[Frontispiece: Sergeant William H. Bowman, 339th United States Infantry (missing from source book) ARCHANGEL THE AMERICAN WAR WITH RUSSIA By A Chronicler (John Cudahy) _Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice._--OTHELLO CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1924 _Dedicated to the memory_ _of_ SERGEANT WILLIAM H. BOWMAN who died of wounds received in the action of 1st March, 1919 near Toulgas, Russia CONTENTS Archangel and Gallipoli Russia and the Vast Unknown Objects of the Expedition The Plan of Campaign The Railway Onega Kodish The River The Vaga Pinega Retreat ILLUSTRATIONS Sergeant William H. Bowman, 339th United States Infantry (missing from source book) ... _Frontispiece_ Archangel, where the East comes abruptly face to face with the West Patrols with webfoot snowshoes went forth on the snow Where a mill flaps its awkward wings The blockhouses where men were crippled and maimed and shell-shocked so far away from gala Archangel An outpost on the railway The fighting Canadians A Bolshevik scout The only means of transportation after the rivers were closed When the snow mounted high the fortifications had been made safe against any projectile save a six-inch shell Patrols were often clad in white smocks Major General Sir William E. Ironside MAPS Archangel Province The Murman and Vologda Railways Situation Map ARCHANGEL AND GALLIPOLI "This war was one of the most unjust ever waged. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies." _From Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant._ Commenting on the war with Mexico. ARCHANGEL THE AMERICAN WAR WITH RUSSIA I ARCHANGEL AND GALLIPOLI "_Theirs not to reason why; Theirs but to do and die._" Many people have asked me about the Russian campaign, why American soldiers went to Siberia, and what they did after they got there, for the general notion seems to be that Russia and Siberia are synonymous, and that the Russian Expedition, whatever its hazy purpose was, was centered about Vladivostok, and that in this far eastern port, a few American and Allied soldiers "marked time," while their comrades on the Western Front fought out, and eventually conquered, in the greatest of all wars.