A Marine Describes the Contest

The attached letter was penned by a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corp's Sixth Regiment, Private Hiram B. Pottinger. The letter was included the World War I memoir, "With the Help of God and a Few Marines" (1919) by Brigadier General A.W. Catlin, U.S.M.C. (1868 - 1933), who believed it rendered accurately the enlisted man's view of the war.

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