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."