TRANSCRIBED FROM THE HELENA WORLD JANUARY 15, 1918 P. 3
Camp Beauregard,
Jan. 6, 1918.
Dear Mother:
Well, I wonder how you are today, just fine and dandy, I hope. Well, Mother, I received your box all right and everything is all right. The reason that I have not come home is that they have the whole camp under quarantine: no one can leave their camp. They have our Lieutenant under quarantine up town and he can not get out to the camp. So you see that it is some strict.
Well, I am having good health. I haven’t been sick since I have been here. We are getting plenty to eat and I am getting along just fine. I will come home just as soon as I can get a pass, but I can not tell just when that will be. We are having some warm weather and some cold. You can not tell just how to dress. We have plenty of work to do. We got 36 guns the other day. I wish you could see me with the full uniform on. I bet you would not know me, for it sure makes a change in a man.
Well, Mother, you must write me and tell me all the news that you can, for we know only what some one tells us in a letter.
We have inspection once a week and every piece of your clothes must be clean and you have got to have a clean shave and a haircut. I have learned to wash since I have been here, washing my clothes today. Sunday is the time we have for that, and clothes have got to be clean on inspection day; if they are not, you get extra duties and that is not nice work at all.
Well, mother, I have no news much to tell you this time but I will try and tell you more next time. Well, you must let me hear from you real soon.
Your loving son,
AMOS SWAGGARD
My address is now:
Camp Beauregard, La. 114 Ammunition Train, 39 Division, Company C
NOTES: Swaggard was born on March 27, 1894 and died on February 6, 1931. He is buried in the Marianna Memorial Park Cemetery in Marianna, Arkansas. His headstone has a patriotic motif with a US flag. He departed New York, NY on August 18, 1918 onboard the Plattsburg. He was listed as a Corp. serving in Co. C 114th Ammunition Train. He departed St. Nazaire, France onboard the Rijndam on December 18, 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Camp Beauregard,
Jan. 6, 1918.
Dear Mother:
Well, I wonder how you are today, just fine and dandy, I hope. Well, Mother, I received your box all right and everything is all right. The reason that I have not come home is that they have the whole camp under quarantine: no one can leave their camp. They have our Lieutenant under quarantine up town and he can not get out to the camp. So you see that it is some strict.
Well, I am having good health. I haven’t been sick since I have been here. We are getting plenty to eat and I am getting along just fine. I will come home just as soon as I can get a pass, but I can not tell just when that will be. We are having some warm weather and some cold. You can not tell just how to dress. We have plenty of work to do. We got 36 guns the other day. I wish you could see me with the full uniform on. I bet you would not know me, for it sure makes a change in a man.
Well, Mother, you must write me and tell me all the news that you can, for we know only what some one tells us in a letter.
We have inspection once a week and every piece of your clothes must be clean and you have got to have a clean shave and a haircut. I have learned to wash since I have been here, washing my clothes today. Sunday is the time we have for that, and clothes have got to be clean on inspection day; if they are not, you get extra duties and that is not nice work at all.
Well, mother, I have no news much to tell you this time but I will try and tell you more next time. Well, you must let me hear from you real soon.
Your loving son,
AMOS SWAGGARD
My address is now:
Camp Beauregard, La. 114 Ammunition Train, 39 Division, Company C
NOTES: Swaggard was born on March 27, 1894 and died on February 6, 1931. He is buried in the Marianna Memorial Park Cemetery in Marianna, Arkansas. His headstone has a patriotic motif with a US flag. He departed New York, NY on August 18, 1918 onboard the Plattsburg. He was listed as a Corp. serving in Co. C 114th Ammunition Train. He departed St. Nazaire, France onboard the Rijndam on December 18, 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD