The 3rd Battalion took up the pursuit on November 5th, resting in the open fields the nights of the 5th and 6th.  The battalion in moving up advanced via Bosmont and Mont Plaisir and passed on into the front lines at the Rue Larcher on November 7, 1918.  In the afternoon of the 8th orders were received to deliver a cover fire for French units which were to make an attack on the village of Logny, which was strongly held by the enemy.  Company M, having been assigned for this work, moved out from Hurtebise and advanced to a position where the cover fire could be effectively delivered, and opened fire.  About this time word was received from the French commander that his troops could not advance on account of the severe shell and machine gun fire, and Company M having arrived at a position where it was safer to go ahead than to retreat, attacked the town and drove the enemy therefrom.  For this action Lieutenant Osceola A. Browning, commanding Company M, and several others received the French Croix de Guerre and Sergeant Lester Fossie both the Croix de Guerre and the American Distinguished Service Cross.  On November 10, 1918, the advance and pursuit was continued.  At Etignieres the battalion was temporarily stopped by intense shell fire.  On November 11, 1918, the pursuit was again taken up with Resinowez as the principal objective.  Later the objective was changed to Gue d’Hossus, Belgium, which objective was reached a few minutes before the taking effect of the armistice, an enemy combat train of about 50 vehicles being captured about this time.

A few days after the armistice, the regiment began to move southward, taking station in villages in the vicinity of Verneuil-sur-Serre.

[Illustration:  Some war cross winners of 8th Illinois (370th infantry).  Front row left to right:  Capt.  G.M.  Allen.  Lieut.  O.A.  Browning.  Capt.  D.J.  Warner.  Lieut.  Roy B. Tisdell.  Standing left to right:  Lieut.  Robt.  P. Hurd, lieut-col.  Otis B Duncan.  Major J.R.  White.  Capt.  W.B.  Crawford, lieut.  Wm. Warfield.  Capt.  Matthew Jackson.]

On December 12, 1918, the regiment formally passed from the French command and to Brest via Soissons and Le Mans, arriving at the latter place on January 10, 1919.

On February 2, 1919, the regiment embarked on the S.S.  La France IV, en route to the U.S., arriving on February 9, 1919, and taking station at Camp Upton, Long Island, N.Y.

On February 17, 1919, the regiment left Camp Upton for Camp Grant, Illinois, via Chicago, where it was accorded a wonderful and never-to-be-forgotten reception by the citizens of Chicago.

After arrival at Camp Grant, work incident to the demobilization of the regiment was commenced.  The majority of officers and enlisted men were discharged from the service during the latter part of February, and finally on March 12, 1919, orders were issued declaring that the regiment had ceased to exist.