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...expected that Louisiana State University would one day publish his literary remains. He recorded the visits to Natchez of Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson, but with true neighborly interest and relief he also noted that "Mrs Mary Morris has a fine Daughter Last night. She got married 24th May 1849. Thus it is 9 months and 5 days...
...been demonstrated that in combat in Korea, Negro soldiers serve more effectively in integrated units." With this terse announcement by the Army, Supreme Commander General Matt Ridgway last week broke up the Army's famous all-Negro 24th Infantry Regiment. Within six months, by his order, all segregated units in the Far East Command, both combat and service, will be abolished, and their men will be moved into units side by side with white troops...
...battle history of the 24th gave solid proof of the military wisdom of Ridgway's order. The 24th, all-Negro (except for officers) since its creation in 1869, stormed up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. In Korea, under a mixture of white and Negro officers, it produced individual heroes (including a Medal of Honor winner), and it routed the North Koreans at Yechon in the first days of the war. But its Korea battle record was spotty; Negro troops in mixed units did better in combat...
...troops in Korea had already been fighting almost as long as U.S. troops did in World War I.* From the handful of 256 men (two and a half companies of the 24th Division) who made the first desperate stand north of Osan a year ago, the total of Americans committed had grown to 400,000. Of those first 256, more than half were dead or imprisoned. Of the 400,000, more had been killed or wounded in the past bitter year than were on all U.S. casualty lists in World War II's first year...
That night in Korea, Private Thompson's platoon got orders to fall back; the North Koreans were attacking in force. The 24th was grouped for the withdrawal when the first enemy waves crashed into their positions. Two doughboys grabbed machine guns, started pouring lead into the charging ranks. Willie Thompson was one of them. Enemy fire got the other machine gunner. Willie kept blasting away, spraying belt after belt of withering fire to hold back the Reds. His platoon formed up again and started moving out. The lieutenant ordered Private Thompson to retreat. He refused. He said...