History of Camden County in the Great War, 1917-1918 . to expresshis deep appreciation of the skill, endurance and courage shownby the officers and men of the division, including both staff andline, in a most difficult and prolonged fight. Everything was opposed to our success. We had a mostdetermined enemy in our front and one skilled by four yearsof warfare, whereas this was the first real fight of our most days the weather was bad and the ground difficult,added to the fact that the fighting was largely in woods. Onaccount of the woods, ravines and dampness, gassing of ourtroops
History of Camden County in the Great War, 1917-1918 . to expresshis deep appreciation of the skill, endurance and courage shownby the officers and men of the division, including both staff andline, in a most difficult and prolonged fight. Everything was opposed to our success. We had a mostdetermined enemy in our front and one skilled by four yearsof warfare, whereas this was the first real fight of our most days the weather was bad and the ground difficult,added to the fact that the fighting was largely in woods. Onaccount of the woods, ravines and dampness, gassing of ourtroops was easily accomplished and full advantage of this factwas taken by the enemy to whom the use of gas was an oldstory. Without exception the organizations of the division and theircommanders responded heroically to every call upon them andat the end of the fight we had not only gained our objectives,but we had therm and turned them over to our successors. Weadvanced some eight kilometers through the enemys trenches, CAMDEN COUNTY IN THE GREAT WAR. 69. CAPTAIN EDWARD WESTPromoted for Bravery in Argonne Forest on October 12th, 1918 TWENTY-NINTH DIVISION IN FRANCE. 71 and captured over 2,100 prisoners, 7 cannons, about 200 ma-chine guns and a large quantity of miscellaneous military prop-erty. We had the pleasure of seeing two hostile divisions with-drawn from our front, one of which was composed of some ofthe best troops of the German army. On many occasionscaptured prisoners stated that our attack was so rapid and ourfire so effective that they were overwhelmed and had nothingto do but to retire or surrender. In this brief summing up the results of its first fight theDivision Commander feels that every officer and man partici-pating, whether in planning or in executing, should feel a justpride in what has been accomplished. This is but repeating thepraise that has been bestowed upon the division by both Ameri-can and French superior commanders. By command of Major General Morton:
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