Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-19
LIEUT.. HOWELL,
OFFICHTINC3RD,
GOES TO RHINE

IJeut Gordon Howell, the Americas
attorney who left his practice here to
enter the war against Germany, is
with the American marines on the
Rhine according to letter from him
iust received by The Times-Recorder'
Tn the letter Mr.. Howell submits doc
uments to show the brilliant part play"
ed by his division, the Third, IN the
great American push on the Marine
that proved the knockout blow of the
war.
His letter follows:
"Nirers. France, Dec. 20, 1918.
.sFditor Americas Times-RecOrder;
Naturally there is lot OF rivalry De"
tween the different divisions of the
eOmbatants of the A E. F. The high
priced press agents of the two regl-
mants of Marines claim for their or
carnations more honor than can
truthfully belong to only one brigade
of human beings. Somehow they evad-
ed the rules of censorship and hit and
kept hitting as long as the iron was
hot, and until a large part of the
Marines became M. P.'s.
Enclosed are two clippings; one
from Generel Pershing's report OF the
activities of the A. e. F. to the sec
rotary of war; another by the editor
of the Stars and Stripes, which is bas-
ed on. the aforesaid report These
show who's who as far as lighting
goth. | contend that these-the Sec
Ond and Third-are as good as the
best, and especially the Third, with
whom I have been since entering the
army.
will leave here within the next
few days to join the Third up on the
Rhine Best wishes to all.
HENRY G. HOWELL
list Lieut., 7th Inf, 3rd Div"
Following is paragraph from the
editorial from the Stars and Stripes,
enclosed by Lieut. Howell, which is a
valuable contribution to history on
this side; tell us exactly what units
Of our army fought and won the battle
of Chateau Thierry:
NOW the whole truth is out. The
army has the full account offChateau-
Thierry as printed in last weeks is
sue of this paper, the second of Sc
ries of officially authenticated articles
on American battles of the war. 1t is
the first complete and detailed &C
count of Chateau Thierry printed any
where. After reading it, we find final
Judgment is simple. The 9th and the
23rd Infantry, the 5th and 9th Marines
and the Infantry units of the 3rd Di-
vision played equally important, equal
ly gallant and equally difficult parts.
These eight regiments, with the other
units of the End and 3rd Divisions,
stopped the BOche at Chateau
Thierry."
Following are extracts from Gen
eraI Pershing's official report on the
Second Marine, which refer to the 3rd
division:
Again every available man was
placed at Marshal Fochs disposal, and
the 3rd division, which had just come
across from it's preliminary training
area was hurried to the Marine
A single regiment of the 3rd wrote
one of the most brilliant pages In our
military annals on this occasion.
The 26th division on the 18th
took the village of Torcy. while the
Bird division was crossing the Marine
ia pursuit of the fleeing enemy. The
26th attacked again on the 21st and
the enemy withdrew past the Chateau
Thierry- scissors road. The 3rd divis-
ION continuing is progress took the
heights of Mont St. Pere and the
villages of Charteves and Jaulgonne,
IN the face of both machine gun and
artillery fire"