ABSTRACT
The 368th Infantry fought in the Argonne. It became necessary to send a runner across an open field swept by heavy machine gun fire…. Private Edward Saunders of Company I. responded. Before he had gone far, a shell cut him down…. “Someone come and get this message…. I am wounded.” Lieutenant Robert L. Campbell…. dashed across the shell swept space, picked up the wounded private and, with the Germans fairly hailing bullets around him carried his man back to the American Lines…. Under the same Lieutenant … a few colored soldiers, armed only with their rifles, trench knives, and hand grenades, were moving over a road in the Chateau-Thierry sector. Suddenly their course was crossed by the firing of a German machine gun. They tried to locate it by the direction of the bullets, but could not…. Lieutenant Campbell who knew by the direction of the bullets that his party had not been seen by the Germans, ordered one of his men, with a rope which they happened to have, to crawl to the thick underbrush and tie the rope to several stems of the brush; then to withdraw as far as possible and pull the rope, making the brush shake as though men were crawling through it…. The ruse worked, … The Germans, their eyes focused by the brush, poured a hail of bullets into it. Lieutenant Campbell gave the signal. The flanking party dashed up; with their hand grenades they killed four of the Boches and captured the remaining three—also the machine gun. 1
