Arizona republican., 1920-11-22

ward across the Loison. From the heights beyond the stream the hostile artillery bombarded our victorious lines. sheIled the territory as far back as the Brandeville heights. Lieutenant Colonel West and Captain Cowart oc- cupied Remoiville with the second bat talion about 7:35 that evening, while the third battalion cleaned up Bois de Moncel and took possession of railroad yards and engineer and ordnance dumps worth probably million dol lars. A patrol from Company c under Lieutenant. Ross advanced on Louppy and took that town with it's great old chateau. Thirty-eight civilians were liberated. Our men could not fully oc- cupy the town because enemy machins guns on the hill beyond the river swept the northern portions of the village With Company K, however. Louppy was cleaned out. Tn approaching Jam etz. Captain Colvin's first battalion had to wade one stream breast -deep and then swim the Loison in the face Of the hostile fire Clothes were frozen in the cold night air, but by D. m. of No vember the town was entered and SS civilians were set free.
 The Sixth Infantry followed the 1lth as support. Lieutenant Colonel Hodges had taken up his duties as Lieutenan' Colonel of the regiment and Captain Richard Wightman led the second bat talion up the Brandeville- -Removills road under heavy shelling to support the 11th. The forces reached Remoi-
 vile about midnight with only light casualties from the shell fire.
 (The Captain Wightman mentioned above is a brother of Charles Wight man. one of the .tellers at the Valley bank.)
 The advance of the Tenth brigade was ended. The speed of it's attack hat carried the division frong IS kilometerf east of the Mouse. the farthest eastward
 point reached by the American army al
 the time of the arn1istice."
 The Fifth division had been in thS line a 103 days of the 150 since<June
 Eighty-four officers and 1891 enlisted
 men had been killed; 310 officers anC 6,9S2 enlisted men had been wounded | ? officers and 254 enlisted men wer,
 missing and 50 had been captured.
 The armistice did not mean for ths
 division any relaxation of vigilance We kept prepared to resume hostilitie. at a moments notice. But the halt O. the advance and cessation of fighting
 brought we'll earned rest to the wear1
 doughboys and permitted to division trains to catch up with hot food akC
 clean clothes. The war was not ovel for the sanitary trains. The wounded
 continued to pass through their sta tions at Louppy, Brandeville and Mur
 vaux all during the remainder of th'
 11th. Except for the strange stillnes
 of the guns it was hard to realize
 that the fighting was ended. Mel
 who had fought on and undergone al
 kinds of hardships during the fighting
 even while suffering from bronchitis
 flue. diarrhea and slight wounds whicl
 went ignored while their service wa
 so badly needed now came in larg
 numbers to the hospitals.
 On November 12 the 9th and 60th Tn
 fantries took over the whole division
 front. The 11th Infantry moved bacl
 to the old German barracks in Bois d
 Remoiville. I took my clothes off 10 the first time-in nearly two weeks, an
 tried to sleep on one of the hunks tha had been occupied by the boche only , few hours before. I did get severa , hours of good sleep in spite of the fac that 'cooties" called a convention t meet on the inside of my underwear l The night was cold and we slept in ou ! underwear because we did not hay blankets enough to keep warm eve ; then. The next morning Major Bir , mingham and a dozen of the rest c
 us sat around the stove and remove } our underwear while we picked tn "cooties" off the inside
 ? On the 14th we marched back to Lin ] on the Mouse. It was ruTnored tha 3 were were going down in centrs z France for a rest and would proeee the next day to the vicinity of Man ? tillois. I went ahead the next day wit , a detail to select and prepare a plac , for regimental headquarters at Cierge
 "a devastated town north of Mont faucon and west of NantiIlois. On tn 5 way I went through Romagne aroun [ which must of the bloodiest of tn 5 fighting had taken place in Octobe r There was no great cemetery theI l then, but thousands of temporaT 9 graves were scattered over the field ] Just where the boys had fallen. Thirt 8 thousand are now lying there fin tt s great American cemetery in the heal . of the Argonne forest.
 At Cierges found a company of ST gineers and they had taken possessio y of the only house in the town that ha s a whole roof. I slept that night theI @ on their floor in front of the fireplaC '. and on the morning of the 18th, fin y cold. driving rain. set out to find tE e next best building for Colonel Peck l headquarters, Tn the afternoon I wer : on an exploring expedition over th s,Irroun ding battlefields and picked Il . many souvenirs. In & dug-ou l foun