TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SCOTT COUNTY ADVANCE REPORTER DECEMBER 13, 1917 P. 3
Dec. the 6, 1917
Camp Beauregard, La.
Mr. Cox; Editor of the A.R.
Dear sir will you please send me your “paper” for which you will find money enclosed, can’t explain how much I have missed in hot having the dear old A.R. to read.
If you will allow, will write a few items of my army life. I left Camp Pike on the 14th of November arriving here on the next day at 1 o’clock p. m. Not all the boys from Ark. are together. We were transfered to different companies, when we arrived here
Camp Beauregard is nicely situated but we are not furnished here as good as we were at Camp Pike, but the climate is better for drilling here, the nights are a little cool but the days are warm and delightful. Each soldier received one lb. of turkey Thanksgiving which was sure fine we also received a nice uniform. We are being trained fast. Officers from France are here showing how to dig trenches. These officers look peculiar among us as they have on French uniforms. The boys in my company dug trenches yesterday they say it is a big job, I havent drilled any here work in the supply department where I see more food stuff and clothes in oneday than I ever saw before. I am doing lots of hard work but I’m gaining in weight all the time, and feel fine, but there are lots of sickness here among the soldiers, but I think this due to the cause of measles, most all the boys have had measles since they enlisted and the camping caused a good many cases to be turned into pneumonia.
We do not drill so very hard but we keep busy most of the time, we get up at 5:30 o’clock in morning and have 10 minutes to get ready for breakfast, the time for drilling is from 7 in the morning untill 11, off two hours for noon then continue untill 4 o’clock in the afternoon, will close hoping all a merry Xmas.
From Levert Defoor
at Camp Beauregard
Company “I” 155 Infantry La.
NOTES: Defoor was born on December 15, 1895 and died on July 22, 1979. He is buried in the Cedar Creek Cemetery in Scott County. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. In the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
Dec. the 6, 1917
Camp Beauregard, La.
Mr. Cox; Editor of the A.R.
Dear sir will you please send me your “paper” for which you will find money enclosed, can’t explain how much I have missed in hot having the dear old A.R. to read.
If you will allow, will write a few items of my army life. I left Camp Pike on the 14th of November arriving here on the next day at 1 o’clock p. m. Not all the boys from Ark. are together. We were transfered to different companies, when we arrived here
Camp Beauregard is nicely situated but we are not furnished here as good as we were at Camp Pike, but the climate is better for drilling here, the nights are a little cool but the days are warm and delightful. Each soldier received one lb. of turkey Thanksgiving which was sure fine we also received a nice uniform. We are being trained fast. Officers from France are here showing how to dig trenches. These officers look peculiar among us as they have on French uniforms. The boys in my company dug trenches yesterday they say it is a big job, I havent drilled any here work in the supply department where I see more food stuff and clothes in oneday than I ever saw before. I am doing lots of hard work but I’m gaining in weight all the time, and feel fine, but there are lots of sickness here among the soldiers, but I think this due to the cause of measles, most all the boys have had measles since they enlisted and the camping caused a good many cases to be turned into pneumonia.
We do not drill so very hard but we keep busy most of the time, we get up at 5:30 o’clock in morning and have 10 minutes to get ready for breakfast, the time for drilling is from 7 in the morning untill 11, off two hours for noon then continue untill 4 o’clock in the afternoon, will close hoping all a merry Xmas.
From Levert Defoor
at Camp Beauregard
Company “I” 155 Infantry La.
NOTES: Defoor was born on December 15, 1895 and died on July 22, 1979. He is buried in the Cedar Creek Cemetery in Scott County. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. In the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY