Edgar N. Caldwell
Home Town: Fort Atkinson, WI
General Orders 66, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edgar N. Caldwell, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Mihiel, France, September 12, 1918. When his company met with enemy machine-gun fire of such intensity that the success of the operation was threatened, Major Caldwell (then Captain) disregarding personal danger, walked up and down the front line, designating targets to his men and encouraging them. He then led an automatic rifle squad, proceeding two hundred yards ahead of the line, and captured an enemy machine gun.
