TRANSCRIBED FROM THE LOG CABIN DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 3, 1918 P. 4
Dear Mother:
Will drop you a few lines this evening. I am feeling very well, but am in the hospital. Have been wounded twice, but not serious. I just had gotten out of the hospital the first time when about 10 days later I was wounded again, but not serious. I was wounded in the ear the first time, the 19th of July and the next time in the left arm. It was on the 30th of August.
This is an awful war over here---it isn’t one-sided at all. Those huns are putting up an awful hard fight, but we have got them on the run now, and think we can keep it up. The prisoners we take say they are disheartened and sick of the war, but their leaders won’t let them quit.
Well, ma, I see where they are going to draft them from 18 to 45. The sooner they can get them over here, the sooner it will be over with.
They sure are good to you while you are in the hospital. The Red Cross serve you anything you want. The Red Cross is the best thing on earth for the soldiers. People ought to give to the Red Cross everything that they possibly can, for it is doing more for the soldiers than any thing on earth.
Well, ma, I guess I had better close for I am so nervous that I can hardly write. I will write again in a few days, so I will close for this time.
From your loving boy,
Robert N. Matthews,
Somewhere in France.
NOTES: Robert Newton Matthews was born in Greenbrier, Arkansas on August 22, 1892 and died on November 27, 1957. He is buried in the Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Arkansas Private serving in Co. M, 23rd Infantry in WWI. He was writing to his mother Mary Margaret Matthews of Greenbrier.
TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUE HOWARD
Dear Mother:
Will drop you a few lines this evening. I am feeling very well, but am in the hospital. Have been wounded twice, but not serious. I just had gotten out of the hospital the first time when about 10 days later I was wounded again, but not serious. I was wounded in the ear the first time, the 19th of July and the next time in the left arm. It was on the 30th of August.
This is an awful war over here---it isn’t one-sided at all. Those huns are putting up an awful hard fight, but we have got them on the run now, and think we can keep it up. The prisoners we take say they are disheartened and sick of the war, but their leaders won’t let them quit.
Well, ma, I see where they are going to draft them from 18 to 45. The sooner they can get them over here, the sooner it will be over with.
They sure are good to you while you are in the hospital. The Red Cross serve you anything you want. The Red Cross is the best thing on earth for the soldiers. People ought to give to the Red Cross everything that they possibly can, for it is doing more for the soldiers than any thing on earth.
Well, ma, I guess I had better close for I am so nervous that I can hardly write. I will write again in a few days, so I will close for this time.
From your loving boy,
Robert N. Matthews,
Somewhere in France.
NOTES: Robert Newton Matthews was born in Greenbrier, Arkansas on August 22, 1892 and died on November 27, 1957. He is buried in the Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Arkansas Private serving in Co. M, 23rd Infantry in WWI. He was writing to his mother Mary Margaret Matthews of Greenbrier.
TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUE HOWARD