E-text prepared by Jeannie Howse and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28060-h.htm or 28060-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/6/28060/28060-h/28060-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/6/28060/28060-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/fightforargonnep00westrich +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ THE FIGHT FOR THE ARGONNE Personal Experiences of a "Y" Man by WILLIAM BENJAMIN WEST With an Introduction by BURGES JOHNSON [Illustration: FORD CAMIONETTE DRIVEN BY W. B. WEST] [Illustration] The Abingdon Press New York Cincinnati Copyright, 1919, by William Benjamin West TO THE BOYS OF THE 37th DIVISION A.E.F. WITH WHOM I WAS PRIVILEGED TO SERVE ON THE ALSATIAN BORDER AND IN THE ARGONNE FIGHTING UNITS OF THE 37th DIVISION GUARD ARMY (OHIO) AND THEIR COMMANDING PERSONNEL ON SEPT. 5th, 1918 37TH DIVISION MAJOR GENERAL C.S. FARNSWORTH Commanding. LIEUT. COLONEL DANA T. MERRILL Chief of Staff. MAJOR EDWARD W. WILDRICK Adjutant General. 73RD BRIGADE OF INFANTRY BRIG. GENERAL C.F. ZIMMERMAN Commanding. 145th Regiment COL. SANFORD B. STANBERRY. 146th Regiment COL. C.C. WEYBRECHT. 135th Machine Gun Battalion MAJOR CHARLES C. CHAMBERS. 74TH BRIGADE OF INFANTRY BRIG. GENERAL W.P. JACKSON Commanding. 147th Regiment COL. F.W. GALBRAITH, JR. 148th Regiment COL. GEORGE H. WOOD. 136th Machine Gun Battalion MAJOR JOHN A. LOGAN. 62ND BRIGADE OF FIELD ARTILLERY Commanding officer not announced 134th Regiment COL. HAROLD M. BRUSH. 135th Regiment COL. DUDLEY M. HARD. 136th Regiment COL. PAUL L. MITCHELL. 112th Trench Mortar Battery CAPTAIN A.S. DILLON. ENGINEER TROOPS 112th Regiment COL. JOHN R. MCQUIGG. SIGNAL TROOPS 112th Field Signal Battalion MAJOR RUSSELL L. MUNDHENK. DIVISION UNITS 37th Division Headquarters Troop CAPTAIN FRANK F. FREBIS. 134th Machine Gun Battalion MAJOR WADE C. CHRISTY. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION 11 I. FIVE WEEKS IN A FLIVVER 15