Record #:

15446

Author(s):

Henley, Mittie Ellis

Abstract:

A small statue in the living room of a small private boarding house in Taylorsville commemorates Sergeant Ed Halyburton, the first American solider captured by the Germans during World War I. Halyburton, although seeing practically no active service, organized the American prisoners in German prison camps, keeping up their morale in the face of terrific hardship and slow death by exposure and starvation.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 4 Issue 31, Jan 1937, p3, 16, f

Subject(s):

Halyburton, Ed, 1890-1945; North Carolina--History--World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, German