History of the American Negro in the Great World War eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 392 pages of information about History of the American Negro in the Great World War.

History of the American Negro in the Great World War eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 392 pages of information about History of the American Negro in the Great World War.

Captain William B. Crawford, home address, Denison, Texas; for extraordinary heroism in action at Ferme de la Riviere, September 30th.

Sergeant Ralph Gibson, Company H, a Chicago man; for extraordinary heroism at Beaume, November 8th.

Sergeant Charles T. Monroe, Headquarters Company; for extraordinary heroism in action at Mont de Singes, September 24th.  His home is at Senrog, Va.

Sergeant Emmett Thompson, Company L, home in Quincy, Illinois; for extraordinary heroism at Mont de Singes, September 20th.

Supply Sergeant Lester Fossie, Company M, home at Metropolis, Illinois; for extraordinary heroism at Ferme de la Riviere, October 5th.

Private Tom Powell, deceased, Company H; for extraordinary heroism near Beaume, November 8th.

Private Spirley Irby, Company H, home at Blackstone, Va.; for extraordinary heroism in action at Beaume, November 8th.

Private Alfred Williamson, medical detachment, home at San Diego, California; for extraordinary heroism in action near Beaume, November 8th.

Private William G. Hurdle, Machine Gun Company No. 3, home at Drivers, Va.; for extraordinary heroism in action at Ferme la Folie, September 30th.

Private Harry Pearson, Machine Gun company No. 3, home at Portland, Oregon; for extraordinary heroism in action near Ferme la Folie, September 30th.

Private Alonzo Walton, Machine Gun Company No. 3, home at Normal, Illinois; for extraordinary heroism in action at Rue Lamcher and Pont D’Amy, November 7th and 9th.

Private Leroy Davis, Company L, home at Huntsville, Missouri; for extraordinary heroism in action at Mont de Singes, September 18th.

[Illustration:  Negro warriors administering cold steelGermans unable to stand the attackSurrenderingIn the Argonne forest France.]

About fifty percent of the 370th met casualties of some sort during their service in France.  Like the New York regiment heretofore mentioned, they were singularly free from disease.  Only 65 men and one officer were killed in action and about thirty died from wounds.  The total number wounded and missing was 483.  Probably 1,000 men were gassed and incapacitated at times, as the regiment had three replacements, necessary to make up its losses.  The regiment went to France with approximately 2,500 men from Chicago and Illinois, and came back with 1,260.  Of course, many of the wounded, sick and severely gassed were invalided home or came back as parts of casual companies formed at hospital bases.  The replacement troops which went into the regiment were mostly from the Southern states.  A few of the colored officers assigned to the regiment after its arrival in France, were men from the officers training camps in this country and France.

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