DUGAT, Charles Reagan, Beeville Bee or Picayune, Thursday, 25 Sep 1918:

Another Bee County Soldier is Dead of Pneumonia.
Charles Reagan DUGAT, Twenty One Years Old, Died Yesterday in New Jersey Hospital.

Bee County is today mourning the death of her third soldier boy, a victim of disease in 
camp "over here." Reagan Dugat, just twenty-one, strong and almost perfect physically, 
succumbed after a brief attack of pneumonia at Camp Dix, N. J. The end came yesterday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock.

His mother, Mrs. Charles Alexander Dugat (Martha Elizabeth) and brother Sterling Dugat 
were with him when the end came. They had left the family home at Pettus last Friday 
upon receipt of a message announcing his serious illness and had reached his bedside 
but a few hours before he passed away. The remains will reach Pettus Saturday or Sunday 
and the funeral will be at Mineral Sunday afternoon, if present plans can be carried out. 
Mrs. D. A. Barber of this city is a sister of deceased. He has a brother Gentry Dugat in the 
army, stationed at a Georgia Camp.

Reagan was not old enough to register on June 5, 1917, but registered later when all who 
had turned 21 years old were required to do so. He asked the local board to permit him to 
go in the place of another who failed to appear two months ago and his request was granted. 
He went to Camp Cody, N. M. and remained there until recently. Had the fatal illness not 
struck him down, Reagan would now be on the high seas en-route or with his company 
"over here." He was a member of the 13th Infantry.

It is not the privilege of every soldier who must pay the supreme sacrifice to die facing the 
enemy on the battle field. Reagan was a true soldier, he wanted to be "over there" in the 
thick of it and looked forward to the time when he could take his place in the trenches and 
go "over the top" with the forces of right in the interest of world freedom. All honor to him 
and may He who doeth all things well comfort and console the widowed mother and other 
grief stricken relatives in this sad hour.