To the Officers and Men of the 20th Engineers (Forestry):
As your former Commanding Officer it gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity to send you a greeting and my appreciation of your services in France in the world War, an account of which is contained in this history of the Regiment.
Colonel J. A. Woodruff
Commanding Officer, 10th Engineers
As patriots and woodsmen you promptly answered the call of your country and by your skill, enthusiasm and unceasing effort you made a record in the American Expeditionary Forces in France of which you may well be proud.
I shall always feel that it was a great honor to have commanded such an organization of American soldiers.
Lt.-Col., Corps of Engineers,
U.S. Army