TRANSCRIBED FROM THE HELENA WORLD MARCH 15, 1918 P. 3
This is the day of the big review. It was a grand sight to see company after company and regiment after regiment marching across the reviewing ground in perfect step. First came the infantry brigades, then the artillery and the Q.M.C., the Medical Corps, the motor truck companies and the wagon trains, all in their turn. The Negro troops did especially fine. They crossed the reviewing grounds in faultless step and alignment while their two bands composed of drums and fifes, played Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. A vast throng witnessed the review. Motion picture men were on the job and some day you may be able to see in the screen the inspiring sight that I saw today in real life.
NOTES: Private Edwin Leo Burks was writing to his parents from Camp Pike, Arkansas. He was born in Monticello, Arkansas on August 14, 1895 and died on March 22, 1898. He registered for the draft in Helena, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
This is the day of the big review. It was a grand sight to see company after company and regiment after regiment marching across the reviewing ground in perfect step. First came the infantry brigades, then the artillery and the Q.M.C., the Medical Corps, the motor truck companies and the wagon trains, all in their turn. The Negro troops did especially fine. They crossed the reviewing grounds in faultless step and alignment while their two bands composed of drums and fifes, played Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. A vast throng witnessed the review. Motion picture men were on the job and some day you may be able to see in the screen the inspiring sight that I saw today in real life.
NOTES: Private Edwin Leo Burks was writing to his parents from Camp Pike, Arkansas. He was born in Monticello, Arkansas on August 14, 1895 and died on March 22, 1898. He registered for the draft in Helena, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY