TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE JANUARY 12, 1919 P. 30
I didn’t learn much French there as we were very busy, but the French kids learned to curse in English in less than a week and seemed to prefer that language to their own for that purpose.
I went to the 163rd Infantry from the 148th Machine Gun Battalion. I was then sent to Mont la Chard and stayed there a long time. That was where I saw the old chateaus and caves built by the Romans, and the carving inscribed in Latin by Roman sentinels in 900 A.D.
I can’t get used to the stone fences and wonder why they were built so high. Some are 10 or 12 feet high and have broken glass cemented on top. If a man ever reached the top, which is not likely, he would be stuck and they would have to saw him in two to get him down.
We had a good turnout here when the armistice was signed. I think the French shot up all the fireworks they had on the following day and night. Some of the fellows are going to stay over here when they get discharged. They haven’t been here as long as I have, though.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Isaac Newton Morehead to his father, Frank Morehead, of Perry, Arkansas. He was born on April 23, 1894 in Ada, Arkansas and died on January 18, 1981 in Great Bend, Kansas. He is buried in the Hoisington Cemetery in Hoisington, Kansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
I didn’t learn much French there as we were very busy, but the French kids learned to curse in English in less than a week and seemed to prefer that language to their own for that purpose.
I went to the 163rd Infantry from the 148th Machine Gun Battalion. I was then sent to Mont la Chard and stayed there a long time. That was where I saw the old chateaus and caves built by the Romans, and the carving inscribed in Latin by Roman sentinels in 900 A.D.
I can’t get used to the stone fences and wonder why they were built so high. Some are 10 or 12 feet high and have broken glass cemented on top. If a man ever reached the top, which is not likely, he would be stuck and they would have to saw him in two to get him down.
We had a good turnout here when the armistice was signed. I think the French shot up all the fireworks they had on the following day and night. Some of the fellows are going to stay over here when they get discharged. They haven’t been here as long as I have, though.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Isaac Newton Morehead to his father, Frank Morehead, of Perry, Arkansas. He was born on April 23, 1894 in Ada, Arkansas and died on January 18, 1981 in Great Bend, Kansas. He is buried in the Hoisington Cemetery in Hoisington, Kansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT