Oral history interview with Clell Cecil Old [sound recording], 1985 September 10

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Oral history interview with Clell Cecil Old [sound recording], 1985 September 10

Clell Cecil Old was born on June 27, 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was drafted into the United States Army when he in Henry County, Tennessee. He trained at Camp Gordon in Atlanta, Georgia then at the Civil War battlefield at Chickamauga, Georgia. He left from New York to go to Brest, France on April 6, 1918. He traveled aboard the U.S.S Covington. Old was wounded in Argonne Forest and later received a Purple Heart.

2 sound discs (1 hour, 30 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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