The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-02-26
FROM GUY RHODES.
Germany,
December 1918.

Dearest Mother and Sisters: !
I will try and write you a few
lines today to !s' you know am
weN and getting along fine and dan
dy.
We have reached our destsina-
tion-arrived at Coblenz three days
age. but now we are thirty miles
across the Rhine river in Germany.
The town that we are in now is too
small to be on the map. This was
one Of the best trips we have had
since we have been over here and
some of the most beautiful country
have ever seen is along the Rhine.
Well, here is a little history OF
my travels in France and Germany
We left the U. s. August Z, 1912
and arrived at st. Nazarie, France
August 21st. On our way over we
had three hour battle with the
u-boats, but none of our convoy was
lost. Our first move from st. Naz
arie was Camp lie Valdahon on the
Swiss border stayed there six weeks
and left for Monitors, a small town
in France. There we were equipp-
ed with everything all new trucks,
clothes etc., From there we had our
firt experience on the front what
was known as the Luneville Sector.
From there we were on the Toul
and Nancy Sectors. Oh! l forgot
something our first experience on
the front was Nov. Is, 1917, and
the First Division has been con-
tinually on the front since that
date until the day the fighting
ceased. Well, will start my story
again! From the Toul sector wei
went to the Somme around Cantig-
ny there we had our first experience
5of real warfare. Our boys took
Cantigny in thirty-fve minutes and
Twas one of the most terrible artill
Jerry fire / have ever heard in all my
|expeifence in this war. The Ger
mans counter attacked us seven
Hines in twenty-four hour trying to
yet back the town. But the last one
was their fatal one. They started
over in their tanks, about fifty in
humber all but about seven of them
we're knocked out, and the rest
burned about face for Germany, so
hat was their most fatal one. Their
| Rsuals were great compared to
Iurs theirs being between seven and
light thousand and ours only few
Kindred. So you can plainly see
e have 1t on them for fighting.
his front we were on for over
yres months and in July this year
left Cantigny and went to
II Rissons front. There we had
II trd battle but defeated the Ger
hns again. From Loissons we
n \me back again to the Toul sector
n ID stayed only few weeks. from
ri Jul to St. Mikiel where we drove
III l. Germans back about thirty
IN lies That was the easiest OF
I'm all From here to the
Eonne Forests one of the worst Of
I'm all our divisions casuals were
lat for we were in the thickest Of
battle we lased about seven
Is then our division came out,
few days rest, and went back
the same place and drove the
mans as far as Sedan. This
! our last and their last drive.
.5yi hese last two, their casuals were
kreat that we could not bury
dead for days after the drive.
II Nov. 9th we heard the news
the armistice was on. but
init believe the good news Our
went almost crazy. some OF
NV said we haven't whipped
"a like we should and wanted to
the good work up and drive
back to Berlin. But on the
we got the final news that the
~ kstice had been signed, so we
A city I said but it is no long
Dtdutilul Slty, oeN
Nothing remains of the
massions but a pile of bricks.
kayed at verdun one week and
pr Germany our first stop was
he little State of Luxenburg
km has been neutral all through
HE war we visited the city OF Luxen
L,rf, the capital of the state. from
)ere we went into real Germany
3 enjoyed the beautiful scenery
the Rhine and Mosel rivers
me OF the post beautiful country
have ever seen in all my travel
h Our first city on the Rhine
as Boppard. almost as large as
Ablenz. From there we came to
.blenz, one Of the most beautiful
Ties | have ever seen. We were
le FIRST Americans there and had
H. nice,t of hotels to sleep in and