TRANSCRIBED FROM THE JONESBORO DAILY TRIBUNE JUNE 13, 1918 P. 1
Camp Pike, Arkansas
June 7th, 1918.
Mr. H. W. Parker,
Jonesboro, Ark.
Friend Herbert.
Well boy, I haven’t killed a man today, “I got 2 yesterday and 8 the day before.” The only thing is I haven’t got any thing to fight with, so I am sending you a blank check on the First National Bank signed, and I want you to go to Bedford Crenshaw’s and buy me a knife and send it to me, and have the Jonesboro Tribune to send me the daily paper for 3 months. Be careful how you handle my check.
Well how are Burke, Bryan, Jack Bunn, A. J. Scott, and Toll getting along? Give them my kindest regards, and tell all to write me.
Herbert, Lieut. Will Turner, got Roy Sigler, Count Berry Jones from Brookland and myself transferred to his company of negroes. We have a h---l of a time with them. It is just like a big circus all the time to hear them sing and watch them dance. We have got them all loaned out today, do we haven’t got anything to do.
I think I will get to come home about the end of the month for a short stay. You should see me in my uniform. I look like a country mule with a new set of harness on, and when I kick a negro with these shoes and he don’t fall, I walk around and see what’s holding him up.
“Sho nuff” Herbert, all you boys write to me and I will answer your letters promptly.
Yours very truly,
TOBE MULLIN.
NOTES: Mullin was a private serving in the military.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN KENT
Camp Pike, Arkansas
June 7th, 1918.
Mr. H. W. Parker,
Jonesboro, Ark.
Friend Herbert.
Well boy, I haven’t killed a man today, “I got 2 yesterday and 8 the day before.” The only thing is I haven’t got any thing to fight with, so I am sending you a blank check on the First National Bank signed, and I want you to go to Bedford Crenshaw’s and buy me a knife and send it to me, and have the Jonesboro Tribune to send me the daily paper for 3 months. Be careful how you handle my check.
Well how are Burke, Bryan, Jack Bunn, A. J. Scott, and Toll getting along? Give them my kindest regards, and tell all to write me.
Herbert, Lieut. Will Turner, got Roy Sigler, Count Berry Jones from Brookland and myself transferred to his company of negroes. We have a h---l of a time with them. It is just like a big circus all the time to hear them sing and watch them dance. We have got them all loaned out today, do we haven’t got anything to do.
I think I will get to come home about the end of the month for a short stay. You should see me in my uniform. I look like a country mule with a new set of harness on, and when I kick a negro with these shoes and he don’t fall, I walk around and see what’s holding him up.
“Sho nuff” Herbert, all you boys write to me and I will answer your letters promptly.
Yours very truly,
TOBE MULLIN.
NOTES: Mullin was a private serving in the military.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN KENT