Fighting Negro Regiment, Which Includes N.C. Soldiers, Parades in Columbia, Feb. 22, 1919

From the Hickory Daily Record, Feb. 22, 1919

Fighting Negro Regiment Parades in Columbia

Columbia, S.C., Feb. 22—The 371^st 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.