e effectiveness of the division, the
American government generously put your regiment at the disposition
of the French High Command. In order to reinforce us, you arrived
from the trenches of the Argonne.

We at first, at Mareuil Sur Ourcq, in September, admired your fine
appearance under arms, the precision of your review and the
suppleness of your evolutions that presented to the eye the
appearance of silk unrolling in wavy folds. We advanced to the
line. Fate placed you on the banks of the Ailette in front of the
Bois Mortier. October 12 you occupied the enemy trenches at Acier
and Brouze. On the 13th we reached the railroad of Laon le Fere;
the forest of Saint Gobain, the principal center of resistance of
the Hindenburg line was ours.

November 5th the Serre was at last crossed and the pursuit became
active. Major Prout's battalion distinguished Itself at the Val St.
Pierre, where it captured a German battery. Major Patton's
battalion was first to cross the Hirson railroad at the heights of
Aubenton, where the Germans tried to resist. Duncan's battalion
took Logny and, carried away by their ardor, could not be stopped
short of Gue d' Hossus on November 11th, after the armistice. We
have hardly time to appreciate you and already you depart.

As Lieut. Colonel Duncan said November 28, in offering to me your
regimental colors as proof of your love for France and as an
expression of your loyalty to the 59th Division and our Army, you
have given us of your best and you have given it out of the
fullness of your hearts.

The blood of your comrades who fell on the soil of France mixed
with the blood of our soldiers, renders indissoluble the bonds of
affection that unite us. We have, besides, the pride of having
worked together at a magnificent task, and the pride of bearing on
our foreheads the ray of a common grandeur.

VINCENDON.

[Illustration: This is a facsimile reproduction of the original, printed
hurriedly near the field of battle and also translated hurriedly without
eliminating errors. Corrected on page 155.]

To the 370th belongs the honor of the absolutely last engagement of the
war. An objective had been set for the regiment on the morning of
November 11th. General Vincendon heard of the hour at which hostilities
were to end and sent an order to the r