TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BAXTER BULLETIN JUNE 7, 1918 P. 4
May 23, 1918
To the Baxter Bulletin.
Perhaps the good people of Baxter Co. would like to read a letter from an “old County soldier boy. “
I came here direct from Mtn. Home, to Greenville S. C. It took me two days to get here. This camp’s name is Seviere. It is an Aviation Camp. The officers here seem to think I am in good luck by getting into the Carpenters Department of the corps. There is something over thirteen hundred men mobilized at this camp for the Carpenters Department.
I have been here since Sunday and have found only one man from Arkansas. There is three hundred two men in the company I am in and we have been busy these first three days getting examined, making out life insurance, taking our vaccination and so on. We took quite a bit of drilling today (Thursday). I was chosen one of the Corporals of our Co. This is not considered high honors though here in camp. A corporal has his eight men to see after in all cares and is quite a job.
Herbert George is here in the infantry department. I saw him Sunday just before I went into quarantine. He sure “popped” the questions to me about the Baxter Co. people. The boys are always anxious to meet any one they know or can scare up any acquaintance with. I am with four Mississippi boys in tent. I have just learned that one of them is kin to some Eubanks in his state, near the place where my dear father was born. Of course this brought a closer nearness with us. The boys are of all classes here. Some of them are mighty fine. We have a splendid Y.M.C.A. here. There is a great work to be done in that line here in camps, I want to encourage any one who is contemplating entering that work, to push on into it.
Very respectfully,
James A. Eubank
NOTES: James A. Eubank was writing to the Baxter Bulletin. He was born in September 1894 in Buford, Baxter County, Arkansas and died on December 21, 1948 in Marmaduke, Arkansas. He is buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Batesville, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
May 23, 1918
To the Baxter Bulletin.
Perhaps the good people of Baxter Co. would like to read a letter from an “old County soldier boy. “
I came here direct from Mtn. Home, to Greenville S. C. It took me two days to get here. This camp’s name is Seviere. It is an Aviation Camp. The officers here seem to think I am in good luck by getting into the Carpenters Department of the corps. There is something over thirteen hundred men mobilized at this camp for the Carpenters Department.
I have been here since Sunday and have found only one man from Arkansas. There is three hundred two men in the company I am in and we have been busy these first three days getting examined, making out life insurance, taking our vaccination and so on. We took quite a bit of drilling today (Thursday). I was chosen one of the Corporals of our Co. This is not considered high honors though here in camp. A corporal has his eight men to see after in all cares and is quite a job.
Herbert George is here in the infantry department. I saw him Sunday just before I went into quarantine. He sure “popped” the questions to me about the Baxter Co. people. The boys are always anxious to meet any one they know or can scare up any acquaintance with. I am with four Mississippi boys in tent. I have just learned that one of them is kin to some Eubanks in his state, near the place where my dear father was born. Of course this brought a closer nearness with us. The boys are of all classes here. Some of them are mighty fine. We have a splendid Y.M.C.A. here. There is a great work to be done in that line here in camps, I want to encourage any one who is contemplating entering that work, to push on into it.
Very respectfully,
James A. Eubank
NOTES: James A. Eubank was writing to the Baxter Bulletin. He was born in September 1894 in Buford, Baxter County, Arkansas and died on December 21, 1948 in Marmaduke, Arkansas. He is buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Batesville, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT