Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-08 | Page 4 | A Hero of the War

A HERO OF THE WAR. U Paying a deserved tribute to one of the real heroes of the war, the New York Herald says : Lieutenant General Robert Lee Bullard, who has succeeded Major General Thomas H. Barry as the commander of the department of the east, with headquarters on Governor's Island, is called "The General Gen-eral of No Retreat." In his citation of an American unit which captured cap-tured Fay's Wood, on the Meuse river. General Bullard ended it with 'You are there; stay there!" This phrase became famous throughout through-out the American Expeditionary Forces When on July 15, 1918, General Bullard left a conference of French generals under whom he was operating he "expresed reprei" that he could not obey orders to fall back. In explanation of his conduct con-duct the general said: "Hie American flag has been forced to retire. This is intolerable." He launched a counter attack by the Americans in this second battle of the Marne which proved to be the turning point of the war and enabled Marshal Foch to wrest the initiative from Von Ludendorff and Von Hindenburg. For his "disobedience" he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. Son of a Confederate private soldier, of fighting blood, a friend of John J. Pershing at West Point, seasoned by gallant conduct in Mexico Mex-ico and made an international hero in the great war. General Bullard comes to his new post of responsibility with the love and respect of his countrymen.