Bolte Tribute

A drawing tribute on paper honoring Major General Charles L. Bolte, cadre commander of the 69th Infantry Division. Size 15 inches wide by 18 inches deep.

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Our link with the general
whose loss we mourn here
is owed our fond recoll-
ection of the intense
period in which he pre-
sided over the Sixty-
Ninth Division's being
made ready for battle,and
the long years following,
during which the bonds
forged in Mississippi be-
tween the general and
ourselves were only
strengthened, but we pay
honor, too, to his splen-
did career, in France,
seventy years ago, with
the Fourth Division, and
during our own war in
command of the Thirty-
Fourth Division in Italy,
and before and after that
in peacetime, with the
famous Fifteenth Infantry
in China, at the Command
and General Staff School,
the Army War College, and
at the head of the Sev-
enth Army and then the
American Army in Europe
itself, from which he re-
turned home to retire as
Vice - Chief of Staff.