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Battalion Adjutants
1st Lieutenant J. H. Ensch, Mauston.
Headquarters Company-Sparta *Captain Orville L. Arnold, Sparta.
Company E-Eau Claire Captain Richard F. Sortomme. 1st Lieut. Harvey C. Vermilyea. 2nd Lieut. Roy W. Boberg.
Machine Gun Company-Rice Lake Company F-Portage Captain Dan L. Remington. 1st Lieut. John McCullon. 2nd Lieut. James P. Clemens, Su- perior. 2nd Lieut. M. E. Hurlburt.
Captain Samuel E. Ernsperger. 1st Lieut. Gregory W. Dempsey. 2nd Lieut. Wm. Crawhall.
Supply Company-Superior Captain Harvey F. Wiles. 2nd Lieut. Leo R. Schwanekamp.
Company G-Wausau. Captain Elmer L. Lucas. 1st Lieut. Frank N. Drake, 2nd Lieut. F. L. Gottschalk.
Company A-Neillsville Captain Allen W. Wildish. 1st Lieut. Leo M. Jackson. 2nd Lieut. Fred Rossman.
Company B-La Crosse Captain Herman A. Rupp. 1st Lieut. 2nd Lieut. Paul F. Nuffke.
Company C-Hudson *Captain Otis H. King. 1st Lieut. Andy Lystad. 2nd Lieut. Albert J. Lyksett.
Company D-Mauston Captain Delos L. Strong. ' 1st Lieut. Harry J. Lyon. 2nd Lieut. Charles G. Babcock.
Company H-Menomonie Captain Albert Nathness. 1st Lieut. Harry C. Nelson. 2nd Lieut. E. C. Hill.
Company I-Superior Captain 1st Lieut. Martin Ackerson. 2nd Lieut. Elmer Olson.
Company K-Tomah Captain John G. Graham. 1st Lieut. Clyde G. Strachan. 2nd Lieut. R. A. Schendel.
Company L-Sparta Captain William A. Holden. 1st Lieut. Harold E. Markham. 2nd Lieut. Alex L. Nicol.
Company M-La Crosse Captain George H. Hale. 1st Lieut. Daniel M. Erickson. 2nd Lieut. Alvah M. Hill.
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SECOND BRIGADE WISCONSIN INFANTRY
Brigadier General Randolph A. Richards, Sparta.
Brigade Adjutant Major Paul B. Clemens, Superior.
Aides
1st Lieutenant Alois A. Fix, Tomah.
1st Lieutenant Harry G. Williams, Tomah.
4th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry, National Guard.
5th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry, National Guard.
6th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry, National Guard.
FOURTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY
Colonel Robert B. McCoy, Sparta.
Lieutenant Colonel John B. Schneller, Neenah.
Major Edgar A. Firth, Chippewa Falls.
Major Anton C. Martin, Neillsville.
Major Robert Connor, Marshfield.
1st Lieutenant Charles Willard Brown, Chaplain, Fox Lake.
Battalion Adjutants : 1
1st Lieutenant Robert L. Wiley, Chippewa Falls. 1st Lieutenant Henry J. Breitman, Crandon.
Headquarters Company-Chippewa Company F-Shawano
Falls
Captain L. A. Leadbetter.
Captain F. J. Schneller, Neenah.
1st Lieut. Bradley M. Barnes. 2nd Lieut. Leo C. Raddant.
Machine Gun Company-Tomahawk Company G-Antigo
Captain John B. Fosnot.
1st Lieut. Jens Munthe. 2nd Lieut. Roy . F. Lyons. 2nd Lieut. Eugene L. Meunier.
Supply Company-Waterloo Captain Herbert A. Whipple. 2nd Lieut. William N. White.
Company A-Chippewa Falls Captain 1st Lieut. P. J. Panghorn. 2nd Lieut.
Company B-Stanley Captain John C. P. Hanley. 1st Lieut. France H. Phillips. 2nd Lieut. John Mason Galbraith. Company C-Waupaca Captain Clifford W. Andrews. 1st Lieut. 2nd Lieut.
Company D-Black River Falls Captain George B. Jensen. 1st Lieut. Carl Hanson. 2nd Lieut. George D. Nelson. Company E-Menasha Captain Richard T. Hill. 1st Lieut. Wilbur R. Winch. 2nd Lieut. James P. Christofferson.
Captain O. A. Miller. 1st Lieut. Otto F. Berner. 2nd Lieut. Vernon Quigley.
Company H-Crandon Captain Leo H. Schoenhofen. 1st Lieut. Daniel J. Scorey. 2nd Lieut. Clarence G. Noble .*
Company I-Platteville Captain Harvey D. Weidman. 1st Lieut. Scott A. Cairy. 2nd Lieut. Earl Y. Sangster.
Company K-Stoughton, Captain Christopher J. Rollis. 1st Lieut. Ernest Wood. 2nd Lieut. Clarence A. Rowe.
Company L-Waukesha Captain Daniel J. Martin .* 1st Lieut. Harry J. Welch. 2nd Lieut. Richard W. Austerman.
Company M-Kenosha Captain Edward Dayton. 1st Lieut. Asbury H. Vale. 2nd Lieut. Francis A. Singer.
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FIFTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY
Colonel Peter Piasecki, Milwaukee.
Lieutenant Colonel James McCully, Ashland.
Major E. T. Markle, Fond du Lac. Major Stanley E. Piasecki, Milwaukee. Major Martin D. Imhoff, Milwaukee. 1st Lieutenant George C. Eilers, Chaplain, St. Francis.
Battalion Adjutants
1st Lieutenant Philip A. Frear, Milwaukee. 1st Lieutenant Jerome H. Cole, Milwaukee. 1st Lieutenant Howard M. Sivyer, Milwaukee.
Headquarters Company-Milwaukee Company F-Sturgeon Bay Captain Fred C. Best.
Captain Edward S. Reynolds. 1st Lieut. Ralph Perry, Algoma .* 2nd Lieut. Hany E. Ihlenfeld.
Machine Gun Company -- MilwaukeeCompany G-Berlin *Captain Alfred E. Gaartz. 1st Lieut. Thomas T. Sweetman. 2nd Lieut. William J. Shiells. 2nd Lieut. Claude C. Manley.
Captain Robert S. Doering.
1st Lieut. Earl L. Tanner. 2nd Lieut. Jos. Bombinski.
Supply Company-Port WashingtonCompany H-Chilton Captain Harry R. Hibbard.
2nd Lieut. Ernest G. Henkel.
Captain Waldo E. Rosebush, Ap- pleton. 1st Lieut. John P. Hume. 2nd Lieut. Randolph P. Grassold .*
Company A-Milwaukee Captain Michael F. Blenski. 1st Lieut. Marian M. Ziombeck. 2nd Lieut. Martin F. Blenski.
Company I-Milwaukee Captain Walter M. Gaudynski. 1st Lieut. Edmund T. Czaskos. 2nd Lieut. Frank Krukar.
Company B-Milwaukee Captain John A. Bonin. 1st Lieut. Stanley A. Jewasinski. 2nd Lieut. R. K. Celechowski.
Company K-Milwaukee Captain Fred E. Theilacker. 1st Lieut. Charles P. Ward. 2nd Lieut. Edward J. Lambrecht.
Company C-Milwaukee Captain Joseph B. Zawodney. 1st Lieut. Arthur D. Weiher. 2nd Lieut. John W. Blechacz.
Company L-Wautoma. Captain Frank E. Teska. 1st Lieut. Arthur R. Nichols. 2nd Lieut. Frank A. Inda.
Company D-Hartford Captain Harold G. Rogers. 1st Lieut. William J. Veiling. 2nd Lieut. Nicholas M. Schantz.
Company E-Watertown Captain Albert F. Solliday. 1st Lieut. James T. Hale. 2nd Lieut. Lawrence W. Murphy.
Company M-Fond du Lac Captain Thomas A. Watson. 1st Lieut. John G. Brunkhorst. *2nd Lieut. Leo J. Longdin.
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SIXTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY
Colonel Marshall Cousins, Eau Claire.
Lieutenant Colonel Emanuel Rossiter, Superior.
Major Walter Abel, Manitowoc. Major Percy C. Atkinson, Eau Claire.
Major Emil F. Kraning, Oshkosh.
1st Lieutenant Philip Henry Linley, Chaplain, Eau Claire.
Battalion Adjutants
Headquarters Company-Superior Captain A. W. Fluegel.
Company F-Rice Lake Captain Ray C. Peck. 1st Lieut. Lee M. Boyden. 2nd Lieut. Roy A. Aune.
Machine Gun Company-Durand Captain John P. Ingles. 1st Lieut. Harley Lea Vasseur. 2nd Lieut. George F. Harrington.
Company G-Ashland Captain Lyman W. Pool. 1st Lieut. William E. Otis. 2nd Lieut.
Supply Company- Captain Charles E. Butters, roqua. 2nd Lieut. Frank V. Johnson.
Vi-
Captain William W. Wismer. 1st Lieut. Robt. W. Harness. 2nd Lieut.
Company A-Phillips Captain Edward O. Witt. 1st Lieut. Ira A. Kenyon. 2nd Lieut. Owen A. Much.
Company B-Superior Captain Carl Hanton. *1st Lieut. Raphael B. Ebert. 2nd Lieut. Frank E. Dundon.
Company K-Marshfield Captain William Mittelstad. 1st Lieut. Fred Braen. 2nd Lieut. John Kohl.
Company C-Mellen Captain Angus A. McDonald. 1st Lieut. Andrew H. Yorton. 2nd Lieut. Louis Seif.
Company D-Washburn Captain H. H. Feavey. 1st Lieut. Randall W. Smith. 2nd Lieut. Ralph A. Harvey.
Company E-Spooner Captain John H. Holtz. 1st Lieut. Clarence O. Stout. 2nd Lieut. Paul E. Dejung.
Company H-Hayward
Company I-Baraboo Captain Carl Swinson. 1st Lieut. Paul S. Stewart. 2nd Lieut. Ernest A. Isenberg.
Company L-Galesville Captain William F. Rowles. 1st Lieut. 2nd Lieut. Thorwald Thorsen.
Company M-New London Captain Frederick W. Hoffman. 1st Lieut. Henry J. Pettigrew. 2nd Lieut.
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FIRST REGIMENT FIELD ARTILLERY
Colonel Philip C. Westfahl, Milwaukee.
Lieutenant Colonel Guy D. Armitage, Milwaukee.
Major Alonzo J. Comstock, Milwaukee. Major George W. Rickeman, Racine. 1st Lieutenant Frederick S. Penfold, Chaplain, Racine.
Adjutant Captain Louis G. Fuhrman, Milwaukee.
Battalion Adjutants Captain Alvin A. Kuechenmeister, Milwaukee. Captain Otto J. Langbecker, Milwaukee.
Headquarters Company-Milwaukee Battery C-Racine.
Captain John George Reed. 1st Lieut. Bernhard Ehm.
Captain Richard G. Bryant.
1st Lieut. Harry J. Sanders.
1st Lieut. Ludwig Kuehl. 2nd Lieut. Harry J. Herzog.
2nd Lieut. Harrison L. Clemons.
Supply Company-Milwaukee Captain Arthur W. Walters. 1st Lieut. William Lick.
Battery A- Milwaukee Captain Wm. F. Fraedrich.
1st Lieut. Richard T. Bennett.
1st Lieut. Charles F. Lafferty.
2nd Lieut. Gilbert J. Spence.
2nd Lieut. Patrick E. Shea.
Battery B-Green Bay Captain Harvey F. Smith.
1st Lieut. Leland Wells.
1st Lieut. Louis J. Hoffman.
2nd Lieut. Leroy Hoberg.
2nd Lieut. Thomas A. Bedell.
Battery D-Milwaukee Captain Ralph R. Hibbard. 1st Lieut. Frank W. Kemmer.
1st Lieut. Charles R. Loomis. .
2nd Lieut. Charles C. Benson.
Battery E-Green Bay Captain John M. West, Appleton.
1st Lieut. Walter T. Bie.
1st Lieut. Roy P. Fleming.
2nd Lieut. Wm. C. Entzminger.
2nd Lieut. Carl A. Eckhardt.
Battery F-Racine Captain James W. Gilson.
1st Lieut. Hugo A. Rickeman.
1st Lieut. Walter L. Haight.
2nd Lieut. George H. Wallace.
2nd Lieut. Harry C. Stearns.
FIRST REGIMENT OF CAVALRY
Colonel Carl Penner, Milwaukee. Lieutenant Colonel Irving A. Fish, Milwaukee.
Major August M. Krech, Milwaukee.
Major Herbert B. Einfeldt, Milwaukee. Major Oliver O. Treadwell, Milwaukee.
Chaplain
1st Lieutenant William O'Connor, Milwaukee.
Battalion Adjutants
1st Lieutenant Lester. Bigelow, Milwaukee. 1st Lieutenant Irwin C. Ritzler, Milwaukee. 1st Lieutenant James R. Harper, Milwaukee. Headquarters Troop, Milwaukee.
Captain Charles F. Sammond, Milwaukee.
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Machine Gun Troop-Milwaukee Captain Ernest V. Cook. *1st Lieut. Hilbert C. Waller. 2nd Lieut. James E. Leaman. 2nd Lieut. Edward J. Kusserow.
Troop F-Lake Geneva Captain Benoni O. Reynolds. 1st Lieut. James H. Grant. 2nd Lieut. Carroll R. Slensby.
Supply Troop-Milwaukee Captain Alfred W. Einfeldt.
2nd Lieut. Christian W. Schaefer.
2nd Lieut. James H. Jackson.
Troop G-Grand Rapids Captain Richard M. Gibson. 1st Lieut. John F. Carrigan. 2nd Lieut. Elmer Babcock.
'Troop A-Milwaukee Captain J. G. Swift. 1st Lieut. Paul A. Frank. 2nd Lieut. Louis Nicoud.
Troop B-Milwaukee
Captain
1st Lieut. Percival B. Slater.
2nd Lieut. Otto C. Mueller.
Troop I-Stevens Point Captain Charles W. Swan. 1st Lieut. Russell Moen. 2nd Lieut. Lyman B. Park.
Troop C-Milwaukee
Captain James J. Quill.
1st Lieut. Wallace S. Schutz.
2nd Lieut. Bradlee Van Brunt.
2nd Lieut.
Troop D-Milwaukee
Captain Edgar J. Tapping, Jr.
1st Lieut. James J. Duke.
1st Lieut. William Bluedorn.
2nd Lieut. Cornelius S. Nicoud.
Troop E-Kenosha
Captain John S. Coney.
1st Lieut. Fred W. Steinert.
2nd Lieut. John D. Alexander.
1st Lieut. Herman Runge. 2nd Lieut. Theodore Pahlen.
Note: * Killed in action or died of wounds. ยก Died of disease.
The strength of these organizations as evidenced by the final muster rolls on August 4th, 1917, was as follows:
Officers
Enlisted Men
Staff Corps and Depts
3
5
1st Battalion Engineers
15
504
1st Battalion Signal Corps.
14
247
Sanitary Troops
20
387
Headquarters 1st Brigade Inf.
4
15
1st Infantry
56
1,969
2nd Infantry
55
1,917
3rd Infantry
50
1,894
Headquarters 2nd Inf. Brigade.
4
15
4th Infantry
53
1,687
5th Infantry
47
1,446
6th Infantry
56
1,473
1st Cavalry
47
1,231
1st Field Artillery
471
14,795
Officers
471
Enlisted
14,795
Aggregate
15,266
Troop H-Merrill. Captain Albert H. Smith. 1st Lieut. Edward F. Blixt, Mil- waukee. 2nd Lieut. Ralph G. Kraft.
Troop K-Ladysmith Captain Amzi A. Hadden.
1st Lieut. Ralph H. Drum.
Troop L-Eau Claire
Captain James F. Cahill.
2nd Lieut. Carl O. Bellack.
Troop M-Sheboygan Captain Herbert V. Kohler.
47
2,005
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While these troops were in camp at the State Military reservation dur- ing the month of August, Companies E. F and G of the 2nd Infantry were by orders of the War Department taken from the 2nd Infantry, transferred to the 42nd Division, National Guard called the Rainbow Division, and organized as the 150th Machine Gun Battalion, Companies A, B, and C, respectively, and were sent to Camp Mills, Long Island, New York, for preliminary training preparatory to shipment to France.
During the month of September the remaining troops were sent from Camp Douglas to Camp MacArthur near Waco, Texas, to be in- corporated with the 32nd Division, National Guard. Almost imme- diately upon their arrival at that camp, a reorganization of Company, Regimental and Division units based upon the French system was de- termined upon by the War Department.
The Governor at once telegraphed to the Secretary of War, render- ing on behalf of this state, voluntary enlistments in whatever number might be necessary to fill each Company and Regiment already ac- cepted into Federal Service to their maximum strength under the new tables of organization, citing in support of his offer the voluntary en- listment provisions of the Selective Service Law.
Both in reply to this telegram and later to his representative in personal interview, the Secretary of War declined the tender of such enlistment alleging in both instances military policy as grounds of his action.
Accordingly, the Regiments of Infantry were practically disbanded and reorganized on the new basis, the infantry to comprise the 64th Infantry Brigade composed of the 127th and 128th Infantry regiments and the 121st Machine Gun Battalion. The regiments as organized on this basis of a total strength approximated 3,500 men. The 2nd Infantry became the nucleus of the 127th Infantry and the 3rd Infantry of the 128th Infantry. The 1st Infantry became absorbed into both of these regiments, as did portions of the 4th, 5th and 6th. Of these latter three regiments a great proportion were absorbed into the military police, the ammunition train, both motor and animal drawn, and the supply train, both motor and animal drawn, and one company of the 4th In- fantry to the Artillery Brigade as a Trench Mortar Battery. Some of the Infantry companies were absorbed into the 119th Machine Gun Battalion, which was the Divisional Machine Gun Battalion, and the 121st Machine Gun Battalion which was the Machine Gun Battalion of the 64th Brigade.
The 1st Cavalry Regiment was practically disbanded as such regi- ment of twelve line troops and the Headquarters Machine Gun and Supply Troop and reorganized into a regiment of Field Artillery of six Batteries with one Headquarters Company and one Supply Company.
The 1st Field Artillery was changed from a regiment to be armed with three inch Field guns to a regiment armed with 6 inch Howitzers. These two regiments of Artillery were assigned to the 57th Field Artil- lery Brigade attached to the 32nd Division.
The Battalion of Engineers was assigned to the 107th Regiment of Engineers as a Battalion.
The Field Signal Battalion was disbanded and reorganized as Com- pany C (Outpost Company) of the 107th Field Signal Battalion.
The two Field Hospital Companies and the two Ambulance Com- panies were incorporated with the 107th Sanitary Train.
All organizations were assigned to the 32nd Division. These changes in detail were as follows:
1st Brigade Headquarters
64th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
1st Infantry
24 officers and 1018 men to 127th Infantry
21 officers and 715 men to 128th Infantry
2 men to 107th Sanitary Train
4 officers and 1 man to 64th Inf. Brigade Hdqrs.
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2nd Infantry
1 officer and 16 men to 64th Inf. Brigade Hdqrs. Cos. E, F and G to 150 Machine Gun Bn. 42 Division
20 officers and 1341 men to 127th Infantry
21 men to 120th Field Artillery
3 officers and 149 men to 128th Infantry 3rd Infantry
2 men to Division Hdqrs. Troop
12 officers and 427 men to 121 Machine Gun Battalion
4 officers and 280 men to 127th Infantry.
27 officers and 1306 men to 128th Infantry.
4th Infantry
6 officers and 171 men to 119th Machine Gun Battalion
2 officers and 183 men to 127th Infantry
6 officers and 315 men to 128th Infantry.
3 officers and 181 men to 107th Trench Mortar Battery 94 men to 107th Engineers
6 officers and 86 men to 107th Hdqrs. and Military Police
10 officers and 300 men to 107th Ammunition Train
2 officers and 150 men to 107th Supply Train
149 men to 121st Field Artillery
5th Infantry
2 officers and 1 man to 107th Sanitary Train
11 officers and 341 men to 119th Machine Gun Battalion
1 officer to 125th Infantry.
1 officer and 45 men to 121st Machine Gun Battalion
5 officers and 180 men to 127th Infantry
6 officers and 357 men to 128th Infantry
13 men to 121st Field Artillery
85 mon to 107th Engineers
12 officers and 453 men to 107th Ammunition Train
1 officer and 76 men to 107th Supply Train
6th Infantry
3 officers and 102 men to Division Hdqrs. 'Troop
6 officers and 210 men to 119th Machine Gun Battalion
5 officers and 114 men to 127th Infantry
5 officers and 120 men to 128th Infantry
221 men to 121st Field Artillery
192 men to 107th Engineers
3 officers and 218 men to 107th Hdqrs. Military Police
2 officers and 92 men to 107th Ammunition Train
5 officers and 234 men to 107th Supply Train
1st Regiment Cavalry
18 men to Hdqrs. 57th Field Artillery Brig.
1 officer to 119th Field Artillery
46 officers and 1393 men to 120th Field Artillery 1st Regiment Field Artillery
4 officers and 14 men to Hdqrs. 57th Field Artillery Brigade 39 officers and 1220 men to 121st Field Artillery
1st Battalion Signal Corps
11 officers and 165 men to 107th Field Signal Battalion 1st Battalion Engineers
14 men to 107th Engineer Train
14 officers and 474 men to 107th Engineers Ambulance Company No. 1 to 107th Sanitary Train Ambulance Company No. 2 to 107th Sanitary Train
Field Hospital Company No. 1 to 107th Sanitary Train Field Hospital Company No. 2
2 men to 121st Field Artillery Balance to 107th Sanitary Train
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This reorganization and consolidation, complete report in detail of which has never been made to the Adjutant General, made surplus a number of Colonels, Majors and Captains of the different arms of the service, and while all who were physically qualified had been promised that they would be permitted to remain with the division and go to France, until other employment could be found for them in their ap- propriate grades, a number especially in higher grades were summarily discharged. A few of these officers, by accepting much reduced grades, succeeded in returning to the service with other organizations.
During the months of October, November and December, 1917, the Division was trained in the new modes of warfare, the company organ- izations completed by the commissioning of a great number of meri- torious noncommissioned officers to the grades of 1st and 2nd Lieuten- ants, and during the month of January, 1918, the shipment of the Divi- sion to the seaboard for embarkation to France was begun, and the month of March found them practically all in France, the exceptions being the casual detachment of men not fitted on account of health for immediate active service and a number of sick that were left at Camp Merritt, which was the camp nearest to the embarkation port. The shipment was successfully completed and the only loss entailed among the troops of the Wisconsin National Guard were those lost by the torpedoing of the transport steamer, Tuscania, near the Coast of Ireland.
The Division was scattered in billets in a number of villages in France until, during the months of April and May, the Infantry were united in the 10th French training area near Dijon with Division Headquarters at Prothay, from here the Division was moved by train to the front lines in Alsace, taking over the entrenchments facing Altkirch and Muhlhausen. Here the Division remained during the months of June and part of July, suffering some losses. On July 20th the Division was , moved by train to the front in the sector of the line west of Rheims, moving by train west to Paris, and entered the zone of military opera- tions near Chateau Thierry on July 27th. The Division was attached to the French 4th Army commanded by General Mangin and on July 28th marched to the front relieving the 3rd Division American troops taking station near La Charmel.
