TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COURIER DEMOCRAT JULY 4, 1918 P. 8
Headquarters 312th Supply Train.
Camp Dix, N. J., June 20, 1918
The Courier-Democrat, Russellville, Arkansas.
Dear Mr. Livingston:
You will not doubt be surprised to know that I am in New Jersey. I left Camp Pike last Friday morning and arrived here Monday morning. It was some long and tiresome ride from from there up here in a day coach all the way, and had it not been for the Red Cross I don't know whether or not the boys would have been able to get here in a very good mood. However the Red Cross gave us refreshments and reading material enough to keep us busy as we came up and we made it fine.
If the Arkansas folks could see and feel some of this cold weather here on the coast they would be glad they were in the good old state of Arkansas. I have slept under two heavy blankets every night since we came and wished that I might have three of them. I wear a sweater all the time and it is right in the middle of the summer. There is no reason that anyone should not work here for the fear of becoming overheated, because no such thing occurs in Camp Dix.
We saw some very pretty country as we came up here and especially was the scenery beautiful on the Chesapeake Bay. In the meantime we saw some of the very roughest country that it is possible for us to see in the United States, for we came through Birmingham and Atlanta. The most beautiful city that we came through was Washington, D.C. But it was our luck to pass through them in the night time. Of all of it though, give me good old Pope county.
Joe Ragsdale is with me and we had a great deal of fun on the trip. It is nice to have someone from home in the same organization with you, for then one can have some one who is congenial at all times. It is hard to tell how long we will be home for we never know in the Army where we will be sent.
Send my paper here until another notice and if possible begin with the June 30th issue for I want it every week possible. There is nothing so touching as the home paper for the boys in the Army.
Give my old friends that you happen to see my best regards and tell them I will be back there in three or four years to make my home with them in Pope county.
Sincerely yours,
Sgt. Chas. M. Campbell.
NOTES: Charles Milton Campbell was born on May 16, 1893 in Russellville, Arkansas and died on April 18, 1968 in Gonzales, Texas. He is buried in the Gonzales Masonic Cemetery in Gonzales.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
Headquarters 312th Supply Train.
Camp Dix, N. J., June 20, 1918
The Courier-Democrat, Russellville, Arkansas.
Dear Mr. Livingston:
You will not doubt be surprised to know that I am in New Jersey. I left Camp Pike last Friday morning and arrived here Monday morning. It was some long and tiresome ride from from there up here in a day coach all the way, and had it not been for the Red Cross I don't know whether or not the boys would have been able to get here in a very good mood. However the Red Cross gave us refreshments and reading material enough to keep us busy as we came up and we made it fine.
If the Arkansas folks could see and feel some of this cold weather here on the coast they would be glad they were in the good old state of Arkansas. I have slept under two heavy blankets every night since we came and wished that I might have three of them. I wear a sweater all the time and it is right in the middle of the summer. There is no reason that anyone should not work here for the fear of becoming overheated, because no such thing occurs in Camp Dix.
We saw some very pretty country as we came up here and especially was the scenery beautiful on the Chesapeake Bay. In the meantime we saw some of the very roughest country that it is possible for us to see in the United States, for we came through Birmingham and Atlanta. The most beautiful city that we came through was Washington, D.C. But it was our luck to pass through them in the night time. Of all of it though, give me good old Pope county.
Joe Ragsdale is with me and we had a great deal of fun on the trip. It is nice to have someone from home in the same organization with you, for then one can have some one who is congenial at all times. It is hard to tell how long we will be home for we never know in the Army where we will be sent.
Send my paper here until another notice and if possible begin with the June 30th issue for I want it every week possible. There is nothing so touching as the home paper for the boys in the Army.
Give my old friends that you happen to see my best regards and tell them I will be back there in three or four years to make my home with them in Pope county.
Sincerely yours,
Sgt. Chas. M. Campbell.
NOTES: Charles Milton Campbell was born on May 16, 1893 in Russellville, Arkansas and died on April 18, 1968 in Gonzales, Texas. He is buried in the Gonzales Masonic Cemetery in Gonzales.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD