TRANSCRIBED FROM THE VAN BUREN COUNTY DEMOCRAT MAY 31, 1918 P.1
Camp Sevier, S.C., May 17th
Editor Democrat,
Clinton, Arkansas.
Dear Sir:
As I have changed camps you will please change the address of my paper from Camp Jackson to Camp Sevier, S.C. We left Camp Jackson the 15th and it only took us about four hours to run over here. I think I will like this camp fine, although it is quite different to Camp Jackson. We stay in tents here, eight men to the tent, but they are fine this hot weather.
Well, I have missed the last copy of the paper. Some of the boys destroyed it through a mistake. In the last copy I received I noticed that Van Buren county people had bought liberally of Liberty bonds.
Friends, you can’t invest money in anything better, for every dollar you spend for bonds, or give to the Red Cross or the Y.M.C.A. means more clothes, food and men and more equipment for your son, brother or husband on the firing line, or preparing to go there. The first Liberty loan has fed us, the second bought our clothes and the third is to feed us after we get “over there.” So back us up and we’ll get the kaiser.
Porter Perkins
Co. H 324 Inf. Camp Sevier, S.C.
NOTES: Porter Wesley Perkins was born in Lexington, Arkansas on September 13, 1894 and died in Van Buren, Arkansas on August 30, 1922. He is buried in the Holly Mountain Cemetery in Shirley, Arkansas. He departed New York, NY on August 5, 1918 onboard the Aquitania. He was serving as a Cp. in Co. H 324th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCCLAY CLEVELAND
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Camp Sevier, S.C., May 17th
Editor Democrat,
Clinton, Arkansas.
Dear Sir:
As I have changed camps you will please change the address of my paper from Camp Jackson to Camp Sevier, S.C. We left Camp Jackson the 15th and it only took us about four hours to run over here. I think I will like this camp fine, although it is quite different to Camp Jackson. We stay in tents here, eight men to the tent, but they are fine this hot weather.
Well, I have missed the last copy of the paper. Some of the boys destroyed it through a mistake. In the last copy I received I noticed that Van Buren county people had bought liberally of Liberty bonds.
Friends, you can’t invest money in anything better, for every dollar you spend for bonds, or give to the Red Cross or the Y.M.C.A. means more clothes, food and men and more equipment for your son, brother or husband on the firing line, or preparing to go there. The first Liberty loan has fed us, the second bought our clothes and the third is to feed us after we get “over there.” So back us up and we’ll get the kaiser.
Porter Perkins
Co. H 324 Inf. Camp Sevier, S.C.
NOTES: Porter Wesley Perkins was born in Lexington, Arkansas on September 13, 1894 and died in Van Buren, Arkansas on August 30, 1922. He is buried in the Holly Mountain Cemetery in Shirley, Arkansas. He departed New York, NY on August 5, 1918 onboard the Aquitania. He was serving as a Cp. in Co. H 324th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCCLAY CLEVELAND
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