TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BAXTER BULLETIN JUNE 7, 1918 P. 1
Camp Jackson., S.C.
May 31, 1918
To the dear readers of the Baxter County Bulletin. I received one of your papers today and it sure did me lots of good to get to read it. It has been the first one that I have gotten since I have been in the Army.
Well I see in the paper that there are a large bunch of boys going to the training camp at Little Rock. I sure would enjoy being with the boys at Camp Pike, but I guess that I have served my time in that camp. But I like Camp Jackson fine now. I have been here and got acquainted with lots of boys from other states. There are several boys here from Arkansas. But I don’t know nay from Baxter County. I left home the 18th of September 1917, with 33 other Baxter county boys, and now I do not know where any of them are. There were four of us came to this Camp together. It was Mr. M. L. Jones from Arkana and Cow Cantwell from Arkana and a boy by the name of Stewart, from near Mtn. Home, Ark., and now they are all gone but me. I am the only one left in this camp from Baxter Co. now that I know of. Well I do not know where the boys are now, but I hope they are all enjoying camp life as well as I am.
Well I will close and get ready for guard duty. I am on guard duty tonight.
I would be glad to get a copy of your paper any time if it is a month old it will be new to me and I sure do enjoy reading it. If this misses the waste basket I will write again. So good bye from
J.H. Langston,
880 Bakery Co.,
Camp Jackson.
Columbia, S. C.
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TRANSCRIBED BY HANNAH MERRICK
Camp Jackson., S.C.
May 31, 1918
To the dear readers of the Baxter County Bulletin. I received one of your papers today and it sure did me lots of good to get to read it. It has been the first one that I have gotten since I have been in the Army.
Well I see in the paper that there are a large bunch of boys going to the training camp at Little Rock. I sure would enjoy being with the boys at Camp Pike, but I guess that I have served my time in that camp. But I like Camp Jackson fine now. I have been here and got acquainted with lots of boys from other states. There are several boys here from Arkansas. But I don’t know nay from Baxter County. I left home the 18th of September 1917, with 33 other Baxter county boys, and now I do not know where any of them are. There were four of us came to this Camp together. It was Mr. M. L. Jones from Arkana and Cow Cantwell from Arkana and a boy by the name of Stewart, from near Mtn. Home, Ark., and now they are all gone but me. I am the only one left in this camp from Baxter Co. now that I know of. Well I do not know where the boys are now, but I hope they are all enjoying camp life as well as I am.
Well I will close and get ready for guard duty. I am on guard duty tonight.
I would be glad to get a copy of your paper any time if it is a month old it will be new to me and I sure do enjoy reading it. If this misses the waste basket I will write again. So good bye from
J.H. Langston,
880 Bakery Co.,
Camp Jackson.
Columbia, S. C.
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TRANSCRIBED BY HANNAH MERRICK