Chapter I: Front Matter

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The battle of Seicheprey.

"All through the night the artillerymen sent their shells, encasing themselves in gas masks." (_Page_ 225)]

_AMERICA IN THE WAR_

OUR ARMY AT THE FRONT

BY

HEYWOOD BROUN

FORMERLY CORRESPONDENT FOR THE "NEW YORK TRIBUNE" WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1922

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE LANDING OF PERSHING 1

II. "VIVE PAIR-SHANG!" 11

III. THE FIRST DIVISION LANDS 29

IV. THE FOURTH OF JULY 44

V. WHAT THEY LIVED IN 53

VI. GETTING THEIR STRIDE 66

VII. SPEEDING UP 81

VIII. BACK WITH THE BIG GUNS 96

IX. THE EYES OF THE ARMY 107

X. THE SCHOOLS FOR OFFICERS 117

XI. SOME DISTINGUISHED VISITORS 124

XII. THE MEN WHO DID EVERYTHING 134

XIII. BEHIND THE LINES 145

XIV. FRANCE AND THE MEDICOES 158

XV. IN CHARGE OF MORALE 168

XVI. INTO THE TRENCHES 177

XVII. OUR OWN SECTOR 189

XVIII. A CIVILIAN VISITOR 200

XIX. A FAMOUS GESTURE 212

XX. THE FIRST TWO BATTLES 224

XXI. TEUFEL-HUNDEN 237

XXII. THE ARMY OF MANOEUVRE 248

XXIII. ST. MIHIEL 266

XXIV. MEUSE-ARGONNE BEGINS 279

XXV. CEASE FIRING 291

GENERAL PERSHING'S REPORT 301

ILLUSTRATIONS

The battle of Seicheprey _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

General Pershing in Paris, July, 1917 16

Buglers of the Alpine Chasseurs, assisted by their military band, entertaining American soldiers of the First Division 64

U. S. locomotive-assembling yards in France 154

Red Cross Hospital at Neuilly, formerly the American Ambulance Hospital 166

Secretary Baker riding on flat car during his tour of inspection of the American Expeditionary Forces 202

U. S. Marines in readiness to march to the front 244

The capture of Sergy 262

OUR ARMY AT THE FRONT