It is a matter of keen personal regret to the Army Commander that your splendid Division
is now leaving his command.
By command of Lieutenant-General LIGGETT:
(Signed)MALIN CRAIG,
Chief of Staff.”
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LETTER FROM FRENCH REPUBLIC
“FRENCH REPUBLIC
Paris, May 24, 1919.
From:
President du Conseil.
To: Commanding General, 90th Division, U.S.A.
My dear General:
Before your Division embarks for the United States, I am very happy, in recalling the
memory of the glorious fights in which the 90th Division was engaged, to express to you the
gratitude of the Government of the Republic.
When the American Army attacked at St. Mihiel, the 90th Division was on the right of
the attacking units. That Division had the honor of carrying by storm the enemy’s defensive
works of the Bois le Pretre, which place had been the theater of hard and bloody engagements
and had a particular renown among the French Army.
In the evening of the 14th, the 90th Division had outflanked the wood by the left and
reached Vandieres, taking from the enemy 500 prisoners and very important war material.
In the month of November your Division was again engaged in a great offensive and
reached the river Meuse near Stenay.
The soldiers of the 90th Division, who have been acquainted with the sufferings of the
war, are now going back to their happy homes. They will not forget their brothers in arms of
France, and both democracies will remain after this war, in which they suffered side by side,
united forever.
For the President du Conseil and by his command.
Signed:The General Commissioner
of Franco-American War Affairs,
ANDRÉ TARDIEU.”
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