TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MENA WEEKLY STAR, FEBRUARY 13, 1919 P. 1
Trieves, Germany’
This is a real good city, and especially for the soldiers as we have fine barracks. You may imagine how one feels to be in a real place after some three months of hiking and fighting without shelter even to sleep under.
Well, we are thankful that it is over before the cold weather, as it would have been disagreeable to have had to lay out in a shell hole and dodge shrapnel and bullets while the snow was falling.
We spent three months in quiet sectors, then the battle of Frappells, the drive on St. Mihiel Salient, the battle of the Argonne and then the drive on and crossing the Meuse and east of the Meuse, in which we wound up on the eleventh month, eleventh day and eleventh hour, being on the front line when the big guns stopped roaring.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Sergeant-Major Eric Monroe Borden of the First Battalion, 8th Infantry to his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Borden of Potter, Arkansas. He was born on December 16, 1894 in Liano, Texas and died on December 16, 1922 at Woodsboro, Texas. He is buried in the La Rosa Cemetery in Woodsboro. He volunteered early and was serving with one of the first regiment to be sent overseas. He was described as being tall and of medium build with brown eyes and light brown hair.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
Trieves, Germany’
This is a real good city, and especially for the soldiers as we have fine barracks. You may imagine how one feels to be in a real place after some three months of hiking and fighting without shelter even to sleep under.
Well, we are thankful that it is over before the cold weather, as it would have been disagreeable to have had to lay out in a shell hole and dodge shrapnel and bullets while the snow was falling.
We spent three months in quiet sectors, then the battle of Frappells, the drive on St. Mihiel Salient, the battle of the Argonne and then the drive on and crossing the Meuse and east of the Meuse, in which we wound up on the eleventh month, eleventh day and eleventh hour, being on the front line when the big guns stopped roaring.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Sergeant-Major Eric Monroe Borden of the First Battalion, 8th Infantry to his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Borden of Potter, Arkansas. He was born on December 16, 1894 in Liano, Texas and died on December 16, 1922 at Woodsboro, Texas. He is buried in the La Rosa Cemetery in Woodsboro. He volunteered early and was serving with one of the first regiment to be sent overseas. He was described as being tall and of medium build with brown eyes and light brown hair.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT