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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



out about 25,000,000 feet of material a month ; but these 



figures kept mounting until in September, 1918, they 



turned out 42,000,000 board feet, while for the six 



months ending with March, 



1919, in preparation for the 



big spring drive which 



would have started then if 



the war had not ended 



when it did, the schedule 



called for a stupendous 



total of 450,000,000 feet of 



lumber for the American 



Army. 



When the loth Engi- 

 neers was formed it was 

 the first time a United 

 States army had organized 

 and equipped troops for 

 systematic forest engineer- 

 ing. Immediately after the 

 need became known, Henry 

 S. Graves, Chief Forester 

 of the United States, with 

 the rank of major in the 

 Reserve Engineer Corps, 

 went to France to prepare 

 for the forestry work there 

 and to make arrangements 

 for the acquisition of cut- 

 ting rights in the French 

 f o r e s ts . Later Major 

 Graves was commissioned a 

 lieutenant c(jloncl. With 

 him went Ca])t. (later 

 Majorj Fiarrington Moore. 

 June, 1917; and before Colonel Graves left France in 

 January, 1918, the loth Regiment and a considerable 



COL. W. A. MITCHELL, U. S. A. 



First Commander nf tlie 2ntli EnRineers. wlm, upon his arrival 

 was transferred to the 2nd Engineers. 



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portion of the 20th Regiment also had arrived and were 



producing wood and lumber for the American Army. 



Two months after Colonel Graves reached France he 



was followed by Wm. B. 

 Greeley, Assistant Forester, 

 United States Forest Ser- 

 vice, who had been com- 

 missioned a major on the 

 regimental staff of the loth 

 luigineers in this country, 

 but who was needed to 

 take charge of organization 

 work in France. Later he 

 was promoted to the rank 

 of lieutenant colonel and 

 made chief of the entire 

 forestry .section under Col- 

 rinel Woodrufif, and in 

 .\l)ril. 1919, was decorated 

 by the French with the 

 Legion of Honor. Colonel 

 Greeley was accompanied 

 by two officers, First Lieu- 

 tenants Stanley L. Wolfe 

 and Clarence E. Dunston, 

 and nine civilians, all of 

 whom later were commis- 

 sioned. These men were 

 Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr., 

 Donald Bruce, Swift Berry, 

 R. Clifford Hall, Ralph C. 

 Staebner, Fred B. Agee, 

 William H. Gibbons, 

 Joseph Kittredge and W. H. Gallagher. 



Major Woolsey, who was in April, 1919, made a lieu- 

 tenant colonel, became a member of the executive coni- 



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MAJOR S. O. JOHNSON 

 20th Engineers 



MAJOR JAMES E. LONG 

 20th Engineers 



THE LATE MAJOR E. E. HARTWICK 

 20th Engineers 



