Show STORIES OF BRAVERY DISPLAYED BY OUR FIGHTING IRISH AMERICANS boys of ninth massachusetts and fighting sixty ninth of new york ole die fighting with smiles 0 th their lips but huns pay pa yank taken three huns drops gre nade and killi Kilis captors and self alii lip HIP billi fight lit ahe dolfl alil iiii be 1111 le they will it tiiu call be lillice un oil aliu ito nc 1 of two famous irmi irysh annerl 1 I I i regiments tit 11 france it if 14 it reco rd billit makes of irish blood hold their heads high it Is it record that lint betters the brightest yaw page of ameil pas most glorious ry anna I 1 m i these two tuo regiments one olle eusedio used to bo be tin the old ninth massachusetts buil tilt lie other tile the righting fighting sixty ninth af f now new york were lit in every bud bad sa scrap ip till lie Atner fenn army anny ling has been in fit the tae tubs of their prowess tire are just now I 1 fillet ing baft buck 1 to 0 o parts i they inny bo be told oi becal lse it tho lit urs tins tilts now no ruled that antly in bi be named for their part in such fight ln in nn im preceded that lint on oil the lofv illva t ale the find tile alti Sixt yInth arro vere in till nil of it the story dors does not conic collie mm reports it tonics from froin the lips of two men one it bioc cot or in the ninth find mhd other oilier n chap inn tn III the lie sixty ninth alio lio saw they relate those these two lino have ww anany tile die they know what bravery lirt mry und and courage find cheerful nem ire re simon kelleher of tile ninth ft ns it in carls the other city up lie tilli tile lie story of lila ills los boys and roost most of the time lie ho Is either laughing or tears tear involuntarily creep out the corners of his eyes es alii drop down his browned checks lieutenant Kellch cra stories show that the irish hoja boys of ids his regiment tile ho boys of ll koston Stoll south hoston bury cambridge and Cli arleton fought with the cool courage that hat hold tile ho fire on oil hunker until those americans of tin earlier day saw tit of their eyes they show that ailese boys imrij most of them were ere cipro lios boys died aled face to tile the front it 11 grins grim smile on oil their lips doing doin their soldiers duty to tho the last breath of ebbing life kadi heartbeat of the ille nil all too few left throbbed but io fo oil purpose to fight no ninn man of the ninth lied died says lieutenant kelleher Kel lehr without taking toll and moro more of n my amy lives with hlin one aie for each snot just now tile names of these her heroes s I 1 ait y not he be mentioned hut amsy ay nil haid hill ice and shen shea aro are thet alnie e all pt pr thin and ninny more inore I 1 Kell elir says sas nothing of lilo hlo own oun gil gut lantry lint hut its ida stories sit sh ir X flint eliat lid too served ile iio wits riot not ended called on for foi thu the sul reino hut lie life a thousand times fluxes on oil first arst aid aft dressing to til the outposts ane ant beyond id been told old there was ns a ninn in nit an traverse ti averse lie s 1 I r cravi pil slowly up to git get him I 1 limbird lila labored breathing lit in the lite lulls of tile gunfire Eun llie aud and then I 1 rounded the corner of the trench there HICK lie sot siu propped plopped against tile adall 1114 breath cattle in touring guasps and ellch aili one the blood gushed front from lih 1114 clest for lie ho biad lit ad been hot t the lungs lie ile was na a boy I 1 hind had linova all my illy life they got you ou bad pack inck I 1 hadj s n 11 as I 1 tried tiled to licit ill him elny sure did ilme lo lie 10 re replied nut but boolat there 1 I lie anve mavo of the empty onil 1 tv lie ho stilt still held lit in its ills hand an and there hero stretched fiti etched across tho the opposite were uro six dad germans Oer mans ono oni for every shot in ills his gun they had got lilt him only when han th the gun had hiir tied led I 1 stopped tile bleeding as best beit I 1 could und nil NO vo got him buck back to till n all bul clice hut but lie died four lioi ito 1 litter inter I 1 guess B lita his lite wits as we el 11 paid p aid for it it was MUS tills this anino raft arnld of ilic Gerni kirmins alls that produced ono one of tile thu coolest ailts lilts of desperate bourage I 1 vi on of nf iiii hiir bom had been cup aured by li three oliree german 1 and J le was vas being led PIT us fig they retreated one dim on oil ide file of blin and one olle belil behind till suddenly ono one of our nur shells lit within a few yards of tile party vie three tin ce germans duck ducked pd I 1 thought tit at first our boy lind had bilut no it r has reached into his hill pocket lie HR dropped a hand blind grenade 1 erectly I lit his till own in feet tin anil those hose of his captors eind the three of germans were killed 1 I got there quickly tift afterward erward to in elicio lie he lay lie rallied up at me yes iw he rallied mulled though his arin und and half his hi side bide lind been blown off clod 1 boy bo I 1 suld said horrified wily why did you do that saw lite go get nil did you ion doc ne answered yes but bill I 1 know avillan in fly bay is HS I 1 tried tiled to dress that fright frightful fil wound gave life to get three well doctor