TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT JULY 25, 1918 P. 1
Camp Pelham Bay Park, N.Y.
Dear Mother:
I am settled once more. This is an awfully large camp, about 12,000 boys, the second largest I think. I had a wonderful trip from New Orleans. We were on the road two days and nights. I came through fourteen states. I am going to tell you a few things I saw. The state that most interested me was Virginia. The railroad I was on goes through Manassas, Va., where the battle of Bull Run was fought. I crossed the battlefield and saw the old fort or embankments and also crossed Bull Run creek.
When we got to Washington, D.C., we stayed there all the afternoon and we hired a car to take us over the city. We saw the Capitol and the White House, Washington’s Monument, the old Ford theater where Lincoln was killed, the old Penn railroad station where Garfield was killed, McAdam’s residence, the foreign ambassador’s and other offices, the public library, the Smithsonian Institute of history, Science and Art, the Congressional Library and the Lee Mansion just across the Potomac river from Washington. They have great bronze statues of all the great generals including Lafayette.
Of course I can’t begin to tell you all the interesting things I saw. I have not had a good night’s sleep since I left New Orleans. Stayed in New York last night but did not go to bed until two o’clock as I was out sight seeing on Broadway. I guess it is a good thing that it was night for if the sun had been shining I would surely have a sunburn on the roof of my mouth looking at all the tall buildings.
I came from Washington to New York on the Pennsylvania railroad, through Baltimore, Philadelphia, Trenton and tunneled the Hudson river. The scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains is beautiful. If the world is as big the other way as it is this, it sure is some world. I must quit for this time for I am so tired. I had charge of the boys coming over but have turned them over to the commanding officer and I certainly did feel relieved. My address for the present is,
W. C. Daily, M. M. 2nd Class
10th Regiment, Cantonement 10D.
Pelham Bay Park Nav. Sta. N.Y.
NOTES: This letter was written by William Clarence Daily. He was born on May 2, 1896 in Rogers, Arkansas and died in 1975. He is buried in the Rogers Cemetery. He enlisted in the military on April 23, 1918 and was discharged on February 14, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Camp Pelham Bay Park, N.Y.
Dear Mother:
I am settled once more. This is an awfully large camp, about 12,000 boys, the second largest I think. I had a wonderful trip from New Orleans. We were on the road two days and nights. I came through fourteen states. I am going to tell you a few things I saw. The state that most interested me was Virginia. The railroad I was on goes through Manassas, Va., where the battle of Bull Run was fought. I crossed the battlefield and saw the old fort or embankments and also crossed Bull Run creek.
When we got to Washington, D.C., we stayed there all the afternoon and we hired a car to take us over the city. We saw the Capitol and the White House, Washington’s Monument, the old Ford theater where Lincoln was killed, the old Penn railroad station where Garfield was killed, McAdam’s residence, the foreign ambassador’s and other offices, the public library, the Smithsonian Institute of history, Science and Art, the Congressional Library and the Lee Mansion just across the Potomac river from Washington. They have great bronze statues of all the great generals including Lafayette.
Of course I can’t begin to tell you all the interesting things I saw. I have not had a good night’s sleep since I left New Orleans. Stayed in New York last night but did not go to bed until two o’clock as I was out sight seeing on Broadway. I guess it is a good thing that it was night for if the sun had been shining I would surely have a sunburn on the roof of my mouth looking at all the tall buildings.
I came from Washington to New York on the Pennsylvania railroad, through Baltimore, Philadelphia, Trenton and tunneled the Hudson river. The scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains is beautiful. If the world is as big the other way as it is this, it sure is some world. I must quit for this time for I am so tired. I had charge of the boys coming over but have turned them over to the commanding officer and I certainly did feel relieved. My address for the present is,
W. C. Daily, M. M. 2nd Class
10th Regiment, Cantonement 10D.
Pelham Bay Park Nav. Sta. N.Y.
NOTES: This letter was written by William Clarence Daily. He was born on May 2, 1896 in Rogers, Arkansas and died in 1975. He is buried in the Rogers Cemetery. He enlisted in the military on April 23, 1918 and was discharged on February 14, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD