The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-05-16
FAMOUS WISCONSIN TROOPS
REACH UNITED STATES

REACH UNITED STATES
New York, May 6.-The transport
George Washington, with 6,582 troops
on board, arrived here Monday. The
soldiers are members Of the Thirty
second division.
The Thirty-second division, compos-
ed of former national guardsmen
from Wisconsin and Michigan, and
given the name Of "Les Terribles" by
the French, boasts a record of more
than 700 individual decorations be-
slowed on it's officers and men. 1t
fought on five fronts and in three
major Observation-Disclosures, Oise-
Aisne and Meuse-Argonne.
Some of Its Achievements.
Some Of it's achievements enumer-
ated by General Ham include: Loss
es, $4,000 men killed, wounded and
missing in action; met and %vanquished
twenty-three German divisions, TAX
ing 2,153 prisoners, captured 1000
rifles, 200 machine guns, 100 pieces Of
artillery and thousands of rounds of
ammunition Of all kinds; gained thir-
ty-eight kilometers in four attacks
and repulsed, without loss of ground,
every counter attack by the enemy;
first American troops to set foot on
German soil-in Alsace; captured
Fismes in Aisne-Marne offensive;
fought as only American unit in Cen
eral Mangin's famous Tenth French
army in Oise-Aisne offensive; twice
in the line in Argonne-Meuse often
sive, fighting continuously for twenty
days and penetrating the Kriemhilde
Stellung; marched with Third army
to the Rhine and occupied a sector in
the Coblenz bridgehead after the arm
istice.
Units That Arrived.
Units on board the transport in
the following:
The 12Sth infantry complete, 1913
officers, 1898 men; 127th infantry,
less field and staff, headquarters COM
pany, Company A and a detachment
of Company B, 70 officers, 2,212 men;
125th field hospital, 5 officers, 81 men;
detachments Of 32d division troops and
headquarters, SO officers, $50 men; a
number of convalescent detachments
and casual officers. Major General
William C. Ham, commander of the
Bind division, was also a passenger.
The men are under orders for the
following camps: Devens, Dix, Meade,
Lee, Gordon, Sherman, Taylor, Custer,
Pike, Shelby Dodge, Bowie,
Lewis Kearney Funston and
General Ham Lauds His Men.
Of the division General Ham said:
"It has justified every expectation
and more. From it's first battle on
he Oursq, in July, until the close of
he Meuse-Argonne drive on Novem-
Der II, it eve failed to respond to
is commanders call. In each sue
battle its fighting was better
md its morale improved. It actually
ought in the hardest battles thirty
i've days and many nights, smashed
through the enemy lines for a dis
ance of more than twenty-five miles
nd never gave an inch. 1t. successive
defeated twenty-three German d.
%'isions, not a few of which were rat
d among the best"
General Ham said that he found
onditions in Germany much better
han he had been led to expect. The
h%ildren, he declared, were fat and
.ealthy, and there was sufficient
torres among the population of the
lllages and small towns to last them
ntil the next harvest. I'VE found
ne Germans of the official class hos
lie to a considerable degree" he add
d, land it was necessary to punish
1any of them for insolence. The low