THE ARMISTICE
THE glad tidings that the armistice was signed were received at division headquarters at 7:20 A. M. The
following bulletin from the 3d Army Corps was published:
“1. You are informed that hostilities will cease along the whole front at 11 hours on November
11, 1918, Paris time.
“2. No allied troops will pass the line reached by them at that hour and date until further orders.
“3. All communication with the enemy, both before and after the termination of hostilities, is
absolutely forbidden. In case of violation of this order the severest disciplinary measures will be
immediately taken. Any officer offending will be sent to these headquarters under guard.
“4. Every emphasis will he laid on the fact that the arrangement is an armistice only, and not a
peace.
“5. There must not be the slightest relaxation of vigilance. The troops must be prepared any
moment for further operations. Special steps will be taken by all commanders to insure the strictest
discipline and that all troops are in readiness and fully prepared for any eventualities. Division and
brigade commanders and commanders of corps units will personally inspect all organizations with the
foregoing in view.
“By command of Major-General Hines:
CAMPBELL KING,
Chief of Staff.”
The news that the “war is over” was received without excitement. The men of the 1st Battalion,
360th Infantry, who were set for another scrap, were almost disappointed. They sighed, and dug in a
little deeper, for “you never can tell.” Patrols of the 179th Brigade were busy before eleven o’clock
straightening out their line. Stenay was occupied throughout by the 2d Battalion, 358th Infantry; the 1st
Battalion, 358th Infantry, took over the heights to the east of the city; and the 2d Battalion, 357th
Infantry, occupied Baalon. This line was extended by the 1st Battalion, 360th Infantry, along the
northeast edge of the Bois du Chenois. That was the way the official line ran at the time the armistice
went into effect.
The German artillery had a little spree before abandoning their guns. Mouzay was shelled about
8:30 A. M. The 155th Field Artillery Brigade replied with retaliatory fire until 9:30 A. M., when all
firing ceased. The German artillery fire claimed four victims on the morning of November 11. Three of
these were killed between seven and eight o’clock in the Bois du Chenois, namely, Sergeant Joe G.
Lloyd, Corporal Russel E. Wylie, and Private Earl Barkduhl, all of Company L, 359th Infantry. The last
man of the Division to be killed in action was Mechanic Carl Sheffield, Company B, 360th Infantry,
who was killed about 10:30 A. M. at Mouzay.
Division headquarters moved to Mouzay on the morning of November 11, headquarters of the
two Brigades and the four regiments also being located there. The Division P. C. was at Sassey-sur-
Meuse on the night of November 10.
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