Produced by Curtis A. Weyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team [Illustration] The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Evangeline Booth Commander-in-Chief, The Salvation Army in America and Grace Livingston Hill Author of “The Enchanted Barn”; “The Best Man”; “Lo Michael”; “The Red Signal,” _etc_. Copyright 1919, by J.B. Lippincott Company Contents Foreword From the Commander’s Own Pen Preface by the Writer Chapter I. The Story Chapter II. The Gondrecourt Area Chapter III. The Toul Sector Chapter IV. The Montdidier SectorThe Montdidier Sector Chapter V. The Toul Sector Again Chapter VI. The Baccarat Sector Chapter VII. The Chateau-Thierry-Soissons Drive Chapter VIII. The Saint Mihiel Drive Chapter IX. The Argonne Drive Chapter X. The Armistice Chapter XI. Homecoming Chapter XII. Letters of Appreciation Illustrations General Bramwell Booth. Commander Evangeline Booth. Lieutenant Colonel William S. Barker. “Introduced to French Rain and French Mud.” She Called the Little Company of Workers Together and Gave Them a Charge. The Lassie Who Fried the First Doughnut in France. “Tin Hat for a Halo! Ah! She Wears It Well!”. The Patient Officers Who Were Seeing to All These Details Worked Almost Day and Night. Here During the Day They Worked in Dugouts Far Below the Shell-tortured Earth. They Came To Get Their Coats Mended and Their Buttons Sewed On. The Entrance to the Old Wine Cellar in Mandres. The Salvation Army Was Told that Ansauville Was Too Far Front for Any Women To Be Allowed To Go. L’Hermitage, Nestled in the Heart of a Deep Woods. L’Hermitage, Inside the Tent. “Ma”. They Had a Pie-baking Contest in Gondrecourt One Day. A Letter of Inspiration from the Commander. The Salvation Army Boy Truck Driver. The Centuries-old Gray Cemetery in Treveray. Colonel Barker Placing the Commander’s Flowers on Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt’s Grave. The Salvation Army Boy Who Drove the Famous Doughnut Truck. Bullionville, Promptly Dubbed by the American Boy “Souptown”. Here They Found a Whole Little Village of German Dugouts. The Girls Who Came Down to Help in the St. Mihiel Drive. The Wrecked House in Neuvilly Where the Lassies Went to Sleep in the Cellar. The Wrecked Church in Neuvilly Where the Memorable Meeting Was Held. Right in the Midst of the Busy Hurrying Throng of Union Square. “Smiling Billy”. Thomas Estill. The Hut at Camp Lewis. [Illustration: William Bramwell Booth, General of the Salvation Army] [Illustration: Evangeline Booth, Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army in America] Foreword In presenting the narrative of some of the doings of the Salvation Army during the world’s great conflict for liberty, I am but answering the insistent call of a most generous and appreciative public.