TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT OCTOBER 24, 1918 P. 2
Dear Parents:
I am well and enjoying life. How are all the folks? Tell them I will be back home before so awfully lonw and go hunting and fishing with them.
You cannot guess where I got my stationery and ink pen. It is all German junk, I found it during one of our recent drives. I suppose some Sammy was getting too close to Fritz and he did not have time to pack up and move, so he left all his possessions, and among them I found lin. Therefore I took charge of said possessions, an damong them I found several useful articles. We have the hun pretty well on the run now.
Tell the girls to look out for me, for I will be back some day soon and we will have some grand old times like we once had when I was a boy – but I am almost the same fellow yet. I am almost 23 but I would enjoy singing and playing with the children just the same as I used to before the war.
How are all the boys? I would like to see all of them, but I am busy now showing the hun “who’s who.” I suppose the children are going to school, are they not? Tell them I said study hard and be good, and they will soon grow up to be men and women and then they will appreciate the value of an education. I can see where I made my mistake by not going to school. I had the chance to go, and I may attend some more after the war is over. I have learned a great deal over here that I would not have learned elsewhere. I am glad to have had the opportunity to come to France and help in this great war. I have learned my trade.
Well, I guess I had better close and put out my candle before Fritz sees it and drops a pineapple on my bunk.
Love to all,
Wm. A. Sneed,
G 2 Fourth Army Corps Headqrs.
A. E. F.
NOTES: This letter was written to his parents, Joseph and Viola Sneed of Swifton, Arkansas William was born on February 29, 1896 and died on August 6, 1946. He is buried in the Oaklawn Cemetery in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He enlisted on June 12, 1917 and was discharged on June 27, 1919. He served in the First Arkansas Infantry and as a Corp. in Co. D 26th Infantry, 1st Division.
TRANSCRIBED BY ISAAC WOLTER
Dear Parents:
I am well and enjoying life. How are all the folks? Tell them I will be back home before so awfully lonw and go hunting and fishing with them.
You cannot guess where I got my stationery and ink pen. It is all German junk, I found it during one of our recent drives. I suppose some Sammy was getting too close to Fritz and he did not have time to pack up and move, so he left all his possessions, and among them I found lin. Therefore I took charge of said possessions, an damong them I found several useful articles. We have the hun pretty well on the run now.
Tell the girls to look out for me, for I will be back some day soon and we will have some grand old times like we once had when I was a boy – but I am almost the same fellow yet. I am almost 23 but I would enjoy singing and playing with the children just the same as I used to before the war.
How are all the boys? I would like to see all of them, but I am busy now showing the hun “who’s who.” I suppose the children are going to school, are they not? Tell them I said study hard and be good, and they will soon grow up to be men and women and then they will appreciate the value of an education. I can see where I made my mistake by not going to school. I had the chance to go, and I may attend some more after the war is over. I have learned a great deal over here that I would not have learned elsewhere. I am glad to have had the opportunity to come to France and help in this great war. I have learned my trade.
Well, I guess I had better close and put out my candle before Fritz sees it and drops a pineapple on my bunk.
Love to all,
Wm. A. Sneed,
G 2 Fourth Army Corps Headqrs.
A. E. F.
NOTES: This letter was written to his parents, Joseph and Viola Sneed of Swifton, Arkansas William was born on February 29, 1896 and died on August 6, 1946. He is buried in the Oaklawn Cemetery in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He enlisted on June 12, 1917 and was discharged on June 27, 1919. He served in the First Arkansas Infantry and as a Corp. in Co. D 26th Infantry, 1st Division.
TRANSCRIBED BY ISAAC WOLTER