Excerpt from A Brief History of the Fighting Yankee Division, A. E. F., On the Battlefront, February 5, 1918 November 11, 1918 Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards and the Yankee Division will ever remain in intimate and loving association. This fighting gen eral of the regular army organized the Division and took it overseas. He conducted the training which moulded it into a combat division of the highest class. He commanded it at chemin-des-dames, at Toul, at chateau-thierry and the Second Battle of the Marne, at St. Mihiel, ...
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Excerpt from A Brief History of the Fighting Yankee Division, A. E. F., On the Battlefront, February 5, 1918 November 11, 1918 Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards and the Yankee Division will ever remain in intimate and loving association. This fighting gen eral of the regular army organized the Division and took it overseas. He conducted the training which moulded it into a combat division of the highest class. He commanded it at chemin-des-dames, at Toul, at chateau-thierry and the Second Battle of the Marne, at St. Mihiel, and on the Meuse and at Verdun, until the final fort night which preceded the Armistice. He was more than a friend, he was a father to his boys, and they knew him as such and asa leader of rare military skill. It IS going was a great grief to them. Although he was relieved of the command, among the men of the Y. D. He will always be Our General. Gen. Edwards was succeeded on October 25 by Brig. Gen. F. E. Bamford, who in turn, on November 19, was relieved by Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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