TRANSCRIBED FROM THE LOG CABIN DEMOCRAT JANUARY 9, 1919 P. 2
November 19, 1918,
Dear Mother and Alma:
I will write you a few lines to let you know how I am getting along. I am getting along all right, the war is over, and I know you are glad to hear it.
I surely have been in some close places at the front, I have seen some awful sights in my career over here, but the war is over now and I will have lots to tell you when I come home. It surely is grand for the world to be at peace once more, and I will always remember where I was when the armistice was signed.
I am not with any company now, but I am going back tomorrow. I was wounded on October 4 and stayed in the base hospital until October 20, when I was sent back to the rest camp.
I am in the first division. I guess you have read in the papers of the good work it has been doing over here. It has done some fine work, and the rest of the Yanks have, too.
I hope I will be coming home within a month or two. Do you ever get any of my letters? I have written often, and have not heard a word from home. I hope when I get back to my company I will have some mail.
Well, I haven’t heard from “Bob” Henson since July. I don’t know where he is, but hope he is all right. I notice in the paper that they are going to stop drafting the boys, I guess the boys will be proud of that.
How are you all getting along by now? I hope you are all right and doing fine. I would like to be with you tonight, but I will stay until they get ready for me to go home, and I surely hope that will not be long.
I guess I have written enough, will write more next time. Answer soon.
Your son,
John W. Browning.
Co. A., 18th Inf., A.E.F., France.
NOTES: John Wesley Browning of Wooster, Arkansas was writing to his father R. M. Browning. Browning was unaware that the Bob Henson he mentioned in the letter was killed in combat. He returned to the US from Brest, France on August 6, 1919 onboard the New Amsterdam. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on August 16, 1919. He was serving as a Private in Co. A, 180th Infantry.
November 19, 1918,
Dear Mother and Alma:
I will write you a few lines to let you know how I am getting along. I am getting along all right, the war is over, and I know you are glad to hear it.
I surely have been in some close places at the front, I have seen some awful sights in my career over here, but the war is over now and I will have lots to tell you when I come home. It surely is grand for the world to be at peace once more, and I will always remember where I was when the armistice was signed.
I am not with any company now, but I am going back tomorrow. I was wounded on October 4 and stayed in the base hospital until October 20, when I was sent back to the rest camp.
I am in the first division. I guess you have read in the papers of the good work it has been doing over here. It has done some fine work, and the rest of the Yanks have, too.
I hope I will be coming home within a month or two. Do you ever get any of my letters? I have written often, and have not heard a word from home. I hope when I get back to my company I will have some mail.
Well, I haven’t heard from “Bob” Henson since July. I don’t know where he is, but hope he is all right. I notice in the paper that they are going to stop drafting the boys, I guess the boys will be proud of that.
How are you all getting along by now? I hope you are all right and doing fine. I would like to be with you tonight, but I will stay until they get ready for me to go home, and I surely hope that will not be long.
I guess I have written enough, will write more next time. Answer soon.
Your son,
John W. Browning.
Co. A., 18th Inf., A.E.F., France.
NOTES: John Wesley Browning of Wooster, Arkansas was writing to his father R. M. Browning. Browning was unaware that the Bob Henson he mentioned in the letter was killed in combat. He returned to the US from Brest, France on August 6, 1919 onboard the New Amsterdam. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on August 16, 1919. He was serving as a Private in Co. A, 180th Infantry.