TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT SEPTEMBER 10, 1918 P. 2
Somewhere in France,
Aug. 20,1918
My Dear Folks At Home:
I arrived here safely. I had a good time on the transport, what time I was not seasick. We had some rough weather and the waves looked like mountains.
The country is pretty what part I have seen, but people have queer ways. The girls and little boys are always selling chestnuts, candy, etc. I know a little French language but not enough to amount to anything. Am trying to learn all I can.
We never see any men of our own age-nobody except real old men, women, girls and small children. The farm houses and barns are combined here and all the wagons are two-wheeled and in most cases women and girls are driving them. I don’t know how long we will stay here or where we will go from here.
I saw some German prisoners in the town where we disembarked. We are all anxious to go further toward the front, for their is nothing important here. We saw lots of fish including flying fish, but did not see a single submarine. I don’t know much news to write. We have newspapers every day but nothing like the Gazette. I am well and enjoying myself. Be sure to write soon for I want to hear from you. Lots of love to you all.
As ever, Corporal Lee L. Long,
Co. C, 154th Inf., A. E. F.,
Via New York.
NOTES: In the introduction to the letter in the paper he is named as Lee, but Leo in the closing. leo L. Long was born on September 26, 1891 in Jamestown, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CHLOE SMITH
Somewhere in France,
Aug. 20,1918
My Dear Folks At Home:
I arrived here safely. I had a good time on the transport, what time I was not seasick. We had some rough weather and the waves looked like mountains.
The country is pretty what part I have seen, but people have queer ways. The girls and little boys are always selling chestnuts, candy, etc. I know a little French language but not enough to amount to anything. Am trying to learn all I can.
We never see any men of our own age-nobody except real old men, women, girls and small children. The farm houses and barns are combined here and all the wagons are two-wheeled and in most cases women and girls are driving them. I don’t know how long we will stay here or where we will go from here.
I saw some German prisoners in the town where we disembarked. We are all anxious to go further toward the front, for their is nothing important here. We saw lots of fish including flying fish, but did not see a single submarine. I don’t know much news to write. We have newspapers every day but nothing like the Gazette. I am well and enjoying myself. Be sure to write soon for I want to hear from you. Lots of love to you all.
As ever, Corporal Lee L. Long,
Co. C, 154th Inf., A. E. F.,
Via New York.
NOTES: In the introduction to the letter in the paper he is named as Lee, but Leo in the closing. leo L. Long was born on September 26, 1891 in Jamestown, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CHLOE SMITH