The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Major (Infantry) James Linwood Peatross, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 353d Infantry Regiment, 89th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bantheville, France, 2 November 1918. Though he had been wounded the day before and was so weak from exposure that he could hardly talk, Major Peatross remained with his battalion and led it in assault on enemy machine-gun nests north of the Bois-de-Barricourt. Under his personal direction, without artillery support, the machine-gun nests were flanked and the day’s objective reached in spite of the most determined resistance.