Colonel Check's battalion held the ridge until
dark on 4 September, then the 1st Battalion and F Company of the 2d Battalion, 24th Infantry, which had
reorganized in the rear, relieved it. The 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry,
thereupon moved back into a secondary defensive position a mile and a half east
of Haman. Colonel Champney moved his command post back into Haman, placing it at
the base of a hill 300 yards west of the center of the town. [24-64]
That night there was a repetition of the earlier disgraceful episode.