I rely upon you that it will always be the same, each time they will dare to attack you, and with all my heart of a soldier, I thank you.
(Signed) Gouraud.
In combination with the facts that the regiment was the first of the colored Americans to see active service at the front, and produced the first two winners of the Croix de Guerre of all the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces, they have the final distinction of having been the first unit of the Allied Armies to reach the Rhine. They arrived at Blodelsheim on the Rhine on November 18, 1918, as the advance guard of the 161st Division of the 2nd French Army. The next day after the signing of the Armistice, Marshal Foch gave out the following document to be read to the command; it was read to these men three days after they reached Blodelsheim:
HEADQUARTERS 369TH INFANTRY, U. S. A.
American Expeditionary Forces,
France, 21st November, 1918.
Blodelsheim
Document No. 21-11-3.
Bulletin:
1. The following is published and will be read to the command: