Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A Few Fects The battery is indebted to Lieutenant Armstrong for his thought- fulness in mailing to each of us a copy of the letter printed below. It is incorporated in these pages in order that we may preserve in permanent form the interesting remarks which it contains concerning subjects near to our hearts. TO THE MEN OF BATTERY “A,” 306TH FIELD ARTILLERY: You will want to know about the last resting-place of our former Comrades, Samuel Reid, Rene Uongeon, Herbert Eck and Herschel Tritt. I have just returned from a short trip abroad. While there, I took occasion to visit their graves. They are all sleeping together on a lovely hillside, overlooking Fismes, at the junction of the Vesle and the Ardre. With them lie 1700 other men, from the 4th, 28th and 77th Divisions,?all of those who fought with us between the Vesle and the Aisne and fell. In walking about the Cemetery, it was noticeable how large a proportion of the dead were artillerymen from the 152d F. A. Brigade. Over each grave stands a white wooden Cross with the man’s original identification disc firmly nailed to the top and his name, rank and organization in plain black letters, and the number of the grave. Officers and men are buried indiscriminately. In the center of the plot, high above everything else, stands a white pole with the Flag. The Cemetery is in charge of an American, with an ex-private from the 1st Division as his assistant, and is kept in splendid shape. Each grave is covered with beautiful green sod. For miles away, in every direction, this spot is visible?a huge white patch on the hillside. You may rest assured that our Comrades have not been forgotten, and it seems peculiarly fitting to me that they should sleep forever in sight of the Vesle , overlooking the ground they…