. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . he first act of the Y D MinstrelShow given at Voulaines, Colonel Glassford announced with greatexcitement, Men, were off for another tight ! Two hours later theFirst Battalion was pulling out of Leugley and the populace stunned andanxious at the sudden departure turned out with cheers and tears to seeus march away. SEICHEPREY. Seicheprey, the town, war ravaged and worn,Scarcely a place where a stiell has not lorn;Tottering walls tliat stand out in relief,Damp, chilly dugouts away und
. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . he first act of the Y D MinstrelShow given at Voulaines, Colonel Glassford announced with greatexcitement, Men, were off for another tight ! Two hours later theFirst Battalion was pulling out of Leugley and the populace stunned andanxious at the sudden departure turned out with cheers and tears to seeus march away. SEICHEPREY. Seicheprey, the town, war ravaged and worn,Scarcely a place where a stiell has not lorn;Tottering walls tliat stand out in relief,Damp, chilly dugouts away underneath;Ruined masonry, stones, and tiles,Scattered equipment, salvage piles:Cooties, rats, odors vile and rank,This is the home of the Anti-tank. Seicheprey, the town where all is bereft,Save only the relics the War God has graves, half hidden in weeds:An atmosphere of valorous deeds:Forgotten trenches, neglected gas, and scattering fire,From Fritz, right out on our flanks;This is the home of tlie Anti-tanks. -{IVrillcn by F. C. Perkins icliilc in Seicheprey.)[68] IbSTMIHlCI, Pt,. Saint Mihiel. \T7E had enjoyed our pleasant and refreshing sojourn in Leugley;about the only thing we didnt do being to rest. The smallpostal telegraph station in the Hotel de Ville had never experienced moreprosperous days, for everyone from the buglers to the general hadcabled home for money to make Aix les Bains a second Monte permissions were planned from Leugley to all parts of the events turned out in their usual fashion—our plans were merecastles in the air. After thirteen unlucky days we received orders to bidadieu to the hospitable civilians of this town by the Colonel in his briefexpression that we were off for another fight . We were not greatlydisappointed because we were heartily tired of foolish little drills andinspections. The orders to leave were sudden, arriving shortly after noon onTuesday, August 25th. The friendly natives left their
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