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.

56 HISTORY OF THE 151ST FIELD ARTILLERY

evacuated the sector and was replaced by French artillery.
On the sixteenth Colonel Leach relinquished the command of the
sector to his successor. The Germans obligingly remained quiet
during the withdrawal, which was marred by only one serious accident. On the night of June 14 a powder explosion in a dugout in
the D battery position wounded eight men. Sergeant Lowell Valentine, who died two days afterwards as a result of his injuries,
refused to permit the medical men to attend to his burns until the
others had been given first aid. Private William Laidlaw of St.
Paul, who was taken to the Baccarat hospital suffering from severe
burns, died on June 23.
During the period spent in the Luneville sector, four men of
the 151st Field Artillery were killed or fatally wounded in action,
one died of disease contracted as a result of wounds, and two were
accidentally killed; three others died of disease, including Private
Lester N. Nelson, a victim of pneumonia. Seventy-two members
of the regiment were cited in regimental orders for bravery
in action, and of these the following were cited in divisional orders:
Lieutenants Leopold Arnaud and John E. Soper, Sergeants William
F. Brandenburg and Eben J. Kimball, Corporal John Greaves, and
Privates Anton R. Anderson, Carpenter Buck, Grover Carlson,
Stanley H. Gunderson, and John B. Olson.
As the 42nd Division left the Lorraine front, copies of an
order of General Pierre Georges Duport, commanding the French
6th Army Corps, were distributed among the men. It was the
first citation of the division and it read as follows:
At 'the moment when the 42nd U.S. Infantry Division is leaving
the Lorraine front, the Commanding General of the 6th Army Corps
desires to do homage to the fine military qualities which it has continuously exhibited, and to the services which it has rendered in the BACCARAT sector.
The offensive ardour, the sense for the utilizations and the organizations of terrain as for the liaison of the arms, the spirit of method, the
discipline shown by all its officers and men, the inspirations animating
them, prove that at the first call, they can henceforth take a glorious
place in the new line of battle.