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THE FOLLOWING IS A VERBATIM TRANSCRIPTION OF A DOCUMENT RECEIVED BY SAMUEL OAKLEY GIBBS COMMEMORATING HIS SERVICE IN THE ARMY DURING WORLD WAR I.




SOLDIER'S MEMORIAL
GERMAN-AMERICAN WAR 1917


Company A
2nd Mississippi Infantry
United States National Guard

Answered Call of the President of the United States July 3, 1917
Volunteer Company Organized at Corinth, Mississippi
Automatically Drafted in to Service of the United States August 5, 1917
Mustered into Federal Service August 12, 1917
Mobilized at Camp Jackson
Jackson, Mississippi
August 30, 1917


COMPANY OFFICERS

Capt. Willie C. Mathis 1st Lieut. Hugh E. Stephenson
2nd Lieut. John Benny First Sgt. Alonzo H. Taylor
Supply Sgt. John B. Pounds Mess Sergeant Myrlin McCullar

SERGEANTS

Mike Byrnes Jr. Charles P. Dean
Davis A. Jackson Lloyd Graham
Samuel O. Gibbs Arthur A. Madden
Milton F. Rubel Sydney Surratt

CORPORALS

Rudy Bridges John M. Bell Jr.
Claude Burgess John R. Gray
Arthur O. Geisler Thomas H. Goddard
Lephem M. Huff William M. Harris
Vola M. Lanning Charles D. Lawhorn
Willie O. Romine Paul Splann
John C. Stricklin James M. Taylor

 

COOKS

Roy Brewer Fred L. Mahar John W. Moss

MUSICIANS

Leonard W. Caine Jr. Lee Roy Butts

MECHANICS

Robert H. Ganoug George P. Purvis

PRIVATES

Barnie C. Baker Umphrey Barker Ruoven Barnes
Joe C. Barnett Walter E. Bennett Clarence Broadway
Arthur O. Brown Tyndall Burgess Burks Sydney E.
William G. Burns Rufus E. Belton Arthur L. Brewer
Henry Ward Byrd Claude Cartwright Jerry Clark
Henry V. Clark Sam J. Clark Andrew K. Coker
William A. Cooley Sherman Corbin Claude Cox
James W. Crow James W. Cunningham Leonard B. Davis
Ward M. Davis William L. Deloach Harry L. Denton
Logan R. Doles Arthur R. Doyle Charles E. Ellis
Ludy L. Foust Luther Y. Gabie Guy Gilliland
Grady R. Glidewell William A. Gookin John R. Graves
Oliver H. Green Jesse E. Greer Claude Griffin
Bernard D. Hamm William R. Hannon Gus W. Hendrix
Simmie F. Hendrix George Hogan Sutton Hogan
Willie E. Hollis Arthur D. Holloway Chester Hubbard
Arnold Jones Eugene T. Jones Hugh Jones
James L. Jones William G. Jones Will W. Jones
Joe Little Charlie H. Mackey Osse J. Mahar
Brice Marlar Forest Marlar Rose Massey
Callie A. Mathis Sam E. Mauney John C. McCaskill
Freed McCullar James W. McKay Hillie S. McMins
Kenneth C. McKinnon Rufus O. McKewen Arlin A. Medford
Calvin W. Messer Robert A. Moore William C. Moran
Levi Moreland Willie E. Newcomb George C. Osborne
Lois W. Ozier Elijah Palmer Eddie Parish
Egbert G. Parker Benjamin L. Patterson Eber T. Pettigrew
Thomas L. Pollard John O. Power Robert G. Presley
Lummie Purnell Percy M. Rather John T. Ray
John E. Reynolds Fred Rickman Moman V. Riggs
Thelo Robertson Ezeckiel C. Rogers Bass Rosson
Wiley T. Ross William R. Rutledge Sam D. Sharp
Samuel I. Sharp Mike Shea John Shelton
William J. Spears Millard Spencer Charlie E. Stone
Frank Strawbridge William E. Streetman Henry C. Stricklin
Leonard Suggs Lorenzo L. Surratt Lesler O. Sweat
Luther V. Taylor Robert Taylor Willie Taylor
John R. Thrasher Roy D. Todd Harry T. Trim
George F. Turner John H. Turner Howard W. Tyson
William D. Underwood Willie Unsell Jim S. Wallace
George S. Warren Nathaniel Warren Bill W. Watkins
Ernest D. Watkins Joe E. Wells Oscar G. Wells
Will Wesson Duvernia White William C. Whitfield
Earl Wiggs Houston W. Wileman Wakely Wilson
Burkitt Windham    


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