James Kelly Parsons Major General, United States Army |
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Appointed from Alabama, First Lieutenant, 3rd Alabama Volunteer Infantry, 1 July 1898 Honorably mustered out of the Volunteer Service, 20 March 1899 Second Lieutenant, 20th U. S. Infantry, 10 April 1899 First Lieutenant, 28th U. S. Infantry, 2 February 1901 Transferred to 20th U. S. Infantry, 12 September 1901 PARSONS, JAMES K. Colonel, U.S. Army Home: Birmingham, Alabama 39th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, A.E.F. Date of Action: September 27 - October 11, 1918 General Orders 98, W.D., 1919 Citation: The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James K. Parsons, Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cuisy, France, September 27, 1918, to October 11, 1918. Having volunteered to take command of a battalion,
whose commander had been wounded, Colonel Parsons was knocked down by hostile
shell fire, but he succeeded in rallying his men and kept them well organized,
so as to withstand the heavy fire of the enemy. On the following day he
assumed command of the regiment and commanded it in successful attacks,
refusing to be evacuated after being so severely gassed that he was unable
to see.
PARSONS, VOLINDA W/O JAMES KELLY
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