It left Maroeuil on the 12th and marched to Bailleul-aux-Cornailles, a village it was to visit later in August, 1918. The next day EPS was reached, and on the following day the Battalion arrived at its destination at Lisbourg, where it was to remain until the end of January, which meant a six week's rest.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
Each of these old and highly honored families of Massachusetts had celebrated men among them, and they honored their forefathers and tried to emulate their achievements and keep up the literary standard of the Sargents, the military dignity of their great-grandfather, Major Benjamin Lincoln of revolutionary fame, who took the sword from Cornwallis and handed it to his general, George Washington; EPS Sargent, the great writer of books, poetry and the song, "The Life on the Ocean Wave," one of the famous songs of the time.
"Sixty Years of California Song"
Margaret Blake-Alverson
The narrative of "William EPS his death" is a fine example of that fiery sympathy with soldiers which glows in so many pages of Dekker's verse, and flashes out by fits through the murky confusion of his worst and most formless plays; but the introduction of thil hero is as fine a passage of prose as he has left us: The foremost of them was a personage of so composed a presence, that Nature and Fortune had done him wrong, if they had not made him a soldier.
"The Age of Shakespeare"
Algernon Charles Swinburne