HISTORY
OF THE SEVENTY SEVENTH DIVISION
AUGUST 25, 1917
November 11, 1918
THE MAKING OF THE
HISTORY
THE HISTORY OF THE 77th DIVISION was compiled and written
at Chateauvillain, a little town of 1,200 population, in
the Department of Haute Marne, France. Division
Headquarters were established here December 1, 1918,
following the return of the troops from the line after
the cessation of hostilities.
Work began a few days after Christmas at No 1 Rue de
General Davenet. The house which harbored the office is
over a century old, and during 1870, and following the
Franco-Prussian War, served as a billet for German
officers.
The task of compilation from Divisional Records, maps and
personal experiences; the writing, illustrating and
editing were completed in a little less than five weeks.
The officers and men who undertook this task, with the
limited facilities at hand, were, only a few weeks
before, in funk-holes and gun-pits, and came to the work
with the vividness and strenuousness of their past days
sharply stamped upon their minds. The picture then, is
distinctly one of the battlefield, conceived there, and
written only a short distance from the scenes of action.
Phase 1 - Camp Upton
Phase
2 Training in France
Infantry
Artillery
Phase
3- The Baccarat Sector
Phase
IV- Along the Vesle
Phase V
- From the Vesle to the Aisne
Phase VI - The Capture of the Argonne
Part 1
Part 2
Phase
VII - Advance on Sedan
Roll of Honor
Aasgaard-
Brzoska
Blue -
Dixon
Docteur
- Goebel
Goeres
- Isele
Isler -
Lipasti
Lippe -
Morehouse
Morehouse
- Ramberg
Randazzo
- Silverstein
Simonds
- Ware
Wargon
- Killed- Addresses Missing
The
Lost Battlion
Tales of the Battlefield
Cartoons drawn in
the book
Camp
Upton - The Making of a Looie
Overseas
- Calais
Billets
- Eating - Dreams of Home
Biographies
Major -
General Robert Alexander
Major -
General Franklin Bell