TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEVADA COUNTY PICAYUNE APRIL 17, 1919 P. 1
Harbin, Manchuria.
March 10th, 1919
My Dear Sister:
I received your kind letter yesterday was glad to hear from you and your family, and more than glad to know that all was well. This leaves me well at the present time. My little babies were well the last time I heard from them. I wish I could go back to them. I miss them so bad. Have been away from them seven months, and it seems like that many years.
Well sister, I don't know when we will get out of Siberia and Manchuria and Russia. The country is unsettled and they may hold us here a long time. I would give any thing to get away from here. I am four thousand miles north of the Phillipines, and it is cold up here. I have been down in Siberia for one month, and was sent back up here in Harbin, Manchuria. It is in the northern part of China, and north of Japan. I don't know how long I will be here, so when you answer this address your letter to A.E.F. Siberia. Sergt. Co. R. 31st Infantry, and it will eventually come to my company and I will get it.
Well sister, I am glad the war is over. But it doesn't seem to affect us over here. I am glad to hear that you haven't lost any of your son-in-laws so far. I have been lucky so far myself, have been in the army 29 years and have been all around the world and I am still strong and healthy, but I take the best care of myself.
Well, I hope that I will soon be through so I can return to civil life and my little babies. I don't know where I will live when I leave the army. I will go to the Phillipines to my babies, and then I may go to California and put my babies in school and live here the rest of my life.
Well, I got a letter from father and mother a few days ago. They were all well except Earl. I also got a letter from Bob Deloney, will answer it today.
Well sister, give my love to your family and John and poor old Aunt Polly and Mrs. Schooley. I trust God will give them health to the last. I haven't heard from Bessie in a long time. She never answered the last two letters I wrote to her.
Write soon and give me all the news. As ever your brother,
W. T. Slagle.
No. 329242 Sergeant Co. B. 31st Inf.
A.E.F. Siberia.
NOTES: This letter was written by W. T. Slagle.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
Harbin, Manchuria.
March 10th, 1919
My Dear Sister:
I received your kind letter yesterday was glad to hear from you and your family, and more than glad to know that all was well. This leaves me well at the present time. My little babies were well the last time I heard from them. I wish I could go back to them. I miss them so bad. Have been away from them seven months, and it seems like that many years.
Well sister, I don't know when we will get out of Siberia and Manchuria and Russia. The country is unsettled and they may hold us here a long time. I would give any thing to get away from here. I am four thousand miles north of the Phillipines, and it is cold up here. I have been down in Siberia for one month, and was sent back up here in Harbin, Manchuria. It is in the northern part of China, and north of Japan. I don't know how long I will be here, so when you answer this address your letter to A.E.F. Siberia. Sergt. Co. R. 31st Infantry, and it will eventually come to my company and I will get it.
Well sister, I am glad the war is over. But it doesn't seem to affect us over here. I am glad to hear that you haven't lost any of your son-in-laws so far. I have been lucky so far myself, have been in the army 29 years and have been all around the world and I am still strong and healthy, but I take the best care of myself.
Well, I hope that I will soon be through so I can return to civil life and my little babies. I don't know where I will live when I leave the army. I will go to the Phillipines to my babies, and then I may go to California and put my babies in school and live here the rest of my life.
Well, I got a letter from father and mother a few days ago. They were all well except Earl. I also got a letter from Bob Deloney, will answer it today.
Well sister, give my love to your family and John and poor old Aunt Polly and Mrs. Schooley. I trust God will give them health to the last. I haven't heard from Bessie in a long time. She never answered the last two letters I wrote to her.
Write soon and give me all the news. As ever your brother,
W. T. Slagle.
No. 329242 Sergeant Co. B. 31st Inf.
A.E.F. Siberia.
NOTES: This letter was written by W. T. Slagle.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD