This sort of fighting continued against an enemy
striving to hold every foot of ground and whose very strong
counter-attacks challenged us at every point. On the 7th the First Corps
captured Chatel-Chehery and continued along the river to Cornay. On the
east of Meuse sector one of the two divisions co-operating with the
French captured Consenvoye and the Haumont Woods. On the 9th the Fifth
Corps, in its progress up the Aire, took Fleville, and the Third Corps,
which had continuous fighting against odds, was working its way through
Brieulles and Cunel. On the 10th we had cleared the Argonne Forest of
the enemy.
It was now necessary to constitute a second army, and on October 9th the
immediate command of the First Army was turned over to
Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett. The command of the Second Army, whose
divisions occupied a sector in the Woevre, was given to
Lieutenant-General Robert L. Bullard, who had been commander of the
First Division and then of the Third Corps. Major-General Dickman was
transferred to the command of the First Corps, while the Fifth Corps was
placed under Major-General Charles P. Summerall, who had recently
commanded the First Division. Major-General John L. Hines, who had gone
rapidly up from regimental to division commander, was assigned to the
Third Corps.
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