TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COURIER-INDEX NOVEMBER 29, 1918 P. 9
In France, October 26, 1918.
Rev. C.L. Hammock,
Marianna, Ark.
Dear Brother:
I received your letter of September 19 a few days ago, and am proud that you thought of your boys overseas. A letter from back home sure does a fellow lots of good. It takes my mail about four weeks to reach me, and it ready good when I get it. I have been in France for over four months; time passes quickly. I can hardly realize that it has been that long since I left the states.
I hope you are pleased with Marianna. I think it is a fine little city, and the people are as nice as I have met any place. I hope you will be well pleased with everything. Thank Bro. McVeigh for the Bulletin. I get it every week, coming as regularly as the letters from home. We boys appreciate what the people back home are doing for us, and your sacrifices and labors will not be in vain. And when the end comes, part of the glory belongs to the people back home. We are having plenty of rain. It is cloudy most of the time, but it hasn’t been cold yet. Guess we will get that later. We have plenty of mud, and when it gets in your clothes it sticks like cement. France is a lovely country during the summer, but the rainy weather does not dampen the spirits of the Americans. Will be glad to hear from you often. Give all my best regards.
Yours sincerely,
ROSCOE FITZGERALD
NOTES: This letter was written by Roscoe Fitzgerald who was a linotype operator for the Courier-Index. He was born in Jackson, Tennessee on July 9, 1888. he departed from Hoboken, NJ on June 7, 1918 onboard the Manchuria. He was serving as a Private in the 154th Infantry Co. 4 Camp Beauregard June Automatic Replacement Draft Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY JEFF PATRICK
In France, October 26, 1918.
Rev. C.L. Hammock,
Marianna, Ark.
Dear Brother:
I received your letter of September 19 a few days ago, and am proud that you thought of your boys overseas. A letter from back home sure does a fellow lots of good. It takes my mail about four weeks to reach me, and it ready good when I get it. I have been in France for over four months; time passes quickly. I can hardly realize that it has been that long since I left the states.
I hope you are pleased with Marianna. I think it is a fine little city, and the people are as nice as I have met any place. I hope you will be well pleased with everything. Thank Bro. McVeigh for the Bulletin. I get it every week, coming as regularly as the letters from home. We boys appreciate what the people back home are doing for us, and your sacrifices and labors will not be in vain. And when the end comes, part of the glory belongs to the people back home. We are having plenty of rain. It is cloudy most of the time, but it hasn’t been cold yet. Guess we will get that later. We have plenty of mud, and when it gets in your clothes it sticks like cement. France is a lovely country during the summer, but the rainy weather does not dampen the spirits of the Americans. Will be glad to hear from you often. Give all my best regards.
Yours sincerely,
ROSCOE FITZGERALD
NOTES: This letter was written by Roscoe Fitzgerald who was a linotype operator for the Courier-Index. He was born in Jackson, Tennessee on July 9, 1888. he departed from Hoboken, NJ on June 7, 1918 onboard the Manchuria. He was serving as a Private in the 154th Infantry Co. 4 Camp Beauregard June Automatic Replacement Draft Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY JEFF PATRICK