TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PRESCOTT DAILY NEWS JANUARY 2, 1918 P. 3
Dear Sam:
I received your letter yesterday and was glad to hear from you. I sure was glad to know I was missed by someone else than home folks. I can tell you I miss my trips to the farm and feeding my hogs. I sure would like to be there this afternoon, for it is feeding time now. I guess you are having some cold weather. We are; it went to 10 degrees below zero last night and it snowed some also. It is only 5 degrees above zero now and will get colder tonight.
We are fed good wholesome food here, but do not get any sweet stuff. We have to depend on candy for our sweets. We will get out of detention next Saturday and will then have a chance to go where we please, once in a while we will be able to go to Chicago. Everyone has to smoke cigars or pipes while here.
Yes, I sure would like to get the Kaiser, but I will be home on a furlough before I make a trip. I think I will come home in March or April for about 6 or 8 days.
Just to give you an idea of the size of this place, 12,000 men returned to this place yesterday from a trip home and today special trains carried 12,000 more home on furloughs. Everyone but those in detention get to go home on account of the holidays. Food is shipped in here by the carload every day. There are 150 or 175 great big auto trucks here and they are busy all the time; the trucks that haul coal have bodies that are dumped; the dumping is done by the motor of the car, and the driver can drive up to a boiler room, dump his two tons of coal and be off again in two minutes. Believe me, there is some system to this place.
Please see for me that my Kansas sow and her pigs are well tended to. I will certainly appreciate it if you will. Well, I will close for this time. I sure like to hear from you.
Sincerely your friend,
Hartwell.
Co. 96, Barracks 852E, Camp Decatur, Great Lakes, Ill.
NOTES: This letter was written by Hartwell Greeson to Sheriff Sam Munn. Greeson was writing from the naval training base in Great Lakes, Illinois.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Dear Sam:
I received your letter yesterday and was glad to hear from you. I sure was glad to know I was missed by someone else than home folks. I can tell you I miss my trips to the farm and feeding my hogs. I sure would like to be there this afternoon, for it is feeding time now. I guess you are having some cold weather. We are; it went to 10 degrees below zero last night and it snowed some also. It is only 5 degrees above zero now and will get colder tonight.
We are fed good wholesome food here, but do not get any sweet stuff. We have to depend on candy for our sweets. We will get out of detention next Saturday and will then have a chance to go where we please, once in a while we will be able to go to Chicago. Everyone has to smoke cigars or pipes while here.
Yes, I sure would like to get the Kaiser, but I will be home on a furlough before I make a trip. I think I will come home in March or April for about 6 or 8 days.
Just to give you an idea of the size of this place, 12,000 men returned to this place yesterday from a trip home and today special trains carried 12,000 more home on furloughs. Everyone but those in detention get to go home on account of the holidays. Food is shipped in here by the carload every day. There are 150 or 175 great big auto trucks here and they are busy all the time; the trucks that haul coal have bodies that are dumped; the dumping is done by the motor of the car, and the driver can drive up to a boiler room, dump his two tons of coal and be off again in two minutes. Believe me, there is some system to this place.
Please see for me that my Kansas sow and her pigs are well tended to. I will certainly appreciate it if you will. Well, I will close for this time. I sure like to hear from you.
Sincerely your friend,
Hartwell.
Co. 96, Barracks 852E, Camp Decatur, Great Lakes, Ill.
NOTES: This letter was written by Hartwell Greeson to Sheriff Sam Munn. Greeson was writing from the naval training base in Great Lakes, Illinois.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON