TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS OCTOBER 11, 1918 P. 3
Quantico, Va.
Sept. 20, 1918
Dear Mother and All:
How are you all by this time? I’m O. K. only a cold. It is awful bad weather here for colds. It is raining now, has been all day. We were at school all day today too bad to get out.
I don’t know how long I will be here I wish I did but I can’t never tell when or where they will move us.
Did you get my gun at Fayetteville repair shop? If you haven’t sold it keep it until I come back I would like to hunt with it a few times and study its works. It works on the same principal as some machine guns most of them work different though.
I got a letter from Chas. Mayfield yesterday, he said he had had his tonsils taken out. How do the boys like Camp Pike? I hope Spud and Cecil get to stay together. Tell them when they start to always do the right thing and get along with everybody and they will never be sorry they are serving their country. I am glad I can fight for liberty so my little brothers and sisters may live in a free country.
It looks bad for us all to leave but don’t worry we will be O. K. just remember we are fighting that you may live in peace. If it takes our lives we will have to go. I’m trying to do right, if I never come back I hope to go to a better place, but I have hopes of coming back. I’m just as anxious to get to France as any one else. I’m going to go I don’t know how soon though.
I will try to have some pictures made of some machine guns some of these days and send you some so you will have an idea of what kind of a plaything I have here, there are several different kinds none of them look alike. We are supposed to go to the range with them tomorrow but I think it will be too bad.
I guess I will close for this time. I got your letter Tuesday.
Love to all.
Private Charles A. Clark, A.M.G.
Co. A Overseas Depot, Quantico Va.
NOTES: Charles Arthur Clark was born in Goshen, Arkansas on September 19, 1896 and died on November 7, 1949. He is buried in the Goshen Cemetery.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATHEWS
Quantico, Va.
Sept. 20, 1918
Dear Mother and All:
How are you all by this time? I’m O. K. only a cold. It is awful bad weather here for colds. It is raining now, has been all day. We were at school all day today too bad to get out.
I don’t know how long I will be here I wish I did but I can’t never tell when or where they will move us.
Did you get my gun at Fayetteville repair shop? If you haven’t sold it keep it until I come back I would like to hunt with it a few times and study its works. It works on the same principal as some machine guns most of them work different though.
I got a letter from Chas. Mayfield yesterday, he said he had had his tonsils taken out. How do the boys like Camp Pike? I hope Spud and Cecil get to stay together. Tell them when they start to always do the right thing and get along with everybody and they will never be sorry they are serving their country. I am glad I can fight for liberty so my little brothers and sisters may live in a free country.
It looks bad for us all to leave but don’t worry we will be O. K. just remember we are fighting that you may live in peace. If it takes our lives we will have to go. I’m trying to do right, if I never come back I hope to go to a better place, but I have hopes of coming back. I’m just as anxious to get to France as any one else. I’m going to go I don’t know how soon though.
I will try to have some pictures made of some machine guns some of these days and send you some so you will have an idea of what kind of a plaything I have here, there are several different kinds none of them look alike. We are supposed to go to the range with them tomorrow but I think it will be too bad.
I guess I will close for this time. I got your letter Tuesday.
Love to all.
Private Charles A. Clark, A.M.G.
Co. A Overseas Depot, Quantico Va.
NOTES: Charles Arthur Clark was born in Goshen, Arkansas on September 19, 1896 and died on November 7, 1949. He is buried in the Goshen Cemetery.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATHEWS