Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Charles Harris 1918
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Cedartown Standard, Thursday, December 19, 1918
Mr. Charles Harris, The Standard last week published the sad news that in all 
probability Capt. Chas. Harris had lost his life in France, and we regret to 
say that confirmation has now come of the report. He was a son of Gen. and Mrs. 
P. C. Harris, and was born in Cedartown, where his brilliant career has been 
watched with much interest. Graduating last year from West Point, he asked for 
immediate overseas service, and was the youngest Captain in the United States 
Army. He belonged to the Engineers Corps, and was wounded in one of the early 
battles when the engineers threw down their tools and joined in the fight with 
any weapons they could get hold of. On his recovery he quickly got to the front 
again, and his is one of the thousands of find young lives sacrificed to the 
horrid Moloch of war because of the brutal ambition of the Hun. The pity of it! 
The young man’s distinguished father, who is the Adjutant General of the United 
States Army and who has accomplished herculean tasks during our months of war, 
has now another crushing load of anxiety. His wife who has been ill, had 
started to Arizona for her health when the news came last week of her son’s 
probable fate, and the message overtook her at Knoxville, Tenn., where she was 
obliged to give up her journey completely prostrated, and her husband was 
called from Washington to her bedside. They have the heartfelt sympathy of all 
here in Gen. Harris’ boyhood home over the tragic bereavement that has shed its 
pall of sorrow upon them. (Cedartown Standard, Thursday, December 19, 1918) 


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