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now. Had lunch and took hike out
over the old battle front Of 1914 toll
and found a dead German and a
Frenchman's leg laying in she'll hole.
hungry and tired. slept on table
that night. Left there the next
morning, February Is, for Consenooye
up towards Sedan. Got there in time
for dinner with another bunch of the
23rd engineers and stayed in camp the
rest of the day. Consenooye is all in
ruins and we slept in an iron bed that
we found in one of the ruined houses.
The morning of the 10Th we took our
lunches and hiked up into the Conse-
nooye woods. We went through all
kinds of dugouts, trenches and barbed
wire entanglements. There are piles
and piles of all kinds of shells lying
all over the ground; also rifles and
machine guns and all kinds of equip
ment, but hardly any small things
that we wanted Went over a place
where the ground was just full of
holes so close together that we had
to watch our step or fall in them.
! got German trench knife that | am
going to send you and a los German
shell and a few other little things
that don't amount to much. (The col
lection of war souvenirs are displayed
in the NJ & H Cigar store). Saw a
graveyard of the 10th Infantry and
thought that | could find Henschel's
grave, but couldn't.
The next day February 20) one of
the sergeants Of the 23rd got US a
saddle horse apiece and we rode across
country to Montfaucon and we had
quite a time getting through barbed
wire, over trenches and shell holes.
Montfaucon is, or had been, small
town up on hill that overlooked all
the country around, but now it is just |
pile of ruins. 1t had been held by
the Germans almost four years. | got
a small piece of marble out of the
ruins of the church. On this trip we
saw four-inch German guns. We got
back in camp about 8 o'clock, hungry |
and sore, but enjoyed the ride very |
much. The next morning we got a !
German machine gun and Lewis gun
to working and shot up the hillside.
Left Consenooye about 2 p. m. and got
in Chalons- sur Marine about 9 o'clock
that evening. 1t was too late to get
room lin hotel, so an M. P. gave US
a bed Chalons is a nice town about I
the size of Boise and not very much.
Left Chalons about a o'clock in the
afternoon and got in Rheims about 6
o'clock. Stayed at the Annex Red
Cross that night and looked over the
town on February %. Went through
the big cathedral. 1t is all but ruined.
All the statues and fancy glass were
sent to Paris before it was shelled.
1t was hit 102 times by big shells in
ten days. The town is just like Yer
dun, mostly all ruins.
We left there at A o'clock in the
afternoon and got into Chateau-Thier-
ry about $50 p. m. Got a room in
the Hotel-de-Gare and looked over the
town. 1t isn't as badly wrecked as
although bad enough. Left !
there about IL o'clock that night for
Nancy. The train was crowded and ]
we had to stand up most of the way. {
Got in Nancy about $3.50 next morn
ing We looked over the town that !
day. 1t is one of the incest and {
,leanest towns that have seen in
France. Left there about l o'clock, {
February 26, for Paris, arriving that
night about IL o'clock and the M. P.'s S
let US stay only long enough {