TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ARKADELPHIA DAILY NEWS FEBRULARY 2, 1919
Nogent C, Bernard, France.
February 1, 1919.
Dear Editor:
Having just received a copy of your paper which mother sent me, containing a letter from Corporal Frank Adams, as I last knew him, prompted me to write and let many of my old company comrades know just where my lot had been cast.
I was the first to leave the company just a short while after we had landed overseas, shortly after which I was assigned to the 91st, commonly known as the "Wild West Division," also "Powder River."
This division staged most of its acts in the Argonne and the last three weeks of the war in a flighty pursuit of Fritz through Belgium, clearing the towns of Rowlers, Isegram, Audenarde, Horebeke, St. Marie, and scores of others.
One town I remember near Brussels, Audenhove-St. Marie, where the civil population informed us that the Kaiser with his staff and body guard had hastily evacuated only six days before our arrival.
Our division insignia is a green fir tree, which I remind my Western friends is also symbolic of the Arkansas pine.
Hoping this might inspire others to write and inform their comrades of their whereabouts, also any of my friends to write me, as mail is the best thing we get over here.
With best wishes to you and yours as well as all my friends, I remain
Your Friend,
Edwin Stitt
A.P.O. 776
364th Infantry.
NOTES: Edwin D. Stitt was born on June 26, 1896 in Clark County, Arkansas and died on August 2, 1917. He enlisted on June 25, 1916 and was discharged on July 29, 1919. He departed Newport News, Virginia on August 6, 1918 onboard the Huron. He was serving as a Sgt. in Co. C. 153rd Infantry 39th Division. He departed St. Nazaire, France on March 22, 1919 onboard the Siboney. He was listed as a 2nd Lieut. 364th Infantry Hdq. Co.
TRANSCRIBED BY PETER SOWELL
Nogent C, Bernard, France.
February 1, 1919.
Dear Editor:
Having just received a copy of your paper which mother sent me, containing a letter from Corporal Frank Adams, as I last knew him, prompted me to write and let many of my old company comrades know just where my lot had been cast.
I was the first to leave the company just a short while after we had landed overseas, shortly after which I was assigned to the 91st, commonly known as the "Wild West Division," also "Powder River."
This division staged most of its acts in the Argonne and the last three weeks of the war in a flighty pursuit of Fritz through Belgium, clearing the towns of Rowlers, Isegram, Audenarde, Horebeke, St. Marie, and scores of others.
One town I remember near Brussels, Audenhove-St. Marie, where the civil population informed us that the Kaiser with his staff and body guard had hastily evacuated only six days before our arrival.
Our division insignia is a green fir tree, which I remind my Western friends is also symbolic of the Arkansas pine.
Hoping this might inspire others to write and inform their comrades of their whereabouts, also any of my friends to write me, as mail is the best thing we get over here.
With best wishes to you and yours as well as all my friends, I remain
Your Friend,
Edwin Stitt
A.P.O. 776
364th Infantry.
NOTES: Edwin D. Stitt was born on June 26, 1896 in Clark County, Arkansas and died on August 2, 1917. He enlisted on June 25, 1916 and was discharged on July 29, 1919. He departed Newport News, Virginia on August 6, 1918 onboard the Huron. He was serving as a Sgt. in Co. C. 153rd Infantry 39th Division. He departed St. Nazaire, France on March 22, 1919 onboard the Siboney. He was listed as a 2nd Lieut. 364th Infantry Hdq. Co.
TRANSCRIBED BY PETER SOWELL