TRANSCRIBED FROM THE LOG CABIN DEMOCRAT JANUARY 9, 1919 P. 2
December 3
Received your letter and paper today, and was very glad to hear from you, as I always am. The Log Cabin surely did look good to me. I have wished often that I had arranged to have it sent to me, but my departure was so hurried, and I was a long way from home when we left for France. Next to a letter from home, there is nothing in the A. E. F. that can give greater pleasure than a home paper.
I have seen some very much battered country since I wrote you last. We have passed through the zone where the hard fighting has been for the past four years, and were almost to the Belgian border when the armistice was signed on the 11th. The town we now occupy is not very much damaged, the Germans having retreated so fast that there was not much fighting here. They were driven out of here two days before hostilities ceased. There were about 700 French civilians in the town when we took it and they were overjoyed to see us. The women of the town made a large U. S. flag and presented it to our commanding general.
Don't know how long we will be here, or whether we will go on into Germany or back to France. I am ready to come home any any time. It is hard to realize that it is over and that I am still alive. A number of my friends were killed. We have been in the front line sector, fighting, since August 20.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Lieut. William Robertson Kincheoloe of Conway, Arkansas He was writing from the Army of Occupation in Germany on August 20 to his sister Miss Louis Kincheoloe. He was born in Conway on December 2, 1889 and died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on August 8, 1967. He is buried in the Rose Hill Burial Park in Oklahoma City.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
December 3
Received your letter and paper today, and was very glad to hear from you, as I always am. The Log Cabin surely did look good to me. I have wished often that I had arranged to have it sent to me, but my departure was so hurried, and I was a long way from home when we left for France. Next to a letter from home, there is nothing in the A. E. F. that can give greater pleasure than a home paper.
I have seen some very much battered country since I wrote you last. We have passed through the zone where the hard fighting has been for the past four years, and were almost to the Belgian border when the armistice was signed on the 11th. The town we now occupy is not very much damaged, the Germans having retreated so fast that there was not much fighting here. They were driven out of here two days before hostilities ceased. There were about 700 French civilians in the town when we took it and they were overjoyed to see us. The women of the town made a large U. S. flag and presented it to our commanding general.
Don't know how long we will be here, or whether we will go on into Germany or back to France. I am ready to come home any any time. It is hard to realize that it is over and that I am still alive. A number of my friends were killed. We have been in the front line sector, fighting, since August 20.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Lieut. William Robertson Kincheoloe of Conway, Arkansas He was writing from the Army of Occupation in Germany on August 20 to his sister Miss Louis Kincheoloe. He was born in Conway on December 2, 1889 and died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on August 8, 1967. He is buried in the Rose Hill Burial Park in Oklahoma City.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD