[Illustration]
_To the brave men and heroic women of Lanett, Shawmut, Langdale, Fairfax
and Riverview, who have gone forth to do battle for the democracy of the
world: and to the loved ones they have left behind, this book is
affectionately dedicated._
This book is made possible by the generous co-operation of the officers of
the West Point Manufacturing Company and Lanett Cotton Mills. It is the
result of the combined efforts of the War Service Station in each mill
locality to pay at least a feeble tribute to the gallant doughboy who
enlisted in the cause of right and democracy. It is hoped that, as the
years pass by, these crusaders and their posterity may find an increasing
interest in this memorial to their heroism.
Also, it has been thought advisable to preserve a record of the
accomplishments of all those patriotic forces which contributed their part
towards the successful termination of the greatest conflict in history.
It would not be amiss to call particular attention to the War Service
Stations, under whose leadership was fostered practically all of the
patriotic work consummated by those at home. That these Stations were a
comfort to our boys--in their interest and solicitude for them--is
attested by the letters reproduced.
[Illustration: PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON _Commander-in-Chief_ UNITED STATES
ARMY]
The President's War Message
Delivered before Congress April 2, 1917
I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are
serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately,
which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should
assume the responsibility of making.
On the third of February last, I officially laid before you the
extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and
after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all
restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every
vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and
Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by
the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean.
That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine warfare earlier
in the war; but since April of last year the Imperial Government had
somewhat restrained the commanders of its undersea craft in conformity
with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not be sunk,
and that due warning would be given to all other vessels which its
submarines might seek to destroy, when no resistance was offered or escape
attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least a fair
chance to save their lives in their open boats.
The precautions taken were meager and haphazard enough, as was proved in
distressing instance after instance in the progress of the cruel and
unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed.
The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind,
whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination,
their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and
without thought of help or mercy for those on board--the vessels of
friendly neutrals, along with belligerents.
Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and
stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe
conduct through the proscribed areas by the German Government itself and
were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with
the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle.
I was for a little while unable to believe that such things would in fact
be done by any government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane
practices of civilized nations.
International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which
would be respected and observed upon the seas, where no nation had right
of dominion and where lay the free highways of the world.
By painful stage after stage has that law been built up, with meager
enough results, indeed, after all was accomplished that could be
accomplished, but always with a clear view, at least, of what the heart
and conscience of mankind demanded.
This minimum of right the German Government has swept aside under the plea
of retaliation and necessity, and because it had no weapons which it could
use at sea except these which it is impossible to employ as it is
employing them without throwing to the winds all scruples of humanity or
of respect for the understandings that were supposed to underlie the
intercourse of the world.
I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and
serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of
the lives of non-combatants, men, women and children, engaged in pursuits
which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been
deemed innocent and legitimate.
Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot
be.
The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against
mankind. It is a war against all nations.
American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has
stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other
neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters
in the same way. There has been no discrimination.
The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it
will meet it.
The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel
and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as
a nation. We must put excited feeling away.
Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical
might of the Nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of
which we are only a single champion.
When I addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of February last, I
thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our
right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our
people safe against unlawful violence.
But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. Because submarines
are in effect outlaws when used as the German submarines have been used
against merchant shipping, it is impossible to defend ships against their
attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchantmen would defend
themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon
the open sea.
It is common prudence in such circumstances, grim necessity indeed, to
endeavor to destroy them before they have shown their own intention. They
must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt with at all.
The German Government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all
within the areas of the sea which it has proscribed, even in the defense
of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right
to defend. The intimation is conveyed that the armed guards which we have
placed on our merchant ships will be treated as beyond the pale of law and
subject to be dealt with as pirates would be. Armed neutrality is
ineffectual enough at best; in such circumstances and in the face of such
pretensions it is worse than ineffectual; it is likely only to produce
what it was meant to prevent; it is practically certain to draw us into
the war without either the rights or the effectiveness of belligerents.
There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making: we will
not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our
Nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs against which
we now array ourselves are no common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of
human life.
With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the
step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but
in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise
that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German
Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and
people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of
belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate
steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but
also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the
Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
What this will involve is clear. It will involve the utmost practicable
co-operation in counsel and action with the governments now at war with
Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of
the most liberal financial credits in order that our resources may, so far
as possible, be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and
mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the
materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the Nation in the most
abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible. It will
involve the immediate full equipment of the Navy in all respects, but
particularly in supplying it with the best means of dealing with the
enemy's submarines. It will involve the immediate addition to the armed
forces of the United States already provided for by law in case of war at
least five hundred thousand men, who should, in my opinion, be chosen upon
the principle of universal liability to service, and also the
authorization of subsequent additional increments of equal force so soon
as they may be needed and can be handled in training.
It will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to the
Government, sustained, I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained
by the present generation, by well-conceived taxation. I say sustained so
far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would
be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on
money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our
people so far as we may, against the very serious hardships and evils
which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be
produced by vast loans.
In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be accomplished
we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of interfering as little as
possible in our own preparation and in the equipment of our own military
forces with the duty--for it will be a very practical duty--of supplying
the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can
obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field and we
should help them in every way to be effective there.
I shall take the liberty of suggesting, through the several executive
departments of the Government, for the consideration of your committees,
measures for the accomplishment of the several objects I have mentioned. I
hope that it will be your pleasure to deal with them as having been framed
after very careful thought by the branch of the Government upon which the
responsibility of conducting the war and safeguarding the Nation will most
directly fall.
While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very
clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our
objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and
normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not
believe that the thought of the Nation has been altered or clouded by
them.
I have exactly the same things in mind now that I had in mind when I
addressed the Senate on the twenty-second of January last; the same that I
had in mind when I addressed the Congress on the third of February and on
the twenty-sixth of February.
Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and
justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power
and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the
world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure
the observance of those principles.
Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world
is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace
and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by
organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not the will of
their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances.
We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the
same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be
observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the
individual citizens of civilized states.
We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling toward them
but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that
their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their
previous knowledge or approval.
It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the
old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and
wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little
groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as
pawns and tools.
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set
the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs
which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest. Such
designs can be successfully worked out only under cover and where no one
has the right to ask questions.
Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggression, carried, it may be,
from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the light
only within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully guarded
confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible
where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning
all the nation's affairs.
A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a
partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be
trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It must be a
league of honor, a partnership of opinion.
Intrigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles who
could plan what they would and render account to no one would be a
corruption seated at its very heart. Only free peoples can hold their
purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of
mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for
the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that
have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia?
Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact
democratic at heart, in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the
intimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instinct,
their habitual attitude toward life.
The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as
it has stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact
Russian in origin, character or purpose; and now it has been shaken off
and the great, generous Russian people have been added in all their native
majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the
world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a League of
Honor.
One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian
autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very
outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and
even our offices of Government with spies and set criminal intrigues
everywhere afoot against our national unity of council, our peace within
and without, our industries and our commerce.
Indeed, it is now evident that its spies were here even before the war
began; and it unhappily is not a matter of conjecture, but a fact proved
in our courts of justice, that the intrigues which have more than once
come perilously near to disturbing the peace and dislocating the
industries of the country have been carried on at the instigation, with
the support, and even under the personal direction of official agents of
the Imperial Government accredited to the Government of the United States.
Even in checking these things and trying to extirpate them we have sought
to put the most generous interpretation possible upon them because we knew
that their source lay, not in any hostile feeling or purpose of the German
people toward us (who were, no doubt, as ignorant of them as we ourselves
were), but only in the selfish designs of a Government that did what it
pleased and told its people nothing. But they have played their part in
serving to convince us at last that that Government entertains no real
friendship for us and means to act against our peace and security at its
convenience. That it means to stir up enemies against us at our very
doors, the intercepted note to the German Minister at Mexico City is
eloquent evidence.
We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in
such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and
that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to
accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for
the democratic governments of the world.
We are now about to accept gauge of battle with this natural foe to
liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the Nation to
check and nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad, now that we
see the facts with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight for the
ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the
German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the
privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon
the tested foundations of political liberty.
We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We
seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the
sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the
rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made
as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Just because we fight without rancor, without selfish object, seeking
nothing for ourselves but what we shall wish to share with all free
peoples, we shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations as
belligerents without passion and ourselves observe with proud punctilio
the principles of right and of fair play we profess to be fighting for.
I have said nothing of the governments allied with the Imperial Government
of Germany because they have not made war upon us or challenged us to
defend our right and our honor. The Austro-Hungarian Government has,
indeed, avowed its unqualified indorsement and acceptance of the reckless
and lawless submarine warfare adopted now without disguise by the Imperial
German Government, and it has therefore not been possible for this
Government to receive Count Tarnowski, the Ambassador recently accredited
to this Government by the Imperial and Royal Government of
Austria-Hungary; but that Government has not actually engaged in warfare
against citizens of the United States on the seas, and I take the liberty,
for the present at least, of postponing a discussion of our relations with
the authorities at Vienna. We enter this war only where we are clearly
forced into it because there are no other means of defending our rights.
It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a
high spirit of right and fairness because we act without animus, not in
enmity toward a people nor with the desire to bring any injury or
disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible
Government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of
right and is running amuck.
We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, and
shall desire nothing so much as the early re-establishment of intimate
relations of mutual advantage between us--however hard it may be for them,
for the time being, to believe that this is spoken from our hearts. We
have borne with their present Government through all these bitter months
because of that friendship--exercising a patience and forbearance which
would otherwise have been impossible. We shall, happily, still have an
opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions
toward the millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy
who live amongst us and share our life, and we shall be proud to prove it
toward all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to the Government
in the hour of test. They are, most of them, as true and loyal Americans
as if they had never known any other fealty or allegiance.
They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining the few
who may be of a different mind and purpose.
If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of
stern repression; but, if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only
here and there and without countenance except from a lawless and malignant
few.
It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen of the Congress, which
I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months
of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead
this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous
of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the
right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which
we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of
those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments,
for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of
right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to
all nations and make the world itself at last free.
To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that
we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that
the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her
might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace
which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Woodrow Wilson
[Illustration: GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING _Commander-in-Chief_ AMERICAN
EXPEDITIONARY FORCES]
[Illustration: ADMIRAL SIMS _Commander-in-Chief_ UNITED STATES NAVAL
FORCES]
_Lanett_
[Illustration: =Corp. Joe F. Adams= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. George Alexander= Company E 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Loyd Allen= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Will T. Anderson= Company C 106th Am. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Clyde Andrews= Company B 3d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Chas. H. Barnett= Battery C 6th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Corp. Harry Bachelor= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Claude Barnett= Bakery Co. 357]
[Illustration: =Sailor George Bankston= U.S.S. Rhode Island]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Jesse Berry= Company C 106th Am. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Earl Beal= Battery F 53d Artillery C.A.C.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Edgar Blakely= Medical Corps]
[Illustration: =Sgt. James Blackmon= 19th Division Supply Train]
[Illustration: =Corp. Mark B. Blackmon= Company C 106th Am. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Willie H. Brewer= Company G 2d Training Reg.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Earnest G. Brewster= Company 39 157th Depot Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Eddie E. Buchannan= 1st Company 1st Army Corps School
Det.]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Thos. H. Cason= Company C 106th Am. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. George Caldwell= Company B 324th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Merritt E. Carlisle= Company L 327th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. Henry Carlisle= Battery E 21st Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Jno. G. Chapman= Quartermaster Corps]
[Illustration: =Pvt. T. G. Clements= 2d Provisional Depot Battalion]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Maj. Guy Coffee= Hdqtrs. Company 384th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Tipton Coffee= Y. M. C. A.]
[Illustration: =Wendell Coffee= Ph. M.1 U.S.S. Kentucky]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Ewell Coffee= Company B 17th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Corp. Harvey R. Collins= Company B 6th Repl. Reg. Inf.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. A. Fennimore Cox= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Jesse W. Coleman= Company B 151st Mach. Gun Btn.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Hoyt Crowder= 3d Company Developing Btn.]
[Illustration: =Corp. Lester D. Crowder= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Cook O. W. Culpepper= Company I M.T.C.R.U. 307]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Leroy Daniel= Hdqtrs. Company 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Elijah Daniel= 6th Company Development Btn.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Dailey= Battery E 117th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Winfred L. Deloach= Battery C 7th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Huburt Denham= Battery D 117th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Radney Dobson= Company H 161st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Gay Dunn= Company B 48th Mach. Gun Btn.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. A. E. Fincher= 2d Provisional R.R.C.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. George Fincher= Company B 359th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Isac Free= Mach. Gun Company 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. William E. Freeman= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Wesley Foster= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Will H. Gill= Company C 321st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. Tolbert H. Gray= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. Ben W. Griffeth= Company B 34th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Allie Griffin= Company E 123d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. J. B. Grier= Company G 321st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Alver Gunn= Company E 7th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Pvt. John B. Gunn= Battery F 117th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Richard Hadaway= Company E 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Brinton Hall= Company H 161st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Will H. Hammock= 20th Company 156th Depot Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Hammock= 65th Company 6th Group M.T.D.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. L. Clyde Harmon= Bakery Co. 326]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Grady Harmon= Company 7 Infantry Repl. Unit]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Hobson H. Harmon= Supply Battery 56th Field
Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Phillip H. Heard= Company D 66th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Sgt. James Heard= Company A 59th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Roland Shaefer Heard= Yeoman 3 c. 8 U.S. Navy Yard
Charleston, S.C.]
[Illustration: =Corp. Buford Heggood= 118th Infantry Band 59th Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Hobson Heggood= Post Military Band Edgewood Arsenal]
[Illustration: =Pvt. F. M. Heggood= 118th Infantry Band]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Emmit Henderson= Company G 165th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. S. Calloway Herring= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles Frank Hill= Battery C 3d Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Corp. John J. Seymore= Company C 106th Am. Train]
[Illustration: =Musc. David Holloway= 167th Infantry Band]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Minor Hood= Company D 106th Am. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Jack Howard= Company 17 5th Reg. U.S. Marine Corps]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Jno. M. Howarth= S.A.T.C. Auburn, Ala.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Reuben J. Jennings= S.A.T.C. Marion Inst.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. John Johnson= Company A 106th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Frank P. Jones= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Oscar King= Company C 54th Mach. Gun Btn.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Belah King= 5th Company Coast Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Marion W. Knight= Quartermaster Corps]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe W. Knight= Marine Guard Naval Radio Station]
[Illustration: =Pvt. John C. Leonard= Casual Co. 63 162d Depot Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Hobson Lewis= Company E 3d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Evans McGhee= Company C 3d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Gip. L. McGhee= 23d. Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. James McGlon= Company H 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Jesse McGlon= 64th Engineers R.O.T.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Curtis McNaron= Company L 115th U.S.G.N.A.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Brant F. Maguire= 13th Company 5th Platoon]
[Illustration: =Pvt. J. T. Manley= Battery D 117th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Luther Martin= 39th Company 10th Training Btn. 157th
Depot Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Earnest R. Mitchell= Hdqtrs. Company 152d Depot
Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Lofton Mitchell= Company E 106th Am. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Cluster Morgan= Company M 70th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Edd L. Newby= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Newsome= Company A 168th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. Eugene Oliver= Company H 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Calvin Parker= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Henry M. Parker= Quartermaster Corps]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Watson Phillips= Quartermaster Corps]
[Illustration: =Sgt. George C. Pryor= Medical Dept. 6th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Corp. William C. Raines= Headquarters Band 116th Field
Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Willie Rogers= Company A 321st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles E. Sanders= Motor Truck Co. 332]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles Sedinger= Company D 6th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Jimmie Seymour= Company A 101st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas M. Simms= Company E 307th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Grady Smith= Medical Dept. 157th Depot Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe Smith= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Ollie Smith= Company C 321st Mach. Gun Btn.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. John W. Stewart= Company H 43d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Sgt. James Stearns= Battery C 117th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Harvey D. Stephens= Company C 321st Mach. Gun Btn.]
[Illustration: =Corp. Eugene Stiff= Company G 122d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Charles Tally= Hdqtrs. Troops 314th Cavalry]
[Illustration: =Horseshoer Thomas Tally= Battery D 117th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Lomas Thomaston= Company A 1st Infantry Regl. and
Trn. Btn.]
[Illustration: =Corp. Thomas Thomaston= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Hugh Turner= Company D 19th Btn. U.S.G.N.A.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. James Ward= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. Quincer W. Whittle= Company B 116th Supply Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Ocie T. Wilbanks= Company E 20th Engineers]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Colvin Wilbanks= 71st Company 6th Group M.T.D.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Williams= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Jesse Von Williams= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Sailor Charles Winningham= U.S.S. Camden Detail League
Island Navy Yard]
[Illustration: =Charles H. Yarbrough= Ph. M.3 Bay Ridge Rec. Ship]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Dan H. Hart= Company H 123d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Carl Smith= Company H 123d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. William D. Purcell= Company A 306 Ammunition Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Geter= Company 21 R.R.D.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Chester D. May= Company F 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. Eugene Herring= Company C 106th Am. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Robert Hollis= Company K 16th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. James E. Robinson= 8th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Hobson Cummings= S.A.T.C. Auburn, Ala.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Peppers= Company 39 New Receiving Camp]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Jim B. Morris= Hdqtrs. Company 115th Field
Artillery]
Roll of Honor
¦_Killed in action_
+_Died of disease_
*_Photo_
*ADAMS, J. F.
ALLEN, MARSHALL
ALEXANDER, BEN
*ALEXANDER, GEORGE
*ALLEN, LOYD
*ANDERSON, WILL
+*ANDREWS, CLYDE
ANDREWS, J. C.
AUGHTMAN, JOHN
¦*BACHELOR, HARRY
BAKER, WILLIAM
*BANKSTON, GEORGE
BARNETT, CLAUDE
BARNETT, CHARLES H.
BARTON, TEBE
*BEAL, EARL
*BERRY, JESSE
*BLACKMON, JAMES
*BLACKMON, MARK
*BLAKELY, EDGAR
BOGGS, JAMES G.
BOWLING, I. L.
*BREWER, WILLIE H.
BREWSTER, EARNEST G.
BROWN, JESSE
BRUMALOE, C. C.
*BUCHANNAN, EDWARD E.
*CALDWELL, GEORGE
*CARLISLE, HENRY
¦*CARLISLE, MERRITT
CARMICHAEL, GEORGE
CARMICHAEL, JIM
*CASON, THOMAS
*CHAPMAN, JOHN
*CLEMENTS, T. G.
*COFFEE, EWELL
*COFFEE, GUY
*COFFEE, TIPTON
*COFFEE, WENDELL
*COLEMAN, J. W.
*COLLINS, HARVEY R.
¦*COX, FENNIMORE
*CROWDER, HOYT
¦*CROWDER, LESTER D.
*CULPEPPER, OREIN W.
CUMMINGS, HOBSON
*DAILEY, ROBERT
*DANIEL, ELIJAH
*DANIEL, LEROY
*DELOACH, WINFRED L.
*DENHAM, HUBURT
*DOBSON, RADNEY
*DUNN, LONNIE G.
EAST, ALBERT
*FREE, ISAC
*FREEMAN, WILLIAM E.
*FINCHER, EUGENE
*FINCHER, GEORGE
¦*FOSTER, WESLEY
*GETER, WALTER
*GILL, WILL
*GRAY, TOLBERT H.
*GRIER, JOE B.
*GRIFFETH, BEN W.
*GRIFFIN, ALLIE
*GUNN, ALVER T.
*GUNN, JOHN B.
*HADAWAY, RICHARD
*HALL, BRINTON
*HAMMOCK, ROBERT L.
*HAMMOCK, WILL H.
*HARMON, CLYDE
*HARMON, GRADY
*HARMON, HOBSON
*HART, DAN
*HEARD, PHILLIP
*HEARD, JAMES E.
*HEARD, SHAEFER
*HEGGOOD, BUFORD
*HEGGOOD, F. M.
*HEGGOOD, HOBSON
*HENDERSON, EMMIT
*HERRING, EUGENE
*HERRING, S. CALLOWAY
*HILL, CHARLES FRANK
HILL, CHARLIE
*HOLLIS, ROBERT
*HOLLOWAY, DAVID
*HOOD, MINOR
*HOWARD, JACK
*HOWARTH, JOHN M.
JENKINS, HAMP
*JENNINGS, RUBE J.
*JOHNSON, JOHN
*JONES, FRANK P.
KENDRICK, JOHN
*KING, BELAH
*KING, OSCAR
*KNIGHT, MARION
*KNIGHT, JOE
KNIGHT, HORACE
KYNARD, O. D.
*LEONARD, JOHN C.
*LEWIS, HOBSON J.
LEWIS, EDD
MANNING, E.
MARTIN, CLARENCE
*MAY, CHESTER D.
*MITCHELL, EARNEST
*MITCHELL, LOFTON
*MORGAN, CLUSTER
*MORRIS, JIM B.
*MAGUIRE, BRANT F.
*MANLEY, J. T.
*MARTIN, LUTHER
*MCGHEE, EVANS
MCGHEE, GIP L.
*MCGLON, JESSE
*MCGLON, JAMES
*MCNARON, CURTIS
NEESE, KENNY
*NEWBY, EDD L.
*NEWSOME, WALTER
NORMAN, RAEMON
*OLIVER, EUGENE
*PARKER, CALVIN
*PARKER, MOSE HENRY
PEPPERS, WALTER
*PHILLIPS, WATSON
*PRYOR, GEORGE C.
*PURCELL, WILLIAM D.
*RAINES, WILLIAM C.
ROBINSON, JAMES E.
ROBINSON, OSCAR
*ROGERS, WILLIAM
*SANDERS, C. E.
SANDS, L. C.
*SEDINGER, CHARLES
*SEYMORE, JAMES
*SEYMORE, JOHN J.
*SIMS, THOMAS M.
*SMITH, CARL
*SMITH, GRADY
*SMITH, JOE
*SMITH, OLLIE
*STEARNS, JAMES
*STEVENS, HARVEY D.
STEVENS, OTIS
*STEWART, JOHN W.
*STIFF, EUGENE
*TALLY, CHARLIE
*TALLY, ROBERT
¦*THOMASTON, THOMAS
*THOMASTON, WILLIAM L.
*TURNER, HUGH
*WARD, JAMES
*WHITTLE, QUINCER
*WILBANKS, COLVIN
*WILBANKS, OCIE T.
*WILLIAMS, JESSE VON
*WILLIAMS, ROBERT
*WINNINGHAM, CHARLES
WINSLETT, R. D.
*YARBROUGH, CHARLES H.
Colored
ASKEW, FRANK
BROCK, BILL
COLLINS, JIM
COLLINS, JOHN
CHAPPEL, DOCK
CHEERY, ABRAHAM
DALLIS, WILLIE
DUNCAN, JAMES D.
DUNCAN, JOHN
DUNCAN, WILL
DUNCAN, LINDSEY
FITSPATRICK, HENRY
GATES, RICHARD
GIPSON, CHARLIE
GORDON, W. M.
GOSS, JIM
GOSS, NAPOLEON
GREENWOOD, ENOCH
GREER, WILLIAM A., JR.
HARRIS, HOSEA
HILL, CLARENCE
HILL, STANLEY
HUGULEY, DOCK
JORDON, EDD
MCKINLEY, JEFF
OLIVER, WESLEY
ONEAL, ALVA
ROBERSON, EARLY
SCOTT, LEE
SMITH, ELIJAH
TOWLES, WILLIE
TRAMMEL, LUTHER
WATKINS, ROBERT
WESTON, GILBERT
WESTON, WILLIE
WINSTON, JEFF
WINSTON, ZACK
Extracts of Appreciation
"To know that the people at home are squarely back of us just doubles our
determination to lick the Boche.... Our first Battalion was the first
American troops to capture prisoners without the aid of the French or
British."
DAVID HOLLOWAY
July 8, 1918
"I beg to inform you that there are boys here from the largest cities in
the country who have been here a long time and never have received as much
as a card from the numerous organizations in their home cities while I
have had letters from Lanett Service Station and only been here a month.
The boys all admit that they have to take off their hats to Lanett for the
spirit the folks at home show in backing up the boys."
HOBSON G. HEGGOOD
"And if it so be I will stand on the vine clad hills of sunny France and
give my life for a cause that is just and right."
EVANS MCGHEE
June 14, 1918. _Eagle Pass, Texas_
"Our motto is 'Over the Top and give them H--' and you can take it from me
that is just what they are doing. Our boys are fighting like our
grandfathers fought back in the sixties and they are making for themselves
a name which will never be forgotten."
DAVE HOLLOWAY.
September 21, 1918. _Musician, 167th Inf. Band, Somewhere in France_
"And I am glad that I have such a patriotic town to back me while I do a
little to help beat the Beast of Berlin."
SGT. EUGENE C. STIFF.
July 23, 1918. _Company 9, 122d Infantry_
"I wish to thank you for the interest the Service Station is taking in me
and I am sure all the boys from dear old Lanett feel the same as
myself.... We had three battles with the 'Subs' on my last trip and I am
proud to say we got three 'Subs' out of three battles."
CHAS. H. YARBROUGH.
_On Board U. S. S. Zeelandia_
"We drove the enemy out of places that looked impossible for it to be
done, tunnels and under hills and mountains several hundred feet deep, but
believe me we went in after them without any mercy and finally got them
going so fast we had to put doughboys in motor trucks and hook the
kitchens on behind to keep up with them."
THOMAS M. SIMS.
November 30, 1918. _Company E, 307th Engineers_
"Again I offer you a rising and unanimous vote of thanks for your kind
letters. Number 10 reached me this week and did me more good than a check
for $50.00 would.... You will have to admit that when the world wanted
Germany licked they sent over the A. E. F. (After England Failed) and
three days after I reached the front the second time, the Kaiser packed
his trick clothes, threw his crown into the garbage pail, put on his
rubber boots and let himself out the back door."
CORP. W. D. PURCELL
November 21, 1918
"You have no idea how we love to hear from home and to feel that you
remember us. We can fight a _heap_ better when we're reminded once in a
while that our loved ones are helping us by keeping us in touch with home
and sacrificing in numerous ways that we may be more comfortable."
GEORGE BANKSTON
July 16, 1918. _The Rhode Island_
"It is just beginning to seem like 1919 to me and it will be a happy year
I am sure because it means that I am coming back to the only country on
earth with all my feet and hands still attached to me.
"Don't close the station until all of us are out of France. I would miss
your letters and I want to see all the folks at the station and thank them
for their backing and the interest taken in the boys."
CORP. WM. D. PURCELL
January, 1919. _Somewhere in France_
"My chum called to me and we counted two hundred air planes going over to
Germany and they were all in sight at one time and they made me think of a
flock of wild geese back in the States."
ALVER GUNN
October, 1918. _Somewhere in France_
"I thank God I am an American and will go down with my comrades if the
good Lord so wills that I go that way."
Extract from letter dated August 27, 1918, from Thomas Thomaston, Company
F, 167th Infantry, who was killed before his letter reached the Service
Station.
"Yesterday was Christmas and believe me we had some dinner--turkey, pies,
California cake, dressing, mashed potatoes, celery, tangerines, cigarettes
and one cigar and a few other things I did not know any name for--and that
makes me think, I thank you many, many times for the Christmas box. You
could not have sent anything that would have pleased me more and I assure
you it was appreciated by myself and friends."
CORP. WM. D. PURCELL
December 26, 1918. _Co. A, 306th Am. Train_
[Illustration: WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, _Lanett_
J. I. WARNER, CHAIRMAN
LILLIAN WARNER, SECRETARY
J. L. WELDON
J. H. HORRARTH
J. A. SIMMONS]
[Illustration: RECEPTION ROOM. WAR SERVICE STATION. _Lanett_]
[Illustration: WAR SERVICE STATION, _Lanett_]
[Illustration: RED CROSS WORK ROOM, _Lanett_]
Managing Committee of Lanett
GEO. H. LANIER
GEO. S. HARRIS
R. W. JENNINGS
J. H. HOWARTH
J. J. JORDAN
TEAM NO. 1
GEO. S. HARRIS, _Captain_
J. D. ANDERSON
JOHN KNOWLES
EDGAR MITCHELL
W. W. WALLIS
JOHN KING
JOHN SIMMONS
TEAM NO. 2
R. W. JENNINGS, _Captain_
JOHN I. WARNER
W. H. GRAY
BRITT VEAZEY
GEO. HEARD
TEAM NO. 3
D. A. JOLLY, _Captain_
TOM SWAN
P. SORRELL
W. HOLLIS
GEO. CROMER
B. PENNINGTON
TEAM NO. 4
W. S. LEATHERWOOD, _Captain_
C. E. LUNCEFORD
H. E. MATHEWS
A. J. WELDON
J. N. BARROW
TEAM NO. 5
TIPTON COFFEE, _Captain_
REV. D. M. JOINER
G. F. PARTRIDGE
E. J. GILBERT
R. D. KING
TEAM NO. 6
D. J. CROWDER, _Captain_
J. T. AUGHTMAN
H. C. HAMILTON
C. E. DELOACH
SAM JONES
TEAM NO. 7
LEWIS WRIGHT, _Captain_
C. M. BRADY
G. B. AVERY
CLYDE BLAKELY
GEO. LANIER
TEAM NO. 8
SAMUEL HAYES, _Captain_
K. KITCHENS
PATRICK SULLIVAN
KEIL HOWELL
NEAL HOLSTUN
TEAM NO. 9
W. F. SIMS, _Captain_
E. R. CUMMINGS
JOHN BREWER
JNO. STRICKLAND
SMITH LANIER
TEAM NO. 10
DAWSON SWINT, _Captain_
W. W. WHITSON
SAM GOODMAN
RAY COFFEE
ARTHUR HAGEDORN
L. S. PHILIPS
TEAM NO. 11
J. J. JORDAN, _Captain_
W. H. KNIGHT
J. H. STEVENS
TOM MCCLENDON
U. S. WATERS
TEAM NO. 12
JOHN HAGEDORN, _Captain_
C. C. WILBANKS
LEE HEYMAN
C. W. MILFORD
W. R. HARRISON
TEAM NO. 13
DR. J. L. WELDON, _Captain_
DR. WHATLEY
J. H. ALLEN
CARL CROUCH
H. M. GAY
TEAM NO. 14
T. L. CROUCH, _Captain_
V. M. WOOD
AMOS PRIESTER
J. A. WHEELER
O. K. WAITES
TEAM NO. 15
O. A. BONNER, _Captain_
HARVEY WELDON
LUTHER BOYD
WM. Z. TAYLOR
O. C. MCCLENDON
TEAM NO. 16
R. C. STANFIELD, _Captain_
J. T. WINNINGHAM
A. C. LYNN
S. T. JONES
TEAM NO. 17
JAMES WALLACE, _Captain_
EMORY COFFEE
W. H. WRIGHT
E. P. RUTLAND
PARKER HORN
A. L. SMITH
TEAM NO. 18
J. C. BERRY, _Captain_
JESSE LAUDERMILK
DR. MCCULLOH
HOMER WILBANKS
BOB HARRISON
TEAM NO. 19
W. L. OSBORNE, _Captain_
ED RAINEY
W. H. HARVEY
J. E. RIDGEWAY
JOHN HARRISON
Committee of Ladies
TEAM NO. 20
MRS. GEO. HARRIS, _Captain_
MRS. C. W. WARNER
MRS. J. L. WELDON
MRS. DAWSON SWINT
MRS. BRITT VEAZEY
TEAM NO. 21
MRS. J. H. HOWARTH, _Captain_
MRS. PATRICK SULLIVAN
MRS. WILLIE GREY
MRS. D. A. JOLLY
MRS. C. E. DELOACH
TEAM NO. 22
MRS. CHAS. STEVENS, _Captain_
MISS CORDELIA MICOU
MISS ESTELLE HEARD
MRS. HOMER WILBANKS
MISS RUBY PEARCE
TEAM NO. 23
MRS. GEO. H. LANIER, _Captain_
MRS. JOHN HAGEDORN
MRS. LEE HEYMAN
MRS. MORRIS DARDEN
MISS KATIE SMITH
MRS. JAMIE JOHNSON
TEAM NO. 24
MRS. JOHN KING, _Captain_
MISS FLORA CLYDE WARNER
MISS HELEN HOWARTH
MISS FLORENCE WELDON
MISS HATTY KNOWLES
TEAM NO. 25
MRS. S. L. HAYES, _Captain_
MRS. ADAH STEVENS
MISS GERTRUDE CROWDER
MISS GRACE STEVENS
MISS FRANCES WALLACE
Committee Report
Second Liberty Loan $1,650.00
Third Liberty Loan 53,700.00
Fourth Liberty Loan 55,850.00
Victory Liberty Loan 30,300.00
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Total $141,500.00
United War Work Fund $2,451.00
First Red Cross War Fund $1,822.56
Second Red Cross War Fund $5,294.00
War Stamps $104,707.00
Salvation Army Drive $313.40
From Lanett Red Cross
Sweaters 38
Sox, pairs 23
Pajamas, pairs 21
Towels 44
Bed shirts 78
Bandages 65
Comfort kits 5
Convalescent robes 6
Refugee garments 1006
Letters written to boys in Service 1972
Letters received from boys in Service 423
Other letters written 291
Number of packages forwarded 57
Number of visitors at War Service Station 2515
Total now in Service: white 164, colored 37 201
Number of Bulletins mailed 2648
Killed in action 6
Died of disease 1
Wounded 16
_Shawmut_
[Illustration: =Sgt. Curtis Avery= Amer. Military Com. Q.M.C.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Herbert Avery= S.A.T.C.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. John J. Baker= Company C 39th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. J. C. Barnes= Company I 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. D. H. Barnes= 5th Aero Squadron Rep.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Floyd Blackwelder= S.A.T.C.]
[Illustration: =Capt. J. I. Bowles= Company E 106th Supply Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. James Bridges= Company H 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Hoyt A. Canady= Company K 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. John Carmack= 7th Co. 13th M.P.C. Embarkation Center]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Elige Champion= Battery E 117th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Claudius H. Cole= (Marine) Balloon Det. H.A.F.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. J. W. Conway= Company C 151st Mach. Gun Btn.]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Cliff Conway= Company F 103d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Marion L. Connell= Company A 48th Mach. Gun Btn.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Geo. Cottle= Battery D 18th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Roy D. Coulter= Marine]
[Illustration: =Sgt. Jones S. Davis= Base Hospital 21]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Jakie S. Edge= Company K 1st Pioneers Inf.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. H. H. Elloit= 20th Co. 5th Tr. Btn. 156th Depot
Brigade]
[Illustration: =Corp. Howard S. Fling= Company I 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Kenon Foster= 11th Infantry Nov. Repl.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. G. W. Hollis= Cas. Company 43 162d Depot Brigade Tent
Area 4]
[Illustration: =Sgt. John F. Hollis= Squadron 488 Const.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Clyde Huff= Company I 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Floyd Hughey= U.S.N.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Reuben Howell= Company I Development Battalion]
[Illustration: =Pvt. T. B. James= 40th Co. 10th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot
Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. J. M. Jarrell= Battery D 129th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Walter Jarrell= 4th Prov. Company]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Adolphus Johnson= Oversea Casual Co. 24th Camp Pike.
A.R.D.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Burl D. Jones= Company E 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Wag. R. L. Jones= H.S. Company 106th San. Tr.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Hiram A. Keel= Company B 52d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Geo. Kemp= Battery C 6th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Mac Lackey= 4th Provisional Co.]
[Illustration: =Sgt. T. B. Lanier= Bakery Co. 366 Quartermaster Corps]
[Illustration: =Corp. C. M. Lawhorn= Company H 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. J. C. Lyons= Company I 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Corp. W. F. McCarley= Company I 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Wm. P. Mangrum= Company H 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Wilfred O. Mangrum= Company D 17th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Rance A. Milam= Company I 327th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Otis B. Newman= Company M 331st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. N. D. Phillips= 243d M.P. Co.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Frank Pitts= Company H 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Horace L. Pratt= 801. 343 Q.M.C.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Harold Pritchard= S.A.T.C.]
[Illustration: =Lee Ruff= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Von Stubin]
[Illustration: =Sgt. J. C. Sewell= Company E 106th Supply Train]
[Illustration: =Corp. J. R. Sharpe= Company B 102d Infantry]
[Illustration: =T. A. Simms= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Mt. Vernon]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Alva Smith= 17th Co. 5th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot
Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. L. C. Smith= S.A.T.C.]
[Illustration: =1st Lieut. A. C. Smith= 301st E. Remount Sqd.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. E. L. Spivey= 22d Co. 6th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot
Brigade]
[Illustration: =Corp. J. H. Stephens= Bakery Company 2 Q.M.C. Det.]
[Illustration: =J. S. Sledge= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Louisiana]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas H. Still= Company C 161st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Bugler C. T. Terrell= Company I 167th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas M. Aikens= Battery D 18th Field Artillery]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Bennie Thomas= Marine]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Thomas G. Tyson= Company I 6th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Wag. John T. Wallace= Supply Company 11th Infantry]
[Illustration: =W. L. Warren= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Oklahoma]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Sam J. Warren= Cas. Company 63 162d Depot Brigade]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Kyle Waters= 327th Field Hospital 307th San. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Roy Watkins= Machine Gun Co. 56th Infantry]
[Illustration: =Clinton Waters= U.S. Navy U.S.S. Rathhurn]
[Illustration: =Pvt. John D. Whatley= A. & B. School Camp Sevier, S.C.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. John Deward White= Hdqtrs. Company 321st Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Olin Whitlaw= Cas. Company 33 Cas. Detachment 162d
Depot Brigade]
[Illustration: =Corp. Paul W. Smith= Company G 1st Pioneers Infantry 2d
Btn. H.Q.I.]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Floyd White= Company D 23d Infantry]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Joe Word= 122d A.C. 106th San. Train]
[Illustration: =Pvt. Bernard Manley= Company A 113th F.A.]