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Acknowledgments I am indebted, first of all, to Betty Bradbury for a most difficult task, namely, putting this manuscript on a word processor and thus enabling subsequent editing. The original memoir of Hugh S. Thompson had appeared in serial form in the Chattanooga Times of 1934, but the copy sent to the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, was disfigured by blotches, presumably due to the aging of the originial, and by light places in the xeroxing that came from crinkling of the paper. It was thus necessary to resort to film. For all this it is impossible to thank Ms. Bradbury sufficiently. In addition, many thanks are due Lt. Col. Edwin M. Perry, director of the U.S. Military History Institute at the War College; Richard J. Sommers, assistant director; David A. Keough, archivist ; Richard Baker, interlibrary loan; and Cathy Olson, who persuaded a balky xerox machine to produce clearer copies. Appreciation is also due to Suzette Raney and A. H. Mitchell of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library for information about the Thompson family; to Susan Curtis of the Darlington (South Carolina) Library for providing the name and address of Hugh Thompson, M.D., son of the author of this book; and to Dr. Thompson and his son, another Hugh, for their indispensable assistance and for sharing with me family photographs, papers, and many memories. Dr. Thompson’s enthusiasm for the history of American participation in World War I and his knowledge of the subject made us immediate friends. When I was teaching at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point a dozen and more years ago, Dr. Thompson had called, and at that time sent a copy of his father’s memoir. His assistance in its publication with Texas A&M University Press has been wholehearted and utterly necessary, as was that of his son, who joined with enthusiasm in the details of the present book. viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks are also extended to John M. Hollingsworth, the skilled cartographer; to Mitchell Yockelson of the Modern Military Branch of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland , who found the U.S. Signal Corps photographs; to Kate Flaherty of the Still Pictures Branch, who made the prints for this book; and to the staff of Texas A&M University Press, who from the beginning saw the quality of Trench Knives and Mustard Gas. —Robert H. Ferrell ...

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