The offensive began on July 30th at 3:30 P. M. with the putting into action the leading battalion of the 127th Infantry and for the following ten days the Division was heavily engaged, overcoming heroically the greatest difficulties of terrain, capturing every position in its front, at one time holding the objective after the eighth attack. The losses were severe, but were greater in the ranks of the foe before them.
These operations are known under the general term of the advance from the Ourcq to the Vesle, and the objective was the line at Fismes. In these operations the 64th Brigade was given the name "Brigade Terrible" and the Division, the name "Division Terrible" by the French.
At the close of operations at Fismes, the Division was moved to the left and took position at the north of Soissons and participated at the extreme front in the operations in that vicinity. From here the Divi- sion was sent to a rest camp to reorganize and refit and was then placed in action in the sector north of Verdun in the direction of Metz in the Argonne Forest, where they were in the lines at the time of the signing of the Armistice.
The military authorities of the state are given no official information from the War Department as to the operations of the troops and the facts as given above are complied from information received from the officers returning to this country on detail at training camps as in- structors or from those who return discharged abroad.
The following orders by the Generals commanding Army Corps and armies of the French Army under whose orders they had been placed are appended to show the appreciation accorded to the 32nd Division.
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General Order No. 5, 40th Army Corps (French), July 25, 1918.
"At the time when the 32nd U. S. Division leaves the zone of Haute- Alsace, the General commanding the 10th Army Corps wishes to ex- press to the Commanding General of the Division, and to his troops the great satisfaction he has experienced in having them under his command.
"By the courage, the excellent spirit, the perfect bearing, the zeal to gain knowledge, of which they have given proof in all circumstances, these troops, under the command of General Haan, have shown all that can be expected of them.
"The 32nd U. S. Division leaves for coming battles, and our best wishes go with them. The General, the officers, and the men know that they are taking with them the affection. and the esteem of the French troops in the zone, with whom they have collaborated in a spirit of such cor- dial comradeship, and the gratitude of the population of Alsace whom, together with their brothers in arms, they will contribute to return definitely to their country.
General FAULINIER Commanding the 40th A. C. PAULINIER."
General Order 6th Army (French), August 9, 1918.
"Before the great offensive of the 18th of July, the American troops, forming a part of the 8th French Army, distinguished themselves by taking from the enemy the Bois de le Brigade de Marine and the village of Vaux, and by checking his offensive on the Marne and at Fossoy.
"Since that time they have played a most glorious part in the Second Battle of the Marne, rivaling the French troops in spirit and valour. They have, in twenty days of incessant fighting, liberated numerous French villages and have accomplished, across a difficult country, an advance of 40 kilometers, which has carried them beyond the Vesle. "Their glorious advances are marked by names which will in the future illumine the military history of the United States:
Torcy, Belleau, Flatear d'Etrepilly, Epieds, La Charmel, the Ourcq, Seringes-et-Nesles, Sergy, the Vesle, and Fismes.
"New Divisions, which faced fire for the first time, showed them- selves worthy of the best military traditions of the Regular Army. They had the same ardent wish to defeat the Boche, and that quality of discipline which makes it possible for the orders given by the Chief to be always executed, no matter what the difficulties to overcome may be and the sacrifices to be paid.
"The magnificent results attained are due to the energy and skill of the Chiefs and to the Gallantry of the soldiers.
"I am proud to have commanded such troops.
The General Commanding the 6th Army. DEGOUTTE."
Order, 38th Army Corps (French), August, 1918.
"The time having now come for him to hand over the zone of battle to General Bullard, commanding the 3rd Corps, American E. F., General de Mondesir, commanding the 38th French Corps, addresses all his thanks to the splendid troops of the 28th and 32nd American Divisions, who have proved during the pursuit, which is still being continued, not only their courage but also their staying qualities.
"The casualties, the toils and hardships due to the difficulties of bringing up rations during the marching and fighting of this period, were unable to break their high morale, their go and their warlike spirit.
"General de Mondesir is proud to have had the opportunity to com- mand them. He hopes that the day will come when he will have them next to him as comrades in our common fight.
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