I stuck one guy in the stomach and he yelled in good New York talk: 'That black -- ------ got me.' "I was still banging them when my crowd came up and saved me and beat the Germans off.

That fight lasted about an hour.

That's about all.

There wasn't so much to it." No, there was not much to it, excepting that next morning the Americans found four German bodies with plentiful indications that at least thirty-two others had been put on the casualty list and several of the German dead probably had been dragged back by their comrades.
Thirty-eight bombs were found, besides rifles, bayonets and revolvers.
It was Irvin Cobb, the southern story writer, who first gave to the world a brief account of the exploit of Johnson and Roberts in the Saturday Evening Post during the summer of 1918.

He commented as follows: "If ever proof were needed, which it is not, that the color of a man's skin has nothing to do with the color of his soul, this twain then and there offered it in abundance." Mr.Cobb in the same article paid many tributes to the men of the 369th and 371st serving at that time in that sector.