5. Messages to Statistical Office.
Wolf,
Major General.
Official copy:
J.A. Baer,
Genl. Staff,
Chief of Staff.
Copies to:
Brig. and Regt. Commanders.
C. of E.
Div. Q.M.
C.S.O.
C.M.O.
Div. O.O.
C. of Tr.
Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 101st Division,
Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y.
23rd Sept., 1917, 6 p.m.
Field Orders,
No. 1.
1. Strong detachments of the Red Army, now mobilizing at Keeseville, are south of the Salmon River. Our advance troops are holding the line of the Salmon River.
2. Our division and one brigade, 102nd Division, will entrench and occupy the line Bluff Point-Chateaugay Branch (D. & H.R.R.), Saranac River (248). This brigade, reinforced by two Battalions, 267th Infantry, will entrench and occupy the sector, Saranac River (248), Sand Road, exclusive.
3. (a) The 1st and 2nd Battalions, 267th infantry will entrench and occupy the sector from the Saranac River to a point 600 yards east.