Taylor County GaArchives News.....Forty Selectmen Leave For Camp Gordon - 1918 July 25, 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 3, 2005, 11:53 pm The Butler Herald July 25, 1918 The Butler Herald Thursday, July 25, 1918 Page Five Taylor’s Sons Leave For Camp Gordon Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock forty of Taylor’s young men responded to their country’s call and assembled on the courthouse lawn and were enrolled for military service, and were assigned to Camp Gordon, where they will go into training preparatory to fighting the ruthless “Hun.” At the depot just before leaving Revs. John Lock and M.T. Gaultney made brief but interesting talks, making a deep impression on the splendid young men who have offered themselves upon the altar of their country. Taylor County has responded nobly to every demand made upon her by our government, Hardwick obstructionism to the contrary, notwithstanding, but nothing that has been done, or may be done by any one, is comparable to the sacrifice that has been made by the young men, who have offered themselves as a living sacrifice, in order that civilization may not be effaced from the earth. Several hundred of our boys are now in the ranks, either on the firing line or in training; and we believe that not a set of boys have ever responded to the call of our country with more alacrity than have boys in Taylor county. A large crowd of our citizens were assembled at the courthouse Tuesday to bid these soldier boys adieu, and bid them God-speed in the work which they are entering. Those responding to the call Tuesday were as follows: Sam Boggs, L.H. Vanlandingham, Howard J. Mitchell, E. Hugh Perkins, Gann Nelson, S.T. Crawford, Randal Waller, J. Moley Rustin, J.D. Boggs, B.L. Hobbs, Jackson Moore, Thomas Oscar Jones, Clifton Brown Byrd, Simon Moore, Lee Posey, Jas. Polk Harman, Henry Theus, William R. Taylor, Jas. Montgomery, Thomas Montgomery, Oscar Moore, Henry Jefferson Moore, George E. Lemmond, Vastine Byrd, Amos Rogers, W.H. Trussell, Jr., Ocie Hutcherson, Joel Armer Williams, W. Otis Scott, Tommie Haywood, W.H. Mott, Henry T. Blakely, John Luther Windham, W.J. Christopher, Charley C. Barnes, Herbert H. Scott, Albert Blair. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/taylor/newspapers/fortysel2246nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb