TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT NOVEMBER 7, 1918 P. 1
October 5th
Dear Folks at Home:
I know you are worried because you have not heard from me. Have only a few minutes and will tell you a little. Am about as near all in as I ever was in all my lif –just worked down.
I have just come from the front. We were in the 8 day drive. Don’t think I have slept eight hours in the eight days; was under continuous shell fire all the time. Don’t know how I got through without a scratch but am all here. Had shells to burst within three feet of me and almost buried me in the dirt. At times it seemed that I could hear 1000 bullets whistle by my head at once. The London papers say the 91st Division is one of the best fighting units that ever hit France.
Am well and ready to hit the Dutch again as soon as I get a change of clothes and a little sleep.
Don’t worry if you don’t get a letter for a long time for I can’t write as often as I want to. Am called to duty again and will have to close for this time. Will write as soon as I can.
Your son and brother,
Pvt. Jas. H. Hart
Co. C, 91st, A.E.F. A.P.O. 776
NOTES: James H. Hart was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hart and his brother John P. Hart. Hart was born in Rogers, Arkansas on January 12, 1894.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
October 5th
Dear Folks at Home:
I know you are worried because you have not heard from me. Have only a few minutes and will tell you a little. Am about as near all in as I ever was in all my lif –just worked down.
I have just come from the front. We were in the 8 day drive. Don’t think I have slept eight hours in the eight days; was under continuous shell fire all the time. Don’t know how I got through without a scratch but am all here. Had shells to burst within three feet of me and almost buried me in the dirt. At times it seemed that I could hear 1000 bullets whistle by my head at once. The London papers say the 91st Division is one of the best fighting units that ever hit France.
Am well and ready to hit the Dutch again as soon as I get a change of clothes and a little sleep.
Don’t worry if you don’t get a letter for a long time for I can’t write as often as I want to. Am called to duty again and will have to close for this time. Will write as soon as I can.
Your son and brother,
Pvt. Jas. H. Hart
Co. C, 91st, A.E.F. A.P.O. 776
NOTES: James H. Hart was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hart and his brother John P. Hart. Hart was born in Rogers, Arkansas on January 12, 1894.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD