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Somewhere in France, 9/14/1918
We have had quite a number of wounded prisoners through here. Our own casualties have been very slight. We had a couple of Germans on our table the other night. They were scared to death. When I put...
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Somewhere in France, 9/23/1918
Our hospital is feeling pretty proud these days. I have told you of the hard work that we did during the drive between Toissone and Rheims. We have received a letter from General Pershing commending...
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Somewhere in France, 9/29/1918
We have passed a very busy week since I wrote you last. The big French and American drive north and west of [censored] opened up a couple of days ago and is keeping all of us almost constantly on the...
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Somewhere in France, 10/8/1918
Our men are coming over pretty fast now and their presence is bringing results at the front. All the Allies are having success and big gains and a lot of it is due to the help of the Americans and the...
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Somewhere in France, 10/14/1918
The good work at the front still continues. Every day the line moves eastward until now it is almost unbelievable that the powerful German army has been beaten back so far in three months...
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Somewhere in France, 10/20/1918
It begins to feel as though winter were coming on soon. This miserable, damp chill makes it impossible to keep warm. For my part I would rather have it freeze up and be hard than wade around in this...
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Somewhere in France, 10/28/1918
Some German planes have been flying over dropping little hand bills inviting the American soldiers to desert and surrender to the Germans. They say that it is foolish for the Americans to risk their...
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Soldier’s Mail for November, 1917-1918
November, 1917: Neufchateau Training Area The 26th “Yankee” Division had arrived in France during the month of October, 1917 as the first complete American division and also the first National Guard...
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Somewhere in France, 11/3/1918
When we came over the Germans were driving on to Paris, pushing everybody out of their way and there seemed to be no stopping them and the situation looked darker than it ever did before. Now Germany...
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Somewhere in France, 11/10/1918
Five days before we began moving in, this place was occupied by the Germans. The ground has been plowed up by shells, the few buildings are shattered and on the hills around us the dead Americans and...
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Somewhere in France, 11/12/1918
We are still receiving cases. Many are sick but some are wounded. Most of those were wounded a few days ago but were unable to be brought back to a hospital, but some are accidental. The celebrations...
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Somewhere in France, 11/18/1918
Bodies are still being found around here in out of the way places. Our YMCA man went out the other day with a few other men and buried nine. The troops moved forward so fast that the thousands of...
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Somewhere in France, 11/24/1918
It seems as though Nov. 11th was two months ago instead of two weeks. The time has dragged so slowly because we haven't been busy and because we have been waiting for word to move. Nearly all of us...
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Soldier’s Mail for December, 1917-1918
December, 1917: Neufchateau Training Area In December, 1917 the 26th “Yankee” Division continued its training for the Western Front in the area of Neufchateau in the Vosges region of northeastern...
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Somewhere in France, 12/1/1918
We haven't a thing to do but sit around and wait for our orders to move and for transportation. In order to keep us from having too much time on our hands we are fixing up this place as though we were...
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Somewhere in France, 12/9/1918
Through somebody's error or neglect we haven't enough cars so a lot of us instead of being able to ride in nice (?) comfortable (?) box cars have to ride on the top of flat cars between piles of...
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Prum Germany, 12/26/1918
There can be no doubt but what this was the happiest Christmas the world has spent for some time. The German soldiers are nearly all at home and a good part of the French and English are too. Those of...
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Prum, Germany 12/31/1918
Tonight is New Year's Eve but we have no celebration scheduled so I shall probably go to bed early...
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Soldier’s Mail for January, 1918-1919
January, 1918: Neufchateau Training Area In January, 1918 the 26th “Yankee” Division concluded its preliminary training for the Western Front in the area of Neufchateau in the Vosges region of...
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Prum, Germany 1/3/1919
Uncle August says that things have turned out for Germany just as he foresaw them. When he wrote to Mother he had to write things that would pass the censor while he really thought very different...
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