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Woodfill Hero of Heroes Seeks Permanent Captaincy
Senator Ernst and Representative Woodruff push a bill in Congress to grant Sergt. Samuel Woodfill of Fort Thomas Kentucky a captain’s permanent commission and retirement at that rank. Woodfill earned his captaincy on the French front and his 20 years of service entitle him to retirement. The text recalls Woodfill’s Medal of Honor, other decorations, and his quiet postwar life, contrasting him with York and Whittlesey as other famed soldiers.
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Harding
Congress
Samuel Woodfill
Fort Thomas
Woodfill
France
America
United States Army
Richard P. Ernst
Kentucky
Senate
Roy O. Woodruff
Michigan
John S. Benham
Indiana
Benham
Peyton C. March
Woodruff
Bordeaux
Chaumont
Hanson E. Ely
Prince Danilo I
Montenegro
Woodfil
Louisville
Washington
Board of Army Officers
Infantry
Pershing
A.E.F
Alvin C. York
Charles S. Whittlesey
Argonne
York
Marshal Foch
Tennessee
United States
House
Whittlesey
New York
Havana
Toloa
Argonne Forest
H—Il
Arlington
War Department
Philippines
Alaska
Sixtieth Infantry
Lorena B. Wiltshire
Covington
Daniel Boone
Miss Wiltshire