Carson L. Shumate

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Carson L. Shumate, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Seicheprey, France, March 28 and 29, 1918. Private Shumate was a member of a patrol consisting of an officer and four men who, with great daring, entered a dangerous portion of the enemy trenches where they surrounded a party of nearly double their own strength, captured a greater number then themselves, drove off an enemy rescuing party, and made their way back to our lines with four prisoners, from whom valuable information was taken.