TRANSCRIBED FROM THE LOG CABIN DEMOCRAT SEPTEMBER 12, 1918 P. 7
Editor Log Cabin Democrat:
I have written to your paper a long time as correspondent from Woodrow and can hardly break from the habit.
AAs it is raining this morning and we are off duty will write a few lines so that our friends in Faulkner county may know how we are and what we are doing.
We entrained from Conway August 29 at 9 p.m., but owing to a long stop at Little Rock, where several thousand and Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico men joined us, we didn't reach our destination until 4 o'clock Friday morning.
We are quartered in stables with only poles separating one stall from another, but we have a good time, get plenty to eat and sleep well. Bruce O'Quin and Dolphus Nowell of Vilonia are with me. Some Faulkner county boys are in Co. 83 and some in Co. 84.
We have been vaccinated for small-pox and "shot" for typhoid, also have undergone three examinations. Sixteen men from our company were discharged this morning. but not a man from Faulkner was in the list.
Our company is composed largely of Indians and Mexicans. Most of the latter cannot speak English and we are interpreter.
There are 464 men in our company and some 8,000 or 10,000 men eat at the same mess hall, so you see we are some crowded. We have been put under quarantine for 14 days. I think when this is over we will be moved to barracks.
This is a jolly bunch; if anyone has the blues he doesn't show it. When off duty we are always jumping, playing ball or boxing and have no time to get homesick.
We have just been called out and have picked up every leaf, stick, straw and cigarette stub and this is some job, for our lot is thick with trees.
This is the cleanest place I have ever seen, which accounts for the few cases of sickness.
Tonight our sergeant has promised us an entertainment consisting of singing, boxing, dancing, jumping and lariat throwing. Our company has several circus clowns, so you see army life is not all work and hardships.
For fear my letter is getting too long I will close. I would be glad to hear from anyone in my home county. Will answer all letters I receive. There is nothing to a soldier like a letter from home.
Clyde S. Hogan,
Casual Co. No. 85, Camp Pike, Ark.
NOTES: Clyde Sanders Hogan was born on November 25, 1896 in Austin, Arkansas and died on June 6, 1982. He is buried in the Vilonia Cemetery in Vilonia, Arkansas. He enlisted on August 8, 1918 and was discharged on December 30, 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
Editor Log Cabin Democrat:
I have written to your paper a long time as correspondent from Woodrow and can hardly break from the habit.
AAs it is raining this morning and we are off duty will write a few lines so that our friends in Faulkner county may know how we are and what we are doing.
We entrained from Conway August 29 at 9 p.m., but owing to a long stop at Little Rock, where several thousand and Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico men joined us, we didn't reach our destination until 4 o'clock Friday morning.
We are quartered in stables with only poles separating one stall from another, but we have a good time, get plenty to eat and sleep well. Bruce O'Quin and Dolphus Nowell of Vilonia are with me. Some Faulkner county boys are in Co. 83 and some in Co. 84.
We have been vaccinated for small-pox and "shot" for typhoid, also have undergone three examinations. Sixteen men from our company were discharged this morning. but not a man from Faulkner was in the list.
Our company is composed largely of Indians and Mexicans. Most of the latter cannot speak English and we are interpreter.
There are 464 men in our company and some 8,000 or 10,000 men eat at the same mess hall, so you see we are some crowded. We have been put under quarantine for 14 days. I think when this is over we will be moved to barracks.
This is a jolly bunch; if anyone has the blues he doesn't show it. When off duty we are always jumping, playing ball or boxing and have no time to get homesick.
We have just been called out and have picked up every leaf, stick, straw and cigarette stub and this is some job, for our lot is thick with trees.
This is the cleanest place I have ever seen, which accounts for the few cases of sickness.
Tonight our sergeant has promised us an entertainment consisting of singing, boxing, dancing, jumping and lariat throwing. Our company has several circus clowns, so you see army life is not all work and hardships.
For fear my letter is getting too long I will close. I would be glad to hear from anyone in my home county. Will answer all letters I receive. There is nothing to a soldier like a letter from home.
Clyde S. Hogan,
Casual Co. No. 85, Camp Pike, Ark.
NOTES: Clyde Sanders Hogan was born on November 25, 1896 in Austin, Arkansas and died on June 6, 1982. He is buried in the Vilonia Cemetery in Vilonia, Arkansas. He enlisted on August 8, 1918 and was discharged on December 30, 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD