davis, Lee, A. 
 Deming, William H. 
 
 Jr. 
 Disher, Walter 
 Dixon, Carl A. 
 Donnohue, Clarence 
 
 E. 
 Donovan, John F. 
 Drum, William E. 
 Emig, Charlie 
 Emig, Fred 
 Ernst, William J. 
 Eschbach, Charles 
 Farrell, Frank 
 Favez, Lois E. 
 Ferris, John W. 
 Fitzgerald, Frank J. 
 
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 Fleming^ Patrick F. 
 Francis, Harold W. 
 Frasher, Carl T. 
 Gohmann, John 
 Gorder, William M. 
 Govar, Claude 
 Griffith, George 
 Gunn, Ewing J. 
 Guntherj Herbert A. 
 Hargraves, Edward E- 
 Hass, Horace 
 Hatch, George M. 
 Hefele, Leo P. 
 Hicks, Allan F. 
 Jones, Harvey 
 Jones, James M. 
 Kelley, John J. 
 Koch, Clarence G. 
 Koziatek, Joseph J. 
 Krenning, Fred H. 
 Krouper, Thomas C. 
 Kurz, Daniel H. 
 Lake, Rolla A. 
 
 Leporin, Arthur 
 McHugh, Charles J. 
 McKay, David J. Jr. 
 Mahon, Robert R. 
 Mayer, Herbert O. 
 Mincemeyer, Benja- 
 min 
 Misemer^ Dolpha E. 
 Montgomery, George 
 
 Moore, Edwin J. 
 Munro, Alexander L. 
 Ocks, Emil D. 
 Owens, Cyrus C. 
 Poore, Dewey 
 Reitz, Philip T. 
 Rodgers, John L. Jr. 
 Ross, Edgar 
 Ross, Virgil 
 Rumbuhl, Flavius A. 
 Rush, Gerald 
 Rush, James E. 
 Rushing, William E. 
 
 Sante, Purnell A. 
 Sabadell, August 
 Schneider, Henry W. 
 Seism, Don 
 Sentner, Harry 
 Shipman, John F. 
 Smith, Chester A, 
 Smith, Ervin T. 
 Smith, George S. 
 Smith, Leonard 
 Snyder, Martin 
 Southard, Frank 
 St. James, Robert J. 
 Stanton, James A. 
 Storr, Hugo P. 
 Sullivan, John 
 Tomasso^ Francesco 
 Walker, Curtis 
 West, Thomas A. 
 Wetzel, George L. 
 Witte, George H. 
 Woodring, Rufus H. 
 Wormack, Stanley J. 
 
 SANITAKY DETACHMENT 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Major, 
 
 Emil H, Burgher 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Carl H. Wachenfeld 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Oliver C. Wenger 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William C. Broadhead 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Roscoe T. Lindsay 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 
 Cozad, Fred P. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Knoll, Charles W. 
 
 Price, Roy E. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Ereund, Seymour 
 
 Park, Claude J. 
 
 Roth, August 
 Privates: 
 
 Beard, John M. 
 
 Brown, Paul 
 
 Cloud, George 
 
 Cooper, Archie D. 
 
 Craighead, Norwood 
 
 Cutler, Melvin 
 
 Dickey, Frank E. 
 
 Farley, William K. 
 
 Gallagher, Robert M. 
 
 Glenn, William L. 
 
 Grellner^ Beorge 
 Guthrie, Samuel E. 
 Henle, Samuel 
 Hickman, Clinton J. 
 Hilles, Aubrey R. 
 Hubert, George 
 Lutz, Walter H. 
 McNamee, Owen 
 Meyer, Waldrew E. 
 Messe, Harry 
 Nelson, Alan E. 
 Phelan, George 
 Prichard, Lester A. 
 Sintzel, Joseph R. 
 Smith, Oilman W. S. 
 Walsh, David F. 
 
 THIRD REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Philip J. Kealy, 
 
 Commanding 
 Major, 
 
 Claude H. Congdon 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 Kansas City 
 
 Major, 
 
 John F. Constable 
 Major, 
 
 Francis D. Ross 
 1st Lieut, & Bn. Adt. 
 
 John P. Griebel 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Willard L. Coe 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Jerry F. Duggan 
 Battalion Segt. Major, 
 
 Charles T. Everhari 
 
 HEADQUAETEES COMPANY 
 Kansas City 
 
 Captain, 
 James F. Imes 
 
 Reg. Sergeant Major, 
 Page, Russell 
 
 Battalion Sgt. Major, 
 Arnold, John W. 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Battalion Sgt. Major 
 
 Everhart, Charles T. 
 Battalion Sgt. Major, 
 
 Sayre, Roswell B. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Lett, Frank K. 
 Color Sergeant, 
 
 Danneberg, Herman 
 A. 
 Color Sergeant, 
 
 Otey, Basil R. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Stewart, James O. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Wilson, Eugene P. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Lamb, Charles R. 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Quinton, Telesphore 
 P. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Chandler, Karl M. 
 
 Delahunt, John L. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Shine, Michael A. 
 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Kendrick, Benjamin H. 
 Assistant Band Leader, 
 
 Joste, Fred S. 
 Sergeant Bugler, 
 
 Kammann, Bodo A. 
 Band Sergeant, 
 
 Dedrick, Daniel D. 
 Band Corporals: 
 
 Allison, Bruce 
 
 Dean, Marquess 
 
 Hartge, Paul 
 
 Sharp, Claude S. 
 1st Class Musicians: 
 
 Crockett, John 
 
 McLain, Horace G. 
 2d Class Musicians: 
 
 Bowne, Charles G. 
 
 Noland, James J. 
 
 Prati, Henry 
 3rd Class Musicians: 
 
 Bower, Ralph M. 
 
 Burnell, Frank J. 
 
 Davis, Fred Lauren 
 
 Frost, Sam H. 
 
 Hall, Charley 
 
 Johnston, Herbert 
 
 Keilbackj Charles J. 
 
 Knake, Herman H. 
 
 Lackey, Boyce 
 
 Lenge, Roscoe K. 
 
 Metz, Carl S. 
 
 Parrish, Lawrence L. 
 
 Vickseil, Robert 
 
 Wheeler', Harry W. 
 
 Wheeler, Ted R. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Jacobs, Hawley 
 
 Peery, Farl H. 
 
 Whitney^ Luther P. 
 Privates: 
 
 Brewster, Willie E. 
 
 Ferguson, Joseph B. 
 
 Halin, George W. 
 
 Hursh, Guy C. 
 
 Kennedy, Harry F. 
 
 Lucas, William Ever- 
 ett 
 
 Merriweather, George 
 E. 
 
 Phillips, Roy A. 
 
 Shine, Daniel J. 
 
 Tippy, Coy M. 
 
 Weir, Raymond C. 
 
 Weiser, Mark F. 
 
 Williamson, Frank A. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Frank G. Ward 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 William F. Ward 
 1st Sergeant 
 
 Briody, George W. 
 Rgt. Supply Sergeants : 
 
 Damico, Edward O. 
 
 Osiier, William J. 
 
 Zaiss, Joseph 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Hughey, Edward Leo 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 McKeehan, John M. 
 Corporal: 
 
 Kuhns, Ivan C. 
 Cook, 
 
 Procell, William 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Hamm, George C. 
 Saddlers: 
 
 Kennedy, John W. 
 
 Lonsdale, William E. 
 
 Norton, Leo R. 
 Wagoners: 
 
 Bennett, EHeria Lee 
 
 Brogdon^ Nathan T. 
 
 Buchan, James Emory 
 
 Byrd, Robert 
 
 Connelly, Patrick 
 
 Daniels, Charlie A. 
 
 Galvin, William M. 
 
 Haxton, Ellis 
 
 Henderson, George H. 
 
 Johnson^ James A. 
 
 Johnson,. Marion F. 
 
 Jones, William B. 
 Ligon, Millard 
 Lindsay, Roy 
 Lowe, Oscar 
 Malone, Thomas 
 Oldham, Earon T. 
 Olson, Benjamin 
 Parsons, Charles A. 
 Payne, Frank 
 Pierson, Cliarles G. 
 Pollard, Claude A. 
 Russ, Fred K. 
 Saunders, Arthur 
 Sibley, Waldo R. 
 Speaker, Fred 
 Stearns, Harry L. 
 Wickizer, Frank 
 Wilcox, Jack P. 
 Wright, Leonard A. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Warren L. Osgood 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William C. Gordon 
 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 Ralph E. Truman, 
 Richard W. Hocker 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 McGuire, Arnold R. 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 Gill, Harold J. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 Akers, John D. 
 
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 Sergeants: 
 
 Dougherty, Stephen 
 E. 
 
 Fredman, Royal J. 
 
 Harvey, Frederick K. 
 
 Hatfield, Robert A. 
 
 Jackson, Harvey 
 
 Talbott, Arthui W. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Greene, Francis W. 
 
 Keefer, Clarence A. 
 
 Lehman, Elmer J. 
 
 Matkin, John F. 
 
 Meagher, Vincent M. 
 
 Moses, Frank E. 
 
 Phillips, Sidney B. 
 
 Zents, Lee J. 
 
 Burnell, Thomas C. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Mills, Walter 
 
 Nicholson, Ernest 
 Cooks: 
 
 Halstead, Carl B. 
 
 Lower, James W. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Beaumont, Howard B. 
 
 Blablock, Charles W. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bruening, Winfield H. 
 
 Carfrae, Robert W. 
 
 Carroll, Phillip M. 
 
 Dana, Herbert C. 
 
 David, Cecil R. 
 
 Planner, Edgar H. 
 
 Newberry, George W. 
 Jr. 
 
 Prollock, John G. 
 
 Rankin, Hugh B. 
 
 Reeve, Ralph J. 
 
 Swoboda, Lee A. 
 
 Zeigler, Charles L. 
 Privates: 
 
 Barnes, Romie M. 
 
 Becker, Chris M. 
 
 Caputo, James 
 
 Cooley, McCabe 
 
 Cunningham, George 
 W. 
 
 Donnelly, Ray V. 
 
 Dunham, Cecil R. 
 
 Evans, John M. 
 
 Frost, Harry L. 
 
 Fulton, John C. 
 
 Gardner, Richard O. 
 
 Henry, Edgar H. 
 Hickman, John L. 
 Hinzman, Harry 
 Hoard, Edgar F. 
 Imes, George D. 
 Kendrick, James M. 
 Laurant, Joseph 
 Lower, Earl C. 
 Lyon, Lewis B. 
 Major, Duncan A. 
 Martgan Tad L. 
 Martin, Lee W, 
 Meek, Albert L. 
 Meyer, Abraham 
 Miller, Jesse T. 
 Neves, Albert L. 
 Owen, Robert S. 
 Peery, Thomas R. 
 PoUucca, Guiseppi 
 Runkle, Olin W. 
 Shimmer, John 
 Stevenson, Rowland 
 
 H. 
 Sumpter, Perry E. 
 White, Hugh 
 Wolfe, Charles A. 
 Yager, Ira M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John W. Armour 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Lloyd V. Wise 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 William E. Scott 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Ray, Charles P. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Cunningham, Clyde C. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Kane, Lewis W. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Richardson, Roy R. 
 
 DeWitt, Ralph Emer- 
 son 
 
 Olney, Howard R. 
 
 Hunt, John C. 
 
 Weaver, Frank F. 
 
 Bliss, Frank J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 McKernan, John G. 
 
 Morse, Ira L. 
 
 Sharpe, Emory J. 
 
 Carey, Dady M. Jr. 
 
 STiawIian, Spencer S. 
 
 Cousins, Sydney A. 
 
 Clark, Jesse C. 
 
 McDonald, William T. 
 
 McDonald, Richard P. 
 
 Baker, Louis C. 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Aumann, George 
 
 Egbert, Asa N. 
 
 Hufstedler, Roy D. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Livingston, Gurnest 
 W. 
 Mechanics, 
 
 Yager, Frank Ralph 
 
 O'Rourke, Walter R. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Cook, Edgar B. 
 
 Fredrichs, Edward A. 
 
 Gunderson, Glenn 
 
 Hardy, Harold 
 
 Hunter, H. Ward 
 
 Lerche, John M. 
 
 Pippitt, Elmer S. 
 
 Rush, John T. 
 
 Sawyer, Dudley, W. 
 
 Sprague, Elmer A. 
 Privates: 
 
 Arnold, Harry P. 
 
 Baker, Hugh E. 
 
 Ballard, W. Calvin 
 
 Barnett, Joseph 
 
 Billington, Fred W. 
 
 Blackburn, David E. 
 
 Blackburn, Marshall 
 L. 
 
 Brekey, John E. 
 
 Brown, John 
 Buchanan, Everet G. 
 Buhr, Edward P. 
 Campbell, James W. 
 Carroll, George W. 
 Chambers, Dan J. 
 Clemings, Claude F. 
 Clemmons, Ralph L. 
 Cox, Willie G. 
 Denhardt, Lucian O. 
 Dimmitt, Cecil E. 
 Dover, Peter 
 Drake, Harvey H. 
 Drury, Archie J. 
 Evans, Frank J. 
 Evans, Harry 
 Farmer, Arlo J. 
 Fowler, Edwin B. 
 Freed, Joe I. 
 Garfield, William 
 Gaynor, Michael 
 Green, Thomas 
 Grist, James 
 Hall, Lester C. 
 Hatton, Ralph 
 Jenkins, Clarence A. 
 Johns, Benjamin P. 
 Keyton, Clarence E. 
 Leahy, Don J. 
 Long, Maxwell F. 
 Marksbury, Joseph H. 
 
324 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Milam, Milton R. 
 Moxom, Theo. R. 
 Myers, Sherman H. 
 Neale, Virgil C. 
 Niles, LeRoy 
 Oliver, Henry K. 
 Patterson, John T. 
 Peyton, Marion L,. 
 Pike, Fred J. 
 Pope, Alexander 
 Pressley, Lawrence K. 
 Quirk, Joe 
 Rice, James N. 
 Risebig, Philip R. 
 Roardink, Hendrius 
 
 C. 
 Roberts, J. Milton 
 
 Rogers, Ralph J. 
 Ross, Charles Cleve- 
 land 
 Saunders, Krnest L. 
 Saylor, Charles A. 
 Schnick, Martin 
 Schroeder, Frank W. 
 Sheward, Harry G. 
 Shirk, Robert B. 
 Smith, Albert 
 Smith, James Arthur 
 Snorgrass, James F. 
 Snyder, Harvy L. 
 Speers, James W. 
 Spielman, Clemens L- 
 Sprague, Arthur L. 
 
 Stark, Charles A. 
 Steele, Earl 
 Stewart, Chauncey L- 
 Stokes, George A. 
 Stuart, Harry J, 
 Taylor, Donald G. 
 Tetrick, John L. 
 Tilton, Forest F. 
 Troub, Frnest 
 Turk, Edward L- 
 Vicker, Ralph W. 
 Way, Heber O. 
 Webb, Lester J. 
 Weiford, Clarence E. 
 Wells, Earl H. 
 White, Roy R. 
 Winchester, Floyd 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Carl F. Scheibner 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Warren T. Davis 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 William F. Short 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Barnert, Merl Joseph 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Davis, Juneious Clem- 
 ens. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Miller, Carl A. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Wilhite, James Frank 
 
 Haley, Roy P. 
 
 Potter, George 
 
 Campbell, Arthur L. 
 
 White, Joseph C. 
 
 Huber, Charles H. 
 
 McRoberts, Emmett F. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Lachner, William G. 
 
 Lohse, Edgar C. 
 
 Mock, Samuel A. 
 
 White, Roger E. 
 
 Yountz, William H. 
 
 Bottom, Rollo T. 
 
 Pfeiffer, David H. 
 
 Windsor, Richard N. 
 
 Stillwell, Jesse O. 
 
 Simm, Fred 
 
 Logan, John Parker 
 Jr. 
 
 Simmons, Webster J. 
 
 Stephens, Robert H. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Langhans, George 
 Cauthon, John 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Jenkins, Cecil 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 BOONVILLE 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Coulter, Monte Chns- 
 to 
 
 Haley, James Junius 
 
 Holmes, Harry R. 
 
 Kohn, William P. 
 
 Mayiield, Andrew L- 
 
 Peeples, Philip 
 
 Renfrew, Robert C. 
 
 Shea, John Jr. 
 
 Spaete, Ernest F. 
 
 Von Oertzen, Robert 
 
 Willard, Edward Trus- 
 ton 
 Privates: 
 
 Bagby, Stephen Y. 
 
 Beard, George T. Jr 
 
 Becker, Daniel R. 
 
 Berry, Wayne R. 
 
 Biltz, RoUa L- 
 
 Bridges, Edwin 
 
 Brown, Clarence W. 
 
 Cash, Frank W. 
 
 Cornett, Charles 
 
 Cramer, Wyatt 
 
 Crum, Oscar 
 
 Cullumber, William R. 
 
 Davis, Harry H. 
 
 Davis, Jesse H. 
 
 Dichion, Percie J. 
 
 Doehne, Alonzo S. 
 
 Donohew, James M. 
 
 Dorflinger, John M. 
 
 Edwards, John C. 
 
 Fenical, Jewel 
 
 Fowler, Ira O. 
 
 Gentry, Ben C. 
 
 Gibbons, Calvert V. 
 
 Groves, Edward F. 
 
 Groves, Irvin L. 
 
 Hayes, George E. 
 
 Hayes, Rutherford B. 
 
 Hichcox, Tom A. 
 Huelskamp, Henry J. 
 Hurt, Ewing R. 
 Johnston, Eugene E. 
 Kane, John D. 
 Kennedy, James M. 
 Kimlin, Fred A. 
 Kleasner, Eugene F. 
 Klein, George 
 Klein, Tony 
 Kreeger, George H. 
 Kreeger, James L. 
 Leininger, George W. 
 McMellon, John H. 
 Malott, Sylvanus 
 Mock, Carl W. 
 Moore, Kemper S. 
 Muncy, Claud Lee 
 Murphy, Riley W. 
 Neighbors, Ray E. 
 Oswald, Walker 
 Partee, Raymond R. 
 Phillips, Charley E. 
 Poertner, Otto E. 
 Robinson, Phillip M. 
 Robinson, Robert E. 
 Ross, James Alfred 
 Russell, Earl W. 
 Schell, Albert R. 
 Scotten, William 
 Sears, Earnest 
 Simmons, Charles 
 
 Christopher 
 Simmons, Henry 
 Simmons, Rodney E. 
 Simmons, Roy Elmer 
 Simpson, Earnest N. 
 Slein, Louis 
 Spry, Walker Allen 
 Stephenson, Hew 
 Stiner, Curtis 
 Stockwell, Silas R, 
 
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 Thatcher, Stanley M. 
 Thomas, Neffert R. 
 Thomas, Rothwell H. 
 Thomas, William R. 
 Thorne, Lyman 
 Tuckley, Ralph A, 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Hunter C. Crist 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Thomas J. Wilson, 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Joseph Lieberman, 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Brown, Frank A. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Widener, Louis E. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Johnson, Harry Henry 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Dedo, Charles G. 
 
 Crockett, William A. 
 
 Frederick, Charles 
 
 Winslow, Joseph 
 
 Sicking, I^dward J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Greathouse, Ivory 
 
 Douthat, Richard H. 
 
 Oldham, Charles W. 
 
 Pipes, Eugene F. 
 
 Allen, Ernest 
 
 Roberts, Andrew H. 
 
 Hinkefont, Julius C. 
 
 McDill, John R. 
 
 Gertscher, John 
 
 Matson, Joe F. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Peiker, Walter L. 
 
 Parrish, Joseph S. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Taulbert, Bar! R. 
 
 Phillips, Arlie 
 Mechanic, 
 
 McCaulla, Willis B. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Brant, Gilp 
 
 Carlson, Edgar G. 
 
 Chilson, Clifford C. 
 
 Corporan, Harold 
 
 Cover, William P. 
 
 Vaughan, Harley P. 
 Warren, Henry W. 
 Wells, Dewey F. 
 Weyland, Lon H. 
 White, James 
 
 COMPANY C 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Divine, James R. 
 Duncan, Gilbert R. 
 Eckland, George A. 
 Graham, Albert H. 
 Hampton, Grant 
 Harris, Jack 
 Hoxsey, Russell T. 
 Inger, Earl L. 
 Johns, Clarence L. 
 Norberg, Gerald 
 Post, Mark Henry 
 Powers, L. Ray 
 Pypes, Delos E. 
 Reece, Orville J. 
 Rehkugler, John G. 
 Robinson, Willie G. 
 Rogers, Charles G. 
 Singleton, Russell 
 Taylor, Eugene W. 
 Wood, Vic A. 
 Woolery, Elmer L. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbott, Walter 
 Adams, John B. 
 Alberts, Frank 
 Ash. William W. 
 Ashworth, William 
 Bechtel, Andrew 
 Carey, James 
 Carr, Louis T. 
 Coffey, Chester 
 Coleman. T"hn E. 
 Coolev, Wi'lliam A. 
 Cowiak, Mike 
 Craig, Henrv J. 
 Cullivan. Thomas J. 
 Dillon, D3vid A. 
 Dodson. Cris E. 
 Edes. Merold L. 
 Egner, Charles T. 
 Finig, Walter T. 
 Ennerson. Tosenh 
 Evp.ns. Frank A. 
 ■Pptter". Theodore R. 
 Gay, George W. 
 
 Whitlow, Henry 
 Whitlow, John 
 Williams, Hampton E. 
 Wood, Grady T. 
 Wyrick, Chester B. 
 Zoeller, Frank S. 
 
 Gentry, Ed. 
 Green, John W. 
 Griffitts, Wilbur E. 
 Harness, Earl 
 Hendrix, Clyde C. 
 Howell, George W. 
 Jackson, Paul 
 James, Jesse F. 
 Johnson, Carl 
 Jones, Everett N. 
 Lang, Albert William 
 Lowe, Benjamin F. 
 McCuUough, Robert 
 
 V. 
 Mann, Howard H. 
 Martin, Edward 
 Mitchell, John K. 
 Monroe, Harold 
 Mortorano, Frank 
 Mount, Eugene V. 
 Neff, Roland S. 
 Noaic, Oscar 
 O'Connor, Richard J. 
 Queen, Ralph C. 
 Ramey, Frank D. 
 Ramsey, Leo C. 
 Rice, brien D. 
 Roe, John H, 
 Rutherford, Charles 
 
 C. 
 Sellers, Louis, M. 
 Siegmund, Roy E. 
 Smith, Albert O. 
 Snapp, Wayne F. 
 Sorrels, Homer W. 
 Steele, Beverly M. 
 Stone, Edward P. 
 Stranger, Arthur 
 Strauss, Karl E. J. 
 Summers, Thomas M. 
 Tillery, Dale 
 Turney, Charley W. 
 Webb, James L- 
 Weinzeri, Franz 
 Young, Arleigh T. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Thomas D. Ross 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Roy E. Stafford 
 
 COMPANY D 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Benton F. Munday, 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Ross, Francis R. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Kennedy, Roy A. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Amen, Nicholas C. 
 
326 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Ward, Ernest 
 Lawson, Andrew 
 Smith, Irving R. 
 Hinrichs, John F. 
 Stout, Jay E. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Reed, Robert H. 
 Kiper, Richard G. 
 
 York, Samuel T. 
 
 Huff, George L. 
 
 Elliott, Don 
 
 Bacchus, Leslie J. 
 
 Rogers, James A. 
 
 Warren, Kelley 
 
 Wetherton, James H. 
 
 Richards, William A. 
 
 Cooks: _ 
 
 Hite, Robert D. 
 Bogue, Charles A. 
 Dixon, Elmer. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Shelton, Frank H. 
 Buglers: ^, , ^ 
 Talcott, Floyd C. 
 Redford, Joseph N. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Dabney, Frank W. 
 Dale, Low Z. 
 DeCamp, James W. 
 Deskin, William A. 
 Ellfeldt, Ralph J. 
 Grant, Joseph W. ^ 
 Greenberg, Benjamin 
 Gregg, Walter S. Jr. 
 Koontz, Carl J. 
 Langton, Leo D. 
 Mason, Jeptha H. 
 Monahan, George E. 
 Murphy, Jo^n 
 Reynolds, Fred J. 
 Robinson, Patrick H. 
 Trevor, Frank L. 
 Privates: 
 
 Adrian. Charles R- 
 Allen, Howard E. 
 
 Allen Ollie C. 
 Arnold. George E. 
 Ashmore, Artie L. 
 Aubley, Cliffors F. 
 Ballard, Leroy G. 
 Boulware, Sidney F. 
 Boyle, George W. 
 Brooks, Chester 
 
 Claude 
 Brown, Edwin 
 Bruffey, Raymond 
 Brummett, Elvis 
 Butler, Joseph C. 
 Carpenter, Oliver F. 
 Cason, Orval L. 
 Colville, James M. 
 Colville, Tecumseh t. 
 Conlon, Luke J. 
 Curtin, James F. 
 Curto, Armando 
 Daddea, Pasquale 
 Desebeo, Mike 
 Dimon, Jesse 
 Dimon, Lewis 
 Downing, Richard b. 
 Esaw, Peter D. 
 Gartman, Robert 
 
 Henry , , _ 
 
 Gordon, Winfred D. 
 Gormly, Charles K 
 Gormly, WiUiam W. 
 Grant. John H,. 
 Haines, Roy C. 
 Hall, Lonzie V. 
 Harmon, Ernest f . 
 Hiatt, Russell A. 
 Holbert, Leonard M. 
 Holterman, Anthony 
 
 Howard, George C. 
 Howk, Howard B. 
 Huey, ■Frank L. 
 Husted, Charles E. 
 Hyatt, John B. 
 
 Tames, Charles e. 
 
 Tenkins, ' Herbert J. 
 
 Johnson, Errol P. 
 
 Kensinger, James 
 
 Hartwell 
 Kirk, Harry M. 
 Kohler, Bion 
 Lane, Richard T; 
 Lyon, Paul 
 McCleary, Roy Ay 
 McGaugh, Maurice 
 McHarness, David C, 
 McKeon, Thomas A. 
 McKinley, Noah F. 
 McLain, Walter F. 
 Madaon, John C. 
 Martin, William E. 
 Micklich, Anthony 
 Miller, St&ve 
 Moberly, William 
 Moorman, Russell b. 
 O'Connell, Dennis M. 
 Oglevie, Jesse N. 
 Paxton, Roy 
 Payne, Hugh 
 Peterson, Wilhelm 
 Poindexter, John K. 
 Poteet, Clifford 
 Pruitt, Moses Sim- 
 mons ,, , 
 PummelU Theadford 
 
 W. 
 Reynolds, Fred J. 
 Roy, Pierce M. 
 Rudd, Harper O. 
 Small ey, Horace 
 Smith, Chester F. 
 Smith, William F. 
 Spero, Joa G. 
 Steele, Harry B. 
 Taylor, Hobert J. 
 Todd, Horace E. 
 Waite, Raymond 
 War6, Noble O. 
 Welborn, Jdhn G. 
 Welch, Arthur . 
 
 Wright, James Marion 
 Wvobleski, Aleck 
 Wyrick, Charles E- 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William A. Smith 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 J, Pierce Kane 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 John H. Pleasants 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Nesselhof, William 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Roberts, Phillip B. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Peters,on, Andrew U 
 
 COMPANY E 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Sergeants :_ 
 
 Shropshire, John 
 Henry 
 
 Leniton, Errol D. 
 
 Rugh, Elmer O. 
 
 Fades, Floyd A. 
 
 Crambert, William 
 
 Coughlin, Harry 
 
 Searles, Jack 
 Corporals: 
 
 McDonnell, Edward 
 M. 
 
 Swain, W^ilhelm W. 
 Lozier, Adrian C. 
 Brainard, Earl A. 
 Stratton, Homer 
 Curtis, Clark 
 Cordill, William B. 
 Dawson, Harold L. 
 Borchert, Leo 
 Forrester, James A. _ 
 Pemberton, Tom Cutis 
 Marchant, Clifford 
 
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 Cooks: 
 
 Moon, Willard W. 
 
 Hatcher, Fred C. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Buell, Ralph B. 
 Bugler,, 
 
 Miller, Edward S. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Caulk, Ross R. 
 
 Cordill, Amos F. 
 
 Dahl, Harry 
 
 Everett, Halley 1,. 
 
 Fox, Mott Iv. 
 
 German, Walter 
 
 Glover, Edward E. 
 
 Goodman, Morrisi 
 
 Breves, Leo 
 
 Hollis, James Arthur 
 
 Kitchen, Ralph J. 
 
 Kubicki, Felix C. 
 
 Leaf, Murvel J. 
 
 Lucie, Stva 
 
 McGee, Lee L. 
 
 Mayne, William J. 
 
 O'Reily, Frank 
 
 Potheles, George 
 
 Tower, Ransom E. 
 Privates : 
 
 Allen, Thomas E. 
 
 Anderson, James K. 
 
 Applebv, Neuton 
 
 Bell, James V. 
 
 Bennett, Joseph 
 
 Boulton, Ray 
 
 Bresneham, James J. 
 Brumbaugh, John 
 
 William 
 Bubhe, Steve 
 Buchman, Ralph E. 
 Carter, George W. 
 Cisnerbs, Felix 
 Cisneros, Louis 
 Cordill, Russell M. 
 Cundiff, Chester 
 Curren, William 
 Dailey, Charles O. 
 Dailey, Elton M. 
 Danford, Charley O. 
 Davis, Jewell 
 Davis, Robert W. 
 Dean, Albert Rollins 
 Rurel, Caron A. 
 Fain, Tom 
 Ferry, Harrison H. 
 Fleming, Frank 
 Foster, Robert 
 Franklin, William H. 
 Frizzell, Byron H. 
 Goetting, PHilip O. 
 Green, Charles M. 
 Hendricks, Lee R. 
 Hill, Oscar' E. 
 Hunt, Philip 
 Harris, Walter H. 
 Husken, Carl Edward 
 Ingles, Robert G. 
 Linton, John 
 Long, Harry C. 
 
 McDarmon, Thomas 
 
 G. 
 McDonald, Howard 
 McDonald, Roy L. 
 Mariner, Walter J. 
 Matney, George W. 
 Milner, Leo R. 
 Moore, James A. 
 Mount, Harry E. 
 Mounts, Roy E. 
 Mouritson, Anton 
 Owens, James 
 Peterman, William P. 
 Pryor, Charles Shelby 
 Ray, Harlan J. 
 Richardson, Arthur 
 
 Harold 
 Ruvolos, Joseph 
 Shankester, Claude G. 
 Skinner, Ethell W. 
 Slein, Abe 
 Smith, Harry J, 
 Smoot, Elmer E. 
 Steere, Glen H. 
 Stoward, Owen B, 
 Travis, Charles L,. 
 Trigg, James L. 
 Troube, Herbert 
 Turner, Ruby L. 
 Vineyard, Lee McK 
 Walthan, Frank V, 
 Williams, Roger 
 Wilmot, Robert P. 
 Young, John. 
 
 Captain 
 
 Jefferson M. Dunlap 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Rhodes F. Arnold 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank H. Grigg 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Lancy, Thomas E. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Koch, Fred A. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Chamblin, Robert L. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Asbury, Luther L., Jr. 
 
 Kiugsley, Ralph W. 
 
 Graen, Eldon P. 
 
 Henry, James N. 
 
 Hagen, Fendell A. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Vitt, Albert M. 
 
 Calfee, John Clark 
 
 Gallery, Ralph E. 
 
 Walsh, John R. 
 
 Baughman, Arthur B. 
 
 Hallett, Charles M. 
 
 COMPANY F 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Cons, Clarence F. 
 
 Stinson, Julian T. 
 
 Gray, Robert H. 
 
 Snyder, Buel C. 
 
 Belt, Alfred E. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Manning, William H. 
 
 Zimmerman, Wesley 
 
 Ham, William W. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Bennett, Chester A. 
 
 Bell, Guy 
 Mechanic, 
 
 McGerr, Joseph W. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Chamblin 
 
 Beckman, Ralph P. 
 
 Brantner, Claude L. 
 
 Breckenbridge, Dewey 
 
 Brown, Andy A. 
 
 Chamblin, Lee F. 
 
 Charlton, Rowland H. 
 
 Deggett, William H. 
 
 DeWitt, Arnand A. 
 
 Dye, Raymond E. 
 
 Gray, Herbert, C. 
 Hughes, Phillip H. 
 Lembeck, William H. 
 Needles, Charles H. 
 Niess, Herman 
 O'Connor, William D. 
 Peniston, John E. 
 Richter, Roy A. 
 Rickets, Carl V. 
 Sadewhite, John C. 
 Sandy, John W. 
 Sheley, Edward L. 
 Stocker, Robert C. 
 Taggart, Forest S. 
 Torp M. Dewey 
 VanGilder, Clarence 
 Van Winkle, Floyd 
 Wallace, Robert A. 
 Williams, Claude E. 
 Privates: 
 Alak, Ed. 
 Ball, Sneed 
 Barrett, William F. 
 Black, Herbert 
 Blackwell, Charles T. 
 
328 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Booker, William H. 
 Boyer, Otis L. 
 Bright, Joseph J. 
 Briscoe, Delo M. 
 Calvin, Paul C. 
 Claypole, William 
 Coll. Harry 
 Collins, Emil Z, 
 Crist, George N. 
 Darrah, Lee 
 Diemer, Frank 
 Dingey, George 
 Dodd, Carl W. 
 Etzler, Richard J. 
 Fitzpatrick, Clifford E. 
 Fletcher, Edward S. 
 Gibson, Albert G. 
 
 Gleason, Leo F, 
 Gurney, Frank S. 
 Haley, William J. 
 Hannon, Noel B. 
 Hanyon, William A. 
 Hart, Sam B. 
 Hornaday, Thomas R. 
 Lane, Jack A. 
 Lindsey, Ben B. 
 Linenberger, Anton P. 
 McClure, Burl 
 McMahon, Joseph B. 
 Martin, John P. 
 Marts, Lindon, E. 
 Michal, John 
 Miller, Clyde E. 
 Mort, Leo M. 
 Needles, Clifford C. 
 
 Pickett, Griffith H. 
 Rhodes, Virgil 
 Rittenhouse, Frank A. 
 Rupp, Leonard W. 
 Russell, Harry E. 
 Scully, James H. 
 Shool, Paul W. 
 Trigg, Steven 
 Vandiver, Joe V. 
 Vineyard, John A. L. 
 Warren, James G. 
 Williamson, Allen E. 
 Wilson, Arthur L. 
 Wilson, John W. 
 Wood, Jesse F. 
 Wright, Harry D. 
 Yadon, Joseph M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Henry E. Lewis 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Fred C. Wilhelm 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry A. Pilcher 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Wingate, John R. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Keffner, Edward W. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Nix, William T. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Mineah, Harold J. 
 
 Hutchinson, William 
 S. 
 
 Burke, Edmund M. 
 
 Graves, Harold F. 
 
 Holcomb, John A. 
 
 Stewart, Cleo H. 
 
 Munger, Earl L. 
 
 Leeper, Charles L. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Tuckfield, Ralph G. 
 
 Needles, Ralph E. 
 
 Rogers, Edward L. 
 
 Brockman, Gilbert G. 
 
 Byard, Ernest L. 
 
 Ely, Sims 
 
 Pelton, Fred N. 
 
 Quigley, Robert C. 
 
 Best, John L. 
 
 Buck, Clarence R. 
 
 Jackson, William S. 
 
 Smith, Penn. 
 
 Johnson, Charles L. 
 
 Beckett, Paul B. 
 
 Hogan, Sidney M. 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Hogan, Lineas G. 
 
 Gabbert, Aubrey 
 
 Beacher, Alfrea 
 Artificer, 
 
 Baker, William C. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bandel, Morris A. 
 
 Bierman, Joseph W. 
 
 Binz, Fred H. 
 
 Digman, Emmet J. 
 
 Dollar, David, B. 
 
 Enberg, Raymond O. 
 
 Forkner, Artie 
 
 Friess, Charles R. 
 
 Gault, John M. 
 
 Hancock, Paul F. 
 
 Huerter, Francis E. 
 
 Huerter, Victor J. 
 
 Jones, Rodney P. 
 
 Lemon, Roy 
 
 Lewis, William M, 
 
 McPherson, James H. 
 
 Pierson, Lorenzo B. 
 
 Perry, Earl 
 
 Pritchard, Earl J. 
 
 Ruby, Frank 
 
 Sanders, Burr 
 
 Sloan, Elmer M. 
 
 Smith, Thomas B. 
 
 Walling, Russell 
 
 Waters, Carl 
 Privates: 
 
 Beasley, Everett C. 
 
 Benham, George S. 
 
 Boatman, Clarence D. 
 
 Brvant, Ray H. 
 
 Carroll, Hubert W. 
 
 Cashman, John J. 
 
 Clement, Danus 
 
 Clucky, Charles 
 
 Coberly, Leonard 
 Connor, Blaine 
 Coons, Daniels E. 
 Cooper, Victor 
 Copeland, Ross 
 Daniels, Charlie 
 Dobrela, George J. 
 Dyer, Pat. 
 Eads, Dow L. 
 Elliott, Harry E. 
 Evans, Elmer E. 
 Flack, Roy E. 
 Gilbert, Wilbert 
 Glenn, Don 
 Gray, Ralph 
 Hall, Lester C. 
 Hatch, George C. 
 Heisev, Trvin A. 
 Hirschfield, Harry C. 
 Hogan, Willis W. 
 Hukill, Earl 
 Kenney, Charles A. 
 Larrabee, Vernice 
 Leutkemeyer, John F. 
 Lewis, Merton E. 
 Lewis, Milton O. 
 Low, Earl R, 
 McCarty, John H. E. 
 McNabb, Leon 
 Marshall, Edw^ard 
 Meyer, Charles M. 
 Meilor, George I. 
 Michael, James 
 Miller, Jacob J. 
 Morehead, Charles A. 
 Murphy, Thomas 
 Myers, Worthv C. 
 Osterhaut, William B. 
 Otott, Edward 
 Patterson. Ted R. 
 Payne, Frank 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 329 
 
 Pirn, Myron D. 
 Porstman, Walter E. 
 Preston, George W. 
 Radz, Walter J. 
 Richardson, Samuel 
 Roberts, Emmet S. 
 Roberts, Herbert 
 
 Rodman, Richard F. 
 Rogell, Herman 
 Samuels, Clarence 
 Sewell, Don E. 
 Shearer, Paul C. 
 Sowers, Floyd E. 
 
 Steele, Harry H. 
 Trent, Tony 
 Walker, Lincoln 
 Walls, William 
 Wees, Herbert R. 
 Wich, Christ 
 Wilkins, Charles M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William R. Hardin 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 John R. Smiley 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank P. Farrar 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Farrar, Robert M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Stone, Dudley S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Taylor, George B. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Mace, John H. 
 
 Beistle, Tiffin O, 
 
 Swinney, John J. 
 
 Thomason, John 
 
 Baker, Robert H. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Watts, James L. 
 
 Baker, William N. 
 
 Richardson, George 
 
 Owens, James E. 
 
 Martin, Thomas J. 
 
 Eidson, Robert V. 
 
 Hoover, Earl F. 
 
 Yingling, Oda M. 
 
 Unger, Bnjamin 
 
 Freeman, Tanner H. 
 
 Summers, Rothie 
 
 DeYoung, John 
 Cooks: 
 
 Smith, Fred G. 
 
 Warren, Ollie 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Kennedy, Frank R. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Rowland, Lestr 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Berry, Orion 
 
 Bratcher, Lee Roy 
 
 Deatherage, Virgil P. 
 
 Ray, Russell D. 
 
 Roberson, John G. 
 
 Schiller, Joseph 
 
 Snow, Isaac R. 
 
 Tatham, Arthur R. 
 Privates: 
 
 Arnold, Walter P. 
 
 Ashby, Floyd B. 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Liberty 
 
 Ball, Harry 
 Barclay, John 
 Beck, Cecil 
 Beery, Wilkerson C. 
 Benson, Vivian K. 
 Bowers, Joseph M. 
 Bradley, Roy M. 
 Breachinridge, Eddie 
 Broderick, Waldo O. 
 Campbell, Eugene O. 
 Campbell, George A. 
 Carey, Ira N. 
 Columbia, Harmon 
 Corum, Alonzo 
 Cummins, Raymond 
 
 W. 
 Dagley, Scott 
 Davis, Chester 
 Davis, Everett 
 Davis, Fred J. 
 Davis, William J. 
 Deen, Cleo C. 
 Dennis, Ruby 
 Douglas, James 
 Elliott, Graham 
 Evans, Cecil D, 
 Fairchild, Milon 
 Fields, Rufus A. 
 Fisher, Alfred E. 
 Flaherty, Joseph F. 
 Foley, Luther B. 
 Foley, Roy P. 
 Foley, Samuel R. 
 Gawlak, Joe 
 Giles, Ben R. 
 Gouris, Efthemeous 
 Harris, Lester C. 
 Harris, Marion L- 
 Heavenhill, Clint G, 
 Heinzman, Merle 
 Hendrix, Arthur W. 
 Hessenflow, Jesse 
 Hess, Ernest 
 Hill, Harry 
 Johnson, Albert J, 
 Jones, Fred H. 
 Kehew, George H. 
 Kelly, John P. 
 Kennedy, Joseph L. 
 Kirtley, Willard 
 
 Kollar, Joe S. 
 Larkin, Charles J. 
 Lemanski, True J. 
 McClintoch, Hurley J. 
 McMillen, Luther V. 
 Maloney, Robert E. 
 Markham, Clarence I. 
 Mayers, John D. 
 Moore, Harry L. 
 Mores, George 
 Morris, Preston P. 
 Meyer, Charles C. 
 Nelson, Charles 
 Nelson, Herman P. 
 Nickolich, Fred 
 Ov^erman, Benjamin 
 Owens, Clarence 
 Owens, James Lee 
 Palmer, John R. 
 Paradise, William 
 Parker, Lee 
 Patrick, William L. 
 Perkins, Leo 
 Portwood, Tom 
 Potter, Clayton E. 
 Potter, Ray L. 
 Purcell, Gregory E. 
 Reel, Charles 
 Rigley, Floyd H. 
 Rigley, Harry E. 
 Roberts, Roy E. 
 Sires, Clyde 
 Sloan, James E. 
 Smith, LeRoy 
 Smith, Roy 
 Smith, Russell D. 
 Still, William 
 Stone, George B. 
 Talbott, William N. 
 Taylor, Daniel W. 
 Thomas, Brack A. 
 Tritt, John 
 Walker, Guian L. 
 Waring, George 
 Weaver, Ralph E. 
 Williams, Albert L. 
 Wills, Hilary J. 
 Willyard, Rufus L. 
 Windsor, John L. 
 Yates, Lewis D. 
 Zagar, Frank 
 
330 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Walter H. Williams 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Rolla B. Holt 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 John V. Stark 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Hanes, Samuel M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Cooperider, Noel L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Rogers, Guy G. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Boehler, Adolph 
 
 Haberstroh, Ray 
 
 Hight, Floyd 
 
 Hynes, George I. 
 
 Lupton, Clifford L. 
 
 Tilley, Orval C. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Brown, Clyde M. 
 
 Dry, Clarence C. 
 
 Downing, Elmer C. 
 
 Hammen, Arthur W. 
 
 Hill, Cecil 
 
 Kiso, Hugh J. 
 
 Loveless, Merrill 
 
 McFall, Harry E. 
 
 Scott, Claude J. 
 
 Stein, Claude N. 
 
 William, Frank W. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Brown, Henry 
 
 Truesdale, Ross R. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Kaiser, William 
 
 Keys, Burson T. 
 Artificer, 
 
 Leavitt, Jacob W. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Clark, Virgil 
 
 Dennis, Otto 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Flora, Norman 
 Heineman, Alfred D. 
 Jarrell, Sandford 
 Jensen, John J. 
 Southern, Edward 
 Young, Lamar 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbott, Floyd H. 
 Anes, William R. 
 Bernhard, Fred G. 
 Bradley, George 
 Brothers, Edgar 
 Brummitt, Carl 
 Conroy, John 
 Coe, Bennie H. 
 Dancy, Paul 
 Davis, Paris 
 Don Carlos, Robert 
 Farley, Clarence E. 
 Ferguson, Joe E. 
 Gail, Augustus O. 
 Garthwait, Roy 
 Gibbons, Austin 
 Goodridge, David 
 Graves, Russell D, 
 Graves, Wesley 
 Greer, Noah 
 Gregg, Gaylord F. 
 Haist, George 
 Harrington, Phillip 
 Hays, Guy 
 Henderson, John F. 
 Henkel, Anthony 
 Herron, Arthur O. D. 
 Hickerson, Temple R. 
 Holl, Steven E. 
 Jacks, John W. 
 Jester, Albert 
 Johnston, Harvey T. 
 Tones, Frederick A. 
 Kelly, John F. 
 Kennedy, Miller R. 
 Kreditch, Michael 
 
 Laird, Edward 
 Langan, Harry W. 
 Lanternier, Joseph 
 Lisenbee, Clifford 
 McCarthy, Louis E. 
 McClure, Moody 
 McGinniss, Joseph 
 McKee, Samuel 
 Martin, Alva C. 
 Maddox, Earl J. 
 Micles, Mike 
 Moriarty, Will T. 
 Morse, Harry C. 
 Page, Frank 
 Parish, Lee R. 
 Pence, Robert E. 
 Perkinson, James C. 
 Perry, Albert C. 
 Petty, Owen J. 
 Pittenger, George W. 
 Pursel, Dewey 
 Ragan, Arthur F. 
 Raischel, Bias 
 Roberts, Boyd H. 
 Robinson, William 
 Rogocinski, Stefan 
 Ross, Charles W. 
 Ruiz, Florencio 
 Rush, Frank 
 Sanoff, Sam 
 Saymore, Robert 
 Sharkey, Jack H. 
 Snodgrass, Earl M. 
 Spano, Gus 
 Spender, James E. 
 Swanson, Walter 
 Van Brunt, Ode F, 
 Van Kirk, Albert 
 West; Frank B. 
 Wilson, Lin 
 Winston, William W. 
 Wolley, Runie 
 Zagar, Anthony 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Walter R. Barnes 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Samuel W. Hender- 
 son, Jr, 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Orville S. Bowman, 
 Jr. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Raynor, Rolf 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Penrod, Cecil R. 
 
 COMPANY K 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Hill, Clinton V. 
 
 Bateman, William D. 
 
 Saunders, Fred 
 
 Rogers, Harry B. 
 
 Breckenridge, John C. 
 
 Ortell, Earl 
 
 Rassmusen, Anton 
 Corporals: 
 
 Seller, William 
 
 Cuberly, Fred R. 
 
 Kane, Robert E. 
 
 McKenzie, Albert 
 
 Dover, Robert 
 
 Shipley, Dean 
 
 Bodwell, Paul 
 
 Eubanks, Hale B. 
 
 Railsbacic, Bryan 
 
 Beers, Forrest H. 
 
 Swain, William J. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Jones, George W. 
 
 Robinson, Albert E. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Bateman, Walter 
 
 Mercer, Wesley 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 331 
 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Barnes, Homer J. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Boyce, Herbert 
 
 Butterfield, Charles E. 
 
 Cornell, Frank 
 
 Evans, Floyd A. 
 
 Fitzpatrick, Lee 
 
 Fowler, Samuel C. 
 
 Hammontree, Virgil I. 
 
 Hunter, Alec 
 
 Little, Louis L. 
 
 Miller, Roy B. 
 
 Penrod, Harry 
 
 Stapleton, Frank H. 
 
 Starling, Jay J. 
 
 Tanner, Ralph 
 
 Tompson, Herbert W. 
 
 Totzauer, William 
 
 Turley, Jacob 
 
 Turley, Robert M. 
 
 Wolfe, Joe 
 Privates: 
 
 Armstrong, George R. 
 
 Arnett, Harold J, 
 
 Ashbaugh, Arthur A. 
 
 Baker, Joseph 
 
 Baker, William R. 
 
 Battles, Robert D. 
 
 Begey, Ben F. 
 
 Bishop, George B. 
 
 Bokis, Charley 
 Brents, Henry D. 
 Burns, Neil 
 Buslovitz, Adam 
 Byrne, George T. 
 Coberly, John A. 
 Cook, Edward 
 Cox, J. Lloyd 
 Craven, Herman 
 Cronhardt, Frank 
 Davis, Judson 
 Day, Edward 
 Fitzpatrick, Raymond 
 
 R. 
 Funck, Paul 
 Gaddy, Monte 
 Gaupp, Gus O. 
 Golledge, Frank T. 
 Hadley, Walter D. 
 Hampton, Leon V. 
 Hill, Virgil H. 
 Homburg, William 
 Hughes, Charles L. 
 Huppert, Elwin 
 Johnson, Harrison 
 Kinney, John 
 Lindlow, Charles O. 
 Lucas, Wesley C. 
 Lunbeck, Herbert F. 
 Lusk, Thomas 
 
 Lynch, Thomas 
 McBee, Lawrence G. 
 McConnell, Edward j, 
 McNatt, Virgil E- 
 Magula, Frank 
 Marshall, Gilbert E. 
 Mathews, William J. 
 Mode, William J. 
 Neely, Arthur D. 
 Owens, William M. 
 Parker, Harold W. 
 Perkins, Harold W. 
 Pierce, Yancy 
 Pocost, Harry B. 
 Reeves, Ernest C. 
 Rode, Albert 
 Sciabarrasi, Mariano 
 Sexton, Levi S. 
 Sheehan, Daniel 
 Sheehan, Phillip 
 Smith, Harley 
 Starbeck, Hugh A. 
 Stockwell, Elmer 
 Strole, Walfred 
 Taylor, Lester G. 
 Tucker, James 
 Tum, Sam 
 Ulshoefer, Anthony 
 Vanetten, James E. 
 Vickrey, Sidney L. 
 Young, Frank 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Murray Davis 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Russell C. Throck- 
 morton 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Stephan O, Slaughter 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Waltman, Chester A. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Lake, Arthur W. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Richards, Floyd E. 
 Sergeants, 
 
 Smith, James G. 
 
 Blocher, Joseph S. 
 
 Dreeben, Harry 
 
 Elbs, George J. 
 
 Smith, Norman R. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Adkins, Melville H. 
 
 Robinson, Albert E. 
 
 Allee, Moses 
 
 Brockman, Carl 
 
 Collins, Milo R. 
 
 Waymire, Jacob H, 
 
 Degraflfenreid, Joe 
 
 Stark, Bert 
 
 COMPANY L 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Roche, Joseph V. 
 
 Newman, Charles 
 
 Gossard, Hampton D. 
 
 Hoover, Henry 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Summers, Walter D. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Lane, Burnam 
 
 Posh, Phillip 
 Buglers: 
 
 Mitchell, John F. 
 
 Rothband, Wolff 
 
 Coakley, William 
 
 Coffin, Charles W. 
 
 Frisbie, Leland 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Heliums, Lawrence 
 
 Helmick, Andrew J. 
 
 Higby, Clarence P. 
 
 Kelly, Thomas B. 
 
 LaVelle, Grover J. 
 
 Leonard, John P. 
 
 Lewis, Aubrey S. 
 
 Lieskie, Joseph 
 
 Marshall, Harold 
 
 Mehl, Fred C. 
 
 Nevins. William J. 
 
 Slick, Bennie R. 
 
 Sparks, John W. 
 Stadler, Charles E. 
 Steiner, Walter S. 
 Stone, Wilmer 
 Thayer, Lester M. 
 Youngberg, Chester 
 Privates: 
 
 Ahern, Daniel 
 Bender, William 
 Bledsoe, Russell 
 Brothers, Edward 
 Carr, Noflet B. 
 Cook, Teddie R. 
 Corbin, Dean 
 Coughlan, John M. 
 Cowgill, Walter W. 
 Dumas, Hugh L. 
 Fox. Charles E. 
 French, Michael 
 Gregory, William S. 
 Grenrood, Joseph F. 
 Hancock, Leonides 
 Hamby, Elmer 
 Harmon, Martin 
 Hassler, James 
 Hay, Thomas G. 
 Herman, Edward 
 Hervey, Edward 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Huff, Alonzo C. 
 Hulbert, Ralph D. 
 Jacobson, Ruben 
 Johnson, Rufus P. 
 Jones, Earl 
 Jordan, Charles L. 
 Lee, William R. 
 Lloyd, Samuel G. 
 Lossone, Frank 
 McCracken, Dent 
 Maderick, George 
 Marsh, Homer 
 Maule, Harold 
 
 Meily, Guy Ora 
 Menardi, George 
 Meyer, Henry 
 Moore, Day D. 
 Mott, Marvin 
 Nail, Roly R. 
 Newby, Milton 
 Oliver, Kamp I. 
 Paulsen, Marimus 
 Pennell, William 
 Phaling, Edward S. 
 Powell, Dewey M. 
 
 Rayner, William 
 Rees, William A. 
 Rice, Sidney 
 Rogers, William A. 
 Sherman, Harold H, 
 Slick, Harry 
 Thatcher, Wheeler B. 
 Trigg, Beldon H. 
 Van Briggle, Walter 
 VanHecke, Arthur 
 Wiseman, Erie L. 
 Woods, Karl M. 
 Zuber, George Andrew 
 
 Captain, 
 
 George T. Pfeiffer 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 William J. Baxter 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Arnold, William H. 
 Supply Sergeant 
 
 Culberson, Stacy 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Winfrey, Ray B. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Erwin, William E. 
 
 Woodbury, Frank B. 
 
 Odom, Walter E. 
 
 Ritter, George F. 
 
 King, Lee 
 
 Streeper, Thomas 
 Corporals: 
 
 Donohoe, James W. 
 
 Samide, Rudolph J. 
 
 Scott, Edward J. 
 
 Moon, Charles L. 
 
 Ormsby, Richard C. 
 
 Shaw, Ray H. 
 
 Bird, Arthur C. 
 
 Paskrich, John J. 
 
 Liebst, Kasper M. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Gresham, Floyd A. 
 
 Granzella, Viver 
 Musicians: 
 
 Layman, Ray 
 
 Heinold, Proctor L. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Staebler, Anton B. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Arnold, William L. 
 Bryan, Harry M. 
 Chamberlain, Harry 
 Chandler, Robert B. 
 
 COMPANY M 
 
 Kansas Cety 
 
 Collins, Otis F. 
 Frith, Roy N. 
 Fuqua, Edgar 
 Harris, Robert L. 
 Hays, John W. 
 Hickenlooper, Thomas 
 
 W. 
 Hopkins, Paul F. 
 Kratville, Milo 
 Overstreet, Walter L. 
 Painter, Orval C. 
 Patchin, Levey Gould 
 Roberts, John R. 
 Schriver, Joseph M. 
 Shaw, Wilson B. 
 Slemmons, William G. 
 Tate, Clarence E. 
 Troxel, Joe 
 Waddle, Alva P. 
 Privates: 
 
 Arbuthnot, George W. 
 Bailey, Floyd F. 
 Barnes, Walter 
 Blevins, Ernest V. 
 Bockhahn, Alfred 
 Bryant, Richard S. 
 Buford, Ted L. 
 Buford, William 
 Calvert, James W. 
 Cleeton, Linzie V. 
 Clevy, Clarence T. 
 Cole, William A. 
 Collum, Ralph B. 
 Daugherty, Lewis B. 
 Deis, James F. 
 Dennis, Waldo C. 
 Ellis, Charles H. 
 Fitzmaurice, Robert E 
 Foulks,- Walter O. 
 Fuqua, Samuel O. 
 Gaffney, William P. 
 Gildea, Francis 
 Green, John 
 Hatcher, Charlie L. 
 
 Henkel William J. 
 Hosford, Guy T. 
 Hosterman, Roland K 
 Johnston, John H, 
 Keith, Benjamin 
 Kindig, Frank R, 
 Klouski, Stanly 
 Knoch, Joseph 
 Knoch, Luther B. 
 Korpnick, John L- 
 Layman, Roy 
 Lee, Charles E. 
 
 Lewis, Ira Everett 
 McMullin, Dent M. 
 Mathews, Clarence J.- 
 Miller, Ray J. 
 Mossman, Eugene L- 
 O'Hare, Howard P. 
 Owen, James M. 
 
 Owens, Dewey 
 
 Phillips, Vera 
 
 Puttroff, Archie L. 
 
 Ray, Chauncey W. 
 
 Rice, Coke S. 
 
 Roseberry, Carl F. 
 
 Rosenfield, Milton B. 
 
 Sarver, Jacob D. 
 
 Shepherd, Virgil V. 
 
 Smith, George W. 
 
 Severn, Claude L. 
 
 Stefanski, Franz J. 
 
 Stone, Allen J. 
 
 Sullivan, William J. 
 
 Swain, John O. 
 
 Taylor, Alonza C. 
 
 Thatcher, Garrett M. 
 
 Thompson, James E. 
 
 Turner, James 
 
 Watson, George D. 
 
 White, Floyd 
 
 White, Frank T. 
 
 Winston, Hugo A. 
 
 Woods, Louis A. 
 
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 SANITARY DETACHMENT 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Major, 
 
 Ernest W. Slusher 
 Captain, 
 
 Archie W. Johnson 
 1st lyieutenant. 
 
 Glen H. Broyles 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Edwin C. White, Jr. 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 
 Johnson, Sydney J. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Dillon, Joseph 
 
 Haus, Frank 
 Liebst, Charles A. Jr. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Burchett, William F, 
 George, Hollis A. 
 Howey, Paul H. 
 Kirchodd, Charles 
 Krenzer, William W. 
 Lewis, Homer M. 
 McDonald, Theodore 
 Meuller, Ralph F. 
 Reynolds, Harold J. 
 Smith, Norman R. 
 
 Snyder, Melville 
 Warner, Claude M. 
 Williams, Ernest W. 
 Wilson, Harry L. 
 Privates: 
 
 Carr, Charles L. 
 Carroll, Jack 
 Darby, Wells 
 Davis, Harry S. 
 Jeans, Chester D. 
 Lane, Clark 
 McGaugh, Homer 
 O'Meara, Tom J. 
 Patton, Wade K. 
 
 FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Leroy K. Robbins, 
 
 Commanding 
 Lieutenant Colonel 
 
 Edmund J. McMahon 
 Major, 
 
 August R. Sauerwein, 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Major, 
 
 Fred C. Husman 
 
 Major, 
 
 James L. Barngrove 
 1st Lievit. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Frank B. Avery 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Gerald C. Barnes 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 Walter A. Hill 
 1st Lieut. & Chaplain, 
 
 Harold L. Reader 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain & Adjt., 
 
 Algernon S. Cale 
 Rgt. Sgt. Major, 
 
 Braum, Louis W. 
 Bn. Sgt. Major, 
 
 Harrington, Gerald D. 
 Bn. Sgt. Major, 
 
 Kaysing, Harry C. 
 Bn. Sgt. Major, 
 
 Hutchinson, Paul 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Watson, Percy L. 
 Color Sergeants: 
 
 Barnett, Walter F- 
 
 Krone, Clarence F. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Kenefick, James G. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Robertson, Roscoe C. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Cohen, Herbert 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Hunt, Wilson P., Jr. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Finazzo, Salvatori 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Blowquist, Erick G. 
 
 Harskovitz, Peter 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Chapman, James M. 
 
 Orbach, August J. 
 
 Stansbury, Louis W. 
 
 Ward, Thomas H. 
 Privates: 
 
 Brady, Raymond H. 
 
 Clayton, Alvah W. 
 
 Davis, Charles G. 
 
 Dolen, Fletcher T. 
 
 Gentles, Howard 
 
 Glader, Charles H. 
 
 Johnson, Cliflford H. 
 
 Kenefick, William H. 
 
 Madden, Arthur R. 
 
 Magnam, Thomas W. 
 B. 
 
 Simpson, Raymond F. 
 
 Trowbridge, Voorhees 
 Asst. Band Leader, 
 
 Strother, Samuel H. 
 Sergeant Bugler, 
 
 Schleicher, Oscar 
 Band Sergeants: 
 
 Nichols, Lee C. 
 
 Frank, Samuel 
 Band Corporals: 
 
 Allen, George M. 
 
 Bailey, Fred E. 
 
 Neukomm, John M. 
 
 Schreier, Lawrence O. 
 1st Class Musicians: 
 
 Bernacchi, John H. 
 
 Roettger, William A. 
 2d Class Musicians: 
 
 Huber, Arnold B. 
 
 O'Donoghue, John 
 3d Class Musicians: 
 
 Bealmer, Lester 
 
 Beinke, Franz R. 
 
 Blest, Ernest J. 
 
 Dapron, Albert C. 
 
 Flaskamp, Fred A. 
 
 Jannopoulo, Acnilles E. 
 
 Morrison, Howard B. 
 
 Nicolosi, Sam 
 
 Shue, Willard E. 
 
 Snowden, John G. 
 
 Villers, Jean 
 
 Weast, Courtney P. 
 
 Whitson, Marvin F. 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William E. McGaughey 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Arthur E. Johnson 
 Rgt. Sup. Sgt. 
 
 Robert D. Turner 
 Wagoners: 
 
 Ank, George T. 
 
 Bank, Sol. 
 
 Barteau, Henry E). 
 
 Blick, William H. 
 
 Boyer, Ben 
 
 Breck, Edward C. 
 
 Bressler, Frederick R. 
 
 Bressler, William M. 
 
 Clark. Frank W. 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Collins, Richard D. 
 Craft, Harold F. 
 Daniel, Arthur M. 
 DcMoulin, George 
 Downing, Edward L. 
 Forsyth, Grant G. 
 Frees, Ferris C. 
 Frost, Richard G. 
 Harper, Floyd 
 Hart, Charles 
 Henseik, Alfred T. 
 Holmose, William 
 Kaffenberger, Edward 
 
 G. 
 LaZear, William J. 
 Lutteke, Christ 
 
 Marsh, George H. 
 Marsh, Walter H. 
 Moll, Louis H., Jr. 
 Needham, Albert P. 
 Noble, Walter 
 Ogle, Marion E. 
 Pollard, Joseph S. 
 Pollard, Thomas L. 
 Rogers, Arthur V. 
 Shaw, Edward R. 
 Shaw, John W. 
 Skidmore, Arthur L. 
 Sullivan, James M. 
 Toettcher, George J. 
 Ulrich, Raymond 
 Williams, Purvin A. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John R. Hundley 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry Pierce 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Arthur Poss, Jr. 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Chauncey Schultz 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Winter, Albert J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Kennedy, John F. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Hern, Edgar T. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Bear, Clarence 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Golterman, Herbert C. 
 
 Knox, Robert H. 
 
 Mathews, Jesse O. 
 
 Reader, Harry A. 
 
 Smith, Arthur J. 
 
 Winter, Urban A. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Carney, James T. 
 
 Gannon, Bernard J. 
 
 Goehausen, Walter J. 
 
 Hagee, Edward W. 
 
 Hilton, Alexander, Jr. 
 
 McKay, Clifford T. 
 
 Moser, Leo, Jr. 
 
 Young, Ray R. 
 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Hickerson, Claude L- 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Chappell, Robert E. 
 
 Vadner, Morton E. 
 
 Winters, Clemence A. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Gross, Walter A. 
 
 Mettenet, Paul 
 Buglers: 
 
 Bartley, Oliver J. 
 
 McEnroe, James J. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Blum, Edwin F. 
 
 Frick, Nicholas C. 
 
 Knickman, Herman C. 
 
 McElhiney, _ Samuel J. 
 
 Maurice, Richard S. 
 
 Mettenet, George A. 
 
 Rintoul, Morris C. 
 
 Rothemeyer, Robert A 
 
 Slawson, Charles G. 
 
 Snyder, Harry M. 
 
 Tebbetts, Alvah M, 
 
 Zeller, Andrew A. 
 Privates: 
 
 Ashby, Cornelius A. 
 
 Bambrick, Joseph A. 
 
 Beaver, Carl M. 
 
 Beavers, Fred W. 
 
 Barman, Hymen 
 
 Blakely, Walter M. 
 
 Bourdet, Andre J. 
 
 Dannacher, David S. 
 English, Leo P. 
 Enrigbt, Frank W. 
 Fahein, John H. 
 Farnik, John A. 
 Gage, Leslie F. 
 Garey, Harry D. 
 Gemmer, Theodore, 
 
 Jr. 
 Hall, Scott H. 
 Hall, Walter G. 
 Harrington, Thomas 
 
 F. 
 Hill, Bernard L. 
 Hunt, Robert C. 
 Jefferies, Frank O. 
 Johnson, James A. 
 Johnson, Thomas A. 
 Kelly, Alfred C. 
 Lawler, Eugene F. 
 Lomax, James C, 
 Meglio, Leonardo 
 Messmer, Frederick 
 Napper, Elmer E. 
 Neville, Barth 
 Nowotny, Lawrence 
 
 R. 
 Papin, Laclede C. 
 Sherburne, Leo F. 
 Suycott, Adam H. 
 Tischler, George J. 
 Vahey, Joe H. 
 Williams, Henry M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William P. Sanders 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Lawrence P. Wood- 
 ward 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Elzie V. McGinnis 
 
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 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Sheahan, John J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 McMahan, Hugh S., 
 Jr. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Senn, Frank R. Jr. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Woodward, Richard 
 h. 
 
 Tebeau, Albert J. 
 
 Bonheim, Myron W. 
 
 McGoogan, William j. 
 
 Scheel, Ivouis 
 
 McCune, Charles A. 
 Corporals: 
 
 McBride, Sherman L. 
 
 Schless, Alphonse A. 
 
 Combs, Denny 
 
 Mooney, Ralph K. 
 
 Moran, Joseph 
 
 Hortiz, Raymond J, 
 
 Kickham, John L. 
 
 Krone, Emil F. 
 
 Laffler, John J. 
 
 Reid, Roger F. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Maloney, Edward R. 
 
 Mann, Robert F. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Belmont, Thomas J. 
 
 Teckenbrock, Walter 
 P. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Dixon, Walter D. 
 
 McCluskey, Frank J. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Avery, Henry B. 
 
 Deitrich, Albert F. 
 
 Distler, Theodore J. 
 
 Fels, Daniel M. 
 Goldberg, Isadora 
 Hausman, Vincent G. 
 Heidel, Carl 
 Herzog, Fred J. 
 Klinkamper, John 
 Kruer, Roy A. 
 lyinenweber, William 
 
 S. 
 Sweeney, Thomas L. 
 Steinmeyer, Charles 
 Ueltzen, Arthur H. F. 
 Wolk, Raymond B. 
 Privates: 
 
 Aldrich, Myron W. 
 Beans, Clarence F. 
 Bertolotti, Stephen 
 Bester, Philip 
 Bigalke, Gustave 
 Boedges, William J. 
 Boggs, Walter H. 
 Bonk,_ Alex P. 
 Boveri, L,ouis 
 Brownell, Richard S. 
 Byrd, Medford W. 
 Burne, Edward A. 
 Cleary, Eward M. 
 Coney, Palemon 
 Coney, William G. 
 Delarche, Rene 
 Dowell, Virgil L,. 
 Erkert, Elmer 
 Fetten, Robert C. 
 Forshee, Ivan E. 
 Fracchia, John 
 Franey, William J. 
 Goldblume, Harry 
 Gray, Clarence A. 
 Gudermuth, Edward J. 
 Hawkins, George R. 
 Huff, Harrv G. 
 Hutter, William 
 
 Jarson, Maurice M. 
 Johnson, Ulla F. 
 Jones, Harry L,. 
 Jones, Robert h. 
 Krauska, Frank S. 
 L,awson, Jess J. 
 Littleton, Wilber E. 
 Long, Robert H. 
 McMahan, Earl D. 
 Marlin, Fred E. 
 Mersman, Charles E. 
 Middleton, John W. 
 Moon, James L,. 
 Moon, William 
 Murray, Charles S. 
 Overy, Oscar J. 
 Petrie, Herbert I, 
 Prost, Robert E. 
 Pruett, Charles 
 Robertson, James W. 
 Robertus, Gotlieb E. 
 Rollman, Claire W. 
 Ryan, Raymond C, 
 Schaefer, August 
 Shaw, Eldo C. 
 Slominski, John V. 
 Sowinski, Frank 
 Specking, Edward 
 Tebeau, Walter H. 
 Toussley, Sid. 
 Trotto, August F. 
 Tuggle, Henry G. 
 Ueltzen, William C. 
 
 H. 
 Venable, John W. 
 Waite, Rowland , 
 Wilcox, Loyal P. Jr. 
 Wilson, Clarence F. 
 Winters, Cash H. 
 Worley, Edward R. 
 Yeaman, Charles 
 Yount, Verner J. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Rodney J. Ludlow Jr. 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Lloyd O. Brightfield 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Archie D. Reiger 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Martin, Frederick B. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Brook, James R. 
 Supply Sergeant 
 
 Turner, Robert D. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Schopp, Reynold S. 
 
 Cherbonnier, Lawrence 
 O. 
 
 Hickerson, Sandford B. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 St. Louis 
 
 Worrell, Richard O. 
 Hopson, John W. 
 Casey, Andrew F. 
 Koch, Albert 
 Corporals: 
 
 Levy, Charles M. 
 Vahlkamp, Gustave 
 Gordon, James P. 
 Smith, Lloyd A. 
 Reid, Harry C. 
 Smith, Elwyn G. 
 Vaughan, Rufus E. 
 Doxsee, Leigh A. 
 Walker, Edward E. 
 Johnson, Dee L. 
 Moore, William S. 
 Dunham, LeRoy D. 
 
 Carney, Herbert S. 
 
 Haill, Arthur H. 
 
 Seimer, William A. 
 
 Pitts, William S. 
 
 Baker, Gilbert R. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Williams, Edward W. 
 
 Ausbrooks, Noel H. 
 
 Simpson, Lloyd J. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Maryanovich, Paul A. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Schmid, Ferdinand A. 
 
 Henley, Howard H. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Edmund R. 
 
 Gorman, Robert J. 
 
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 Kelso, E. Bryan 
 Lynch, Robert L. 
 Montgomery, William 
 
 F. 
 Pendleton, Clyde F. 
 Pitt, Gladstone 
 Prevallet, Val A. 
 Smith, Elzie H. 
 Theil, Frederick P. 
 Privates: 
 
 Armstrong, William 
 Askrabich, Stojan 
 Barnard, William D. 
 Barrena, Casimiro 
 Bell, Elmer J. 
 Bertels, George J. 
 Bornschein, Leonard 
 
 L. 
 Broombaugh, r^mmett 
 
 Brown, Harry W. 
 Carter, Elmer G. 
 Carter, George F. 
 Chase, Thomas B. 
 Clark, Henry G. 
 Collyer, R. Cecil 
 Conway, William I. 
 Dandridge, Leon 
 Dean, William Fay 
 Deaton, Harry B. 
 Degonia, William 
 Derringer, Richard G. 
 Douglas, Robert S. 
 Dowell, Maurice H. 
 Fangmann, Arthur A. 
 Foley, Francis T. 
 Forrest, Fay F. 
 Foster, Tames M. 
 Galik, John 
 Gerard, Eugene A. 
 
 Gilpin, Floyd A. 
 Gooldy, Wm. T. 
 Gordon, Joseph E. 
 Grace, William F. 
 Gray, Curtis C. 
 Griffin, Edward W. 
 Hamby, Thomas G. 
 Hamilton, John R. 
 Hammond, Rankin 
 Hannon, Thomas J. 
 Hanson, John 
 Haught, Herman C. 
 Play, Darrell 
 Hayes, Harvey J. 
 Heitner, Charles W. 
 Heiss, Fred 
 Hereford, Thomas G. 
 Herrick, John W. 
 Huber, William J. 
 Hurt, Patrick H. 
 Jesse, Paul C. 
 Johnson, Harry B. 
 Johnson, Henry 
 Johnson, William O. 
 Kitson, William T. 
 Koch, Edwin 
 Koons, Joseph E. 
 Leri, Savino V. 
 McDaniel, Frank H. 
 McGraw, Clarence R. 
 Mager, Thomas J. 
 Maguire, James J., Jr. 
 Manilovitch, Boje 
 Masson, Earl E. 
 Masson, Edward L. 
 May, Robert W. 
 Morgan, Oliver Vance 
 Moulton, Sidney 
 Murphy, Jess C. 
 
 Nuelle, Edward T. 
 O'Connor, Maurice 
 Onstott, Byron C. 
 Ottorino, Debberti V. 
 Paddock, Leroy E. 
 Pesold, Charles 
 Pohlman, Clarence H. 
 Politte, Sam 
 Popovick, John 
 Pulliam, William M. 
 Raff, Harold A. 
 Reed, Jack 
 Rice, Charles A. 
 Ridgeway, Byran 
 Ridgeway, Wray T. 
 Roberts, Kirk M. 
 Rutledge, Rube 
 Scharnberger, Frank 
 
 T. 
 Schaub, Louis J. 
 Schuedding, George 
 Scoggins, Frederick 
 Shoults, Odis E. 
 Slater, William J. 
 Smith, Jesse 
 Smith, Lee R. 
 Smith, Walter 
 Steinle, Louis L. 
 Stone, Bernard 
 Stultz, James W. 
 Sweeney, Mike L. 
 Szezpaniak, Frank 
 Taylor, Herbert S. 
 Thompson, Donald C. 
 Timmerman, George J. 
 Tomlinson, Eugene 
 Vance, Jesse S. 
 White, Jay 
 Wilson. Lemuel 
 Wolz, Edward A. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Walton S. FitzRoy 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Andrew J. Moore 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Orville H. Cale 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 White, Harry J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Bock, John S. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Bluhm, August B. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Curtis, Matthew B. 
 
 Jennings, Duncan R. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Adams, Edwin J. 
 
 Bowlin, William K. 
 
 Donaldson, Charles H. 
 
 COMPANY C 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Howden, Howard L. 
 
 O'Flynn, John S. 
 
 Rohlfing, Philip L. 
 
 Stevens, Clair F. 
 
 Zager, William F., Jr. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Hannan, Emanuel J. 
 
 Petot, Thomas N. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Mitchell, John S. 
 
 Stephenson, John A. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Trabue, Archie E. 
 
 Witler, Walter G. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Fornsbell, Robert L. 
 
 Gieselman, Lester F. 
 
 Gruner, Raymond 
 
 Haley, Joseph J. 
 
 Holloway, James W. 
 Lowry, Russell L 
 Meinhardt, William 
 
 G. 
 Renz, Fred J. 
 Richart, Paul A. 
 Salter, Chester R. 
 Sweet, Andrew E. 
 Privates: 
 
 Bell, William 
 Bernacchi, Robert J. 
 Biddle, John H. 
 Bobeen, Joseph F. 
 Brockman, Guy 
 Brockman, Harry A. 
 Cluny, Emery E. 
 Condon, Richard K. 
 Cooksey, David F. 
 Daley, Frank N. 
 
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 Delcour, Ralph C. 
 Diehl, Norman A. 
 Disher Elmer 
 Dreyfus, Edward N. 
 Dunlap, Cecil H. 
 Fagin, lyouis 
 Fizer, Wm. F. 
 Forbes, Maurice B. 
 Gowan, Gordon D. 
 Greear, Rogers A. 
 Griffln, Peter M. 
 Haefer, Wm. 
 Heil, Mat. P. 
 Heier, Michael P. 
 Henley, Millard F. 
 Heyer, George W. 
 Horsfield, Thos. 
 Johnson, Monroe H. 
 Kilcovne, Tom 
 
 Komocar, Martin 
 Kruse, Julius 
 Kubong, Max P. 
 Kuehn, Arthur L. 
 Lamure, Henry J. 
 Laxton, Clarence P. 
 Lee, James W. 
 LeRoi, Elmer H. 
 Eichtenberg, William 
 
 H., Jr. 
 Eindwedel, Frederick 
 
 H. Jr. 
 McDonough, Louis 
 McGowan, Charles T. 
 Machavec, Leo R. 
 Mabery, Walter M. 
 Mathes, William G. 
 Miller, John M. 
 Miner, Arthur L. 
 
 Mitchell, Edward J. 
 Nelson, Orlin S. 
 Niles, Frederick W. 
 Pickles, Ralph A. 
 Pzybyl, Walter 
 Reiter, Charles 
 Schmidt, Elmer 
 Seeburger, Louis P. 
 Shepard, Charles E. 
 Sobelman, Harry S. 
 Stine, Glen W. 
 Stumbagh, Ralph 
 Timmons, James R. 
 Tonga, George F. 
 Vieth. Albert H. 
 Watts, William O. 
 Whitley, David Jr. 
 Williams, Willie P. 
 Young, Roscoe K. 
 
 COMPANY D 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Roderick, W. Rom- 
 bauer 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William J. Lonergan 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Joseph F. McMahon 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Carr, William J. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Deibel, Milton L. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Dolan, Raphael R. 
 
 Menges, Louis J. 
 
 O'Connor, Stephen J. 
 
 Weber, Frank D. 
 
 Neuwirth, Alois G. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Abbott, Hughey T. 
 
 Brennan, James F. 
 
 DeVoy, Raymond J. 
 
 Menges, Eugene V. 
 
 Munsey, Walter T. 
 
 Sartorius, Richard J. 
 
 Schisler, William M. 
 
 Letson, Thomas 
 
 Scanlon, Matthew J. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Zwickl, Alois H. 
 
 Re, Anthony V. 
 
 Sullins, Harry J. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Stanton, George K. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Davidson, Harry M. 
 Privates : 
 
 Bledsoe, James W. 
 
 Bonzon, John 
 
 Burke, John P. 
 Carlton, Elmer M. 
 Carron, Albert J. 
 Charleville, Harry M. 
 Collins, Sidney H. 
 Craig, Everett C. 
 Davis, John J. 
 Deniston, Clyde N. 
 Deniston, William H. 
 Dickerson, John H. 
 Dickie, Andrew W. 
 Doere, Charles H. 
 Engelbach, Clarence 
 English, John P. 
 Fields, Guy B. 
 Gallaher, James E. 
 Gerstkemper, Trevor 
 
 H. 
 Gildehaus, John B. 
 Hahn, Walter H. 
 Howard, Harry J. 
 Jaenicke, Kent W. A. 
 Janssen, George W. 
 Keller, Herbert 
 Kelley, William F. 
 Kennealy, William R. 
 Kenney, George M. 
 Kerr, James J. 
 Kilcoyne, John J. 
 Koester, Frank B. 
 Lane, Charles 
 Loftus, William G 
 McCoy, George J. 
 McGough, Homer L. 
 McHugh, George F. 
 Mclntyre, James W. 
 McKenna, Earle V. 
 Martin, Frank I 
 Middleton, Ward L. 
 
 Motsinger, Chester 
 Munsey, Arthur S. 
 Muren, Irwin D. 
 Neusella, Albert A. 
 Noel, John B. 
 Noonan, Michael S. 
 O'Day, Joseph J. 
 Olmsted, Charles D. 
 Pentz, Virgil C. 
 Radowski, John 
 Rapp, Arthur P. 
 Rhoades, Walter 
 Roedeger, Frank P. 
 Russell, Charles L. 
 Schaffer, James A. 
 Schlueter, Harold H. 
 Seager, Henry J. 
 Sheerinj Charles E. 
 Sims, Troy E. 
 Smart, William H. 
 Smith, Albert 
 Smith, Eugene H. 
 Smith, Leon E. 
 Sullivan, Thomas F. 
 Templeman, Francis 
 
 W. 
 Templeman, John J. 
 Thiesmann, Ben H. 
 Theismann, Charles 
 Tozer, Leroy J. 
 Votaw, Forest 
 Walker, August A. 
 Walker, Raymond J. 
 Ward, William J. 
 Wells, Ozro L. 
 Whelan. l^Tichnel 
 Wio-ginSj, TyPster E. 
 Williams, Victor 
 Zoller, Herbert T, 
 
338 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 George M. Faught 
 1 St Lieutenant, 
 
 Kenneth S. Walker 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles M. Marshall 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Stone, Robert 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Bryan, William S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Barada, Maurice W. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Lorenze, Fred C. 
 
 Lindsey, Walter C. 
 
 Compton, Letcher 
 
 Kracht, "Alvin W. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Deacon, John C. 
 
 Dohr, Eugene E. 
 
 Eubanks, Will 
 
 Gray, Edward L. 
 
 Gupton, William O. 
 
 Kirkland, Lewis D. 
 
 Lehman^ George F. 
 
 Long, Arthur 
 
 McLean, John C. 
 
 Richter, Joseph D. 
 
 Reuther, Otto M. 
 
 Schwacker, Arthur A. 
 
 Thursby, Walter T. 
 
 Walker, Roy E. 
 
 Wulfert, Lorance E. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Thilking, Arthur F. 
 Buglers: * 
 
 Anson, Tracy E. 
 
 Ethridge, Stephen W. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Cleveland, William 
 F. 
 
 Hodges, James A. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Alt, Frank W. 
 
 Blum, Edward W. 
 
 Cook, Columbus J. 
 
 Cosgrove, Ed. R. 
 
 Cosgrove, Roy John 
 
 Czerwinski, Joseph B. 
 
 Dilallo, Paul 
 
 COMPANY E 
 St. Louis 
 
 Greene, William M. 
 Hilton, Clinton H. 
 Ikemeyer, Charles J. 
 Kazban, John 
 Kopp, Howard C. 
 Lane, Harry J. 
 Lane, Joseph E. 
 Moore, Lee E. 
 Nifong, Shirley 
 Pfeifer, Oliver H. 
 Powell, John W. 
 Protte, Robert W. 
 Ouinlivan, Thomas Af. 
 Redman, Silas 
 Sheridan, Paul J. 
 Simmons, Elijah 
 Trappe, Clarence O. 
 W^alter, Wilham, Jr. 
 Weiss, Louis W. 
 Privates: 
 
 Arnett, Robert H. 
 Bainter, Clarence 
 Boswell, John R. 
 Bowser, Ross W. 
 Brewington, Joseph C. 
 Byers, Bert 
 Combs, Oscar F. 
 Daflfronj James 
 Darrah, Fred 
 Davis, Andrew A. 
 Dietz, William 
 Ferris, Joseph 
 Fitzsimmons, Robert 
 
 G. 
 Forcum, Lincoln 
 Foster, James E. 
 Francis, William 
 Garth, Thomas K. 
 Gaus, Alfred W. 
 Graham, George B. 
 Hanes, Frank 
 Heberer, Arthur E. 
 Heger, John 
 Hicks, Chauncey 
 Hill, William C. 
 Hugh, Ben 
 Hurst, Wayne 
 lahn, Grover P. 
 Irwin, Fannon 
 Johnson, William R. 
 Jones, Lawrence 
 Jordan, Miles 
 
 Kelley, Charles M. 
 Kelley, Stephen J. 
 Kellogg, Donald L. 
 King, Chester 
 Kowalski, John 
 Kruse, Edward C. 
 Lacomb, Joseph F. 
 Lander, Max 
 Lanwet, Louis N. 
 Loesch, Walter L. 
 Loser, William C, Jr. 
 Luley, Harvey L. 
 McCall,. George T. 
 McCarver, Charles 
 
 F. 
 McClurg, Leslie J. 
 .-.iatkins, Ora D. 
 Alayhill^ Ralph B. 
 IMerriman, Harry R. 
 Miller, Leland S. 
 Mills, Thomas E. 
 Montague, Charles A. 
 Pavinski, Alex 
 Politte, Madie 
 Reed, Charles 
 Reeves, Edward 
 Reeves, Marvin 
 Reichman, Benjamin 
 Roesberg, Walter 
 Rogge, Lawrence 
 Sample, Floyd E. 
 Sample, George W. 
 Schleier, Hermann H. 
 Schmidt, Elmer L. 
 Scott, Gus 
 Siemens, Joseph 
 Slavick, Steve 
 Smith, John W. 
 Thomas, Willard B. 
 Thomas, William F. 
 Wampler, Harry D. 
 Warren, Elijah 
 Watkins, Bert L. 
 Weber, Charles H. 
 Williams, Emmett E. 
 Wilt, Leo M. 
 Wind, Wilham J. 
 Wootan, Jerome 
 Wray, Harvey 
 Wright, Abraham 
 Wysocki, Kasmir 
 Young, Gus 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Eugene F. Lloyd 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 John E. Mitchell, Jr. 
 
 COMPANY F 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 William PL Bowman 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Jones, Paul, Jr. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Kiricpatrick, Richard 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Fuller, William R. 
 
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 Hoefer, John Jr. 
 
 Huber, George J. 
 
 Pastelinck, Allan I*). 
 Corporals : 
 
 Bennett, Ralston 
 
 Byrne, Charles L,. 
 
 Hiffman, Arthur A. 
 
 Marquard, William 
 
 Phillips, Oscar M. 
 
 Steinhoff, Homer 
 
 Walsh, Patrick J. 
 
 Wolfner, Walter 
 Cooks: 
 
 Beard, James D. 
 
 Layne, Claude 
 
 Roussin, Amos A. 
 Mechanic : 
 
 Alexander, William K. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, Arthur W. 
 
 Althofif, Harry S. 
 
 Anna, Edward 
 
 Baird, George R. 
 
 Battreal, Carrick J. 
 
 Beckett, John H. 
 
 Behymer, Vernon S. 
 
 Bowles, Addison 
 
 Browning, Mike 
 
 Clark, McKee 
 
 Click, Arthur F. Jr. 
 
 Clifton, William D. 
 
 Coffman, Leeman 
 
 Connell, Richard J. 
 
 Cunio, Roy E. 
 
 Dalton, Albert K. 
 
 Dempsey, Leo Walter 
 
 Derickson, Roy 
 
 Dickemian, Arthur A. 
 
 Dobbins, Jesse L. 
 
 Dreher, Walter F. 
 
 Kstes, William L- 
 
 Farrar, Edwin 
 
 Fitzgerald, George K 
 
 Fleming, Charles R. 
 
 Flood, Wilhe A. 
 Frankhn, William H. 
 Frazier, Coleman P. 
 Gallagher, William M. 
 Goellner, Harry A. 
 Gormley, Edward P. 
 Gowan, Benjamin H 
 Hacking, William V. 
 Hancock, Jesse W. 
 Harris, Henry 
 Hart, Barney 
 Hoard, Robert M. 
 Hoffman, Richard 
 Hood, Grover L. 
 Hood, Lawrence 
 Hosch, Alfred H. 
 Huff, WilHam L. 
 Hulsay, George M. 
 Huskey, Frederick 
 Huston, Robert W. 
 Imholz, Harry W. 
 Jackson, Herbert E. 
 Juliet, John 
 Knotts, Otis G. 
 KoUwitz, August C, 
 Kriegbaum, Frank 
 Kurz, William L. 
 LaRose, Peter F. 
 Laughlin, Francis S. 
 Lawson, Henry F. 
 Ledbetter, E. Ray 
 McCarthy, John J. 
 McCreary, John C. 
 McGee, Corbin A. 
 McGeorge, Carl C. 
 Mallery, Arthur N. 
 Maness, William T. 
 Meinhofer, Frank 
 Michaelis, Albert 
 Milford; Minor T. 
 Moore, Roscoe D. 
 Mounts, George M. 
 Morris, John L. 
 Murphy, James L. 
 Newberry, Charles E. 
 Ogle, Edgar L. 
 
 Phillips, Roy Lee 
 Pilger, Elbert L. 
 Pope, Francis W. 
 Portell, Fred D. 
 Pounds, Allen E. 
 Pounds, Nimrod A. 
 Pratt, Jesse L. 
 Ramer, George C. 
 Raymond, Leslie R. 
 Reddick, Norman J. 
 Reden, Earl 
 Reeder, Ollie C. 
 Reeve, Ernest D. 
 Richardson, Oscar 
 Robinson, Lawrence 
 
 L. 
 Rosentengel, Harry 
 
 F. 
 Rosentengel, William 
 Roth, William 
 Roussin, Clyde O. 
 Scaggs, William E. 
 Schmidt, Charles 
 Schmidt, Raymond A. 
 Schumaker, Fred 
 Silvey, Lawrence D. 
 Smith, Arnold B. 
 Sommers, William PI. 
 Speidel, Frederick J. 
 Splithoff, Frank 
 Steinmann, Eugene B. 
 SviUivan, Leo F. 
 Tillman, Julius E. 
 Ulrich, Clem H. 
 Vaughan, Samuel R. 
 Vie, Fred 
 Wall, Howard 
 Weber, Clarence R 
 Weber, Val 
 Westphal, George F. 
 Williams, Clarence E. 
 Wilson, Lloyd A. 
 Wilson, William A. 
 Withington, Joseph S 
 Wunsch, Albert E. 
 Young, Otha Lee 
 
 1 st Lieutenant, 
 
 Elmer S. Stradai 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Edwin L. Jones 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Gray, Walter R. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Weil, Herman 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Wies, Gustav 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Carter, Samuel S. 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Dutton, Dudley S. 
 Hoffman, Louis J. 
 Fox, Eugene P. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Bierman, Ike 
 Brannen, Earl W. 
 Engel, Soloman H. 
 Engelmeier, William 
 Fleisher^ Albert H. 
 Greenberg, Charles S. 
 Johnson, Henry R. 
 Piper, Henry E. 
 
 Sauer, Joseph A. 
 
 Preetorius, William 
 C, Jr. 
 
 Lungwitz, Martin 
 
 Kelley, Eugene R. 
 Mechanic : 
 
 Rossen, William E. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Grenier, George J. 
 
 Ussery, Grover 
 
 Ortbals, John H. 
 
340 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Brinkman, George A. 
 
 Evans, Victor F. 
 
 Hensler, Walter J. 
 
 Lungwitz, Edward C. 
 
 Marks, Garnett A. 
 
 Owens, William 
 
 Smith, William F. 
 Privates: 
 
 Brown, Carl L. 
 
 Brown, George P. 
 
 Brown, Harold L. 
 
 Brown, William H, 
 
 Bruns, Willliam H. 
 
 Chandler, Kenneth 
 
 Corrigan, Leon J. 
 
 Davenport, Adrian C. 
 
 Davidson, Clyde R. 
 
 Davis, Loren 
 
 Dayboll, Lawrence T. 
 
 DeFerd,. Adrian A. 
 
 Desbozeilles, James A. 
 
 Dienj', Emil J., Jr 
 
 Drakeford, James M. 
 
 DuChesne, Harvey E 
 
 Dwyer, Joseph J. 
 
 Endejanj William 
 
 ETans, Clarence F. 
 
 Fallis, Gus L. 
 
 Flynn, Louis 
 Girolamo, Guiseppe 
 Glanville, Keener 
 Gottlieb, Joseph 
 Gradley, John J. 
 Halpin, Maurice 
 Hanley, Roy 
 Harris, Paul G. 
 Hughes, Ralph K. 
 Hunn, John D. 
 Jones, Edward 
 Klein, Morris 
 Kreamer, James J. 
 Laughlin, James 
 Lawson, Everett, L. 
 Lawson, John H. 
 Laycob, David 
 Lazarus, Willis H. 
 Lisch, William H. 
 Logan, Wallace S. 
 Louis, Sidney 
 Lyons, Leon N. 
 McCarthy, Ray O. 
 Manrikes, Lawrence 
 MartenSj Charles 
 Mercurio, Phillip 
 Milford, Scott 
 Miller, Edward T. 
 Moffit, William j. 
 Moody, John W. 
 
 Needles, Sam 
 O'Brien, Michael F. 
 Palm, Floyd M. 
 Randall, Louis V. 
 Peters, Harry W. 
 Porcelli, Peter, Jr. 
 Roberts, Dewey 
 Roberts, Walter 
 Roos, Clyde E. 
 Rose, Ezra 
 Rottler, August M. 
 Rozmirsky, Edmund 
 
 S. 
 Schoemaker, William 
 
 ^ J- 
 
 Schrammel, Peter 
 Schultz, Jack T. 
 Silch, Wilham E. 
 Smith, Alfred E- 
 Smith, Charles R. 
 Smith, Percy G. 
 Smith, William A. 
 Somerville, Clayton 
 Theobald, Jake 
 Thompson, William 
 Tracy, Joseph P. 
 Watsonj Floyd 
 Weber, Frederick I/. 
 Young, Frank H. 
 Zerillo, Dominick 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Alexander C. McDon- 
 ald 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William H. Leahy 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry J. Myers, Jr. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Funck, George F. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Koons, Raymond F. 
 
 Van Sickler, William 
 H. 
 
 Sweeney, William F. 
 
 McNicholas, Joseph 
 
 Taussing, Warren A. 
 
 McFarland, William 
 G. 
 
 Fullerton, Samuel B. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Michenfelder, Albert 
 A. 
 
 Erman, William F. 
 
 Hambuechen, Louis 
 P. 
 
 McHale, Ernest R. 
 
 Hofman, William S. 
 
 Wick, Jerry 
 
 Shock, Fretwell 
 
 COMPANY H 
 St. Louis 
 
 Alexander, Harry W. 
 
 Fierce, Francis M 
 
 Dunham, Edward M. 
 
 Goddard, Stimson W. 
 
 Hampel, Roy F. 
 
 Malton, William 
 Mechanic: 
 
 Kostick, Sil 
 Cooks: 
 
 McFarland, Ronald 
 V. 
 
 Spirros, Louis J. 
 
 Clayton, Cleo C. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Carnella, Joseph M. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abraham, George C. 
 
 Acki, Joseph 
 
 Allen, John G. 
 
 Bartels, Sidney S. 
 
 Brennan, William T. 
 
 Brown, Herbert M. 
 
 Burns, William J. 
 
 Carpenter, George W. 
 
 Carter, John W. 
 
 Caulfield, Eugene J. 
 
 Chadsey, Hubert A. 
 
 Chamberlain, Harold 
 B. 
 
 Crawford, Tom R. 
 Dodd, Randell S. 
 Eaton, Harvey 
 Echternkamp, Clar- 
 ence 
 England, Harry E. 
 Elder, Howard J. 
 Fagan, George E. 
 Ficke, Walter E- 
 Fitter, Samuel 
 Frick, Joseph G. Jr. 
 Green, John P. 
 Griffey, Herbert E. 
 Halpin, Elmer G. 
 Harkins, Clarence V. 
 Haydn, Paul 
 Heard, Herbert 
 Hill, Landon W. 
 Hoener, Edward W. 
 Hoflfman, Henry 
 Hurst, Andrew E. 
 Joo, John 
 Kearn, Frank L. 
 Keller, John L. 
 Krieshok, John 
 Lang, Julian W. 
 Lefers, Arthur B. 
 Leonard, Elmer 
 Lessley, May G. 
 
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 Lookiebill, William 
 
 A. 
 Lovvarn, Jesse R. 
 McCarthy, Thomas K. 
 McCarty, John 
 McGee, Fred J. 
 Mclvoney, Robert G. 
 Meltner, August C. 
 Metalovic, Nickolo 
 Mishaker, ]\Tax 
 O'Connell, William T. 
 Orf, Edward Tl. 
 
 Owens, Henry C. 
 Paczos, Alexander 
 Patton, Fred H. 
 Patton, Roy F. 
 Pendill, Landon W. 
 Pendill, William F. 
 Portlock, Jefferson 
 Price, Fdward J. 
 Riemann, Fdward 
 Rosenbalm, Dewey A. 
 Ruebel, Daniel A. 
 Ryan, Raymond M. 
 
 Schroer, Fdward 
 Schuman, Fdward 
 Shaffer, Newell B. 
 Sprietzer, William 
 Sullivan, William L,. 
 Swain, Frank 
 Thompson, WilHam 
 
 A. 
 Travers, James A. 
 Walker, Clarence M. 
 Wolfson, Simon 
 Zeigler, Harris J. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Robert Fullerton, Jr. 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Samuel H. Allen 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Oliver W. Spencer 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Bach, Rudolph C. 
 IMess Sergeant, 
 
 Heetlield, Raymond 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Culbertson, Linn N. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Boehing, Clarence J. 
 
 Burcham, William F. 
 
 Keough, William B. 
 
 Lobsinger, William F. 
 
 Okel, John L. 
 
 Semon, Frank F. 
 
 Will, William D., Tr. 
 
 Wilson, George 
 Corporals : 
 
 Fling, John H. 
 
 Frerichs, Leo H. 
 
 Gockel, John L. 
 
 Hall, Charles D. 
 
 Ireland, Benjamin L. 
 
 Kekich, Emil A. 
 
 Deough. Frank T. 
 
 King, Harry F. 
 
 Lang, Ferdinand B. 
 
 Link, Erwin F. 
 
 Niemeyer, Fred L. 
 
 Oehmsted, Donald 
 
 Schumann, Edward F. 
 
 Zapf, Harry C. 
 Cooks : 
 
 ^Tartino, Tony 
 
 Watzig, Edward 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Kaas, James T. 
 
 Kidd, James L. 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Buglers : 
 
 AiciViahon, John R. 
 
 Warren, Lorraine E. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bedell, Wilham H. 
 
 Boatright, Thomas 
 
 Cassii, Lawrence J. 
 
 Clark, John C. 
 
 Frerichs, William H. 
 
 Gates, Morris 
 
 Hoelscher, Raymond 
 F. 
 
 Kiely, Charles 
 
 Netteler, George P. 
 Jr. 
 
 Penzler, Arthur 
 
 Powell, Walter W. 
 
 Priest, Vincil M, 
 
 Rose, Pierre W 
 
 Ruby, Edward A. 
 
 Sass, Walter H. 
 
 Sauer, John 
 
 Thompson, John H. 
 
 Tondro, Peter R. 
 
 Wahoff, Frederick 
 
 Westing, Albert J. 
 
 Wilms, George 
 
 Zahner, Wilferd J. 
 Privates : 
 
 Abramson, Herbert L- 
 
 Abramson, Sidney L- 
 
 Adams, Fred G. 
 
 Baker, Frank J. 
 
 Bannon, David 
 
 Barron, Osmond M. 
 
 Buchanan, Charles F. 
 
 Burgolty, George 
 
 Bykowski, Stanislav 
 
 Cameron, Anthony M. 
 
 Carrico, Wm. 
 
 Cepicky, John G. Jr. 
 
 Dickinson, Lewis A. 
 
 Dickmann. William 
 
 Domino, William 
 
 Epperson, Charles PI. 
 
 Evans, John J. 
 Ferguson, Troy E. 
 Fox, James E. 
 Galpin, Willard H. 
 Gambino, Salvatore 
 Gard, Charles E. 
 Gates, Sidney 
 Gertken, Joseph 
 Gooseman, Irvm H. 
 Graham, Joseph 
 Gregory, William O. 
 Heetfield, Delmar A. 
 Hite, James H. 
 Hughes, John J. 
 Jesse, Ross 
 Kajszo, Andrew 
 Kelly, James W. 
 Klose, Raymond A. 
 Laks, Walter 
 Laurent, Ludwig F- 
 Lewis, Joseph E. 
 Lockhart, Homer O. 
 McCool, Fred W. 
 McCoy, James 
 McGuigan, James T. 
 O'Brien, William j. 
 O'Malley, Charles T. 
 Peters, Clyde J. 
 Prost, WilHam V. 
 Rakey, Walter 
 Rausch, Ira A. 
 Rieman, Clarence 
 Roethig, Fred J, 
 Sears, Joseph 
 Shearon, Roger 
 Smith, Roy L. 
 Staat, Michael F. 
 Stahl, Erwin O. 
 Stoll, William J. 
 Tourville, Archie C. 
 Uriwal, Henry 
 Ward, John 
 White, Edward 
 Wilmes, Edward 
 Zalner. Gilbert H. 
 Zalewski, Frank 
 
342 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John F. Oberwinder 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Sylvester C. Judge, Jr. 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 William W. Suther- 
 land 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Jones, Clarence E. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Coste, Felix W. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Peller, Joseph R, 
 
 Schwab, John A, 
 
 Perry, William 
 
 Riester, Leroy M. 
 
 McCole, Dan H. 
 
 Tenim, William D., Jr. 
 
 Mare, William S. 
 
 Halman_, Fugene 
 Corporals : 
 
 Groffmann, Charles 
 
 Boelling, Jerome H. 
 
 Bergen, Howard S 
 
 Broyer, Oscar, Jr. 
 
 Schall, Fugene A. 
 
 Stanick, Stanley 
 
 Harrison, John A., Jr. 
 
 Kemper, Fmerson M. 
 
 Goff, Lee T. 
 
 Tapscott, Jo J. 
 
 Gildersleeve, Charles 
 F. 
 
 Bell, Godwin ?. 
 
 McCrady, Roy 
 
 Austin, Daniel W. J. 
 
 Mitcham, Wilson M. 
 
 Travis, Malcom M, 
 Cooks: 
 
 Hoke, William F. 
 
 Andrews, Peter 
 
 Sullivan, John R. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Parson, Dell D. 
 
 Schuster, Joseph 
 Buglers: 
 
 Knight, Donald S. 
 
 COMPANY K 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Beyert, Henry 
 
 Carroll, William C. 
 
 DeVelder, Frank T. 
 
 Dillon, Millard D. 
 
 Drescher, Donald N. 
 
 Fitzsimmons, Law- 
 rence 
 
 Gossler, Harold F. 
 
 Grote, Harry A. 
 
 Hatch, Richard 
 
 Hatzfield, Walter J. 
 
 Jordan, Harry M. 
 
 Kirchoff, Fdward H. 
 
 Knapp, George G. 
 
 Kolar, William, Jr. 
 
 Lamm, Joseph B. 
 
 Long, Harlan C. 
 
 Mitchell, Charles J. 
 
 Moody, Halbert 
 
 Pappageorge, Basil 
 
 Rozier, Felix C. 
 
 Shotwell, Richard T. 
 
 Valentine, George 
 
 Webb, Albert C. 
 Privates: 
 
 Anny, Roy V. 
 
 Armstrong, William 
 
 Barcikowski, Wincenty 
 
 Binger, John H. 
 
 Birmingham, Peter M. 
 
 Bradley, Lawrence H. 
 
 Brown, Fdgar M. 
 
 Budzisiewski, Stan- 
 slaw 
 
 Coffey, William F. 
 
 Daly, Thomas F. 
 
 Dangus. August 
 
 Flder, Fvert B. 
 
 Fanning, William M. 
 
 Flynn, Thomas J. 
 
 Folsom, Arlington J. 
 
 Freese, William F. 
 
 Golumbienske, Walter 
 
 Greenberg, Morris 
 
 Greenwell, James S. 
 
 Grimm, John 
 
 Groark, John T. 
 
 Hager, Frank G., Jr. 
 
 Hayden, Herbert F. 
 
 Houston, Albert 
 
 Huber, Allan C. 
 
 Huskey, John 
 
 Hutcheson, Shelby T, 
 
 Karbe, Hunter G. 
 
 Keith ly, John \V. 
 
 Kelly, Charles F., Jr. 
 
 Kennedj^, Daniel 
 
 Kristopoules, Aristi- 
 des P. 
 
 Krone, Claude N. 
 
 Krumpelmann, Wil- 
 liam M. 
 
 Lamm, FIdrige G. 
 
 McDonough, Patrick 
 
 Malon, Joseph 
 Meyer, Harry F. 
 Miller, John 
 JNlontgomery, Garwin 
 
 F. 
 Mumpton, James F, 
 Murphy, William J. 
 Needle, Sam 
 Papadakos, Antonis 
 Parker, William A. 
 Parrish, Glenn 
 Policy, Fdward A. 
 Robinson, Louis 
 Sarason, Joseph H. 
 Schaft'erkoetter, Perry 
 
 F. 
 Schneider, Joseph 
 Schneider, Otto C. 
 Shaw, William N. 
 Smith, John L. 
 Steigameier, Fdwin 
 Thornas, James M. 
 Thompson, Garnett G. 
 Tippy, Forrest W. 
 Wander, Oliver W. 
 Wayland, Charles S. 
 Weiler, Julius F. 
 Welsh, Thomas 
 Williams, Charles 
 Wittbrodt, Arthur 
 Wojcicki, Wladvslaw 
 Worstenhohn, George 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Dwight F. Davis 
 1st Lieutenant 
 
 Leo W. Orf 
 2d Lieutenant. 
 
 Theodore Hunt 
 
 COMPANY L 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Sergeant 
 
 McDonough, Arthur L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Kalkman, George W. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Hoener, August D. 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Arnold, Robert F. 
 Benoist, Theodore. Ji 
 Brown, Sydney W. 
 Bunn, Milo B. 
 Hughes, Russell F. 
 
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 Major, John T, 
 
 Schroeder, Roberts J. 
 
 Weigel, Karl W. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Blair, Giles A. 
 
 Bolger, John R. 
 
 Brink, Ernest F. 
 
 Burnett, Frederick \V 
 
 Bushman, Henry R. 
 
 Carroll» James T- 
 
 Cuddy, Oliver F. 
 
 Button, Joseph B. 
 
 Giessenbeier, Henry 
 Jr. 
 
 Killian, Robert Lee 
 
 Richter, John B. 
 
 Robinson, Walter D. 
 
 Rottmann, Fli F. 
 
 True, Robert W. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Scully, James P. 
 
 Haufe, Richard C. 
 
 Stratmann, Leo N. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Anderson, Frank F. 
 
 Reitter, Roland L. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Dowell, James AL 
 
 Heckenkamp, Joseph 
 H. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bailey, John W. 
 
 Bollinger, WiHiam 
 
 Brinkman, Bert 
 
 Brockmeyer, Edgar 
 W. 
 
 Delaney, James L . 
 
 Dierkerj Harry J. 
 
 Fallert, Edgar J. 
 
 Flood, John J. 
 
 Fcrtin, George L. 
 
 Grant, Frank W. 
 
 Hanning, Oscar 
 
 Huebner, Robert L. 
 
 Kreyling, Christian 
 W. 
 
 Matthews, George 
 
 Peterson, Allan 
 
 Portmann, Arthur J. 
 
 H. 
 Powers, Joseph M. 
 Price, Alonzo V. 
 Sass, Carl H. 
 Shaw, Lester 
 Silver, Max M. 
 Thomas, John H. 
 V^ander Pluym, Ben 
 V'inyard, Walter L. 
 Wood, Thomas F. 
 Zeisler, Frank P. 
 Privates : 
 
 Allen, Elmer V. 
 Aubuchon, Dan Jr. 
 Aubuchon, Elmer 
 Bennett, Benjamin C, 
 
 Jr. 
 Bishop, David R, 
 Bishop, William B. 
 Borman, Frederick J. 
 Boyd, Edgar L. 
 Brenn, Harry R. 
 Brennan, Edward B. 
 Bruns, Eugene H. 
 Bubia, Edwin 
 Cain, Edward J. 
 Coleman, Raymond R. 
 Cooper, William H. 
 Court, Louis H. 
 Cunningham, James 
 Diesselhorst, Wilke 
 Dillard, Joseph P. 
 Eakle, Harmon S. 
 Ebenrick, Harry O. 
 Frentzel, Leo A. 
 Gabriel, Joseph 
 Gauvin, Lawrence J. 
 Giblin. Leo F. 
 Gisi, Herman O. 
 Goldschmidt. Albert 
 Graff, Joseph 
 Grunwald, Herman F. 
 Guithues, John H. 
 Haley, Martin T. 
 Hartigan, John R. 
 Hedtkamp, Roy 
 Hoffmann, Edgar W. 
 
 Kennedy, James W. 
 
 Kennedy, Robert J. 
 
 Kruep, Alois H. 
 
 Lamb, Luke, Ji. 
 
 Landrum, George W. 
 
 Lee, Edward R. 
 
 Lowder, George H. 
 
 Lyons, William J, 
 
 McGowan, Joseph H. 
 
 Maker, Clifford E. 
 
 Messmer, William R. 
 
 Mik, Frank A. 
 
 Miller, Harry J. 
 
 Ninker, Walter A. 
 
 Nolle, Glenn W. 
 
 O'Brien, Edward A. 
 
 O'Brien, Hugh 
 
 O'Brien, Thomas 
 
 O'Donnell, Dan 
 
 Ogle, Harley 
 
 Padfield, Russell S. 
 
 Phillips, George A. 
 
 Pilkington, Harry M. 
 
 Pitzer, Tom W. 
 
 Roddy, Elmer 
 
 Russell, Harold B. 
 
 Schaeffer, Albert E- 
 
 Schaeffer, Roy J. 
 
 Schleusner, Lawrence 
 R. 
 
 Schroer, Alfred H. 
 
 Schulz, Fred C. 
 
 Sheridan, Charles C. 
 
 Shoults, Ira 
 
 Sickerman, Harry 
 
 Slevin, Edward t., Jr. 
 
 Smith, James L. 
 
 Soberman, Sam 
 
 Stapf, Charles 
 
 Stolberg, Kenneth M. 
 
 Sumner, Elmo J. 
 
 Tavlor, Max W. 
 
 Todd, Robert A. 
 
 Vander Pluym, Ed- 
 ward 
 
 Wightman, Paul V. 
 
 Wild, Joseph 1.. 
 
 Young,' Harry R. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Hugh McK. Jones 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William F. Uthoff 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 George M. Hagee 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Hurley, Thomas W. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Sherman, Frank W. 
 
 COMPANY M 
 St. Louis 
 
 SupTily Sergeant. 
 
 Ryan, Edward J. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Bray, John S. 
 
 Murphy, Frank J. 
 
 Southward, Dudley W 
 
 Payne, William C. 
 
 Sidman, Stanlev A, 
 
 Horn, Leslie W. 
 
 Wieman, Harry R. 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Bainum, Jean H. 
 Mursinna, LeRcy C. 
 Robertson, LeRoy I. 
 Aubuchon, Clifford 
 
 W. 
 Fallis, Lyman J. 
 Stamm, Edward H. 
 Calvin, Thomas C. 
 Aldag, Edgar J. 
 
344 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Paisley, William E. 
 
 Zimmer, William J. 
 
 Batdorf, M. Schuyler 
 
 Knickerbocker, Wil- 
 liam J. 
 
 Muench, T. Frank 
 
 Nelson, Arthur S. 
 
 Harris, Alfred M. 
 
 Reiliey, Bonner D. 
 
 Copeland, Clarence l£. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Meyer, John H. 
 
 Nebcrgall, Beryl 
 
 Barton, Frank A. 
 iNtechanics: 
 
 Riely, James W. 
 
 Isbell, Grills W. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Mass, Ira 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Brooker, Benjamin S. 
 
 Byers, Kennedy 
 
 Christopher, Wilbur I. 
 
 Close, John L- 
 
 Crosby, Isaac F. 
 
 Dapron, Oliver L. 
 
 Davis, Curtis L. 
 
 Dornsief, Edwin H. 
 
 Foster, Hopestill 
 
 Higgins, Frank C. 
 
 Jordan, Theodore V. 
 
 Julius, William J. 
 
 LeRoi, William J. 
 
 Mix, Samuel M. 
 
 O'Brien, Algernon 
 
 Rather, Victor 
 
 Rauschkolb, Charles 
 O. 
 
 Sellers, Maurice C. 
 
 Spies, Leo C. 
 
 Wandas, Robert L 
 
 Warren, Edward A. 
 
 Weissenborn, Julius 
 
 S. 
 Wenneker, Charles R. 
 Wycoff, Ernest 
 Privates : 
 
 Ames, Arthur F. 
 Bartig, Louis I. 
 Bates, Oral E. 
 Bather, Harley E. 
 Beucke, Thomas E. 
 Boland, Zona V . 
 Bollman, Fred W. 
 Boone, Hudson W. 
 Breeden, Steve 
 Caton, Paul B. 
 Clogston, Walter F. 
 Corner, George 
 Costello, Bernard G. 
 Davis, Walter W. 
 Doerner, Charles J. 
 Duckworth, Charles H. 
 Duncan, Archie M. 
 Duncan, George L. 
 Evers, Louis E. 
 Farrell, Noble R. 
 Gephardt, Robert A. 
 Gilliland, Jesse J. 
 Griffin, James P. 
 Heinsohn, Henry C. 
 Helling, Martin H. 
 Henslerj John W. 
 Herz, Aloys J. 
 Hoppe, Charles T. 
 Hough, Daniel P. 
 Irvin, Edward F. 
 Tames, Richard K. 
 Keller, Albert C. 
 Kloppenberg, Frank 
 
 J. 
 Krueger, Charles 
 Krueger, William C. 
 Kussman, Frederick 
 
 Larson, Gerhardt 
 
 Lenauer, Lawrence C. 
 T'-lcDonnell, John E. 
 Mayes, Roy L. 
 Mayer, Joe J. 
 Meyers, Charles H 
 Mountjoy, Louis E. 
 Myers, Benjam.m H. 
 Otis, James N. 
 Peterson, William F. 
 Pfeififer, Hugo E. 
 Pomorsky, Waclaw 
 Ptaszynski, Constant 
 Racine, Alois J. 
 Reed, Benjamin W. 
 Reed, Edward 
 Remmert, Harrv W. 
 Roberts, William C. 
 Roulston, William K. 
 Schaetzel, Walter L. 
 Sclieer, Rienhard H. 
 Schmutz, Otto R. A. 
 Schoelich, William F. 
 Scott, Stewart AI. 
 Sidmon, Edward H. 
 Smith, Walter F. 
 Sparks, Charles E. 
 Stadler, Edward H. 
 Stewart, John W. 
 Stock, Edwin H. 
 Stockdale, Tames R. 
 Studds, William J. 
 Stulce, Raymond A. 
 Thurmond, John F. 
 Vaughn, Robert H. 
 Walker, John J. 
 Walker, Seth H. 
 Wallic, Frank 
 Wedepohl, August C, 
 
 Jr. 
 White, Lawrence P. 
 Willis, Earl E. 
 Wolken, Louis R. 
 Wright. William B. 
 Zydat, Henry 
 
 SANITARY DETACHMENT 
 St. Louis 
 
 William S. Lawrence 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Roland S. Kieffer 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 James R. Bunch 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 James C. Drake 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William J. Reynolds 
 Privates : 
 
 Barrett, George J. 
 
 Barrett, Richard J. 
 
 Brown, Churchill II. 
 
 I'arr, Frank D. 
 
 Catleet, Charles J. 
 
 Devine, John F. 
 
 Duerr, Sidney E. 
 
 Freeman, Jesse Ed- 
 ward 
 
 Freeman, William J. 
 
 Hamilton, Edward V. 
 
 Heneghan, Leo P. 
 
 Hildebrand, Fred 
 
 Kirkland, William M. 
 
 Knox, Wilbur D. 
 
 Lenihan, Owen Jos- 
 eph 
 
 McGuire, Clvde F. 
 Miller, George S. 
 Moerschen, Sam 
 Niehoff, Joseph 
 Perkins, Paul W. 
 Prather, Robert R. 
 Presneli, Roswell P. 
 Rayburn, Samuel L. 
 Reichert, William 
 Ross, Leland M. 
 Schumann, Adolph W. 
 Shields, William H. 
 Turner, Lewis J. 
 Wolff, Charles 
 Yowell, Albert N. 
 
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 FIRST REGIMENT FIELD ARTILLERY 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Frank M. Rumbold, 
 Commanding 
 Lieutenant Colonel, 
 
 Walter J. Warner 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 St. Louis 
 
 Major, 
 
 Robert C. Rutledge 
 Major, 
 
 Daniel F. Joaes 
 Captain, 
 
 Horace S. Rumsey 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Franklin S. Wiltse 
 Captain, 
 
 Robert M. Crutsinger 
 Veterinarian, 
 
 Ora P. Davis 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James L,. Turner 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Theodore A. Salorgne 
 Rgt. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Patterson, George L- 
 Bn. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Lawrence, Frank F. 
 Rand Leader, 
 
 Phillips, William N. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 McArthur, Howard F 
 Color Sergeant, 
 
 Baird, Robert A. 
 Mess Serg;eant, 
 
 Hamburg, Herman 
 Sergeant Bugler, 
 
 Foreman, Herrick J. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Kenna, Thomas J. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Geyer, Robert D. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Crews, Milton K. 
 
 Morris, Oscar J. 
 
 Boyce, John F. 
 Band Sergeant, 
 
 Silberberg, Jules F. 
 Corporals : 
 
 McElwee, Claude 
 
 McNulty, John F. 
 
 Snowden, "William C. 
 
 Parker, Walter D. 
 
 Webster, Clarence 
 
 McKee, Dean F- 
 
 Lynn, James V. 
 
 Morrison, Arthur Q. 
 Band Corporal, 
 
 Bartels, Herman 
 Horseshoers : 
 
 Anderson, Tobin 
 
 Hillin, Jesse D. 
 ^Mechanic, 
 
 Trefz, Walter 
 Cook, 
 
 Gillespie, Harvey 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Beardslee, James F. 
 
 Carleton^ Hope D. 
 
 Jarrett, William M. 
 
 Morrison, Gordon G. 
 
 Murphy^ Alfred C. 
 Privates : 
 
 Byrd, Edward D, 
 
 Evans, Ralph H. 
 
 Fertig, Arthur J. 
 
 Fletcher, Frank H. 
 
 French, Benjamin 
 
 Glancy, James V. 
 
 Good, Louis F. 
 
 Hawken, Granville 
 
 Hoester, Charles J. 
 
 Hotchkiss, Clarence 
 
 Tohnson, Myron T. 
 
 Kiefifer, Alonzo R. 
 
 Kincannon, James L. 
 
 Kleiber, Edward J. 
 
 Lessing, Eugene B. 
 
 McGrath, Harold D. 
 
 Mahoney, Robert 
 
 Matkin, Frank W. 
 Molter, James E. 
 Monteith, James K. 
 Norris, Ivan L. 
 Norris, William Y. 
 Peterson, Robert D. 
 Pfaender, Paul W. 
 Pfaender, Peter A. 
 Schrader, Eugene L. 
 Smith, Mauro E. 
 Spanuth, Robert W. 
 Tidd, Robert E. 
 Whipple, Thomas I. 
 Williams, Harry Mc. 
 Willoughby, Edmund 
 
 A. 
 Wright, Faines B. 
 Young, Harold K. 
 3rd Class Musicians: 
 Brammer, George C. 
 Deprez, Harold C. 
 Edel, Arthur H. 
 Ferciot, Charles E. 
 Hug, Alexander 
 Hughey, Albert S. 
 Hurst, Raymond J. 
 Jannopoulo, Demos- 
 thenes C. 
 Leinard, Herbert IT. 
 Merker, Frank C. 
 Murphy, William H 
 Norris, John B. 
 Pasek, George B. 
 Pitlyk, John J. 
 Raymond, Harry L. 
 Sievling, Gus 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Ira C. Money 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Joseph J. Maddock 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 St. Louis 
 
 Rgt. Supply Sergeant, 
 McConnell, Charles 
 P. 
 
 Rgt. Supply Sergeant, 
 Cord, William H. 
 
 Corporals : 
 
 McClure, Fred L- 
 Lowenstein, Vernon J. 
 
346 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Beaver, William G. 
 Blind, Charles F. 
 Case, Howard A. 
 Dugger, Huntington 
 Goessling, Robert F. 
 Hambley, Harold W 
 Harty, Roger J. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Thomas J. Christmann 
 1st Lieute_nant, 
 
 Arthur J. Zerr 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Kenneth, B. Buchanan 
 2d Lieuteijant, 
 
 Charles A. Barlow 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Lloyd Coleman 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Brown, Phillip V. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Fisher, Geo. L. 
 Stable Sergeant : 
 
 Thomure, William A. 
 Jr. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Hill, Raymond D. 
 
 Norton, Howard C. 
 
 Baldenweck, Arniand 
 
 Onions, Clarence 
 
 Rierdan, John 
 
 Bull, David M. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Warneke, William B. 
 
 Craig, Walter T- 
 
 Harrison, Arthur M. 
 
 Goeble, Edwin C. 
 
 Buchanan, Edwin C. 
 
 Whitman, Paul L. 
 
 Quinn, John G. 
 
 i5eBusk, Leslie G. 
 
 Warner, Francis S. 
 
 Cunningham, John P. 
 
 Dunham, Francis B. 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Altus, Edward H. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Taucher, Joseph H. 
 
 McCann, Walter J. 
 McKenna, George F. 
 McNally, William E. 
 Malone, Mike R. 
 Markel, Fred E. 
 Murrell, Samuel A. 
 Ort, Jerry B. 
 
 BATTEEY A 
 St. Louis 
 
 Saddler, 
 
 Buehning, Edmond A. 
 IMechaniCj 
 
 Theobald, Edward E. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Herr, Raymond R. 
 Cook, 
 
 Bordone^ Angelo 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Barry, Francis D. 
 
 Barutio, Constantine 
 B. 
 
 Boldt, Herbert A. 
 
 Brethauer, George 
 
 Bunchman, Harry J. 
 
 Bunning, William 
 
 Bull, Benjamin 
 
 Butler, John F. 
 
 Cartan, Edward B. 
 
 Campton, Brittan A. 
 
 Dillon, Gerald E. 
 
 Dodd, William W. 
 
 Dolan, Frank 
 
 Dowling, Patrick J. 
 
 Fihn, Emanuel 
 
 Griffin, Emil 
 
 Grote, Henry C. 
 
 Gruner, Ray A. 
 
 Hammerschmidt, Ar- 
 thur 
 
 Heitmeier, Elmer V. 
 
 Holloman, William 
 
 Jacobsmeyer, Sidg- 
 fried 
 Privates : 
 
 Amschler, Joseph A. 
 
 Cooney, Frank J. 
 
 Droney, Thomas T. 
 
 Gerhart, Frank H. 
 
 Joerden, Oliver 
 
 Punshon, Warren D. 
 Pyeatt, Charles W. 
 Schrader, Lee L. 
 Stusse, Martin 
 Thompson, Russel E. 
 Tryk, Clarence H. 
 Venitz, John H. 
 Zieger, Herman 
 
 Johnson, John O. 
 Kane, Hanlon 
 Killian, Roy 
 Kinney^ George D. 
 Kraft, Clifford O. 
 Learmont, Walter A. 
 Leppert, Otto W. 
 Lowe, Raymond B. 
 Luconic, Paul 
 McCarthy, John D. 
 Michener, Walter L., 
 
 Jr. 
 ^Mitchell, John 
 Mooney, John P. 
 Morgan, Asa A. IT. 
 Olney, Walter D. C. 
 Pallardy, Edward L. 
 Parks, James T^. 
 Patterson, Robert G. 
 Patton, Charles PI. 
 Pilkenton, Snoden 
 Reid, Walter E. 
 Rideout, Horace L. 
 Rosskoff, Ray H. 
 Shore, Horace 
 Skinner, Jason A. 
 Sullivan, Edward T. 
 Taake, Orville L. 
 Turner, Verna V. 
 Van Dover. Hite C. 
 ^"alenti, Nick 
 Veselsky, Edward 
 Vickers, Stewart T. 
 Warnecke, August C. 
 Warneke, Max O. 
 Weber, Barrett 
 Webster, Phillip 
 Weibling, Frank B. 
 Wilhelmi, Curt 
 Wilkerson, Riley D. 
 Worthmuller, Frank 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Harry Perks, Jr 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Morton Gwin 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Donald P. Munro 
 
 BATTERY B 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Eugene B. Snyder 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Grutsch, Frank L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Lansing, Charles 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Lero, George R. 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 Neuberger, Thomas 
 W. 
 
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 Sergeants: 
 
 Fischer, Sylvester ly. 
 
 O'Connor, Thomas 
 
 Messmer, Edgar Li. 
 
 Humniert, Geo. H. 
 
 Dodd, Wallace S. 
 
 Thorburn, Charles 
 Corporals : 
 
 Freide, Jerome J. 
 
 Goge, Seymour K. 
 
 Robyne, Paul Jr. 
 
 Little, Douglas M. 
 
 Francis, Jack S. 
 
 Miravalle, Peter S. 
 
 Chaudet, Robert C. 
 
 Fairchild, William F. 
 
 Long, Glen M. 
 
 Saxe, Adolph J. 
 
 Barnicle, Joseph R. 
 
 Rothkopf, John J. 
 
 O' Gorman, Paul J. 
 Chief Mechanic: 
 
 Chaudet, William J. 
 Horseshoers: 
 
 Barton, Oliver F. 
 
 Neiheiser, William N. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Dodd, William S., Jr. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Phelps, John M. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Mazza, Silvo 
 
 O'Connor, Patrick J. 
 
 Ratz, Louis H. 
 Musicians : 
 
 Wilson, Robert W. 
 
 Allard, Jesse H. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Anderson, John P. 
 
 Bock, John H. 
 Buehler, Alfred W. 
 Christie, John F. 
 Daniels, Charles W. 
 Dodd, John W. 
 Dyer, Roy U. 
 Green, William F. 
 Higgins, Raymond D. 
 Lawson, Charles 
 Lewis, Harry R. 
 McClure, Fwell C. 
 Mullins, James M. 
 Neuman, Sidney C. 
 Payne, Frank C. 
 Reid, Joseph F- 
 Rothkopf, George W. 
 Thompson, George 
 White, Carl O. 
 Woodward, Knight 
 Alexander, Raymond 
 Berry, Henry K, 
 Burke, Andrew K. 
 Chitwood, Roy L. 
 Coghill, Lacey B. 
 Crandall, Warren F. 
 Dameron, Harry C. 
 DePrez, Harold C. 
 Dunn, Robert 
 Dusard, Rime A. 
 Flowers, Luther 
 Fournier, Joseph M. 
 
 Franey, John F. 
 Gillespie, George 
 Goebbels, Lester D. 
 Goodrich, Clarence R. 
 Gorman, John C. 
 Grace, Robert G. 
 Grimmer, Fdward F. 
 
 Harkins, Joseph D. 
 Heil, Charles T. 
 Hill, Flmer 
 Hines, Walter V. 
 Kuepfort, Adolph 
 KuUage, Louis F. 
 Layton, Ben M. 
 Lessing, Fugene B. 
 Long, Charles B, 
 Lucas, Charles 
 McKeown, Frank R. 
 McMurry, John W. T. 
 Mazzia, Lionel L. 
 Moore, Austin J., Jr. 
 Murnahan, George F. 
 Murry, John 
 Nelson, George Mc, 
 
 Jr. 
 Parmele, Howard W. 
 Paul, James F. 
 Paust, Fugene 
 Peet, Fdward C. 
 Powell, Gerald J. 
 Renick, Elmer F. 
 Schelten, George 
 Schueler, Otto J. 
 Schultz, George L. 
 Shannon, Paul A. 
 Shelly, James E. 
 Siebert, Gilbert C. 
 Smith, Stewart L. 
 Spink, Fred G. 
 Springgate, Vester N. 
 TuUy, John J. 
 VanDyke, Frank 
 Wade, Anderson 
 Wenneker, Edgar C. 
 White, Lawrence R. 
 Wynne, James G., Jr. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Leon R. Sanford 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Frederick L. Zum- 
 walt 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Richard Moore, Jr. 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Raymond D. Grutsch 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Raymond F. DeHoog 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Brown, Valentine J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Parks, Edward P. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Spelman, James P. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Lewis, Albert 
 
 BATTERY C 
 St. Louis 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Corrigan, David A. 
 
 McChesney, Ira D. 
 S. 
 
 Johnson, Frank L. 
 
 Lindsey, Walter S, 
 Corporals : 
 
 Maginn, Robert R. 
 
 Kurtz, Ernest W. 
 
 Dunn, Rodney C, 
 
 Hays, Howell H. 
 
 Spilker, Nathan F. 
 
 Leiweke, Beuno A, 
 
 Grady, Clarence T, 
 
 Swehla, Martin 
 
 Fngelman, Otto B. 
 
 North, John J. 
 
 Hoscheid, Theodore 
 T., Jr. 
 
 Newliam, Joseph H. 
 
 Reid, James A. 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Toms, Leland J. 
 Horseshoers, 
 
 Levvy, Sidney A. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Snoddy, Sam R, 
 Cook, 
 
 Fowler, William H. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Robertson, Page C, 
 
 Wood, Samuel E. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Daly, John J. 
 
 Dempsey, Robert C. 
 
 Dickey, Charles J. 
 
 Dygard, Thomas J. 
 
 Essen, John S., Jr. 
 
348 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Fitzgerald, Michael J. 
 
 Glass, Thomas N. 
 
 Gleeson, Vincent P. 
 
 Hesse, Henry 
 
 Knight, Orville B. 
 
 Kramer, William E. 
 
 Kreutzer, August F. 
 
 Lonergan, Christo- 
 pher J. 
 
 Luyties, Carl W. 
 
 McGinnis, Charles E. 
 
 Schiller, Henry F. 
 
 Sullivan, Bernard H. 
 
 Thatenhorst, Freder- 
 ick F. 
 
 Whitelaw, Robert F. 
 
 Whitney, Ben C. 
 
 Wilder, Leonard T. 
 
 Wilke, Edgar B. 
 Privates : 
 
 Clukies, Clarence 
 
 Drusch, Allen A. 
 Dugger, Lee 
 Foster, Lon 
 Galleano, Anthony J. 
 Garrett, George J. 
 Gill, Floyd B. 
 Hesse, Joseph C. 
 Hoffmann, Walter 
 Jacques, Maurice J. 
 Knibb, Paul J. 
 Leary, Frank 
 Liberty, George 
 McCarty, Thomas 
 McCarthy, William F. 
 Mantino, John 
 Miller, Edwin 
 Miller, Roy 
 Moormann, Theodore 
 
 A. J. 
 Openstein, Karl 
 Ponsetti, Tomaso 
 
 Powell, Charles 
 Preis, William A. 
 Rippley, Gregory 
 Rozier, Roy J. 
 Samplesj Edgar 
 Schmucker, Paul G. 
 Schroeder, Charles A. 
 Sinock, Rudolph H. 
 Sisk, Andrew J. 
 Smicker, William G. 
 Sponemann, Paul F. 
 Steele, Roy 
 Steingrubey, Harry F. 
 Stevens, Acy Lee 
 Stiers, Herman 
 Stoker, Thomas 
 Tirrell, Arthur 
 Tryke, Andrew P. 
 Tuma, Joseph A. 
 Wilson, Joseph R. 
 Yadon, John 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Edward Fehlig 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Eugene C. Ferrenbach 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 August H. Hanold 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Frederick T. Thor- 
 burn 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 George B. Cunning- 
 ham 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Gates, Joseph S. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Vaughn, Harry H. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Hamilton, Samuel C. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Curley, Leo W. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Jones, Alanson B. 
 
 Johnson, William S. 
 
 Maguire, James H. 
 
 Drew, Francis A. 
 
 Rannells, Warder 
 Corporals: 
 
 Chase, Ralph K. 
 
 Bakewell, George 
 
 Leimkuehler, Francis 
 R. 
 
 Bannantine, George 
 
 Moll, Paul 
 
 Todd. Wilson 
 
 Price, Louis H. 
 
 Straube, Louis H. 
 
 Gray, Charles A. 
 
 Espy, Cullen 
 
 BATTERY D 
 St. Louis 
 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Aldridge, Charles A. 
 
 O'Neill, Raymond A. 
 Horseshoers : 
 
 Bruemleve, Walter 
 
 Klag, Clarence 
 Saddler, 
 
 Schneider, Julfus F. 
 Buglers, 
 
 Reed, John W. 
 
 Dockery, Joseph T. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Watkins, Charles J. 
 
 Witholder, Ben F. 
 
 VVaffensmith, George F. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bown, Walter T. 
 
 Craden, John P. Jr. 
 
 Dunlap, Paul R. 
 
 Edelmann, Samuel 11. 
 
 English, John M. 
 
 Hoffman, Fred C. 
 
 Holden, John W., Jr. 
 
 Holdman, Lee O. 
 
 Horine, Harry T. 
 
 Johnson. James P. 
 
 Kane, Edmund N. 
 
 Lavin, Samuel 
 
 Lucas, Morton 
 
 McBride, John T. 
 
 McGowan, James T. 
 
 McNulty, George A. 
 
 Scanlon, Lee D. 
 
 Sprdling, Earl 
 
 Stewart. Eugene H. 
 
 Veinfurt, Harry F. 
 
 Wilson, Walter T. 
 
 Zeitinger, Edward A. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Anderson. Clayborn L 
 Beattie, Orren C. 
 Bendyk, Frank 
 Biederman, Joseph 
 Bock, Leo J. 
 Boen, Noah S. 
 Boyd, Isaac N. 
 Brockmeier, Fred 
 Brooks, Emmett H. 
 Brune, Ben T. 
 Buffington, Walter G. 
 Burford, Fred 
 Butler, Charles 
 Callaway, Clayton V. 
 Cantin, Frederick J. 
 Caruthers, Stanley R. 
 Coldewe, Frank R, 
 Condon, John F. 
 Conley, John J, 
 Conrad, Louis 
 Cook, James A. 
 Crecelius, Oliver W. 
 Crews, George W. 
 Davenport. Harold A. 
 DeWitt. William C. 
 Eads. James H, 
 Eckelkamp, Leander 
 
 V. 
 Ellison, John T. 
 Fisher, Edgar C. 
 Forshee, Amiel A. 
 Funke, Theodore H. 
 Garvey, Sylvester 
 Gray, Charles M. 
 Hannefin, Daniel J. 
 Hardcastle, George C. 
 Hicks, WilHam H. 
 
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 Holt, George W. 
 Holtmeier, Louis 
 Jaeger, Arthur H. 
 Johnson, Harry A. 
 King, Charles W. 
 Kirkpatrick, Walter 
 Kopf, George C. 
 Krafft, Edward C. 
 Lansing, Geo W. 
 Lauman, William G. 
 Lazarides, Kirakos 
 
 Lestmann, Archie IE,. 
 Lynch, Lloyd l\. 
 Newell, Harry A. 
 Newton, Robert B. 
 Norrish, Alfred H. 
 Rathert, Paul A. 
 Sawyer, William J. 
 Schultz, Emil 
 Schultz, Rupert R. 
 Schultz, Walter H. 
 Simon, Henry J. 
 Smedley, Harry , K. 
 
 Stevens, Joseph K. 
 Sullivan, Fred G. 
 Sutherd, Eugene C. 
 Trawick, Claude 
 Walz, Mathew 
 Watkins, David A. 
 Wilder, Joseph D. 
 Williams, Perry 
 Williams, Samuel V 
 Wodiker, Sylvester 
 Wyrozynski, John 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Leslie L. Bucklew 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Edward C. Reilly 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Alfred L. Sawyer 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Chester L. Mars 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Robert J. McMurray 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Snyder, Joicy R, 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Gattrell. William S. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Ching, Earl R. 
 
 Claypool, Hugh 
 
 Barnby, Archibald W. 
 
 George, Edwin A. 
 
 Johnson, George E. 
 
 Johns, Harry C. 
 
 Kempton, Lenord H. 
 
 Zeigler, Herbert F. 
 Privates : 
 
 Abbott, Ruvia A. 
 
 Alexander, Karl V. 
 
 Anderson, Elza E. 
 
 Baldwin, A. Brown 
 
 Barnett, Earl 
 
 Baucom, Floyd 
 
 Beyer, Romaine 
 
 Bigus, Isadore L. 
 
 Bilyeu, Claude J. 
 
 Boes, Thomas E. 
 
 Brady, Charles A. 
 
 Breitag, Arthur H. 
 
 Brock, Buford B. 
 
 Browning, Robert E. 
 
 Burke, George T. 
 
 Burke, Jerome J. 
 
 Campbell, Edward R. 
 
 Garden, John W. 
 
 Carey, Dennis J. 
 
 Carpenter, Walter B. 
 
 Carpenter, Walton 
 
 BATTERY E 
 Kansas City 
 
 Carver, Joe E. 
 Chenoweth, Rice B. 
 Chenoweth, Stephen 
 
 D. 
 Clemments, Robert T. 
 Coddington, David I. 
 Com.pton, Chas. O. 
 Conrick, Robert F. 
 Cook, Charles S. 
 Davies, Joseph O. 
 DeHart, Paul E. 
 Demeke, Clarence E- 
 Dietzel, Louis H. 
 Dillon, George B. 
 Dorman, Lee C. 
 Duncan, Lee 
 EH, Henry W. 
 Fields, Hollie 
 Fletcher, Rollie E. 
 Friend, Robert E. 
 Geenens, August 
 Geenens, Charley 
 Gentry, Giles R. 
 Githens, Fred C. 
 Greaves, Robert H. 
 Groves, John 
 Guedry, Charley A. 
 Hargrove, Joseph D. 
 Harrington, Oliver C. 
 Harrfs. Ravmond 
 Hartness, Raloh 
 Hartnett, Paul F. 
 Henneberry, Nicholas 
 
 J. 
 TToflFman, Harry 
 Hogan, Edward D. 
 Hollingshead, George 
 
 S. 
 Horigan, Joseph D. 
 Horner, William W. 
 Howard, Orville A. 
 Hubbard, Andrew F. 
 Jerk, Arthur C. 
 Johnson, Clarence E. 
 Tohnson, William E. 
 King, James W. 
 King, Orville E. 
 
 Langstaff, William O. 
 Lashbrook, Mai J. 
 Laskey, Harry M. 
 Leemans, Prehm F. 
 Leitner, Frank M. 
 Lewis, Willam C. 
 Linsley, Milton G. 
 Little, Charles A. 
 Little, James E. 
 McKinstry, George C. 
 Mackintosh, Thomas 
 
 E. 
 Madigan, John B. 
 Marshall, Robert H. 
 Matherly, Marvin P. 
 Maxville, William D. 
 Maxwell, Stanley 
 Miller, Jesse L. 
 Miller, John G. 
 Miller, John J. 
 Mohart, Charles T. 
 Morgan, Edward V, 
 Morgan, Tames R. 
 Mulford. Floyd H. 
 Murphy, Donald A. 
 Nay, Leon D. 
 Newcomber, Guy B. 
 Noland, Tames L. 
 Olson, William L. 
 Parker, Harry J. 
 Pickens. William C. 
 Pottorfif, Woodson 
 Powell, Donald H. 
 Rafiner, Elmer L. 
 Randell, Arlo E. 
 Raybrook, Edward L. 
 Redona, Juan B. 
 Rice, Freddie L. 
 Rosa. Carl A. 
 Rosa, Aganito M. 
 Rothgeb, Roy R. 
 Pundell, Howard O. 
 Russell. Walter W. 
 Seath, Walter C. 
 Severence. Horace W. 
 Shanklin. Herbert E. 
 Shore, Maurice L. 
 
350 
 
 PROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Smith, Ddward D, 
 Smith, LeRoy 
 Spurlock, Arthur II, 
 Stanford. Edward H. 
 Stoenner, Edwin D. 
 Strader, William B. 
 Strother, William L. 
 
 Sutton, William E. 
 Taliaferro, Benjamin T. 
 Taylor, Leslie E. 
 Thatcher, Chris C. 
 Thompson, James G. 
 Van Den Busselle, 
 Paul 
 
 Van Wolleghem, 
 
 Maurice 
 \"asey. Earl 
 Weeks, John W. 
 West, Robert Jr.^ 
 Wimer, Lester C. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Tom L. Gibson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Jack Sabo 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 David W. Graham 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Edward P. Stauder 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Thomas E. Horner 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Grote, Henry C. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Meehan, Cornelius E. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 McMahon, Frank V. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Harbison, George M. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Heward, Charles H. 
 
 Bradley^ Charles R. 
 
 Boehmer, Maurice A. 
 
 Creaseyj Roy 
 
 Scanlon, Thomas A. 
 
 Wynne, George K. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Busch, Howard G. 
 
 Barton, Roger 
 
 Branch, Carleton C. 
 
 Muench, Oscar A, 
 
 Bryan, George F. 
 
 Harris, James L. 
 
 Darling, Frederick W. 
 
 Blume, David A. 
 
 Smith, Herbert R 
 
 Kniest, Frank V. 
 
 Morrissey, Charles R. 
 
 Tudor, Owen 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Gartland, Paul A. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Angell, McKinley L- 
 
 Ames, Lee D. 
 
 Groth, Ben 
 
 BATTERY F 
 St. Louis 
 
 Cooks : 
 
 Campbell, Ralph A. 
 
 Stevens, Adolph 
 Horseshoers : 
 
 Springston, Elmer J. 
 
 Rodgers, Louis E- 
 Saddler, 
 
 D ah lb erg, Arthur 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Abbot, Alfred A. 
 
 Agnew, Howard B. 
 
 Adam, Jules 
 
 Adams, Eugene J. 
 
 Ahlmeyer, Edwin J. 
 
 Albertson, Albert G. 
 
 Arbuchon, Leon J. 
 
 Barton, WiUiam M. 
 
 Bayer, Gus 
 
 Black, George D. 
 
 Black, William A. 
 
 Blanton, Jesse W. 
 
 Boardman, Charles H. 
 
 Bowles, Thomas M. 
 
 Bradbury, Albert E. 
 
 Bradley, Frank A. 
 
 Bray, William H. 
 
 Buddemeyer, Walter 
 C. 
 
 Buffington, Taylor M. 
 
 Baessler, Fred 
 
 Becker, Charles F. 
 
 Campbell, James S. 
 
 Calcaterra, Fiorella 
 
 Cassidy, George W. 
 
 Cody, Charles F. 
 
 Combs, Edward I. 
 
 Cope, William 
 
 Craig, John R. 
 
 Croak, John E. 
 
 Crow, Herman J. 
 
 Crutsinger, Joha I\I, 
 
 Cuba, Tony E. 
 
 Dallas, Barth 
 
 Davis, Edwin G. Jr. 
 
 Doyle, Shelby H. 
 
 Etcheson, Oscar 
 Feldmiller, William 
 Furry, Leon 
 Headrick, William T. 
 Hamilton, John H. 
 Henglesberg, George 
 
 C. 
 Heyssel^ Alonzo E. C 
 Howard, Elmer 
 Howard, Harvey L. 
 Higgins, William J, 
 Hischier, Herman A. 
 Huber, Joseph E. 
 Jones, David P. 
 Kaliha, John 
 Kettingher, John A. 
 King, William J. 
 Kinsella, Raymond S. 
 Klusmeyer, Elmer A. 
 Limbaugh, Martin G. 
 McDonald, Chester C. 
 McMillen, Charles E- 
 Malby, James T. 
 Pierce, Rice A., Jr. 
 Prevallet, Emmet L. 
 Quinn, Edward J. 
 Reed, Anthony J. 
 Rehm, Carl G. 
 Sarrels, Horace E. 
 Schmuke, Aloysious 
 
 V. 
 Schwentker, Charles 
 Seals, Martin W. 
 Shapard David 
 Sheehan, Charles J. 
 Smith, Cordell S. 
 Steffen, William J., Jr. 
 Stevinson, Isral B. 
 Stoerkel, Carl 
 Stumborg, Frank T. 
 Stulce, James D. 
 Todd, Joel D. 
 Vance, William J. 
 Vandefriffe, Emmet S. 
 Wellenkamp, Henry F. 
 Woodruff, Emery 
 
 Major, 
 
 Louis T. Pirn 
 
 SANITARY DETACHMENT 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Arthur J. Murphy Bloom, Clifton T. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 351 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Peatross, Samuel B. 
 
 Korte, Francis J. 
 Privates : 
 
 Breathauer, Charles G. 
 
 Clardy, Zeno B. 
 
 Cour, Claude J. A. 
 Crews, Norman K. 
 Duchouquette, John 
 Dunn, Hugh L,. 
 Glynn, John T. 
 Moellman, George J. 
 
 Muller, John Kmil 
 Salzgeber, Hei-bert 
 Slattery, William IT. 
 Waugh, Turner ly. 
 Wayman, Frederick D. 
 Young, Thomas EJ. 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT FIELD ARTILLERY 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Karl D. Klemm, 
 
 Commanding 
 Lieutenant Colonel, 
 
 Arthur J. Klliott 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Major, 
 
 John h. :\Iiles 
 Major, 
 
 Marvin H. Gates 
 Captain & Rgt. Adjt. 
 
 Fielding I.. D. Carr 
 
 Captain & Bn. Adjt, 
 John H. Thatcher 
 
 Captain & Bn. Adjt., 
 Harry M. Boyer 
 
 1st lyieut. & Chaplain, 
 Curtis ly. Tierman 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Chauncy G. Butter- 
 field 
 1st lyieutenant, 
 
 Fugene T. Rainey 
 Rgt. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Poindexter, Francis 
 Bn. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Sapp, Kitt 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Curtis, Edward T. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Riffle, Kussell H. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 McManigal, Thomas 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 White, Homer C. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Florance, John D. 
 
 Meyer, Carl J. 
 
 Johnson, Gordon l^. 
 
 Hurlburt, Frank A, 
 Corporals : 
 
 Hughes, Seibert M. 
 
 Ware, Herbert F. 
 
 Fnglish^ Frank 
 
 Burns, Ralph C. 
 
 Byars, Cooper F. 
 
 Kirk, Minor 
 
 lyane, Hobart F. 
 
 JUeigh, Harry B. 
 
 Henry, Houston T. 
 
 Godley, Fugene 
 
 Berryman, James C. 
 
 Hale, Arthur A. 
 
 Routh, Cedric F. 
 
 Bowman, Fred J. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Gee, Harry I. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Carlile, Charlie C. 
 
 Vining, L,ewis 
 Cooks : 
 
 Jackson, Evert R. 
 
 V^an Tine, Elmer L,. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Rice, Earl S. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Creasey^ Albert R. 
 
 Guthrie, WilHam F. 
 Jr. 
 
 McClune, Murven 
 
 Mercer, George S. 
 
 Mulvihill, Edward F. 
 
 Wallace, W. Raymond 
 Privates : 
 
 Broaddus, William E. 
 
 Corder, Jackson 
 Davidson, Carl F. 
 Dobel, Jerome P. 
 Downey, Eeo C. 
 Geer, William A. 
 Hall, Eugene F. 
 Hockensmith, Fred D. 
 Horine, Stanley M. 
 Jackson, Floyd W. 
 Jones, Burnam R. 
 Kelly, Harry T. 
 Krehm, James M. 
 Lancaster, Ray A 
 EeBow, Max R. 
 Eewis, Alan A. 
 McGuire, Frank T. 
 Maier, Laurence A. 
 Moore, Paul 
 Norman, Bond Hughes 
 Roseberry, Thomas C. 
 Runner, Rolla W. 
 Schmidt, Walter P. 
 Silcott, Robert F. 
 Smith, Clarence B. 
 Smith, Mike 
 Stout, Duval D. 
 Tamblyn, William L- 
 Taylor, Lewis E. 
 Wilson, Frank 
 Woods, Sylvester E. 
 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Crawford, Charles P. 
 
 BAND SECTION 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Asst. Band Leader, 
 Boyington, Howard 
 
 Sergeant, Bugler, 
 Gregory, Roscoe D. 
 
352 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Band Sergeants: 
 
 Lay, Harry C. 
 
 IJvans, Ernest A. 
 Band Corporals: 
 
 Way, Robert 
 
 Ridgell, Edwin C. 
 
 Pitts, Shirley 
 
 Skelley, Joseph A. 
 1st Class Musician 
 
 Blood, Sidney 
 
 2nd Class Musician, 
 
 Jenkins, Spencer B. 
 3rd Class Musicians: 
 
 Bonar, Harry T. 
 
 Brown, Edwin N. 
 
 Bulls, Harry C. 
 
 Cowan, William J., 
 Jr. 
 
 Davis, Harold B. 
 
 Duncan, Everet R. 
 
 Gale, Hobert 
 Greene, Robert A. 
 Hert, Frederick H. 
 Hill, Earl E. 
 Mathews, John G. 
 Satterfield, Lawrence 
 Smock, Lee A. 
 Storms, Arthur P. 
 Tillery, Forest A. 
 Weakley, Denver L. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Harry C. Jobes 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles C. Bundschu 
 Supply Sergeants: 
 
 Breitenstein, Herbert 
 W. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Winkler, Lewis C. 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Cockrill, Norbom F. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Campbell, Phillip D. 
 
 Winters, Thomas M. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Myers, Ora C. 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Hofifs, Henry 
 
 Wheeler, William O. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Fleshman, Geo. W. 
 Wagoners: 
 
 Adams, John O. 
 
 Allen, William" C. 
 
 Demand, Lafayette S. 
 
 Ewing, Albert G. 
 
 Farrow, Earl W. 
 
 Fortner, Alexander C. 
 
 Fortner, George C. 
 
 Hudelson, Gordon 
 
 McCullah, John W. 
 
 May, Joe 
 
 Morrow, Louis J. 
 
 Murphy, William H. 
 
 Pendleton, Rice L. 
 Powell, Richard G. 
 Prussing, Max M. 
 Rowland, Benjamin R. 
 Schroeder, William 
 
 W. 
 Wyatt, Joseph E. 
 Yarrington, Alvah C. 
 Privates: 
 
 Baker, Jacob 
 Denton, Roger H. 
 Ham, Holman T. 
 Hartman, John W. 
 Haynes, Harvey M. 
 Moots, Frank 
 Smith, Fred A. 
 Stevens, Earl A. 
 Walters, Patrick M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Roy T. Olney 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Walter G. Slagle 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles S. Wengert 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Robey, Rolla G. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Oakley, Cyrus K. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Aspinwall, Vernie L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Hulen, Charlie C. 
 Sergeants, 
 
 Bohrer, Everett L. 
 
 Sullivan, Michael 
 
 Poe, William H. 
 
 Weir, Floyd A. 
 
 Major, Joseph F. 
 
 Pearson, Jack 
 
 Dyer, Charles M. 
 
 Cox, James T. 
 
 Haynes, Maurice E. 
 
 BATTERY A 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Bloomer, Arthur 
 
 Dyer, Lowell W. 
 
 Colby, Walter H. 
 
 Dobinson, Elza J. 
 
 Blackburn, Robert C. 
 
 Priest, Donald F. 
 
 Allison, Harold 
 
 Shelton, Charles J. 
 
 Browning, Royce B. 
 
 Maxfleld, Leslie R. 
 
 Dougherty, Lynn 
 
 Reed, Harold 
 
 Pugh, Benjamin D. 
 
 Carver, Lorenzo F. 
 
 Fling, Raymond J. 
 
 Pratt, Clarence W. 
 
 Holcroft, Harry S. 
 
 Lippman, Morris M. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Rolls, Ravmond J. 
 
 Garten, Carl T. 
 
 Kelly, Jim 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Fike, Austin W. 
 
 Saddler, 
 
 Moore, James F. 
 Horseshoers: 
 
 McComas, John A. 
 
 Cummings, Robert T. 
 
 Mann, Carl 
 Mechanics. 
 
 Davis, Henry H. 
 
 Cameron, James S. 
 
 Bishop, Arthur E. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Saulisbury, William L. 
 
 Smith, Edward R. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bender, Robert W. 
 
 Dennison, Ralph E. 
 
 Dickhut, Lloyd 
 
 Divelbiss, Lyman E. 
 
 Earnheart, Paul 
 
 Eddins, Bryan 
 
 Evans, Charles B. 
 
 Fallstead, Coral C. 
 
 Friedman, Sam C. 
 
 Hill, John W. 
 
 Huestis, Roy 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 353 
 
 Jones, Frank VV. 
 L,apides, Clarence I,, 
 lyce, Roy N, 
 Maienshein, Andrew 
 Miller, Arthur 
 Miller, Keith 
 Minter, Herman K. 
 Mooney, Robert L,. 
 Moore, Frazer B. 
 Nies, Frank R. 
 Odell, Jesse C. 
 Olney, David H. 
 O'Neill, Ray 
 Pearson, Lawrence 
 Perry, Stewart 
 Pollock, Joseph H. 
 Rodgers, Glenn 
 Schwarzel, William 
 Shaw, Ralph EJ. 
 Shay, William M. 
 Sutton, Charles V. 
 Unland, Edwin L. 
 2nd Class Privates: 
 Acker, Sidney H. 
 Allen, Clyde S. 
 Altman, Homer 
 Babin, Joseph P. 
 Baker, Fred 
 Baker, LeRoy 
 Barrington, Eugene 
 Barrington, Fred 
 Battliner, Andrew R. 
 Beaty, Clarence A. 
 Beckett, Finis 
 Berry, Carroll W. 
 Bigus, Morris 
 Blunk, Floyd C. 
 Boland, Michael 
 Bosworth, Leslie B. 
 Boyd, James M. 
 
 Campbell, Harold C. 
 Carroll, Claude J. 
 Cash, Allen J. 
 Cheulakes, Jim 
 Chisham, Irving 
 Church, Lawrence T. 
 Clemence, Thomas 
 Connors, Thomas 
 Cooley, Ralph K. 
 Cooper, John F. 
 Coplan, John L. 
 Coxhead, Clinton H. 
 Craig, John F. 
 Crowther, G. Newton 
 Delaplain. Richard 
 Elliott, Ralph C. 
 Ferguson, Eugene R. 
 Finn, Charles H. 
 Flora, Isaac 
 Funk, Jesse E. 
 Gamble, John 
 Gartman, Louis 
 Grover, Benjamin W. 
 Hall, Charles A. 
 Harper, Roy 
 Hendrix, Archie 
 Holland, Monta 
 Holwick, Charley 
 Johnson, Thomas J. 
 Jones, Jesse 
 Joyce, William P. 
 Kelley, George O. 
 Kent, Walter J. 
 Krueger, Ralph O. 
 Lansing, John N. 
 Lyon, Otis R. 
 Lyon, Sam F. 
 McDaniel, Frank 
 McDonald, Roy L. 
 
 McGrew, George W. 
 Maguire, Paul 
 Maroney, Patrfck 
 Martin, John P. 
 Marvin, Dean 
 Menze, Milton E. 
 Moore, Fulton 
 Morgan, Kirby L. 
 Murphy, Alfred W. 
 Musselman, James C. 
 Newkirk, Everett F. 
 Opitz, George W. 
 Palmer, Earl E. 
 Pawling, William H. 
 Pendergast, James M. 
 Percell, Donald A. 
 Phillips, Harvey C. 
 Pounds, Joel L. 
 Pugh, Edward E. Jr. 
 Reagan, Vance W. 
 Richmond, Milford I. 
 Rigg, Charles H. 
 Rowland, James L. 
 Safly, Roy V. 
 Shepherd, Clarence H. 
 Stauver, Frank L. 
 Stone, Adolph C. 
 Stump, David O. 
 Sydenstricker, Cecil 
 Thomas, Sullivan 
 Thornhill, Byron E. 
 Tozzi, Joseph 
 Waechter, Edward H, 
 Walton, Wendell G. 
 Wearer, Esco R. 
 Webb, Victor O. 
 Wilmoth, Walter F. 
 Wilson, Blake L. 
 Woodruff. Doyl B. 
 Young, Andrew G. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Thomas S. McGee 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Theodore Marks 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Teasley, Walter 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Seligman, Frederick 
 H. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Chesterfield, George 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Rule, Curtis T. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Dozier, Homer C. 
 Sergeants:, 
 
 Bannister, William K. 
 
 Davis, Condit H. 
 
 Fisher, Frank 
 
 Jewell, Howard W. 
 
 BATTERY B 
 Kansas City 
 
 Harvey, Leo E. 
 
 Ferguson, Robert 
 
 Hibbs, Howard L. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Meador, Robert F. 
 
 Shreck, Boyd R. 
 
 Barwick, Walter 
 
 Myers, James L. 
 
 Uhlenhop, Rudolph 
 
 Ranson, John W. 
 
 Chilson, Clyde C. 
 
 Weeks, Mark L. 
 
 McDonald, Harry W. 
 
 Freitag, Walter R. 
 
 Wooldridge, Glenwood 
 F. 
 
 Miller, Jacob A. 
 Musicians: 
 
 Ridge, Joseph A. 
 
 McCauley, Lonnie W. 
 
 Cook: 
 
 Welch, Leo 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Branch, Montie 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Stafford, Logan 
 
 Robertson, Harry 
 
 Bradley, Delbert H. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Dyer, Fred W. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Frothingham, Alfred 
 M. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Allen, Marvin E. 
 
 Banholzer, Clarence C. 
 
 Bennett, Earl S. 
 
 Clarke, Floyd H. 
 
 Cone, Thomas N. 
 
 Darling, James 
 
354 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Davis, Hobart H. 
 Erickson, Alfred J. 
 Fosdick, Beautord Y. 
 Hanna, Raymond J. 
 Hans, John H. 
 Hart, Charles D. 
 Hilgardner, Fred C. 
 Mitchell, Harry M. 
 Nichols, John E. 
 Pillow, James H. 
 Provencher, William 
 
 A. 
 Richards, Robert L. 
 Riley, Augustus M. 
 Sawtell, Hobart C. 
 Scott, Fred A. 
 Sechrist, Floyd H, 
 Taylor, Joy O. 
 Worster, Joseph R. 
 Privates: 
 
 Askins, Claud 
 Balz, Alfred 
 Banks, Williams J. 
 Beck, Robert R. 
 Becket, Clinton C. 
 Boltman, Harold L. 
 Boggs, Thomas A. 
 Bowden, Howard T. 
 Bowman, Harold J. 
 Bowman, Wavne D. 
 Branch, Montie B. 
 Brown, Clarence O. 
 Brown, Kibble J. 
 Bucklew, Charles E. 
 Burkhardt, James A. 
 Canine, George M. 
 Carrier, Harvey O. 
 Cohen. William H. 
 Cole, Morris R. 
 Craig, Paul H. 
 Cunningham, Jesse J. 
 Dancy, Keith W. 
 Devrn, Harry E. 
 Dietrick, Harold C. 
 Donnelly. Edward 
 Dozier, Homer C. 
 
 Dyer, Cleon L. 
 English, Frank 
 Erb, Kennett D. 
 Fogel, Sidney M. 
 Foland, Ray V. 
 Frazier, Walter S. 
 Fuller, George M. 
 Fuller, Wesley J. 
 Galloway, Alexander 
 Gauldin, Alva C. 
 Greenstone, Morman 
 Haguewood, Spurgeon 
 Hanna, John P. 
 Hare, Harvey E. 
 Harmon, Phillip 
 Hereford, Francis W. 
 Hildebrand, Lawrence 
 
 J. 
 Hill, Ernest 
 Hinchman, Edwin L. 
 Horniday, Jesse R. 
 Howard, Jack 
 Hughes, David 
 Hyatt, Joseph R. 
 Ingolia, Sam 
 Irvin, Henry 
 Jennings, John H. 
 Lang, Roy J. 
 Ledgerwood, John 
 Linman, Oscar 
 Love, James 
 Lucas, James O. 
 Lutz, William O. 
 McClung, Wm. T. 
 McGrath, Allman 
 Macdonaid, Donald 
 
 B. 
 MacDonald, Frank E. 
 Martin, James E. 
 Maxwell. Joseph F. 
 Milan, Earl E. 
 Milm, Fred C. 
 Moore, Joseph E. 
 Morrison. Earl W. 
 Myers, Harry S. 
 Nelson, Joe 
 
 Noggle, Lawrence C. 
 Norris, Fred 
 North, Robert J. 
 Norton, Frank J. 
 Norton, Thomas' R. 
 Odell, George W. 
 Olson, Oxel P. 
 Page, Charles G. 
 Plumb, Edward W. 
 Pottcamp, Rudolph 
 Powers, John H. 
 Rankin, Arthur B. 
 Richardson, James A. 
 Roesler, Ray G. 
 Rose, William S. 
 Rotemund, Frank 
 Ruger, Fred J. 
 Russell, Thomas H. 
 Ruttinger, Frank B. 
 Sandifer, Edw. L. 
 Sands, John 
 Sanstra, Edward L. 
 Sanstra, Jesse F. 
 Scott, Vol 
 Scrivner, Errett 
 Smith, Francis C. 
 Smith, Ralph J. 
 Stewart, Elza L. 
 Stubbs, Sherwood O. 
 Sutton, Etsel C. 
 Swearinger, Harley E. 
 Taylor, John H. 
 Timmons, Alfred E. 
 Tomlinson, Thomas V. 
 Troutman, Harry 
 Tucker, Horace 
 Tutcher, Emmitt 
 Ward, William R. 
 Welch, Leo 
 Wildt, Nickodemus 
 Wilson, William R. 
 Wood, John D. 
 Yancey, Paul W. 
 Young, Cogshall C. 
 Zavlanes, Tony Z. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Roger T. Sermon 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Kenneth V. Bostian 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Edgar G. Hinde 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank Jones 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Arthur N. Johason 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 ^Searcy, Roy M. 
 Sfeble Sergeant, 
 
 Martin, Asa 
 
 BATTERY C 
 
 Independence 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Sands, Irving H. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Cushwa, Clay 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Montague, Ralph H. 
 
 Ford, Tirey J. 
 
 Jones, Roy W. 
 
 Jackson, Joseph O. 
 
 Coady, Michael 
 
 Knight. Arthur 
 
 Tindall, Frank C. 
 
 O'Neill, Harry C. 
 
 Dietterich, Frank E. 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Brown, Ira L. 
 Rice, Guy N. 
 Spradley, Charles E. 
 Crayton, Earl C. 
 Sands, Maynard M. 
 Lowe, Floyd R. 
 Yankee, Compton 
 Gilmore, Lloyd 
 Street, Arthur R. 
 Thacker, Ralph 
 McFarland, Gilbert F. 
 Johnson, William R. 
 Smith, George A. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 355 
 
 Sibale, William L. 
 
 Farrington, Buford E. 
 
 Roberts, Ernest W. 
 
 Duff, Arnold J. 
 
 lyinenbringer, Oliver 
 
 McDonald, Webster 
 C. 
 
 Burnham, Edward E. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Davenport, Charles B. 
 
 Loback, Chester B. 
 
 Newton, George H. 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Rice, Uarry E. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Bazzill, Harry C. 
 
 Ford, Dorrel L. 
 
 Mclnturff, Eugene 
 Horseshoers: 
 
 Hamilton, Earnest L,. 
 
 Ramm, Ferdinand 
 
 Chandler, Glenn 
 Saddler, 
 
 Kennedy, Thomas F. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Delafield, Floyd D. 
 
 Malbaff, Joseph 
 
 Mansell, Emmett L. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bacon, George H. 
 
 Brady, Otis R. 
 
 Brown, Charles E. 
 
 Carmichael, Edgar M. 
 
 Courtland, Mack C. 
 
 Dehoney, Clarence D. 
 
 Doty, Roy 
 
 Durrett, Pearl B. 
 
 Garrett, Fred 
 
 Gilmer, Garnett 
 
 Gualt, Edom A. 
 
 Hedges, William D. 
 
 Tudkins, Tames R. 
 
 Kittle, Edgar 
 
 I/anham, Raymond 
 
 Martin, Emile L. 
 Matthews, Kay 
 Mayfield, Robert K. 
 Phelps, Edward F. 
 Ressler, Maurice M. 
 Semler, William 
 Shook, Robert E. 
 Shrock, Keith P. 
 Sims, J, Russell 
 Smith, Hershel R. 
 Smithson, David 
 Sullivan, McKinley 
 Temple, Orta 
 Throtyear, Dee L. 
 Walters, William C. 
 Westwood, David H. 
 Wyatt, Hershel 
 Privates: 
 
 Alderman, William A. 
 Allen, Leslie E. 
 Alley, Perry O. 
 Bach, Henry 
 Baley, Orbie L. 
 Beavers, Lester F. 
 Bell, Warren A. 
 Bittle, Fred W. 
 Byars, James T. 
 Carter, Robert C. 
 Cleveland, Willard 
 Collins, James R. 
 Cook, Earl H. 
 Crocker, Carl 
 Duncan, Frank 
 Ellis, Gilbert 
 Everett, Newell 
 Farrow. George R. 
 Farrow, Harvy 
 Farrow, Jesse 
 Ferril, Lloyd 
 Fraas, Frank X. 
 Fulton, Selmo 
 Gibson, John W. Jr. 
 Hall, Edward 
 
 Haycraft, Emmett S. 
 Hostuttler, John E. 
 Huddleston, Joseph 
 Hughes, Alfred W. 
 Lamberton, James F. 
 Lane, Lester A. 
 Lasley, Frederick L. 
 Lee, Elmore S. 
 Love, Terrence N. 
 McGinnis, Owen 
 Mills, Harry H. 
 Moore, John E. L. 
 Nave, Thad 
 Nokes, Eugene T. 
 Owings, Ernest D. 
 Owings, Walter H. 
 Porter, Erman A. 
 Rice, Chester A. 
 Robey, William M. 
 Rudd, Francis V. 
 Ryan, Richard R. 
 St. Clair, Joseph H. 
 Sams, D. Milford 
 Sanders, Otis 
 Sappenfield, Felix G. 
 Sheets, Earl A. 
 Shepherd, Oscar 
 Showers, John 
 Slusher, Arnold F. 
 Smith, Roy A. 
 Sterritt, Anthony B. 
 Stewart, John 
 Swearingen, Zack 
 Sweet, William H. 
 Tousley, Melvin L. 
 Truesdale, Hugh A. 
 Ware, Clarence D. 
 Wilkes, Robert L. 
 Winton, George M. 
 Winton, William C. 
 Wood, Herman 
 Wood, James L. 
 Wood, Ralph 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Charles B. Allen 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 George M. Arrow- 
 smith 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Newell T. Paterson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Michael J. Flynn 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Morris G. Riley 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Eggleston, Giles L. 
 Supply Sergeants, 
 
 Keenan, Leo P. 
 
 BATTERY D 
 EIansas City 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Winners, Joseph A. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Entrekin, Lewis C. 
 Duty Sergeants: 
 
 Bell, Arthur H. 
 
 Burkhardt, James A. 
 
 Downey, Godfrey C. 
 
 Junior, Fred E. 
 
 McKim, Edward E. 
 
 Miesburger, Edward 
 P. 
 
 Murphy, Thomas E. 
 
 Taylor, Tom L. 
 
 Wickline, Elmer E. 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Brice, George E. 
 Chaney, Verne E. 
 Groff, Harry V. 
 Hoffman, Frank J. 
 Kelley, Harry M. 
 McGowan, Francis 
 Malmfeldt, Theodore 
 
 Murphy, Harry E. 
 O'Hare, William A. 
 Rielly, Carl J. 
 Rodgers, John G. 
 Shaffer, Daniel L- 
 Schmidt, Fred J. 
 Schmidt, Ernest L. 
 
356 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Smith, Curtis C. 
 
 Stanley, Frank 
 
 Tierney, William F. 
 
 Werner, Carl 
 
 Wiedermann, Fred j. 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Becker, Lawrence F. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Wooden, McKinley 
 
 Gladstone, Abraham 
 M. 
 
 Pratt, Harry G. 
 Horseshoers: 
 
 Edelman, Lawrence 
 H. 
 
 Quinn, Charles L. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Nix, Ddwin T. 
 
 Blankemeier, Charles 
 F. 
 
 Jackson, Everett E. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Ridge, Albert A. 
 
 Van Gilder, John W. 
 
 West, Harold A. 
 
 Jamison, Frank H. 
 Privates: 
 
 Baker, Roy 
 
 Banning, Roland R. 
 
 Baum, George R. 
 
 Bollin, Frank J. 
 
 Bonner, Patrick E. 
 
 Brannon, Francis A. 
 
 Bray, Lauren E. 
 
 Breen, William J. 
 
 Bryant, Mitchell 
 
 Burdge, Charles L. 
 
 Campbell, William B. 
 
 Carnie, James M. 
 
 Casey, James E. 
 
 Casey, Patrick E. 
 
 Coleman, Leo A. 
 
 Conbly, Francis L. 
 
 Condon, Edward V. 
 
 Conway, James B. 
 
 Coyle, Joseph F. 
 
 Cunningham, Fred C. 
 
 Curto, John P. 
 
 Dabner, Harry J. 
 
 Dantzig, Samuel 
 
 Detling, Cleary M. 
 
 Doherty, James J. 
 
 Donnelly, Eugene P. 
 
 Duren, Robert L. 
 
 Evans, Milton R. 
 Faulkner, Quincie J. 
 Flaherty, Daniel L. 
 Flint, Roy 
 
 Fredericks, Aubrey L. 
 Fredericks, Charley L. 
 Gadwood, James W. 
 Gent, Leo J. 
 Gerye, James E. 
 Gibbs, Chester 
 Goosey, Orrie B. 
 Gordon, John L. 
 Grady, John J. 
 Hall, John B. 
 Hampton, Woodie L. 
 Hardaway, Joseph B. 
 Hardy, George A. 
 Heillman, Lee A. 
 Higginbotam, John J. 
 Holmes, Mossie M. 
 Hornaday, Ralph C. 
 Horstman, Henry B. 
 Howard, Frederick L. 
 Hughes, Robert E. 
 James, Charles R. 
 Jeserich, Emil 
 Joyce, Robert E. 
 Kelley, Genaro 
 King, Ray 
 Knight, Winfrey E. 
 Kunz, Frank J. 
 LaMaster, Emmitt D. 
 Lavery, Joseph L. 
 Leeman, Earl 
 Leibnitz, Paul W. 
 Leigh, Vere C. 
 Leming, Daniel B. 
 Llafet, Jesse D. 
 Logan, James P. 
 Lucas, Lucien L- 
 McCarty, Harry A. 
 McCarty, William H. 
 McClung, William W. 
 McConnell, Harry T. 
 McDonald, Fred H. 
 McDonald, Thomas F. 
 McNamara, James F. 
 McNamara, Wm. T. 
 Maloney, Timothy V. 
 Maret, Charles B. 
 Maxey, Barney 
 Maynard, Jack W. 
 Maynard, Russell 
 Meiners, Herbert C. 
 
 Meredith, William B. 
 Merefee, Walter B. 
 Miller, Harold 
 Milton, Donald L. 
 Moore, John E. 
 Moore, Ralph W. 
 Moore, William A. 
 Mosby, Emerson A. 
 Mutschler, Robert L. 
 Nease, Hilbert R. 
 Nuckles, Kent B. 
 Oberndorff, August 
 O'Hare, Thomas 
 O'Rourke, Andy 
 O'Sullivan, John A. 
 Page, Clarence L. 
 Parkin, Ralph J. 
 Percintina, Roy 
 Phillips, Lonnie 
 Pierce, Lenord 
 Riley, John H. 
 Rogerson, William T. 
 Sargert, Frank 
 Schmitt, Edward H. 
 Schweizer, William 
 
 W. 
 Seaman, Richard W. 
 
 Jr. 
 Seiben, Paul T. 
 Sherman, Leon H. 
 Sherlock, Joseph W. 
 Smith, Chester 
 Smith, Raymond 
 Spiria, Frank E. 
 Stewart, Ralph R. 
 Stewart, Walter K. 
 Stuart, Edward V. 
 Surface, Elmer R. 
 Tate, Raymond L. 
 Trotter, Oliver L. 
 Uncles, John J. 
 A'an Buskirk, Earl 
 Van Haversveke, Al- 
 
 fons L. 
 Wallegham, Joseph K. 
 Walton, Tames T. 
 Whited, Paul L. 
 Wilkison, William J. 
 Williams. Dwight L. 
 Woods, George P. 
 Woods, Glen B. 
 Yeager, Francis D. 
 Younkers, Frederick 
 
 L. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Spencer Salisbury 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Ralph Crenshaw 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Dexter S. Perry 
 
 BATTERY E 
 
 Independence 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 C. Wallace Kelly 
 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 Robert L. Phelps 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Lynch, Joseph H, 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 Cleveland, William 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Sturges, Harry A. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Dunn, William C, Jr. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 357 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Carroll, Edwin S. 
 
 Bowles, Vincent M. 
 
 Soapes, Fred I,. 
 
 Sollars, Eugene K. 
 
 Van Smith, Herbert C. 
 
 McCIure, Herbert C. 
 
 O'Toole, Edwin V. 
 
 Jefferies, Joseph L,. 
 
 Mize, Charles R. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Bryan, Jean P. 
 
 Humphrey, lyee M. 
 
 Hymes, James E. 
 
 Hardin, Elmer R. 
 
 Kaplan, Max 
 
 Knight, Rufus W. 
 
 McRhae, Marion 
 
 Miles, Arthur R. 
 
 Wallace, Jefferson D. 
 
 Jones, Roy H. 
 
 Guard, Frank K. 
 
 Stevens, William E. 
 
 lyauderback, Frank D. 
 
 Lewright, Harold L,. 
 
 Stoneking, Clark 
 
 Ragan, William E. 
 
 Raymond, Harry 
 
 Maret, Carl 
 
 Davis, Tom 
 
 Johnson, Roily 
 Cooks: 
 
 Smith, Zenas E. 
 
 Wheeler, William O. 
 
 Robinson, Joseph H. 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Martinek, Harley h. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Schlie, Arnold F, 
 
 Wrzeciona, August A. 
 
 Wrzeciona, Alphonso 
 B. 
 
 Horseshoers: 
 
 Young, Joseph A. 
 Conway, Orville 
 Greer, William F. 
 
 Saddler, 
 
 Hammontree, Howard 
 M. 
 
 Buglers: 
 
 Burdick, Ben 
 Pemberton, Jeff D. 
 Fleming, Earl M. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Basham, Ernest 
 Brizendine, Lanie 
 
 Clasby, George 
 Cook, Robert P. 
 Crump, Howard M. 
 Gard, George 
 Gillispie, Clarence R. 
 Hawkins, Gailyard 
 Henson, Frenchie 
 Huff, Grover A. 
 Jefferies, Albert 
 Kehoe, Martin B. 
 Kinneman, Clarence E. 
 Lasister, Waldon H. 
 Lasley, Floyd 
 Eutjen, Sam J. 
 McGinty, Archibald 
 Maness, Carl T. 
 Moyer, Lester W. 
 Myers, William H. 
 Nazer, Ernest L. 
 Perdue, Wallace 
 Rice, Martin D. 
 Radmall, Marian G. 
 Raymond, Homer N. 
 Reed, Earl 
 Roof, Walter M. 
 Sisco, Riley 
 Sommers, George C. 
 Souder, Elmer L. 
 Strickler, Harry G. 
 York, Buford I. 
 Youngman, Bruce 
 Privates: 
 
 Armstrong, William J. 
 Beason, Allen W. 
 Beck, Lee 
 Bell, Albert 
 Bloom, John 
 Bryant, Geo. S. 
 Burgess, Stanley W, 
 Bush, Jess J. 
 Cameron, Wallace 
 Campbell, Thos. A. 
 Carlow, John F. 
 Conolly, Charles C. 
 Crawford, Melvin 
 Banner, Homer 
 Davis, Joseph 
 Earle, Arnold 
 Edwards, Claude 
 Emory, Sam 
 Fay, John J. 
 Ferguson, Willard L. 
 Fess, Earl F. 
 Gingrich, William H. 
 Gladish, Harry E. 
 Glynn, Charles W. 
 Gossett, Walter 
 
 Hamby, George W. 
 Harry, Clements M. 
 Hillstade, Fred 
 Hines, Fred M, 
 Huber, George E. 
 Hutchinson, John B. 
 Ivy, Charles N. 
 Jacobs, Russell C. 
 Jenkins, Walton P. 
 Johnson,Charles H. 
 Johnson, James E. 
 Jones, Joseph 
 Kilgore, Jesse E. 
 Klotz, Dewey 
 Lacey, Thomas A. 
 Lafferty, Gilbert D. 
 Leahy, Daniel 
 Lubert, William H. 
 McDonald, Fred L. 
 McPherson, Scott 
 Moberly, Stanley F. 
 Monroe, Robert L. 
 Moss, Elmer L. 
 Moss, Nesell 
 Myers, Harry 
 Nadow, Thomas L. 
 Nichols, Charles A. 
 Nixon, Harry M. 
 Noakes, Elmer 
 Noakes, Eugene 
 Palmer, Albert O. 
 Pemberton, Charles H, 
 Perry, Leroy 
 Prussing, Max M. 
 Putcheski, John J. 
 Raub, Paul M. 
 Reed, Walter P. 
 Reeves, Charles IT. 
 Reynolds, Paul F. 
 Rodgers, Claude 
 Sprenkle, Samuel L. 
 Stewart, Bryon E. 
 Stewart, George 
 Stinnet, Edward S. 
 Sturges, Ralph A. 
 Terrill, James S. 
 Thompson, Vernon M. 
 Toohey, Hollis 
 Unkefer, Homer L. 
 Wallace, Victor F. 
 Walls, Russell A. 
 Warner, William 
 Watkins, John 
 Welch, Harold W. 
 Whitman, Leslie R. 
 Wilhelm, Leslie D. 
 Williams, Harry 
 
358 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Harry B. Allen 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Jay M. Lee 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry S. Truman 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Herbert J. Hale 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Clyde C. Clark 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Dickinson, Cedric M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Page, Florian S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Moore, Charles F. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Springer, Paul M. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Campbell, Bruce K. 
 
 Hubler, Charles P. 
 
 Duvall, Harold 
 
 Thayer, Norton 
 
 Moore, David N. 
 
 Johnson, Harry W. 
 Corporals: 
 
 McCabe, George H. 
 
 Schwartzberg, Harry 
 
 Dowell, Ora A. 
 
 Broaddus, John A. 
 
 Buchannan, Grover C. 
 
 Gableman, Fred Jr. 
 
 Clegg, Arlington L. 
 
 Haseman, Otto F. 
 
 Blewetl, Ralph A. 
 
 Snodgrass, Thomas F. 
 
 Seifert, Frank L- 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Wolfe, Charles W. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Brickley, John R. 
 Privates: 
 
 Allbee, Ernest R. 
 
 Anderson, Earl M. 
 
 Baldwin, Charles A. 
 
 Barnes, Murle C. 
 
 Barnett, Robert 
 
 Bayer, Otto 
 
 Beaven, Joseph A. 
 
 Beck, Clyde O. 
 
 Bell, John F. 
 
 Bell, Thomas L. D. 
 
 Benson, Ernest H. 
 
 Berry, Francis 
 
 Binkley, Otto 
 
 Boner, Harry 
 
 Bradshaw, James 
 
 Brown, Robert Lee 
 
 Caleb, Philip I. 
 
 Card, Zera C. 
 
 BATTERY F 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Carder, Clem C. 
 Carter, Cecil H. 
 Chinn, Burton E. 
 Cibula, Jake J. 
 Clav, Louis M. 
 Collins, Hubert C. 
 Cronemeyer, Frede- 
 rick E. 
 Dabeane, Alois 
 Denni, Harry 
 Deschazer, Elmer S. 
 De Talent, Lyxe E. 
 Disselhoff, Willie 
 Dooley, Edgar C. 
 Dusky, Jack R. 
 Earnhart, Harry I. 
 Edwards, Fred J. 
 Elliot, Joseph B, 
 Emery, Herbert T. 
 Farley, Neal H. 
 Farris, Fred A. 
 Faulkner, Eugene 
 Fitzpatrick, Clement 
 Ford, John R. 
 Fulton, Edd 
 Galle, Fred 
 Gold, Louis 
 Griffith, Rolland J. 
 Hachinsky, Stanley M. 
 Hackley, Porter L. 
 Harding, Wili.'am V. 
 Harland, Frank G. 
 Harper, Charles E. 
 Henderickson, Evar 
 Henley, Michael A. 
 Hibbert, Chester A. 
 Hoflfman, Jake 
 HoUman, John 
 Housley, Gilbert O. 
 Irish, Fred F. 
 Jacobs, Eugene 
 Jacobson, Edward 
 Jarvis, Robert L. 
 Jennings, Edwin S. 
 Johnson, Adolph 
 Jones, Wilbur M. 
 Keith, Francis O. 
 Kobs, Adolph J. 
 Landman, Raymond H 
 Lang, Fred M. 
 Littler, Jesse C. 
 Long, Ray E. 
 Lucas, John I. 
 McAllan, John F. 
 McDowell, Landi? D. 
 Mailen, James H. 
 Mandl, Frank J. 
 Mang, Carl C. 
 Mattack, James F. 
 Mikesell, Loy G. 
 
 Milan, William E. 
 Miller, Harry 
 Miller, James B. 
 Mohesky, Tony 
 Moore, Hugh C. 
 Morgan, Harold N. 
 Murray, Benjamin R. 
 Newall, James A. L. 
 Occhipinto, Dominic 
 Otis, Thomas A. 
 Parker, Roy H. 
 Phillips, Harvey C. 
 Pryor, Roy E. 
 Richeson, Louis H. 
 Robinson, Earl 
 Ruger, Fred J. 
 Russell, Thomas H, 
 
 Salloom, Philip 
 
 Sanford, John R. 
 
 Scott, Walter W. 
 
 Shanklin, William N. 
 
 Sickel, John 
 
 Sidoreus, Hilon 
 
 Smith, Elza C. 
 
 Smith, Michael J. 
 
 Springer, John T. 
 
 Stearns, Morris L. 
 
 Stone, Arthur L. 
 
 Strode, John R. 
 
 Sturdy, Orvis A. 
 
 Stutenkemper, Her- 
 bert F. 
 
 Swartz, Milton E. 
 
 Talbott, Jack 
 
 Thiell, Rex F. 
 
 Thomas, Donald R. 
 
 Thopisen, Emil H. 
 
 Toomey, Victor 
 
 Trumbull, Ralph W. 
 
 Ulrey, Ernest 
 
 Ulrey, Henry L. 
 
 Urick, Hoyt 
 
 Van Luchene, Rene 
 
 Wachtel, Siegmund 
 
 Wagner, William L. 
 
 Warren, Henry L. 
 
 Warriner, Homer W. 
 
 Watson, Leon 
 
 Weber, Paul J. 
 
 Wells, Guy O. 
 
 White, Joe H. 
 
 Wiggans, Roy W. 
 
 Winfrey, Guy M. 
 
 Williams, Starkey L. 
 
 Wilson, Edmund W. 
 Wilson, Elsworth W. 
 
 Wood, Earl N. 
 
 Wright, Chandler P. 
 
 Wren, George 
 
 Young, Eugene L. 
 
 Zander, Paul D. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 359 
 
 SANITARY DETACHMENT 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Major, 
 
 Charles E. Wilson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 James T. Brown 
 Veterinarians: 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Timothy Riley 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Carl Parker 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 Falk, Harry S. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Anthony, John B. 
 Bohlken, Ed M. 
 Cadman, Lester E- 
 Coover, Clay C. 
 Eckerle, Leo J. 
 
 Hensley, Marshall A. 
 Key, J. Glenn 
 McKelly, Robert C. 
 Merritt, John P. 
 Pearson, Lavell D. 
 Phillips, George K. 
 Redding, James J. 
 Thomson, Virgil G. 
 Walker, Henry 
 
 FIRST SEPARATE BATTALION ENGINEERS 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Major, 
 
 Edward M. Stayton, 
 Commanding 
 
 Capt. & Adjt., 
 Frank R. Jones 
 
 Sergeant Major, 
 Burgess, Elbert E. 
 
 Master Engineers, J. G. 
 King, Sherwood R. 
 Kryder, Kenneth E. 
 Sparr, Russell J. 
 
 COMPANY A 
 Kansas City 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Arly L. Hedrick 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Bert R. Mullen 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank E. Lewis 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Amos D. Johnson, Jr. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Phillips, Loren D, 
 
 Cloman, Frank W. 
 
 Lasson, Joe R. 
 
 Nash, Maurice E. 
 
 Neil, Wallace M. 
 
 Degen, Albert G. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbandonato, Tony 
 
 Adams, James F. 
 
 Allen, Harry D. 
 
 Armstrong, William 
 W. 
 
 Arnold, Frank A. 
 
 Bailey, Robert P. 
 
 Bartholomei, George 
 D. 
 
 Batliner, Aloysius R. 
 
 Becker, Charles A. 
 
 Beckett, William C. 
 
 Belman, John A. 
 
 Berlew, Gilbert G. 
 
 Bolton, William M. 
 
 Boyle, Robert W. 
 
 Brooks, Benjamin F, 
 
 Cantwell, James F. 
 
 Carson, William G. 
 
 Cashman, Hugh B. 
 
 Child, Allen P. 
 
 Cook, Ralph W. 
 
 Curtis, George L. 
 
 Douglas, William R. 
 
 Duckworth, Albert 
 
 Dwinnell, Paul F. 
 
 Edwards, George A. 
 
 Eisel, Lester F. 
 
 Elkins, James R. 
 
 Ernst, Arthur J. 
 
 Filley, Ralph E. 
 
 Floyd, Earl B. 
 
 Fox, Albert L. 
 
 Ford, Daniel J. 
 
 Frederick, Will A. 
 
 Friel, Joe J. 
 
 Gabrielson, Arthur 
 
 Ganzer, Ernest A. 
 
 Gardner, James M. 
 
 Greene, Frank M. 
 
 Gundelfinger, Forrest 
 C. 
 
 Hagerty, John Her- 
 bert, Jr. 
 
 Hanson, Berger E. 
 
 Hays. Louis R. 
 
 Henderson, George P. 
 
 Herndon. Roy B. 
 
 Hicks, Willard W. 
 
 Hoech, Howard H. 
 
 Houk, William T. 
 
 Huber, Scott F. 
 
 Hymer, James A. 
 Jones, William D. 
 Kannally, Wm. P. 
 Kelley, Edward L. 
 Kemp, Ward C. 
 Kimbrough, Roch L. 
 Lord, James B. 
 Ludwig, Henry J. 
 Lute, Floyd A. 
 McBride, Mead W. 
 McConnell, Donald F. 
 McCormack, Roger W. 
 McFall, Daniel- L. 
 McGinnis, Milton S. 
 Magtutu, Pedro L- 
 Messing, Benjamin R. 
 Mowan, Howard F, 
 Myers, Deo P. 
 Newlund, Vern L. 
 Nichols, Alex R. 
 Occhipinti, Sebastain 
 Palmer, Elmer L. 
 Pearce, Richard 
 Pearson, Clarence T. 
 Phillips, Willie K. 
 Portman, Harry 
 Pottorflf, Fred C. 
 Reynolds, Charles 
 Reynolds, Joseph W. 
 Richards, Samuel E. 
 Rider, William G. 
 Scharf, Charles R. 
 Scharf, Henry W. 
 
360 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Schmeltz, Joe A. 
 Schramm, Edward 
 
 R. J. 
 Schumacher, William 
 
 H. 
 Sewell, Quay Donald 
 Simmons, Maurice 
 
 M. 
 Smith, Floyd E. 
 Snyder, Walter C. 
 
 St. Clair, Haston L. 
 Steeber, William O. 
 Steele, Ezekiel K. 
 Stewart, Charles H. 
 Tallquist, Harold A. 
 Tillery, James W. 
 Tommasini, Joseph 
 Turpen, Oliver Phillip 
 Veberg, Charles D. 
 Vickers, Jas. M. 
 
 Vogel, Edwin John 
 Waters, Charles W. 
 Watterson, Olgie 
 White, Chester A. 
 White, Edward Ever- 
 ett 
 Whitney, Edward Lee 
 Williams, Thomas H. 
 Wills, Arthur E. 
 Wilson, Ernest D. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Edward E. McKeighan 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 James A. Moore 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Lawrence G. For- 
 sythe 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Roy C. Hedges 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Dunwoody, Charles 
 G. 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 
 Arnold, Gerald O. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Wiershing, Roy 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Pypes, Columbus D, 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Hogue, Clarence H. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Spalding, Gilbert M. 
 
 Chockley, Frederick 
 
 Nielsen, Chris 
 
 Lent, John R, 
 Corporals : 
 
 Laudermilk, Jerome D 
 
 Pearson, Henry E. 
 
 Perry, William H. 
 
 Hodnett, Oscar M 
 
 Hazlett, William S. 
 
 Simms, Byron V. 
 
 Rig'gs, John E. 
 
 Bell, Thaddeus Henry 
 
 Johnson, Iver K. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, Arthur 
 
 Adams, William R. 
 
 Allen, Bert S. 
 
 Armstrong, George 
 W. 
 
 Borden, George A. 
 
 Bryant, Emmett G. 
 
 Bumps, John W. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Carey, Walter R. 
 Carney, Rufe H. 
 Childs, Edward B. 
 Chinn, Charles 
 Cordell, Carl L. 
 Courts, Earl 
 Crockett, Roy L. 
 Dailey, Vincent 
 Degen, Albert G. 
 Dougherty, Ralph E. 
 Douglass, Earl J. 
 Duggins, Hubert 
 Dunn, Virgil L. 
 Evans, Francis E. 
 Fenton, Jasper B. 
 Flowers, Printes 
 Fortune, Joseph 
 Foster, Richard 
 Geiger, Robert F. 
 Gilmore, George F. 
 Givens, William O. 
 Golver, Ralph E. 
 Gowan, William M. 
 Green, Earl C. 
 Groceman, William E. 
 Hallam, Charles W. 
 Haynis, John H. 
 Hetherington, John V. 
 Hirsh, Emil 
 Hodel, William I. 
 Ivan, Louis C. 
 Jackson, Donald G. 
 Johnston, Osby 
 Kelley, David E. 
 Krebs, Walter K. 
 Lakey, Leonard A. 
 Lapetina, Tony 
 Lattner, Wendalyn 
 
 H. 
 McAshan, James E. 
 McCandlish, Robert M 
 McClaflin, Bert W. 
 McNaught, William 
 
 H. 
 Madsen, Michael F. 
 Magee, Will C. 
 Mann, Orrin R. 
 
 Mapted, Frederick 
 Mercer, Emory 
 Merrill, Starr S. 
 Miller, Charles G. 
 Miller, Lewis W. 
 Miller, William E. 
 Minshall, Wyatt 
 Mitchell, Charles G. 
 Mitts, Frank H. 
 Morris, Walter L. 
 Newby, Harry S. 
 Odgaard, Henning P. 
 Ogletree, William T. 
 Page, William L. 
 Peterson, Rector E. 
 Pipes, Byron C. 
 Pizinger, Chas. A. 
 Prewett, Harry C. 
 Remey, Thomas G. 
 Rew, Frank W. 
 Richmond, Chester L. 
 Robinson, Edward E. 
 Robinson, George H. 
 Scott, Gerald 
 Shelton, Wm. F. 
 Shirkey, Charles M. 
 Smith, WilHam I. 
 Stoffle, Jewell J. 
 Straw, James F. 
 Supple, Patrick J. 
 Thompson, Marion G. 
 Todd, Joseph W. 
 Tompkins, Harry M. 
 Turner, Walter B. 
 Tutt, Arthur C. 
 Twin, Louis 
 Valasz, Jose 
 Veach, Bert W. 
 Vincent, Eddie M. 
 Walker, Barnett E. 
 Wamsley, George J. 
 Wilkinson, Gilbert M. 
 Willis, Charles E. 
 Wright, William S. 
 Young, Bert 
 Young, Ernest R. 
 Zondler, Albert Chas. 
 
ROSTER OF MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 361 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Walter K. Palmer 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Richard VV. Cunning- 
 ham 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles F. Curry 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 John K. Noonan 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Keifer, Joseph W. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Withers, Clarence W. 
 
 Nash, Harold 
 
 Schneider, George A. 
 
 Stone, Charles R. 
 
 Campbell, Harry A. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Martin, Fred B. 
 
 Cohn, Reuben R. 
 
 Oetken, Walter 
 
 Colvin, Charles 
 
 Berger, Clyde D. 
 
 Higdon, Allen B. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, James 
 
 Adams, William 
 
 Adler, Charles 
 
 Allred, Kenneth L. 
 
 Angel, Oscar L. 
 
 Angel, William E. 
 
 Baer, Fred C. 
 
 Baker, Charles A. 
 
 Baldwin, Paul R. 
 
 Brandt, Ernest H. 
 
 Braymer, George W. 
 
 Braymer, Leslie L. 
 
 COMPANY C 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Bryant, Chauncey L. 
 Bugbee, Harvey H. 
 Burelli, Carmino 
 Burns, Densil 
 Campbell, Bertie J. 
 Cashman, Patrick J. 
 Clapper, Robert 
 Collins, Whitman G. 
 Cox, Charles B. 
 Crow, Russell P. 
 Elliott, Loren J. 
 Flagg, Dalzey C. 
 Fulkerson, Charles E. 
 Golden, Arthur L. 
 Hatton, Lester H. 
 Herman, Fred 
 Holton, John Henry 
 Hostetter, Frank L. 
 Hughes, Joseph N. 
 Hughes, Thomas J. 
 Jarrell, Earl 
 Johnson, Frank 
 Johnson, William W. 
 Kinsey, Harry W. 
 Lane, INIarquis M. 
 Lawrence, Ewing M. 
 Lee, Harley 
 Legg, E. M. 
 Leibourtz, Jacob 
 Little, Russell 
 McBee, Frank W. W. 
 McCaleb, Flavius M. 
 McCracken, Ronald E. 
 McCormick, Walter 
 
 H. 
 McLaughlin, Patrick 
 IMcWilliams, Harry 
 
 Paul 
 IMarcelly, Roxey J. 
 
 ]\Iay, Francis A. 
 Meeks, Everett 
 Meyers, Alfred L. 
 Mitchell, Lige 
 Moldovan, Nicholas 
 Moore, James H. 
 Niswander, William 
 
 E. 
 Olson, Harold 
 Payne, Harold B. 
 Petre, Joseph 
 Reeves, John 
 Regnier, Felix 
 Remper, Earnest C. 
 Rigg, Otto P. 
 Riley, Earl L. 
 Rohwer, William 
 Skaggs, Ray 
 Smith, Charles O. 
 Smith, Emery J. 
 Smith, Norman 
 Staff, Ralph E. 
 Sturtevant, Ira A. 
 Sutherland, Lyle W. 
 Sutton, Edward T. 
 Sutton, Oscar O. 
 Thomas, Arthur L. 
 Thompson, George 
 Turner, Allan F. 
 Turner, Leland G. 
 Turrentine, George 
 
 S. 
 Watts, Otis L. 
 Wilhelm, Henry L. 
 Williams, Claude 
 Williams, Clyde 
 Williams, Gordon 
 Wilson. Edgar O. 
 Wilt. Walter C. 
 
 MOTOR SUPPLY TRAIN 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Major, Q. M. Sergeants: 
 
 Carl O. Houseman, Hereford, James E. Jr. 
 
 Commanding Page, James D. 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt., 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Lawrence C. Sherrill Trayser, Lew 
 
 1st Class Chauffeurs: 
 Ruler, Orville V. 
 Zirwes, Adolph 
 
 Asst. Chauffeur, 
 Walker, George E. 
 
 TRUCK COMPANY NO. 1 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Horace B, Fitzwil- 
 liam 
 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Truckmaster, 
 McHugh, Darius M. 
 
 Sergeants, Asst Truck- 
 masters : 
 Curran, Irvine F. 
 
362 
 
 FROM VAUQU0I6 HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Hays, William O. 
 
 Hagerman, Harry A. 
 Sergeant, Clerk, 
 
 Young, Stephen B. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Lipschultz, Jack H. 
 Sergeant, Mechanic, 
 
 Finney, Joe C. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Morse, Reed P. 
 
 Queensen, Arthur O. 
 1st Class Chauffeurs: 
 
 Armstrong, Ardra B. 
 
 Baltz, George W. 
 
 Barnhart, Francis L. 
 
 Brashear, Harry J. 
 
 Brock, Louis R. 
 
 Connors, Albert J. 
 
 Cox, Earnest Virgil 
 Crouch, James Nick 
 Daney, IJugene M. 
 Earthall, Otto Arthur 
 Famum, Albert J. 
 Fisch, Raymond F. 
 Plannery, Charles E. 
 Gallagher, James J. 
 Haeberle, Alois G. 
 Henerforth, Charles 
 Hoge, Oliver C. 
 Kassing, Fred, Jr. 
 Keaney, Joseph S. 
 Kieran, John 
 Lingle, Lester L. 
 Prass, Hugo W. 
 Ritchie, William J. 
 Roehl, Otto J. 
 
 Schwieder, Andrew D. 
 
 Siedentop, William 
 
 Simon, Bernard H. 
 
 Simpson, Sidney E. 
 
 Stupp, Walter E. 
 1st Class Privates, Asst. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Hahn, Howard F. 
 
 Key, George A. 
 Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
 feurs : 
 
 Allen, James W. 
 
 Moore, Eugene W. 
 
 Ostrander, James H. 
 
 Owen, Archibald C. 
 
 Pfiflfer, Stephen E. 
 
 Portz, Walter J. 
 
 Schworm, George 
 
 Wagener, Abon E. 
 
 TRUCK COMPANY NO. 2 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles J. McElhiney 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Truckmaster, 
 
 Scott, George M. 
 Sergeant, Clerk, 
 
 Ashcroft, Jerome L. 
 Sergeant, Asst. Truck- 
 masters : 
 
 Keyes, Arthur A. 
 
 McCormack, Maurice 
 A. 
 
 Parker, King L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Roth, Paul A. 
 Sergeant, Mechanic, 
 
 Barrett, John B. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Doerr, Harry 
 
 Wellman, Henry G. 
 1st Class Chauffeurs: 
 
 Bollwerk, John J. 
 
 Buse, Edwin P. 
 
 Canning, Robert J., 
 
 Jr. 
 Chandler, Leon H. 
 ChorliTas, William A. 
 Cobb, Virgil Guy 
 Dietz, Benjamin G. 
 Driemeyer, Fred A. 
 Freeman, Thomas W. 
 Greenwood, Daniel F. 
 Grote, Edward H. 
 Gunn, Howard P. 
 Hoehn, George S. 
 Jahns, Raymond J. 
 Jehle, Charles, Jr. 
 Johnston, William A. 
 Kaler, Basil F. 
 Kelley, James D. 
 Kriejfer, Edward J. 
 Kuechler, Edward G. 
 London, Oscar G. 
 Lynch, Joseph T. 
 McFall, Edward L. 
 Martin, John R. 
 
 Moyers, Robert D. 
 
 Nelson, Arthur A. 
 
 Robertson, Lloyd J. 
 
 Roetter, William W. 
 
 Rombach, Emil F. 
 
 Ronowsky, Frank 
 
 Schindler, Edward F. 
 
 Schutten, Melvin C. 
 
 Shilling, Bernard J. 
 Privates, 1st Class Asst. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Hasekamp, Harry C. 
 
 Joaquin, Nathan E. 
 Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
 feurs : 
 
 Beeler, William B. 
 
 Dahl, Vester 
 
 Goetzhain, Oscar A. 
 
 McCarthy, Walter 
 
 McMillan, Louis A. 
 
 Miehlhaures, Fred 
 
 Spaulding, Michael H. 
 
 Straub, Charles P. 
 
 TRUCK COMPANY NO. 3 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles H. Wells 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Truckmaster, 
 
 Arendes, Gustave M. 
 Sergeant, Clerk, 
 
 Bonnet, William 
 Sergeant, Asst, Truck- 
 masters : 
 
 Grimes, Charles F. 
 
 Harms, Erwin C. 
 
 McKianey, James M. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 O'Donnell, Edmund A. 
 Sergeant, Mechanic, 
 
 Atkinson, Robert J. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Feagan, Henry C. 
 
 Zumbro, Edward E. 
 1st Class Chauffeurs: 
 
 Altmansberger, John 
 F. 
 
 Barrett, Harry J. 
 
 Barry, William 
 
 Cunningham, Frank 
 Fly, Arthur M. 
 French, Thomas H. P. 
 Grieb, John O. 
 Hardesty, Fred J. 
 Hennessy, Stephen T. 
 Hrdlicka, Joseph F. 
 King, Wilson 
 Kirkwood, Raymond 
 Kirsch, George F. 
 Krudup, Herman H., 
 Jr. 
 
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 363 
 
 Ivightner, Edward 
 lyockridge, Charles S. 
 Long, Curtis 
 May, Lawrence E. 
 Quinn, Lon E. 
 Reynolds, William B. 
 Rogers, Willard S. 
 Schlothauer, Henry 
 Schwartz, Elmer J. 
 Sheeks, John E. 
 Sieving, Martin 
 
 Smith, Walter M. 
 Spangler, Harry E. 
 Speier, Jerome 
 Stuart, Allen P. 
 Wallace, Herbert 
 Waltman, John C. 
 Ward, William J. 
 Watson, Raymond L. 
 Privates, 1st Class Asst. 
 Mechanics : 
 Hallback, Aaron P. 
 Redden, Allen C. 
 
 Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
 feurs : 
 
 Bergman, Frederick 
 Blume, Elmer F. 
 Fox, Dewey L. 
 Gurley, Thomas E. 
 Kelley, Charles R. 
 Kemp, William J. 
 Marshall, Murrell E. 
 Rhoads, Harry G. 
 Stern, Harry J. 
 
 TEUCK COMPANY NO. 4 
 St. Louis 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 George A. Griffith 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Truckmaster, 
 
 Absolom, James H., Jr. 
 Sergeant, Clerk, 
 
 Steding, Harry M. 
 Sergeants, Asst. Truck- 
 masters : 
 
 Hutchison, James A. 
 
 Gegenbauer, Joseph 
 A. 
 
 Vance, Chester A, 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Steding, John A. 
 Sergeant, Mechanic, 
 
 Anderson, William R. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Pace, Charles 
 
 Alt, Albert J. 
 1st Class Chauffeurs: 
 
 Anderson, James C. 
 
 Bakula, Edward 
 Bankson, Randolph T. 
 Bess, Eugene 
 Bisgen, Joseph A. 
 Burks, Walter L. 
 Cowdery, Archie 
 Coultas, Wilson J. 
 Day, Raymond J. 
 Dinkle, Joseph A. 
 Dixon, Raymond G. 
 Files, Wilbur R. 
 Frank, Joseph, Jr. 
 Gillham, Willard C. 
 Gokenbach, Walter P. 
 Hamilton, Albert D. 
 Kester, Joseph R., Jr. 
 Lawrence, Boyd E. 
 Marquitz, Oliver C. 
 Martin, Carl W. 
 Rafferty, Gerard A. 
 Reed, Eugene B. 
 Reis, O. Louis 
 Richardson, Irvin L. 
 Rebley, Lester C. 
 
 Rossman, Edwin F. 
 
 Ruschenberg, Oliver 
 
 Schmidt, Charles 
 
 Schnaus, John F. 
 
 Spies, Clarence 
 
 Votova, John 
 
 Wiedmer, William F. 
 
 Williams, Phillip A. 
 Privates, 1st Class, 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Byrne, Frank P. 
 
 Thompson, Roy M. 
 Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
 feurs: 
 
 Jaeckel, Frederick W, 
 
 Kolwyck, Richard P. 
 
 McGill, John T. 
 
 Mathewson, Warren 
 H. 
 
 Morrell, Jesse R. 
 
 Moss, Daniel 
 
 Rausendorf, August 
 H. 
 
 Walsh, Frank J. 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 James A. Wright 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Truckmaster, 
 
 Ketchel, Leon J. 
 Sergeant, Clerk, 
 
 Morgan, Lindsay A. 
 Sergeant, Asst. Truck- 
 masters : 
 
 Dugan, Edward M. 
 
 McHugh, Jerome L. 
 
 Tharp, Lon O. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Greer, Henry P. 
 Sergeant, Mechanic, 
 
 Mundell, Ralph E. 
 
 TEUCK COMPANY NO. 5 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Cooks : 
 
 Weaver, Ernest H. 
 
 Morey, Cyril M. 
 1st Class Chauffeurs: 
 
 Arnold, Edwin E. 
 
 Beidenlinden, William 
 A. 
 
 Carter, Otis W. 
 
 Council, Alexander C. 
 
 Crouch, William M. 
 
 Fearl, Robert C. 
 
 FowlcT, Harry P. 
 
 Hastings, William O. 
 
 Johnson, William A. 
 
 Kintrea, Edwin R. 
 
 Kirkey, Clarence W. 
 
 Klosson, Helmer C. 
 
 Miller, Paul 
 Morgan, Jesse O. 
 Palmer, Charles C. 
 Patterson, Leslie 
 Pierce, Abial R. 
 Pilkinton, William H. 
 Roberts, John P. 
 Shadburn, Thomas P. 
 Shannahan, Eugene 
 
 W. 
 Shockley, Richard S. 
 Shavely, Ralph H. 
 Spencer, Bonnie 
 Stine, William K. 
 Stolp, Elmer S . 
 Thomas, Elmer V. 
 
364 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Thompson, Charles N. 
 Tisdell, Lee 'B;. 
 Turner, William E. 
 Walker, John D. 
 Whittington, Ralph M. 
 Privates, 1st Class Asst. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Clark, John E. 
 Workman, Ross, Jr. 
 Privates, Asst., Chauf- 
 feurs : 
 Blanchette, Lawrence 
 Dickinson, Llewellyn 
 
 Emery, Claude S. 
 Hamel, Joshua W. 
 Malone, Leonard B. 
 Murphy, Robert A. 
 Voris, Green H. 
 Young, Ernest J. 
 
 TEUCK COMPANY NO. 6 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Max P. Habecker 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Truckmaster, 
 
 Vinburg, Anthony F. 
 Sergeant, Clerk, 
 
 Marcell, Albert 
 Sergeant, Asst. Truck- 
 masters: 
 
 Hedges, Harry G. 
 
 Knudson, Charles G. 
 
 Sherwood, Joseph 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Hopkins, Robert T. 
 Sergeant, Mechanic, 
 
 Fishel, Melzer W. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Banes, Arthur 
 
 Lee, Fred 
 1st Class Chauffeurs: 
 
 Allen, Howard K. 
 
 Bova, William 
 
 Bower, Carl 
 Brown, William G. 
 Casey, Edward P, 
 Castle, Minor 
 Castle, Orie E. 
 Courtney, James M. 
 Drummond, William 
 
 L. 
 Farris, Herbert G. 
 Garrod, Robert O. 
 Hanke, Henry J. 
 Hanke, Paul J. 
 Herndon, Ray C. 
 Hinde, Thomas I\L 
 Irsik, Leo M. 
 Jackson, Howard 
 Jager, Clarence J. 
 Koch, Charles R. 
 McKinney, Albert M. 
 Madinger, Otto 
 Muster, John 
 Ogden, Clyde W. 
 Reury, Fred 
 
 Schmitt, Frank O. 
 
 Starmer, Bringle W. 
 
 Steidel, Harry J. 
 
 Stueck, Herman C. 
 
 Tooey, Robert B. 
 
 Walters, Vailey M. 
 
 Wiehl, Gerard 
 
 Wiley, Beuford J. 
 
 Worland, John 
 Privates, 1st Class Asst. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Beihl, Louis, Jr. 
 
 Hemenover, Cort H. 
 Privates, Asst. Chauf- 
 feurs : 
 
 ElHott, Joseph F. 
 
 Harmon, Jesse M. 
 
 Hudson, Haden S. 
 
 McCoy, Albert A. 
 
 Madden, Johnny 
 
 Russell, Earl R. 
 
 Schaff, Charles F. 
 
 Tays, Wilbur 
 
 1ST SEPARATE TROOP, MrSSOURI CAVALRY 
 St. Louis 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Edward J. Ruf, 
 
 Commanding 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 John A. Hatfield 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 William C. McCarron 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Smith, Ruskin A. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Williams, Edwin C. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Guyot, Charles A. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Ross, Edward B. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Tranel, Anthony H. 
 
 Schenk, George E. 
 
 McCormick, William 
 F. 
 
 Patterson, Coombs 
 
 Hamma, Carl A. 
 
 Feiner, Geo. W. 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 WiUiams, Victor E. 
 
 Huff, Hugo F. 
 
 Sain, Frank J. 
 
 Kamm, Carl B. 
 
 James, Kessler 
 
 Espy, Albert L. 
 
 Chauvin, Charles B. 
 
 Young, William C. 
 
 Pollard, Geo. H. 
 Horseshoers : 
 
 Dunlap, Orlie 
 
 Anderson, Arthur C. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Moore, Silas S. 
 
 Newman, Arthur E. 
 Cook, 
 
 Ehrman, Karl 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Brown, Hayward 
 
 Burnley, Boniface J. 
 
 Desmond, Elmer H. 
 
 Kretzer, John F. 
 
 Linton, Melville L. 
 Palphrey, William G. 
 Rodgers, Milton 
 Teason, Clifford J. 
 Ulrich, Elmer L. 
 Woodard, James E. 
 Privates : 
 Axtell, Hall 
 Beal, Bruce A. 
 Bebee, Joseph A. 
 Becker, Howard R. 
 Bell, John H., Jr. 
 Bockhurst, Charles 
 
 W. 
 Bradshaw, Erwin J. 
 Brewster, Harry E. 
 Cantwell, Harry J., 
 
 Jr. 
 Cardwell, Elmer F. 
 Carter, Robert L. 
 Cooley, Charles F., Jr. 
 Dickey, Clifford E. 
 Donnel, Everett M. 
 
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 365 
 
 E)dmondson, lyConard 
 
 K. 
 E)hrman, Karl 
 Ellison, Augustus B. 
 Fowler, Alonzo F. 
 French, Schuyler S. 
 Gautier, Pierre T. 
 Giblin, Fdward J. 
 Goeble, Frederick J. 
 Hancock, Lesleigh 
 Hancock, Murray J. 
 Howe, Neal A. 
 Huck, L,ouis A. 
 Jackson, Herbert M. 
 Jeffers, Jack A. 
 Jeffries, Charles R. 
 Jordan, Davis I. 
 Junge, Frederick A. 
 Kretzer, Flmer L. 
 
 L,anigan, Earl M. 
 L,iess, Daniel R. 
 McCann, Edward J. 
 Montfort, Earl D. 
 Morgan, John A. 
 Murphy, Melvin J. 
 Nathan, Frank E. 
 Newman, George W 
 Nies, Frederick J. 
 Noonan, Allan S. 
 Overman, John R. 
 Parker, Robert B. 
 Parker, Thomas 
 Penning, Carl A. 
 Prendergast, George 
 
 E. 
 Rapp, Arthur G. 
 Rodgers, Atwell 
 
 Schoen, Carl H. 
 Selkirk, Benjamin J. 
 Sennewald, Ferdinand 
 
 W. 
 Sindel, Thomas F. 
 Smith, David J. 
 Speed, L,loyd J. 
 Spencer, Charles S. 
 Stone, J. Boyd 
 Sullivan, Richard W. 
 Tivy, John B. 
 Uehlie, Walter E. 
 Van der lyippe, Paul 
 
 F. 
 Vetter, John E. 
 Walker, George B. 
 Wall, George C. 
 Watson, Melvin G. 
 Wootten, Rieff 
 
 FIRST MISSOURI FIELD HOSPITAL 
 
 Major, 
 
 Oliver C. Gebhart 
 Captain, 
 
 Thomas J. Lynch 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles Greenberg 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Robert E. Crabtree 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Otto A. Schmid 
 1st Class Sergeants, 
 
 Dorsey, Robert M. 
 
 Dorsey, Stephen A. 
 
 King, Cortez, E- 
 Sergeants: 
 
 McDaniel, James E. 
 
 Classen, Edwin J. 
 
 Carter, John M. 
 
 Daggett, Boone L. 
 
 McAleer, Hugh D. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Hinckley, Irving M. 
 
 Septka, Harold F. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Alsfasser, Mathias 
 
 Baertels, Gerhard J. 
 
 Bassing, Francis J. 
 
 Bauerlein, James G. 
 
 Betts, Thomas R. 
 
 Bolton, Alexander J. 
 
 Boyle, Clifford S. 
 
 Boyle, Wave P. 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Bramel, Glenn C. 
 Brooks, Louis V. 
 Burvenich, Oscar A. 
 Dornhoffer, Louis J. 
 Ehler, William R. 
 Gardner, Robert L. 
 Hadley, Leslie F. 
 Hanavan, Charles T. 
 Hatch, Pearne P. 
 Hutton, Carl S. 
 Kimber, Harry E. 
 King, Sabe 
 Kuehn, Curt E. 
 Optican, Abe G. 
 Palmer, Virgil B. 
 Policy, Albert D. 
 Pursel, Dean C. 
 Randall, Adolph L. 
 Retzer, Edgar F. 
 Shaw, Robert L. 
 Showers, George F. 
 Shubert, John J. 
 Slaybaugh, John B. 
 Whitehead, Edward 
 A. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, Charles M. 
 Binnicker, Ray E. 
 Binnicker, Walter A. 
 Black, William H. 
 Borden, Duncan 
 Butler, Ralph M. 
 Cardry, William R. 
 
 Carter, Perry W. 
 Cole, Lawrence V. 
 Collins, Ernest B, 
 Compton, Earl B. 
 Conard, Raymond 
 Consodine, Thomas J. 
 Doherty, Charles G. 
 Fisher, Robert H. 
 Foster, Thomas W. 
 Garlich, Emil J. 
 Garvey, Lawrence J. 
 Grieshaber, Rudolph 
 
 C. 
 Henry, Charles L- 
 Hinckley, Warren H. 
 Houck, William E., 
 
 Jr. 
 Howard, Frederick E. 
 Hurst, Norman W. 
 Jones, Henry M. 
 Kier, Thomas B. 
 Logan, Cecil E. 
 Lowry, Merle A. 
 McDonald, Leo F. 
 Moeck, John B. 
 Sellers, Eugene H. 
 Shafer, Harry C. 
 Sherman, Arthur F. 
 Showers, William B. 
 Smith, Frank R. 
 Throckmorton, Harry 
 Wilson, John W., Jr. 
 Windsor, Frederick T. 
 
 SECOND MISSOURI FIELD HOSPITAL 
 
 Chamois 
 
 Major, 
 
 William W. Gilbert 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 Hans Schaerrer 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 Isaac G. Cook 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Henry L. Rothman 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Cyrus P. McRaven 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Pahmeier, Robert IL 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Stomer, Ralph D. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Parks, Cecil R. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Meyer, Bernard C. 
 
 Ehler, Otto 
 
 Lindhorst, Loyd G. 
 
 McDaniel, Buell W. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Kahmann, Ray 
 
 Spreckelmeyer, Ches- 
 ter O. 
 
 Odor, Carlyle K. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Dessieux, Paul Berry 
 
 Roberts, Luther 
 
 Rinne, George H. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Malan, Cyrus C. 
 Saddler, 
 
 McDaniel, Ray B. 
 Farrier, 
 
 Brandt, Irving A. 
 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Walker, Major R. 
 Trumpeters: 
 
 Lecurn, Hugo Hubert 
 
 Griffith, Harry E. 
 Privates: 
 
 Baclesse, Louis A. 
 
 Baclesse, Guffrie K. 
 
 Baker, Joseph D. 
 
 Bascom, Harold C. 
 
 Boyce, Boyd R. 
 
 Boss, Emil P. 
 
 Branson, Lewis 
 
 Branson, Tim 
 
 Branson, William 
 
 Carnes, Stanley R. 
 
 Childers, Elmer 
 
 Clark, Irvie L. 
 
 Clover, George A. 
 
 Cramer, Buell B. 
 
 Curtit, William C. 
 
 Deakins, William B. 
 
 Ferguson, William A. 
 
 Glavin, Thomas E. 
 
 Haynes, Floyd E. 
 
 Hesch, Walter P. 
 
 Hug, Paul Walter 
 
 Kampschweder, Harry 
 M. 
 
 Kleithermes, Joseph 
 H. 
 
 Lalk, Oscar B. 
 
 Lannon, Harry J. 
 Leonard, William 
 McDaniel, Charles L- 
 McKnight, James T. 
 Maxwell, Ezra T. 
 Miller, William L. 
 Neumann, Arthur M. 
 Nichols, John S. 
 O'Brien, David W. 
 Patterson, Edward L. 
 Patterson, Marvin 
 Potter, Stanley C. 
 Renfro, Gus Haskell 
 Renfro, William J. 
 Rhodes, Lawrence 
 Roark, James Way- 
 man 
 Rogers, Den H. 
 Rogers, Marvin 
 Rother, William 
 Sask, Otto Fritz 
 Smith, William E. 
 Stiers, Adolph 
 Thompson, William 
 
 E. 
 Thulis, Werner J. 
 Turner, John Dewey 
 Vaughan, Guy 
 Vehlewald, John L. 
 White, Elmer 
 Wright, Rudolph 
 Zewicki, Augusta W. 
 
 FIRST MISSOURI AMBULANCE COMPANY 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William L. Gist 
 Captain, 
 
 Frank Hvirwitt 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Dorriss E. Wilhelm 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Halsey M. Lyle 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Raymond H. Fox 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 John F. Howell 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Joseph M. Hancock 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 
 Zillisch, Hubert E. 
 
 Quinn, Theophilus J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Wilson, William H. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Rohr, Jake P. 
 
 Mason, Lyman 
 
 Evans, Henry L. 
 
 Hansen, Carl T. 
 
 Sarrisin, Cheri 
 
 Corporals : 
 
 Nicholson, Claud 
 
 Nicholson, Vivian 
 
 Casper, Clyde 
 
 Orvis, Harold W. 
 
 Rauter, Ballington A. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Staley, George P. 
 
 Shinkle, Osa L. 
 
 Yoder, Charles A. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Peterson, William A. 
 Farrier, 
 
 Hare, Frank 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Hill, Samuel J. 
 
 Saddler, 
 
 Carbin, Dennis 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Arbuckle, William C. 
 
 Ausman, Roy E. 
 
 Bird, Edward H. 
 
 Boyer, Guy M. 
 
 Browne, Arthur O. 
 
 Coltrane, Ockley 
 
 Crangle, Herbert C. 
 
 Ewing, William J. 
 Finster, Carl G. 
 Gibson, Kenneth 
 Gilzean, John F. 
 Hatch, George E. 
 Hillgardner, Harold 
 
 K. 
 Hofifman, John 
 Hofmann, Alfonso 
 Huber, Louis A. 
 Irwin, Donald G. 
 Johnston, Fred 
 Johnstone, Newman E. 
 Love, Edgar 
 McMullen, Frank D. 
 Meyer, Carl A. 
 Miles, Robert R. 
 Nelson, Emel 
 Perrin, Guy M. 
 Polk, Orrin L. 
 Pubanz, Ernest A. 
 Shema, George W. 
 Shepp, John H. 
 Skaer, Carl 
 Towner, Floyd P. 
 Vinick, Sam 
 
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 367 
 
 Weaver, Charles A. 
 Welch, Charles A. 
 Wherritt, Albert R. 
 Williams, Richard C. 
 Privates : 
 
 Arnold, Mason 
 Asotsky, Louis J. 
 Bennett, Ellis S. ^ 
 Biddison, Lewis C. 
 Biddison, Roy C. 
 Brand, Amos R. 
 Brown, Carl C. 
 Brune, Gustave H. 
 Bryson, Arthur R. 
 Bundren, Isaac M. 
 Burress, Clifford D. 
 Bussey, Melville G. 
 Buttomer, Joseph C. 
 Collins, Joseph P. 
 Cordes, Henry C. 
 Crane, Garnett E. 
 Crevier, Edgar F. 
 Damron, Andrew J. 
 Dishman, George B. 
 Ellmaker, Claud D. 
 Evans, Lenly C. 
 Fisher, Roy E. 
 Fox, Vernon F. 
 Gillis, Charles M. 
 Glazier, Glenn O. 
 Golden, Melvin 
 Gordon, Abe 
 Green, Joseph A. 
 Hackler, Harvey H. 
 
 Houston, Sid 
 Irons, Parker R. 
 Kella, Harry Y. 
 Kerst, Mark A. 
 Knuth, William J. 
 Laboy, Samuel 
 Lewis, Charles A. 
 Lewkowitz, Leopold 
 Lincoln, Lewis D. 
 Liter, Omer M. 
 McClean, Steele C. 
 McCormick, Leonard 
 
 R. 
 McLaughlin, John J. 
 Martin, Joseph F. 
 Miller, IMonroe P. 
 Moore, Cassius A. 
 Moore, Clifford 
 Mullen, Dudley A. 
 Mundie, Thomas I. 
 Murphy, Edward E. 
 O'Connell, William J. 
 Peterson, Harvey E. 
 Poindexter, Claude F. 
 Quinn, William N. 
 Rautert, Harold H. 
 Reed, Charles H. 
 Reeder, Vernon C. 
 Reid, Truman V. 
 Rickert, Leonard A. 
 Rincker, William 
 Ritchey, Wilber 
 Robards, George N. 
 Rogers, Ray H. 
 Rolfers, Frederick E. 
 
 Rope, Harry L. 
 Rosenberg, Herman P. 
 Ross, George L. 
 Rucker, Eli F. 
 Rucker, William L- 
 Rutledge, John D. 
 Samide, William J. 
 Sharp, Arthur 
 Shipley, Dwight A. 
 Simms, Harry E. 
 Siney, Ralph T. 
 Smith, Earl C. 
 Steinert, Perry L. 
 Stettler, Jesse E. 
 Stevenson, Homer B. 
 Stevenson, Ross J. 
 Strain, Robert L. 
 Teepen, Joseph B. 
 Thompson, Walter F. 
 Van Gorden, Everett 
 
 H. 
 West, Rogers C. 
 Whiles, James B. 
 Williams, Henry M. 
 
 No. 1. 
 Williams, Henry M. 
 
 No. 2. 
 Withers, Frank 
 Wolf, Robert C. 
 Woolery, Clyde F. 
 Woolverton, Robley 
 
 C. 
 Worthington, Lewis 
 
 A. 
 Zing, Henry F. 
 
 SECOND MISSOURI AMBULANCE COMPANY 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Tom R. Gammage 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles T. Border 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Knowles K. Carr 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Richard P. Lewis 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Joseph C. Jones 
 1st Class Sergeants, 
 
 Ramsey, William H. 
 
 Boyd, William 
 Corporals: 
 
 Wood, John K. 
 
 Stutsman, David B. 
 
 Bleimes, George R. 
 
 Dennis, Lawrence B. 
 
 Spalding, Leo A. 
 
 Tower, Paul A. 
 
 Ballew, Neual Wes- 
 ley 
 
 Mason, William S. 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Andrews, William 
 Argo, Edgar 
 Bagby, David 
 Bargefrede, Herman 
 Bennett, Forest L. 
 Bongiavannia, Antonia 
 Bowan, Ralph E. 
 Byron, Charles B. 
 Carter, Frank 
 Casanovia, Frank 
 Childers, Fred S. 
 Clark, Albert C. 
 Clossen, Eugene E. 
 Cordes, Carl J. 
 Cox, Joe Lr. 
 Cutler, Clyde 
 Dawson, John T. 
 Diehl, Joe J. 
 Dohrer, Emil W, 
 Doohan, John M. 
 Dooley, Jewell E- 
 Dwyer, Frank R. 
 
 Echols, Leslie 
 
 Falcone, Jasper 
 
 Ferguson, Albert R. 
 
 Flaherty, James H. 
 
 Foust, Wilburn 
 
 Gardner, Stroriher H. 
 
 Genova, Frank 
 
 Gove, William F. 
 
 Gray, George Raly 
 
 Gray, William Clin- 
 ton 
 
 Halperin, George 
 
 Halpin, Joseph G. 
 
 Hansen, Oluf R. 
 
 Harger, C. Guinn 
 
 Harris, Elmer J. 
 
 Harvey, Clarence O. 
 
 Haulk, Albert E. 
 
 Hedderman, James M. 
 
 Heddennan, William 
 P. 
 
 Hessler, Harvey 
 
 Higdon, Odell W. 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Highley, James R. 
 Hyvonian, Herman 
 Innman, Charles 
 Jeflfries, Russel B. 
 Johnston, Clarence 
 
 F. 
 Johnson, Wayne H. 
 Kanatzar, Herman 
 Keil, Fred J. 
 Kennedy, John W. 
 Keys, Tohn Lloyd 
 Keys, John W. 
 Kinkaid, LeRoy 
 Kunkel, lyawrence W. 
 Ivoftus, George A. 
 McChntock, Theodore 
 
 K. 
 McCool, William P. 
 McCracken, Frank F. 
 
 McFlvain, William A. 
 McGarter, Oliver W. 
 AIcKissock, Samuel 
 
 A. 
 Matthews, Don H. 
 Miller, Dewey 
 Moore, William R. 
 Mulcay, William C. 
 Muskrat, Harvey R. 
 O'Brian, Richard J. 
 Palmersenia, John 
 Parsons, Herbert L. 
 Phemister, Art 
 Rainey, Walter F. 
 Rains, Elmer 
 Reese, Claude A. 
 Rich, Fdgar H. 
 Ritterhoff, Stanley W. 
 Rivers, John F. 
 
 Rosebrough, Charles 
 Roth, Charles A. 
 Russell, Undril U. 
 Sansone, Anthony 
 Seaman, Fred H. 
 Siegrist, Henry H. 
 Slabocsky, Joe 
 Smith, Jennings B. 
 Smith, Lloyd C. 
 Stagg, George A. 
 Stimmell, Mariam 
 Stroud, Robert 
 Thompson, Harry W. 
 Vansandt, Flzy 
 Vansandt, Lorenzo 
 Walsh, Roy S. 
 Weber, Harold F. 
 Wholey, Andy J. 
 Wilcox, Clarence C. 
 
 QUARTERMASTER'S CORPS DETACHMENT 
 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Powers, Frank A. 
 
 1st Class Private, 
 Walker, John A. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Brown, Paul M. 
 Duke, James A. 
 Hupp, George H. 
 Ison, Oren C. 
 
 Jackson, Seba W. 
 Kinney, William F. 
 Moudy, Alfred W. 
 Wayland, Ashby G. 
 Wilson, Chester A. 
 
ROSTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NATIONAL GUARD OF KANSAS 
 
 This roster of the Kansas National Guard is official as to all officers, or- 
 ganizations and men at midnight of August 4, 1917, immediately before mob- 
 ilization of the guard under proclamation of the President of the United 
 States. These are the guardsmen with the ranks they held when they were 
 inducted into the Federal service. The Ammunition Train became part of 
 the 42d (Rainbow) Division. 
 
370 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 HEADQUAETERS 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF 
 
 Arthur Capper 
 
 Governor 
 
 THE ADJUTANT GENERAL 
 
 Brigadier General Charles I. Martin 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE REGULAR ARMY ON DUTY 
 
 Major, 
 
 Alvarado M. Fuller 
 
 STAFF CORPS AND DEPARTMENTS 
 ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT 
 
 Major, 
 
 Clad Hamilton 
 
 Major, 
 
 Harry W. Shideler 
 
 INSPECTOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT 
 
 Major, 
 
 Dennis J. Sheedy 
 
 JUDGE-ADVOCATE GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT 
 
 Major, 
 
 William J. Watson 
 
 QUARTERMASTER CORPS 
 
 Major, 
 
 R. Neill Rahn 
 Major, 
 
 J&rry C. Springstead 
 
 Majors: 
 
 Henry T. Salisbury 
 Carl Phillips 
 Seth A. Hammel 
 Henry D. Smith 
 Charles S. Evans 
 Emanuel N. Martin 
 Charles W. Jones 
 
 Captains: 
 
 Ira E. Durant 
 Charles M. Siever 
 
 •1st Lieutenants: 
 Joseph S. Alford 
 Claude C. Lull 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Joy S. Sanders 
 
 MEDICAL CORPS 
 
 Edwin R. Tenney 
 Charles C. Hawke 
 Merrill K. Lindsay 
 Henry S. Rogers 
 Dana O. Jackson 
 Harold H. Jones 
 Ralph E. Barnes 
 William L. Rhodes 
 Clark W. Mangun 
 Tiberius L. Jones 
 Herbert M. Webb 
 John F. Coffman, Jr. 
 John C. Cornell 
 Richard T. Speck 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Carl R. White 
 Captain, 
 
 Raymond F. Montgom- 
 ery 
 
 Adam H. Adamson 
 Alpheus J. Bondurant 
 Frank C. Boggs 
 Harold M. Glover 
 Ralph C. Hartman 
 Charles C. Bennett 
 James G. Rea 
 Melvin C. Martin 
 A. Eugene Harrison 
 Walter H. Kirkpatrick 
 Samuel E. Simpson 
 Charles L. Mosley 
 Cecil E. Tolle 
 Joseph C. Bunten 
 Samuel M, Hibbard 
 
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 1st Lieutenants: 
 Walter W. Harrell 
 Walter W. Hunt 
 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 Homer K. Wark 
 
 DENTAL SECTION 
 
 Roy H. Heil 
 Frank C. Cady 
 Heyl B. Smith 
 
 VETERINARIANS 
 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 
 Clarence L. Young 
 Leslie E. Rowles 
 
 CHAPLAINS 
 
 Myron S. Collins 
 Evan A. Edwards 
 
 Forest E. Kutz 
 Arthur J. Buff 
 Karl E. Osborn 
 
 Earl A. Blackburn 
 
372 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 FIRST KANSAS INFANTRY BRIGADE 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Brigadier General, 
 Charles I. Martin, 
 
 Commanding- 
 
 PERSONAL STAFF 
 
 Major, 
 
 Clad Hamilton 
 
 Adjutant 
 
 AIDES-DE-CAMP 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Leo A. Mingenback 
 Infantry 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 Burton E). Fox 
 
 Infantry 
 
 BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS 
 
 Sgt. Mjr. Brig. Hdq., 
 
 Lawrence, Virgil J. 
 Sergeant, 
 
 White, Raymond M. 
 Wagoners : 
 
 Nevill, Clarence R. 
 
 Skillin, Hance B. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Brown, William A. 
 Carroll, Alfred E. 
 Crawford, Geo. M., Jr. 
 Longenecker, Donald 
 D. 
 
 Mays, Marshall I. 
 Reed, Willis C. 
 Ridlon, Owen A. 
 Stratemeyer, Lewis O. 
 Waldo, Guy L. 
 Zercher, Joseph K. 
 
 TROOPS 
 First, Second and Third Regiments of Infantry 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT, KANSAS INFANTRY 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Wilder S. Metcalf 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, 
 
 Charles S. Flanders 
 Major, 
 
 Frank W. Butler 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Major, 
 
 Aaron L. Hitchens 
 Maj or, 
 
 Samuel G. Clark 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Elvan A. Edwards 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William L. Stryker 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Miles F. Canty 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 John A. Ashworth 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Joseph W. Murray 
 Rgt. Sgt. Mjr., 
 
 Studer, William J. 
 Bn. Sgt. Mjrs. : 
 
 Hanson, Harry W. 
 
 Bryan, Ora E. 
 
 Gillette, Harold R. 
 
 Color Sergeant, 
 
 Wenger, Joseph S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Galloway, Percy L. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Lesuer, Nelson M. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Dickerson, Harlan L. 
 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Hill, Ormond P. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Lupher, David W. 
 
 Reedy, Howard L. 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Rigdon, Walter 
 
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 Asst. Band Leader, 
 
 Reiser, Bernhardt A. 
 Sergeant Bugler 
 
 Domingo, Faustino J. 
 Band Sergeant, 
 
 Crowder, Frank T. 
 Band Corporals: 
 
 Riggs, Charles N, 
 
 Shearer, Beryl L. 
 
 Williams, Charles 
 1st Class Musicians: 
 
 Birch, Albert E. 
 
 Kalama, Francis J. 
 2d Class Musicians: 
 
 Madrid, Savannah 
 
 Mcllhenny, Robert C. 
 3d Class Musicians: 
 
 Barndt, Clarence L. 
 
 Bayles, Charles G. 
 Belden, Theodore 
 Berridge, Guy H. 
 Block, Clarence I. 
 Clements, Luther G. 
 Davis, Oren T. 
 Deon, Louis A. 
 Graham, Roy W. 
 Kirk, A. Tom 
 Peterson, Fritz F. 
 Powell, Verne C. 
 Ramsey, Charles L. 
 Saunders, Gordon 
 Tanner, Allen O, 
 Tester, Clifford L. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Angevine, Montfort E. 
 Cohn, Byron S. 
 
 Hill, Alfred G. 
 Sanger, Clarence A. 
 Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Arthur S. 
 Benedict, Fred R. 
 Bouton, Archie F. 
 Brown, Max L. 
 Burger, Harry L. 
 Courtney, William E. 
 Haskin? George 
 Hess, Walter vV. 
 Jones, Frederick G. 
 Lawrence, Arthur 
 McCurdy, Henry B. 
 Neville, Kenneth L. 
 Roads, Ray V. 
 Rohrer, William 
 Smith, Guido E. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Frank D. Mathias 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Hawley H. Braucher 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 
 Thomas F. Moor 
 
 Ray M. McClaran 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Goble, Lester E. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Braden, Fred W. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Capelin, Perry A. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Hinkle, Byron L. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Lambeth, Hugh W. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Works, Warren W. 
 
 McGannon, Michael L. 
 
 Lieurance, Ray R. 
 
 Solley, William H. 
 
 Doty, Algy 
 
 Armsby, Horace H. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Johnson, James L. 
 
 Lieurance, Delbert R. 
 
 Noyes, Melvin F. 
 
 Williams, Edwin H. 
 
 Willhite, Riley E. 
 
 Johnson, William M. 
 
 Hottenstein, Fred J. 
 
 Humboldt 
 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Willhite, James B. W. 
 Cook: 
 
 Sibert, Frank S. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Ashbrook, Lindsay W. 
 
 Alexander, Colin H, 
 
 Barrackman, William 
 J. 
 
 Goble, Lawrence S. 
 
 Poore, Ezra W. 
 
 Porter, Charles E. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, Raymond D. 
 
 Bayer, Clarence G. 
 
 Benson, Floyd E. 
 
 Bush, Ranson A. 
 
 Byers, Frank J. 
 
 Campbell, Clarence E. 
 
 Carter, John H. 
 
 Cave, Ernest L. 
 
 Cheap, George L. 
 
 Dauster, Ralph D. 
 
 Dobson, Bryan 
 
 Embrey, Roy N. 
 
 Fleming, Gilford R. 
 
 Fronk, Cyrus A. 
 
 Goodell, Walter 
 
 Gordon, Clyde F. 
 
 Green, James E- 
 
 Hack, Lyle W. 
 Hall, Fred H. 
 Henderson, Cletus L. 
 Hendricks, George L. 
 Hylton, Henry R. 
 Jordon, Raymond A. 
 Kelley, Orlo T. 
 Kerscher, Raymond 
 Lambeth, Alson G. 
 Lassmann, Otto W. 
 Loyd, Thomas A. 
 McGinity, James M. 
 Magha, Dewey W. 
 Miller, Frank E. 
 Mosier, Fred T. 
 Newton, Elza L. 
 Northrup, Walter H. 
 Parington, Orrel D. 
 Rauhoff, Harry J. 
 Saunders, Gwinn J. 
 Smith, Carl J. 
 Snider, Arley R. 
 Summers, Earl E. 
 Tomilson, Harvey W. 
 Thompson, Robert L., 
 
 Jr. 
 Wastle, Frank A. 
 White, Ernest D. 
 Wilson, John M. 
 Wood, George D. 
 Wood, Robert W. 
 Gant, Clarence F. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Robert B, Wagstaff 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Thomas R. Bartlett 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 Reg. Supply Sergeants, 
 Tuttle, Horace L. 
 Templin, Harry W. 
 Thompson, Leon R. 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Kester, Clarence L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Willis, Virgil E. 
 
374 
 
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 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Stover, Ralph A. 
 Corporal, 
 
 Nelson, Earl C. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Cook, Harry T. 
 Cook: 
 
 Parker, John W. 
 Wagoners: 
 
 Ardrey, Joseph C. 
 
 Allen, Luther 
 
 Debout, Roy N. 
 
 Bishop, Fred H. 
 Brown, Orrin C. 
 Brown, Russell R. 
 Byerly, Arthur D. 
 Crane, Chas. W. 
 Chambers, Albert R. 
 Chambers, Frank L. 
 Coffey, Ellis D. 
 Dunham, Robert E. 
 Fife, Robert F. 
 Card, George E. 
 Grattan, Alex D. 
 
 Heylmun, Edgar B. 
 Hurlock, John B. 
 Kraus, Joseph 
 Kratz, Francis O. 
 Lobuagh, Ray W. 
 Peck, Athol 
 Percy, Mack J. 
 Potter, Clarence B. 
 Riggs, Edwin C. 
 Remsberg, Everett L. 
 Seymour, Frank L. 
 Taylor, Russell L. 
 Webb, Steve G. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Archie K. Rupert 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Wyndham A. Simpson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Alfred Firstenberger 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Beck, William J. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Winters, Roy 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Coghill, Charles A. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Strickland, Frank P., 
 Jr. 
 
 Browe, Owen B. 
 
 McMinimy, Joseph L. 
 
 Kirby, James S. 
 
 DeBord, Ulysses C. 
 
 Browne, Donald L- 
 
 Donlen, William J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Hammer, Nelson E. 
 
 Powell, Paul R. 
 
 Boyle, Ernest E. 
 
 Dedo, Leland C. 
 
 Townsend, Ben G. 
 
 Adams, Frank P. 
 
 Hardin, Edward R. 
 
 Abramson, Harry 
 
 Snowwhite, Gustave F. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Orr, Thomas J. 
 
 Hicks, Charles C. 
 
 Phillips, Fred 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Asplund, Robert A. 
 
 Urie, Noble B. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Carey, Thomas F., Jr. 
 
 McBratney, William 
 L. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Andres, Everett J. 
 DeBord, Hugh G. 
 
 Guns, Earl 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Henderson, Herbert 
 
 A. 
 Hill, George 
 Jeffords, Paul 
 King, Howard O. 
 Lane, Paul R. 
 Simpson, William T. 
 Stevens, Earl 
 Stubbs, Earl E. 
 Privates: 
 
 Ackley, William E. 
 Adams, George P. 
 Anderson, Harry 
 Anderson, Walter 
 Ashlock, Vernon L. 
 Asplund, George E. 
 Barclay, Dennis 
 Beggs, John O. 
 Beardsley, Grover C. 
 Bergin, Cecil A. 
 Bernsthy, William W, 
 Booker, Manning K. 
 Bowers, Orville D. 
 Bray, Russell K. 
 Bunevac, Paul 
 Brendell, Leo 
 Callahan, Frank R. 
 Carden, John W. 
 Carpenter, Orville I. 
 Conaty, Roscoe J. 
 Colley, David J. 
 Converse, Arthur N. 
 Clark, Ora R. 
 Crawford, Charles E. 
 DeFries, Ruel E. 
 DeMeyer, Edmond 
 Davidson, Hugh W. 
 Dougherty, Forester 
 
 H. 
 Dougherty, Leslie H. 
 Douglas, John L. 
 Dunn, Harvey N. 
 Erickson, John 
 Faulkner, Arthur C. 
 Fiscus, George 
 Folscroft, Otis G, 
 
 Force, Archie D. 
 Gerhards, Ben J. 
 Gerhards, John H. 
 Goff, Charles D. 
 Goodell, Ralph H. 
 Gregory, William 
 Grossman, Samuel E. 
 Gunn, Donald M. 
 Hail, Worden R. 
 Hiatt, Frank L. 
 High, WilHam H. 
 Hill, Harry 
 Hillyer, Fred W. 
 Holleman, Albert L. 
 Jeffords, Frank E. 
 
 Jenkins, Roy E. 
 Johnson, Joseph E- 
 Johnson, Leon 
 Jocliff, Charles D. 
 Jolliff, John W. 
 
 Kane, John W. 
 
 Kerns, Commodore h. 
 
 Kirkman. Ridge 
 
 Laudeman, James H. 
 
 Lawrence, Phillip H. 
 
 Layton, Fred 
 
 Lewis, Arthur C. 
 
 Lobeck, John 
 
 Maule, Fred E. 
 
 Malherbe, Arthur L. 
 
 Malott, Harry A. 
 
 Maxwell, Donald E. 
 
 Maxwell, John A. 
 
 Michaelis, Joseph B. 
 
 Mitchell, Wade W. 
 
 Morris, Arthur J. 
 
 Munk^^rs, Gilmer H. 
 
 Nelson, Harry L. 
 
 Newton, Robert W. 
 
 O'Farrell, William W. 
 
 O'Neill. Thomas H. 
 
 Otterman. DeWitt J. 
 
 Pate, William N. 
 
 Petterson, Oscar A. 
 
 Poisal. Walter 
 
 Randel, Samuel P. 
 
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 Reynolds, Joseph I. 
 Rash, Elmer K. 
 Ridley, Fred 
 Sanders, Raymond D. 
 Schiller, Arnold A. 
 Schwalje, Michael A. 
 Schuler, Louis A. 
 Schneider, Frank 
 Simonsen, Harold N. 
 Singleman, Charles H. 
 Smith, Arthur L. 
 Staton, Edward E. 
 
 Stanford, Jesse W. 
 Streiner, Charles G. 
 Street, Earl T. 
 Sterbenz, Matthew J. 
 Stubbs, Gail W. 
 Stumph, Bennie F. 
 Sudac, Nick 
 Tarry, Lloyd W. 
 Thompson, William 
 Timmons, Everette 
 Veix, John A. 
 
 Washburn, Raymond 
 
 S. 
 Way, Floyd L. 
 Wells, Clarence T. 
 Williams, Orie A. 
 Wiggins, Ralph 
 Wilson, James C. 
 Wilson, Merle E. 
 Wise, Charles W. 
 Woolf, James E. 
 Gailey, Edward J. 
 Trendell, William 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John R. Thompson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Andrew J. Thompson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Guy E. Vining 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Theiss, Arthur L. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Hodgen, Calvin J. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 White, Jesse 
 
 Lading, Arthur A. 
 
 Birch, Arthur M. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Pettit, Charles M. 
 
 Weir, Arthur _N. 
 
 Hutchinson Elzie C. 
 
 Ellson, Ralph E. 
 
 Lanter, John S. 
 
 Masquat, George P. 
 Cooks : 
 
 WhifiFen, Paul 
 
 Conner, Charles E. 
 
 Jack, Thomas A. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Harris, Clarence A. 
 
 Crawford, Floyd H. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Welker, Lewis E. 
 
 Baldwin, James B. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bolen, Oscar 
 
 Griffin, Charles E. 
 
 Henderson, William 
 M. 
 
 Henney, Homer J . 
 
 McMinds, Erwin P. 
 
 Miller, Henry J. 
 
 Smithers, Claude C. 
 
 Stovall, Woodson E. 
 Privates : 
 
 Alexander, Ernest 
 
 Allen, Alex 
 
 Anderson, Allie E. 
 
 Archer, Clyde L. 
 
 Balser, Chris E. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 HORTON 
 
 Bowman, Roy 
 Boyce, Daniel A. 
 Brun, Kilby 
 Brun, Franklin O. 
 Brunner, Sam 
 Busser, Earl P. 
 Bushey, Dwight C. 
 Cahill, Edward J. 
 Calvert, George H. 
 Cameron, John L- 
 Candreia, Louie J. 
 Claflin, Sanford F. 
 Clark, Walter J. 
 Connor, Frank L. 
 Connor, John W. 
 Conner, Bearl 
 Cordill, Ivan R. 
 Deeringer, Roland 
 Evans, Frank B. 
 Filmore, Gus J. 
 Foster, Floyd C. 
 Foster, Earl A. 
 Gibson, George W. 
 Gilmore, Earl A. 
 Good, Benjamin P. 
 Gordon, Jesse C. 
 Goux, William F. 
 Guier, Joe 
 Guy, Fay 
 Green, Carl W. 
 Grosvenor, Horace 
 
 C. 
 Hall, Edward F. 
 Tamner, Arthur L- 
 Hamilton, Orville E. 
 Hawley, DwigKt H. 
 Harvey, Luzerne A. 
 Herbstreith, Lloyd H. 
 Hiatt, Dewey H. 
 Hiatt, Marion G. 
 Highley, Rolland C. 
 Hinkley, Joe B. 
 Holtzer, Henry 
 Houghton, Leo J. 
 lies. Merle T. 
 Kinsey, William O. 
 Lassen, Ernst 
 
 Lewis, Roy 
 Lindsey, Andrew T. 
 Long, Roy 
 Lyon, George V/. 
 Lyons, Homer L. 
 McElroy, Lawrence 
 
 E. 
 McGuffin, Frank L. 
 Maguire, Mark 
 Maher, Isadora R. 
 Martin, Arthur A. 
 Markley, William N. 
 Masquat, Henry A. 
 Maxwell, Dan K. 
 Merz, Floyd H. 
 Miller, William E. 
 Modeland, Harvey E. 
 MonhoUon, James C. 
 Mull, John H. 
 Munson, Charles D. 
 Murphy, William H. 
 Noel, Joseph R. 
 Noel, William B. 
 O'Brien, Earl A. 
 O'Brien, Clyde E. 
 Osborn, James W. 
 Peterson, Raymond 
 
 V. 
 Pierce, Claude K. 
 Ping, Lester O. 
 Ping, Albert 
 Raber, Walter E. 
 Ray, Oscar N. 
 Ray, William J. 
 Rick, Harold S. 
 Rife, Charles L. 
 Riggs, I. B. 
 Rivers, Richard C, 
 Roberts, Earl A. 
 Roberts, Issas W. 
 Rogers, Glen W. 
 Ross, Earl W. 
 Rutlidge, Dewey 
 Schlagle, Dannie 
 Schlagle, Allen 
 Schwaub, John H. 
 Schone, Herman A. 
 
376 
 
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 Scott, Leslie 
 Seever, Ray H. 
 Slattery, Thomas W. 
 Smith, James D. 
 Suavely, Neil 
 Sowers, Homer 
 Spear, Leroy J. 
 Spear, Charley 
 Stahl, Harold J. 
 
 Stirton, Charley E. 
 Stirton, Chester B. 
 Tapsee, Lyman 
 Thompson, Lester H. 
 Thompson, Ivan R. 
 Walls, Lawrence 
 Warrick, William W. 
 Watson, Harry 
 Wewenes, Phillip N. 
 
 Whittier, Clyde J. 
 White, George E. 
 Whiffen, Uridge G. 
 Williams, Eddie 
 Wilson, Fremont J. 
 Winzer, Charles A. 
 Wright, Alvin R. 
 Wylie, George R. 
 Young, Carl H. 
 Young, Arthur T. 
 
 COMPANY C 
 
 Burlington 
 
 Captain, 
 
 BVank Barmely 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William C. Flook 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 John B. Salisbury 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Nelson, Earl F. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Hahn, Fred H. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Reed, Raymond J. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Grennan, Fred L. 
 
 McCuUough, Amer L. 
 
 KulHng, Milton 
 
 Ball, Ross E. 
 
 Adams, George L. 
 
 Wingett, Roy A, 
 Corporals : 
 
 Agnew, Patrick W. 
 
 Archer, Erna C. 
 
 Clark, Champ 
 
 Epting, Lindsey R. 
 
 Erantz, William O. 
 
 Gibson, John H. 
 
 Howe, Vincent H. 
 
 McCullough, Glen H. 
 
 Pierson, Ray S. 
 
 Sanders, Donald A. 
 
 Stockton, John 
 
 Sanderson, Austin M. 
 
 Gill, Glen E. 
 
 Polly, Byron G. 
 
 Crockett, Harry J. 
 Buglers: 
 
 McCullough, Ray 
 
 Thompson, Howard H. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Gibson, Charles 
 
 Munday, Charles W. 
 
 Gibson, Roy 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Tohnson, Louis C. 
 
 Pate, Roy 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Alexander, Clarence 
 J. 
 
 Armstrong, Marshall 
 
 B. 
 Clark, Rodney 
 Gangloff, Alvah C. 
 Hahn, Fenton 
 Hair, Charles W. 
 Hair, Clarence E. 
 Hosier, Richard F. 
 McAlister, John 
 McCullough, Carl H. 
 McCullough, Grover 
 
 C. 
 Pierson, Austin R. 
 Wuerfele, Thomas B. 
 Privates : 
 Ball, Ira A. 
 Bear, Ainsworth 
 Beissel, Harold 
 Bidleman, Chester W. 
 Boissel, Keith 
 Brewer, J. Dewitt 
 Briles, Owen E. 
 Briles, Robert A. 
 Brinker, Harold J. 
 Bruner, Samuel S. 
 Bull, Clyde 
 Burdick, Frank 
 Busby, Arthur M. 
 Cantrell, Lon 
 Carter, Ralph M. 
 Carter, William A. 
 Chadd, Alfred J. 
 Cheshire, George B. 
 Coffman, Rist H. 
 Combs, John E. 
 Combs, Lee M. 
 Congdon, Hebson 
 Crocker, Glen 
 Davidson, Louis A. 
 Davis, Otis L. 
 Dixon, Alfred L. 
 Dodge, Clayton M. 
 Draper, Alva R. 
 Ellis, Harry 
 Ellis, Melvin 
 Ellis, Melvin 
 Emert, Herbert G. 
 Flake, Leland 
 
 Fleming, Howard 
 Ford, Hugh G. 
 Fosnight, Roy 
 Fox, Earl 
 Freeman, Charles 
 Fry, Harris 
 Gill, Raymond F. 
 Green, Ross A. 
 Harrington, Dan A. 
 Hedges, Harold H. 
 Hugenot, Benjamin K. 
 Hughes, Bert 
 Hull, Clarence M. 
 Ingersoll, Clarence 
 Jessop, Frank R. 
 Jeter, James H. 
 Johnson, John T. 
 Jones, Harold C. 
 Kahnt, Arthur R. 
 Kinney, Myron A. 
 Knox, William B. 
 Koch, Harnson R. 
 Law, Dewitt 
 Lipe, Elmer 
 Lyman, Issac 
 Lytle, William T. 
 Manley, William A. 
 Mardick, Charles 
 Martin, Perry 
 l\fcCullough, Fred 
 McCullough, James 
 
 H. 
 Means, John M. 
 Meyers, Joseph E. 
 Miller, Vinson W. 
 Mollenhour, Fred Tv. 
 Mollenhour, George 
 
 E. 
 
 Moore, Frank 
 Myers, Max 
 Neely, Albert 
 Newlad, Forrest 
 Nicolay, Owen D. 
 Olson, Hugh R. 
 Parcell, Earl 
 Petschonek, George 
 
 A. 
 Phelan, Webster 
 
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 Phillips, Murrel 
 Phillips, Theodore 
 Proctor, Arthur A. 
 Proctor, Clarence 
 Proctor, George L. 
 Randall, Fred 
 Ratliff, Orval S. 
 Ream, Leland L. 
 Rockey, Everett C. 
 Rockey, Loren 
 
 Rudolph, Samuel K. 
 Schneider, Mathew J. 
 Shemberger, Forrest 
 
 M. 
 Sipes, Ernest R. 
 Stukey, Elmer E. 
 Supple, Howard 
 Tetor, Carl F. 
 Thomas, Joshua 
 Tucker, Everett 
 
 Turner, Harry A. 
 Warren, William T. 
 Watson, George 
 Weigand, Harvey L. 
 Westerdale, Plesse F. 
 White, Leo P. 
 Williams, James E. 
 Wingett, Caven 
 Winterscheid, Claude 
 V. 
 
 COMPANY D 
 Paola 
 
 Captain, 
 
 George O. Tronjo 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Robert A. Aures 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank L. Tomlinson 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Barton, George 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Tronjo, Lawrence F. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Blaisdell, Richards S. 
 
 Bayse, Edmond H. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Smith, Thomas 
 
 Keefauver, Harry 
 
 Hackney, Charles S. 
 
 Willis, James 
 
 Smith, Elvis E. 
 
 Snodgrass, Tyler J. 
 
 Ereaster, Harry C. 
 
 O'Roark, Jack 
 
 Huggins, Robert 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Hayes, Raymond L. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Smith, Robert C. 
 
 Cully, Chilton L. 
 
 Vandoren, Gus W. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Marchall, George R, 
 
 Anderson, Harry S. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Fisher, Frank 
 
 Hoffman, Harrison M. 
 
 Hamlin, Tom W. 
 Privates : 
 
 Achey, Joseph C. 
 
 Anderson, Clair S. 
 
 Arnold, Eddie B. 
 
 Attebery, Chester R. 
 
 Ballard, William 
 
 Beckley, Leonard R. 
 
 Bagshaw, Dennis A. 
 
 Bennett, Marion E. 
 
 Bennett, Donald A. 
 
 Bigham, Fred 
 
 Bigham, Emery H. 
 
 Bradley, Fay M, 
 Bradshaw, Jim F. 
 Bradshaw, Harry W. 
 Burgess, Ralph 
 Burd, William 
 Carlisle, Edd O. 
 Caylor, George W. 
 Caylor, Mike E. 
 Crabtree, Albert 
 Creal, Harry E. 
 Cres, Walter E. 
 Copple, Murray T, 
 Corey, Lynn F. 
 Christ, Ernest 
 Cruet, Bilton S. 
 Dailey, Orval J. 
 Dale, Robert R. 
 Darlington, Fred F. 
 Dehart, Fred 
 Ferris, Lloyd G 
 Finch, Harry W. 
 Ford, Carter 
 Freeman, Leslie M. 
 Freeman, Frank E. 
 Furry, Corbett J. 
 Gillenwater, Turner C. 
 Clavin, Michael E. 
 Graham, Clarence C. 
 Gray, Clarence A. 
 Hadden, George A. 
 Hamlin, Chester 
 Hammond, Frank 
 Hannon, Harry A. 
 Hardin, Ira L. 
 Haslett, Forrest E. 
 Hatfield, Joe E. 
 Hazen, Earl H. 
 Harris, Duenice J. 
 Henderson, Robert M. 
 Henry, Harry H. 
 Henry, Peter 
 Hodges, McDufifis 
 Hoffer, John W. 
 Holman, Benjamin A. 
 Hay, John C. 
 Hearen, Ernest S. 
 Jackson, Clifford 
 Jacobs, Floyd A. 
 
 Kershner, Floyd A. 
 Kuhn, Jesse W, 
 Lovewell, Peter M. 
 Markley, Noble 
 Metller, Dewey 
 Mullins, Chester L. 
 Mooney, William H. 
 McBath, Colfac 
 McCoy, Elmer D. 
 McConnell, Harvey L. 
 McCaulley, James 
 McDaniel, George W. 
 McLean, Neil P. 
 McMahan, Ira E. 
 McNutt, Edward T. 
 McNutt, Henry E. 
 McRoberts, Noah 
 Nelson, Harvey G. 
 Oehlert, William L. 
 Parham, Tom 
 Parker, Ralph 
 Peck, Ernest 
 Plain, Frank J. 
 Preedy, Paul 
 Pullen, Wallace C. 
 Pierce, James A. 
 Quisenberry, Benson 
 
 F. 
 Reed, Francis T. 
 Redd, Hugh R. 
 Rice, Marion 
 Riley, John F. 
 Roach, Thomas A. 
 Rowe, Clarence 
 Russell, Chester H. 
 Russon, Wallace G. 
 Sanders, Archie C. 
 Shipman, Ralph 
 Small, Delbert J. 
 Smead, Raymond 
 Smith, Lloyd 
 Stanback, Alfred 
 Stanback, Lon F. 
 Taylor, Clyde H. 
 Thell, Charley B. 
 Trigg, Clarence W. 
 Tomlinson, Ralph 
 Tuel, Gilba H. 
 
378 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Tull, Simson 
 Umphenour, Claude 
 
 B. 
 Ihnphenour, Calvin L,. 
 Umphenour, Ernest 
 Vohs, Henry C. 
 Vohs, Lee B. 
 
 Webb, Luther H. 
 Weesner, Leo H. 
 Weaver, Harley D. 
 White, Pred A. 
 Williams, Frank L. 
 Witcher, David S. 
 Witt, Albert J. 
 
 Witt, Willis F. 
 Wollard, John E. 
 Worster, William 
 Yates, John H. 
 Young, James L. 
 Reserves Attached, 
 Maxwell, Fred M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Ben S. Hudson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 George A. Vercherc 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Clifford W. Byerly 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Porter, Armer 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Stempf, August F. 
 Supply Sergeant 
 
 Willis, Morse S. 
 Sergeants, 
 
 Walters, Charles 
 
 Harman, Joseph R. 
 
 Phillips, Lynne C. 
 
 Knaus, Scott 
 
 Hayes, William M. 
 
 Thomas, Roy 
 
 Leech, Seth 
 
 Couk, Cecil V. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Wiggins, Alexander T. 
 
 Horney, Jeffrey C. 
 
 Leech, Clement 
 
 Barrigar, Frederick N. 
 
 Carothers, Harry S. 
 
 Fair, Archie V. 
 
 Mount, Guy L. 
 
 Ong, William 
 
 Sheperd, Orin A. 
 
 Brown, Harold N. 
 
 Burch, Cleo H. 
 
 Cady, King M. 
 
 Cohagen, Claire G. 
 
 HampsoH, Thomas D. 
 Jr. 
 
 Mount, Clarence I. 
 
 Russell, Orvid V. 
 
 White, Loyal H. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Pappert, Rudolph W. 
 
 Brown, Ernest L. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Timmons, Hobart 
 
 Siler, Leo J. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Milner, Carl H. 
 
 Mussett, James R. 
 
 Sawdy, Elmer F. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Shea, George 
 
 COMPANY E 
 
 Fredonia 
 
 Sallee, Cleo O. 
 l'>onser, Dean V. 
 Brooks, Louis 
 Blinn, Charles O. 
 Chambers, John E. 
 Champraan, Clarence 
 
 J. 
 Chapman, Harley B. 
 Cox, Orval L- 
 Cox, William E. 
 Dial, James C. 
 Gill, Carl L. 
 Gunby, Merle F. 
 Hadley, William A. 
 Keitzer, Harold A. 
 Lewis, Jerry H. 
 Lucas, Paul E. 
 Merrill, Ruah R. 
 Miller, Evert 
 Neighbors, Charles A. 
 Nichols, William R. 
 Russell, Delbert E. 
 Rothgeb, Clarence 
 Sargeant, Geo. R. 
 Simms, Earl 
 Shaffer, Edward 
 Thatch, Lester 
 White, Edward 
 Privates: 
 
 Adams, Walter B. 
 Allen, James A. 
 Allen, Ed E. 
 Alexander, Clarence 
 
 P. 
 Beeman, Carl A. 
 Beck, Ben H. 
 Beek, Bert D. 
 Bentley, Fred 
 Brittain, William C. 
 Camden, Milo 
 Coub, Walter L. 
 Comer, Harry 
 Cook, J. B. Jr. 
 Cooley, Orin E. 
 Cooper, Basil 
 Cantrall, Thomas E. 
 Cowan, Homer W. 
 Drake, Roy 
 Dial, Willis E. 
 Dannels, Guy 
 Donart, Clarence E. 
 Ellis, Karl D. 
 
 Elliott, Claude E. 
 Flinn, William A. 
 Clifford, Roy 
 Green, Iva L. 
 Graham, Jerry S. 
 Guatney, William W. 
 Hasty, Fred 
 Heiser, Paul C. 
 Hoff, Clarence D. 
 Hollingworth, Clarence 
 Hutchinson, Cecil 
 Hayden, Alva P. 
 Heins, Walter E. 
 Housley, William H. 
 Jones, Jay 
 Kirkman, Paul B. 
 Kingsbury, Edgar 
 Kingsbury, Oscar 
 Keim, Stanley D. 
 Lombard, Albert F. 
 Lombard, Ernest H. 
 Lillie, Walter P. 
 Lopshire, Harold A. 
 Moon, George 
 Moore, John L. 
 Morse, Milton R. 
 Malone, Archie D. 
 McMillan, Harry L. 
 Moyer, Paul 
 McKinney, John 
 McAdams, James B. 
 McKinney, Hubert A. 
 Offenbacker, Percy G. 
 Offenbacker, Roscoe E- 
 Orr, Loyd 
 O'Leary, Edward 
 Pringle, William J. 
 Penwell, Samuel H. 
 Powers, Harry J. 
 Richardson, Charles 
 
 H. 
 Sparks. Lyman C. 
 Shufelt, Roy M. 
 Smith, Earl 
 Smith, Bob 
 Shoup, Oren A. 
 Shafer, Irven C. 
 Siler, Albert W. 
 Scott, Tames M. 
 Thompson, Willie C. 
 Taulbee. Herman E. 
 Terry, Bruce M. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 379 
 
 Tice, Harry J. 
 Troutman, Dewey 
 Thayer, Ray M. 
 Vermillion, Dorsey G. 
 Verchere, Eugene 
 
 Whaley, Kmery M. 
 Wells, Francis E. 
 White, Forest B. 
 Willoughby, Claude E. 
 
 Wolever, Harold R. 
 Wychoff, Elmer R. 
 Wickman, Floyd B. 
 West, John A. 
 Yoakum, Bailey 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Henry J. Weltmer 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Oscar O. Huber 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Albert S. Bigelow 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Jackson, Chas. J. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Rubert, Arthur A. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Brown, Reuben F. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Conklin, Lester C. 
 
 Ball, James 
 
 Stewart, Walter L. 
 
 Taylor, Earle W. 
 
 McKee, Chas. R. 
 
 McBurmand, Loyal 
 Corporals: 
 
 Shaw, Chester L. 
 
 Shannon, Chas. E. 
 
 Craig, Homer D. 
 
 Davis, Elmer 
 
 Williams, Jay M. 
 
 Kreutzburg, John H. 
 
 Dorei, Murlin 5. 
 
 Britt, Lon W. 
 
 Weddle, Rhubert W. 
 
 Boyer, Carl B. 
 
 Miller, Virgil 
 
 Warden, Walter E. 
 
 Austin, Emery G. 
 
 Bush, George J. 
 
 Russell, Elmer E- 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Matson, Dan 
 
 Davis, Herbert 
 Cooks: 
 
 Hunn, James 
 
 Miller, Edd. 
 Bugler: 
 
 Linnell, William G. 
 Privates : 
 
 Andrews, George 
 
 Armstrong, Earle W. 
 
 Askren, Leo 
 
 Avery, John S. 
 
 Bailey, Harrison D. 
 
 Bergen, William A. 
 
 Bergin, Richard F. 
 
 Benshoflf, David L. 
 
 Bishop, Harold J. 
 
 Britt, Lish 
 
 COMPANY F 
 
 Hiawatha 
 
 Brunning, Pearl 
 Caine, Carl C. 
 Carter, Eugene B. 
 Carson, Clifford J. 
 Clowe, Orville 
 Compton, Walter L. 
 Crandall, William C. 
 Crothers, Homer L. 
 Cummings, George H. 
 Curtis, Harold L. 
 Dove, Edgar T. 
 Dunkin, Ralph W. 
 Dunard, Benjamin 
 Ebelmesser, Robert B. 
 Eichelberger, Henry 
 
 A. 
 Fenley, George 
 Privates: 
 
 Flemming, Henry A. 
 Fordyce, Carl A. 
 Fowler, John L- 
 Galbraith, Geo. R. 
 Good, Geo. L. 
 Green, Frank E. 
 Hardy, William E. 
 Henson, Clyde R. 
 Henninger, Ralph 
 Hines, Samuel K. 
 Hornbeck, Geo. W. 
 Houston, Jack R. 
 Howell, Ernest V. 
 Hudson, Howard P. 
 Hull, James E. 
 Ivers, Merrill D. 
 lies, Robert S. 
 Jackson, John C. 
 Jepson, Percy N. 
 Jones, Ivan E. 
 Jones, Jesse 
 Johnson, Raymond J. 
 Kidwell, Frank E. 
 Kiner, Geo. F. 
 Lacy, Raymond E. 
 Laha, William A. 
 Largent, Orville 
 Lease, Arlie 
 Levick, John W. 
 Leibig, Carl F. 
 Loftin, Delbert E. 
 Longacres, Edward G. 
 Lyons, Lorin P. 
 McDaniel, van L. 
 McEnaney, Joseph B. 
 
 Magers, Pete M. 
 
 Mars, Albert 
 
 Maure, Adolph F. 
 
 Mize, Luther J. 
 
 Morgan, Arthur R. 
 
 Nass, John J. 
 
 Nelson, Grant A. 
 
 Nickels, Lloyd 
 
 Ormiston, Thomas E. 
 
 Overson, Edward M. 
 
 Pittinger, Ray L. 
 
 Potts, Wilfred H. 
 
 Pucks, Francis T. 
 
 Kinne, Theodore H. 
 
 Rudbeck, Thomas 
 
 Schurman, Aver R. 
 
 Sechler, Homer P. 
 
 Seever, Noble E. 
 
 Seyler, John E. 
 
 Shorb, Lyman 
 
 Shupert, William B. 
 
 Simmons, Clark M. 
 
 Smith, Wilber M. 
 
 Spicer, Horace R. 
 
 Stanley, Frank F. 
 
 Stetzman, Willard H. 
 
 Stice, Hoyt 
 
 Stine, Elba W. 
 
 Stonbarger, Millard 
 
 Sttibinger, Jacob 
 
 Stunz, Paul A. 
 
 Swain, Harry J. 
 
 Sweetland, Ernst A. 
 
 Tietz, Evan J. 
 
 Turner, Clarence L. 
 
 VanDalsem, Ralph E. 
 
 Walker, Glenn A. 
 
 Watson, George D. 
 
 Weber, Clinton L. 
 
 Weddle, Cecil M. 
 
 Weddle, Marion L. 
 
 Welborn, Tames E. 
 
 Whaley, Harold L- 
 
 Wiley, Hubert 
 Loss. 
 
 Discharged. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Watson, Melvin D. 
 
 Gaston, James E. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Weltmer, Ivan D. 
 Privates: 
 
 Baer, Rudolph 
 
 Dillon, William J. 
 
380 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Eichelberger, Will 
 Fahn, Joseph P. 
 Lawrence, Ralph E. 
 Soden, William M. 
 
 Sweetland, Glen 1. 
 Truex, Byron E. 
 Watkins, Kenneth H. 
 Transferred: 
 Cole, John C. 
 
 Holbrook, Harold J. 
 Robertson, Arthur 
 Shannon, Alvin B. 
 Sticker, LaVerne E. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John H. Prichard 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry A. Cooper 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Ed. F. Golden 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Masterson, Thomas S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Parker, Harry B. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Wegscheider, Charles 
 R. 
 
 Comstock, Harry I. 
 
 McGrew, Harry 
 
 Runyon, Eugene 
 
 Abrens, Frank E. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Compton, Harry W. 
 
 Hoy, Chris J. 
 
 Ragin, Lewis 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Brown, George A. 
 
 McGill, George F. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Boatwright, Harry W 
 
 Lockwood, Orville W 
 
 Palling, Robert G. 
 Buglers*. 
 
 Huff, Hubert W. 
 
 Mitchell, Harold A. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Abington, Robert E. 
 
 Ausman, Joseph G. 
 
 Bainum, George W. 
 
 Baker, Carroll 
 
 Carver, Ercy 
 
 Cochran, Julian O. 
 
 Cooper, Edward H. 
 
 Daly, Thomas R. 
 
 Frary, John F. 
 
 Lyon, Harry A. 
 
 Hudson, Bannus 
 
 Harkey, Clair C. 
 
 Mack, Wilson 
 
 Power, Francis M. 
 
 Scott, Herbert W. 
 
 Scott, William M. 
 
 Stufflebeam, Roy 
 
 Thogmartin, Leo 
 Privates: 
 
 Ambler, Clem H. 
 
 Asch, Francis G. 
 
 COMPANY G 
 Fort Scott 
 
 Aus, Hurst 
 Ayers, Henry 
 Babbitt, Henry E- 
 Barbarick, Clyde W. 
 Bird, Asas G. 
 Bolin, John H. 
 Brady, Harold F. 
 Brown, Frank S. 
 Brophy, Francis W. 
 Burns, John W. 
 Carnes, Orval 
 Carnes, Ray 
 Carnes, Earl E. 
 Carter, Orville B. 
 Cassady, Ernest L. 
 Chatterton, Clell C. 
 Clements, Fred R. 
 Cooks, Chauncey C. 
 Ceberly, Cyrus I. 
 Coberly, Kenneth F. 
 Coiiley, Earl E. 
 Cooper, Thomas N. 
 Cowan, Jesse E. 
 Cox, Rex A. 
 Cullison, David E. 
 Cummings, Harold 
 Day, Carl H. 
 Dean, Ernest 
 Dinklage, Kenneth 
 Dixon, Frank M. 
 Downey, Ernest L. 
 Duncan, Roy J. 
 Endesfelder, Heinie C. 
 Esicks, Loren L 
 Galvin, Benjamin C. 
 Garrison, Irvin 
 Gilbert, James 
 Gilmore, Henry A. 
 Gillies, James 
 Grace, Henry N. 
 Gunsaullus, Frank H. 
 Hagan, Ernest 
 Hare, Fred A. 
 Harpold, Frank W. 
 Harpold, Ralph D. 
 Harpon, Everett W. 
 Holstein, Mark M. 
 Hoy, Dewey A. 
 Hoy, George W. 
 Hoy, Henry H. 
 Hudson, Stanton 
 Hutcherson, Lee 
 Hyle, Harry E. 
 Insley, Lester S. 
 Keffer, Alva W. 
 
 King, Floyd 
 Koontz, Leonard F. 
 Lewis, Lew L. 
 Linn, Roscoe 
 Marquis, Marion A, 
 Maxwell, Harvey 
 McCargar, Claude E. 
 McMillon, Jesse M. 
 McGrew, Ace K. 
 Meacham, Roy A. 
 Meads, George W. 
 Monroe, Lee R. 
 Monroe, Sam L. 
 Moody, Ernest L. 
 Moore, Burris B. 
 Morehead, Harvard A. 
 Morrow, Charles H. 
 Motti, Earl F. 
 Miller, Chester A. 
 Nelson, Merl R. 
 Neely, Clyde A. 
 Newiand, Robert J. 
 Nicholson, Lee S. 
 Patterson, Arthur L- 
 Pepers, Arthur G. 
 Phillips, Charles E. 
 Pierson, Frank 
 Porter, Frank C. 
 Powell, Bernon I. 
 Reynolds, Harley W. 
 Riley, Ray C. 
 Sawyer, Raymond C. 
 Smith, Everett C. 
 Smith, Chesley 
 Springer, Raymond L. 
 Stalker, Alfred A. 
 Stapp, Walter 
 Stephens, William T. 
 Storey, Earl R. 
 Tucker, Gus D. 
 Tucker, Roy J. 
 Vail, Elmer W. 
 Walker, Harry L. 
 Ware, Horace M. 
 Wells, Vern L. 
 Wheaton, Dewey H. 
 White, Otto B. 
 Whitaker, Harry L. 
 Woodard, Wallace L. 
 Williams, William 
 Wobbe, Harrv L. 
 Discharged SCD 
 Brown, Guss 
 Cleland, George D. 
 Lame, Arthur E. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 381 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Oscar C. Brownlee 
 1st lyieutenant, 
 
 Eli B. Dorsey 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 E)mery J. Bowen 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Clarks, Frank E. 
 
 Walton, Kendall A. 
 
 Skinner, Herbert 
 Corporals: 
 
 Price, Archie R. 
 
 Weed, Mahlon 
 
 Price, Robert 
 
 Ward, Clyde F. 
 
 Cheney, Harry L. 
 
 Dunkley, Frank 
 Cook; 
 
 Bushy, Edward 
 Bugler, 
 
 Otis, Glen 
 Mechanics: 
 
 CuUen, Stebbins 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Carpenter, Miller H. 
 
 Chase, Emerson W. 
 
 Everley, Clarence J. 
 
 Jenkins, Charles W. 
 
 Milner, Earl 
 
 Olmsted, Orley L. 
 
 Rothberger, Fred 
 
 Scothorn, Earl 
 
 Taylor, Alfred G. 
 Privates: 
 
 Ashby, Harry M. 
 
 Ayers, Sam L. 
 
 Amey, Russell S. 
 
 Ackerson, Elmer H. 
 
 Buchman, Joseph D. 
 
 Baker, Glen 
 
 Bell, John J. 
 
 Butell, Ernest E. 
 
 Bowersock, Lawrence 
 H. 
 
 Branson, Jefferson R. 
 
 Benedict, Francis L. 
 
 Bright, Clarence E- 
 
 Counts, Milton J. 
 
 Crow, David R. 
 
 Clark, Bernal E. 
 
 Cox, Hubevt D. 
 
 Criss, Richard T. 
 
 Clark, John C. 
 
 Corel, Glen J. 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 Corel, Charles W. 
 Conger, Erie L. 
 Criss, George 
 Carter, James G. 
 DeForest, Robert 
 Doyle, Roscoe M. 
 Demeritt, Everitt 
 DeForest, Lewis H. 
 Daugherty, George W. 
 Daugherty, Thomas E. 
 Dowers, Lilburn M. 
 Davis, Albert R. 
 Deskin, Lloyd 
 Driggs, Frank H. 
 Erwin, Claude D. 
 Fetty, Andrew E. 
 Fitts, Leslie 
 Foster, Lloyd E. 
 Fast, Cohn C. 
 Farell, Roy C. 
 Griffin, Lester 
 Griffin, Jasper W. 
 Gilbert, Edgar F. 
 Gibbs, Gorbon E. 
 Gaumer, Charles N. 
 Grimes, Vance L. 
 Huss, Larce A. 
 Hundley, Overton E. 
 Hall, Elmer K. 
 Hope, Charles H. 
 Hite, Woodward V. 
 Hockings, Orville O. 
 Haight, Albert G. 
 Harfard, Gerald B. 
 Haney, Roy 
 Harger, William R. 
 Ties, Carl G. 
 Johnson, Albert H. 
 Jones, James E. 
 "laggard, Robert K. 
 Tenson, Sherman L. 
 Jewell, Roy C. 
 Kastner, Kirk B. 
 Koelzer, Albert L. 
 Kinzer. Edward L. 
 Kendall, Leland H. 
 Lynch, Albert P. 
 Lansing. Jack C. 
 Langenderfer, Albert 
 
 C. 
 Lewallen, Harry L. 
 TvC Suer, Marvin J. 
 Daster, Rollis 
 Lavin, Eugene T. 
 Miles. Horace E. 
 
 Martin, Charles A, 
 Main, Claude E. 
 Monk, Francis H. 
 Martin, Frank O. 
 Murphy, Orville W. 
 Mann, Willie 
 Nesbitt, Robert C. 
 O'Neal, Oliver B. 
 Osborne, Clifton E. 
 Ochse, Edward J. 
 Pitts, Ernest C. 
 Pinnick, Ira V. 
 Pettibone, Victor H. 
 Price, Wilson C. 
 Phillips, Loyd W. 
 Pierson, Oscar 
 Proctor, Willard 
 Peer, Charles A. 
 Palmer, Ezra L. 
 Ruby, Ralph D. 
 Richardson, George M. 
 Richardson, Daniel J. 
 Rutherford, Rob Roy 
 Rothberger, Max R. 
 Robinson, Loren D. 
 Robison, Elbert E. 
 Shogrin, Arthur C. 
 Schubert, Paul J. 
 Smith, George W. 
 Snow, Anthony E. 
 Skinner, Harry C. 
 Strahm, Allen D. 
 Shumway, Ray C. 
 Steinbring, Albert W. 
 Sandusky, Steve 
 Sperling, Forrest 
 Stoner, Grover C. 
 Smith, Ray H. 
 Trout, Henry D. 
 Utterback, Ray L. 
 Wilbur, Wesley A. 
 Walters, Robert K. 
 Wortman, Walter S. 
 Weaver, William T. 
 Weber. Geo. E. 
 Wells, Frank A. 
 Zeller. George W. 
 Losses Discd. 
 
 Brooks, Claude O. 
 Micheelson, Carl E. 
 Wells, Nathan D. 
 Fearing, Sherman 
 Hageman, Harry D. 
 Kasold, Arthur 
 Yoder, Wren F. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 George R. Crawford 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 Manhattan 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Arthur A. R. Scheleen 
 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 Clede R. Keller 
 
382 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Rediker, living M. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Tolinan, George O. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Apltz, Alfred C. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Broberg, Oliver W. 
 
 Reed, Ollis W. 
 
 McHugh, Dilts S. 
 
 Ferrel, Don E. 
 
 Brown, Duke C. 
 
 Getty, Richard W. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Lee, Joy O. 
 
 Allis, Leland C. 
 
 Rader, John W. ^ 
 
 Harper, Dennis K. 
 
 Grooms, Leslie A. 
 
 Newell, Clell A. 
 
 Howe, Clarence B. 
 
 Baker, Robert E. 
 
 Dundore, Clemans E. 
 
 Fraker, Thomas M. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Lundsberg, Chester E- 
 
 Foveaux, William 
 Cooks: 
 
 Cordts, Walter A. 
 
 Smith. Charles O. 
 
 Carlton, Lee S. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Rothrock, Thomas 
 
 Sawyer, Glen R. 
 Privates: 
 
 Ayers, John H. 
 
 Babcock, Dale L. 
 
 Balderson, George W. 
 
 Bartley, Percy D. 
 
 Bennett, Jony W. 
 
 Best, Harry E. 
 
 Bolin, Marcelin H. 
 
 Bradley, David F. 
 
 Bradley, Ralph M. 
 
 Bumbaugh, Albert E- 
 
 Burgess, Edmund B. 
 
 Byers, Verner M. 
 
 Carley, Charles W. 
 
 Carley, George W. 
 
 Casford, Howard J. 
 
 Chapman, Otis E- 
 
 Cobb, Joe T. 
 
 Coffey, Clarence W. 
 
 Comfort, Howard L. 
 Cooper, Charles A. 
 Day, Francis L. 
 Dexter, Archie B. 
 Dicky, Donald M. 
 Doty, Dale W. 
 Dugan, Frank M. 
 Falconer, Ralph E- 
 Farrell, Edward J. 
 Fayman, Plarold H. 
 Ferrell, John D. 
 Finnigan, John W. 
 Fordyce, Wilbur F. 
 Foster, Alvin J. 
 Frankenpohl, Edward 
 
 F. 
 Freeby, Harold L. 
 Fulton, Ralph 
 Gardner, Richard A. 
 Gittings, Bert W. J. 
 Goshorn, Carl A. 
 Gregg, Earl 
 Gross, Martin 
 Hamilton, Daniel B. 
 Harrold, Earl Spencer 
 Harrison, Benard W. 
 Hayes, William W". 
 Higginbotham, Charles 
 
 L. 
 Hodges, William F. 
 Hoke, Ercil A. 
 Holland, Joseph C. 
 Holloway, Myles 
 Holm, George W. 
 Holt, George W. 
 Hopper, Charles E. 
 Hurst, E. Fredrick 
 Hutto, Dale N. 
 Johnson, Alvan A. 
 Jones, Morris 
 Knisely, Elber M. 
 Kraft, George H. 
 Langner, Emil W. 
 Larson, J. Robert 
 Lockard, Virgil F. 
 Lowe, William S. 
 Lunday, Dewey W. 
 Lungberg, George L. 
 McBee, George W. 
 McKee, Joe FT. 
 Maddock, Ralph E. 
 Maluy, William B. 
 Manrose, Byron 
 
 Messick, Warren 
 Meier, Lawrence A. 
 Mitschler Paul H. 
 Mortimer, Charles 
 Murphy, Dewey 
 Nelson, Frank 
 N ester, Cyrus J. 
 Newman, Frank N. 
 Osbourn, Ira 
 Osbourn, John M. 
 Paddock, James L. 
 Paddock, Victor V. 
 Padgett, Fred M. 
 Padgett, Merl L. 
 Parrish, Tom H. 
 Pearson, Varlourd 
 Peters, Lewis E. 
 Pillsbury, Hobart E. 
 Rains, Harry L. 
 Rains, Philip E. 
 Reed, Harrison 
 Reed, Samuel C. 
 Reinders, Charley E. 
 Rorig, Albert P. 
 Sanders, Morton E. 
 Schultz, John 
 Scott, Melvin J. 
 Selfridge, Palmer W. 
 Shaver, John M. 
 Shay, John H. 
 Shirkey, Earl F. 
 Slifer, Ralph 
 Smith, Raymond L. 
 Stanley, Ralph R. 
 Stevens, Roy C. 
 Sumner, John N. 
 Tangeman, Ralph E. 
 Thierer, Jacob O. 
 Thorton, Dewey 
 Travis, Donald H. 
 Unger, Ferdinand J. 
 Urban, John M. 
 Wakefield, Wallace H. 
 Wallace, John W. 
 Wallace, Walter C. 
 Walters, David A. 
 Weeks, Everett J. 
 Weninger, Erwin 
 Wildinson, Harley W. 
 Williams, George E. 
 Wilson, Albert W. 
 Woolheater, Harold E. 
 Wymore, Percy F. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Lewis C. McDonald 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Dan A. Work 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank O. Gillette 
 
 COMPANY K 
 
 Garnett 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Spradlin, Albert I 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 Keil, Carl J. 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Potter, Bruce B. 
 
 Blackledge, Benjamin 
 
 F. 
 Hampshire, Claude C. 
 Hiner, Merritt M. 
 Adams, Frank B. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 383 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Baker, Ottawa E. 
 
 Jones, Bobert L. 
 
 Morris, Lloyd K. 
 
 Tippin, Curtis M. 
 
 Helton, Joe S. 
 
 T ravers, Benjamin A. 
 
 Bvans, Julius O. 
 
 Enslow, Walter L. 
 
 Neil, Arnold J. 
 
 Certain, Harold R. 
 
 Black, Warren C. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Stomp, George A. 
 
 Goodwin, Nile U. 
 
 Neil, Walter C. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Melvin, Harry L. 
 
 Tyler, Charles 
 Privates: 
 
 Adams, Harry C. 
 
 Anthony, Walter C. 
 
 AcuflF, Morse C. 
 
 Altic, Bennie E. 
 
 Blake, Jesse S. 
 
 Bowen, Jesse A. 
 
 Bryan, Emmett E. 
 
 Buckels, Fred S. 
 
 Bunyan, Harry 
 
 Ballenger, Clarence V. 
 
 Bell, Ralph O. 
 
 Bogart, Charles E. 
 
 Barnes, Robert T. 
 
 Branaman, Hugh A. 
 
 Brumit, William F. 
 
 Balsley, Ira L. 
 
 Blackledge Walter M. 
 
 Barnes, Oliver E. 
 
 Beau, John H. Jr. 
 
 Brock, Otis H. 
 
 Borer, Charles J, 
 
 Cross, Toe B. 
 
 Cook, Paul D. 
 
 Caylor, Leland S. 
 
 Catuska, Clarence D. 
 
 Carter, Marion D. 
 
 Crow, Jesse J. 
 
 Carr, Robert 
 
 Danforth, Harry T. 
 
 Dunn, Harry A. 
 
 Day, Vern H. 
 Donald, Alden L. 
 Davies, Albert 
 DeWolf, Henry F. 
 Edington, Merle D. 
 Engwall, Carl 
 Enochs, Raymond C. 
 Fergus, Malcora R. 
 Fraker, Ray D. 
 Faulkner, Orval H. 
 Fishburn, Ray G. 
 Freer, Floyd E. 
 Garst, Earl F. 
 Gates. Truman R. 
 Gentry, Carey F. 
 Greer, Thomas D. 
 Greer, William C. 
 Greer, Irving W. 
 Graffham, Albert C. 
 Graham, Frank O. 
 Goff, Harley 
 Gunn, Foster A. 
 Harrold, Thomas 
 Hunt, George T. 
 Heiken, Eilert G. 
 Hastings, Joseph L. 
 Hootman, Lester 
 Hanson, Louis H. 
 Hunter, Ora L. 
 Hubbard, Albert 
 Hugill, George 
 Henderson, Lester J. 
 Kiniaard, Arthur R. 
 Keene, Wallace 
 Kepple, Edmund P. 
 Kelsey, James D. 
 Kirkpatrick, Joyce T. 
 Kleinsorge, Edwin F. 
 Long, John F. 
 Lathrop, George A. 
 Marconette, Aaron T. 
 Melluish,, Parker B. 
 Miller, Frank 
 Mills, John 
 McFarland, Chester E. 
 Miller, Max L. 
 Mettler, Lee 
 McDaniels, Walter 
 Muntzert, Orlin E. 
 
 Muntzert, Fred F. 
 Mcintosh, Fred H. 
 Morton, William H. 
 Murry, Frank 
 Neil, Hallie H. 
 Newquist, Fred J. 
 O'Connor, Henry L. 
 Ortolf, William 
 Overbolt, Jack 
 Ohmes, Michael J. 
 Ohmes, Frank J. 
 Ohmes, Wendell G. 
 Osborn, Thomas E. 
 Oakley, Ralph C. 
 Payne, Harry 
 Petty, Charles E. 
 Price, Charles S. 
 Ramsdell, Frank R. 
 Reneau, Everett 
 Reed, Charles E. 
 Reimer, August C. 
 Rowland, Clyde 
 Ralston, Truman G. 
 Smith, Irl E. 
 Smith, Lewis N. 
 Sutton, John 1. 
 Showen, William 
 Staley, Lloyd M. 
 Seott, Paul K. 
 Shozman, Jacob 
 Shuey, Ferguson A. 
 Springer, William F. 
 Snow, Ellis W. 
 Soderstrom, Ralph A. 
 Shoemaker, Orvie E. 
 Seyler, Ovid 
 Shroder, Neil B. 
 Tedrow, Frank L. 
 Triplett, David S. 
 Walker, Charles F. 
 Williams, Wallace 
 Wick, James B. 
 Winter, Wilson N. 
 Welton, Vern A. 
 Wilcox, Dewey J. 
 White, Harry A. 
 Losses Discd. 
 
 Adkinson, Wesley E. 
 Smith, Edgar W. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Earle T. Patterson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Paul A. Cannady 
 2nd Lieutenant 
 
 Richard M. Phillips 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Keller, Harry S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Allen, John F. 
 
 COMPANY L 
 
 Yates Center 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Dillman, Omar D. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Haven, Forrest 
 
 Conley, Ray 
 Corporal: 
 
 Nannings, Simon P. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Lamborn, Carson T. 
 
 McGowan, f^rnest R, 
 
 Branden, Oscar B. 
 Buglers: 
 
 LeightoQ, Vear V. 
 
 Hicks, Ralph E. 
 Mechanias: 
 
 Hartshorn, Ray 
 
 Naylor, Claud H. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Acton, James E. 
 
 Blue, Clifford M. 
 
384 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Crisler, Ulric F. 
 Hardesty, Stanley E. 
 Kershner, Joe D. 
 Nanninga, Tjaart R. 
 Parker, Willis 
 Williamson, Claude R. 
 Powell, Keith 
 Smith, Daniel L. 
 Ruble, Robert H. 
 Robbins, Pies S. 
 Smock, Klexery R. 
 Wilson, F;imer R. 
 Burlingame, Dudley G. 
 Hamilton, Herbert P. 
 Lawton, Ray J. 
 Lotton, Orrid G. 
 Moore, Earl H. 
 McCoy, Leslie 
 Thrasher, William A. 
 Woods, Perry L. 
 Privates: 
 
 Ashley, Lloyd E., 
 Bauersfeld, Paul T. 
 Barber, Frank 
 Bowman, Lloyd E. 
 Borders, Glenn W. 
 Brooks, Willis F. 
 Brown, John W. 
 Breon, lyeroy W. 
 Brooks, Homer P. 
 Blackman, Hiram F. 
 Bransfield, Martin W. 
 Burton, Charles S. 
 Bumgarner, Harry V, 
 Cramer, Maley O. 
 Carpenter, Lloyd C. 
 Cook, Robert J. 
 Covault, Eddie S. 
 Cresson, Sig. 
 Craig, Charles M, 
 Campbell, Leslie J. 
 Chester, V. Lynn 
 Carthel, Edgar 
 Davis, William T. 
 Davis, Will 
 Depew, Benjamin W. 
 Derby, Neal E. 
 
 Doty, Otis L. 
 Dickey, Eber J. 
 Dale, Kieth E. 
 Ellis, Lenard G. 
 Farra, Verne L. 
 Frost, Alvin L. 
 Goodwin, Ira M. 
 Gilford, Edward L. 
 Griffitts, Rose C. 
 Gilbert, James 
 Hackney, Ira W. 
 Henry, Charles H. 
 Hughes, Bert F. 
 Hurlock, Joe H. 
 Holmes, Charlie H. 
 Henrichs, Walter O. 
 Ireland, Martin E. 
 Jones, Olaj A. 
 Jones, Robert W. 
 Jones, Roy O. 
 Jones, Milton 
 Johnson, Fred H. 
 Johnson, John E. 
 Johnson, Victor L. 
 Johnson, Herbert O. 
 Jordan, Wade A. 
 Kash, Frank 
 Kilby, James A. 
 Knotts, John J. 
 Knotts, Elias L. 
 Lee, Ralph H. 
 Lieurance, Clarence J. 
 Leonard, Lee L. 
 Lynn, William T. 
 Lucas, Robert T. 
 Leter, William E. 
 McAdoo, Clarence, 
 McCullough, Thurlew 
 
 W. 
 McCall, Archie M. 
 McCoy, Ralph 
 McClendon, Charles 
 Martin, John E. 
 Mathis. Oren N. 
 Merrill, Walter D. 
 Moore, Charles F. 
 
 Mentague, Charles W. 
 
 Moffett, Roy J. 
 
 Miller, Earl L. 
 
 Mabis, Horace R. 
 
 McClure, James C. 
 
 Meinig, William Hen- 
 ry 
 
 Mehl, William C. 
 
 Maupin, Emmett, 
 
 Munger, Louis C. 
 
 Mill, Sidney R. 
 
 Nokes, Clarence W. 
 
 Parker, Bert L. 
 
 Pruitt, Harry L. 
 
 Plummer, Wade F. 
 
 Pollock, Harry O. 
 
 Ralph, Melvin L. 
 
 Renner, Lee M. 
 
 Rubert, James J. 
 
 Ravnolds, Mortimer 
 E. 
 
 Riho, Frank 
 
 Roberts, Oscar R. 
 
 Saferots, Carl L. 
 
 Scott, Charles L. 
 
 Stewart, Raymon C. 
 
 Sutley, Merle 
 
 Stephens, Ova 
 
 Sponcer, Henry 
 
 Sweringer, Oral 
 
 Snyder, John W. 
 
 Skaggs, Lee 
 
 Trueblood, Harry S. 
 
 Tout, Rollie 
 
 Watts, Milton E. 
 
 Weiland, Chauncey 
 
 Wells, Jesse H. 
 
 Wilson, Loyd R. 
 
 Whetsel, Henry W. 
 
 Wiggins, Walter H. 
 
 Wood, Sammie 
 
 Woodward, William F. 
 
 Williams, Tom L. 
 
 Walz. Walter J. 
 
 Van Wormer, Adrain 
 
 Leshley, Floyd 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Frank E. Jones 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Merrill F. Dean 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank B. Elmore 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Sands, Frank C. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Peters, Shirley 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Stortz, Frank 
 
 COMPANY M 
 
 Laweence 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Adams, Merle J. 
 
 Carpenter, Samuel L. 
 
 Courtwright, William 
 W. 
 
 Deeker, Leonard E. 
 
 Hayes, Lusius B. 
 
 Humphrey, Harry L. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Aere, Joseph 
 
 Auchard, Virgil 
 
 Bloom, James 
 
 Coe, Fordyce B. 
 Hauser, Frank 
 Kirby, Glynn 
 Miles, Charles S. 
 Oliver, Archibald B. 
 Riley, Don 
 Robbins, Roy S. 
 Rust, Boyd 
 Spangler, Le Port 
 Smiley, Stanton 
 Uflford, Neill 
 Webb, David W. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 385 
 
 Mechanics 
 
 Whitla, I^owell R. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Creek, William P. 
 
 Moyer, Samuel P. 
 
 Ruppenthal, Harold 
 Buglers: 
 
 Acre, Leonard 
 
 Plank, Ewart 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Auchard, Ralph 
 
 Campbell, Francis 
 
 Hattemer, Otto 
 
 Kelly, Carroll B. 
 
 I^eis, Tracy F. 
 
 Manning, Robert 
 
 Masset, Addison R. 
 
 Rice, Ewart R, 
 
 Rice, Joseph 
 
 Riley, William S. 
 Privates: 
 
 Acre, Albert H. 
 
 Ashley, Harry B. 
 
 Austin, Verle 
 
 Ball, Charles M. 
 
 Barnett, George 
 
 Blicks, Paul A. 
 
 Bouton, Dain 
 
 Brown, Karl 
 
 Bryan, Joseph D. 
 
 Bukovatz, John J. 
 
 Bussh, Charles 
 
 Carpenter, Walter T. 
 
 Carpenter, Charles T. 
 
 Carpenter, Robert H. 
 
 Clary, Garnett S. 
 
 Clawson, John H. 
 
 Coe, Auburn S. 
 
 Cottrell, Ray M. 
 
 Couehman, Floyd H. 
 
 Craig, James V, 
 
 Cullen, Albert 
 
 Curl. Hobart G. 
 
 Draskowich, Mike J. 
 
 Dye, Milton L. 
 
 Edwards, John R, 
 Eggen, Charles B. 
 E;ilsworth, Willoughby 
 
 F. 
 Evans, Joe 
 Fisher, Earl F. 
 Frank, Verne 
 Garrigues, Frank O. 
 Gee, Merrill H. 
 Gibson, Hugh H, 
 Gibson, Phillip C. 
 Gill, W^ayne I. 
 Gordon, Howard 
 Griffith, William H. 
 Grinstead, James R. 
 Haines, Charles A. 
 Hale, Milford W. 
 Hammer, Byron 
 Hart, Charlie E. 
 Hart, Mark E. 
 Haynes, Malson P. 
 Hester, Claude H. 
 Holstcn, Verner H. 
 Honick, Lewis E. 
 Horn, Will R. 
 Hughey, William N. 
 Hynes, Fred I. 
 Jenson, Paul F, 
 Johnson, Lewis C. 
 Johnson, John 
 Kelly, Sherwin F. 
 Kincheloe, Ivan C. 
 Krappes, John H. 
 Krause, Albert F. F. 
 LaCarte, Alvarez J. 
 Lewis, Charles W. 
 Legg, Edwin 
 LaudbladCj Leon W. 
 Luse, Elgie 
 Martling, Francis H. 
 McDonald, Ira M. 
 McGinness, Byron F. 
 McGinness, Hugh T. 
 McMurphv, John W. 
 Mendenhall, Edgar L. 
 
 Miner, Erie S. 
 Mitchell, Basil L. 
 Moore, Edmond E. 
 O'Brien, Shamus 
 Oehrle, Charles F. 
 Olson, Forrest C. 
 Owens, Seth J. 
 Palmer, Opie L. 
 Peterson, William T 
 Prebble, Fred 
 Rader, Ralph R. 
 Richter, Theodore H 
 Rodgers, Charles Har- 
 vey 
 Roe, William 
 Rogers, John L. 
 Rueker, Carl 
 Rummell, Ross J. 
 Runnion, Ray 
 Schutter, Frank J, 
 Smfth, Frank 
 Smith, Odon W. 
 Smith, Wright W. 
 Snyder, Ivan V. 
 Stewart, Kenneth C. 
 Stines, Leonard F. 
 Thrower, Walter 
 Tinklepaugh, Daune 
 Vanderbur, Carl E. 
 Van Wormer, Horace 
 
 Walker, Carl 
 
 Warders, Charles E. 
 
 Whiteher, Andrew J. 
 
 White, pliver W. 
 Losses, Discharged 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Bailey, Arthur R, 
 Privates: 
 
 Kane, George C. 
 
 Kemp, Harley S. 
 
 McLaughlin, Walter 
 H. 
 
 Powell, Ralph D. 
 
 Volok, Thomas 
 
 Whiteher, Harry 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Ashley, Harry 
 Brown, Karl 
 Craig, James V. 
 Cullen, Robert 
 Draskowish, Mike 
 Honiek, Lewis E. 
 
 ORGANIZED MILITA 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 Johnson, Louis O. 
 Oehrle, Charles F. 
 Peterson, William C. 
 Richter, Theodore H. 
 Rodgers, John 
 Tinklepaugh, Dunne 
 
 Losses, Discharged: 
 Bryan, Joseph D. 
 Bakovatz, John J. 
 Fisher, Earl F. 
 Gibson, Phillip C. 
 Krappes, John E. 
 Lewis, Charles W. 
 
 INITAL DEAFT, SANITARY DETACHMENT 
 FIRST KANSAS INFANTRY 
 
 Major, 
 
 Henry T. Salisbury 
 
 Captain, 
 Ira E. Durant 
 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 Joseph E. Alford 
 Barnes, Ralph E. 
 
386 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Sergeants, 1st Class: 
 Alphin, Wayne 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Curl, Chester L. 
 Silverthorn, Earl 
 Myers, William R. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Anderson, Ivan H. 
 Buchanan, Dwight 
 Carman, Benjamin 
 Derby, Arthur G. 
 Dumas, Harry 
 
 Engel, Herman 
 Greiss, Murray 
 Jones, Sam I. 
 McCormick, Norwood 
 Martin, Earl L. 
 :\Iyers, John B. 
 Russell, John C. 
 Starkweather, Robert 
 Privates : 
 
 Achining, Carl 
 Bryde, Phillip 
 Cooke, Charles H. 
 Daniels, Charles E. 
 
 Francisco, Clell 
 Heron, William T. 
 Hudson, Adolphus F. 
 Hughes, Lawrence D. 
 McAllister, Fred L. 
 Nichols, Clifford 
 Roberts, Harrold M. 
 Thudium, Carl 
 Woodard, Howard 
 Wyatt, Wiley J. 
 Losses, Discharged 
 Golding, Ned. 
 
 DETACHMENT UNASSIGNED 
 
 Private, 
 
 Eichelberger, Will 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 387 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT, KANSAS INFANTRY 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Perry M. Hoisington, 
 Commanding 
 lyieutenant Colonel, 
 
 Fred R. Fitzpatrick, 
 Major, 
 
 John H. O'Connor 
 
 HEADQUARTEES 
 
 Newton 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Major, 
 
 Fred ly. lyCmmon 
 Major, 
 
 Harry G. Menkemeyer 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Homer 15. Wark 
 Regimental Chaplain 
 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adj. 
 
 John C. Hoehle 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adj. 
 
 Harry F. Grove 
 1st Lieut. & Bn. Adjt. 
 
 James B. Rosseau 
 
 HEADQUAETERS COMPANY 
 
 Newton 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Frank E. Bonney, 
 Reg. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Robieson, Frank W. 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Beeson, Otero G. 
 Bn. Sergeant Majors: 
 
 Morrison, Reed 
 
 Mitchell, Dalbert W. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Fink, Louis W. 
 Sergeant Bugler, 
 
 Black, Paul L. 
 Color Sergeants : 
 
 Noonan, Robert E. 
 
 Fagerquist, Reuben T. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Stewart, James H. 
 Jr. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Palmer, Frank G. 
 Band Sergeants : 
 
 Olson, Ernest M . 
 
 Di Nino, Frank V. 
 Band Corporals: 
 
 Innis, Donald F. 
 
 Hawkinson, Carl W. 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Bryant, James R, 
 
 Yeager, John B. 
 1st Class Musicians: 
 
 Glezen, Roy J. 
 
 Sheffer, Wilhelm G. 
 2d Class Musicians: 
 
 Shehi, Dan L. 
 
 Bagby, Charles A. 
 
 Young, Charles D. 
 3rd Class Musicians: 
 
 Baer, James D. 
 
 Braithwaite, Robert G= 
 
 Cool, Eugene B. 
 
 Davis, Howard VV. 
 
 Huffine, Guy L- 
 
 Heck, James G. 
 
 Lichtenberger, Harley 
 W. 
 
 McFadden, Harold M. 
 
 McGrew, Richard A. 
 
 Norton, Emra A. 
 
 Palmer, Chester E. 
 
 Reynolds, Stanley A. 
 
 Scott, Cyrus W. 
 
 Wesley, Wendell P. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Hanna, Ross 
 
 Ferguson, James F. 
 
 Trull, Leo 
 
 White, Ernest L. 
 Privates : 
 
 Carlton, V. Berne 
 
 Daugherty, Paul 
 
 Hoover, Donald D. 
 
 Harshman. Frank S. 
 
 McKay, Patrick 
 
 McBeth, Marcus V. 
 
 Robbins, Arthur B. 
 
 Robbins, Herman D. 
 
 Roberts, James 
 
 Sanders, Robert 
 
 Sturtevant, Ernest L. 
 
 Winterhalter. Daniel 
 C. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Sampson, George K. 
 
 Atwood, Arthur F. 
 
 Dixon, David W. 
 Discharged, 
 
 Fagerquist, Arthur C. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 
 Hutchinson 
 
 Captain. 
 
 Guy C. Rexroad 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank J. Benscoter 
 2d Lieutenants, 
 
 Robert A. Campbell 
 
 John Barthold, Jr. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Wilson, Ezra J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Brown, Ray W. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Hyatt, Walter D. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Huston, Lester W. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Parsons, Roy P. 
 
 Lunas, James B. 
 
 McKee, Edward W. 
 
 Shawhan, Leslie L. 
 
 Gibbens, Leon D. 
 
 Crow, Roy M. 
 
 Corporals : 
 
 Bates, Howard J. 
 Massoni, Alfred A. 
 Middlehurst, George 
 
 S. 
 Winters, George W. 
 Lloyd, Frank Iv. 
 Nelson, William S. 
 Rider, Ned M. 
 Hagaman, Darrel P. 
 
388 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Cook, 
 
 Dralle, Albert E). 
 Buglers: 
 
 Arnold, Ray W. 
 
 Rexroad, Gerald 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Warnock, E)arl C. 
 
 Green, Lewis F. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Ferguson, John H. 
 
 Johnson, Roy V. 
 
 Fick, Paul F. 
 
 Kimzoy, Harland D. 
 
 Shiffer, Ray H. 
 
 McKenzie, Verl J. 
 
 Dill, Nomian F. 
 
 Whelpley, Charles W. 
 
 Alexander, Paul W. 
 
 Baker, Chester W. 
 
 Barton, Sly 
 Privates : 
 
 Blackburn, Stanton F. 
 
 Brooks, Richard G. 
 Clark, Walter S. 
 Cline, Lester M. 
 Cramer, Wendell H. 
 Deming, Claude F. 
 Fverett, Martin F. 
 Fiori, Seraphin 
 Ford, Leon A. 
 Froh witter, William 
 
 B. 
 Fowler, Homer F. 
 Grace, Phillip G. 
 Hamby, Lloyd W. 
 Jennings, Don A. 
 Jackson, Floyd F. 
 King, Frank 
 Klippel, Philip C. 
 Lang, Bert F. 
 Lockhead, Lewis R. 
 Lumm, Jesse 
 McGuire, Paul R. 
 Mauser, Roy A. 
 
 Nicholson, George T. 
 
 Ross, Bert F. 
 
 Seely, Guy 
 
 Shawhan, Harold R. 
 
 Shive, Myron L. 
 
 Snell, David L. 
 
 Stewart, John F. 
 
 Thompson, J. Arthur 
 
 Turner, Roy F. 
 
 Weaver, Henry J. 
 
 Weeks, Harold H. 
 
 Wentz, Ralph D. 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Maltby, Arthur L. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Bates, Chester I. 
 Cook, 
 
 Nagle, Charles A. 
 1st Class Private, 
 
 Richards, Arba F. 
 Privates : 
 
 Buggelin, Charles F. 
 
 Flmes, Harry 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Alfred F. Noonan 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Jesse M. Nixon 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Smith, Fustace 
 Reg. Supply Sergeants: 
 
 Rohrer, Samuel J. 
 
 Snyder, Parker L. 
 
 Henney, Alfred K. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Baugher, James W. 
 Corporal, 
 
 Lantz, Dillard A. 
 Cook, 
 
 Haines, Walter H. 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 Hutchinson 
 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Dunham, Noah F. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Weatherman, Ferrell 
 F. 
 Wagoners : 
 
 Adkinson, Levi J. 
 
 Albrecht, Irvan 
 
 Battershell, John 
 
 Brown, Harvey L. 
 
 Carr, Robert F. 
 
 Cecil, Aaron B. 
 
 Clark, Ralph C. 
 
 Collins, Charles L. 
 
 Dopps, Lyman J. 
 
 Duncan, Clyde 
 
 Harrel, Fdward 
 
 Hershberger, Locke H. 
 Huntsman, Charles L. 
 Knight, Frank H. 
 Lennen, Farl L. 
 Leslie, Ansel F- 
 Mallory, Harrison D. 
 Manny, Frnest C, 
 Manny, Ora A. 
 McClure, Frnest A. 
 McCowan, Oliver W. 
 Ritherhouse, Lester 
 
 A. 
 Smith, Wilfred D. 
 Sriiith, Paul J. 
 Stewart, Charles F. 
 Wainner, Ralph R. 
 Warren, Mansford F. 
 Wheeler, Sidney R. 
 
 COMPANY A 
 Wichita 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Frank F. Barr 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Paul J. Simpson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Fmil G. Keil 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Seymore, Theodore 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Palmer, Farl J. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Branch, Ralph A. 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Dodman, Farl 
 
 Ford, Hobart A. 
 
 Bodkin, Charles W. 
 
 Waldron, Hugh 
 
 Hopkins, Thomas 
 
 Inman, Boyd 
 
 Dodds, Flbert L. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Banks, Clyde J. 
 
 Tngle, Millard T. 
 
 Seese, Harry A. M. 
 
 Martin, George F. 
 Fnglish, Clarence A. 
 Barbrick, Farl 
 Ulmer, Charles 
 Olmstead, Farl O. 
 Gaskill, Louis W. 
 Stephens, William J. 
 Mathews, Harry S. 
 Rouse, Harry L. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Grimes, Fdward L. 
 McDufiis, Norman L. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 389 
 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Shields, Eugene B. 
 
 Grimes, Scott L,. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Childers, Alva B. 
 
 Carter, Harris G. 
 
 Dunham, Frank V. 
 
 Hake, Herbert H. 
 
 Knox, Thomas N. 
 
 Martindale, Lyle M. 
 
 Offenstein, Ross B. 
 
 Rector, Walter M. 
 
 Thompson, lyco V. 
 Privates : 
 
 Armour, Jack W. 
 
 Andrews, Robert P. 
 
 Barrett, Henry F. 
 
 Bennett, Carl 
 
 Bonner, Eugene B. 
 
 Booth, Otis P. 
 
 Brown, Herbert R. 
 
 Brown, Guy C. 
 
 Brown, Herbert R. 
 
 Brewington, Glenn 
 
 Burgett, Fred S. 
 
 Carpenter, Sherman 
 R. 
 
 Casto, Clyde R. 
 
 Cleary, Cecil E. 
 
 Crafton, John W. 
 
 Crafton, Wright M. 
 
 Crist, Paul A. 
 
 Daugherty, Victor M. 
 
 Daisy, Raymond 
 
 Davis, lyaverne 
 
 Dondelinger, L,ouis 
 
 Drake, Shad 
 
 ElHott, John S. 
 
 Fintelman, William 
 R. 
 
 Fisher, George H. 
 
 Fitzgerald, Jesse L. 
 
 Fralick, Ransler C. 
 
 Gay, Bryant W. 
 
 Gillel, Edward E. 
 
 Guy, Robert E. 
 
 Hartman, lyUther M. 
 
 Heath, Don A. 
 Hendren, Clyde M. 
 Hendren, Paul 
 Hicks, Ralph I. 
 Holcomb, lyouis H. 
 Howell, Rex 
 Hull, Orval P. 
 Humbert, Eee R. 
 links, Harry L,. 
 Kelly, George W. 
 Kendrick, Fi-ancis A. 
 Kiehl, Dale M. 
 Kirk, Harvey F. 
 Lampe, George H. 
 Ivickly, Morris J. 
 Eightner, George H. 
 Lindaberry, Joe 
 Eindt, Otto H. 
 Eish, Ira N. 
 Eusk, George B. 
 McAvey, Arch G. 
 McCartney, Jacob E. 
 McCool, Earl J. 
 McCorgary, Thomas 
 
 A. 
 McDermott, Ira D. 
 Martin, Eouis A. 
 Mason, Emmett, M. 
 Milner, Champ O. 
 Minard, Frank B. 
 Mitchell, Earl S. 
 Moore, Homer R. 
 Morgan, Claude W. 
 Morris, William V. 
 Morrison, Harry K. 
 Norvell, Frank O. 
 Newcomb, Eeland A. 
 O'Haro, Vernard C. 
 Oldfield, Charles H. 
 Page, Tom E. 
 Palling, William R. 
 Pattinson, John R. 
 Peacock, Elton D. 
 Penny, George 
 PhilHps, Joe W. 
 Pierce, Clarence O. 
 Pitts, WilHam A. 
 
 Propp, Daniel R. 
 Peterson, Harry T. 
 Raly, Fred E. 
 Reedy, Raymond 
 Reeves, Harold E. 
 Repledge, Bedford B. 
 Robinson, Roscoe E. 
 Rowe, Horace D, 
 Sage, John F. 
 Sampson, Roy E- 
 Schmucker, Theodore 
 
 I. 
 Schreffler, Charles E. 
 Schreffler, Clarence 
 
 G. 
 Scott, Oliver W. 
 Seal, Roy D. 
 Shick, Floyd R. 
 Silvius, Richard O. 
 Singleton, Grover F. 
 Smith, Ezekial P. 
 Sommerviller, WiUiani 
 
 A. 
 Stine, George B. 
 Taylor, Walter W. 
 Templer, Alfred E. 
 Thompson, Orin E. 
 Townsley, John A. 
 TilHnghast, Frank L. 
 Treft, Charles W. 
 Truex, Caleb C. 
 Tyron, Harley D. 
 Walker, James K. 
 Whitecotton, Arthur 
 
 E. H. 
 Wilcox, Edwin C. 
 Willard. Albert E. 
 Wilson, William H. 
 Wilson, Zynn M. 
 Winn, Newton R. 
 Wood, Frank E. 
 Cummings, Thad E. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Knox, Thomas W. 
 Privates : 
 
 Barritt, Henry E. 
 Eampe, George H. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Scott Berridge 
 1st Eieutenant, 
 
 Roy S. Gibson 
 2d Eieutenant, 
 
 Clarence A. Rennick 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Grubbs, Clarence O. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Knox, Garrett W. 
 
 Flynn, James V. 
 
 Bird, Victor T. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 HOLTON 
 
 Fairchild, Harold H. 
 Slaughter, James R. 
 Eambert, Emery W. 
 Jarvis, Russell J. 
 Eong, Phillip 
 Dale, Harold 
 Corporals : 
 
 Mann, Harold 
 Horton, Francis A. 
 Eutz, Harry E. 
 Bradley, Walter 
 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Butrum, Clarence A. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Beems, Roger 
 
 Brumfield, Elmor D. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Young, Clarence O. 
 
 McGehe, Floyd A. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bailey, Arthur L. 
 
 Dennis, Herschel 
 
 Eaden, Roscoe 
 
390 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Karstetter, Frank C. 
 Morrissey, James L- 
 Privates : 
 
 Alexander, Harold L. 
 Alexander, Roy C. 
 Alexander, Wilmer 
 Alendorf, Jacob G. 
 Bair, Ralph 
 Baertch, Carl E). 
 Baldwin, Clifford G. 
 Baugh, Hilton 
 Barnes, Virgil 
 Barr, Ray 
 Baxter, li^mmett 
 Benander, Arthur 
 Bossier, John W. 
 Bottom, Leroy 
 Bradley, Jesse 
 Brown, Paul R. 
 Bronston, Byron E. 
 Blackwood, Fred J. 
 Brubaker, Stewart H. 
 Carlson, Edward G. 
 Caywood, Walter F- 
 Chrisman, Paul H. 
 Chrisman, Spencer 
 Christian, Robert R. 
 Christensen, James P. 
 Clements, Harry C. 
 Conklin, George D. 
 Compton, Harry H. 
 Curtess, Samuel W. 
 Davis, Harold 
 Day, Elmer 
 Day, Roy C. 
 Darling, Ernest G. 
 Douglas, Ora 
 Dunn, Jack 
 Eby, Harry R. 
 Earl, Isaac Henry 
 Fess, Russel B. 
 Forsberg, Clarence 
 Fultz, Harvey 
 Glendening, Perry W. 
 Gray, William 
 Hall, George 
 Hannah, Cecil 
 Harris, John T. 
 Hart, Joseph C. 
 Hartman, Elmer G. 
 Hartman, Fred H. 
 Heiselman, William H. 
 
 Hickcox, Charles M. 
 Hill, Lee 
 Hill, Paul N. 
 Hollis, Doyle 
 Holt, McKinley 
 Ireland, Percy S. 
 Johnson, Earl D. 
 Kathrens, Charles 
 Kesling, Opha L. 
 Kidney, Emmett 
 Kidney, Scott 
 King, Ralph T. 
 Kroth, Ralph T. 
 Lewis, Charles 
 Lewis, Worth A. 
 Lines, McLin 
 Lines, William 
 Marion, Levi 
 Michaels, Raymond E- 
 Mitchell, Birt 
 Mitchell, Clifford R. 
 Mitchell, Clarence E. 
 Mitchell, Thomas A. 
 Miller, George N. 
 Miller, Oscar 
 Minor, Gilbert S. 
 Musselman, Francis 
 
 C. 
 Meyers, Irenous C. 
 Meyers, Claude L. 
 Meyers, Claude L. 
 McComas, Clyde C. 
 McHenry, Milton 
 McKinsey, Bert 
 McKinsey, Ray 
 IMcMurtry, Eugene 
 McPherson, Charles 
 
 W. 
 McPherson, Clyde O. 
 Nelson, Jesse 
 Nicholas, Lloyd 
 Nicholas, Otis C. 
 Osterhold, Frank 
 Park, Charles E. 
 Patterson, Harold 
 Pointer, Virgil D. 
 Pollock, Marion L. 
 Priest, Walton E. 
 Roby, Paul T. 
 Rudy, Ernest A. 
 Russell, Ralph V, 
 Russell, Ray C. 
 
 Sanderson, George W. 
 Simmons, Leroy D. 
 Simpson, Erwin C, 
 Slate, Lee 
 
 Slater, Meredith H. 
 Smith, Lewis J. 
 Stafford, David L. 
 Stanley, Elmer 
 Starkey, John W. 
 Steele, Wilford C. 
 Stephenson, George 
 
 L. 
 Stonebraker, James 
 
 D. 
 Stonebraker, Louis J. 
 Sullivan, Earl D. 
 Suter, Harold B. 
 Thompson, Loren E. 
 Thompson, Leon 
 Thompson, Ross F. 
 Tift, Rawlin L. 
 Utterback, Frank R. 
 Ward, Roy E. 
 Wvatt, John F. 
 Fletcher, Paul C. 
 McClacherty, John 
 
 W. 
 Overgard, Ray 
 Patrik, Frank 
 Shoenberger, Russell 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Skinner, Owen G. 
 
 Spittler, Leaman 
 
 Stone, Herbert R. 
 
 Sweeney, Daniel K. 
 
 Stringham, Leon 
 
 Sweeney, Ross L. 
 
 Swick, Herbert T. 
 
 Temple, William 
 
 Thomas, Guy M. 
 
 Tunnell, Earl G. 
 
 Turner, Howard E. 
 
 Vierra, John 
 
 Wood, Morgan L. 
 Losses, 
 Discharged: 
 
 Gilmore, Dave E. 
 
 Perkins, Clemet 
 
 Sturm, Guy 
 Corporal, 
 
 Higbee, Roy B. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Scott McKenzie 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Clarence H. Quigley 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Louis R. Scott 
 
 COMPANY C 
 Great Bend 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 Doklyn, Ray A. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 jilomyer, Harry H. 
 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Truex, Adelbert G. 
 
 bergeants : 
 
 Redwine, Reginald F. 
 Burns, Frank L. 
 Roper, Samuel D. 
 Swift, Jay G. 
 Crouse, Charlie W. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 391 
 
 Arth, Edgar J. 
 
 Heuiesen, Frank 
 
 Boylan, Brad 
 
 McGreevy, Urban 
 
 Lamoreux, Wayne 
 Corporals : 
 
 McFadden, William F. 
 
 Hunt, Albert D. 
 
 Kinniard, Fugene B. 
 
 Woodburn, Gustavus 
 W. 
 
 Hook, John 
 
 Ruble, Charles A. 
 
 Wood, George C. 
 
 Breeden, Ivco F. 
 
 Grubb, Floyd 
 
 Wilson, Roscoe 
 
 Johnson, Gilbert M. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Pritchard, Paul E. 
 
 lyocke, Thomas A. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Girdner, Kelly W. 
 
 Morrison, Damon W. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Scheufler, William F. 
 
 Soden, Walter G. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Ashpole, Archie 
 
 Alexander, Ira 
 
 Brown, Reid A. 
 
 Bertram, Walter F. 
 
 Chapman, Roscoe 
 
 Carleton, Raymond R. 
 
 Cowley, Stone O. 
 
 Drawbridge, Mason R. 
 
 Everitt, Lloyd G. 
 
 Gunn, Edwin R. 
 
 Hearne, Floyd R. 
 
 High, Branch D. 
 
 Harvey, David 
 
 Jurgensen, William 
 M. 
 
 Krebaum, Calvin V. 
 
 Keenan, John B. 
 
 Keller, Walter F. 
 
 Leadbetter, Alva 
 
 Longmoor, Charles H. 
 
 Meyer, August H. 
 
 Mayes, Walter R. 
 
 Petty, Oliver H. 
 
 Robertson, Alexander 
 
 L. 
 Rinker, Roy L. 
 Sipe, Charles L. 
 Steadman, John P. 
 Speck, Charles F. 
 Wesley, Charles A. 
 Yetschke, Clarence 
 Privates : 
 
 Armstrong, Bliss 
 Brown, Henry F. 
 Bryant, Levern 
 Boebeck. Arthur F. 
 Bortz, Andrew J. 
 Bone, Bentley O. 
 Bonham, Oscar L. 
 Brodbeck, Ernest A. 
 Blackburn, Jake M. 
 Batman, Dilla 
 Bedford, Charles E. 
 Bright, George A, 
 Culbreath, Arthur 
 Cook, Cecil F. 
 Gates, Fred 
 Clinton, Arthur 
 Deines, Adam 
 Dix, Buford 
 Dyer, Roy 
 Durbin, Charlie 
 Ewing, Jessie W. 
 Fisher, Emmett M. 
 Fritscher, Henry 
 Graham, Morris T. 
 Gabbert, Ernest C. 
 Gooing, Mack 
 Grubb, Walter S. 
 Hoffman, Henry J. 
 Hayes, James W. 
 Highland, Royal G. 
 Hoffman, Conrad 
 Hargrave, William A. 
 Hook, Henry 
 Hardesty, Charles H. 
 Hall, Hugh 
 Jones, William J. 
 Jones, Bee W. 
 Teffers, McKinley H. 
 karr, William F. 
 Kenney, Guy J. 
 Kruss, William H. 
 Lynn, Vernie O. 
 
 Livesay, William O. 
 McCracken, Harry 
 McClure, Fred A. 
 McCorkle, Owen W. 
 McDaniel, Gerald 
 McDaniel, Clarence 
 
 A. 
 McClure, Guy E. 
 Mercer, Earl M. 
 Mahoney, Denny 
 Moore, Reuben W. 
 Nelson, Roy N, 
 Newell, George S. 
 Orm, Ira E. 
 Powell, Roy A. 
 Powell, Harold Q. 
 Quimby, Loy S. 
 Radke, Albert L. 
 Renfro, Aubry 
 Richardson, Charles 
 
 E. 
 Speck, Earl 
 Swab, Norman E. 
 Stoskopf, Lester E. 
 Snow, Elmer E. 
 Scott, James L. 
 Steenis, Richard J. 
 Stone, John H. 
 Sloan, Alva L. 
 Sieker, Walter O. 
 Shuck, Frank M. 
 Sullivan, William L. 
 Segandollar, Fred 
 Skinner, Henry C. 
 Sams, Lester L. 
 Shook, Perry O. 
 Tromer, William S. 
 Tinnemeyer, John H. 
 
 F. 
 Trear, Patrick 
 Talbott, Henry W. 
 Tabler, Ivan E. 
 Varner, Leo O. 
 Wilson, Jack 
 Warner, Earl L. 
 Whaley, George B. 
 Walker, Joseph W. 
 Ward, Earl A. 
 Wemmergren, Karl 
 White, Clarence H. 
 Wilson, William B. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Fred E. Ellis 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Verne G. Breese 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Harry B. Dorst 
 
 COMPANY D 
 
 McPherson 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Hennessey, Clarence 
 A. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Drake, John C. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Canfield, Thomas N. 
 
 Marymee, James C. 
 
 Gillilan, John A. 
 Bailey, Lawrence S. 
 Hull, Wayne G. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Greenshaw, Otis O. 
 Bretches, Lloyd 
 Coblentz, Luther 
 Hagstrom, Granvil 
 
392 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Vague, Thomas R. 
 
 Gordon, Joseph A. 
 
 Larson, Willard E^. 
 
 Sayler, George J. 
 
 Koehn, Alex R. 
 
 Stauffer, IMarion W, 
 
 Ruggeri, Antonio 
 Cooks : 
 
 George, Charles A. 
 
 .Minns, Paul J. 
 
 Parks, Harvey L. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Hill, Lloyd L. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Dilley, Rufus F. 
 
 Malm, Andrew 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Caliway, Welborn 
 
 Clark, Arthur 
 
 Gronfur, Iver 
 
 Haga, George 
 
 Janke, Herbert 
 
 Roffman, Ray 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, Melvin W. 
 
 Anderson, Edwin A. 
 
 Ash, Guy H. 
 
 Basinger, Pesca L. 
 
 Bannan, Alvin K. 
 
 Banman, Daniel F. 
 
 Beranek, James M. 
 
 Blair, Bern B. 
 
 Blair, Arthur L. 
 
 Bowlby, Raleigh C. 
 
 Bretches, Dewey W. 
 
 Bias, Frank L. 
 
 Bishop, Lloyd A. 
 
 Bistline, George A. 
 
 Branton, Ralph L. 
 
 Case, Alex H. 
 
 Carrell, William W. 
 
 Chapin, Herbert M. 
 
 Clark, Francis M. 
 Clark, Donald S. 
 Carter, Clarence 
 Crouse, Harry R. 
 Cramer, Ward B. 
 Curtis, Chas. H. 
 Cade, Carl D. 
 Dossett, Ralph R. 
 Duby, Jesse C. 
 Dugan, Lon T. 
 Duhn, August W. 
 Dyck, Frank F. 
 Ek, Fmil 
 Filer, John A. 
 Finkle, Earl P. 
 Fisher, Harold B. 
 Fisher, Sidney P. 
 Eraser, Rosser C. 
 Frye, Clifford C. 
 Going, Verno E. 
 Grant, Hiram E. 
 Godown, Lester E. 
 Haynes, Ivan R. 
 Hayson, Fred G. 
 Harger, Walter B, 
 Harris, Verner G. 
 Hereford, Harold R. 
 Helgeson, Carl M. 
 Hook, Ernest D. 
 Hill, John G. 
 Ivey, Jack 
 Ishmael, Clifton 
 Jackson, Thomas W. 
 Johnsey, Eddie L. 
 Johnson, Elmer O. 
 Kelly, Stewart S. 
 Kelsey, Raymond G. 
 Kellett, William F. 
 Kutnink, Paul E. 
 Krehbiel, Edwin G. 
 Knowles, Elmer E. 
 Lathwell, Earl J. 
 
 Larson, Homer W. 
 Lloyd, Leon S. 
 Lloyd, Ivan L. 
 Lonberger, Frank M. 
 Lipe, Orville L. 
 Lipe, Loran 
 Luginbill, Arnold P. 
 Maguire, Lee R. 
 Magathan, Benjamin 
 Magathan, Lemuel E- 
 Maltby, George E. 
 Merritt, Frank W. 
 Messbarger, Uriel E. 
 Mulnix, Ben R. 
 McIMurrav, Fred L. 
 McPhail, Ross 
 McDougal, Earl M. 
 Nelson, Ernest A. 
 Nelson, Edward J. 
 Nell, John H. 
 Niggeman, William J. 
 O'Bryant, Chas. W. 
 O'Byrant, Archibald 
 
 M. 
 Overbey, Claude R. 
 Owen, Ray D. 
 Parr, Everet R. 
 Post, Floyd E. 
 Pollitt, Dallas D. 
 Pierce, Cecil A. 
 Rariden, Edgar L. 
 Ranstrom, Robert R. 
 Rehtz, Herman 
 Reid, Lester L. 
 Rutledge, Paul R. 
 Rutledge, Gayle N. 
 Sandifer, William J. 
 Santee, Harold P. 
 Serviss, George E. 
 Shaw, Joe R. 
 Siebert, Howard 
 Simpson, Paul M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William R. Fleeman 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Durward J. Wilson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Harvey R. Rankin 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Stewart, Donald P. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Houston, Rex C. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Cline, Frank B. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Mather, Clarence T. 
 
 White, Louis D. 
 
 Potter, Donald C 
 
 Wickendoll, Albert 
 
 COMPANY E 
 
 Hutchinson 
 
 Newton, Roy H. 
 Crippen, Dale L. 
 King, Fred W. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Davolt, Bert V. 
 Tucker. Morris J. 
 Ransay, Ivan G. 
 Beuttner, Harry G. 
 Brundige, Charles R. 
 Foster, Lester O. 
 Vaughn, Frank A. 
 Abbott, Seth J. 
 Edwards, Plobart 
 Short, Charley 
 Strobel, Howard E- 
 Woods, James H. 
 Ulmer, Joseph L. 
 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Gibbs, Leonard A. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Cox, Lloyd B. 
 
 Cam.pbell, James W. 
 
 Howe, Roy A. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Miller, Norman W. 
 
 Bergen, John K. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Edwin A. 
 
 Blackball, Malcolm R. 
 
 Brace, Clayton W. 
 
 Cheatum, Claude E. 
 
 Clark, Milo G. 
 
 Donnell, Kenneth B. 
 
 Frye, Emmett A. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 393 
 
 Hardwicke, John H. 
 Hobson, Floyd H. 
 Hodgson, Garrell D. 
 Houston, Thomas S. 
 Howe, Edgar K. 
 McCullum, Archie D. 
 McKee, Arden H. 
 Moeser, Frank P. 
 Patton, Joseph R. 
 Peck, Ralph F. 
 Richards, James B. 
 Smither, William F. 
 Tucker, Russell G. 
 Ulmer, Plarvey W. 
 Vogt, John 
 Waggerman, Hubert 
 
 h. 
 White, Albert E. 
 Whitehead, William J. 
 Zumwalt, Charles L,. 
 Privates : 
 
 Ackley, Henry W. 
 Altis, Charley C. 
 Anderson, George C. 
 Anderson, Pete C. 
 Anderson, Ralph M. 
 Barksdale, William 
 
 W. 
 Banres, Clarence C. 
 Battin, Alfred H. 
 Battin, William A. 
 Black, John A. 
 Bowen, Albert W. 
 Brown, Earl F. 
 Calbert, Lee M. 
 Canfield, William R. 
 Canfield, John H. 
 Carter, Norman A. 
 Coffelt, Terril C. 
 Cooper, Eldon L. 
 Danner, Ira O. 
 Davis, John S. 
 
 Devore, Nicholas L. 
 Foreman, Kay M. 
 Fowler, Orville D. 
 Fowler, William W. 
 Fritz, Joe H. 
 Fullerton, Robert W. 
 Fulling, Vergil H". 
 Goodrich, George W. 
 Gosen, Dick W. 
 Grosham, Floyd 
 Griffith, Bertie R. 
 Harrington, Joseph F. 
 Hart, Ralph R. 
 Hawkins, Roscoc O. 
 Hill, William F. 
 Plobbick, Howard R. 
 Howard, George 
 Ivey, Kellie M. 
 Kenoyer, Earl 
 Kenoyer, John E. 
 Koon, Fred C. 
 Eambertus, John W. 
 Lewis, William W. 
 Love, Joseph E. 
 Lyons, Everett M. 
 Malone, William L. 
 Martin, Hillary R. 
 Mawby, Felix M. 
 McCamant, Donald G. 
 McCollum, Claude V. 
 McColm, Arthur L. 
 McHone, William A. 
 T^.IcAIullen, Hubert li 
 Miller, Frank R. 
 Nelson, Ely 
 Parker, Kenneth R. 
 Pauls, Otto 
 Porter, Russell B. 
 Poulton, Gleason E- 
 Powell, Ernest F. 
 Price, Frank M. 
 
 Sanford, George R. 
 
 Schock, Ferrol E. 
 
 Scott, Chauncey H. 
 
 Scott, Clarence J. 
 
 Seaman, Charley L. 
 
 Shepherd, William P. 
 
 Staley, Charley E. 
 
 Stapleton, Raymond R 
 
 Stephenson, Fred L- 
 
 Stephenson, Leroy B. 
 
 Stewart, Grant 
 
 Stockton, Albert N. 
 
 Stone, Fred 
 
 Truitt, Albert H. 
 
 Truitt, Alfred L. 
 
 Watkins, Benjamin F. 
 
 Watts, Emerson A. 
 
 Whitehead, Charles 
 E. 
 
 Weigel, Fay M. 
 
 Williams. Claude 
 
 Wilson, Ottis C. 
 
 Wilson, William H. 
 
 Young, Harry L. 
 
 Yowell, Benjamin W. 
 
 Zumwalt, Andrew J. 
 Losses, 
 Discharged, 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Hall, Claude H. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Hobby, George H. 
 
 Hicks, Bert L. 
 
 Porter, Verner B. 
 
 Williams, Charles E- 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Weaver, James H. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Foster, Leon L. 
 
 Parmley, Ernest W. 
 Private, 
 
 Atkinson, Floyd W. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Clarence M. Smith 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Albert L. Thorn- 
 brough 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Carl E. Burgess 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Bell, Joseph N. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Bish, Frank 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 A'Neals, Albert 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Arnold, Manford F. 
 
 Barr, George S. 
 
 Stutzman, Robert 11. 
 
 COMPANY F 
 
 Larned 
 
 Edwards, Gilbert C. 
 
 Graham, Ira M. 
 
 Myrick, Edgar P. 
 
 Purdvie, Paul 
 Corporals : 
 
 Fisher, Henry O. 
 
 Moore, Millard 
 
 Avery, John K. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Rice, Harry 
 
 Ridge, Jim 
 
 Creaghead, Harry 
 Mechanic : 
 
 Wonsettler, Oscar 
 Buglers: 
 
 Croan, Ephraim 
 
 Ingels, Vernon E. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Artzberger, Harland 
 Armstrong, Willard 
 Bass, Lawrence 
 Blankenship, Bert M. 
 Deighton, George S. 
 Estes, Loy C. 
 Gregory, Miles H. 
 Hundley, Claud J. 
 Jenkins, Charles 
 Kirch, John H. 
 Litsey, Aden 
 Lockey, Paul 
 McAfee, Harrison 
 Michler, Don A. 
 Raymor, Grady F. 
 Rynerson, Russell 
 
394 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Shoup, Jesse R. 
 Sooby, Benjamin H. 
 Smith, Roger E. 
 Sherry, Thomas L. 
 Taylor, Brooks 
 Weeks, Wade R. 
 Privates : 
 
 Ackerman, Spencer C. 
 Anderson, Pro 
 Arnold, Archie L. 
 Allbritton, Jackson C. 
 Artzberger, Raymond 
 
 F. 
 Brooks, Royce 
 Barnett, Monroe 
 Bindley, Mark R. 
 Burson, Ralph A. 
 Biehn, Harrison H. 
 Barcus, Thomas O. 
 Blecha, Frank J . 
 Carrell, Carl 
 Chalmers, Ray W. 
 Chumbley, Arlice C. 
 Craghead, Walter 
 Couch, Earl E. 
 Campbell, John C. 
 Chears, Walter S. 
 Crean, Reuben H. 
 Croan, Howard U. 
 Dahl, Frank 
 Dupree, Roy L. 
 Edgar, Hubert 
 Evans, Thomas L. 
 Force, Ora M. 
 Flewelling, Ervin M. 
 Ferguson, Arthur L. 
 
 Gore, Louis R. 
 Griffith, Earl 
 Geer, Carl H. 
 Gibbs, James 
 Gibbs, Jesse 
 Gode, Edgar H. 
 Ginn, Floyd S. 
 Gibbons, Albert W. 
 Haff, Lawrence 
 Hawkins, Chester 
 Hager, Charles S. 
 Hoover, Carl 
 Hennessey, Myron W, 
 Haugh, George D. 
 Howard, Harold D. 
 Hoover, Arlie C. 
 Jarvis, Ralph 
 Johnson, Orvill 
 Jordan, Edmond 
 Jordan, Ivel J, 
 Johnson, Albert C. 
 Keberlein, George J. 
 McBride, Frank T. 
 Meyers, Harold J. 
 Morris, Glenn W. 
 Milton, Grant 
 Milton, Harvey E. 
 Milton, Elisha P. 
 McVey, Jake H. 
 Miller, Clyde H. 
 Michler, Frank L. 
 Murty, Lane 
 Nairn, Guy W. 
 O'Hanlin, Clyde S. 
 Oatrand, Otto C. 
 Ormord, Marshall S. 
 Pittinger, Perceival 
 
 Preston, Orville 
 Post, Walter E. 
 Peck, CliflFord H. 
 Parry, Rauland S. 
 Pauley, Orville 
 Parker, Reese H. 
 Parks, Arthur H. 
 Quinn, Patrick 
 Russell, Harry F. 
 Reynolds, Colman 
 Raney, Carl 
 Reynolds, Jack 
 RatcliflF, Egbert R. 
 Richardson, John A. 
 Simmons, Charles E. 
 Simmons, Harold R. 
 Smart, Harry W. 
 Sutton, Walter B. 
 Scott, Arthur 
 Shepherd, Ralph E. 
 Sterling, Earl 
 Sterling, Daniel L. 
 Teliver, Emit R. 
 Thomas, Alfred H. 
 Thompson, Edward T. 
 Turner, Henry I. 
 Turner, Sampson A. 
 Watts, Earl N. 
 Webb, James M. 
 Walker, Albert A. 
 Wilder, Thomas E. 
 Welch, Fred L. 
 Whitehurst, Harry V. 
 Whitt, Clifton A. 
 White, Walter A. 
 Williams, Floyd E. 
 Wheeler, Frank C. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Leslie E. Harvey 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Jesse E. George 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Ernest S. Harvey 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Lorenz, Ira V. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Gooch, John C. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Lockhart, George A. 
 
 Widmoyer, Fred B. 
 
 Johnson, Thomas F. 
 
 Murphy, Robert C. 
 
 Jackson, Sherman N. 
 
 Hart, Verne C. 
 
 Spivcy, Ora M. 
 
 Purton, John L. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Cowell, George S. 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 Minneapolis 
 
 Popham, Harry A. 
 
 Spivey, Henry L. 
 
 Ballance, Carl A. 
 
 Hally, Maurice J. 
 
 Stanford, Samuel T. 
 
 Cowger, Irvin L. 
 
 Boner, Boyd H, 
 
 Davis, Roland E. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Berry, Ray W. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Dotson, Charles R. 
 
 Shaw, George 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Trout, Elmer J. 
 
 Muller, Victor W. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bennett, Freedoir 
 
 Cross, Elsworth A. 
 
 Davis, Thomas C. 
 
 Ferguson, Guy W. 
 
 Pilcher, Robert E. 
 Smith, Henry H. 
 Stout, Clarence M. 
 Twombly, Roy 
 Privates: 
 
 Armstrong, Lee A. 
 Baker, Homer A. 
 Baker, George M. 
 Barrett, John F. 
 Baumgartner, David P 
 Beach, Paul C. 
 Beck, Arthur A. 
 Becker, James R. 
 Bending, Foster D. 
 Bilsland, Joseph L. 
 Bishop, Elson J. 
 Boyle, John H. 
 Boyle, Charles M, 
 Butt, Chester J. 
 Butterworth, William 
 M. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 395 
 
 Carpenter, Thomas P. 
 Caughey, William M. 
 Coleman, George J. 
 Coleman, Thurston 
 Collins, Jake J. 
 Collister, William H. 
 Conde, Arthur L. 
 Cross, Alonzo F. 
 Cross, Harry 
 Conde, Lee E. 
 Davies, George T. 
 Delcamp, Boyd Ei. 
 Dewey, Bert 
 Domino, Fred F. 
 Dorman, Bernie F. 
 Dunham, Albert G. 
 Dunlap, Robert J. 
 Dykes, Clay W. 
 Fdwards, Harry S. 
 Fndicott, Clarence 
 Felton, John B. 
 Ferguson, Fugene R. 
 Fletcher, Merton 
 Flakes, James F. 
 Gooch, Leslie L. 
 Guise, Raymond C. 
 Hall, Henry T. 
 Harmon, John F. 
 Harmon, Ralph F- 
 Hartley, Roy 
 Haren, Walter B. 
 Heaton, Harry G. 
 Heberly, Otis J. 
 Hewes, William H. 
 Hostetler, Carl O. 
 
 Hudsonpillar, Clar- 
 ence 
 
 Kephart, Lloyd R. 
 
 Kifer, Russell S. 
 
 Kuhnle, Fred W. Jr. 
 
 Laymon, Ralph F. 
 
 Lewis, Frwin H. 
 
 Lott, Neely 
 
 Maholland, Ralph F- 
 
 Marvin, Paul 
 
 Matthews, Farl C. 
 
 McCollough, Frank R. 
 
 McGaugh, Lyle B. 
 
 McGavran, Boyd B. 
 
 McKee, Chester G. 
 
 Melcher, Henry J. 
 
 Miller, Jesse Z. 
 
 Minner, Dow J. 
 
 Moss, Charles A. 
 
 Muller, Ira F. 
 
 Murdick, Reed W. 
 
 Murdock, Mearl R. 
 
 Murphy, Flyde M. 
 
 Myrick, Fugene B. 
 
 Nelson, John H. 
 
 Newell, Flmer F. 
 
 Parsons, John H, 
 
 Perkins, Doan F. 
 
 Pilcher, Arthur C. 
 
 Pilcher, Clifford L. 
 
 Popliam, Glenn A. 
 
 Postlethwaite, Glenn 
 D. 
 
 Potter, Forrest J. 
 
 Press, Floyd S. 
 
 Richards, Guy O. 
 
 Rodgers, Charles M. 
 
 Rogers, Lloyd V, 
 
 Rose, Wallace 
 
 Ruby, Chauncy F- 
 
 Sampson, Rexford B. 
 
 Sargent, John 
 
 Shreve, Carl R. 
 
 Shrouf, Lester B, 
 
 Siegrist, Carl J. 
 
 Smith, Hugh R. 
 
 Snavely, Irvin N. 
 
 Sommers, Ora C. 
 
 Standau, WiUiam H. 
 
 Starkey, Jesse G. 
 
 Strait, Charles 
 
 Sweeny, Joseph 
 
 Swoyer, Henry A. 
 
 Swoyer, John R. 
 
 Teasley, Farl 
 
 Thompson, Farl D. 
 
 Townsend, Fsley 
 
 Truitt, Verne F. 
 
 Treadwell, Lee J. 
 
 Vaughn, Fred G. 
 
 Walden, Clarence B. 
 
 Walden, Roy L. 
 
 Ward, Frank R. 
 
 Webster, Calvin S. 
 
 Whipp, Russell B. 
 
 Wickham, Clyde S. 
 
 Woodman, Alvin H. 
 
 Woods, Milton A. 
 Losses, 
 Discharged, 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Stout, Ray 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Fred H. Vaughn 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William L. Brown 
 2d Lieutenant 
 
 Marshall W. Fulghum 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Crawford, George F. 
 Supply Sergt. 
 
 Robinson, Ivan R. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Beck, Fugene H. 
 
 Hodges, Will H. 
 
 Pierpont, Raymond 
 
 Rutledge, Cecil L. 
 
 Wallack, Walter M. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Patterson, Robert S. 
 
 Tharp, Lewis M. 
 
 Constant, Wallace 
 
 Stolp, Joy A. 
 
 Schantz, Herbert S. 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 WlNFIELD 
 
 Barker, FHis T. 
 
 Jenkins, Fred T. 
 
 Kendall, Wayne 
 
 Garrett, James S. 
 
 Fndicott, Ralph 
 
 Cunningham, Charles 
 W. 
 
 Wylie, Ernest J. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Cook, Israel U. 
 
 Isongale, Darrell D. 
 
 Isongale, Cecil H. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Kinkaid, Fmmot C. 
 
 Holt, Joseoh E. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Armstrong, Edward H. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Barber, Lawrence L. 
 
 Busby, Dean R. 
 
 Dobbs, James V. 
 
 Dow, William H. 
 
 Owens, Cecil P. 
 
 Robinson, Earl H. 
 Schifferdecker, George 
 
 W. 
 Seaman, Homer G. 
 Tolles, Henry W, 
 Privates : 
 
 Abel. Henry G. 
 Allman, George V. 
 Anderson, James M. 
 Arnold, Edward R. 
 Ault, Farl C. 
 Baker, Harold A. 
 Baker, Noble H. 
 Baldwin, Charles W. 
 Barringer, Oliver P. 
 Bauer, Merle H. 
 Bell, Carl H. 
 Blakey, Victor V. 
 Bourdette, Robert C. 
 Bratcher, Ivel L. 
 Burbsm, Fay F. 
 Buss, Lloyd F. 
 Carpenter, Lynn F. 
 
396 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Chattam, Carl C. 
 
 Clark, Lewis A. 
 
 Collins, Joseph H. 
 
 Conley, Floyd A. 
 
 Cornelison, Harvey R. 
 
 Cornelison, Herbert 
 A. 
 
 Crisswell, John T. 
 
 Crooks, Cecil E. 
 
 Dillman, Jake S. 
 
 Dunagan, John O. 
 
 Kastin, Harvio 
 
 Eiche, Frederick G. 
 
 Faught, Lawrence 
 
 Ferguson, Sidney F. 
 
 Files, Lennis T. 
 
 Fitch, Rupert O. 
 
 Fleming, Thomas H. 
 
 Foley, Mike H. 
 
 Gardner, Chester W. 
 
 Geoslin, Doris R. 
 
 Gilford, Lon 
 Gordon, Dewey O. 
 Gresham, Henry H. 
 Griffith, Glenn 
 Hall, John H. 
 Hartley, James A. 
 Henry, Garfield R. 
 Heatwood, Albert F. 
 Hetherington, Marion 
 
 L. 
 High, Clarence E. 
 Himes, Charles E. 
 Hughes, William R. 
 Ingalsbe, Lawson S. 
 
 Jacobs, John C. 
 JacoDs, Marvin 
 Johnson, Irl 
 Raster, Reuben F. 
 Raster, Sleamon H, 
 Kinsey, Albert 
 Lawrence, William K. 
 Lorton, Hugh C. 
 Manhannah, Harry M. 
 Martin, William L. 
 May, Jesse E. 
 McCoy, Ernest O. 
 McCreary, Lou 
 McCreary, Walter 
 McVeil, Emery W. 
 Miller, Harold L. 
 Myers, Max E. 
 Nicely, John W. 
 Narris, Leonard H. 
 Osborn, Bert C. 
 Page, James H. 
 Pinard, Eddie J. 
 Pinion, William N. 
 Powers, Oran E. 
 Powers, William H. 
 Prattsman, George E. 
 Rader, Otis M. 
 Randall, Eni;I A. 
 Roberts, Cecil L. 
 Robinson, Earl A. 
 Rodman, John M. 
 Ronsick, Doll D. 
 Roseberry. Howard G. 
 Rude, Robert L. 
 Sanburn, Fred 
 
 Sawyer, Lacey W. 
 
 Schlotthauer, Jacob 
 
 Sherwood, Hober C. 
 
 Sieck, Bon A. 
 
 Smith, Allen E. 
 
 Smith, Paul S. 
 
 Snyder, Dean F. 
 
 vStocking, William E. 
 
 Switser, Charles T. 
 
 Thompson, Merville 
 C. 
 
 Thorpe, Elmer R. 
 
 Tully, James B. 
 
 Underwood, Virgil T. 
 
 Vaughn, William A. 
 
 Wallace, Leow H. 
 
 Walton, Carrie E. 
 
 Ward, Max W. 
 
 Watkins. Herbert A. 
 
 Wells, Thomas 
 
 White, Llewellyn B. 
 
 Whitt, Jesse E. 
 
 Wimpey, Eugene F. 
 
 Wortman, Harold S. 
 
 Yarbrough, Glenn G. 
 
 Young, Daniel 
 
 Young, George W. 
 
 Young, Roy D. 
 Losses: 
 
 Discharged 
 Privates: 
 
 Collins, Emanuel N, 
 
 Dobbs, Glenn W. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Adam, Murel E. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Earl A. House 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Allender Swift 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Pearl C. Ricord 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Cerf, Charles 
 Sergeants, 
 
 Van' Y, Earl E. 
 
 Rasnic, Clyde J. 
 
 Jones, Donald P. 
 
 Ellis, James R. 
 
 Courrie, Paul E. 
 
 Graham, George W. 
 
 Hampton, Augustus 
 A. 
 
 Brownlee, James S. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Gilmore, Morris C. 
 
 Joy, Will J. 
 
 Covell, Tom G. 
 
 Dwyer, Daniel M. 
 
 Atterbury, Joseph H. 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 Wichita 
 
 Almond, Roger P. 
 
 Fuller, Robert P. 
 
 Smith, Charles J. 
 
 Key, Shirley D. 
 
 Kiersey, Chester A. 
 Cook. 
 
 Nichols, Alvin W. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Avery, Earl P. 
 
 Covell, Chester W. 
 
 Lyon, Harold J. 
 
 Taylor, Arthur S. 
 
 VanWagoner, Geo. 
 W. 
 
 Wertz, Percy J. 
 Privates: 
 
 Adkerson, Jakie 
 
 Allen, Guy F. 
 
 Anderson, Fred M. 
 
 Arnold, John H. 
 
 Auker, Burley B. 
 
 Barton, Horace C. 
 
 Barkhurst, Earl J. 
 
 Belford, Karl 
 
 Bentley, Anzel E. 
 Blafichard, Merlin P, 
 Boyd, Harrison L. 
 Bridwell, Walter C. 
 Brown, Carroll P. 
 Brown, Milo C. 
 Bundy, James I. 
 Clark, Henry E. 
 Clark, Thomas F. 
 Clegg, Fines N. 
 Colville, John A. 
 Colville, William B. 
 Cunningham, William 
 
 \V. 
 Cusick, Eugene 
 Dehner, Albert B. 
 Dennis, George A. 
 DeVore, Albert A. 
 DeVore, Elmer B. 
 Doll, Claude B. 
 Dorie, William F. 
 Eastin, Jess A. 
 Elliott, James V. 
 Fay, Frank S. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 397 
 
 Frazee, Harry W. 
 Gaines, Henry P. 
 Gard, Edward E). 
 Gillham, Phillip G. 
 Glover, Clyde W. 
 Graham, Edward 
 Greenwood, Harold W. 
 Greenwood, Lloyd D. 
 Grover, Carl H. 
 Haddox, McHenry B. 
 Hamrich, Guy 
 Harris, William B. 
 Harrison, Everett S. 
 Harvell, John M. 
 Holms, Lewis E. 
 Helvey, Charles W. 
 Herrick, Harry F. 
 Hess, Loyd S. 
 Hormel, Lee J. 
 Hudson, Thomas C. 
 Jennings, Austin P. 
 Jones, Ben E. 
 Junod, Louis J. 
 Jones, Charles M. 
 Kaplan, Harry 
 Kennedy, Milton J. 
 Koons, James F. 
 Kruse, Otto P. 
 McCarroll, John C. 
 McCoy, Leo E. 
 
 McCullough, Frank H, 
 McMillen, Carl B. 
 McPeek, Lester R. 
 Maher, Richard D. 
 Melick, Allan H, 
 Messer, Charles L. 
 Minter, Chas. O. M. 
 Mitchell, Samuel R. 
 Morris, Leo E. 
 Passell, John B. 
 Payton, Jess 
 Perryman, Floyd E. 
 Petticord, Harold H. 
 Pickrell, Todd R. 
 Prohart, Lawrence 
 Prothero, Joe H. 
 Purinton, Wallace L. 
 Quirk, Leo 
 Ratcliflf, Carter E. 
 Reeside, Delbert C. 
 Reynolds, Ernest R. 
 Roberts, Earl M, 
 Rodwell, Joe A. 
 Rowsy, Walter W. 
 Sauer, Grant L. 
 Schafer, August 
 Scales, Charles L. 
 Seamans, Fred E. 
 Shank, Harvey L. 
 Shilling, Rudolph D. 
 
 Simms, Thomas M. 
 Shinliver, Vinton C. 
 Sloan, William E. 
 Smith, Fred A. 
 Smith, Harold I. 
 Stice, William 
 Stoll, Frank M. 
 Taylor, Edward J. 
 Teter, Earl F. 
 Theroulde, Alfred O. 
 Titus, Joseph 
 Todd, Charles T. 
 Trego, Claude E. 
 Tyson, Logan R. 
 Twyman, Fred J. 
 Walterschield, Henry 
 
 W. 
 Walton, Paul D. 
 Whiting, Fred H. 
 Whitton, Fred W. 
 Wiley, Thomas L. 
 Wilson, Albert 
 Wine, Arthur G. 
 Wood, Elbert R. 
 Wood, Harry G. 
 Wood, Walter B. 
 Woodward, John J. 
 Yaple, Claude N. 
 Yeager, Clarence P. 
 Young, Henry W. 
 Whipple, Tracey 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Renelda T. Fry 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Rex S. Gilmore 
 2d li'-utenant, 
 
 Harry M. Ball 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Dabney, Earl A. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Dunbar, Lowell 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Campbell, Joseph 
 Sergeants: 
 
 McClelland, James 
 
 McKay, Donald 
 
 McBride, Roy 
 
 Backus, Lon 
 
 O'Brian, Ira 
 
 Church, Roy B. 
 
 Miller, William H. 
 
 Becker, Leod D. 
 Corporals: 
 
 McGinley, Victor D. 
 
 Child, Charles 
 
 Hertwick, John P. 
 
 Bateman, James D. 
 
 Walters, William 
 
 Howard, Floyd T. 
 
 COMPANY K 
 
 Independence 
 
 Dabney, Charles J. 
 
 Brighton, Harold 
 
 Synder, Clarence 
 
 Cripps, Warren A. 
 
 Nichols, Byron D. 
 
 Engel, William 
 
 Hunter, Donald 
 
 Smith, E. Erwin 
 
 Mather, David E. 
 
 Bailer, Earl 
 
 Sewell, Harry 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Elliott, Thomas B. 
 
 Orton, Carl 
 Cooks : 
 
 Haines, Charles 
 
 McClary, James M. 
 
 Currey, Claud C. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Herron, Connie R. 
 
 Smith, Alva 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Adam, Chester H. 
 
 Bump, Ronald A. 
 
 Boice, Harold 
 
 Bramer, Harry A. 
 
 Carter, Clarence D. 
 
 Chandler, Charles A. 
 
 Damon, Samuel T. 
 Daugherty, Tom 
 Garcia, Joseph 
 Hase, Eugene E. 
 Hughes, Arthur E. 
 Hughes, Harry E. 
 Hertwick, Charlea I. 
 Jacoby, James F. 
 Johnson, Shelby 
 Lang, Albert H. 
 Lohner, Joseph H. 
 Mallonee, Leo R. 
 Otterstotter, Jos. 
 Spayd, John R. 
 Staloup, Kenneth H. 
 Terry, Floid 
 Tucker, James E. 
 Truax, Alva G. 
 Woodman, James H. 
 Walters, Mark 
 Wakers, Clyde L. 
 Williams, Arnold D. 
 Privates : 
 
 Andrews, Harold R. 
 Arnold, Joe 
 Atkinson, Calvin O. 
 Boyle, David A. 
 Babb, Verlin 
 
398 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Blain, Howard W. 
 Brasier, Frank 
 Bircher, Gentry 
 Bodine, George O. 
 Biggs, James W. 
 Brock, Chas. B. 
 Brown, Horace C, 
 Bean, Roy L. 
 Crimmel, Henry W. 
 Cecil, Neil M, 
 Crowe, Robert L. 
 Coy, Clarence E. 
 Carter, Harold 
 Cook, Harry D. 
 Chauteau, Fred D. 
 Chapman, Lendal D. 
 Canney, Chas. F. 
 Debo, Jerry 
 Fppley, Glen O. 
 Fckley, Bennie 
 Fvans, Charles H. 
 Fstes, Charles F- 
 Foster, Raymond 
 Gurtney, Andrew J. 
 Gallup, Otis O. 
 Guarnee, John H. 
 Garner, Lonie 
 
 Graves, Peter 
 Guard, Harry 
 Geren, Charley 
 Goodson, Agle B. 
 Hutchins, Howard L. 
 Helton, Claude L. 
 Harlow, Albert M. 
 Higson, Fred 
 Hicks, Clyde 
 Jones, Walter W. 
 Jones, Lester 
 Johnson, Joseph F. 
 Johnson, James F. 
 Kennedy, Fred 
 Kerr, Clarence C. 
 Krone, Jay 
 Kinslow, William 
 Latta, Ralph H. 
 Lewis, Ferell J. 
 McGuire, Will S. 
 Meskee, George G. 
 Murray, Fwing S. 
 Murphey, Loy L. 
 McLaughhn, George 
 Morgan, Alford F. 
 Mudge, Carl F. 
 
 Newton, Frank C. 
 O'Keefe, Thomas 
 Owen, James F. 
 Osburn, Curtis 
 Philipe, Al 
 Philo, Chester 
 Pyle, George 
 Peneazok, John 
 Rhodes, Walter A, 
 Reeves, James 
 Rusher, Loy L. 
 Ringle, Foster G. 
 Smith, Leonard F. 
 Slater, Roy W. 
 Shadday, Charles 
 Stone, Rolla A. 
 Thrapp, Roy 
 Thiess, William L. 
 Vance, Herbert 
 Warner, Robert M. 
 Woolam, Farl 
 Wilson, Walter L- 
 Weber, William N. 
 Wilson, Lee F. 
 Wassam, Paul B. 
 Whitten, Samuel H. 
 Warner, Alford A. 
 
 COMPANY L 
 Emporia 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Clayton J. Patterson 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Arthur J. Fricsson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Homer U. Laird 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Schwartz, Walter A. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Burt, Charles W. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Hartenbower, Grover 
 C. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Trusler, Victor T. 
 
 Meairs, Rufus C. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Steckel, William 
 
 Sheridan, Phillip 
 
 Anderson, John M. 
 
 Christensen, Oscar C. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Kappelmann, Otto T. 
 
 Waite, Frwin R. 
 
 Swarner, Frank 
 Bugler, 
 
 Mosley, Ira 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Brier. Arthur E. 
 
 Briley, Carl P. 
 
 Dewey, Lynn M. 
 
 DeWitt, Harold 
 Fry, Andrew F. 
 Green, Churchill 
 Portwood, Bruce T. 
 Son, Flmer 
 Wagley, Harold K. 
 Privates: 
 
 Ainsworth, Walter 
 Anderson, Clare J. 
 Andrews, Walter PI. 
 Austin, Glenn R. 
 Bass, Howard W. 
 Beard, Owen 
 Bell, Russell L- 
 Blackwood, Merle A. 
 Blackwood, Virgil H. 
 Bond, Morritt 
 Boyle, Walter J. 
 Brandner, Fred A. 
 Brown, Harry M. 
 Brown, William R. 
 Campbell, Guy B. 
 Casstevens, Farl 
 Christensens, Farl 
 Colburn, Willard C. 
 Cottrill, Floyd B. 
 Cozine, Frank K. 
 Crabtree, Jake L. 
 Grain, George R. 
 Crist, Frank 
 Crites, Jesse C. 
 
 Crotts, Glenn F. 
 
 Dietz, William F. 
 
 Dainey, William J. 
 
 Donaldson, Arthur W. 
 
 Downey, John L. 
 
 Dunham, Myron 
 Francis 
 
 Drury, Floyd 
 
 Edwards, Hugh F. 
 
 Filinger, Charles J. 
 
 Foster, Jay 
 
 Foster, Silas F. 
 
 French, John W. 
 
 Gadbery, Arthur R. 
 
 Giddings, Chester C. 
 
 Gifford, Harley W. 
 
 Gillispie, Arthur G. 
 
 Glaze, Theodore 
 
 Grimwood, Thomas J. 
 
 Gress, Louis H. 
 
 Hampton, Henry M. 
 
 Hassinger, Geo. V. 
 
 Hassinger, S. Farl 
 
 Haworth, Fred J. 
 
 Hobbs, Gerald Gor- 
 don 
 
 Horn, Edgar F. 
 
 Hosley, Chas. R. 
 
 Houghton, Ray 
 
 Hughes, Marion H. 
 
 Hunt, Chas. W. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 3D9 
 
 Ireland, Chas. E. 
 
 Johnson, Russell W. 
 
 Jones, Linn P. 
 
 Kendall, Chas. E). 
 
 Kesler, Chas. E. 
 
 Kimble, Herman 
 
 Knowles, Edward 
 
 Layton, Elmer J. 
 
 Lockwood, Lawrence 
 E. 
 
 Logan, J. Austin 
 
 Lowther, Eugene T. 
 
 Lynn, Francis 
 
 McCracken, Jesse E. 
 
 Madison, Clarence J. 
 
 Madison, Roy L. 
 
 Madison, Stanley C. 
 
 Mastin, Owen P. 
 
 Meyer, Clarence L. 
 
 Meyer, Elmer 
 
 Minner, Ernest C. 
 
 Monroe, Jesse Rod- 
 ney 
 
 Morris, Clifford 
 
 Myers, Harry A. 
 
 Nelson, Richard R. 
 
 Noakes, Chas, C. 
 Norris, Oren N. 
 Oakley, Lester C. 
 Olberding, Louie A. 
 Pennington, Thomas 
 
 Petty, John W. 
 Pierson, Lea R. 
 Posvar, Edmund 
 Potter, David B. 
 Prescott, Russell M. 
 Purdy, Leslie L- 
 Randall, Lewis W. 
 Rapp, Alfred L. 
 Resser, Joseph R. 
 Ridgway, Merle 
 Riegle, Roy Wilfcrd 
 Riggs, Clarence E. 
 Rinard, Bernard I. 
 Roberts, Richard 
 Rohman, William C. 
 Rumford, Elbert A. 
 Runnels, Vernon 
 Ryman, Ben F. 
 Schaible, Harold M. 
 Schoeck, C. Leonard 
 Schoeck, Harry A. 
 
 Sellers, Leslie R. 
 
 Shaft, Elvis C. 
 
 Sidener, Marion M. 
 
 Simpson, Chester C. 
 
 Simpson, Otto E. 
 
 Smith, James M. 
 
 Smith, Joyce D. 
 
 Solander, Howard D. 
 
 Spangler, Joseph E. 
 
 Spivey, William L. 
 
 Stackley, Christie 
 
 Stevenson, Charles E. 
 
 Stites, O. Russel 
 
 Strom, Leonard O. 
 
 Wahl, Chas. J. 
 
 Williamson, Randolph 
 
 Wilson, James A. 
 
 Wisler, Chas. S. 
 
 Wood, Wayne 
 
 Zieber, Warren 
 Loss: 
 
 Discharged : 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Richards, John S, 
 Private 1st Class, 
 
 Cain, Louis A. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Roy W. Perkins 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Ward P. Holly 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Willard J. Shipe 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Richardson, Andrew J. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Biggart, William W. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Wagstaff, Fred M. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Lill, Cycril L. 
 
 Showman, Samuel E. 
 
 Dick, Harlow G. 
 
 Lindblom, Ralph A. 
 
 Morriman, Lewis 
 
 Brill, Daniel P. 
 
 Thompson, Eugene 
 W. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Anderson, Carl 
 
 Doran, William 
 
 Young, Charlie 
 
 Carroll, William 
 
 Carruthers, Roy 
 
 Mencher, John 
 
 Pitts, VolHe W. 
 
 Donaldson, Joe F. 
 
 Moran, Fred 
 
 Barnett, Earl B. 
 
 COMPANY M 
 
 Salina 
 
 Peterson, James C. 
 
 Metzger, Fred 
 
 Lightfoot, Ernest 
 
 Crosby, Amos 
 
 Smith, Sam B. 
 
 Price, Irvin M. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Shephard, Luda E. 
 
 Smith, Van B. 
 
 Walden, Allen C. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Adams, Clarence E. 
 
 Barnett, Sam 
 
 Bell, Rowan J. 
 
 Bennett, Merrill W. 
 
 Brassfield, William P. 
 
 Cannon, Paul A. 
 
 Carson, Hobart R. 
 
 Chambers, John L. 
 
 Draher, Leland C. 
 
 Flinn, Edwin G. 
 
 Freeman, Claude 
 
 Gentry, Vincent W. 
 
 Hilligoss, Claude 
 
 Kohr, Roscoe E. 
 
 Lindholm, Enfred G. 
 
 Maloney, Jack E. 
 
 McDowell, James C. 
 
 Murphey, Charley A. 
 
 Markham, Harry R. 
 
 Pratt, Glenn A. 
 
 Snyder, James 
 
 Smith, Edgar L. 
 Smith, Chas. O. 
 Spence, Fred L. 
 Taylor, Frank O. 
 Watson, Mark L. 
 West, Hedford S. 
 Privates : 
 
 Akins, Malcolm 
 Alley, Lawrence J. 
 Alexander, Frederick 
 
 N. 
 Anderson, William 
 Atkinson, Clarence 
 Bartels. Alfred B. 
 Benedict, Willard H. 
 Bolby, Claude E. 
 Bolby, James 
 Bolby, Maurice A. 
 Borst, Frank C. 
 Boyles, Arthur L. 
 Brimlow, Geo. F. 
 Butler, Eugene G. 
 Davis, Lawrence E. 
 Davis, Lee 
 Ditto, Dorsa J. 
 Durant, Pearl Russell 
 Etheridge, John A. 
 Fry, Leonard M. 
 Fuller, Will J. 
 Fuller, William H. 
 Garrison, Roy L. 
 Gottberg, John Fred 
 
400 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Graham, I^ugene S. 
 Griggs, John S. 
 Haley, Marvin 
 Hed, Clarence A. 
 Hickman, Fred H. 
 Hite, Hickman 
 Hopkins, William M. 
 Ilulbert, Karl O. 
 Hurst, John H. C. 
 Hutton, Asa A. 
 Ingram, Lloyd E. 
 Israel, John R. 
 Johnson, Webster L. 
 Knox, Andrew R. 
 Kreuger, Richard A. 
 Larkins, James A. 
 Lewis, Frederick P. 
 Lindsay, John C, 
 Livingston, Edward 
 
 Malone, Walter C. 
 Manning, Lauren T. 
 Maxwell, Walter L. 
 Metcalf, Ival A. 
 Miller, Doster 
 Miller, Harry R. 
 
 Miller, Hugh J. 
 Moody, James 
 Musser, Joe D. 
 Nichols, Chester H. 
 Oberg, John E. 
 O'Malley, Ed. D. 
 Ordway, Guy O. 
 Orr, Wilbert E. 
 Parkinson, Thomas G. 
 Patterson, Richard L. 
 Peake, William 
 
 McKinley 
 Pendergrass, Ernest 
 
 L. 
 
 Putsch, Roy 
 Reardon, Daniel P. 
 Reardon, Frederick 
 
 M. 
 Read, Edison 
 Rose, Leroy A. 
 Roseman, Aaron H. 
 Roseman, Clair J. 
 Rider, Bert A. 
 Sanborn, Seth H. 
 Schumaker, Ernest 
 Seavey, August G. 
 
 Seavey, Park N. 
 Sommers, Clayton S. 
 Sparks, Albert A, 
 Spencer. Herbert 
 Stahl, Emmett J. 
 Stanfield, Paul A. 
 Stauffer, WaUer D. 
 Stigall, Charley H. 
 Storer, Evert A. 
 Sutcliffe, Geo. A. M, 
 Todd, John E. 
 
 Toner, Leonard L. 
 
 Vanatta, Milford P. 
 
 Vaughn, Clyde J. 
 
 Weaver, Vernon 
 
 Whaley, William E. 
 
 Whiteford, Guy L. 
 
 Wilson, Clyde 
 
 Wilson, Robert S. 
 
 Wilkers, Raymond 
 
 Miner, George D. 
 Attached : 
 
 Jones, Lester V. 
 
 Tart, Gerald A. 
 
 Newcomb, Wayne C. 
 
 SANITAEY DETACHMENT 
 
 Major, 
 
 Charles S. Evans 
 Captain, 
 
 Charles M. Seiver, 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 Charles C. Hawke 
 Walter H. Kirkpatrick 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Gregg, Harry S. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Freark, Joyce 
 Glahn, Harry 
 Wilson, Glen 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Browning, Claude 
 Browning, Frank 
 Davis, Warren 
 Dicker, Ralph W. 
 Dressier, Elmer L- 
 Evans, Roger 
 Glahn, Eugene 
 Hale, George 
 Miller, William L. 
 Palmateer, Walter 
 Pine, Ralph E. 
 Watkins, LeRoy 
 Willis, George H. 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Draper, William 
 
 Dunn, William 
 Evans, Paul 
 Kirchofif, Arthur L. 
 McDonald, Andrew 
 ISIcKee, Gordon E. 
 McKittrick, Edward 
 Mifflin, Dee 
 Moore, Howard 
 Ramsey, Clay 
 Slaughter, Robert 
 Smith, Harry R. 
 Starrett, Joe 
 Stevens, Walter J. 
 Trackwell, Jesse 
 Uhrlaub, Ernst A. 
 
 DETACHMENT UNASSIGNED, RECRUITS SECTION 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Hall, Levi M. 
 Halley, James W. 
 Hammer, Richard S. 
 Hoffman, William M. 
 Brady, John J. 
 Burdick, Chester 
 Irvin, Robert E. 
 Jennings, James M. 
 
 Sand, Roy E. 
 Skiles, Charles E. 
 Tedder, Bryan E. 
 Turton, Humphrey 
 
 H. 
 Vermillion, Louis E. 
 Warner, Aquilla R. 
 West, Hershal R. 
 
 Wilson, James 
 Wilcox, Paul J. 
 Woolley, Harry "SI. 
 Winton, Geo. L. 
 Davison, Ernest D. 
 Eals, Philip S. 
 Jacobs, Henry W. 
 Patton, Renwick M. 
 Taylor, Howard E. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 401 
 
 THIRD REGIMENT, KANSAS INFANTRY 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 1st Lieut, and Bn. Adj. 
 Paul C. Botkin 
 
 Colonel, Major, 
 
 Willie McD. Rowan, Albert H. Krause 
 
 T- . Commanding Major, 1st Lieut, and Bn. Adj. 
 
 Alex^A Shar"^ Thomas R. Campbell Hugh B. Dudley 
 
 Major, ' 1st Lieut, and Chaplain, 1st Lieut, and Bn. Adj. 
 
 Baxter D. McClain Myron S. Collins John B. Sharp 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John J. Haskell 
 Regimental Sgt. Major, 
 
 Cahill, Frank P. 
 Bn. Sgt. Maj.: 
 
 Brier, Jarnes M., Jr. 
 
 Roberts, Frank M. 
 
 Pitts, Albert Dudley 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Morse, Theodore 
 Mess Sgt., 
 
 Quackenbush, Der- 
 wood F. 
 Band Sgt., 
 
 Crouch, Alfred D. 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Parry, Frank H. 
 Privates : 
 
 Abell, Robert F. 
 
 Adams, Henry W. 
 
 Ball, Charles O. 
 
 Bannon, Howard W. 
 
 Black, Roy W. 
 Bowen, Leroy F. C. 
 Brooks, Devon F. 
 Bruner, James 
 Cambern, Leon J. 
 Carter, Alfred F. 
 Crashaw, William L- 
 Drum, Robert A. 
 Dutton, Lane A. 
 Dubreuil, Joseph F. 
 Fwan, Philip T. 
 Fleming, David Wal- 
 ter 
 Fleming, James R. 
 Foshay, Garret A. 
 Fowler, Leroy J. 
 Gaston, Dewey G. 
 Greenman, Lloyd B. 
 Greenlee, Samuel Rae 
 Haage, William R. 
 Hanstine, Paul PI. 
 Hart, Donald R. 
 Hartley, Minor Joe 
 Henderson, William R. 
 
 IlifT, Theodore L. 
 King, Frnest F. 
 Knopf, Roby ]. 
 Neville, Fred" 
 Nininger, Ora F. 
 McCarter, Arthur 
 Miles, Marion 
 Miller, Karl D. 
 Morris, Harold G. 
 Mitchell, Ralph F. 
 Quiett, William F. 
 Royer, Harold J. 
 Smith, Chas. J. 
 Stitt, Farl D. 
 Stitt, Orby J. 
 Stockings, Clyde L- 
 Towles, Roy S. 
 True, Larkin M. 
 Vernon, Leo R. 
 Wagner, Francis F. 
 Wheeler, Paul R. 
 Wolfe, Fugene 
 Zimmerman, Henry 
 W. 
 
 MACHINE GUN COMPANY 
 
 lOLA 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William F. Payton 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Richard T. Wilson 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 George J. Hunt 
 
 Lewis O. Northrup 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Fnfield, Alfred R. 
 Supply Sgt. 
 
 Scott, Fwing C. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Barber, Fzra T. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Teeters, Lloyd L. 
 
 Beck, Harold W. 
 
 Bean, Louis G. 
 
 Dickerson, James G. 
 
 Vance, Chas. P. 
 
 Ross, Fdgar B, 
 
 Bennett, Webster S. 
 
 Frovert, Frederick F. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Denton, Fred L. 
 
 Doggett, Cleo O. 
 
 Hair, James L. 
 
 Pierce, Frank O. 
 
 Gard, Fsmond 
 
 Coman, James G. 
 
 Dewey, William M. 
 
 O'Flaherty, John F. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Miller, Claude 
 
 Miller, Farl 
 Plorseshoer : 
 
 Ballard, Roy G. 
 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Womack, Chas. M. 
 Manthey, Will A. 
 
 Musicians : 
 
 Newton, Herbert F. 
 
 Robinson, Kenneth M. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Boman, Ralph G. 
 
 Daigh, Clifford L. 
 
 Grover, George M. 
 
 Nickols, Lloyd O. 
 
 Jordan, Olin L. 
 
 Kennedy, Carl S. 
 
 Norton, Fverette C. 
 
 Tippis, LeRoy 
 
 Smith, James F. 
 
 Malcolm, Canby H.' 
 
402 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Privates : 
 Ard, David 
 Bell, Otey 
 Brouillard, Chas. E. 
 Baker, Walter J. 
 Brouillard, Albert L- 
 Bolin, Francis M. 
 Cummins, Chas. C. 
 Fishes, Chas. C. 
 Farren, Glenwood G. 
 Hoffman, Geo. L. 
 Hale, Guy W. 
 Heaton, Claude L. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James F. Going 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 George K. Woodward 
 Reg. Supply Sgt., 
 
 Blaine, William J. 
 
 Bair, Homer R. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Thorne, Donald 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 EJmry, Elmer J. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Reed, Geo, A. 
 Privates : 
 
 Anderson, Harold G. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Edgar H. Dale 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Blanton U. Bently 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles W. Barndollar 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Trickett, Dean 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Rees, Farle F. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Elliott, David S. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Kiddoo, Richard E. 
 
 Halsey, Ray N, 
 
 Brunner, Alfred C. 
 
 Burkhall, Walter H. 
 
 Jensen, Carl O. 
 
 Hickman, Walter C. 
 
 Bingham, Delmore L. 
 
 Bradbury, Frank W. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Dillon, Keith 
 
 Andrews, Rayraa L. 
 
 Hoke, Oscar F. 
 Kirkpatrick, Jesse H. 
 Krause, David L. 
 Kane, Oscar K. 
 Latimer, Burney F. 
 Lee, Elmer 
 Lenhart, Wendell O. 
 Lindsley, Chas. H. 
 Long, Lloyd E. 
 Middleton, Carl S. 
 Milne, Dell P. 
 Morrison, Lenard T. 
 Marple, Earl L- 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Benson, Loren R. 
 Blake, Hololm L. 
 Bonjour, Ira S. 
 Bragg, Henry A. 
 Brake, Carey G. 
 Corbin, Harold W. 
 Davis, John E. 
 Dennis, Paul 
 Dorcas, Everett H. 
 Forth, ArUe M, 
 Garland, William A. 
 Greenland, Donald C. 
 Grant, Wilber O. 
 Harper, Thaddeus S. 
 Hazlett, John L. 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 COFFEYVILLE 
 
 Swearingen, Carl E- 
 
 Pickering, Ben C. 
 
 Meeks, Clyde 
 
 Miller, Claude E. 
 
 Wills, Carl I. 
 
 Jones, Robert H. 
 
 Askren, Bert 
 
 Piner, George W. 
 
 Cosier, Raymond E. 
 
 Van Winkle, Earle B. 
 
 Miller, Arthur M. 
 
 Love, Blanton D. 
 
 Shaubell, Harry D. 
 
 Dana, Merle H. 
 
 Fulks, John M. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Martin, Verne 
 
 Curran, Lawrence A. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Arnold, Clarence 
 
 Walton, Grover C. 
 
 Vermehren, William 
 H. 
 
 Myers, John R. 
 McCoy, Scott C. 
 Noble, Donald J. 
 Parker, Madison J. 
 Ritter, Archie D. 
 Raisch, John M. 
 Rutherford, Lloyd P. 
 Sicks, Wilbur A. A. 
 Seals, Lionel A. 
 Straub, Peter W. 
 Sicks, Elsa C. 
 Walker, George S. 
 Waugh, William F. 
 
 Henry, Scott S. 
 Holdren, Emmett G. 
 Humphreys, James 
 Humphreys, John E. 
 Jacques, Geo. L. 
 Johnson, Donald W. 
 Johnston, Walter F. 
 Jones, Fred R. 
 Keene, Arthur W. 
 Langan, Joseph P. 
 Mentzer, Harry A. 
 Nordgren, Axel B. 
 Russell, John V. 
 Stanton, Geo. S. 
 Watson, Fountain W. 
 Zeek, Floyd L. 
 
 Musicians: 
 , Metcalf, Seward E. 
 
 Prashaw, Cecil J. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Benefiel, Lelan J. 
 
 Boom, Samuel J. 
 
 Bricker, Raymond W. 
 
 Bryson, Geo. W. 
 
 Callow. Don C. 
 
 Gathers, Chas. P. Jr. 
 
 Clark, Hugh W. 
 
 Dooley, Floyd C. 
 
 Giles, Floyd L. 
 
 Gillespey, Walter A. 
 
 Gray, Richard L- 
 
 Harris, John D. 
 
 Herrick, Ben F. 
 
 Huddleston, Geo. R. 
 
 Long, Roy D. 
 
 MacHatton, Joe 
 
 Matteson, Leo V. 
 
 Nelson, Geo. E. 
 
 Parrott, James D. 
 
 Perry, Alva B. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 403 
 
 Renner, Floyd E. 
 Rice, Harold S. 
 Smith, Herbert E. 
 Swan, Carlton, S. 
 Trough, lyloyd 
 Vaughan, William 
 Walton, Ellis P. 
 Wise, Robert Iv. 
 Privates: 
 
 Allen, James M. 
 Anderson, Abraham 
 
 B. 
 Baker, Ernest H. 
 Benefiel, Oral 
 Bentley, Bruce M. 
 Boston, Levi S. 
 Brannan, Sam 
 Bucher, Barney 
 Bucher, Tilden 
 Callow, James G. 
 Carrington, Homer 
 Cline, Dave A. 
 Cobb, Chas. R. 
 Combs, Joel A. 
 Cotton, Harry C. 
 Cribbs, Arthur L. 
 Crocker, Clyde T. 
 Cundiflf. Roy E. 
 Davis, Chas. B. 
 Davis, Harold W. 
 Duckworth, Roy E. 
 Elmore, Lester R. 
 Fisher, Guy E. 
 Fitch. Alfred C. 
 
 Foshe, Jim M. 
 Fuller, James C. 
 Fuzzell, David W. 
 Gillespie, Ward W. 
 Glidewell, Marion D. 
 Grady, George E. 
 Graves, Theo. R, Jr. 
 Griffith, Jess L. 
 Grober, Walter O. 
 Haddon, Carl J. 
 Hall, Orley L. 
 Hancock, William L. 
 Hanes, James B. 
 Higginbotham, James 
 
 H. 
 Higgins, Edward M. 
 Highley, Elmer N. 
 Howe, Robert W. 
 Hutson, Rufus H. 
 Jewell, Frank 
 Jones, Edgar L. 
 Jones, Robert P. 
 Jundy, Dewey 
 Kindley, Field E. 
 Lape, Earl D. 
 Latta, James 
 Latta, John 
 Livingstone, Arthur D. 
 Long, Baden H. 
 Main, Harry L- 
 Martin, Samuel J. 
 McGee, Chas. E. 
 Myers, Lee J. 
 
 Page, Harold R. 
 
 Papen, James D. 
 
 Papen, Willard L. 
 
 Patterson, Claude A. 
 
 Pearson, Francis W. 
 
 Pevehouse, John D. 
 
 Pierson, William A. 
 
 Ray, Montie W. 
 
 Renner, Oluf G. 
 
 Richardson, Roy S. 
 
 Richardson, Guy D. 
 
 Roberts, William C. 
 
 Rogers, Ernest H. 
 
 Sargent, Frank H. 
 
 Scholes, Richard C. 
 
 Seaton, Orville J. 
 
 Sevier, Ernest 
 
 Smith, Alden 
 
 Spurlock, James B, 
 
 Stephens, Max S. 
 
 Straub, Joseph P. 
 
 Sumner, Earl E. 
 
 Tabor, Calvin A. 
 
 Tucker, Max A. 
 
 Vanderford, Earl E. 
 
 Vanvsdoll, Seef 
 
 Wade, John A. 
 
 Wallen, Henry J. 
 
 White, Guy L. 
 
 White, Roy W. 
 
 Wilkus, John P. 
 Attached. 
 Private, 
 
 Clingan, Hughett 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Guy N. Walling 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 William A. Smith 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Clinton W. Kanaga 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Blevins, Jesse J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Fish, Enoch E. 
 
 Burnaa, George 
 
 Vendel, Joseph J. 
 
 Larner, Leland S. 
 
 Elevens, Theodore R. 
 
 Rindon, Harry L. 
 
 Leach, Arnold F. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Clark, Floyd 
 Buglers: 
 
 Trapp, Merle A. 
 
 Marshall, Marlin W. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Gutschenritter, Samuel 
 B. 
 
 Hoffman, John H. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 OSKALOOSA 
 
 Jenkins, Roscoe D. 
 Kimmel, William M. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbott, Dean R. 
 Anderson, Alba W. 
 Austin, Robert A. 
 Bacon, Elmer E. 
 Bateman, Lemuel E. 
 Barackman, Crawford 
 
 K. 
 Barackman, Donnel 
 Blevins, William E. 
 Bliss, Stanley E. 
 Blockwies, "Birt 
 Boehme, Birt 
 Bousfield, Geo. H. 
 Brandon, Benjamin F- 
 Brandon, Francis 
 Brann, Everett W. 
 Brey, Marlin 
 Brown, Ira C. 
 Burnam, William M. 
 Carson, Robert O. 
 Chance, Benjamin H. 
 Conley, Loren 
 
 Cooper, David, Jr. 
 Coons, Kenneth A. 
 Davis, Claud 
 Davis, Lester M. 
 Davis, Lewis E. 
 Davis, William L. 
 Donning, Leonard C. 
 Douglas, Joseph B. 
 Douglas, John J. 
 Duncan, Elmer E. 
 Early, Walter R. 
 Edwards, James H. 
 Ferris, Earl A. 
 Fletcher, Chas. W. 
 Fletcher, Clair C. 
 Fletcher, Louis 
 Ford, Glee A. 
 Frantz, Donald 
 Frazier, Omer O. 
 Frendle, Leonard D. 
 Gibson, Lucien P. 
 Gibson, Perry F. 
 Clock, John H. 
 Greeley, Chas. E. 
 Guay, John 
 
404 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Gutschenritter, Tom 
 
 C. 
 Hagen, Tony C. 
 Hegendeffer, Ernest 
 
 F. 
 Hammond, William 
 Harr, Lloyd T. 
 Harrison, Benjamin C. 
 Hargis, DeWitt M, 
 Hawkins, Floyd J. 
 Hawkins, John L- 
 Hays, John W. 
 Hesser, Fred S. 
 Hudson, Leslie A. 
 Hudson, William B. 
 Hull, Geo. W. 
 Hull, Ralph W. 
 Johnson, Enoch E. 
 Johnson, William C. 
 Karnes, Roland R. 
 Keeling, James A. 
 Kilmer, James T. 
 Lancaster, Richard R. 
 Langley, Arbie F. 
 Langley, Ernest L. 
 Lake, Artie C. 
 Larkins, William J. 
 Lillie, Homer F. 
 
 Loveland, Floyd 
 Mack, Arthur L. 
 Mantin, Wilson M. 
 Mayall, Claud 
 Moore, Leslie L. 
 Morton, Jason S. 
 Miller, Grover C. 
 Miller, Virgil W. 
 Mott, Roy A. 
 Neill, Robert N. 
 Nichols, Ralph N. 
 Olmstead, Hugh 
 Owen, Albert A. 
 Owen, Wade R. 
 Parker, Philip 
 Paull, Clinton R. 
 Paulson, Roy 
 Pottorf, Frank A. 
 Pottorf, Fred G. 
 Pratt, William M. 
 Quanev, Lawrence F. 
 Radcliff, George D. 
 Ramsev, David W. 
 Renfro, David E. 
 Rettig, Fred W. 
 Robertson, Leo W. 
 Robohn, Walter E. 
 Robbins, Lawrence B. 
 Rogers, Clyde J. 
 
 Scales, Lester E. 
 Schultz, Everett 
 Segraves, Victor L. 
 Shively, Chas. W. 
 Shumard, Arthur E. 
 Sill, Richard I. 
 Taylor, James R. 
 Vandruff, Grover 
 Vendell, William F. 
 Vigus, Frank M. 
 Walter, Austin M. 
 Walters, Frank 
 Wheeler, James R. 
 Wheeler, William W. 
 Williamson, Sherman 
 
 H. 
 Wind, Fred J. 
 Winrick, Clarence F. 
 Winters, Roy C. 
 Witteck, John F. 
 Yearout, Thomas F. 
 Young, Clark 
 Young, Karle C. 
 Atkins, Lloyd W. 
 Brown, Delmar D. 
 Woods, William J. 
 Rosenblum, Joe 
 Ribinson, Elwood S. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William H. Perrigo 
 1st. Lieutenant, 
 
 Samuel A. Daugherty 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles O. Hall 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Petit, Harry 
 
 Kerby, Martin P. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Gouin, Forrest E. 
 
 Gaunt, Herman 
 
 Anderson, George W. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Allm, Noble 
 
 McGarry, James 
 Privates: 
 
 Arnold, Harry L. 
 
 Archbold, Geo. L. 
 
 Arveson. Archie L. 
 
 Asher, Gene L. 
 
 Anderson, Grover 
 
 Allen, Leslie 
 
 Bently, William E. 
 
 Brady, Raymond F. 
 
 Bauer, Leon 
 
 Brazil, Chester G. 
 
 Bedford, Chas. E. 
 
 Bassham, James C. 
 
 Beason, Henry M. 
 
 Barrltt. Harry D. 
 
 COMPANY C 
 
 Junction City 
 
 Briddell, William S. 
 Ceas, Lester W. 
 Clark, John C. 
 Collins, Pat P. 
 Collins, Walter 
 Cox, Curtis 
 Gushing, Thos. L. 
 Delaney, Timothy W. 
 Diegleman, Joseph M. 
 Dietrich, Fred 
 Dietrich, William A. 
 Davenport, Leslie J. 
 Dem.psey, Charles 
 Dean, George A. 
 Benty, Edward 
 Ellzey, Weslev A. 
 Estes, John _ W. 
 Egleston, Richard 
 Engler, Louis K. 
 Folck, Lilburn P., Jr. 
 Fentem, Harry 
 Fox, Chas. W. V. 
 Foley, Timothy J., Jr. 
 Ford, Loyd E. 
 Finney, Frank A. 
 Glenn, Arthur D. 
 Grant, Richard M. 
 Gormley, Earl C. 
 Grattan, William M. 
 Hull, Warren 
 Hines, William D. 
 
 Henry, George J. 
 Huitt, Edward 
 Hartong, Harry E. 
 Huey, Archie 
 Hurley, Daniel T. 
 Halfpenny, Gordon H. 
 Hunt, George F. 
 Holterman, Emil J. 
 Haag, Tom S._ 
 Harding, David 
 Haddon, William 
 Hood, Martin 
 Insley, William E. 
 Jerrard, Clyde H. 
 Jennings, Ray L. 
 Jones, Earl L. 
 Jones, Odis K. 
 Johnston, Harold 
 Johnson, Virgil H. 
 Kelley, Leo E. 
 Kelley, Paul M. 
 Kennedy, Clarence D. 
 Kerr. Paul 
 Knerr, Clare S. 
 Kipple, Ray G. 
 Leach, Thomas 
 Leone, Felice 
 McCormick, Thomas 
 
 P. 
 McTntyre, Harry H. 
 McKinney, Earl H. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 405 
 
 Maher, Charley W. 
 
 Mallon, Geo. W. 
 
 Marcy, Fred H. 
 
 Melching, Roy C. 
 
 Miller, Henry O. 
 
 Murphy, Howard P. 
 
 Nelson, Gerald 
 
 Nixon, Guy 1^. 
 
 Nunn, Roy 
 
 O'Meara, Chas. J 
 O'Meara, Paul A. 
 
 Otnes, Fred J. 
 Otnes, John B. 
 Palmer, Fwart G. 
 Pegues, Henry S. 
 Peterson, Albert V. 
 Peterson, Carl F. 
 Phillips, Chas. W. 
 Putnam, Alvin W. 
 Randall, Leon 
 Rathert, Louis EJ. 
 Read, Fmory W. 
 Ray, Boyd K. 
 Redding, Dennie W. 
 Reiber, Carl S. 
 Reilly, John J. 
 Rivers, Leo F. 
 Ross, Clyde J. 
 Saterlee, Fred 
 Schanlan, Leo T. 
 Schraag, WilUe S. 
 Schroeder, Ben 
 Schultz, Toney 
 Schultz, Walter R. 
 Scott, Walter N. 
 Shafer, Andrew J. 
 Shaner, William 
 Smith, Chas. L. 
 Snell, Clyde R. 
 Stansell, Benjamin H. 
 Stiffler, Flmer 
 Steinbruick, Adolph 
 
 Storey, Fred L. 
 Storey, William F. 
 Surprenant, Carl B. 
 Taylor, LeRoy G. 
 Taylor, Raymond T. 
 Thompson, "N-^ance F 
 Tibbits. Earl P. 
 Tressin, Morgan 
 Upham, Ralph F. 
 Valmer, John O. 
 Vetch, Charles C. 
 
 Vetch, George 
 Vetch, John H., Jr. 
 Ware, George F. 
 Warnock, Charles L. 
 White, Floyd 
 Whitley, Frank 
 Williams, Forrest H. 
 Williams, Russell H. 
 Wilburn, Will L. 
 Wrakestraw, George 
 
 Young, Floyd 
 Klingman, Oscar 
 Attached Reservists: 
 Fricson, Arthur W. 
 Joyce, Paul O. 
 Pride, Joseph 
 Anderson, Farl O. 
 Armstrong, Adrain R. 
 Akins, Frnest C. 
 Allen, Dewey W. 
 Baker, Roy C. 
 Bialachofski, Bill 
 Brewster, Willard C. 
 Brown, Clarence I. 
 Burns, Monroe C. 
 Bowman, Hezekiah 
 
 K. 
 Billingsley, Buell 
 Briggs, Carl 
 Black, Alston W. 
 Carson, John L. 
 Campbell, Guy F. 
 Cox, William P. 
 Cottom, Ira L- 
 Crepps, Glenn Miller 
 Campbell, Fdward B. 
 Coate, Frank D. 
 Ellis, John R. 
 Evans, Joe O. 
 Flrod, Eddie H. 
 Fields, Frank L. 
 Fox, Homer D. 
 Franklin. Roy E. 
 Poster, Roy 
 Gillen, Glenn C. 
 Green, Corbin L. 
 Glotrowski, Wlidslew 
 
 F. 
 Haines, William H. 
 Hall, Cecil F. 
 Hardman, Ralph W. 
 
 Hopner, Roland R. 
 Howard, Lewis 
 Huffman, Clint 
 luros, Thomas 
 Johnson, Foster A. 
 J^unz, Lawrence W 
 Killion, Fred 
 Leach, Alfred F 
 Miller, Frank O. 
 Murphy, Geo. M. 
 Minote, Thomas 
 Medlen, Charley A 
 Mumford, William 's 
 Martin, Walter W 
 
 McAfee, Dennis M 
 McGhee, Clarence 6. 
 Mclntire, Carmi L. 
 McAfee, William A. 
 Norris, Albre J. 
 Norris, Walter D. 
 Ostrander, Cecil H 
 Parsons, Charles C. 
 Potter, Max 
 Plunkett, Newton 
 Powell, J. John 
 Reed, George W. 
 Reynolds, Ernest F 
 Ross, William Wayne 
 Ryan, Floyd 
 Robertson, Martin F 
 Skaggs, Oscar 
 Smith, Benjamin F. 
 Shane, James C. 
 Songer, Lee 
 Smith, Ed. Frank 
 Stewart, Clarence W 
 Sullivan, Ira J. 
 Summer, Servyl S. 
 Swiger, Fred O. 
 Trimble, Chester F. 
 Thomiason, Buck 
 Taylor, Earl 
 Welch, Henry C. 
 Williams, Hiram M. 
 Wilson, Willard F. 
 Wilson, William B. 
 Veerkamp, Franz L. 
 Wymann, Lee 
 Wilson, Homer C. 
 Ward, Charles H, 
 Williams, Clint 
 Williams, Floyd F. 
 Williams, Henry 
 
 Captain, 
 
 George H. Wark 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Angus J. Nicholson 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Jesse H. Wilson, 
 
 COMPANY D 
 
 Caney 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Roy N. Grider 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Stephen R. Rinehart 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Lesley H. Mitchell 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Ward D. Nance 
 Keith Herring 
 Hoyt R. Orgam 
 Clarence L. Crandell 
 Alfred O. Adams 
 
406 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Floyd W. Belscamper 
 Charles H. Bradley 
 Benjamin Taylor 
 Corporals: 
 
 VanDeventer, Roland 
 
 W. 
 Straight, Albert E. 
 Raymond, Roy B. 
 Mitchell, Lester A. 
 Ramsey, Walter H. 
 Johnson, Clarence E. 
 Leatherock, Wesley 
 
 K. 
 Chilcote, Ferrin H. 
 Cochrane, William M,. 
 Bowen, Charles R. 
 Edmundson, Morril K. 
 Danforth, George N. 
 Coleman, Gleen T. 
 Cherry, Homer E. 
 McCrory, Victor E. 
 
 Rogers, Charles A. 
 
 Hemphill, Lloyd 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Mitchell, William A. 
 
 Lewis, Bert C. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Smith, Fred F. 
 
 Dodson, George W. 
 
 Prall, Joseph N. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Cooper, Austin C. 
 
 Franks, Robert A. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Boles, Edward J. 
 
 Belscamper, Earl B, 
 
 Boles, Clarence C. 
 
 Booker, Harry C. 
 
 Bowen, Chester J. 
 
 Buster, Roy F. 
 
 Brown, Ernest B. 
 
 Boyer, Baldwin H. 
 
 Carrinder, Jos. G. 
 
 Capps, Hubert 
 Cook, William E. 
 Corbitt, Joseph W. 
 Gilliland. David E. 
 GuUic, Jesse 
 Higgs, Arthur L. 
 Higgs, Ernest D, 
 Holden, Raymond T. 
 Jones, J. William 
 Koons, Frank W. 
 McCrory, Lyonell 
 McClelland, Geo. W. 
 Storms, Everett E. 
 Stewart, James W. 
 Townsend, Willard E. 
 Todd, Dean N. 
 Worthen, Sidney L. 
 Wiley, Carter W. 
 Webb, Henry C. 
 Private, 
 
 Smith, Benjamin F. 
 
 COMPANY E 
 
 Leavenworth 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Robert W. Linden- 
 struth 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Paul C. Radford 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Humphrey Biddle 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Coleman, Don P. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 O'Connor, John W, 
 Mess Sergeant: 
 
 Radloff, Henry W. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Faulkner, Howard G. 
 
 DeTemple, Allan J. 
 
 Powell, Alfred B. 
 
 Harding, George E. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Reilly, William D. 
 
 Cochran, Walter H. 
 
 Gist, Walter M. 
 
 Blochberger, Edward 
 R. 
 
 Kerr, Len D. 
 
 Gronis, John D. 
 
 Perkins, Harry A. Jr. 
 
 Levene, Bernard W. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Yates, Edward C. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Younger, David L. 
 
 Brenneman, Perry L. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Bagwell, Ernest M. 
 
 Kramer, Stephen G. 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Abel, Phillip A. 
 Babbitt, Fred F. 
 Barber, Royal E. 
 Bell, Hugh M. 
 Belz, Gus C. 
 Blake, John H. 
 Broughton, Lloyd D. 
 Brushwood, Clyde W. 
 Bursch, George W. 
 Campbell, Roy S. 
 Carter, John V. 
 Chambers, Ernest F. 
 Collines, Ray L. 
 Cooper, Robert E. 
 Conley, Walter I. 
 Courtney, Guy T. 
 Crooks, Marion F. 
 Crimley, Corbett 
 Denman, Glen M. 
 Doherty, Paul M. 
 Douglas, Oscar L. 
 Douglas, William W. 
 Downing, Robert A. 
 Davis, Frank M. 
 Ennis, Harry J. 
 Fleeman, Thomas R. 
 Fletcher, George T. S. 
 Fitts, Austin 
 Ford, Louis R. 
 Fullum, Ray F. 
 Fretz, Harry E. 
 Gardner, Edwin S. 
 Garvey, Harry O. 
 Ginder, Roy F. 
 Gouck, Kenneth S. 
 Greene, Robert B. 
 
 Guenther, Louis W. 
 Hageman, Harry D. 
 Hargrave, Chauncy H. 
 Harrison, Guy M. 
 Harris, Edwin M. 
 Hillis, Gordon N. 
 Hitzemann, Clarence 
 
 A. 
 Hoffine, Clyde M. 
 Hunter, Earl H. 
 Jackson, Ivan A. 
 Karnes, Frank L. 
 Kelsey, Harry R. 
 Lake, Ralph E. 
 Laiides, Roy E. 
 Leach, Elwood M. 
 Leach, Ray E. 
 LeRoy, Keith K. 
 Levi, Morgan P. 
 Meister, Paul E. 
 Mentzer, Paul E. 
 Miller, Edward J. 
 Minger, Edward E. 
 Mitchell, Sidney B. 
 Morrow, Rowland C. 
 Mosley, Dewey 
 Mueller, Paul E. 
 Myers, Oscar L. 
 McAtee, Eslie H. 
 MacLaren, Larry A. 
 McDonald, Chas. J. 
 McAnulty, Leo B. 
 Nacher, Stephan A. 
 Nitz, Edward A, 
 Noel, George H. 
 Overstreet, William 
 Owens, Eugene C. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 407 
 
 Papenhausen, John 
 Parrott, Lee E. 
 Pearson, Leon H. 
 Perkins, William H. 
 Peters, Lyman D. 
 Peters, Leslie L. 
 Peters, Wallace J. 
 Phillips, John E. 
 Powers, Kenneth H. 
 Ricketts, Fred A. 
 Rogers, Ralph E. 
 Root, Harvey O. 
 Rosenkrantz, Ike 
 Salsbery, Edgar R. 
 
 Sample, Louie L. 
 Schroeder, Temme W. 
 Scott, Jesse W. J. 
 Scott, Robert A. 
 Shea, George 
 Shea, Walter M. 
 Shepard, Reginald O. 
 Skinner, Joseph W. 
 Slattery, Michael W. 
 Smith, Robert B. 
 Stevenson, Frank G. 
 Strong, Harry N. 
 Sykes, John 
 
 Talbott, Butler R. 
 Tomlinson, Marvin E. 
 Trackwell, Ernest E. 
 Valentine, Delbert A. 
 Ward, Charles P. 
 Warren, Ben C. 
 Webb, Harrel R. 
 Wilson, Andy B, 
 Wilson. Charles N. 
 Wilson, Edward C. 
 Wilson, George T. 
 Wood, William H. 
 Worley, Ellis O. 
 Yarbrough, William H. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Irving A. Otten 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Charles W. Clark 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Carl J. Bare 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Rice, Fred L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Thuma, Lester C. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Stewart, Chas. V. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Neff, Raymond Y. 
 
 Harmon, Karl M. 
 
 Reese, George W. 
 
 Mitchell, Ezra C. 
 
 Stratford, John R. 
 
 Stratford, Ray A. 
 
 Shyrer, Frank A. 
 
 Matthews, Neil 
 Corporals: 
 
 Sheen, Joe R. 
 
 McCurdy, Walter R. 
 
 Cookston, Harry B. 
 
 Oblander, Rhiney 
 
 Pickering, T. Arlie 
 
 Bredendick, Henry 
 W. 
 
 McCauley, Robert M. 
 
 Jossi, Louis 
 
 Arnold, Lonzo Bert 
 
 Craig, Harry F. 
 
 Daubenspeck, Geo. W. 
 
 Holderman, Abraham 
 
 Perry, Frank H. 
 Smith, Edward M. 
 Dockery, Harry 
 Logan, Guy R. 
 Goff, Manuel B. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Whitcomb, Walter R. 
 Bedinger, Charles 
 James, John T. 
 
 COMPANY F 
 El Dorado 
 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Hightower, Herbert 
 H. 
 
 Tetrick, Henry C. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Houchen, Thomas E. 
 
 Stewart, Lester L. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Barnheart, Henry T. 
 
 Biggs, Russell V. 
 
 Daniels, William O. 
 
 Fall, Albert 
 
 Fell, Charley E. 
 
 Graves, John F. 
 
 Greene, Claude W. 
 
 Green, Harry B. 
 
 Halfhill, Noah 
 
 Harden, Milton J. 
 
 Hood, George W. 
 
 Jackson, Lloyd V. 
 
 Lucas, William C. 
 
 Oakes, John A. 
 
 Pirtle, Chas. E. 
 
 Plew, John H. 
 
 Reser, Ralph 
 
 Richardson, Oliver 
 
 Richardson; Roy R. 
 
 Ryan, Philip W. 
 
 Sanders, Chas. L. 
 
 Sass, Fred 
 
 Schmidt, Harry J. 
 
 Shuck, Frank M. 
 
 Smith, Joe J. 
 
 Stanfield, Howard 
 Bruce 
 
 Stoltz, Geo. W. 
 
 Stoltz, Ray L. 
 Privates: 
 
 Baker, William E. 
 
 Blackwell, Virgil R. 
 
 Eloir, Chas. E. 
 
 Bressell, Philip 
 
 Broadbeck, Ernest A. 
 
 Brown, Joe O. 
 
 Carter, James Levi 
 
 Clark, Frank M. 
 
 Clinton, Arthur E. 
 Cole, Orville 
 Collins, Clarence 
 Correll, John L. 
 Counts, John T. 
 Counts, Harvey R. 
 Crabb, Melvin 
 Crans, Thurlow S. 
 Daniels, Robert E. 
 Darwin, Ernest 
 Davenport, Lloyd E. 
 Davy, Claude W. 
 Ditto, Weir H. 
 Doane, Jess 
 Doores, Forrest L. 
 Doyle, Delta W. 
 Dugan, Sherman 
 Dyer, Roy E. 
 Emery, William H. 
 Feely, Raymond B. 
 Forristall, Geo. C 
 Foust, Benjamin E. 
 Gent, Tracy 
 Gilliland, Claude K. 
 Gist, Harold E. 
 Gordon, James 
 Gray, Claude E. 
 Green, Otis C. 
 Griggs, Harry 
 Harrington, Lawnie 
 
 E. 
 Hayhurst, Clarence M. 
 Herrington, Curtis C. 
 Hufford, Glenn F. 
 Hunter, Floyd N. 
 Ingraham, Thomas C. 
 Jackson, Chas. V. 
 Johnson, Earl Milan 
 Kairschner, William 
 
 L. 
 Keithley, Henry T. 
 Kniff, Walter 
 Law, John H. 
 Liggett, Lester 
 Lindsay, Nat M. 
 Love, Rama S. 
 
408 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Lumm, Earl L. 
 Lytle, Clyde W. 
 Martin, Leslie 
 Miller, Frank W. 
 Mitchell, Elmer E. 
 Morris, Wilbur B. 
 Mullins, Oscar B. 
 McGrew, Lewis A. 
 Oblander. Chas. J. 
 Oliver, Ervin L. 
 Palmer, Harry H. 
 Pierce, Herschel W. 
 
 Rader, Earl H. 
 Randall, Henry E. 
 Reese, Howard T. 
 Rich, Hilbert K. 
 Ricord, Edwin O. 
 Robbins, Ollie E. 
 Russell, Cecil Earl 
 Seery, John E. 
 Sharp, Oliver 
 Sheridan, Clarence E. 
 Smith, Ray I. 
 Spiegel, Oscar H. 
 
 Stanley, Arthur G. 
 Tillery, Lewis W. 
 Vernon, Ernest F. 
 Walling, Charles E. 
 Whitner, Kent O. 
 Wilson, Chas. Harri- 
 son 
 Wilson, James W. 
 Wilson, Karl F. 
 Windsor, Fred 
 Winterrowd, Guy F. 
 Wright, Thaddeus A. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Arthur W. Synder 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Edward V. Hanby 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 George P. Bisenus 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Gowley, Richard P. 
 Supply Sergeant 
 
 Arend, Harold U. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Murray, Chas. T. 
 
 Knight, Robert R. 
 
 Florea, Wilbur C. 
 
 Bryant, Wilber J. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Wichers, Henry E. 
 
 Sexton, Joseph C. 
 
 Mitchell, George L. 
 
 Kimsey, Dan E. 
 
 Edwards, Harry 
 
 Bowers, Arthur W. 
 
 Blanks, Dean T. 
 Cook: 
 
 Godfrey, Giles J. G. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Burch, Roscoe E. 
 
 Crum, Raymond H. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abrahams, Louis K. 
 
 Addams, Irvin 
 
 Akens, Charley R. 
 
 Akens, Frank M. 
 
 Allen, Vivian S. 
 
 Barnes, Sam 
 
 Bergier, Lieth J. 
 
 Bickle, Gale 
 
 Bover, Harold J. 
 
 Bottorff, Glen W. 
 
 Bowman, John L. 
 
 Bryant, Geo. T. 
 
 Burns, Eddie 
 
 Carmodv, Thomas 
 
 Casey, Philip T. 
 
 Coble, Glen C. 
 
 Catlin, Clarence A. 
 
 Cope, John G. 
 
 COMPANY G 
 
 Downs 
 
 Cope, Roy Newton 
 Confer, Samuel A. 
 Covert, Louis L- 
 Cox, LaRose 
 Creamer, Forrest H. 
 Gushing, Roy W. 
 Dial, Lawrence E. 
 Dillon, Donald 
 Duffy, Clarence E- 
 Earls, Gordan L. 
 Elliott, Anderson 
 Elder, Lawrence S. 
 Emigh, William F. 
 Fisk, Joe M. 
 Flickinger, Bert D. 
 Fischer, William F. 
 Goheen, Maurice S. 
 Gibson, Grover C. 
 Gill, Joe J. 
 Gorham, Arthur 
 Greenman, Benjamin 
 Griffiths, Floyd L. 
 Hauptle, August J. 
 Henderson, Arthur W. 
 Henderson, Walter P. 
 Hettinger, Lloyd M. 
 Home, Arthur B. 
 Hull, Floyd E. 
 Hull, Laurel W. 
 Haverty, Leroy 
 Havner, Ben C. 
 Higgins, Edward J. 
 Irey, John M. 
 Jones, Harry E. 
 Jones, John 
 Jones, Lawrence L. 
 Jones, Ralph H. 
 Johnston, Harry A. 
 Johnston, Vearl V. 
 Jack, Russell 
 Jackson, Earl A. 
 Kaup, John C. 
 Killinger, LeRoy 
 Kirschbaum, Henry 
 KisHng, John W. 
 Ladow, Aubrey L. 
 Latham, Edgar F. 
 
 Lee, Ben 
 Love, Charley 
 Lynch, Harvey W. 
 Lingo, William H. 
 Logan, Homer T. 
 Lovern, Archie 
 McCormick, Alfred B. 
 McConnell, Chas. H. 
 McCune, Kay E. 
 Marzolf, Milton J. 
 Maxwell, Ray D. 
 Miller, Frank B. 
 Montoro, Thomas L. 
 Morrell, John S. 
 Moyer, Harry E. 
 Malcolm, Ollie M. 
 Murphy, Will 
 Nasman, Eddie L. 
 Neifert, Jesse G. 
 Parmelee, Dickinson 
 
 L. 
 Phillips, Harry 
 Raff, Rea 
 Randall, James R. 
 Ray, Charles O. 
 Ray, Ralph P. 
 Reddick, Earl E. 
 Reddick, William J. 
 Remick, Glenn W. 
 Richardson, LeRoy 
 Richardson, Wayne J. 
 Robinson, Charley L- 
 Rollins, Vern 
 Reeder, Carl W. 
 Schellinger, William 
 
 H. 
 Sharp, Chester 
 Sharp, Gordon 
 Sheets, Lawrence O. 
 Smith, Albert 
 Smith, Charles M. 
 Smith, Frank 
 Smith, Harold C. 
 Smith, Milton H. 
 Smith, James O. 
 Smith, Zeb 
 Sower, Jacob 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 409 
 
 Stansbury, Vaughn t,. 
 Stokes, Earl R. 
 Sutton, Cecil A. 
 Schoonover, I^ee L. 
 Talbott, Richard W. 
 Teten, John J. 
 Thrasher, Robert E. 
 Thomas, Dewey O. 
 
 Treaster, Oscar N. 
 Turner, Carl M. 
 VanCleave, Clifford 
 
 M. 
 Ward, Paul 
 Walker, Earl R. 
 W>11, Donald K. 
 White, John N. 
 
 Wideman, Fred E. , 
 Winter, Andrew T, 
 Walters, Bastian J. 
 Williams, Albert J. 
 Wright, William t,. 
 Yager, Herman 
 Young, Lawrence F. 
 Zumwalt, John D. 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Abilene 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Charles H. Browne 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 John W. McManigal 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Ralph F. Lucier 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Lackey, Roy R. 
 Tabbron, John W. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Clark, Homer L. 
 Lash, Harlow W. 
 Dunanan, Merle L. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Seeds, Robert R. 
 
 Wood, Charles J. 
 Privates : 
 
 Anderes, Albert 
 
 Anderson, Arvid H. 
 
 Allgire, Ray R. 
 
 Alstrom, Carl W. 
 
 Alpin, Robert W. 
 
 Armstrong, Harry A. 
 
 Aspley, Roscoe W. 
 
 Rallweg, Clarence J. 
 
 Barkley, Elmer W. 
 
 Blair, Oberten J. 
 
 Boyd, John E. 
 
 Boyer, Homer E- 
 
 Brenner, Sidney C. 
 
 Brinkmeyer, John A. 
 
 Brinkmeyer, Wm. F. 
 
 Buchanan, Dewey H. 
 
 Buchanan, Frank L. 
 
 Buchanan, Harry W. 
 
 Buchanan, Paul 
 
 Buchanan. _ Ward 
 
 Burton, Simeon S. 
 
 Cairns, Chas. B. 
 
 Callahan, Hollv W. 
 
 Callahan, Joe H. 
 
 Campbell, James E. 
 
 Cashman, John L. 
 
 Chesnut, Raymond L. 
 
 Cooper, James M. 
 
 Cox, Joseph H. 
 
 Crumrine, Harvey W. 
 
 Curran, Mark S. 
 
 Cutler, Dale J. 
 
 Cutler, James R. 
 
 Daniel, Jesse J. 
 
 Davis, Arch W. 
 
 Davis, Frank E. 
 
 Dawson, LeeRoy 
 
 Day, Willard L. 
 
 Dayton, Howard S. 
 
 DeHaven, Walter J. 
 
 Deamgion, Sam 
 
 Dixon, Clarence E. 
 
 Dobkins, John M. 
 
 Dower, Jesse R. 
 
 Duffy, Issac 
 
 Dyer, Vaughn 
 
 Eaves, Everett 
 
 Eckley, Chas. T. 
 
 Elwick, Fay A. 
 
 Etherington, Geo. W. 
 
 Ewing, Rexford E. 
 
 Flsher,Grant H. 
 
 Foltz, Carl H. 
 
 Foltz, Edward J. 
 
 Foltz, John A. 
 
 Fraser, Leslie A. 
 
 Frey, John 
 
 Garten, William H. 
 
 Gibbs, Glenn I. 
 
 Gish, Jacob *M. 
 Gish, Ray W. 
 Hall, James E. 
 Harris, Ralph M. 
 Hawthorne, Coe 
 Haynes, Quin H. 
 Herman, Walter R. 
 Heskett, Alvin 
 Issitt, George E. 
 Jeffcoat, Melvin E. 
 Jones, Aaron E. 
 Jordan, Frank B. 
 Jordan, Harold M. 
 Kauffman, Clarence E- 
 Kauffman, Clyde L- 
 Kehler, Ward G. 
 Kirk, Charles G. 
 Larkin, James E. 
 Leshley, Blake 
 Lewis, Robert R. 
 Loader, George L. 
 Loader, Robert K. 
 Lucier, Alcide J. 
 Luck, Charles J. 
 McCosh, Harry P. 
 McNeal, Ellis A. 
 
 Machen, John E. 
 Mann, Alie A. 
 Merillat, Harve G. 
 Monroe, Elmer L. 
 Nemec, William M. 
 O'Neal, Willie H. 
 Parks, Everett L. 
 Parson, Clint 
 Paul, William H. 
 Poe, Charles N. 
 Porter, Ray 
 Rector, Mahon R. 
 Reep, Elmer L. 
 Reese, Claude E. 
 Reid, George A. 
 Romberger, Roy B. 
 Russell, Roy R. 
 Sampson, Clarence A. 
 Savidge, Arthur W. 
 Savidge, Ernest R. 
 Schneider, August G. 
 Schneider, Kellen A. 
 Seip, Howard L- 
 Shannon, Clarence I. 
 Sherman, Ralph S. 
 Sherwood, Roy C. 
 Shirk, Alonzo D. 
 Shockey, Fred M. 
 Shook, Anthony 
 Shook, Grover C. 
 Shook, Wilbur V. 
 vShoop, Clarence W. 
 Sheuy, John S. 
 Shum, Lawrence E. 
 Siemers, John F. 
 Simpson, Clarence A. 
 Smith, Albert W. 
 Smith, Otto C. 
 Sparwasser, Edward 
 
 W. 
 Steinborn, George 
 Steyer, Clark 
 Strowig, Olin R. 
 Stuck, Mervin L. 
 Stuck, William J. 
 Sutton, William H. 
 Swanger, Elmer H. 
 Tate, William E. 
 Tober, Claude A. 
 Turner, Ray 
 Tweed, David 
 
410 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 VanDoren, Chester G. 
 Viola, Ralph H. 
 Walters, Harry E. 
 
 Wigham, William E. 
 Wilson, Buck M. 
 Wilkie, David, B. 
 Yeadon, George W. 
 
 Yeadon, Henry 
 Attached, 
 
 Leshley, Floyd 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James B. Garrett 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Matthew Guilfoyle 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Ralph W. Martin 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbott, Lloyd K. 
 
 Adam, Wilbur L- 
 
 Adams, Arthur E. 
 
 Anderson, Clarence L. 
 
 Anderson, Vivian C. 
 
 Annis, Edward C. 
 
 Arbuckle, Frank 
 
 Arnold, John W. 
 
 Arnold, Percy H. 
 
 Asling, Fred 
 
 Baird, Hoyt G. 
 
 Bane, George E. 
 
 Barrett, Daniel 
 
 Barrett, Samuel 
 
 Behring, Harry C, 
 
 Blythe, Harold J. 
 
 Bress, Charles W. 
 
 Buckley, Bollie V. 
 
 Burns, Ambra 
 
 Brock, John 
 
 Calkins, Arthur 
 
 Calkins, Harvey A. 
 
 Callahan, Charles P. 
 
 Cameron, Robert S. 
 
 Chapin, Clarence C. 
 
 Clark, George R. 
 
 Costello, Joseph J. 
 
 Crisp, Edgar E, 
 
 Culver, Harold E. 
 
 Darling, John 
 
 Davis, Tom D. 
 
 Douglas, Levern 
 
 Doyle, Joseph L- 
 
 Duggan, Patrick J. 
 
 Dunn, Jesse L. 
 
 Edens, Harry H. 
 
 Elliott, Worley H. 
 
 Falen, Martin R. 
 
 Fisher, Elmer C. 
 
 Fisher, Samuel L. 
 
 Galloway, Frank C. 
 
 Giltner, Frank E. 
 
 Goodrich, Fred E. 
 
 Haage, Jennings B. 
 
 COMPANY I 
 
 Herington 
 
 Hackler, Hermis C. 
 Hammond, Paul H. 
 Hamer, Phillip W. 
 Harrison, Louie 
 Hartley, James M. 
 Haversock, Dewey G. 
 Hernisen, Elmer 
 Hodgson, George W, 
 Hoskins, Frank E. 
 Howell, Marshall K. 
 Hudson, John M. 
 Hudson, Steve R. 
 Jenkins, Sidney 
 Kandt, Martin C. 
 Kearn, Earl R. 
 Keefer, Samuel B. 
 Kiser, Charles H. 
 Kistler, John J. 
 Kochenower, Walter 
 
 A. 
 Kahl, Frank W. 
 Kohler, Erwin F. 
 Krause, Erphine A. 
 Krause, John A. 
 Longhofer, Fred 
 Longhofer, Godfrey F. 
 Lundine, Arthur G. 
 McClaran, Carey R. 
 McCaleb, Ernest T. 
 McDiffett, Lorenzo W. 
 McMurray, Harold D. 
 McWilliams, Earl J. 
 Maddix, Earl C. 
 Metcalfe, Albert L. 
 Meyers, Harvey R. 
 Meyers, Thomas D. 
 Miskey, August L. 
 Moors, Clarence C. 
 Moorehead, Fred D. 
 Morris, Robert O. 
 Mulkey, Myron M. 
 Murphy, Ray H. 
 Neis, Clarence H. 
 Nichols, Harold C. 
 Normandin, William 
 
 H. 
 Oldfield, Louis D. 
 Oldfield, Willie 
 Oneil, John J. 
 Pabst, Charles E. 
 Pegorsch, Henry A. 
 Pfeister, Simmie C. 
 Phillips, Fred F. 
 Pio, Jesse L. 
 
 Potts, Albert S. 
 Price, Ronald H. 
 Pugh, Carl D. 
 Rader, Procter E. 
 Reber, Otto A. 
 Reed, Alonzo L. 
 Rigney, James A. 
 Rogers, Thomas R. 
 Rupert, Evert 
 Ruyle, Lawrence R. 
 Schrader, Herbert C. 
 Schrader, Robert F. 
 Schrolick, Martin W. 
 Schump, Jos. F. 
 Schump, Paul J. 
 Seely, Dwight H. 
 Sell, Vernon D. 
 Sheehan, Francis W, 
 Sheridan, Delmer R. 
 Shipley, Perry 
 Smith, Cecil E. 
 Smith, Roy H. 
 Spady, Alex 
 Staley, Harvey H. 
 Steinberg, Shirley 
 Sterling, Joseph A. 
 Stevenson, Luther C. 
 Sturgis, Harold D. 
 Strunk, Milton 
 Thomas, Carl A. 
 Tullis, Harvey W. 
 Vanderpool, Clarence 
 
 T., 
 Vansickle, Jack 
 Vaughn, Floyd 
 Volkman, Arthur W. 
 Wager, Claude H. 
 Walker, Arthur H. 
 Walker, Earl R. 
 Wakefield, Fred 
 Ward, Ison R. 
 Waylan, Harold E. 
 Weaver, Harold W. 
 Webster, Clyde E. 
 Wiggins, Horace E. 
 Wilde, Lavern F. 
 Wilde. Teddy L. 
 Williams, Arthur J. 
 Williams, Charles D. 
 Wilson, Mark E. 
 Young, Leo H. 
 Combs, Harry L. 
 Hopper, Charles A. 
 Stephens, Harry H. 
 Tebo, George H. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 411 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Howard M. Randall 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 George C. Brewster 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 John F. Raster 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Sheets, Frank R. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Gilchrist, Walter C. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 McDonald, Harvey 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Freeburne, Cecil 
 
 Weede, James A. 
 
 McArthur, John C. 
 
 Kobel, George W. 
 Cook, 
 
 Shea, James L. 
 Privates : 
 
 Albrecht, Henry G. 
 
 Adams, Carl E. 
 
 Atkisson, Louis D. 
 
 Anderson, George A. 
 
 Adams, Arthur 
 
 Abbey, Frank L., Jr. 
 
 Adams, Donald F. 
 
 Armstrong, Lloyd H. 
 
 Baker, Marvin S. 
 
 Burgener, Leo I. 
 
 Blough, Vernon L. 
 
 Blaycook, Herbert J. 
 
 Barr, Harry R. 
 
 Burdick, Roy F. 
 
 Bassett, Leroy H. 
 
 Black, Rex R. 
 
 Brogdon, John I. 
 
 Barker, Roy B. 
 
 Britt, A. Earl 
 
 Carter, Milo O. 
 
 Carter, Frank E. 
 
 Coppock, Charles 
 
 Cox, Floyd L. 
 
 Cox, John E. 
 
 Chambers, Walter E. 
 
 Chester, George M. 
 
 Cryderman, Wayne V. 
 
 Corley, Joel V. 
 
 Corley, John C. 
 
 Crow, Lloyd W. 
 
 Davis, Evan L. 
 
 Deshner, Walter H. 
 
 Dunmire, Joseph A. 
 
 Dohner, Rutherford B. 
 
 Egbert, Rollin E. 
 
 COMPANY K 
 
 Newton 
 
 Errett, Jay H. 
 Sshom, Charles H, 
 EversuU, Stephen B. 
 Ferguson, Roy 
 French, William P. 
 Finnell, Lauren 
 Fowler, Clarke D. 
 Fuller, Ellis B. 
 Eraser, Gilbert S. 
 Fieth, Milton E. 
 Freeburne, Clarence 
 Gilchrist, William B. 
 Grochowsky, Jacob 
 Griswold, Oberly A. 
 Geisick, Henry 
 Gradert. John F. 
 Henry, Lawrence G. 
 Hankins, James L. 
 HoUe, Frank J. 
 Hoppe, Eugene A. 
 Hoffman, William 
 Hall, Harry L. 
 Hoffman, Carl C. 
 Hampson, T. Carlyle 
 Hartman, Joseph W. 
 Hutton, Leroy J. 
 Huey, Frank G. 
 Hammond, Harry 
 Hartman, William L. 
 Hardin, Ellis L 
 Hamilton, Thomas D. 
 Harris, Weeton V. 
 Hopkins, Myron E- 
 Ingold, Walter T. 
 Ishman, Leroy G. 
 Jewell, Carl L. 
 Kinard, Fred E. 
 Keeppen, Hancel G. 
 Knee, James C. ' 
 Landes, Adolph H. 
 Lantz, Chauncy M. 
 Liggett, Astin A. 
 McGlassen, John A. 
 Merritt, Cecil 
 Miller, Wilbee F. 
 Moffett, Chas. C. 
 Murdock, Delbert 
 McMillan, Ralph E. 
 Morgan, Earl A. 
 Morrison, Thomas L. 
 Newfield, Thomas S. 
 Patterson, Edward C. 
 Pace, William L. 
 Payne, Charles H. 
 Pletcher, Paul 
 Quigley, Edward D. 
 
 Renick, Harry H. 
 Rogers, Harold A. 
 Reid, William J. 
 Royer, Paul 
 Rhoads, Marvin E. 
 Reid, Marion C. 
 Roberts, Erskine 
 Rogers, Walter K. 
 Ragsdale, Lawrence E. 
 Rodenbaugh, Allen H. 
 Sims, Ottis M. 
 Stewart, WelUngton 
 Stockman, Francis J. 
 Small, Charles L. 
 Scott, John L. 
 Simpson, Orin S. 
 Schertz, George H. 
 Snyder, John R. 
 Shacklett, Glen E . 
 Starrett, Royce E. 
 Slaymal^er, Chas. E. 
 Sawyer, Gordon W. 
 Smith, Carleton S. 
 Sisson, Arthur R. 
 Simpson, Duke B. 
 Sperry, Frank L. 
 Stone, Edward A. 
 Smith, Emmett E. 
 Swengle, Elmo S. 
 Schell, Oscar J. 
 Sands, Ewart W. 
 Timmons, Harley N. 
 Timons, Franklin P. 
 Thompson, Marvin B. 
 Terry, McKinley 
 Ulery, Audily W. 
 Vandine, Robert W. 
 Warner, Merle B. 
 WilUams, Walter R. 
 Welsh, Willard 
 Woodley, Homer 
 Walden, Francis W. 
 White, John S. 
 Warner, John C. 
 West, Paul L. 
 Whitesell, Arthur P. 
 Wing, Norris N. 
 Wolter, Fred W. 
 Zimmerman, Harvey 
 F. 
 Attached: 
 
 Gragg, George L. 
 Powell, Arthur F. 
 Bainbridge, Roy T. 
 Young, Robert E. 
 Cumings, Thad L. 
 
412 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Thomas L. Crow 
 1st lyieutenant, 
 
 Asa R. Black 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 William H. Haupt 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Wynn, Byron F. 
 
 Greenway, Raymond 
 
 Hyndman, Eugene B. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Hamel, Arthur A. 
 
 Winfield, Joseph M. 
 
 Lowry, Delwyn B. 
 
 Halcomb, John S. 
 
 Ross, WiUiam H. 
 
 Netherton, Chas. E. 
 
 Renn, Geo. S. 
 
 Beattie, James I. 
 
 Holt, Elmer M. 
 
 Marshall, Thomas B. 
 
 Humphrey, Earl D. 
 
 Clark, William C. 
 
 Kellog, Frank H. 
 
 Robinson, Ronald W. 
 
 Schwinn, Thomas 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Lovingfoss, Harold 
 C. 
 
 Spencer, Frank F. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Collins, Claude H. 
 
 Camp, Daniel C, 
 
 Burscough, Guy E. 
 Musicians: 
 
 Nixon, Fred 
 
 Bell, Cecil V. 
 Privates : 
 
 Anderson, Archie N. 
 
 Anderson, Walter J. 
 
 Ash, Carl 
 
 Allen, John 
 
 Burcham, Grant F. 
 
 Brubaker, Claude H. 
 
 Beatty, Charles L. 
 
 Burson, Ray E. 
 
 Brown, Fawn D. 
 
 Botkin, Elmo 
 
 Barner, Lee M. 
 
 Black, Guy A. 
 
 Banghart, Merle R. 
 
 Botkin, Jay 
 
 Beattie, Harold R. 
 
 Bunker, Wiley H. M. 
 
 Blank, Floyd E- 
 
 Baldwin, James M. 
 
 COMPANY L 
 
 Wellington 
 
 Cecil, Carl L. 
 Casselman, Philip J. 
 Clark, DeWitt T. 
 Caples, Russel B. 
 Carson, Clifford 
 Cowherd, William A. 
 Crowdus, William W. 
 Campbell, Enor C. 
 Collins, Glen 
 Clark, Luther A. 
 Corey, Sam 
 Derington, Edwin E. 
 Dobbs, Kenneth S. 
 Dailey, Ralph D. 
 Dawson, Benjamin H. 
 Doramus, Elmer C. 
 Dust, Pete 
 Ekland, Ralph L. 
 Edmonson, Dale E. 
 Eads, David R. 
 Elsas, Chas. H. 
 Foster, Alfred E. 
 Ford, John T. 
 Gardner, John A. 
 Ginder, Walter E. 
 Gaines, Wilbur S. 
 Gardner, Arthur S. 
 Gardner, Arthur J. 
 Goff, Cleo C. 
 Gowers, George L. 
 Gwinn, WilHs P. 
 Gift, Floyd W. 
 Hollingsworth, Ralph 
 Hamel, Melvin A. 
 Hainsworth, Avery L- 
 Hainsworth, Ralph B. 
 Hopper, Frank C. 
 Heasty, Kearns R. 
 Henderson, Wesley A. 
 Higgins, Joe L. 
 Jones, Sumner 
 Jones, Fred L. 
 Kanage, Sterling G. 
 Kennison, Frank N. 
 Kohl, Willard B. 
 Kohler, Lewis 
 Kublus, Chas. M. 
 Laird, Thomas E. 
 Lewis, Charlie A. 
 Long, William N. 
 Lane, David W. 
 Logan, John 
 Mathews, Whit O. 
 Marshall, Fred L. 
 Morrell, Floyd B. 
 Meyer, Walter O. 
 Meredith, Warren C. 
 Mains, Fred L. 
 
 Maxon, Emery L. 
 Mosby, Harry 
 Maynard, Aaron A. 
 Mayes, Curtis L. 
 McCombs, Nathaniel 
 
 G. 
 McNally, Bryan T. 
 McKinney, Alex E. 
 McFarland, Oral R. 
 McCabe, Delbert E. 
 McCuen, Chas. L. 
 McGreavy, Thomas 
 
 W. 
 Nickerson, Ellsworth 
 
 N. 
 Overby, Jesse M. 
 Ostrander, Ray M. 
 Poirier, Victor G. 
 Phelps, William A. 
 Patterson, Richard B. 
 Potucek, Chas. W. 
 Powell, Walter M. 
 Quinby, Albert M. 
 Roth rock, Ray R. 
 Riner, Howard W. 
 Rorick, Chas. A. 
 Swift, Claude J. 
 Smith, Chas. H. 
 Sparr, Orville 
 Snyder, Carroll D. 
 Sullivan, Clyde R. 
 Stewart, Harry L. 
 Sunderland, Roscoe 
 
 L. 
 Stone, Robert R. 
 Strphmeier, Rex R. 
 Shaffer, Chas. F. 
 Scrivens, Rolla E. 
 Tooley, Chester N. 
 Threlfall, John H. 
 Tennant, Warren A. 
 Tucker, Hobart B. 
 VanHorn, Harry E. 
 Vaughn, Warren Z. 
 Whittaker, Walter W. 
 Wilson, Loren T. 
 Wilson, Roscoe 
 Winsor, Glen H. 
 Waugh, Joseph E. 
 Walker, Joseph E. 
 Williams, Claude D. 
 Young, John E. 
 Zook, Russel A. 
 Attached : 
 
 Parker, Thaddie M. 
 Waid, Arthur 
 Discharge, 
 
 McKinley, William A. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 413 
 
 Captain, 
 
 George L,. Allison 
 1st lyieutenant, 
 
 ;Edwin V. Burkholder 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 William R. Carpenter 
 Privates : 
 
 Applegate, Oscar C. 
 
 Bray, EJarl W. 
 
 Bray, Francis EJ. 
 
 Brown, William J, 
 
 Brown, Curtis 
 
 Brunner, Henry 
 
 Brening, Geo. T. 
 
 Buffington, Harry W. 
 
 Buffington, Charlie H. 
 
 Bullock, Clyde 
 
 Barton, Luther L. 
 
 Beisel, Gotfred F. 
 
 Bibler, Meade O. 
 
 Booth, Frnest L. 
 
 Bauerle, Chas. W. 
 
 Baker, John F. 
 
 Blackburn, Russell 
 W. 
 
 Bates, Delano F. 
 
 Buffington, Walter O. 
 
 Boes, Chas. W. 
 
 Carney, Fred J. 
 
 Castle, Roy C. 
 
 Caswell, Arthur B. 
 
 Childs, Guy F. 
 
 Converse, Floyd F. 
 
 Cooper, Albeit F. 
 
 Cooper, Milburn M. 
 
 Christ, Morris 
 
 Christian, Geo. A. 
 
 Doron, Arthur W. 
 
 Downey, Elmer G. 
 
 Dodge, William J. 
 
 Doering, William 
 
 Deal, Clarence F. 
 
 Druse, Martin F. 
 
 Duree, Geo. W. 
 
 Fichenour, John W. 
 
 Fvans, Frnest R. 
 
 Fisher, Anthony 
 
 Flook, Herman F. 
 
 Fitch, Chas. L. 
 
 Fawley, Wilbur O. 
 
 Friesen, William 
 
 Fisher, Frank 
 
 France, William P. 
 
 Foth, Jona 
 
 COMPANY M 
 Marion 
 
 Foth, Fred W. 
 Gerhardt, John H. 
 Goodman, Nolan G. 
 Goodman, Lafe 
 Grimes, Bruce H. 
 Hammer, Park S. 
 Hanneman, Abraham 
 Hayes, Fverett F. 
 Herndon, Chas. D, 
 Herbel, Andrew 
 Holmberg, Chas. H. 
 Hopper, William F. 
 Honn, Calvin 
 Houlton, Carroll V. 
 Hugo, John R. 
 Hulett, Virgil W. 
 Hunt, Blaine A. 
 Hurt, Harold H. 
 Hopkins, Myron F. 
 Hadel, Henry W. 
 Jacka, Alfred F. 
 Jaeger, Harry C. 
 Kmot, John E. 
 Keaser, Kenneth 
 Kline, Henry 
 Kelther, Neil 
 Krause, Isaac 
 Larsen, Robert 
 Lawrence, Adrain F- 
 Lovelace, Joseph 
 Lovelace, Herbert 
 Lawrence, Fdward 
 Loveless, Paul C. 
 Linn, Farl J. 
 Martin, Henry S. 
 Miesse, James W. 
 Mackie, Frank J. 
 Murry, Andrew A. 
 Martin, Tolbert S. 
 Monroe, Lawrence R. 
 Miller, Walter J. 
 McClure, Norvie J. 
 McClellan, John I. 
 May, Alexander J. 
 jNIay, Adam F. 
 Matthews, Clarence 
 
 L. 
 Newcomb, Wayne C. 
 Noll, Archie R. 
 Niederhauser, Charlie 
 
 C. 
 Navrat, Joseph 
 Potter, Kent B. 
 Potter, Floyd 
 
 Piper, William O. 
 Patterson, Harry O, 
 Pauls, Rudolph 
 Raley, Frank O. 
 Reiswig, Dave 
 Riddle, John 
 Roberts, Orville O. 
 Rollins, Harry A. 
 Rollins, James C. 
 Ramsey, Garland 
 Shepperd, Charlie F. 
 Sims, Robert D. 
 Straubs, Heron S. 
 Shultz, Fred 
 Siegenthal, Albert 
 Sailer, Arthur H. 
 Schmidt, Alvin 
 Sellers, August 
 Schmidt, Richard M. 
 Smith, Isaac R. 
 Shimic, Albert 
 Shahan, Winfield F. 
 Shields, Albert J. 
 Sparks, Warren 
 Thomas, Thomas J. 
 Tajchman, Louis 
 Tipton, Chauncey F. 
 Tarrant, Andy F. 
 Trear, Barney H. 
 Urbanek, Philip M. 
 Urbanek, Fnos 
 Vadakin, Athol G. 
 Vance, Harry M. 
 Vogan, Orval C. 
 Varelman, George F. 
 Wachholz, August 
 Wight, Ollie O. 
 Weinmeister, Harry, 
 
 Winner, Claude S. 
 Weadon, Frank M. 
 Williams, Stephen C. 
 Wikus, Julius L. 
 Wells, John J. 
 Willhite, Desmond R. 
 Wheeler, Lewis H. 
 Wilcox, Harry M. 
 Walle, Paul J. 
 Wheeler, James A. 
 Zeih, Jacob, Jr. 
 Zeih, Henry 
 Zeiner, Farl S. 
 Attached: 
 
 Fox, George L. 
 
 SANITAEY DEPAETMENT 
 
 Major, 
 
 Henry D. Smith 
 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 Herbert M. Webb 
 
 John F. Coffman 
 Fugene Harrison 
 
414 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Dreyer, Arthur N. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Read, Lathrop B. Jr. 
 
 Schropp, Martin A. 
 
 MacLeod, Percy A. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Bonar, Verlin E. 
 
 Bonesteel, Guy M. 
 
 Combs, George M. 
 
 Duer, Alva O. 
 
 Erps, Harry R. 
 
 Fuhrken, Arnold C. 
 
 King, Fred E. 
 
 Lull, Sherman F. 
 Lull, Elmer 
 McLeod, Alvin C. 
 Philbrook, Merell F. 
 Stoffle, Herbert F. 
 Turner, James A. 
 VanDewalker, Farl 
 
 G. 
 Whestine, Sylvester 
 
 B. 
 Privates : 
 
 Allen, William H. 
 Close, Gilbert C. 
 Durst, John 
 
 Featherkyle, Leo F. 
 
 Fetrow, Ward W. 
 
 Gray, Robert C. 
 
 Howe, Edward C. 
 
 Johnson, Frank P. 
 
 Kelly, Newton B. 
 
 Lecuyer, Albert F. 
 
 Steele, Oliver P. Jr. 
 
 McLeod, Fred J. 
 
 Swan, Bradford L. 
 
 Wright, Paul C. 
 Attached : 
 Private, 
 
 Gray, Earl R. 
 
 FIRST KANSAS BATTALION OF ENGINEERS 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Major, 
 
 Leigh Hunt 
 Captain, 
 
 Glenwood L. McLane 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Sergeant-Major, 
 
 Raymond M. Reese 
 
 Master Engineers, Junior 
 Grade : 
 Burt Northrup 
 
 Oliver A. Lewis 
 Milton Steinmetz 
 William A. Stacey 
 Elmer O. Martin 
 Delmar Thorpe 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Hugh W. Crawford 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Luther R. Tillotson 
 
 Roy A. Finney 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Otto E. Dengelstadt 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Wright, Philo A. 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 
 Gaw, Richard M. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Stewart, William F. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Smith, Philander 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Haggard, Ashley P. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Baker, Alfred G. 
 
 Firestone, Clifford L. 
 
 Fletcher, Claude C. 
 
 Caywood, Hugh T. 
 
 Stevens, Hal 
 
 Mclntyre, John 
 
 Logan, Vernon L. 
 
 Deane, John F. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Terrill, Edmund J. 
 
 Irons, James P. 
 
 Hill, Clarence J. 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Vernson, Harry W. 
 
 Hughes, Jay B. 
 
 Chandler, Geo. L. 
 
 Palmer, Gustave J. F. 
 
 Kanode, Lynn H. 
 
 Stephan, Earle D. 
 
 Moreland, Alban R. 
 
 Holliday, Wilber N. 
 
 Purdy, Donald C. 
 
 Whipple, Harold C. 
 
 Thurman, Robert S. 
 
 Smith, Frank W. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Lane, John A. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Davis, Homer N. 
 
 Osborn, Lindsay C. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Ellis, Harold H. 
 
 Quigley, Earl 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Berlin, Brooks 
 
 Caveneo, Fred 
 
 Cowgill, David M. 
 
 Cheney, Albert R. 
 
 Daeschner, Frank S. 
 
 DeGroat, Bruce 
 
 Billon, Clyde W. 
 
 Eagon, Vernon R. 
 
 Eberhart, Sidney P. 
 
 French, Raymond E. 
 
 Gaston, Eldridge 
 Geiger, Jesse C. 
 Gress, Roy K. 
 Hockett, Ray L. 
 Janney, Walter C. 
 Knight, Raymond A. 
 Lindsay, Junior S. 
 Lingo, William E. 
 Monroe, Donald F. 
 Prewett, Vance V. 
 Pringle, Ray A. 
 Rees, George D. 
 Umpstead, Clarence 
 
 C. 
 Wakeman, Clyde L. 
 West, John W., Jr. 
 Williams, Milo Ells- 
 worth 
 Wilson, William Ray 
 Winters, Ray 
 Privates : 
 
 Anderson, Robert A. 
 Baker, David D. 
 Balston, Hobart 
 Barner, William E. 
 Barrett, Gordon A. 
 Beers, Dorsey L. 
 Beers, Glenn E. 
 Bell, Tobe E. 
 Bender, Harry E. 
 Birdsall, Walter H. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 415 
 
 Brel, Henry E). 
 Brooks, Hayden H. 
 Brown, Wm. T., Jr. 
 Burke, Otto J. 
 Burke, Chester L,. 
 Bushnell, Hurbert J. 
 Cahill, Joseph ^. 
 Campbell, Joseph M. 
 Canfield, Harry F. 
 Cassady, Floyd A. 
 Catansaro, Theodore 
 
 Chessman, Charles A. 
 Church, Richard B. 
 Colbert, Walter W. 
 Colvill, George B. 
 Cooper, Charley J. 
 Crum, Wilham F. 
 Curtis, Charles H. 
 Davis, Marvin B. 
 Dorris, Frank Jr. 
 Dugan, Frank T. 
 Dutro, John D. 
 Edwards, James W. 
 Fggert, Henry A, 
 Dkston, Martin H. 
 Fagan, Joseph C. 
 Forney, Abram H. 
 Hall, Selby H. 
 Hamilton, Fdwin G. 
 Henry, Ed. H. S. 
 Henica, WiUiam C. 
 Higgins, EaMoine M. 
 Hoselton, Purdy 
 Jarus, Fmil Charles 
 Johnson, Roy D. 
 Kelsey, Charles B. 
 Kittell, George J. 
 Kirkpatrick, Edward 
 
 R. 
 Koons, Howard W. 
 lyawrence, Robert K. 
 Lemly, Paul R. 
 Levey, Earl R. 
 Long, Claude O. 
 Lowe, Willoughby M. 
 Martin, Edwin 
 Miller, Willis C. 
 Mountfortt, Wade, Jr 
 McLaughlin, David 
 McNeal, Charles E. 
 McWilliams, Calvin S. 
 Owings, Glen R. 
 Painter, Edward L. 
 Parker, John O. 
 Piper, Franklin E. 
 Potter, Seymour 
 Reneau, William A. 
 Rigsby, Charles E. 
 Roberts, Clifton 
 Roberts, Lloyd R. 
 Rowan, Jom L. 
 Russell, Virgil B. 
 Scovel, Raleigh 
 
 Scudder, Benjamin H. 
 Sharkey, Charles T. 
 Sloane, Charles A. 
 Smith, Leonard F. 
 Spencer, Marion A. 
 Stephens, Frank L. 
 Stewart, Robert E. 
 Stratton, WilHam 
 Talbott, Verne H. 
 Tann, William E- 
 Timmins, Homer H. 
 Simmins, Vaughn E. 
 Townsend, James F., 
 
 Jr. 
 Trotter, Rolland L. 
 True, Guy Herbert 
 Van Hart, Harold H. 
 Veltrop, George 
 Willard, Sherman K. 
 Whitmore, Verne R. 
 White, Myron E. 
 Loss, Discharged, 
 Dano, Raymond J. 
 Ruble, Roland O. 
 Stephan, Thomas A. 
 Street, Gordon F. 
 Thompson, Leroy 
 Tomlinson, William 
 
 A. 
 Updegrove, Eugene A. 
 Wardin, William L. 
 Williamson, Melvin 
 
 L. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adamson, Paul D. 
 Allen, Fred R. 
 Amis, John C. 
 Anderson, Leroy P. 
 Barnes, Arthur R- 
 Battey, Eugene F. 
 Bell, Alexander R. 
 Bell, Robert P. 
 Bonebrake, Frederick 
 
 T. 
 Blevins, Earl F. 
 Brown, Ernest L. 
 Bunce, Earl J. 
 Bunce, Frank E. 
 Burke, Eugene R. 
 Burtch, Russell A. 
 Calderwood, Will E. 
 Campbell, Harry W. 
 Carlson, Willard F. J. 
 Clark, George A. 
 Clayton, James I. 
 Clements, Charles W. 
 Compton, Allen T. 
 Cress, Howard R. 
 Crowder, Leslie E. 
 Currens, Raymond L. 
 Dean, John S., Jr. 
 DeWolfe, Amos C, 
 Dillon, Dale C. 
 Doak, William 
 
 Dungan, Lee 
 Elliott, John P. 
 Ellison, Frank 
 Ewell, John L- 
 Felder, Mathew 
 Finuf, Harrison 
 Ford, Elmo A. 
 Ford, John J. 
 Foulk, Albert C. 
 Friend, John M. 
 Gaines, Thomas J. 
 Garrett, Harold E. 
 Garvie, Hugh A. 
 Guyer, Ray H. 
 Hall, Jay 
 Hall, Seldon G. 
 Harrington, F. 
 
 Wallace 
 Dewitt, Henry W. 
 Hill, Richard L. 
 Huffman, Claude I. 
 Huntsinger, Ivan 
 Ice, Lloyd 
 Jessop, Charles T. 
 Justice, Robert J. 
 Keeney, Leroy C, 
 Keeses, Gerald B. 
 Ketchum, Omar B. 
 Linscheid, Otto P. 
 Light, John C. 
 McClain, Lige D. 
 Magill, Laurus A. 
 Magill, Wilbur S. 
 McBride, Andrew L- 
 Martin, Ray P. 
 Mason, Ray B. 
 Mason, Robert W. 
 Matthews, David W. 
 Minturn, Benjamin 
 
 E. 
 Morriss, Clarence M. 
 Norris, Fred F. 
 O'Leary, Dorman H. 
 Oman, Ralph W. 
 Owen, Joseph 
 Pinet, Eli P. 
 Polls, John R. 
 Rainey, Robert L. 
 Randall, Charles 
 Reid, Theodore C. 
 Riley, Edward S. 
 Rogers, Willard B. 
 Rucker, Harvey D. 
 Sackett, Lucien E. 
 Schaub, Lee R. 
 Scribner, John C. 
 Shrader, Paul R. 
 Sills, Shellis H. 
 Simmons, Chester T. 
 Singleton, William S. 
 Talbert, Joseph H. 
 Taylor, Glenn 
 Thurman, Harold D. 
 Welch. David 
 
416 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Welch, Howard M. 
 Wiley, Alfred B. 
 Worral, Anton W. 
 
 Wilson, John G. 
 Ball, Eddie R. 
 Furlong, Clarence E. 
 Martin, Glen 
 
 Piper, Albert 
 Vier, Shellie V. 
 Whitecotton, Fred 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Darl S. James 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Harold J. Brownlee 
 
 William D. Weidlein 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Hubert R. Hudson 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 McCarty, Leon B. 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 
 Barnhart, Oliver F. 
 
 English, William J. 
 
 Snyder, Wenslow P. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Nevin, Harry L. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Ronayne, Frank J. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Roberts, Justice L. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Forney, Roy S. 
 
 Proudfit, James H. 
 
 Weibel, Leo. N. 
 
 Spratt, Robert C. 
 
 Ficken, Benjamin F. 
 
 Conrey, Stephen J. 
 
 Dryden, Paul L. 
 
 Bell, Roy H. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Coles, Harry R. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 Kansas City 
 
 Saddler, 
 
 Walker, Fred R. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Harris, Hector W. 
 
 Nicholson, Floyd S. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Dittrich, Louis 
 
 Whittington, John H. 
 
 Anderson, Harbert V. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Weidlein, Glee T. 
 
 Wilson, Harry L. 
 
 Kelley, Raymond B. 
 
 Madden, Frank A. 
 
 Brazille, Edward T. 
 
 Foster, Fred V. 
 
 McCallum, Donald J. 
 
 Webb, Walton H. 
 
 Trotter, Nathan P. 
 
 Stephens, Hollis H. 
 
 Brigham, Arthur 
 Perry 
 
 Vest, Edwin A. 
 
 Feller, George C. 
 
 Drury, Andrew W. 
 
 Winn, Edward L. 
 
 Rau, Eugene E. 
 
 Willis, James W. 
 
 Angle, Roy 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Becker, Jonas P. 
 Bottum, Charles A. 
 Carmichael, Lachlan 
 Cooper, William C. 
 Craven, John J. 
 Edmonds, William 
 
 Henry 
 Englander, Arthur R. 
 Foster, Guy A. 
 Heinmann, Charles T. 
 Hoyt, Raymond A. 
 Lane, Frank C. 
 Leport, Fred R. 
 McAvoy, Bernard F. 
 MacDuff, Irl G. 
 Moon, Alva L. 
 Norman, Frank R. 
 Porter, Will A. 
 Ramsey, Arnold G. 
 Reardon, John 
 Seineke, Max E. 
 Roberts, Clarence 
 Smith, Gardner M. 
 Smith, Orliff E. 
 Strohmyer, William 
 
 E. 
 Thomas, Clifford A. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Orlin Hudson 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Charles R. Fisher 
 
 Carl E. Rouse 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Herbert T. Barclay 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 McCoy, Charles A. 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 
 Henschel, Ramsey C. 
 
 Nelson, Henning F. 
 
 Tucker, Arthur L. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Schwitzgebel, Charles 
 F. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 McLanahan, Orville 
 W. 
 
 COMPANY 
 Kansas City 
 
 Stable Sergeant 
 
 Gilmore, Walton W. 
 Duty Sergeants : 
 
 Dells, David P. 
 
 Gosney, Thomas W. 
 
 Van Doren, Robert 
 H. 
 
 Frick, Wallace H. 
 
 Gibson, Foster M. 
 
 Dissinger, John E. 
 
 Crooks, Reed M. 
 
 Yarnell, George W. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Austin, Charles E. 
 
 Bakeman, J. P. 
 
 Bruce, Guy S. 
 
 Faulkner, Ward 
 
 Hill, Charles A. 
 
 Hvimphrey, Ralph 
 
 Merriam, Charles W. 
 
 McMillen, Delbert 
 
 Miller, Max 
 
 Miller, Harry W. 
 
 Nelson, Len B. 
 
 Russell, Charles F. 
 
 Snow, Leon J. 
 
 Sack, Norman R. 
 
 Shackelton, Fred J. 
 
 Stewart, Harold E. 
 
 Shannon, Harold E. 
 
 Toole, Wilbut N. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Bankin, Walter S. 
 Saddler, 
 
 McMickell, Harvey D. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Alley, Worth B. 
 
 Payne, EHas B. 
 
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 417 
 
 Cooks: 
 
 Thenney, Ernest 
 
 Dell, Raymond H. 
 
 Pickett, Oliver B. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Albin, Ira F. 
 
 Dill, Bruce L. 
 
 Evans, Joseph R. 
 
 Fleener, George C. 
 
 Prater, Robert A. 
 
 Gardner, Harold B. 
 
 Gentry, John P. 
 
 Harwood, Arthur W. 
 
 Hendricks, Garry T. 
 
 King, George R. 
 
 Knauss, John D. 
 
 Lanctot, Sheridan E. 
 
 McFarlane, Joseph T. 
 
 Martin, Ward 
 
 Martin, Bruen h. 
 
 Northrup, Floyd L,. 
 
 Palmer, Edward G. 
 
 Rhodes, Gerald F. 
 Reed, Ruben R. 
 
 Rowan, Thomas M. 
 Savage, Frank M. 
 
 Sicking, Walter A. 
 Smith, John D. 
 Talpey, Frank A. 
 Tracy, James R. 
 Thurston, Bryan E. 
 Verdieck, Arthur 
 Wetzig, John R. 
 Wirth, John A. 
 Wisely, William W. 
 Walter, Chas. E. 
 Privates : 
 Allen, Albert A. 
 Barker, Thomas Y. 
 Bennett, James A. 
 Brading, Roy W, 
 Brown, John N. 
 Condon, Robert E. 
 Cosintino, John 
 Crane, Milo A, 
 
 Crawford, Jess 
 
 Conroy, Curtis W. 
 
 Deems, Frank L,. 
 
 Dessert, Harry H. 
 
 Dimmitt, Austin 
 
 Duncan, John H. 
 
 Eaton, Robert R. 
 
 Edwards, William E. 
 
 Farber, Henry C. 
 
 Flinn, Roy W. 
 
 Glassco, James S. 
 
 Graham, Harry E. 
 
 Graham, Wilbur E. 
 
 Gray, William R. 
 Grieshammer, Nicholas 
 
 Ragan, Eugene J. 
 Hamacher, Herbert H. 
 
 Harvey, Hayden W. 
 
 Haslip, Charles R. 
 Henricks, Charley E. 
 Hendricks, Jesse H. 
 Hethcock, Lee 
 Holverstott, Claud T. 
 Hoover, Merle W. 
 Horrell, Jay R. 
 Heckert, Eugene D. 
 Humphrey, Walter F. 
 Johnson, Carl F. 
 Johnson, George A. 
 Johnson, Ishmael 
 Ivy, Thruman 
 Keegan, John F. 
 Kilmer, James A. 
 Knutson, Arthur J. 
 Kloster, Elmer A. 
 Lamb, Frank 
 Lambert, Robert E. 
 Layson, Robert C. 
 Lane, Charles H. 
 Lloyd, Everett R. 
 Lovejoy, Fred 
 Lucas, William F. 
 McGreary, Leo. R. 
 
 McKeown, Robert H. 
 
 Mackie, Lyman S. 
 
 Major, Everett O. 
 
 Mateer, Frank D. 
 
 Morris, Harold E. 
 
 Morrison, Ralph W 
 
 Newton, Ralph W. 
 
 Nettleton, Francis J. 
 
 Pavlu, Albert J. 
 
 Perkins, George T. 
 
 Perkins, Harold L. 
 
 Plunkett, James W 
 
 Pierce, Harry H. 
 
 Raddant, George T 
 
 Rice, Howard B. 
 
 Riley, David F. 
 
 Rodewald, Albert T 
 
 Rossner, Lome L. ' 
 
 Sebree, Heise H. 
 
 Shields, Edward E. 
 
 Shultz, George J. 
 
 Smither, Webster D 
 
 Sprague, Arthur G. 
 
 Storey, Bert W. 
 
 Styrgis, Joy F. 
 
 Summers, George F 
 Tedder, Norman C. * 
 
 Thomas, Lee R. 
 Thomson, Gerald' R 
 Thomson, John L 
 Underwood, Tillman 
 Van Houten, Herbert 
 
 H. 
 Van Pelt, George C. 
 Voltz, Dee D. 
 Weber, August, Jr. 
 White, Joseph L. 
 Wendt, George C. 
 Westendick, Philip H. 
 Williams, Charles D. 
 Willard, Harry L. 
 Williams, Ira R. 
 Wood, Albert B. 
 Loss, 
 
 Nunter, Frank A. 
 
 DETACHED MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF 1ST BATTALION 
 OF KANSAS ENGINEERS 
 
 Sergeant, 
 
 Brier, Archibald J. 
 Privates, 
 
 Hawley, Leslie H. 
 
 Holmes, Rodney J. 
 Holtwick, Charles J. 
 Pardon, Charles V. 
 Ramsey, John D. 
 Sendson, Harold M. 
 
 KANSAS ENGINEER TRAIN 
 Independence 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Robert W. Lewis 
 First Lieutenants : 
 
 Peake Vincil 
 
 Fannon F. Beau- 
 champ 
 Second Lieutenant, 
 Donald Gaither 
 
 Master Engineers, 
 Senior Grade: 
 Sanders, Ernest 
 Hunt, William R. 
 
418 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Junior Grade : 
 
 Douthat, Lee A. 
 
 Oakleaf, Lovell R. 
 
 Dreher, Charlie 
 
 Rowland, Dan W. 
 First Sergeant, 
 
 Chappuie, Gordon 
 First Class Sergeants : 
 
 Morgan, Will C. 
 
 Hereld, Roy 
 Bn. Sup. Sergeant, 
 
 Matthews, Dean V. 
 Supply Sergeants : 
 
 Smith, Robert R. 
 
 Brinkham, Floyd VV. 
 Stable Sergeants: 
 
 Overfield, Roy 
 
 Travis, Chester K. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 McCue, James B. 
 
 Hill, John R. 
 
 Blades, Ralph C. 
 
 Davidson, Frank 
 
 Todd, Farl C. 
 
 McCollum, Eugene 
 F. 
 
 Corporals : 
 Jones, Albert S. 
 Evans, George A. 
 Frisinger, Chester A. 
 McEvers, Maurice A. 
 Small, Orloe D. 
 Smith, William A. 
 Bloom, George L. 
 Ebner, Clyde T. 
 Navarre, Henry C. 
 Cooper, Hutchison 
 
 Horseshoers: 
 
 Bixler, John L. 
 
 Hathaway, Claude W. 
 
 Fields. Claude B. 
 
 Murray, Loyd M. 
 
 Ditts, Olin H. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Robertson, Walter F. 
 Wagoners: 
 
 Allen, Ben S. 
 
 Anz Elmo, Nicola 
 
 Anderson, Howard M. 
 
 Addington, Albert T. 
 
 Allred, Ivan A. 
 
 Baldwin, Calvin R, 
 
 Bennett, John R. 
 
 Brown, George O. 
 
 Buntin, Homer H. 
 
 Blalack, Pearl 
 
 Carr, Charles A. 
 
 Callahan, Owen 
 
 Catlin, Courtney L. 
 
 Carter, Howell H. 
 
 Carlson, Harry E. 
 Campbell, Lester E. 
 Cobb, John L. 
 Cooper, Robert F, 
 Crane, Fred A. 
 Culver, Willard K. 
 Dack, Harry G. 
 Degarimore, Eddie 
 Doop, Jesse 
 Dobson, Glen 
 Drybread, Ephraim 
 Eastin, Homer F. 
 Elliott, Verl 
 Edmunds, Walter J. 
 Earlow, Denzel M. 
 Eleenor, William V. 
 Gardenshire, Malcolm 
 
 H. 
 Gardner, Henry I. 
 Howe, Claude E. 
 Holton, Floyd A. 
 Henderson, Homer J. 
 Henderson, John S. 
 Healer, Thomas 
 Hyler, Denver H. 
 Hole, James M. 
 Jackson, Ivan 
 Jones, Robert S. 
 Johnson, Samuel K. 
 Krone, Edward F. 
 Long, Oscar 
 Lusby, Henry H. 
 Lusby, Everett E. 
 McClure, Roy A. 
 McGee, Paul C. 
 Mcintosh, David A. 
 Moss, Charles H. 
 Main, John P. 
 Murray, Orville O. 
 Meyer, Emil J. 
 Mensch, Ray S. 
 Marshall, Hal E. 
 Morse, Milford J. 
 Malcolm, Ira E. 
 Milton, Wood E. 
 Murray, Lynn R. 
 Metcalf, Harold W. 
 Navarre, Guy W. 
 Navarre, Otto 
 Parshall. George S. 
 Rains, Crit 
 Renner, William 
 Rundell. Lee S. 
 Rowland, Alfred L. 
 Saladin. Tohn H. 
 Schoenfeldt, Carl J. 
 Sloan, Julius C. 
 Shunk, Guy E. 
 Schulz, William C. 
 Taylor, Theodore 
 Taylor, Ogle 
 Tuttle, Thomas P. 
 
 Van Cleave, Everett 
 
 E. 
 
 Vance, Willis W. 
 
 White, Guy S. 
 
 Wahl, William A. 
 
 Witt, Sterling 
 
 Wetzel, Guy 
 
 Watt, Everett P. 
 
 Ziegler, Noland T. 
 
 Winchester, Burt C. 
 
 Schreck, Edward G. 
 
 Strassberg, Herman 
 
 Spelman, Joseph F. 
 
 Sutton, Sewall 
 
 Sutton, Newton 
 
 Richardson, Loyd M. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Murray, Thomas D. 
 
 Hunt. William H. 
 
 Forman, Lew R. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Holdren, John 
 
 Dennis, Harlan A. 
 
 Roads, Harold B. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Allen, Carl K. 
 
 Allen, Vernon 
 
 Bauer, George F. 
 
 Carpenter, Arville W. 
 
 Clifford, Homer L. 
 
 Decker, Robert J. 
 
 Bopst, William O. 
 
 Hoover, Ora 
 
 Hosier, Merle 
 
 Nicholson, Chauncey 
 I. 
 
 Mann, James 
 
 Mibeck, Jacob G. 
 
 Oakleaf, Paul B. 
 
 Ray, Dennis 
 
 Shy, John W. 
 
 Sutton, Ward 
 
 Thompson, Jack 
 
 Springer, Job 
 Stephens, James M. 
 
 Swisher, William Z. 
 Privates: 
 
 Bircher, Archie C. 
 
 Dougherty, Henry W. 
 
 Hayes, Jack W. 
 
 Hilyard, Lee F. 
 Mears, Herbert E. 
 
 Moews, George 
 
 Marling, Ben W. 
 
 Neary, William J. 
 
 Owen, Frank G. 
 
 Parker. Benjamin F. 
 
 Pinegar, George D. 
 
 Price, Charles E. 
 
 Roszel, Hugh D. 
 Russell, Lonnie E. 
 
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 419 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT, KANSAS FIELD ARTILLERY 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Major, 
 
 William A. Pattison 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Hugh Means, ,, . 
 
 Commanding ^^?JO^' ^ „, . 
 
 T • . X /^ 1 1 Roy F- Waring 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, Captain, 
 
 Bruce Griffith Richard B. Porter 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Clarence G. Grimes 
 Captain, 
 
 Martin C. Pennekamp 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Earl A. Blackburn 
 
 HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Arthur M. Mills 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Frank H. McFarland 
 Regt. Sergeant Major, 
 
 Cummings, Earl R. 
 Bn. Sergeant Major, 
 
 McGaw, Stewart M. 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Rhule, Grover C. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Johnson, Rupert A. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Blakely, Charles G. Jr. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Ringgenberg, Joseph 
 C. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Beine, Robert F. 
 
 Kreger, John B. 
 
 Spielman, Harold G. 
 
 Sproat, Philip H. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Neely, Frank B. 
 
 Leiss, Walter H. 
 Privates : 
 
 Anderson, Ben F. 
 
 Anderson, Oscar R. 
 
 Barbour, Lancewell M. 
 
 Bothwell, Karl 
 
 Bulkley, Henry H. 
 
 Carson, Harry 
 
 Collins, Joe P. 
 
 Crowell, Harlow 
 
 Debauge, Joseph A. 
 
 Ditmer, Otto H. 
 
 Felker, Charley E. 
 Fichtner, Frank R. 
 Fritz, Edwin A. 
 Gardner, Vance G. 
 Goodsell, Clyde M. 
 Gregory, Edwin M. 
 Hanson, Harry P. 
 Hey, Roscoe E. 
 Jenkins, William E. 
 Johnson, Arthur E. 
 Johnson, Arthur V. 
 Johnson, Carl V. 
 Johnson, Richard 
 Kessinger, Mervin R. 
 Kiesow, Herman F. 
 Kistler, Herbert D. 
 Larson, Albin L. 
 Leander, Gus 
 Lynch, Patrick A. 
 McArdle, Albert H. 
 McFall, Robert R. 
 Main, Clarence L. 
 Mainey, Francis A. 
 Marchetti, Latt 
 Marshall, Joseph O. 
 Mauzey, Joseph H. 
 Neiswender, Chester 
 
 P. 
 Nicholson, John H. 
 Parrish, William W. 
 Phillips, Robert A. 
 Powers, Louis A. 
 Sawyer, Raymond M. 
 Sharpless, Samuel 
 Shipley, Roderick J. 
 Shultz, Joseph 
 Skinner, Rexford G. 
 
 Smiley, Harold A. 
 
 Smith, George 
 
 Thatcher, Kenneth T. 
 
 Vann, James A. 
 
 Wilkerson, Clyde 
 
 Williams, Earl M. 
 
 Wilson, Harvey 
 
 Zercher, John A. 
 
 Ziegenbein, Hamer L 
 Band Leader, 
 
 Morrison, Thomas S. 
 Asst. Band Leader, 
 
 Main, David W. 
 Band Sergeant, 
 
 Smith, Daniel L 
 Band Corporals: 
 
 Miller, Martin G. 
 
 Eckert, Fred 
 
 Gibbs, Karl M. 
 Third Class Musicians: 
 
 Barnes, Bryant 
 
 Bowman, Fred W. 
 
 Bowman, Vernon E. 
 
 Browne, Richard H. 
 
 Dennis, Loyd H. 
 
 Hammer, Claude T. 
 
 Henkle, Elgin G. 
 
 Hough, Byron 
 
 Maxwell, Paul M. 
 
 Montgomery, Charles 
 Z. 
 
 Morris, Clyde R. 
 
 Peterson, Tell 
 
 Ramsey, Fred A. 
 
 Ritts, Alvin V. 
 
 Russell, Homer 
 
 Sinclear, Jack W. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Thomas A, Mayhew 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Benjamin H. Porter 
 
 SUPPLY COMPANY 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Ahrens, Fred W. 
 
 Baker, Alma 
 
 Bair, Raymond F. 
 
 Bilello, Frank H. 
 Conoway, Clyde E. 
 Cooper, Arthur 
 Dalton, Aaron V. 
 
420 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Dow, John C. 
 Fike, A. I. 
 Foster, Edwin A. 
 Frye, Ed 
 Frost, Jack 
 Halsey, Marian A. 
 Hawk, Jo Fuqua 
 Hendricks, Eh 
 Houck, Frank M. 
 
 Johnson, Roger W. 
 Morgan, Earl 
 Mouror, James R. 
 McAuliffe, William J. 
 Porter, Earl L. 
 Porter, Samuel P. 
 Shinn, Clarence A. 
 Stimson, Ray A. 
 Stimson, Cleo 
 Shelden, Benjamin W. 
 
 Schmidt, Gus A. 
 Saxon, Kenne 
 Thrift, Claude M. 
 Winstead, Dewey E. 
 Wood, Ernest E. 
 Workman, Charles W. 
 Whitehead, Fred B. 
 York, Solomon E. 
 Zartman, Oscar B. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William P. MacLean 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Paul T. McFarland 
 
 Nels Anderson 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 
 Donald F. McKee 
 
 Hugh A. MacLean 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Leslie Rowles 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Wilson, Clarence E. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Kennedy, Edgar C. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Domme, George 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Coon, Edgar R. 
 Sergeants, 
 
 Link, William C. 
 
 Whitaker, Thomas C. 
 
 Kennady, Homer F. 
 
 Maxwell, Albert 
 
 Goshorn, Robert E. 
 
 Mariner, Zoe O. 
 
 Baker, Clarence E. 
 
 Brantingham, George 
 L. 
 
 Rogers, Glenn W. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Bell, Edwin F. 
 
 Murphy, Charles 
 
 Baker, George P. 
 
 Critchfield, Otto B. 
 
 Tamquay, Ernest C. 
 
 Fulton, Marshall T. 
 
 Morehouse, Edgar 
 
 Beerbohm, Fred W. 
 
 McArthur, Charles E. 
 
 Thomas, Theodore 
 
 McGee, Chauncey 
 
 Woods, Arthur M. 
 
 Beals, Herbert J. 
 
 Smith, James B. 
 
 Stone, Alpha 
 
 Young, Ralph M. 
 
 Bracy, Willard H. 
 
 Fable, Frank 
 
 Irvin, Leonard D. 
 
 BATTERY A 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Jarrell, Archibald W. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Towles, Glendon 
 
 Cavert, James M. 
 
 Woolworth, Cecil I. 
 Chief Mechanics: 
 
 Stewart, George D. 
 
 Hammond, Harry L. 
 
 Wiesner, Isidore A. 
 
 Ireland, George I. 
 Horseshoers: 
 
 Goodell, Edward S. 
 
 Pepper, Lee V. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Bolibaugh, Louis 
 Buglers: 
 
 LaFromboise, Roy 
 
 Sweeney, Paul 
 
 Kaufman, Paul T. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Gum, Horace L. 
 
 Lesher, Cecil S. 
 
 Lyons, Reed M. 
 
 Norris, Lewis M. 
 
 Parry, Thomas H. 
 
 Randall, William N. 
 
 Smith, Marshall 
 Privates: 
 
 Ackerman, James R. 
 
 Adams, Delbert 
 
 Adams, Dennis 
 
 Adams, John 
 
 Albro, Fred 
 
 Anderson, Charles B. 
 
 Arnold, Herman 
 
 Austin, Willard D. 
 
 Barthel, Harold S. 
 
 Bennett, George L. 
 
 Bettinger, Osbern D. 
 
 Bower, Camile J. 
 
 Bower, William 
 
 Boyer, Harry F. 
 
 Brookish, Maurice 
 
 Braubaker, Albert T. 
 
 Buckley, Lyle H. 
 
 Bundy, William D. R. 
 
 Garnahan, James J. 
 
 Garnahan, Robert A. 
 
 Carroll, James W. 
 
 Chacey, Doyle L. 
 Chambers, William L- 
 Chappelle, Oscar H. 
 Cole, Summer W. 
 Conklin, Arthur L- 
 Cook, Elijah W. 
 Cooper, Harry E. 
 Cunningham. Walter 
 Davis, Ralph H. 
 Decker, Claud R. 
 Denner, Payton L. 
 Dickerson, Curtis 
 Diehl, John P. 
 Dietz, John P. 
 Down, Harry E. 
 Eddy, Jesse A. 
 Eagle, Arthur L. 
 Eagle, Robert L. 
 Evans, Thomas 
 Frederick, Guy L. 
 Freeman, Martin J. 
 Freeman, Max C. 
 French, Charles H. 
 Fronke, Arnold C. 
 Gable, George D. 
 Gardner, Carl S. 
 ■Gohrt, Edwin E. M. 
 Gillette, Kenneth R, 
 Givens, George E. 
 Gracey, William P. 
 Gregory, Leonard L. 
 Groff, Webb W. 
 Grunthal, Walter C. 
 Ball, Kenneth W. 
 Hammer, Howard P. 
 Hastings, Irving R. 
 Haynes, William C. 
 Hazel, Ernest C. 
 Head, Joseph A. 
 Heberling, Junius L. 
 Henderson, Edwin A. 
 Henry, Arthur P. 
 Hensel, Hiram F. 
 Henson, Vernon A. 
 Holland, CHfford R. 
 Irish, Floyd E. 
 Tames, Walter E. 
 Johnson, Cliflford O. 
 Johnston, George F. 
 
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 421 
 
 Kane, John T. 
 Kaufman, Stanley 
 Keim, Harvey D. 
 Keine, Edward A. 
 Kirby, Vance 
 Kling, John 
 Laird, Leslie 
 Lang, Carl G. 
 Lengen, William V. 
 Lent, Roscoe W. 
 Lindemann, Richard 
 
 W. 
 McCorkill, Walter M. 
 McConnell, Charles 
 
 N. 
 McKnaught, Charles 
 
 G. 
 McMurtry, Harold C. 
 Mair, Earl L. 
 Martin, Zack 
 Mauzey, Perc E. 
 Miles, Winslow F. 
 Moore, George S. 
 
 Morey, Charles T. 
 Morgan, Ralph G. 
 Morrow, Arthur C. 
 Newman, Clifford A. 
 Norris, Walter B. 
 Palmer, Roy H. 
 Patterson, Mahlon H. 
 Phillips, William H. 
 Price, Harrison L. 
 Rafferty, Owen J. 
 Rains, George O. 
 Rees, William 
 Reinoehl, Carl R. 
 Richards, Kenneth V. 
 Robbins, Harry L. 
 Robinson, Ellis A, 
 Rooney, Robert 
 Rosner, Albert S. 
 Rowley, Earl S. 
 Saunders, Galen W. 
 Scahlon, Frank J. 
 Schwab, John B. 
 Smith, Albert E. 
 
 Smith, Marion A. 
 Springer, Harold G. 
 Steinmetz, Henry O. 
 Steinmetz, Ivan 
 Stewart, Samuel G. 
 Stice, Glen C. 
 Stockton, Lee 
 Swearingen, Maurice 
 Tanner, Charles W. 
 Thomas, John E. 
 Torrence, Howard 
 Tweedy, Robert D. 
 Uphouse, Thomas R. 
 Wallace, George B. 
 Ward, Charles E. D. 
 Warner, Lorraine D. 
 Watson, Alex C. 
 Werner, Ed G. 
 Whitaker, James M. 
 Willett, Albert E. 
 Workman, Lester 
 Wright, Harvey W. 
 Sellars, Fred E. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 John S. Amick 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Charles E. Edwards 
 
 Dana T. Jennfngs 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 
 Ralph H. Spotts 
 
 John F. Troutman 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Fink, Louis O. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Rice, William I. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Baker, Milton L. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Battin, Charles T. 
 
 Jones, Harold M. 
 
 Ogden, Raymond C. 
 
 Ritter, Clair A, 
 
 Winey, Willard L. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Davis, Earl E. 
 
 Dunkley, George 
 
 Thomason, Russell W. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Horr, Worthie R. 
 
 Kemper, HoUis D. 
 
 Talbert, Leslie A. 
 Mechanics: 
 
 Nottingham, Harold 
 
 E. 
 
 Reed, George O. 
 Samuel, Ralph C. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Bishop, Howard L. 
 Blackbird, Thomas 
 
 BATTEEY B 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 Picketts, Tom A. 
 Privates: 
 
 Abbott, George 
 Aldrich, Earl W. 
 Allen, Fredria R. 
 Arnold, Lewis W. 
 Barnd, Richard 
 Baumgartner, Carl H. 
 Bear, Abe 
 Bennett, Alfred S. 
 Bradstreet, Edward D. 
 Brass, Edward B. 
 Bray, Floyd E. 
 Breakey, George D. 
 Brown, Rufus Earl 
 Bruner, Dryfus F. 
 Buckner, Claude E. 
 Burns, Edward 
 Cain, William G. 
 Carr, Harry 
 Carter, Russell D. 
 Chinsoe, William 
 Chupco, Moses 
 Clarke, Byron L. 
 Coffin, George E- 
 Conner, Charles A. 
 Conrad, Howard 
 Coogan, John L. 
 Cooper, Edward O. 
 Couteau, Herbert 
 Cox, Edward R. 
 Creel, Howard E. 
 Curry, Everett 
 Dailey, Jasper A. 
 Dale, Allen P. 
 Davis, Thomas D. 
 
 Davis, Jesse W. 
 Deere, Daniel 
 Dougherty, Joseph C. 
 Dove, Charles M. 
 Duvall, Thomas 
 Ellis, Blair 
 Ellis, Otto 
 Elston, George 
 Evinger, Labon E. 
 Ewing, Walter 
 Fairbanks, Samuel P. 
 Fletcher, Zell 
 Forgery, Jesse J. 
 Gettinger, Elmer 
 Gibler, Eugene E. 
 Gooselaw, Henry 
 Gordanier, Glenn L. 
 Gotts, Harry 
 Goulette. Preston 
 Graves, Ezra T. 
 Griggs, Eugene 
 Hadl, Vitus 
 Hafmoon, Edgar 
 Harding, Frank E. 
 Harjo, Johnson 
 Harvey, Samuel J. 
 Heiken, Ernest H. 
 Holm, Bryan 
 Henderson, Earl M. 
 Hill, Samuel 
 Holt, Frank M. 
 Hopper, Ralph G. 
 Humphrey, Wilbur J. 
 Hunter, Floyd L. 
 Hunter, Issac 
 Ingles, James A. 
 
422 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Ingram, Irwin 
 
 Jewett, Mark 
 
 Johnson, William N. 
 
 Johnson, John O. 
 
 Jones, William M. 
 
 Justice, Edward S. 
 
 Kane, Lawrence W. 
 
 Karns, Warren A. 
 
 Kerschen, Carl N. 
 
 Kilbuck, Jerry 
 
 King, George W. 
 
 Kingsley, Volney 
 
 Kirby, Elton A. 
 
 Kirkpatrick, Dewey M 
 
 LaDeaux, Antoine 
 
 LaMere, Charlie B. 
 
 Lange, Leo H. 
 
 Lemberber, Lloyd E. 
 
 LeRoy John F. 
 
 Lind, Lloyd L. 
 
 Lowry, Lyman 
 
 McCabria, Harry G. 
 
 McCurtain, Grene 
 
 McKittrick, John 
 
 McPherson, Raymond 
 C. 
 
 Maddox, Dewey 
 
 Mannschreck, Orval 
 
 Martin, William Har- 
 ry 
 
 Meadows. Roy W. 
 
 Mears, Gus M. 
 
 Miller, Fred H. 
 
 Mills, Lloyd R. 
 
 Murie, Lawrence 
 Neanomantuby, Jacob 
 Oakley, George 
 Oatman, Arthur C. 
 Okeson, George N. 
 O'Neil, Donald B. 
 Oswalt, Arthur 
 Otto, Edward A. 
 Owens, Miles M. 
 Pate, Goldy M. 
 Peacock, Phillip 
 Pepper, Robinson 
 Phegley, Homer El- 
 wood 
 Phelps, Lawrence 
 Pickens, William 
 Pieratt, William E. 
 Pollock, Harris 
 Prettyboy, Benjamin 
 Puckett, Clarence E. 
 Rairden, John R. 
 Randall, Charles B. 
 Randall, Richard 
 Reed, Homer C. 
 Reed, James A, 
 Reinhart, James A. 
 Reneau, Lee E. 
 Richmond, Alfred B. 
 Risley, Chester 
 Romero, Ralph 
 Rooks, Edward F, 
 Russell, Jacob B. 
 Saunders, Henry W, 
 Schramm, Joseph 
 Shelton, Oakley R. 
 
