RootsWeb has a lot of articles about town histories that are arranges on a state/county/town basis--
Here is letter that could easily be turned into a song--I found it at :

WORLD WAR I SERVICEMEN TOWN OF MANLIUS

(Extract from a letter written by Serg. R. N. Sudds, Col. L., 118th Infantry, August 29th, 1918:

"They, the Huns, got my best friend. Sergeant Ogilvie paid the price, but it cost them highly.
He found a machine gun and ammunition in the woods, near the front lines. He always was of a mechanical and ambitious turn of mind, so he lugs it up on the line and hides it for some fun. Well, a Hun machine gun out front had been bothering the whole outfit, and, as luck would have it, he spotted it. So he gets his gun in order and lets them have it. Well, that Hun gun never shot another round at us. The outfit on our right made an advance, and found only the officer alive out of the whole crew. They took him prisoner. The officer said a machine gun on the American side had suddenly cleaned out his whole crew. Ogilvie then went into his dug-out--a shallow pit. About fifteen minutes later, Fritz started shelling and trench mortar work. One of the trench mortar shells hit right in the foot of his dug-out and exploded. He yelled, 'Help, Boys,' and, despite the danger, half a dozen fellows went and gave him first aid, but he looked up at them and smiled and said: 'I am done for, boys, they got me.' He was buried in the evening. There were none but what regretted it, but, at the same time, it increased the determination to get Fritz, a hundred times. A lot of them found some Fritzes and simply lifted them off the earth the next time up. I am going to look for a few next time and get them too,"

The Wind Mill, St. John's School, December 1918, p. 13.