Smith, Stanley C. letter - handwritten     On the first page (recto): "(1) Serg[ean]'t Stanley C. Smith, #42348 Enlisted July 26, 1916 at Ft. Slocum, as private, -- Transferred to Co D -- 30th U.S. Infantry [Regiment] and went to Eagle Pass, Texas Sept 1916 -- Served 8 months on the Mexican Border and May 14th 1917 entrained for Syracuse, N.Y. Did M.P. [Military Police] duty at Solvay Station July 1st 1917. Promoted to Corporal and transferred to Co. D. -- 38th U.S. Infantry July 1917. Aug 16th 1917 transferred to Mg Co [Machine Gun Company] 16th Infantry [Regiment] and made Serg[ean]'t Aug 25th 1917. Sailed for France Nov 1917 and transferred -- to Co. D. -- 16th Infantry Entered trenches, etc -------------- ----- and participated in the following Battles and Engagements. -- Viz. -- Xivray, Rambeaucourt, Luneville, Toul, Reichecourt, Boury, Ansauvillers, Belle Assizes Farms, Broyes, Picardy, Cantigny, Villers Tournelle, Les Plessiers, Quiry-le-Sec, Coullemele, St Aignin, Luchy, Beauvias [Beauvais?], Soissons, Soissons- Paris Road, St Jacques, Pont-au-Maisson [Maison?]," On the second page (verso): "(2) Battles Cont'd. "Vigneulles, St Mihiel Slaient, Nourard, Souilly, Argonne Forest, Verdun Woods, Charpentry, Very, Cheppy, Filrville, Exemiant, St Etienne, Krenhilde Line, Marats-le-Grande, Grand Pre, Chatillon Woods, Montfaucon, , Hill 210 -- Hill 272 Muzon, Gesues Woodsm Buzancy Woods, Rancourt Woods, Muzon (2nd time), Sedan. In all 49 battles. -- Nov 11, 1918 was in Buzancy Woods again and Nov 12 was at Cunel, from there started on the long hike for Coblenz Bridgehead and was in the following places[:] Esnes, Eix, Cunel, Mercy-le-Haute, Esch, Itzig, Mensdorf, Enevenmacher, Pallien, Fohren, Wittlich, Hasbourn, Strotsbusch, Cochem, Lehnen, Coblenz, Ransbach, Dembach, and Montabaur. ---- Returned to the U.S.A. ---- on the U.S. Transport Freedom, went to Camp Merritt, N.J. Was in the 1st Division Parade in N.Y. City and Washington D.C. From there went to Camp Meade, Md. then to Camp Taylor, Ky and did duty at Charlestown, W. Va. at the coal strike, then back to Camp Taylor."     NOTES Handwritten spelling of many of the place names will have to be checked and corrected at some future date. Fort Slocum, Davids Island, New Rochelle, NY (Hudson Valley Ruins) http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/newroc/slocum.html Fort Slocum (2) (Wikipedia) http://fortwiki.com/Fort_Slocum_(2) History of the U.S. 30th Infantry Regiment (VI Corps Combat Engineers) http://www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com/engforum/index.php?showtopic=7169 Texas Tec University. Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. Eagle Pass Army Camp: An Inventory of Photographs, 1881-1918, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library (Texas Archival Resources Online) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/swcpc/00131/swc-00131.html Border War (1910-19) (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_War_(1910%E2%80%9319) Camp Syracuse - WWI Recruitment Camp - Pictures (Solvay-Geddes Historical Society/Ancestry.com. RootsWeb) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nysghs/camp_syracuse1.htm Military Police, com. by Richard K. Wright, Jr. (U.S. Army. Center of Military History. Army Lineage Series) http://www.history.army.mil/books/Lineage/mp/mp.htm World War I and 38th Infantry Regiment History, 1918-1939 (Oregon State University. Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Ulysses Grant McAlexander Collection, 1883-1964. Series II) http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/mcalexander/catalogue/mcalexanderII.html Historical Era : WWI (16th Infantry Regiment Association, Semper Paratus) http://www.16thinfantry-regiment.org/History/HistoricalEras18611898/WW1/tabid/84/Default.aspx Battle of Xivray-et-Marvoisin, 6/16/1918 (Soldiers' Mail) http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/battle-of-xivray-et-marvoisin-6161918/ Army of Occupation (World War 1 Vets.com) http://www.wwvets.com/AOC.html Freedom (I) (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships) http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/f5/freedom-i.htm New York City Parade Honors World War I Veterans (History Channel) http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-city-parade-honors-us-soldiers-from-world-war-i World War I Victory Parade 1918 (Pathe. YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V13usa8qBe0 Fort Meade History (Fort George G. Meade) http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/pages/history/history.html Spring, John. Remembering Camp Merritt (Bergen County Historical Society) http://bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/campmerrittjs.html Dunn, Maurice. Camp Zachary Taylor: A History of the Camp (World War I and Harrison County) http://home.comcast.net/~harrisoncountykyus/military/ww1-camps-and-bases-camp-taylor-ky.htm West Virginia's Mine Wars (West Virginia State Archives) http://www.wvculture.org/history/minewars.html