TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SCOTT COUNTY ADVANCE REPORTER FEBRUARY 28, 1918 P. 4
Camp Beauregard
February 19th
Hello to the dear old Advance Reporter and its many readers:
As I can’t go to sleep I will drop you a few lines from Camp Beauregard. We are having some bad weather at the present; has rained about ___days in succession. But ____to have wood and supplies ____the same. I have been transferred from Co. I to the Supply Company. I like ____team better than ____right about and hear ____left, left, right, left ____dream that I was ____would hear the ____the steps. Fut ____to drill any at all. ___company; just stand two___reviews and retreats ___not another Scott County ____this Company; only Arkansas boys, the rest are from Mississippi, but we are ___a some Uncle too. We are getting all of our equipment and that does not sound good to this soldier. That sounds like a move, where to, Uncle knows, we don’t. Say, you writers, call and get that paper that the Editor told you he had, and try writing a bit. Come on X.Y.Z. you are still alive. Mr. Cox will ask you to send the paper to Supply Company instead of Co. I. well, it is 10 o’clock and the Sargeant is hollowing, “Lights out,” so will have to hit the hay. Will write again some time. With best wishes to all the readers.
Private W. B. Johnson
Supply Co., 150th Infantry
NOTES: The many blanks in this letter are due to a missing torn section of the paper.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Camp Beauregard
February 19th
Hello to the dear old Advance Reporter and its many readers:
As I can’t go to sleep I will drop you a few lines from Camp Beauregard. We are having some bad weather at the present; has rained about ___days in succession. But ____to have wood and supplies ____the same. I have been transferred from Co. I to the Supply Company. I like ____team better than ____right about and hear ____left, left, right, left ____dream that I was ____would hear the ____the steps. Fut ____to drill any at all. ___company; just stand two___reviews and retreats ___not another Scott County ____this Company; only Arkansas boys, the rest are from Mississippi, but we are ___a some Uncle too. We are getting all of our equipment and that does not sound good to this soldier. That sounds like a move, where to, Uncle knows, we don’t. Say, you writers, call and get that paper that the Editor told you he had, and try writing a bit. Come on X.Y.Z. you are still alive. Mr. Cox will ask you to send the paper to Supply Company instead of Co. I. well, it is 10 o’clock and the Sargeant is hollowing, “Lights out,” so will have to hit the hay. Will write again some time. With best wishes to all the readers.
Private W. B. Johnson
Supply Co., 150th Infantry
NOTES: The many blanks in this letter are due to a missing torn section of the paper.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON