Under the same Lieut.  Robert Campbell, a few colored soldiers armed only with their rifles, trench knives, and hand grenades, picked up from shell holes along the way, 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 sound and direction of the bullets, but could not.  To their right a little ahead, lay a space covered with thick underbrush; just back of it was an open field.  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 fast as possible and pull the rope making the brush shake as though men were crawling through it.  The purpose was to draw direct fire from the machine gun, and by watching, locate its position.

The ruse worked.  Lieutenant Campbell then ordered three of his men to steal out and flank the machine gun on one side, while he and two others moved up and flanked it on the other side.

The brush was shaken more violently by the concealed rope.  The Germans, their eyes focused on the brush, poured a hail of bullets into it.  Lieutenant Campbell gave the signal and the flanking party dashed up; with their hand grenades they killed four of the Boches and captured the remaining three—­also the machine gun.  There was an officer who could think and plan in an emergency, and evolve strategy like a Napoleon.

First Lieutenant Edward Jones, of the Medical Corps of the regiment, was cited for heroism at Binarville.  On September 27th Lieutenant Jones went into an open area subjected to direct machine gun fire to care for a wounded soldier who was being carried by another officer.  While dressing the wounded man, a machine gun bullet passed between his arms and body and a man was killed within a few yards of him.

In a General Order issued by the commander of the division, General Martin, Second Lieutenant Nathan O. Goodloe, one of the Negro officers of the regimental Machine Gun Company, was commended for excellent work and meritorious conduct.  During the operations in the Argonne forest, Lieutenant Goodloe was attached to the Third Battalion.  In the course of action it became necessary to reorganize the battalion and withdraw part of it to a secondary position.  He carried out the movement under a continual machine gun fire from the enemy.  General Martin said:  “Lieutenant Goodloe’s calm courage set an example that inspired confidence in his men.”

General Martin also cited for meritorious conduct near Vienne le Chateau, Tom Brown, a wagoner, who as driver of an ammunition wagon, displayed remarkable courage, coolness and devotion to duty under fire.  Brown’s horses had been hurled into a ditch by shells and he was injured.  In spite of his painful wounds he worked until he had extricated his horses from the ditch, refusing to quit until he had completed the work even though covered with blood from his hurts.