History of Camden County in the Great War, 1917-1918 . Amer-ican lines, shouting in French, Dont shoot! This wasfollowed by a big raiding party which hit the line at apoint held by Company H, 113th Infantry. LieutenantMayer organized resistance, even calling up cooks frombehind the lines. The raid was checked and a counterraid that was carried out later wrecked the Germanpositions. The Germans also sprang an entirely new trick on the29th, pouring cresote on them from aeroplanes. Thismedieval performance was ineffectual. The 29th had a career different from most Americandivisions, because it wa
History of Camden County in the Great War, 1917-1918 . Amer-ican lines, shouting in French, Dont shoot! This wasfollowed by a big raiding party which hit the line at apoint held by Company H, 113th Infantry. LieutenantMayer organized resistance, even calling up cooks frombehind the lines. The raid was checked and a counterraid that was carried out later wrecked the Germanpositions. The Germans also sprang an entirely new trick on the29th, pouring cresote on them from aeroplanes. Thismedieval performance was ineffectual. The 29th had a career different from most Americandivisions, because it was in closer touch with the Frenchthroughout and ably co-operated with them, often usingtheir methods. Some French experts served with the29th in the Alsace trenches. On September 24 the division pulled out of Alsaceand went to Verdun as a resrve for the Argonne had a long, terrible march up what the French call theSacred Way from Bar le Due to Verdun. NearVerdun there was a great assemblage of lorries with CAMDEN COUNTY IN THE GREAT WAR. 57. MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES G. MORTONCommander of the Twenty-Ninth Division TWENTY-NINTH DIVISION IN FRANCE. 59 Chinese drivers ready to take them to the Argonne incase of necessity. Headquarters were posted in the Verdun citadel andthe men slept two nights on the roadside in buses. Thedivision moved northward October 7, starting at 2oclock in the morning in black dark and pouring hiked all night, soaked to the skin. This whole Meuse region wherein the 29th operatedwas covered by constant shell fire and drenched withdeadly gases, which hung in the woods and reeked inthe valleys, making it one of the worst in the war. Plan oe Battle. General Claudel, of the 17th French Corps, com-manded the front into which the 29th Division was sent,with the 33d and 26th Divisions. The plans of GeneralClaudel contemplated that the attack should be begun byhis two French divisions in line, the 18th and the 18th lay in its trenches with i
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