TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS NOVEMBER 18, 1918 P. 3
Detachment U.S.G., Morgan City, La.,
Oct. 11, 2018
Dear niece:
I will answer your letter I received a few days ago I guess you will understand why I haven’t written any sooner, you see I have been moving some, just got to this place yesterday. I haven’t decided whether I will like it or not.
We left Baton Rouge Monday and got to New Orleans that night and stayed in New Orleans that first night and the next morning we crossed the Mississippi and stopped in Westwego and stayed two nights and then came back over the river and boarded the train in New Orleans for Morgan City where we are now located. This is eighteen miles from the Gulf and the Gulf tide backs up into the lake we are close to. The boys are guarding the ship yards where they are making steam ships, they will have one ready to launch sometime tomorrow and six more are almost finished. It takes about three months to complete one. The ships they are building here are about five hundred feet long and about sixty feet wide. There sure are lots of flowers here, they grow in the water and float around when the wind blows, I wish you could see them just now while they are in full bloom. Well I guess I had better close for the present so answer soon and tell me all the news.
Ben.
NOTES: Ben H. Warren was born in Madison County, Arkansas on July 5, 1892. He was writing to his niece Emily MaHan.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Detachment U.S.G., Morgan City, La.,
Oct. 11, 2018
Dear niece:
I will answer your letter I received a few days ago I guess you will understand why I haven’t written any sooner, you see I have been moving some, just got to this place yesterday. I haven’t decided whether I will like it or not.
We left Baton Rouge Monday and got to New Orleans that night and stayed in New Orleans that first night and the next morning we crossed the Mississippi and stopped in Westwego and stayed two nights and then came back over the river and boarded the train in New Orleans for Morgan City where we are now located. This is eighteen miles from the Gulf and the Gulf tide backs up into the lake we are close to. The boys are guarding the ship yards where they are making steam ships, they will have one ready to launch sometime tomorrow and six more are almost finished. It takes about three months to complete one. The ships they are building here are about five hundred feet long and about sixty feet wide. There sure are lots of flowers here, they grow in the water and float around when the wind blows, I wish you could see them just now while they are in full bloom. Well I guess I had better close for the present so answer soon and tell me all the news.
Ben.
NOTES: Ben H. Warren was born in Madison County, Arkansas on July 5, 1892. He was writing to his niece Emily MaHan.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD