TRANSCRIBED FROM THE JUDSONIA ADVANCE JANUARY 30, 1918 P. 1
Geo. M. Walter, P.M.
Camp Beauregard La
January 25, 1918
The Judsonia Advance.
As I have been receiving many inquiries from people in White County asking about the camp and about their friends and relatives who are here, I am taking the liberty of writing to you so that you will be in a position to let others know what really exists here.
There are about or nearly 30,000 soldiers stationed here at Camp Beauregard of which more than one-third are from Arkansas. White county boys are numerous. The camp is thoroughly clean, being in as good a sanitary condition as any camp in the country. At this date all soldiers are fully equipped with clothing, including overcoats and hob-nailed shoes. Each man has all his equipment, there is no longer a shortage of anything at this camp. Beginning in November there was a transfer of many troops from other places to this camp and amng the men were many cases of mumps and measles, thus the infection started at this camp, and we had many cases of both and many cases of pneumonia resulting.
There were some deaths but the percentage was low compared with statistics of recent date.
The men from small towns and sparsely settled districts who had not had occasion to be in contact with these two diseases developed both. Meningitis started among a Mississippi regiment the latter part of November and there have been 75 cases in the division with only seventeen deaths. In our regiment __ ___15th Infantry there
NOTES: This is a partial letter due to the fact that the person microfilming the letter cut it off at the bottom. George Muldrow Walter was born in October 1878 and died November 12, 1939. He is buried in the Nelson Cemetery in Georgetown, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY STEPHANE LECOINTE
Geo. M. Walter, P.M.
Camp Beauregard La
January 25, 1918
The Judsonia Advance.
As I have been receiving many inquiries from people in White County asking about the camp and about their friends and relatives who are here, I am taking the liberty of writing to you so that you will be in a position to let others know what really exists here.
There are about or nearly 30,000 soldiers stationed here at Camp Beauregard of which more than one-third are from Arkansas. White county boys are numerous. The camp is thoroughly clean, being in as good a sanitary condition as any camp in the country. At this date all soldiers are fully equipped with clothing, including overcoats and hob-nailed shoes. Each man has all his equipment, there is no longer a shortage of anything at this camp. Beginning in November there was a transfer of many troops from other places to this camp and amng the men were many cases of mumps and measles, thus the infection started at this camp, and we had many cases of both and many cases of pneumonia resulting.
There were some deaths but the percentage was low compared with statistics of recent date.
The men from small towns and sparsely settled districts who had not had occasion to be in contact with these two diseases developed both. Meningitis started among a Mississippi regiment the latter part of November and there have been 75 cases in the division with only seventeen deaths. In our regiment __ ___15th Infantry there
NOTES: This is a partial letter due to the fact that the person microfilming the letter cut it off at the bottom. George Muldrow Walter was born in October 1878 and died November 12, 1939. He is buried in the Nelson Cemetery in Georgetown, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY STEPHANE LECOINTE