TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE APRIL 14, 1918, P. 26
Having recently arrived from the station of Lieut. Paul Remmel, town major etc., I assume it may give you some pleasure to hear of him other than by his own letters.
I saw him last on March 1, he and I have been marooned together in our little town and messed and messed together for considerable time.
He was in excellent health and spirits, splattering an enormous vocabulary of ungrammatical French all over town, a prime favorite with all the French grandfathers and grandmothers and apparently preparing to run for mayor over there, or something in Little Rock.
He was extremely fortunate in his billet and his own building, in that his ‘proprietaires’ were two elderly French women of gentle birth who had lost all of the own men folks in the war and adopted Paul as their own.
I assume that Lieutenant McLaughlin may be at home. If he is not you may tell his folks that I saw him the later part of February, that he was very much improved, was then en route to convalescent hospital and expected soon to be sent back to the United States for a period.
NOTES: This is a partial letter written by Lieut. Colonel Charles M. Gordon from Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C. He is writing to H. L. Remmel of Little Rock. He is writing about Paul Remmel of Little Rock and Heber McLaughlin of Toltec.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Having recently arrived from the station of Lieut. Paul Remmel, town major etc., I assume it may give you some pleasure to hear of him other than by his own letters.
I saw him last on March 1, he and I have been marooned together in our little town and messed and messed together for considerable time.
He was in excellent health and spirits, splattering an enormous vocabulary of ungrammatical French all over town, a prime favorite with all the French grandfathers and grandmothers and apparently preparing to run for mayor over there, or something in Little Rock.
He was extremely fortunate in his billet and his own building, in that his ‘proprietaires’ were two elderly French women of gentle birth who had lost all of the own men folks in the war and adopted Paul as their own.
I assume that Lieutenant McLaughlin may be at home. If he is not you may tell his folks that I saw him the later part of February, that he was very much improved, was then en route to convalescent hospital and expected soon to be sent back to the United States for a period.
NOTES: This is a partial letter written by Lieut. Colonel Charles M. Gordon from Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C. He is writing to H. L. Remmel of Little Rock. He is writing about Paul Remmel of Little Rock and Heber McLaughlin of Toltec.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON