The regimental commander had sealed orders to proceed along the Chateau-Thierry Highway until stopped and given subsequent orders. This was all our Colonel knew. Uncertainty reigned. Nobody knew where the regiment was. It did not know where it was expected to go and, to make matters worse, orders were constantly crossing each other. By day­ light, however, the tangle straightened out; a forced march had brought the echelon to Citry on the banks of the Marne, and the firing battery to Limon where they bivouacked for the day. At Limon the battery commanders at last caught their organizations, for which they had been searching all night.

                Limon was situated on the high plateau overlooking the valley of the Marne. Our mission was to organize a position somewhere in its neighborhood from which we could support a second line of defence, supposedly about 4000 meters in front of us. The ground was accordingly carefully reconnoitred. Two separate platoon positions were chosen. The first platoon was on a high hill near Bezu and the second near the Marne, above St. Aulde. The latter was in a position to cover the valley leading up the Paris-Metz Road. It was situated along a hedge in the corner of a wheat field and so placed that the two guns could fire point blank at anything in the valley.

                The expected attack never developed, and we had no sooner comfortably established ourselves in these positions when orders arrived for the Second Platoon to move forward to relieve a platoon of Battery A, of the 12th Field Artillery, much to the Second Platoon's regret, because it was in a splendid location. A

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