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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-13 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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It is late in the night. I was kept at the bureau until after ten censoring dispatches on the battle which has now been going on for two days on one portion of our front. The details that are coming in are thrilling in their revelation of the splendid fighting spirit of our men. They are fighting specially trained German troops that came over with their haversacks packed thinking they were going to stay. A lot of them did. Some are in the prisoners' cage and a lot more will occupy graves when there is a lull to allow of their being buried; our losses have been much smaller than the enemy's. The engagement is small compared withe the big battle up in Picardy, but it is the heaviest in which our troops have been engaged since the Spanish-American war. Perhaps the way the Boche is getting it will help to soak into his thick head the notion that Americans are not to be sneezed at the way he's been doing. Oh, if we only had two million to throw in now - two million with the training and the spirit the men who've been whipping more than their numbers in this have! The war wouldn't last as long as it appears now that it will! I passed a quotation of a fighting man today that is a classic example of the American fighting spirit. During a lull yesterday evening he sent back word
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It is late in the night. I was kept at the bureau until after ten censoring dispatches on the battle which has now been going on for two days on one portion of our front. The details that are coming in are thrilling in their revelation of the splendid fighting spirit of our men. They are fighting specially trained German troops that came over with their haversacks packed thinking they were going to stay. A lot of them did. Some are in the prisoners' cage and a lot more will occupy graves when there is a lull to allow of their being buried; our losses have been much smaller than the enemy's. The engagement is small compared withe the big battle up in Picardy, but it is the heaviest in which our troops have been engaged since the Spanish-American war. Perhaps the way the Boche is getting it will help to soak into his thick head the notion that Americans are not to be sneezed at the way he's been doing. Oh, if we only had two million to throw in now - two million with the training and the spirit the men who've been whipping more than their numbers in this have! The war wouldn't last as long as it appears now that it will! I passed a quotation of a fighting man today that is a classic example of the American fighting spirit. During a lull yesterday evening he sent back word
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