Chapter 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_

Roll of Honor

¦_Killed in action_
+_Died of disease_
*_Photo_

ADCOCK, COY
*AIKENS, THOMAS
*AVERY, CURTIS
*AVERY, HERBERT

*BAKER, JOHN J.
*BARNES, D. H.
*BARNES, J. C.
¦BEARD, A. E.
*BLACKWELDER, FLOYD
*BOWLES, J. T.
¦*BRIDGES, JIM

*CANADY, HOYT A.
*CARMACK, JOHN
*CHAMPION, LIGE
*COLE, CLAUDIUS H.
*CONNELL, MARION L.
*CONWAY, CLIFFORD
*CONWAY, J. W.
*COTTLE, GEORGE
*COULTER, ROY D.
CROWDER, LEE

¦DABBS, H. L.
*DAVIS, J. S.
DELOACH, BIRDIE E.
DELOACH, O. D.

*EDGE, J. S.
*ELLOIT, HOMER H.

*FLING, H. S.
*FOSTER, KENON
FOSTER, RUFUS M.

GARRETT, CARL

HESTLEY, DAN M.
*HOLLIS, G. W.
*HOLLIS, J. F.
*HOWELL, REUBEN
*HUFF, CLYDE
*HUGHEY, T. F.
HUMPHREY, JEWELL

*JAMES, T. B.
*JARRELL, J. M.
*JARRELL, WALTER
*JOHNSON, ALDOLPHUS
*JONES, BURL D.
*JONES, ROBT. L.

*KEEL, HIRAM H.
*KEMP, GEORGE
KENNINGTON, GRADY
KENNINGTON, JAKE

*LACKEY, MAC
*LANIER, T. B.
*LAWHORNE, C. M.
LINDSEY, O. L.
*LYONS, J. C.

*MANGRUM, WILFORD
¦*MANGRUM, WM. P.
MANLEY, BERNARD
*MILAM, RANCE
MURPHY, N. B.
*MCCARLEY, W. F.

*NEWMAN, OTIS B.

*PHILLIPS, DENSON
*PITTS, FRANK
*PRATT, HORACE L.
*PRITCHARD, HAROLD

*RUFF, LEE

*SEWELL, J. C.
SHARPE, A. E.
*SHARPE, J. R.
*SIMMS, A. T.
*SLEDGE, J. S.
*SMITH, ALVA
*SMITH, A. C.
*SMITH, COOPER
SMITH, ELISH
SMITH, ERNEST
*SMITH, PAUL W.
SMITH, JOHN WILL
*SPIVEY, E. L.
SPIVEY, FORREST
*STEPHENS, J. H.
*STILL, T. H.

TAUNTON, JESSE
TAYLOR, C. Z.
*TERRELL, C. T.
¦*THOMAS, BENNIE
*TYSON, THOMAS

*WALLACE, JOHN T.
*WARREN, SAM
*WARREN, W. L.
*WATERS, CLINTON
*WATERS, KYLE
*WATKINS, ROY W.
¦*WHATLEY, JOHN D.
*WHITE, FLOYD
*WHITE, JOHN D.
*WHITLOW, OLIN
*WORD, JOE

Colored

BOYD, CHARLIE
BOYD, OCIE
BROOKS, AMOS
BROOKS, JESSIE
BROOKS, WILLIE LEE

CHAMBERS, JOHN
COOPER, JEFF
COPELAND, GEORGE

GIBSON, B. C.

¦HAFFNER, RICHARD

LITTLEFIELD, B. K.

MASON, JOHN
MITTS, JOHN

OLIVER, WESLEY

REESE, JOHN T.

Extracts of Appreciation

"The people here are different from any other section of France. Their customs and dress are very peculiar, in fact, reminds me very much of the people of Holland. They wear wooden shoes and have a dialect all their own. French people from the more up-to-date parts of France have difficulty in speaking to and understanding them. The country is flat and marshy, and windmills like those of Holland can be seen. It is very pleasant in summer but in the winter I think it must be very cold, for already it is getting very cold at night and in the morning. I do not think we will be here long, though I do not know where we will go from here. Perhaps where the big guns roar and the bombs drop from the skies. Well, we have been anxious to go up front, and no doubt our chance will come some day. We have been doing some mighty important work back here in the S. O. S. but it is the nature of an American to want to be where the excitement is thickest."

J. F. H.

October 8, 1918

"This helmet was picked up on the morning of October 16th as we were returning to the rear from a convoy in the heart of the Argonne, near the village of Cheppy. The wearer who had fallen earlier in the day was an old soldier perhaps sixty-five years old and belonged to the 419th Division of the Saxon Bombardiers. More than a hundred German and American Troops lay dead within sight.

"The probable cause of his death was high explosive, as he was torn up very badly.

"In an area of two square miles many hundred of these could have been gathered. I took an interest in this one on account of its high polish for camouflage purposes, something new to us at that time."

A. C. S.

"We spent quite a different life from this in the English waters where we put in many monotonous months waiting for the Hun to come out. We were sorry he came out the way he did for we were just aching to exchange broadsides with him.

"My ship convoyed one-half million troops through what is called the 'Submarines' Graveyard,' off the coast of Ireland, during the months of September and October."

W. W.

January 1, 1919

"The boys in the outfit I belong to were the first to cross the Meuse River and were in the first lines when the guns stopped firing at 11 o'clock on the 11th day on the 11th month in the year 1918."

J. T. W.

December 21, 1918

"I now belong to the Army of Occupation. We are going through what is to my thinking the prettiest country yet. My battery has hiked some four hundred and twenty-five kilometers since we fired our last barrage--and believe me, that was some barrage--'The Million Dollar One'. It will take a long time before I forget it. I stood on a hill and watched and listened. IT WAS GREAT. I guess about ten or twelve regiments of the American Artillery and I don't know how many of the French took part. The best of old Heinie's guns were being used. If he knew the sound of them as well as we did, he knew that we were firing his OWN guns at him. They have a very peculiar and creepy sound, see?"

G. F. K.

December 4, 1918

"I had the pictures struck yesterday. And to show you how much speed there is here in France--for this is an instance of real speed--

"The guy who runs the shop pounded me on the back and said, 'Bon, bon-apres un mayr photo finie'. Anybody that has to put up with that kind of lingo and fight this war has sure got some job. Well, after tearing out about all of my hair and using three different Franco-American dictionaries I finally managed to get this out of the scraps, 'Good, good, after one month, picture finished'.

"Remember that was only yesterday."

C. H.

October 25, 1918

"If this letter reaches you safely you can say it came through from the infernal regions, for if there was ever a 'Hell's Half Acre' this must be it. Put your finger on the biggest forest in France and say I'm there. Six weeks like a rat, three of which is like a whirlwind sweeping through Hades day or night, no rest, but forever watching, waiting, working by candle light deep down in a dug-out, or no light at all. This certainly cannot last much longer. It does us good to know there is one place where everything is like it used to be. I certainly am glad SHAWMUT is still natural and hope someday soon to get back there and take up my work where I left off."

A. C. S.

"I wish to express my sincere appreciation of the personal letter service which has been rendered me. It is the wonderful and unselfish spirit of the folks back home, which has made the men of the A. E. F. willing and eager to 'carry on'."

J. S. D.

December 22, 1918

"I was sitting on my bunk trying to write these few lines, when my bunkie jumped up all at once and said a few words (I can't tell you what he said). At first I thought that he was shot but I found out what the trouble was, only a 'cootie bite'."