Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1919-04-10
: rom France
Nanh 1919

Mari h | 1919
Dt,E D,p
VIII Try a. anssrf your letter
Which received the other day.
nont surv ~hrih-r ! can tell YOU
yriy much atout our little hattie IN
the A4unnr FOREST ~ rut Expect
you have r'ai mote ~ the papers
than ,nn tell iou ,tout d, | ouly
sis a small part myself sot ht
by high rNpiu>hr he tbl'd day
out ~ ! iiiut ST 20 s-r ~ much
II Il - som. 4 the old boys dad.
but sa~ ail ! ~ant-d tn aud sights
] hol- ! sill never s- again nrv.
e. will iofcet the first Americans |
sa~ dead There ~rrr o out twenty
oi them In ou- plarr. near . railroad
crDssine
Vel. | ~ill h~gin where se start.
ci aai tfy t. tell ,ou m, 'Np.fI~uCr.
aliho q = impossible Ca make YOU
~ aud understand u Just a. u was
We came or Of quiet >-ciur aud
TODD 80 ~rrr sotne hars to some
rest camp fur eighteen days rrst. bat
! dIdnt csll Il any tesi camp ! did
somc u the hafics, hikine | have
done ABcr ! came to France Mere
IN reserve at Metz few days aud
then started moving asain. sud We
hiscd q, night and finally 40, -
near the iron, they shelle,i Us most
every day We all felt -, ~efe -
lng into a hard hght 81 finally one
day orr officers gathered US tOee,h.
ef aDd tod ~ shat ~e ~-rr up
against and evtung n map showed
u, and explained just What ~ ~crr
supposed 10 10 ~ at dafs that
nsght we started We had about six
silos TO - ~ ~e frach-d our des-
unatloo behiBd hill ~ So Mans
Land We ~ere to wait there until
the appointc,i hour We ~err there
during the bIrage-onc Of the hcas.
Ics, hanagcs kno~n In history The
seru hour came at last. the hauaec
lifted aud Ne started We wrrr to
take VT faicon. commonly known
- DS'ai Mans It'll. because the
French lo>t ~ many m-n tfying tu
t,se IL We 80, abou, t~O-thrds Of
the way and we're hlorke,i by tanks.
~ W eot otd-rs TO ~ around. and
: then We began oar chase Nr march
ci all dhy without meeting with any
resistance except few machine
guns asd artillery
We onlS went into action Two OF
three times the first day out Il eot
dark at last and ~e stopped for the
n,ghr We had no blankets or any.
thing. hut were elad To lay down
anyNSere after hong day Of hard
wurs The next morning VT started
again but didn't set very far unul
We met with resistance. which held
Us until 200 in the afternoon The
infantry had been In front Of us all
morning but their fire didn't have
much effect and We didn't have very
much artillery support We were
advancing ~ fast they couldn't Keep
up, 50 they put the infantry back
and the N G's in front and We had
little battle We shot about thirty
minutes and the Germans ran The
infantry started after them with fix
ed bayonets. all giving the Indian
war whoop Ii almost scared the
Germans TO death We could hear
them screaming above our own men
and our officers just stood and laugh
ed AT them
We advanced on up to near the
position they had given up and took
cover behind a long, how bank and
We stayed there all nigh, During
the evening two OF our heutenants
went up on the hill to reconnoitre
and took me with them, We came
across a German machine gun and
some men were tooline with ii, try.
ine to eet 1t in working order, and
they opened up on Us and made as
hunt a hole. We stayed longer than |
we expected to 50 they decided | |