. Illinois in the World War; an illustrated record prepared with the coöperation and under the direction of the leaders in the state's military and civilian organizations. THE CREST OF DEAD MANS HILL until the day of the American attack. During the night of September 25-26,the Fourth, Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Divisions went through the lines ofthe 129th Infantry, and attacked in the morning, leaving the regiment asdivision reserve concentrated between Hills 304 and 310, where it remainedall day. The next day the regiment advanced via the Esnes-Bethincourt-Gercourtroad—called a road because
. Illinois in the World War; an illustrated record prepared with the coöperation and under the direction of the leaders in the state's military and civilian organizations. THE CREST OF DEAD MANS HILL until the day of the American attack. During the night of September 25-26,the Fourth, Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Divisions went through the lines ofthe 129th Infantry, and attacked in the morning, leaving the regiment asdivision reserve concentrated between Hills 304 and 310, where it remainedall day. The next day the regiment advanced via the Esnes-Bethincourt-Gercourtroad—called a road because of what it had been rather than because of what itwas at that time, for it was so congested with traffic and so torn by bombard-ments as to require a considerable stretch of imagination to picture it as a road. REGIMENTAL P. C. AT THE OPENING OF THE MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE THE 129TH INFANTRY 415 —to Hill 281, where a defensive position was taken up in the rear of the night was spent there, and the next night the 129th marched by way ofBois Sachet to the relief of the 319th Infantry, north and east of September 29 to October 10 the 129th Infantry held this position alongthe Meuse River, in the face of murderous artillery fire from the front, rightflank and rear. It is hard, from a military standpoint, to imagine a worsL^position in which to place a regiment, but, until the advance on the east sideof the iVleuse could be completed, the position of the 129th on the west bankwas the pivot on which the whole Meuse-Argonne action was turning.
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