TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ARKADELPHIA DAILY NEWS FEBRUARY 1, 1919 P. 1
January 5, 1919
Dear Home Folks:
Have just finished my Sunday shave and thought I would send you a few words. I am still able to work and eat, so I haven’t any kick coming. Hope you all are having a nice Christmas and enjoying the New Year. We are having some real winter now, and all the holidays are gone. So we are hoping to spend the next in the States with the folks.
I haven’t gotten any mail yet. But I guess it will come later.
If you see any thing in the papers about what the 26th Division is doing, why you may know I’m some where in it. I am with Company H, 102 Infantry, 26th Division. I think it will be the first division to come home for they sure get credit for their fighting.
Well, it’s almost time for chow. Will stop for this time hoping to be with you before 1920. I am
Lovingly,
Milton
NOTES: This letter was written by Milton Talmage Brookings to his father Benjamin and mother Ema. He was born on December 20, 1897 and died on February 8 1922 of pneumonia. He is buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He departed Newport News, Va. on August 6, 1918 onboard the Huron. He was serving as a Corporal in Co C 153rd Infantry 39th Division. He departed Brest, France on March 31, 1919 onboard the Agamemnon. He arrived in Boston, Mass. on April 7, 1919. He was serving as a Corporal in Co H 102nd Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY ALEXA KIMBROUGH
January 5, 1919
Dear Home Folks:
Have just finished my Sunday shave and thought I would send you a few words. I am still able to work and eat, so I haven’t any kick coming. Hope you all are having a nice Christmas and enjoying the New Year. We are having some real winter now, and all the holidays are gone. So we are hoping to spend the next in the States with the folks.
I haven’t gotten any mail yet. But I guess it will come later.
If you see any thing in the papers about what the 26th Division is doing, why you may know I’m some where in it. I am with Company H, 102 Infantry, 26th Division. I think it will be the first division to come home for they sure get credit for their fighting.
Well, it’s almost time for chow. Will stop for this time hoping to be with you before 1920. I am
Lovingly,
Milton
NOTES: This letter was written by Milton Talmage Brookings to his father Benjamin and mother Ema. He was born on December 20, 1897 and died on February 8 1922 of pneumonia. He is buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He departed Newport News, Va. on August 6, 1918 onboard the Huron. He was serving as a Corporal in Co C 153rd Infantry 39th Division. He departed Brest, France on March 31, 1919 onboard the Agamemnon. He arrived in Boston, Mass. on April 7, 1919. He was serving as a Corporal in Co H 102nd Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY ALEXA KIMBROUGH