TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHARP COUNTY RECORD JANUARY 18, 1918, P 4
Editor Record:
Please allow me space in your good paper for a few lines to my friends.
I have just read a letter from Floyd Nichols, who says he is having a good time at Camp Pike. He can say more than the boys at Camp Beauregard, and by the time he is in the army as long as I have been he won’t talk that way. I was at Camp Pike a month and a half and I didn’t see anything very good there, although I was in quarantine most of the time. But I can say this much for Camp Pike, it is probably the best fixed camp in the United States.
When Mr. Nichols begins taking bayonet and rifle drill and getting his 25 mile hike every day, I want to read his letter.
In spite of everything I am having a very good time. I am getting my meals from one to three times a day. The night before these lines are written I had beef soup, and in the morning I had all the rice I could eat.
There is one thing I do like about Louisiana and that is the warm weather. It never gets cold enough for a coat here.
Before I close I want to thank my good friend, Frank Sharp of Love for that good box of grub. When I ate those good old sausages I could almost taste things I had eaten ten years ago.
Thomas O. Black
Camp Beauregard, La.
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TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Editor Record:
Please allow me space in your good paper for a few lines to my friends.
I have just read a letter from Floyd Nichols, who says he is having a good time at Camp Pike. He can say more than the boys at Camp Beauregard, and by the time he is in the army as long as I have been he won’t talk that way. I was at Camp Pike a month and a half and I didn’t see anything very good there, although I was in quarantine most of the time. But I can say this much for Camp Pike, it is probably the best fixed camp in the United States.
When Mr. Nichols begins taking bayonet and rifle drill and getting his 25 mile hike every day, I want to read his letter.
In spite of everything I am having a very good time. I am getting my meals from one to three times a day. The night before these lines are written I had beef soup, and in the morning I had all the rice I could eat.
There is one thing I do like about Louisiana and that is the warm weather. It never gets cold enough for a coat here.
Before I close I want to thank my good friend, Frank Sharp of Love for that good box of grub. When I ate those good old sausages I could almost taste things I had eaten ten years ago.
Thomas O. Black
Camp Beauregard, La.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON