History of the Twelfth Engineers, U. S. Army (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of the Twelfth Engineers, U. S. ArmyThis publication is the result of a desire on the part of the members of the Twelfth Engineers to preserve in permanent form a record of the works and achievements of their regiment in its service, 1917 - 1919, as a part of the Allied Armies in the World War. It has been the endeavor of those engaged in its compilation and publication to re¿ect accurately the circum stances and conditions under which the unit Operated, as well as the results accomplished.The data used in the writing of this volume were derived from official reports and memoranda in the files of Headquarters Office, Regimental Orders, the War Diary and the Chronological Record of Events begun in November, 1917, by Captain Bur den, regimental adjutant and carried on by Captain Johnson, who succeeded him.In the spring of 1918 when War Department orders made obligatory the appointment of a Regimental Historian, Colonel Willing named Lieutenant Colonel Laird and assigned Lieutenant Lieber as an assistant. All fragmentary data were then assembled and gradually worked up into narrative form which was continued with the progress of events by the Historian and his assistants, Lieutenant Dolch replacing Lieutenant Lieber, until the regi ment was demobilized in May, 1919.At the time the Twelfth entered the Zone of the Advance with the British Army in 1917, censorship regulations then in force strictly forbade the use of a camera by any but Signal Corps troops. These photographic restrictions were not modi fied until after the Armistice. Consequently all the illustrations made in France were from photographs taken in the winter and spring of 1919 subsequent to the cessation of hostilities. In order to show pictorially the character of territory occupied by the regiment and the type of work done while with the British Armies in the Somme, an expedition under Lieutenant Kinney with Sergeant Miles Standish as camera man, was sent from Menil la Tour in January, 1919, to cover this region and make all necessary photographs. This explains the large number of snow scenes. The territory around Baccarat was covered in like manner.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.