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Title: The War Romance of the Salvation Army

Author: Evangeline Booth

Grace Livingston Hill

Release date: April 1, 2005 [eBook #7811]
Most recently updated: March 22, 2020

Language: English

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The War Romance of the Salvation Army

by

Evangeline Booth

Commander-in-Chief,
The Salvation Army in America

and

Grace Livingston Hill

Author of “The Enchanted Barn”; “The Best Man”; “Lo Michael”; “The Red Signal,” etc.

Copyright 1919, by J.B. Lippincott Company

Contents

Foreword
From the Commander’s Own Pen
Preface by the Writer
Chapter I. The Story
Chapter II. The Gondrecourt Area
Chapter III. The Toul Sector
Chapter IV. The Montdidier SectorThe Montdidier Sector
Chapter V. The Toul Sector Again
Chapter VI. The Baccarat Sector
Chapter VII. The Chateau-Thierry-Soissons Drive
Chapter VIII. The Saint Mihiel Drive
Chapter IX. The Argonne Drive
Chapter X. The Armistice
Chapter XI. Homecoming
Chapter XII. Letters of Appreciation

Illustrations

General Bramwell Booth.
Commander Evangeline Booth.
Lieutenant Colonel William S. Barker.
“Introduced to French Rain and French Mud.”
She Called the Little Company of Workers Together and Gave Them a Charge.
The Lassie Who Fried the First Doughnut in France.
“Tin Hat for a Halo! Ah! She Wears It Well!”.
The Patient Officers Who Were Seeing to All These Details Worked Almost Day and Night.
Here During the Day They Worked in Dugouts Far Below the Shell-tortured Earth.
They Came To Get Their Coats Mended and Their Buttons Sewed On.
The Entrance to the Old Wine Cellar in Mandres.
The Salvation Army Was Told that Ansauville Was Too Far Front for Any Women To Be Allowed To Go.
L’Hermitage, Nestled in the Heart of a Deep Woods.
L’Hermitage, Inside the Tent.
“Ma”.
They Had a Pie-baking Contest in Gondrecourt One Day.
A Letter of Inspiration from the Commander.
The Salvation Army Boy Truck Driver.
The Centuries-old Gray Cemetery in Treveray.
Colonel Barker Placing the Commander’s Flowers on Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt’s Grave.
The Salvation Army Boy Who Drove the Famous Doughnut Truck.
Bullionville, Promptly Dubbed by the American Boy “Souptown”.
Here They Found a Whole Little Village of German Dugouts.
The Girls Who Came Down to Help in the St. Mihiel Drive.
The Wrecked House in Neuvilly Where the Lassies Went to Sleep in the Cellar.
The Wrecked Church in Neuvilly Where the Memorable Meeting Was Held.
Right in the Midst of the Busy Hurrying Throng of Union Square.
“Smiling Billy”.
Thomas Estill.
The Hut at Camp Lewis.
William Bramwell Booth, General of the Salvation Army

William Bramwell Booth,
General of the Salvation Army

Evangeline Booth, Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army in America

Evangeline Booth,
Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army in America