TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BAXTER BULLETIN JANUARY 10, 1919 P. 1
I haven’t written until now because I wanted to wait and write that I was getting well all right. If you had known I was wounded you would have only worried about me. I am sure one lucky boy. I am the only one left out of one company of 250 men who went over the top at the battle of Argonne woods. I have lately been offered a place in the aerial mail service but have refused, and will be home in a short time, and home will sure look good to me.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Sergt. Jess James Spangler serving with the 63rd Aero Squadron. He was writing from Camp Mills, NJ, where he was recovering from wounds received in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He was writing to his father, Will Spangler of Cotter, Arkansas. He was born in Cotter, Arkansas on October 25, 1894 and died on May 25, 1958. He is buried in the Gentry Cemetery in Gentry, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas soldier serving as a 1st Sergt. In the Air Service. He enlisted on May 2, 1914 and was discharged on June 4, 1920.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
I haven’t written until now because I wanted to wait and write that I was getting well all right. If you had known I was wounded you would have only worried about me. I am sure one lucky boy. I am the only one left out of one company of 250 men who went over the top at the battle of Argonne woods. I have lately been offered a place in the aerial mail service but have refused, and will be home in a short time, and home will sure look good to me.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Sergt. Jess James Spangler serving with the 63rd Aero Squadron. He was writing from Camp Mills, NJ, where he was recovering from wounds received in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He was writing to his father, Will Spangler of Cotter, Arkansas. He was born in Cotter, Arkansas on October 25, 1894 and died on May 25, 1958. He is buried in the Gentry Cemetery in Gentry, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas soldier serving as a 1st Sergt. In the Air Service. He enlisted on May 2, 1914 and was discharged on June 4, 1920.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON