A Very Muddy Place: War Stories

An intimate account of a soldiers experience in World War I A VERY MUDDY PLACE takes us on a journey from a young mans rural American hometown onto one of the great battlefields of France. We follow Private B. F. Potts with the 137th US Infantry Regiment through the first days of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. We discover a personal story-touching emotional unforgettable. In 1918 twenty-three-year-old Bennie Potts was drafted into the US Army to fight in the World War. He served with the American Expeditionary Force in France. At home after the war he married and raised a family and the war for his children and grandchildren became the anecdotes he told them. A century later a great grandson brings together his ancestors war stories and the historical record to follow Private Benjamin Franklin Potts from Tennessee to the Great War in France and back home again.