MILITARY: SERGEANT C. L. MITCHELL, DAWSON SOLDIER HOME Friday, February 21, 1919,
The Daily Courier, Connellsville Pa, Fayette Co
Connellsville, PA, Fayette Co PA
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SERGEANT C. L. MITCHELL, DAWSON SOLDIER HOME

Sergeant C. L. Mitchell of the 231st Machine Gun Company has returned to
Dawson.  He is now at Hot Springs, Va., his home town.  After two weeks’
rest he will return to his work on the Western Maryland as fireman, the
position he left when he entered the Army.  Sergeant Mitchell was in
General Pershing’s first drive, when they sent over a barrage for 72
hours and when several million dollars’ worth of shells and ammunition
were handed to the Huns.  In that fight, he says Pershing’s men
sustained only 13 casualties, with none killed, but that after the
barrage there was no living thing left that was in range of their guns
and that they had no trouble in capturing the Hun positions.  The French
had captured the same positions and held them only 20 minutes with a
loss of thousands of men.  Sergeant Mitchell saw Paris and other large
cities but said Dickerson Run and Dawson looked good enough for him.