TRANSCRIBED FROM THE JONESBORO EVENING SUN AUGUST 20, 1918 P. 4
July 23, 1918,
My Dearest Mother, Father and Sisters:
As Faith says, I suppose you think I have forgotten you altogether but there isn’t a day but what I think of you all. Speaking of fighting the Huns, we were pretty busy for twenty days. We were in the front line for twenty days with but few casualties, but the boys sure played havoc with Sauer Krauts.
The sector that we took over was a sector where the lines hadn’t been changed for two years or more until we went in and there wasn’t a dozen shots fired a week. The Americans soon started something. We put on one raid that cost the limbugher hound hundreds and our boys less than twenty casualties. We are in a mountainous country which is very beautiful. The people over here have lots of quaint old customs. Everything is far behind the States. Would like to tell you more but must close with all my love.
PHILLIP.
Address my mail to Pvt. James P. Andrews, Co. G, 138 Inf., A. P. O. 743 B. American Expeditionary Forces.
P. S. Tell Faith to write to Freida, tell her my address and ask her to please write. Have you gotten any letters from me. Be sure and send the pictures.
NOTES: James Phillip Andrews of Jonesboro was writing to his parents James M. and Minnie Andrews and his three sisters, Faith, Myrtle and Ruth. He was born December 1899.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
July 23, 1918,
My Dearest Mother, Father and Sisters:
As Faith says, I suppose you think I have forgotten you altogether but there isn’t a day but what I think of you all. Speaking of fighting the Huns, we were pretty busy for twenty days. We were in the front line for twenty days with but few casualties, but the boys sure played havoc with Sauer Krauts.
The sector that we took over was a sector where the lines hadn’t been changed for two years or more until we went in and there wasn’t a dozen shots fired a week. The Americans soon started something. We put on one raid that cost the limbugher hound hundreds and our boys less than twenty casualties. We are in a mountainous country which is very beautiful. The people over here have lots of quaint old customs. Everything is far behind the States. Would like to tell you more but must close with all my love.
PHILLIP.
Address my mail to Pvt. James P. Andrews, Co. G, 138 Inf., A. P. O. 743 B. American Expeditionary Forces.
P. S. Tell Faith to write to Freida, tell her my address and ask her to please write. Have you gotten any letters from me. Be sure and send the pictures.
NOTES: James Phillip Andrews of Jonesboro was writing to his parents James M. and Minnie Andrews and his three sisters, Faith, Myrtle and Ruth. He was born December 1899.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT