Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — M’CULLOCH COOL UNDER FIRE [ARTICLE]

M’CULLOCH COOL UNDER FIRE

“Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch was one of the coolest men I ever saw under fire,” said C. D. Reitenour of Union City in discussing some of his experiences overseas while serving with the Democratic candidate for governor. Mr. Reitenour, now a student in the Indiana University School of Medicine, was a first-class sergeant in the United States medical corps and was with the doctor from the time the latter entered the service May 23, 1917, until he was mustered out April 17, 1919. “I have seen him perform operations while shells were dropping about the hospital and while enemy aviators hovered overhead,” said Mr. Reitenour. “Dr. McCulloch was in command of operating team No. 19 attached to the Third French army at Compiegne when the Germans crashed through the front. Although ordered to leave he stuck to his post, as long as the stream of wounded men poured in. After he had seen the patients safely on board barges he sent away all of his men with the exception of a few who remained with him. “It was that night that one of the hospitals was destroyed by aerial bombs and Dr. McCulloch had a very close call from a bomb that killed six horses not many feet from him. " “He stood at his pest operating on the wounded soldiers for thirty-six hours at one stretch. It was for evacuating the hospital full of wounded men under fire that won for him the croix de guerre.”