it he said gr id been to his flits morning and I 1 guess I 1 was ready to dle die tilt hut I 1 really lendy to go to germany they searched rne for gren tides when they got me ino tile the three ot of abild they took those out of my N bug 9 and out of my lily stile side pocket hut dut I 1 elways caray onu ono tucked into my lily pants I 1 KO go out here just lit in caw of well anything like this and when lian those three gentians tucked ducked it came through h rny my mind a lot quicker than I 1 can tell it that three dead germans tind one i lead dead anic american rican wits na a lot more on 0 our u r side of the score than three live germany C er and nn nil american as good ns doald lit in 13 orlin so I 1 let tier her go lie he tried to raise his head ana look cooki tt around round never mind boy you got them all I 1 him s any any glumace for me line 1100 doc lie he said 1 I and lie he know knew nis his remaining ha fin jd it crept beneath ins his blood soaked tunic gripped something tight and stayed there after a moment lie he spoke again doc lie ho said you know all tile the boys around our square I 1 wish they could know I 1 was game and doe doc his big voice was weaker will you will you tell my mother I 1 lind had 1 I had this when 1 I went slowly hla his hand crime came out slowly it opened that boys hand strangely old arid and worn orn alth the bloodstains and grinte slowly it opened and thero there in tho the blackened palm brilin glistened a tiny bright silver crucifix lie ile was wai dead wont stop fighting its chaplain hanley acho ho tells the r tory story of the sixty ninth they refer to tho the cha chaplain as aa holding the cler clerical leal record tor for mileage in no mans land th they et cant keep him oft off patrols chatlain chaplain Il ariley knows the story of most of tho casualties of the sixty ninth lie substantiates the statement that riot not a man limit has baa been killed or wounded by b a german bayonet notwithstanding the regiment lias hns encountered in pitched and open battle three of the five divisions of the 11 prussian guard guara at ono tanie and another of its career need tess to say the guard division ion can make no such boast father flanley says the hardest time they ahne 11 anve with casualties in the sixty ninth I Is ij j to moko make thim thein stop fighting when thero lilt ile ho Is himself just recording eelk 9 front ft it wounded leg the officers are as bad as the men lie declares aies tile illy I 1 got this wound I 1 was working up with captain Huil els company been driven 11 lack buck n little by it n vicious german imirage bin rito anti they vere nit it little ridge got orders to hold it and they did for four days when they left it they went avent attend well I 1 was aa up lip there this his iny und and 1 i cord of it man abend wd and n little to one side just over the edge of till tile hill toward tile the german I 1 told the ciuti ciuta ln id better K gt to him aind liv wanted to latall a couple of I 1 i to licit me 1 de inca aud ulf by myself ni self crawling on my stola stoin iiii i a stream of machine gun bullets that would have clipped mapped me lind hod I 1 raised on my elbow id gone perhaps CO 60 yards when I 1 heard a rustle in the grass behind me and there were two of curleys Hur leys boys they said tile the captain had sent them to carry me back it 1 anything happened now listen to the rest ot of it I 1 sent them chasing back to their company and crawled attend just as aa I 1 got to tilts tills ridge the bullit got roe me my wounded man was avas across an open space tind and I 1 knew knewt I 1 got get to him I 1 was wag afraid if 1 I 1 waited tilt till dark id bleed to death so I 1 put pirt ft tourniquet ou on my leg and started back forgot about wound now all of this 1 Is just preliminary they got roe me bade back to tn ft i hospital a day inter and id hardly got settled in my cot col when han who should they put down lit in the cot next to td ino aitto but captain hurley himself ile he was vas badly u up 1 in the leg too the leg had ben been dressed at the dressing station and when they got him settled they started to take off his cloth a As they tit at lil ill shirt lie he lot let out a howl tho the shirt was stuck to his chot chant nith blood ile ho had a wound there that the he doctors nt at tho the dressing station hall had never discovered why captain said the doctor looking puzzled lit at the casualty tag it hay about tile the client when did you get this one 11 what day la Is chist alila asked the captain wednesday said a nurse now lets see said the captain chaplain you were upshere up there yesterday I 1 must have tt got this on monday tit all the alie time hed seen sending men out to talu take cure care of mo me hoa had hole in ills his own clart alifi t tin and the shirt shin frozen over lila his big heart with his oas 0 0 blood youre a capt aln I 1 said to hills youre always cautioning tile boys ti tc report wounds pounds and get them cared for you stayed up there two live days and you naver eyon even told me about IV it 11 honest lonest chaplain chapla ln lie replied 11 1 forgot all about it you know we hild had orders to hang onto that dinky daulcy hill anil and wo we vere awful busy |