linquish their hard-won 5 kilometers to the Boche. All day long and all that night we heard the heavy, continuous boom of artillery away to our left, and we knew that the big attack near Verdun was on in earnest. . . .

                For the next four or five days two guns were kept always under camouflage out on the plain. As it rained and drizzled almost all this time, and the temperature dropped to zero, the gun crews, machine- gunners, and telephone men led a miserable life out there. The Boche harassed and pounded Hannonville, Herbeuville, Wadonville, Saulx, and behind us on the hill, indiscriminately. A rumor got around that we were to swap positions with B Battery up on the hill near our echelon.

                On the morning of October 2 we fired a box barrage of 776 rounds on the Bois de Warville. The Infantry made their objective without the loss of a man. Late in the afternoon we received orders to pull back to B Battery's position.

                The trip back was both difficult and dangerous. The Boche, peevish as usual after a setback, were firing heavy shells in a sulky sort of way against the hillside. At the worst place in the road, where there was a shell crater large enough to hold three caissons, we met E Battery of the 102nd coming down to Wadonville for a raid. Of course we had trouble in passing. Then we got mixed up with some Ammunition Train caissons and also with some B battery carriages coming to occupy our position in Herbeuville. At last, around midnight, the Battery reached the B battery position on the crest of the plateau

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