History of the 151st field artillery, Rainbow Division, by Louis L. Collins, lieutenant governor of Minnesota. Edited by Wayne E. Stevens, PH. D. Pub. by the Minnesota War records commission.

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which included from west to east the villages of Cornay, Sommerance, Romagne, and Cunel. Romagne, a little town just north
of Cierges, in a valley between two ranges of hills, was at this
time the center of a resistance which had checked the advance of
the 3rd Division, stationed on the right of the 32nd.
The regimental echelon was established in the woods near
Avocourt, but the batteries pushed forward and went into position in the woods north and west of Montfaucon. The regimental
post of command was established on the north side of the hill in
a dugout which had formerly been occupied by the Germans. This
position of vantage afforded a comprehensive view of the battlefield to the north, east, and west. Colonel Reeves, commanding
the 76th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Division, occupied
the same position.7
No general attack was made on October 8 by the divisions
between the Meuse and the Argonne, but the day was spent in
reorganizing the battle line and in bringing up artillery for the
advance which had been ordered for the ninth. All day long the
batteries of the 151st hammered away at the German lines. Officers stationed on Montfaucon looking northward witnessed a battle scene resembling in some respects the panorama which they
had watched from the heights above the river Ourcq in August.
At dusk the German artillery opened an exceedingly heavy fire,
laying down a thick smoke screen which entirely concealed their
own front line from American observers. Under cover of this,
small detachments of their infantrymen policed No Man's Land,
seeking the wounded and endeavoring to secure information of the
American plans. Darkness brought no lull in the American bombardment, which was continued throughout the night and early
morning in an effort to demolish the positions of the enemy and
silence his artillery. The 151st Field Artillery alone fired six
thousand shells on the German front lines, in a sector one kilometer in width.
On the morning of October 9 a general attack was launched,
in which every division on the Meuse-Argonne front participated.

7Leach, War Diary, 137.