Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: _From a painting by F. C. Yohn._ 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 MANŒUVRE 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 CHAPTER I THE LANDING OF PERSHING