Fighting Negro
Regiment Parades in Columbia
Columbia, S.C., Feb. 22—The 371st infantry,
composed of negroes fresh from the battlefields of France, which arrived at
Camp Jackson yesterday, paraded through the streets of Columbia yesterday. The
regiment suffered casualties of 1,003 men and 50 officers in the Champagne
offensive. The organization is made up of North Carolina and South Carolina
men, with white officers.
Eighty-five of the 1,450 members of the regiment wear French
decorations and many others the American decoration for gallantry in action.
The regiment was attached to a French division commanded by General Bobbet, who
highly complimented them.
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