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.

162 HISTORY OF THE 151ST FIELD ARTILLERY

further, or nineteen kilometers beyond your original starting point.
You took more than one thousand prisoners from nine enemy
divisions. You captured seven villages and forty-two square kilometers of territory. You seized large supplies of food, clothing,
ammunition, guns and engineering materiel.
Worn though you were by ceaseless campaigning since February, you then moved to the VERDUN region to participate in the
great blow which your country's armies have struck west of the
MEUSE. You took Hill 288, LA TUILERIE FARM and the COTE DE
CHATILLON and broke squarely across the powerful KRIEMHILDE STELLUNG, clearing the way for the advance beyond ST. GEORGES and
LANDRES-ET-ST. GEORGES. Marching and fighting day and night you
thrust through the advancing lines of the forward troops of the First
Army. You drove the enemy across the MEUSE. You captured
the heights dominating the River before SEDAN and reached in
the enemy lines the farthest point attained by any American
troops.
Since September 12th you have taken over twelve hundred
prisoners; you have freed twenty-five French villages; you have
recovered over one hundred and fifty square kilometers of French
territory and you have captured great supplies of enemy munitions
and materiel.
Whatever may come in the future, the men of this Division
will have the proud consciousness that they have thus far fought
wherever the American flag has flown most gloriously in this war.
In the determining battle before CHALONS, in the bloody drive
from CHATEAU THIERRY to the VESLE, in the blotting out of the ST.
MIHIEL Salient and in the advance to SEDAN yOU have played a
splendid and a leading part.
I know that you will give the same unfailing support to whoever may succeed me as your Commander, and that you will continue to bear forward without faltering the colors of the Rainbow
Division. I leave you with deep and affectionate regret and I
thank you again for your loyalty to me and your services to your
country. You have struck a vital blow in the greatest war in history. You have proved to the world in no mean measure that
our country can defend its own.29
29 ( To the Officers and Men of the 42nd Division," Headquarters 42nd Division, November 11, 1918. Upon the departure of General Menoher, Brigadier
General Douglas MacArthur assumed temporary command of the division.