 Shoemaker, Lee W. 
 Shovlin, John E- 
 Sloop, Ernest W. 
 Smith, Leon E. 
 Sockey, Rafe 
 Starns, William D, 
 Stewart, Clarence A. 
 Taylor, Charles M. 
 Thompson, Harry H. 
 Tompkins, Amzie T. 
 Tracy, John R. 
 Trammell, Joe W. 
 Trock, Elmer L. 
 VanNess, William D, 
 VanWey, Guy S. 
 Venard, William L. 
 Vandegrift, Vernol K. 
 Vandegrift, Vertol J. 
 Vitt, Otto L. 
 Walrod, Carl 
 White, Alvin 
 White, Elmo E. 
 White, Frank H. 
 Williamson, Roy 
 Winkler, Frank E. 
 Woodward, Merritt 
 Yardy, William 
 Simmerman, Clyde R. 
 Bates, George 
 Helwig, Paul M. 
 Hodges, Stephen E. 
 Johnson, Arthur G. 
 Judd, Earl C. 
 Martin, Murry 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James C. Hughes 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Hal Curran 
 
 Peter L. Zickgraf 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 
 John Broadlick 
 
 John H. Blair 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Wofford, John E. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 McCoy, Bob M. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Brown, Charles M. 
 
 Goodwin, John W. 
 
 Woodard, Fred E. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Wolfe, Cecil E. 
 
 Billings, Earl K. 
 
 Wilson, Edward 
 
 Bruce, Estel V. 
 
 Cockerill, Carl L. 
 
 Holmes, Frank 
 
 French, Arthur M. 
 
 BATTERY C 
 
 Pittsburg 
 
 Frakes, Henry G. 
 Wright, Arthur L. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adamson, Harry B. 
 Allison, Robert E. 
 Arkle, John P. 
 Azember, Nick 
 Bamthouse, William 
 
 M. 
 Benedict, Frank G. 
 Bennett, Amos F. 
 Billiard, Ernest 
 Black, Charles R. 
 Blake, Albert S. 
 Boissier, Elie 
 Boissier, Leon 
 Bone, Alexander H. 
 Bordin, Achille 
 Boothe, Daniel L. 
 Bridgewater, Clyde E- 
 Bridgewater, Paul A. 
 Britton, Andrew R., 
 
 Jr. 
 Budde, Frank H. 
 
 Buehre, Frederick A 
 Burdick, Clyde R. 
 Burger, Waldo Y. 
 Burnett, Joseph R. 
 Bicknell, Edgar S 
 Cadwallader, Ardell 
 Cameron, Jerry 
 Campbell, Bill H. 
 Chaffins, Frank 
 Chancellor, Roy E- 
 Chancellor, John A, 
 Choat, Oscar 
 Chr>'sler, Leo F. 
 Copley, Roy C. 
 Cordray, Otis 
 Craft, Clarence A. 
 Crelly, Harold J. 
 Courtney, Reginald R. 
 Cowden, Harry D. 
 Condy, George R., Jr. 
 Davis, Clarence 
 Davis, John W. 
 Decuyper, Fernand 
 Degen, David W. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 423 
 
 Degen, Sam M. 
 Delaney, Patrick J. 
 Deruy, Henry 
 Diehl, Oscar J. 
 Dodson, Fred M. 
 Doss, Hollis C. 
 Easom, Lewis E. 
 Elliott, Daniel 
 Ermey, Fred L. 
 Etzel, Charles W. 
 Everitt, Robert C. 
 Ewalt, Theodore 
 Eyestone, Hal J. 
 Fairchild, Elza O. 
 Fairchild, John W. 
 Feldman, John F. 
 Ferguson, John 
 Fichtner, Clarence E. 
 Flottman, Arnold L. 
 Flores, Florence 
 Fougnie, George 
 Frankes, Charles E. 
 Fristoe, Frank B. 
 Fuller, Benjamin A. 
 Fullum, Earl E. 
 Francis, Wolfe D. 
 Geier, Lloyd E. 
 Gillin, Mark B. 
 Goodman, Ewart Y. 
 Graham, Andrew 
 Henderson, Fredie 
 Henson, Charles K. 
 Hill, Ira T. 
 Hill, John F. 
 Holcomb, Leroy F. 
 Hooton, John 
 Huffmann, Arthur W. 
 Hughey, Leslie W. 
 Hughey, Verne E. 
 Ingalsbe, Meryl T. 
 Inglis, Edward 
 Jarrell, Kelsey A. 
 Johnson, Russell 
 Jones, Lloyd C. 
 Kasper, Arnold J. 
 
 Kautzman, Thomas A. 
 Keady, Loyd C. 
 Kelley, Lewis M, 
 Kelso, Jorden 
 Kelso, William M. 
 Kent, Alpine N. 
 Kincaid, Max G. 
 Knoll, John J. 
 Kubas, Frank 
 Lear, Benjamin 
 Lemler, David W. 
 Littleton, Bowman T. 
 Lutz, Elmer L. 
 Lux, Lester A. 
 Lynd, Lloyd A. 
 Mackey, Irven 
 Liggatt, Herbert H. 
 Mallen, Thomas D. 
 May, Walter C. 
 Maylen, William 
 McElhenie, George 
 McHaley, Roy 
 Michie, Troy W. 
 Manning, Edward A. 
 Middleton, Robert W. 
 Miller, Shelby V. 
 Minerd, Sylvester L. 
 Mingori, Louis 
 Modlin, Charles R. 
 Montgomery, Frank 
 O'Connor, Bryan J. 
 O'Donnell, Mathew J. 
 Osborne, William C. 
 Owens, Oscar 
 Page, George E. 
 Patterson, Tyler C. 
 Painter, John L. 
 Parsons, John L. 
 Pigg, Robert F. 
 Powers, Harold C. 
 Quackenbush, Lan- 
 
 don O. 
 Reeder, Bufford 
 Renison, Loyd 
 Ridley. William 
 
 Rodgers, Harry L. 
 Ryan, Howard T. 
 Schenck, William J. 
 Schneider, Jacob J. 
 Sandbickler, Emil 
 Sells, Dewey P. 
 Shields, Frederick 
 
 B., Jr. 
 Schirk, Rudolph R. 
 Schnebly, George J. 
 Spoonhour, Edward 
 
 E. 
 
 Staff, Arthur E. 
 Starchich, Frank, Jr. 
 Sullivan, Martin 3. 
 Tatham, Harry 
 Thomas, Asa A. 
 Toussaint, Albert R. 
 Trogdon, Ray 
 Ulery, Charles E. 
 Vanderville, Cezar 
 Vandris, Augustus 
 VanMeter, Augustus 
 VanMeter, Charles R. 
 Vantrepotts, Fernand 
 Van Voast, Deforest 
 Vessadini, Pete 
 Walker, Blaine E. 
 Walker, Leonard E. 
 Watters, Ellington W. 
 Wery, Joseph L. 
 Whiten, Jewel C. 
 Williams, Winford 
 
 M. 
 Wilson, William L. 
 Winters, Robert C. 
 WofFord, Raymond J. 
 Wolf, William W. 
 Woodbury, Forrest G. 
 York, George 
 Robinson, Arden 
 Losses, Discharged, 
 
 S. C. D. 
 Bell, Galen M. 
 Gibbons, Alfred F. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 William H. Brady 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Clanrold A. Burnett, 
 
 Dwight A. Pomeroy 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 
 Gerald B. Fenton 
 
 William W. Bass 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Hyndman, James M. 
 
 Young, Earnest B. 
 
 Liepman, Morres V. 
 
 Cockerill, Clay R. 
 
 Wharton, Ja F. 
 
 BATTERY D 
 Pittsburg 
 
 Corporals: 
 
 Dixon, Fremont 
 Hussey, Charles 
 Bouck, Harry W. 
 Broadlick, Robert 
 Reed, Robert M. 
 Flottman, Edward A. 
 Logan, John 
 Wilson, Bryan 
 Fern, John P. 
 Ouinn, John A. 
 Nett, Bert D. 
 Tyrk, John C. 
 Haney, William B. 
 Russell, Richard 
 
 Privates: 
 
 Adams, Worlie W. 
 Allister, James 
 Anderson, James W., 
 
 Jr. 
 Armstrong, Albert L. 
 Beck, Harry B. 
 Blaker, Lynn D, 
 Bollinger, Harlow 
 Bower, Harry D. 
 Bradfield, Ellis H. 
 Broderson, Chester B. 
 Brooks, Orville 
 Brown, Carl B. 
 Brown, Joseph 
 
424 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HIU:. TO EXERMONT 
 
 Buchanan, William 
 I. 
 
 Buckeye, Harry J. 
 Bullington, Elmer 
 Butler, Abraham O. 
 Chancellor, Chester 
 
 A. 
 Cherry, Gustave 
 Christiansen, Otto 
 Clark, Alva K. 
 Clinkenbeard, Clarence 
 Coley, Joe h. 
 Colwes, William W. 
 Condit, Ray M. 
 Cooper, Walter G. 
 Crosaglia, Joseph 
 D'Haillecourt, Desire 
 Dawson, William E. 
 Dorris. Walter W. 
 Duffy, Michael 
 Easom, Harry 
 Edwards, George 
 Eisenbrandt, Henry 
 
 Eppinger, Clyde 
 Eyer, Herbert L. 
 Frame, Floyd F, 
 Francisco, Ralph P, 
 Freeman, Frank 
 Gerhard, Henry 
 Glitten, James E. 
 Golle, August 
 Goodwin, Dovie 
 Graham, Robert E. 
 Graham, William A. 
 Gugello, Pete 
 Hamblin, Robert W. 
 Hammer, Fred 
 Hamsher, Samuel J. 
 Harrigan, Joe A. 
 Harshfield, William 
 
 E. 
 
 Heatwole, Harry G. 
 Helms, Alvia 
 Helms, Dewey 
 Heslet, Raymond L,. 
 Highbaugh, Swan E. 
 Hill, Davis C. 
 Huckaby, Loren 
 Hughes, George E. 
 Irwin, Paul H. 
 Izatt, William A. 
 
 Jarivasi, Dominic 
 Jenkins, Ernest P. 
 Jones, David T. 
 Jones, Frank R. 
 Kingston, Ozam 
 Kirby, John 
 Kittle, William T. 
 Kreiger, Amos H. 
 Kuppersmith, Edward 
 Lomb, Warren 
 Lauer, George L- 
 Leigh, Tom 
 Eemaster, Leonard O. 
 Lewis, Roy 
 Loomis, Frank 
 McAlhaney, Raymond 
 
 L. 
 McCain, Paul T. 
 McCoy, Dallas P. 
 McDaniel, James A. 
 McFarland, Lester 
 McFarland, Raymond 
 McGinnis, Edward D. 
 McGlothlin, James M. 
 McManus, Richard A. 
 McMurray, Earl C. 
 Mavery, Jesse 
 March. Charles A. 
 Martin, Joseph H. 
 Maxwell, Donald C. 
 May, Gordon J. 
 Minter, Marvin E. 
 Moore, Archie A. 
 Morris, Decalb 
 Nehon, Ramage N. 
 Newton, William A. 
 Nichols, Earl F, 
 Nielsen, Robert 
 Nightingale, Wilfred 
 
 H. 
 Nute, Benjamin J. 
 O'Dell, John G. 
 Overmeyer, Charles 
 
 C. 
 Prettyman, Quincy W. 
 Province, John T. 
 Quinlan, Raymond A. 
 Racy, Clifford N. 
 Racy, William 
 Reinhardt, Floyd E. 
 Richard, Edward A. 
 Richard, Jules 
 Restau, Ervin O. 
 
 Robinson, John A. 
 
 Robinson, Lorraine H. 
 
 Ross, Charles F. 
 
 Ross, Randal N. 
 
 Russell, William 
 
 Sanders, Ernest A. 
 
 Sayles, Floyd E. 
 
 Schmiedeler, Aloysius 
 
 Scholes, George H. 
 
 Seaman, Herbert H. 
 
 Selenan, Herman 
 
 Shead, Elza B. 
 
 Sheets, Frank L. 
 
 Shirley, Otis M. 
 
 Sills, William T. 
 
 Skinner, Eugene A. 
 
 Smith, William H. 
 
 Schmiedeler, Aloysius 
 
 Stewart, Charley 
 
 Steffer, Frank M. 
 
 Stroud, William V. 
 Thiolet, Theodore 
 
 Thompson, Samuel 
 Timmons, Warren M. 
 Tipton, William A, 
 Towery, Robert C. 
 Van Hall, Julius F. 
 Vance, Joseph E. 
 Volkert, Louis E. 
 Walker, Augustus 
 Walter, Alva J. 
 Ward, James 
 Welsh, Edward Jr. 
 White, Charles W. 
 Whitney, Arthur W. 
 Williams, Orvil A. 
 Wilson, Floyd O. 
 Wilson, Marion 
 Wood, Frederick 
 Wood, William S. 
 , Work, Earl 
 
 Worrall, John L- 
 Zinn, Ralph E. 
 Zurek, Bryan 
 Loss-Discharged : 
 Cowan, James H. 
 Hubbard, Albert M. 
 Neeks, Albert 
 Oberto, Joe 
 Quigley, Julian F. 
 Shinn, Marshall E. 
 Van Meter, Elbert 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Phil. S. Hoyt 
 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Early W. Poindexter 
 Frederick H. dander 
 
 BATTEBY E 
 Kansas City 
 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 Roger L. Barker 
 Glenn A. Russell 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Householder, Victor 
 H. 
 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 Anderson, Carl E. 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 Reed, Walter J. 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Cheak, Lucian 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 425 
 
 Laird, Benjamin H. 
 Holder, Edward F. M. 
 Ingle, Truman L. 
 
 Amidon, Edward C. 
 
 Wall, Courtney C. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Gray, George H. 
 
 Cass, Joseph 
 
 Miller, William E. 
 
 Dahlgren, Earl W. 
 
 Campbell, William E. 
 
 Chambers, Thomas A. 
 
 Harris, Orville 
 
 Hedstrom, Algot G. 
 
 Millikan, George N. 
 
 Larson, Carl J. E. 
 
 Mount, Bert 
 Buglers : 
 
 McBratney, Robert R. 
 
 Patton, W. Sidney 
 Cooks: 
 
 Gayman, Thomas 
 
 Lemmon, Sturling 
 
 Wagner, Raymond W. 
 Privates : 
 
 Anderson, Lawrence J. 
 
 Audas, Howard H. 
 
 Baker, Edwin M. 
 
 Barker, Edward D. 
 
 Ballenger, Edward 
 
 Baughey, Leslit A. 
 
 Beauchamp, John A. 
 
 Belan, John 
 
 Bender, Cecil 
 
 Bigham, George F. 
 Black, Leroy E. 
 Bolande, Harold E. 
 Bradley, Raymond P. 
 Bratschie, Fred S. 
 Bridendolph, Neil 
 Brockwell, John B. 
 Bronson, Richard T. 
 Brown, Myron D. 
 Burns, Fred E. 
 Burditt, Henry 
 Burchfield, Leslie K. 
 Campbell, Charles E., 
 
 Jr. 
 Cargill, William F. 
 Coleman, Clyde D. 
 Conklin, George E. 
 Conley, Edward P., Jr. 
 Corcoran, Ben O. 
 Copewycz. Walter 
 Cowles, Elisha C. 
 Cowles, Lucius L. 
 Crofton. James J. 
 Crumpley, Horace 
 Davis, Toe 
 DeGroff, James S. 
 Dempsey, Archie D. 
 Dennett, Robert W. 
 Donohue, Tames L. 
 Donovan, William J. 
 Eaken, William L. 
 
 Edmonds, John H. 
 
 Evans, Richard J. 
 
 Fennelly, Leo J. 
 
 Fisher, Frederick H. 
 
 Fisher, Joseph C. 
 
 Franey, Frank V. 
 
 French, Charles L. 
 
 Gatewood, Harley B. 
 
 George, James M. 
 
 Giles, Chnton B. 
 
 Gleason, Joseph T. 
 
 Glidden, Lyle B. 
 
 Gossage, Melvin McK. 
 
 Gough, John B. 
 
 Gravatt, Homer 
 
 Griffin, David 
 
 Grimes, John A. 
 
 Gross, John W. 
 
 Grove, Charles V. 
 
 Gustafson, Carl 
 
 Hanauer, Edward T. 
 
 Hansen, Martin 
 
 Hargreaves, Fred E. 
 
 Hauf, Earl O. 
 
 Hindle, Joe O. 
 
 Holden, Herbert G. 
 
 Howell, Charles O. 
 
 Hughes, John J. Jr. 
 
 Hurd, Virgil L. 
 Hurralbrink, Herman 
 
 W. 
 Isenhour, William H. 
 Jewett, Chester C. 
 Jobe, Charles 
 Johnson, Chester E. 
 Johnson, Floyd A. 
 Jomowkvich, Joe 
 Jones, George H. 
 Kerns, Charles W. 
 Klebansky, Samuel 
 Koons, Charles D. 
 Korasic, John F. 
 Krehm, George J. 
 Laird, Earl 
 Larson, Harold A. 
 Laughlin, Thomas T. 
 
 A. 
 Leinbach, Barto J. 
 Leinbach, Charles E. 
 McConnell, John J. 
 McCulley, James C. 
 McDonough, Thomas 
 
 L. 
 McGill, Ronald F. 
 Mclntyre, Claude 
 McMahon, Joseph 
 McMurray, Elmer H. 
 Mackey, Carl L. 
 Manning, Robert E. 
 Markowitz. Daniel 
 Markley, Charles J. 
 Marshall. Arthur R. 
 Meier, Charles W. 
 
 Mertel, Arthur H. 
 
 Miller, Henry L. 
 
 Millikan, Roy E. 
 
 Misell, Robert L. 
 
 Mitchell, Ernest W. 
 
 Morrison, Ovid T. 
 
 Moss, Everett R. 
 
 Motis, Nicholas 
 
 MuUies, Ralph W. 
 
 Noel, James P. 
 
 Noll, Paul R. 
 
 Nystrom, Arthur G. 
 
 O'Neil, Fred P. 
 
 O'Rourke, John F. 
 
 Odgers, Sheldon P. 
 
 Olson, Walter O. 
 
 Osborn, Robert 
 
 Porley, George R. 
 
 Pfeiffer, Wilbur C. 
 
 Reardon, Daniel J. 
 
 Rice, George PL 
 
 Rice, Samuel R. 
 
 Rohl, Anthony J. 
 
 Sawyer, John W. 
 
 Schiller, George W. 
 
 Scheicher, George L. 
 
 Schooley, Glenn G. 
 
 Schraer, Cliflford E. 
 
 Shaw, Cornelius R. 
 
 Simpson, Frederick 
 
 Sims, Martin D. 
 
 Smith, Clarence M. 
 
 Smith, Frank E. 
 
 Smith, Harry B. 
 
 Smith, Jesse E. 
 
 Sprowl, David A. 
 
 Sprowl, Marshall R. 
 
 Stainforth, Fred 
 
 Sterner, Charles 
 Stewart, Walter W, 
 
 Swan, Edward R. 
 Talkin, Andrew H, 
 Taylor, Henry J. 
 Thomas, Terdon L. 
 Thomas, Roy G. 
 Thurgate, George M. 
 Torrey, John F. 
 Trantum, John T. 
 Valentine, George 
 Vaughn, Tames M. 
 Walker, Charles F. 
 Walker, Hugh O. 
 Walters, Herman L. 
 Williams, Claud" J. 
 Williams, Earl H. 
 Williams, John M. 
 Williams, Lucian Q. 
 Wilson, Edward P. H, 
 Wood, Charles D. 
 Wright, Walter 
 Zelenok, George A. 
 Losses Discharged, on 
 Account of Depend- 
 ents, 
 Kitchen, William 
 
426 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 BATTERY F 
 
 Wichita 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Birdie E. Sauers 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Frank T. Priest 
 
 Samuel W. Woolley 
 2d Lieutenants: 
 
 Erwin R. Bleckley 
 
 Bert Simons 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Klein, Randall T. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Moore, Eric C. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 McMillan, Claude V. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Schultz, August A. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Flournoy, John J. 
 
 Copeland, Frank T. 
 
 Ryan, Elmer E. 
 
 Howse, Edward J. 
 
 Lemmers, Frank D. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Carter, Ray P. 
 
 Logate, James E. 
 
 Mathias, Joseph J. 
 
 Hackelman, Charles B. 
 
 Stippich, Chester V. 
 
 Scanland, Merle C. 
 
 Barrows. Charles F. 
 
 Ross, Elbert S. 
 
 Scott, Wm. F. 
 
 Geeslin, David M. 
 
 Shambaugh, Cloy D. 
 
 Cambell, John A. 
 
 Bachman, Ray 
 Chief Mechanic, 
 
 Andrus, Rollie H, 
 Horseshoers : 
 
 Lyons, Arthur B. 
 
 Graham, Arthur W. 
 Mechanics : 
 
 Clardy, William N. 
 
 Oilman, Orville J. 
 
 Dennis, Wilford A. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Spidle, Charles N. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Lakey, Elmer 
 
 Weaverling,Clarence A. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Tones, Wilbur H. 
 
 Wikoflf, Charles W. 
 
 Kelly, Donald F. 
 Privates : 
 
 Allon, Russell T. 
 
 Axline, Andrew A. 
 
 Bailey, Cecil W. 
 
 Baker, Paul E. 
 
 Baumunk, John L. 
 
 Beach, Glenn A. 
 
 Bolan, William C. 
 Brewer, John Henry 
 Brosius, Chauncey G. 
 Brown, Cyrill M. 
 Butts, George W. 
 Camp, Wayne C. 
 Caplinger, Robert F. 
 Carroll, William L. 
 Clinton, Svlvester J. 
 Coghill, Floyd V. 
 Cone, John F. 
 Crawford, James E. 
 Davis, Edmund D. 
 Davis, Harold W. 
 Dean, Glenn L. 
 Devaughn, Walter B. 
 Devins, George F. 
 Dewey, Harvey J. 
 Diehl, Paul A. 
 Doherty, Joseph E. 
 Donelon, William M. 
 Duckworth, Harry U. 
 Everitt, Vern D. 
 Flourno3% Hubert E. 
 Freizzell, Elton S. 
 Gabrielson, John A. 
 Gray, Lyle H. 
 Gray, Lowell C. 
 Gray, Claude W. 
 Gray, Glenn N. 
 Gable, Ivan C. 
 Gardner, Lester H. 
 Glaves, Virgil E. 
 Grej', William J. 
 Guy, Kenneth E. 
 Hacknev, Ewing S. 
 Hall, Joseph H. 
 Hall, Roy L. 
 Harbaugh. Fred B. 
 Harris, Herschel G. 
 Harrison, Russell B. 
 Hatfield, Harold B. 
 Haynes. James W. 
 Havs, Tames E. 
 Holphrey, Earl H. 
 TTelmers, Edward T. 
 Henrickson, Sven E. 
 Hester, Perl M. 
 Higdon. ITobart F. R. 
 Himmelwright, Homer 
 
 N. 
 Hitch ner, George 
 Hodges. Edgar A. 
 TTolland. Harry L. 
 Horn. Fred 
 Howerton, Thomas 
 
 W. 
 Hughev, Clyde D^ 
 Tngram, Charles M. 
 Ink, Ira M. 
 Jackson, Virgil E. 
 
 Keck, Edward E. 
 Kennedy, Jesse E. 
 Kerr, Luther 
 Keys, Oliver 
 Kiddoo, Lyman C. G. 
 King, Ray B. 
 Klee, Charley 
 Klee, Charley 
 Klee, John J. 
 Knipp, Raymond A. 
 
 F. 
 Knox, Ralph S. 
 Kuechenmeister, Emil 
 
 L. 
 Lee, Clarence M. 
 Lee, James H. 
 Lee, Merritt R. 
 Leiter, Rufus 
 Lynn, Ben H. 
 Marshall, Virgil 
 Marchall, William M. 
 Miller, Clayton C. 
 Moore, Harry W. 
 Moore, Harry E. 
 ISIoore, Ralph A. 
 Mourning, Fred W. 
 Mueller, Henry R. 
 Myers, Claude R. 
 McConnell, Paul J. 
 McCormick, Homer L. 
 McCoy, Carl W. 
 McNally, Frank E. 
 Neal, Lester E. 
 Negley, Cyril C. 
 OfFenstein, Henry J. 
 Osier, James D. 
 Overstreet, Arthur D. 
 Oyler, Jesse R. 
 Padgett, Milo W. 
 Panier, Guy R. 
 Patterson, Edgar 
 Payne, John N. 
 Peacock, Lawrence A. 
 Pence, Harold H. 
 PhilHppi, Murrell L. 
 Phillips, William P. 
 Pierce, Edwin P. 
 Pierce, Harvey H. 
 Prier, Harrv 
 Rambo. Carl W. 
 Randall. Ralph A. 
 Rice, Herbert O. 
 Richards, Stanley B. 
 Richardson. John F. 
 Roberts, Walter B. 
 Rogers, George C. 
 Rouse, Wallace T., Jr. 
 Ruble, Adrain A. 
 Rudd, William L. 
 RuflFridge, ivrichael A. 
 Sence, Leslie B. 
 
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 427 
 
 Schnert, Merle F. 
 Schooley, William O. 
 Shaw, Andrew F. 
 Shepherd, Fred W. 
 Smith, June B. 
 Smith, Robert M. 
 Snook, James W. 
 Sparks, Reed C. 
 Stanley, Lawrence 
 Stoon, Fred 
 
 Stevens, Merville O. 
 Stravlo, Fred G. 
 Surtees, Baisel ly. 
 Sweetland, Zephyr K. 
 Torry, Floyd C. 
 Thompson, James C. 
 Truex, Lewis H. 
 Truitt, Harvey G. 
 Violette, Harold S. 
 Walker, Chester L. 
 Watson, Flmer F. 
 
 Waugh, Maurice G. 
 Wetterhold, Arthur R. 
 Whittaker, John P. 
 Willett, Francis W. 
 WilHams, Fred M. 
 Wilson, Charles I. 
 Wilson, Max G. 
 Winn, Caleb F. 
 Witt, Karle C. 
 Wood, Karl A. 
 Yeager, Raymond W. 
 
 DETACHED MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 
 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Robbins, Harry F- 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Simpson, Harry S. 
 Whitehead, Floyd S. 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Akers, Claude 
 Bird, Havert L. 
 
 Bailey, James H. 
 Bratton, Kenneth B. 
 Davis, Harry J. 
 Hamilton, James R. 
 Jones, Fdwin R. 
 Jones, Fred ly. 
 Kimes, Maurice J. 
 Klina, Harry E. 
 Lockwood, Phil R. 
 
 Morrison, Jesse F. 
 Rowe, Orville W. 
 Schock, Gus C. 
 Shore, Alonzo F. 
 Scholtz, Arthur H. 
 Walker, Marcus V. 
 Warnock, Harold L. 
 Wilson, Charles O. 
 Yonkers, Harry A. 
 
 FIRST KANSAS FIELD SIGNAL BATTALION 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 
 Wellington 
 
 FIELD AND STAPF 
 
 Major, 1st Class Sergeant 
 
 Milton R. McLean Smith, James F. 
 
 Commanding Sergeants : 
 
 First Lieutenant, Loomis, Far! H. 
 
 Kenneth G. Lewis Waugh, Neal B. 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Dubreuil, Louis T. 
 Meeker, Cloise C. 
 Miller, Benjamin J. 
 Partridge, Clare A. 
 West, Vernon B. 
 
 1st Class Sergeant, 
 Crake, Waiter L. 
 
 SUPPLY SECTION 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Curtis, Lloyd F. 
 Downing, John F. 
 
 Fraelich, Henry H. 
 Lafromboise, Floyd B. 
 Neese, Olave L. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Elmer G. Stahl 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 WilHam C. Carswell 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Chester H. Thomas 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Orrel, Galpin H. 
 1st Class Sergeants, 
 
 Anderson, Mahor M. 
 
 Burdick, C. Dale 
 
 Thacher, Safford D. 
 
 Warner, John C. 
 
 Ziesenis, Harry C. 
 
 COMPANY A 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Sergeants, 
 
 Wiss, Quirin A. 
 Privates : 
 
 Beasley, Wm. A. 
 
 Bechtel, Roy M. 
 
 Beisner, Cecil H._ 
 
 Butler, Eugene U. 
 
 Campbell, Elmer 
 
 Carlson, Victor E. 
 
 Carlson, David L- 
 
 Carris, Roy O. 
 
 Carson, Geo. W. 
 
 Caskey, Edmund L. 
 
 Chappelle, Archie 
 Charlesworth, Firth 
 Cofifman, Plarry 
 Coakley, Claude 
 Corkill, Paul D. 
 Cox, Harry E. 
 Coykondall, Arthur 
 Douglas, Em. H. 
 Effinger, Ralph C. 
 Erskine, Edgar M. 
 Erskine, James R. 
 Estep, Dale 
 Fairchild, Howard 
 
428 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Ferguson, Geo. 
 Ferrin, Harley A. 
 Ferris, John 
 Firmer, Henry 
 Foster, Roy C. 
 Granger, Harry W. 
 Gregory, Ivan D. 
 Hauber, John F. 
 Henley, Byran 
 Henley, Frank 
 Henley, Stephen 
 Hughes, Avis S. 
 Jamison. Raymond 
 Linsberg, Arthur 
 Mohrwein, Roy H. 
 
 Meier, Leo S. 
 Mohrbacker, Byron C. 
 Moore, Clyde S. 
 Mooring, Ernest L- 
 Neeley, Fren L. 
 Ness, Burt R. 
 Nicholson, Edward L. 
 Paulson, Kurtz, L. 
 Punches, Wm. R. 
 Scott, John F. 
 Shaffer, Don 
 Shaffer, Paul 
 Sharpless, Fred S. 
 Short, Calvin S. 
 Stone, Francis E. 
 Stone, Wm. A. 
 
 Sutherland, Kenneth 
 
 L. 
 Sutton, Alpha E. 
 Swink, Bert 
 Taylor, Wm E. 
 Titus, Martin D. 
 Tucker, Claude H. 
 Urie, Rolland W. 
 Wall, James W. 
 Ward, Meade L. 
 Whitney, Curt K. 
 Woods, Leonard D. 
 Woods, Morris D. 
 Yewell, Roy C. 
 Ziesenis, Roy C. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Walter LeG. Cox 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Willis LaD. Donald 
 
 Grover C. Freeman 
 M. S. E. 
 
 Clawson, Millard E. 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 
 Womack, Ralph J. 
 
 Kernal, Delbert L. 
 
 McFarland, William 
 F. 
 
 Anderson, Eric E. 
 
 Neal, Harry A. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Young, Lloyd M. 
 
 Lott, Joseph C. 
 
 Anderson, Gustave C. 
 
 Roberts, Harold M. 
 
 Hershkowitz, Martin 
 
 Cox, Herschel D. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Fowler, Iver F. 
 
 Anderson, Frank D. 
 
 Adams, Charles H. 
 
 Davis, Frank C. 
 
 Knock, Earl R. 
 
 Shapel, Amel 
 
 Newman, Albert H. 
 
 Brownfield, Maro 
 
 OUiver, Myler D. 
 
 COMPANY B 
 
 lOLA 
 
 Wright, Kenneth 
 
 Frederickson, Judson 
 C. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Gay, Hubert L. 
 
 Varner, George H. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Murphy, Joseph T. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Ralph L. 
 
 Anderson, George W. 
 
 Bass, Orean H. 
 
 Brolliar, Albert W. 
 
 Benson, T. Wyllys 
 
 Beatty, Areotus F. 
 
 Chilcote, George J. 
 
 Chas, Frank A. 
 
 Dulinsky, Mount C. 
 
 Davis, Lee F. 
 
 Florence, Albert F. 
 
 Fryer, Russell C. 
 
 Frevert, Robert E. 
 
 Hayes, Glen W. 
 
 Hurlock, Clyde E. 
 
 Harper, Frank W. 
 
 Horton, Robert A. 
 
 Helper, Laurence G. 
 
 Jackson, John A. 
 
 Jones, Joseph C. 
 
 Lane, Roy 
 
 McKarnin, Sylvester 
 
 Moore, Carl E. 
 
 Myers, Benjamin 
 
 Price, Carl M. 
 
 Pittsenberger, Samuel 
 S. 
 
 Smith, Clarence D. 
 
 Smith, Jesse F. 
 
 Shapel, Philip 
 
 Steele, Oliver H. 
 
 Stillwell, Loy W. 
 
 Vincent, Guy M. 
 
 Warford, Clarence L. 
 Privates : 
 
 Campbell, Chlore W. 
 
 Canty, Earl C. 
 
 Daniels, Albert H. 
 
 Dixon, Paul 
 
 Eraser, Howison J. 
 
 Hilton, Emery 
 
 Hardwick, Oliver B. 
 
 Jones, Raymond E. 
 
 Kelley, Thomas J. 
 
 Leigh ty, Vaughn 
 
 Martin, Joseph A. 
 
 Milne, John A. 
 
 Provost, Francis T. 
 
 Owens, Ferdinand L. 
 Losses Discharged, De- 
 pendents : 
 
 Davidson, William J. 
 
 Hale. Ray R. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Claude C. Bayless 
 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Carl A. McClintock 
 Jesse McGlynn 
 James W. Coffey 
 Floyd W. Whitmore 
 
 1st Serjeant, 
 
 Waddell, James W., Jr. 
 
 COMPANY C 
 
 Wichita 
 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Douglass, Charles H. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Cannon, Richard L. 
 
 Hendrix, Mont W. 
 Privates : 
 
 Adams, William E. 
 
 Armstrong, Frank ly. 
 
 Arnold, Claude A. 
 
 Babb, George S. 
 Baker, Marvin S. 
 Bachman, Fred H. 
 Bell, Carl A. 
 Bell, Everett I. 
 Branson, Otis D. 
 Burt, Lee E. 
 Coston, Donald L. 
 Chilcott, Frank E. 
 
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 Cooper, Donald J. W. 
 Davis, George A. 
 Edmondson, BenjarAin 
 
 F. 
 Elcock, Charles H. 
 Foster, Marion Y. 
 Graves, Harlan 
 Greer, William A. 
 Gregory, Thomas F. 
 Griesmger, Frank R. 
 Grove, Henry I,. 
 Hanna, Robert 
 Harpster, Claude 
 Henn, William C. 
 Holdren, Don R. 
 Huggins, Foster M. 
 Hutchinson, Roland 
 
 R. 
 Trwin, Paul S. 
 Johnson, Emmette VL 
 Johnston, Garold R. 
 Jones, Louis V. 
 
 Kessinger, Vern C. 
 ha Grant, Earl W. 
 Eane, Walter O. 
 Law son, William E. 
 Latta, William E. 
 Lauer, Earl D. 
 Magie, Albert E. 
 T^Iarks, Carl Percy 
 Masterson, William F. 
 McFall, Oscar L. 
 McQuiston, Earl H. 
 Moore, Harry C. 
 Moore, Jesse L,. 
 Myers, John M. 
 Murphy, Frank 
 Nettls, Walter H. 
 Nutter, Earl I. 
 Price, Evan J. 
 Priest, Howard O. 
 Richman, Phillip 
 Roberts, Thane O. 
 
 Rodman, Burton H. 
 Saunders, Julian h. 
 Shires, Benjamin C. 
 Shockey, Orville 
 Skean, Byron A. 
 Sloan, Virgel D. 
 Smith, Otho G, 
 Throckmorton, Adel 
 
 F. 
 Toennies, Benjamin F. 
 
 C. 
 Waldron, Wesley F. 
 Watkins, Myron J. 
 Webb, Joseph W. 
 Weidman, Richard 
 
 Thomas 
 White, Rodger L. 
 Wright, William E. 
 Williams, Floyd 
 Wohlford, William W. 
 DeVier, Cecil J. 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Ausmuse, Philip 
 
 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 
 
 Clark, Arthur H. 
 Dale, Henry L. 
 Tucker, Lynn E. 
 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 
 Wilson, Donald D. 
 
 Fritz, Walter R. 
 
 Thoren, Carl E. 
 
 Shadinger, Harold D. 
 
 Hesse, James W. 
 
 Balakely, Victor K D. 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Milam, Morris D. 
 
 Nash, Edward C. 
 
 Shepard, Cortland W. 
 
 DETACHMENT 
 
 Weber, George W. 
 Welty, Donald D. 
 Brockett, Wallace J. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Baker, Von C. 
 Bowman, Herbert D. 
 Briery, Clifford C. 
 Cole, Wilbur D. 
 Fellows, Frank L. 
 Lawn, James F. 
 Reinbach, Otto M. 
 
 Waite, Frank B. 
 White, Verne D. 
 
 Rowell, Lloyd G. 
 
 Samuelson, John N. 
 
 Willard, Glenn M. 
 Privates: 
 
 Gustafson, Charles M. 
 
 Hall, Lester H. W. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Chapman, Marion S, 
 
 Jasperson, Clarence 
 P. 
 
 KANSAS SANITARY TRAIN 
 FIELD HOSPITAL NO. 1 
 
 TOPEKA 
 
 Major, 
 
 Seth A. Hammel 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 Merril K. Lindsay 
 
 Henry S. Rogers 
 
 Dana O. Jackson 
 
 Harold H. Jones 
 
 Frank C. Boggs 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 
 McCoy, Milton E. 
 
 Hawkins, June A. 
 
 Piepenburg, Aaron L. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Herman, Ralph S. 
 
 Gurtler, Albert C. 
 
 Gohesn, Ira L. 
 
 Logan, Glenn F. 
 
 Dewey, Thomas E. 
 
 Johnson, George C. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Gould, Charles R. 
 
 Oges, Edward M. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Luker, George F. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Dickman, Fred M, 
 Farrier, 
 
 Reffelt, Rudolph F. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Burns, Earl J. 
 Bugler, 
 
 Deimler, Ralph W. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Akey, McKinley 
 
 Arbuthnot, Sidney 
 Bingham, Earl O. 
 Blevins, Howard W. 
 Conard, Morton D. 
 Dunn, John 
 Gage, R. Merrill 
 Geiser, Walter J. 
 Harrison, George C. 
 Hickey, Granville C. 
 Hinds, David H. 
 Holcomb, Allie E. 
 Hoyt, Charies B. 
 Hughes, Herbert F. 
 Jones, Ernest 
 Kennedy, Carl P. 
 Lyon, Charles B. Jr. 
 McCarter, James C. 
 
430 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 McCrew, Nathan W. 
 Riddle, Dudley McD 
 Root, Jesse F. 
 Runnels, Cecil H. 
 Sailer, Ernest K. 
 Staerkel, Max G. 
 Swearingen, Ralph M. 
 Taylor, Henry H. 
 Thompson, Edward 
 
 W. 
 Walp, Charles L. 
 Weaver, James B. 
 Wells, George D. 
 Wright, Myron A. 
 Simmerman, Joseph 
 
 F. 
 
 Privates : 
 
 Anderson, Christopher 
 Age, Guy J. 
 Bennett, Charles A. 
 Buck, Loyd W. 
 Burghart, Casper 
 Burns, Claude T. 
 Carney, William N. 
 Chapin, Dean W. 
 Cratte, Irving F. 
 Evans, Harold C. 
 Graham, Harry L. Jr. 
 Hamilton, William L. 
 Hammond, Noel R. 
 Harrell, James M. 
 Laine, Maurice D. 
 
 Ludington, Fred G. 
 McClave, Edison W. 
 McDaniel, Ralph W. 
 Meredith, Roscoe A. 
 Murphy, Paul 
 Nye, Robert W. 
 Parish, Glen L. 
 Peck, Kenneth L. 
 Scharping, Erwin E. 
 Shehi, Winfield 
 Shirk, Harold L. 
 Silk, Max H. 
 Stevens, Francis J. 
 Stewart, Roy 
 Townsend, Goley 
 Widener, Mark V. 
 
 Major, 
 
 Carl Phillips 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 John C. Cornell 
 
 Charles C. Bennett 
 
 James G. Rea 
 
 Charles L. Mosley 
 
 Joseph C. Bunten 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 
 Courtney, George W. 
 
 Cranford, Charles W. 
 
 dinger, Raymond C. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Bailey, Homer F. 
 
 Dick, Frank N. 
 
 Fowler, Merle 
 
 Hodge, Lester X>. 
 
 May, Ralph E- ^ 
 
 Simon, Loren K. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Ayers, Maurice F. 
 
 McClary, Carl 
 
 White, Ira E. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Birt, Roy H. 
 
 Brown, Seth G. 
 
 Burton, Marion T. 
 
 Debolt, William H. 
 
 Dent, Rawley, J. 
 
 Elwyn, Russell H. 
 
 Funk, Arthur C. 
 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 
 William L. Rhodes 
 Clarke W. Mangun 
 Tiberius L. Jones 
 Ralph C. Hartman 
 Harold M. Glover 
 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 Pierce, Frank B. 
 Wilson, James C. 
 
 FIELD HOSPITAL NO. 2 
 Parsons 
 
 Graham, John S. 
 Green, Charles H. 
 Harlow, Mack 
 Hendrickson, John H. 
 JeiTrey, Richard C. 
 Kimmey, Virgil A. 
 Lietnaker, Cherry E. 
 Ott, Archie L. 
 Parker, Glenn M, 
 Prall, John D. 
 Rule, Albert B. 
 Rule, Herbert E. 
 Sage, William H. 
 Sayers, Huggart A. 
 Storey, Edward M. 
 Thorpe, Lewis M. 
 Von Buhn, Herman 
 Van Home, Ralph 
 Wheat, Lewis H. 
 White, James L. 
 Willard, Donald M. 
 Agnew, Frank T. 
 Babcock, Dewey Z. 
 Bicknell, John R. 
 Campbell, Russell 
 Carr, Byron H. 
 Caldwell, Dalton L. 
 Carson, Clvde F. 
 Clark, Orville P. 
 Cumminsrs, Dewey V. 
 Davis, Bert L. 
 
 AMBULANCE CO. NO. 
 Kansas City 
 
 Sergeants : 
 
 Lyon, Charles J. 
 Cole, Frank R. 
 Holcombe, Robert F. 
 McGhan, Francis L. 
 Wolf, George O. 
 Singer, Walter T. 
 Henderson, George 
 
 Foxworthy, Carl 
 Gates, William J. 
 Gebhart, Bert A. 
 Gemmell, Harry A. 
 Griggs, Morton R. 
 Hacker, Charles L. 
 Hammell, Lee A. 
 Harlow, James H. 
 Hayes, Alfred L. 
 Tagger, Buel W. 
 Johnston, Earl W. 
 Jones, Alpha L. 
 Keiter, Cecil E. 
 Locke, William H. 
 Pittser, Ollie F. 
 Rafferty, Virgil J. 
 RatlifF. Charles C. 
 Reynolds, William L. 
 Shrewsburv, Charles 
 
 L. 
 Seller, Ralph G. 
 Sparks, Albert R. 
 Spear, Alfred 
 Stevens, Wilburn W. 
 Stewart, Allen L. 
 Synder, Roy 
 Todd, Alvin L. 
 Vandervort, Earl J. 
 Wendell, John P. 
 Workman, Charle" E- 
 Wolverton, Jack L. 
 
 Corporals : 
 
 Perkins, Robert G. 
 Thompson, Bruce M. 
 Gott, Henry V. 
 Harrington, Ralph G. 
 Wortman, Paul A, 
 Heinze, Fred C. 
 Douglas, Jodie A. 
 Abbott, Roy C. 
 
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 431 
 
 lycep, Bernard Q. 
 
 Baker, Claude M. 
 
 Cheever, Wert S. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Hackler, George H. 
 
 Specklin, Paul A. 
 
 Hartig, Cyril M. 
 Musicians : 
 
 Street, I^Hjah M. 
 
 Feurt, James B. 
 Mechanic, 
 
 Garwood, LrCsIie C. 
 Farrier, 
 
 Herod, John L. 
 Horseshoer, 
 
 Powers, William A. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Asman, Fred 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Atkins, Theodore W. 
 
 Atkinson, Russell J. 
 
 Bailey, Fdward R. 
 
 Bangs, William G. 
 
 Barber, Harry A. 
 
 Beaumont, Raymond 
 L. 
 
 Bishop, Roger S. 
 
 Blankenship, Elihue 
 H. 
 
 Bohanon, Frank 
 
 Brainerd, Rowe H. 
 
 Brown, Ernest M. 
 
 Bullard, Harry J. 
 
 Burkett, Lloyd L. 
 
 Buzard, Reginald L. 
 
 Cannon, Carl P. 
 
 Caraway, Sidney 
 
 Campbell, John F. 
 
 Chandler, Walter T. 
 
 Childers, Lovd D. 
 
 Chiles, Ray W. 
 
 Clark, Paul M. 
 
 Clendening, Robert 
 
 Commons, Claude E. 
 
 Conklin. Elmer E. 
 
 Cook, Homer N. 
 
 Coons, Henry A. 
 
 Davis, Alfred A. 
 Duke, William R. 
 Dunn, Paul W. 
 Ehn, George A. 
 Erickson, Elliott 
 Feehan, Walter J, 
 Ferguson, Marvin P. 
 Ferguson, Winfield S. 
 Fisher, Harold E. 
 GiiTord, Melvin R. 
 Gilhaus, George J. 
 Girten, Sylvester H. 
 Goes, Louis E. 
 Gordon, Clyde W. 
 Gordon, Lynell 
 Gray, Edward F. 
 Gregg, James F. 
 Gregory, Vernon L- 
 Grisham, William B. 
 Haley, Jacob 
 Hall, Stanley L. 
 Hankins, Staten M. 
 Harden, Wesley G. 
 Harding. Orville 
 Hawk, William M. 
 Herd, Frank P. 
 Holcombe, Walter M. 
 Holmberg, Arthur F. 
 Hood, Otto D, 
 Horner, Tack 
 Hudson, Lemuel S. 
 Hundley, Dare 
 Hutton. John Wm. 
 Hicks. William B. 
 Tngraham, John D. 
 Irvine. Harry L. 
 Tackson, Owen 
 Tuones. Royston 
 Johnson, Roy L. 
 tustice, Tohn A. 
 Lee, Roland H. 
 Logan, Carl A. 
 Logan, Combe D. 
 Loman, Ambrose R 
 Long, Ed ear A. 
 Manley, Mervin C. 
 Martin, Clarence E. 
 
 Mays, Lee R. 
 McCarthy, Bernard J. 
 McCoy, Chester S. 
 McCulley, Rose H. 
 McDaniel, William R. 
 McFadden, Wiley G. 
 McKinney, Hugh P. 
 Mendon, Jerome F. 
 Mitchell, John W. 
 Moore, Horace H. 
 Morse, Darwin D. 
 O'Connor, Bert 
 Owens, Clarence H. 
 Patterson, Leo M. 
 Philibert, Bert 
 Probat, Arnold W. 
 Prater, Robert E. 
 Ouinn, William R. 
 Rayburn, Otto E. 
 Reid, Jesse B. 
 Richardson, Paul E. 
 Rock, Edward A. 
 Schaefer, William C. 
 Shahane, Walter H. 
 Smith, Everett A. 
 Smith, Claud A. 
 South, Vernon E. 
 Stewart, Jack 
 Strong, Ralph A. 
 Swan, Leslie N. 
 Swanson, Carl A. 
 Swanson, Edgar F. 
 Swartz, Arden E. 
 Swenson, Bernard M. 
 Tonn, Edward 
 Toynton, Clyde G. 
 Veitch, Caleb G. 
 Vestal, Moody D. 
 Walsh, John 
 Walton, Floyd G. 
 Webster, Tohn D. 
 Wilhite. Harry E. 
 Wood, Clarence M. 
 Woodruff, John R. 
 Wright, James F. 
 Wurtz, Joseph K 
 Ziegler, Carl E. 
 
 AMBULANCE CO. NO. 
 Kansas City 
 
 1st Lieutenants: 
 Edwin R. Tenney 
 Richard T. Speck 
 Alpheus J. Bondurant 
 Adam E. Adamson 
 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 Rowland, Charles G. 
 Adams, James A. 
 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Hadley, Vernon A. 
 Leady, Roscoe B. 
 Markley, Algeron 
 
 Parsons, John D. 
 Thomas, Chester L- 
 Falconer, Clarence E- 
 Carson, Edward T. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Hovey, Clarence E. 
 Ward, Clarence S. 
 Knight, Robert R. 
 Weirshing, Guy 
 Dugan, Rollo C. 
 Toler, Roy P. 
 Robinson, William O. 
 
 O'Dowd, Benjamin H. 
 
 Roach, Norvin M. 
 
 AUeman, Neal D. 
 
 Christian, John W., Jr. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Toohey, Paul A. 
 
 Karbach, Albert R. 
 Musicians: 
 
 White, Frederick R. 
 
 Keck, Kenneth G. 
 Privates: 
 
 Addison, James W. 
 
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 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Anderson, J®hn W. 
 Anderson, Willard C. 
 Adams, Ernest T. 
 Bailey, Clarence E. 
 Barnes, Joe 
 Barnes, Richard A. 
 Barnett, Benjamin 
 Brown, Kenneth 
 Baum, Earl W. 
 Blackwell, Joseph F. 
 Baum, Eldon E. 
 Blazer, Robert T. 
 Bradbury, Claude L. 
 Brennan, Edward W. 
 Briggs, Clarence 
 Briggs, Junior 
 Brown, Guy 
 Brunell, Ferinand F. 
 
 c. 
 
 Buckles, Doyle L. 
 Buckley, Lee E. 
 Childs, Wesley M. 
 Carter, Edward 
 Church, Romulus B. 
 Cline, Ernest R. 
 Cole, Charles R. 
 Conquest, Victor 
 Corbett, Joseph F. 
 Coyle, Walter E. 
 Crowley, John J. 
 Davidson, Vernie A, 
 Dennis, Jesse A. 
 
 De Talent, Edward C. 
 Finley, Harold H. 
 Flagg, Paul E. 
 Flesher, Clarence W. 
 Foster, James R. 
 Gibson, Walter N. 
 Gregar, Mike G. 
 Goff, Melvin W. 
 Hallquist, Hugo F. 
 Hamman, Albert E. 
 Hart, George M. 
 Hendricks, William R. 
 Hinze, Edward W. 
 Houston, Herbert S. 
 Hueben, Paul T. 
 Ise, Frank H. 
 Jackson, Dale B. 
 Jenkins, Robert C. 
 Jenner, Clifford M. 
 Jesson, Joseph J. 
 Johnson, Andrew 
 Johnson, Roy E. 
 Jones, Jacobus F. 
 Janson, Henry M. 
 Kocher, Ernest J. 
 Kemper, Eugene L. 
 Locke, Lloyd B. 
 McClenahan, John S. 
 McNabb, Fred R. 
 Martin, William R. 
 Miller, Samuel C. 
 Minniear, John R. 
 Moore, Chester 
 
 Murray, Frank H. 
 Nelson, Oscar F. 
 Oellrich, Clarence E. 
 Parimore, Roy C. 
 Pedago, Ellis 
 Piatt, William C. 
 Pringle, Kenneth W. 
 Putman, Lawrence A. 
 Rebeck, John M. 
 Reid, Alex 
 Reid, Roderick V. 
 Rewerts, Fred C. 
 Richmond, Lloyd 
 Russell, Thomas C. 
 Schenke, Harold W. 
 Siebers, Frank A. 
 Sherrell, Clarence 
 
 W. 
 Smith. Glen E. 
 Stalcup, Ernest F. 
 Stewart, Chester B. 
 Still, Robert 
 Stutes, Chester A. 
 Talmadge, Abram J. 
 Van Cleave, Donald 
 
 W. 
 Vesper, Harold E. 
 Walker, John W., Jr. 
 Weaverling, Jacob C. 
 Williams, William J. 
 Wolf, Jonathan A. 
 Covington, Vand D. 
 
 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 
 
 These men and officers were called into Federal service June 20, 
 1917, and sent to Medical Training Camp, Ft. Riley, Kansas — later 
 transferred to other organizations. 
 
 Lieutenants: 
 
 Charles M. Siever 
 Joseph S. Alford 
 Charles C. Hawke 
 Merill K. Lindsay 
 Harold H. Jones 
 Ralph C. Barnes 
 
 1st Class Sergeants: 
 Hawkins, June A. 
 Gurtler, Albert C. 
 
 Sergeants: 
 Wilson, Glen 
 Glahn, Harry 
 Allphin, Wayne 
 Myers, William 
 Logan, Glen F. 
 Thomas E. Dewey 
 
 1st Class Privates: 
 Arbuthnot, Sydney 
 Glahn, Eugene 
 Hale, George 
 Holcomb, Allie A. 
 Hughes, Herbert F. 
 Jones, Sam I. 
 Starkweather, Robert 
 Taylor, Henry H. 
 Weaver, James B. 
 
 DETACHMENT, MEDICAL CORPS 
 
 Major, 
 
 Emanuel N. 
 
 Marti 
 
 FIRST SQUADRON, KANSAS CAVALRY 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 
 
 lOLA 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF 
 
 Major, 
 
 Lute P. Stover 
 
 Commanding 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 Cyril L. Fuller, 
 
 Adjutant 
 
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 Captain, 
 
 Ralph E. Baker 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Eugene R. Martin 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Elzie E. Clark 
 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Miller, Wilkie M. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Ainsworth, Howard W 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 McMuUen, Everett 
 A. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Purkable, Harry V. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Rodenbaugh, Charles 
 
 Smith, James W. 
 
 Weiser, Charles H. 
 
 Gore, Clarence E. 
 
 Moffitt, Russell M. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Ladd. Ole E. 
 
 Marriott, Dean R. 
 
 Wiggins, George E. 
 
 Miller, Albert B. 
 
 Burt, Harold A. 
 
 Cook, Archie A. 
 
 Hamlin, Edwin F. 
 
 Pugh, Lloyd A. 
 Horseshoers: 
 
 Weldon, Robert L. 
 
 Cook, John E. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Klein, Fred C. 
 Cooks: 
 
 Sovern, Samuel L. 
 
 Martin, Ralph L. 
 Buglers: 
 
 Martin, Errol S. 
 
 TROOP A 
 
 Eureka. 
 
 Riney, Harold P. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Hickman, Harry C. 
 
 Berry, Lloyd A. 
 
 Call, William L. 
 
 Duncan, Jesse 
 
 Hart, Harold M. 
 
 McFall, Ray H. 
 
 Wheeler, Charley H. 
 
 Wright, Rodney R. 
 
 Lewis, Glenn R. 
 
 Todd, Eddie L. 
 
 Willis, James H. 
 
 Swann, Carl S. 
 
 Call, John C. 
 
 Gullikson, Charles M. 
 
 Hunt, Fred L. 
 
 Harris, Joseph H. 
 
 Wright, Wordie I. 
 
 Jones, Earl J. 
 
 O'Brien, Francis F. 
 
 Ladd, John E. 
 Privates: 
 
 Askey, Lee E. 
 
 Agard, Robert 
 
 Atkinson, Arthur R. 
 
 Barker, Willie 
 
 Barber, Charley 
 
 Barg, Melvin H, 
 
 Betsher, William H. 
 
 Branson, Hugh 
 
 Bland, James W. 
 
 Beyer, Oscar A. 
 
 Boone. Everet L. 
 
 Cox, Claude I. 
 
 Collins. William F. 
 
 Conn, Roy J. 
 
 Crans, Thurlow S. 
 
 Cummings, Arthur C. 
 
 Divine, John A. 
 
 Dolson, William E. 
 
 Davis, Roy L. 
 Edwards, Oral W. 
 Gibson, Grover C. 
 Hellman, Glenn C. 
 Herbert, Arthur 
 Hillman, Charles E. 
 Johnson, Lowell W. 
 Jones, Earl O. 
 Jordon, Harry E. 
 James, Vernon A. 
 Kessinger, Bennie 
 Lloyd, Walter W. 
 Love, Otis 
 Milham, Ralph A. 
 Miller, George 
 Meredith, Cline J. 
 Milner, Calvin A. 
 Owen, Alvin G. 
 Olson, Henry J. 
 Pryce, Sam 
 Roberts, Clyde 
 Rockley, Rex 
 Ray, Arthur C. 
 Ryan, Frank C. 
 Robb, Vivian E. 
 Reay, Charles R. 
 Sallyards, Logan 
 Soully, Andrew I. 
 Smith, Otto G. 
 Stride, Clarence R. 
 Samuels, William A. 
 Schall, Jack 
 Stockton, Ernest M. 
 Sturgeon, Harold J. 
 Schadel, Levi M. 
 Talley, Cecil V. 
 Webb, Earl R. 
 Wilson, Norman R. 
 Weatherbee, Fred L. 
 Watso, Frank R. 
 Walter, Barney 
 
 TROOP B 
 Wichita 
 
 Captain, 
 
 James H. Sherman 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Elisha J. Stroud 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Merle E. Hollicke 
 1st Sergeant: 
 
 Bishop, George E. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 Lanning, Wayne J. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Chapman, Burchard 
 B. 
 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Cooper, Walter S. 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Evans, Jack 
 
 Fielder, Fred 
 
 Hunt, Richard L. 
 Corporals: 
 
 Cunningham, Claude 
 F. 
 
 Brown. Willard R. 
 
 Lord, Ralph C. 
 
 Critser, Dale W. 
 
 Ogile, Frank O. 
 
 Giodings, John L. 
 Foley, James W. 
 Privates: 
 
 Anderson, Emmitt C. 
 Asher, Roy D. 
 Banta, Orson F. 
 Bidwell, Andrew J. 
 Boyle, Dewey 
 Brown, John R. 
 Brumfield, .TOe 
 Burns, James W. 
 Callahan, Warren J. 
 Campbell, Carl F. 
 
434 
 
 FROM VAUQUOIS HILL TO EXERMONT 
 
 Case, Charles E. 
 Cherry, Leland S. 
 Close, Elmer H. 
 Colson, James C. 
 Colver, Ralph B. D. 
 Corbin, Robert 
 Crawford, Herbert J. 
 Current, Orval E. 
 DeCourcey, Victor St. 
 
 E. 
 Daugherty, Bryan J. 
 Doran, Ira 
 Elliott, Jesse R. 
 Ester, Lawrence W. 
 Fowler, Raymond G. 
 Carver, Virgil I. 
 Goosey, Merle C. 
 Graves, George C. 
 Graves, Henry C. 
 Gregory, Chester A. 
 Harman, Robert L. 
 Harned, Frank S. 
 Harper, Albert D. 
 Heine, Albert VV. 
 Hervey, Raymond C. 
 Hibarger, Godfrey S. 
 Hills, Dan C. 
 
 Helt, Roy F. 
 Holliday, Owen J. 
 Holsey, Henry N. 
 Howard, Clarence A. 
 Holt, Rollie H. 
 Houston, James W. 
 Husted, Emery E. 
 Jansen, Charles 
 Johnson, Rudy L. 
 Kearney, William A. 
 Kemper, Charles L. 
 Kennedy, Earl L. 
 Laurie, James M. 
 Lickey, Clifford 
 Menahan, Thomas L. 
 Matson, Lauren C. 
 Mayfield, Henry M. 
 McMahan, Pearl P. 
 McDaniel, Floyd 
 McKivett, James C. 
 
 A. 
 Miller. Walter L. 
 Milligan, Harry D. 
 Moore, Pearl T. 
 Nagley, Earl 
 Nagley, James W. 
 >Jewcomb, Jack 
 Pantier, Ray W. 
 
 Parker, Merle D. 
 Patterson, Clarence 
 Penny, Kelles N. 
 Penland, Robert E- 
 Phenneger, Forrest C. 
 Pickens, James F. 
 Pickens, Leon S. 
 Roll, Lloyd L. 
 Roll, Arthur D. 
 Rowe, Everett M. 
 Rush, Oren N. 
 Scrimsher, Evell R. 
 Sellers, Leonard 
 Shafer, Harry H. 
 Sharp, Oscar H. 
 Showers, Erman A. 
 Smith, George O. 
 Spurling, Harlowe 
 Straw, Herschel E. 
 Thompson, Earl W. 
 Traver, Harry J. 
 Tuttle, Clarence J. 
 Umbarger, Ivan D. 
 Vance, Francis M. 
 Wheeler, Dean O. 
 Wilson, Clyde E. 
 Wilson. Harold A. 
 Wood, George M. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Joseph R. Gary 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Winfield D. Jones 
 2d Lieutenant, 
 
 Will T. Hale 
 Sergeants: 
 
 Askow, Bernard M. 
 
 Miller, John L. 
 
 Holmes, Jess C. 
 
 Dowdy, Claude D. 
 
 Watson, Lige E. 
 
 Miller, John E. 
 
 Morgan, Fred 
 Corporals: 
 
 Myers, Floyd P. 
 
 Balfour, William D. 
 
 Evans, Earl D. 
 
 Dye, William L. 
 
 Evans, Cress B. 
 Privates: 
 
 Arrington, Frank H. 
 
 Anderson, Lemual L. 
 
 Anders, Phinas C. 
 
 Archer, Rommie L. 
 
 Allen, Jean H. 
 
 Brentlinger, Charley 
 
 Bader, Ross J. 
 
 Bolinger. Esra D. 
 
 Bailey, William L. 
 
 Barbee, Andrew L. 
 
 TEOOP C 
 Dodge City 
 
 Cormack, John C. 
 W. 
 
 Cummings, Theodore 
 Crowe, James P. 
 Craft, Clarence D. 
 Craft. DeWitt 
 Davison, Roy H. 
 Dennis, Robert I. 
 Downing, McKinley 
 Dooley, William J. 
 Dixon, Carnet J. 
 Ditch, Oscar 
 Eagan, Robert E. 
 Eaton, Forrest D. 
 Elsev, Howard C. 
 Ellis, Herbert B. 
 Fiester, George J. 
 Fowler, George W. 
 Freeman, Alvin D. 
 Foster, William J. 
 Fugitt, Austin G. 
 Gearhart, Byron W. 
 Galloway, Lawrence 
 
 H. 
 Gilliam, Lloyd H. 
 Hill, Guy W. 
 Hill, Leonard J. 
 Hinke, William E. 
 Hole, Martin 
 Hays, Dwight D. 
 Haff, Vernon V. 
 
 Houston, Harry H. 
 Houston, Frank W. 
 Hutchison, Chester A. 
 Hole, Allen 
 Howe, Clifford C. 
 Helfrich, Henry C. 
 Hutchings, Harold E. 
 Hill, Fred G. 
 Howard, James A. 
 Hudson, Therman O. 
 Johnson, Howard L- 
 Judd, Robert F. 
 Knowlton. Charles A. 
 Kuns, Albert W. 
 Karraker, Francis M. 
 Little, John P. 
 Lowery, William G. 
 Melton, Thomas 
 Mapes, Walter W. 
 Mansfield, John H. 
 Mallonee, Ira 
 Moore. Chas F. 
 McCue, Ralph V. 
 McDowell, Jess 
 Miller, Merl F. 
 McDermott, James L. 
 Otto, Leo B. 
 Page. Herbert. S. 
 Pendleton, Elwood 
 Parker, Frank G. 
 Perry, Jim W. 
 
ROSTER OF KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD 
 
 435 
 
 Powers, Grant 
 Roberts, Carl A. 
 Rockstrum, Charles 
 Reeves, Robert C. 
 Robertson, Alexander 
 
 W. 
 Reese, Victor 
 Rapp, Martin S. 
 
 Souder, Chas. O. 
 Snyder, Owen O. 
 Stafford, Addison D 
 Skillington, Lewis E. 
 Samples, Lyle K . 
 Sisson, Nelson J. 
 Sisson, Archie L,. 
 Sibert, Elzy 
 Summerville, James E 
 
 Timken. Leslie 
 Tuttle, Austin L. 
 Troehmel, Julius F. 
 Sturm, Clyde R. 
 Underwood, Thomas 
 
 A. 
 Vance, Earl E. 
 Wallace, Paul S. 
 
 Captain, 
 
 Ralph D. Fulton 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 John M. Hite 
 2nd Lieutenant, 
 
 Russell F. Milham 
 1st Sergeant, 
 
 Fish, Earl S. 
 Mess Sergeant, 
 
 O'Connell, Mark E. 
 Supply Sergeant, 
 
 Allison, Gelo P. 
 Stable Sergeant, 
 
 Drake, Morlan W. 
 Sergeants, 
 
 Amos, C. Clarence 
 
 Gillam, John C. 
 
 Wells, Ted W. 
 
 Milliken, Charles W. 
 
 Wilmoth, Jesse B. 
 Corporals : 
 
 Cook, Vernon S. 
 
 Dana, Arthur W. 
 
 Flannagan, Mikt 
 
 Ouesnier. Joseph A. 
 
 Hill, I. Thomas 
 
 O'Connell, Paul M. 
 
 Pinkston, Elmer 
 
 Turner, Merle E. 
 Horseshoers, 
 
 Davis, Ropcoe J. 
 
 Holmes, Walter F. 
 Saddler, 
 
 Pool, Ralph P. 
 Cooks : 
 
 Dillon, John L. 
 
 Thomlinson, Amos R. 
 Buglers : 
 
 Scott. Paul H. 
 
 Williams, John S. 
 1st Class Privates: 
 
 Amos, J. Albert 
 
 TROOP D 
 
 COFFEYVILLE 
 
 Beal, Otis O. 
 Brill, Claude H. 
 Cavenar, Clarence W. 
 Clark, Ellis J. 
 Creel, Earl W. 
 Debo, William O. 
 Fisher, Willard 
 Forth, Frank J. 
 Hurley, Raj. H. 
 Kime, Ernest L. 
 McBurney, James B. 
 McCormick, George 
 
 D. 
 McHatton, Robert P. 
 Millstead, William E. 
 Pendarvis, William 
 Smith, J. Lester 
 Summers, Chester R. 
 Thompson, Reese A. 
 Wallingford, James C. 
 Privates : 
 
 Arnold, Lee 
 Barnes, Lawrence A. 
 Basey, Mark H. 
 Bennett, Eddie L. 
 Bray, John H. 
 Beal, Charlie 
 Bowersock, Roy 
 Bowman, Frank C. 
 Burress, Dewey 
 Bugh, Lloyd 
 Burris, George 
 Boyce, Fred E. 
 Burgolty, William H. 
 Christy, Ernest P. 
 Crittenden, Samuel 
 Cooper, Delbert H. 
 Dewey, Richard C. 
 Dngan, Cuba J. 
 Edson, Leon K. 
 Evans, Condo 
 
 Farran, James R. 
 Ford, Willford H. 
 Frizell, Allen 
 Hahn, Clyde D. 
 Hanley, Harold 
 Harrington, Walter D. 
 Harvey, Frank H. 
 Hindman, Charley M. 
 Igo, George W. 
 Johnston, Francis H. 
 Johnston, Harnss 
 Kabler, Ira C. 
 Knight, Thomas R. 
 Landon, William R. 
 Lonnecker, Virgil H. 
 Maiden, Clarence O. 
 McKee, James B. 
 McCleary, Frank W. 
 McCloud, John H. 
 Owen, Lee R. 
 Raczykowski, Thomas 
 Ransom, John W. 
 Sayre, Aaron V. 
 Sullivan, William C. 
 Schroeder, Johannes 
 
 F. 
 Smith, James Otis 
 Stevens, Robert W. 
 Stockham, Charles M. 
 Swallow, Fred E. 
 Taylor, Manning H. 
 Tiarks, Herm.an M. 
 Tiffany, Dolphin G . 
 Tucker, Kyle W. 
 Walls, Tilde H. 
 Warner, William T. 
 Wilson, Willie T. 
 Wilson, Frank L. 
 Wolfe. William P. 
 Wright, Jacob W. 
 Young. Perry J. 
 
 SANITARY DEPARTMENT 
 
 1st Lieutenant, 
 
 Samuel E. Simpson 
 Privates : 
 
 Alkire, Charles W. 
 
 Baldridge, Floyd K. 
 Brenner, Cecil A. 
 Ely, Clarence G. 
 Enslow, Andrew 
 
 LeatTierwood, Harry 
 
 E. 
 Manzering, Carl C. 
 Smith, Earl R. 
 
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