munitions even as they had blown many a dock in our own country. They
looked mournfully at the potato fields the retreating Bolos had robbed
and destroyed and they fished for the one hundred motor trucks said to
have been sunk in the Dvina River by the Reds, hoping to get the reward
offered by the British.

They fixed up their quarters, built sheds for the commissary and
quartermaster stores of the Americans and began preparations for their
construction work upon the Railroad and River fronts. On a dark night in
October one platoon crossed the Dvina in the storm thinking of G. W.
crossing the Delaware, and took station in Solombola and began building
"Camp Michigan." The third week in October the engineers saw the Russki
sleighs running about, but then came an Indian Summer-like period. The
greater part of November was spent in making the Russian box cars
habitable for the soldiers and engineers on the Railroad front.

One American company on the railroad had hated to give up its
taploo-shkas which they had fitted up for quarters, to the British units
that had been weeks at Archangel while they were overworked at the
front. But Col. Stewart raised a fine hope. He ordered a detail of men
from that company, resting ten days at Archangel, to go to Bakaritza to
assist the American Engineers to make a protected string of troop
taplooshkas for the company. And while they were at it the engineers
"found" an airplane motor and rigged up electric lights for the entire
train. They set up their tiny sheet iron stoves, built there three tiers
of bunks and were snug, dry, warm and light for the winter. Some proud
company that rode back to the front, feeling grateful to the engineers.

It was zero weather when they went south just before Thanksgiving to
help build blockhouses and hospitals, Y. M. C. A. and so forth, on the
Railroad. Christmas found them at Obozerskaya holding mass in a Y. M. C.
A. to usher in the day. In January this Company "B" exchanged places
with "A" Company 310th Engineers, who had been further forward on the
railroad. There they constructed for Major Nichols the fine dugouts and
the heavy log blockhouses which were to defy the winter's end drive and
the spring shelling of the Bolsheviki. On January 19th and 20th they
found themselves under shell fire but suffered no casualties.

In the latter part of February this "B" Company of Engineers responded
to the great needs for new defenses on the Vaga front, trav