In 1919 President Woodrow Wilson and his general of troops in Europe, John J. Pershing, directed Wilds Preston Richardson to go to Archangel Russia in the early spring, and began extraction of American troops from that region. They had been there since September 5, 1918, and the mission was not coudy and unsupported By Wilson, his military advisors and of course, the people back home. Richardson was used to the north: Northern East Texas and Alaska. He was from Ladonia and Paris, Texas, went to West Point, served in the Western Indian Wars, and spent 20 of his 36 years of army service at that time working on building forts and highways in the cold territory, and should be used to the logistical problems of operating in the Archangelsk and Murmansk areas. He arrived in Russia April 17, 1919, and by late June all but a few Americans were traveling to the United States. He left in September along with the residue of the Allied forces.
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