The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-07-28
elllEl lors IN FRANCE
NUMBER NOW WITH PERISH.
M ING's EXPEDITION.
Col. O. y. Bond Receives Interesting
Characterization From Lieut.. j. +.
M0eiaYty. ~

Mosiarty. .f
Charleston. July 24.--A letter of in
tsnsA interest. coming as It does from
. Citadel graduate of the class of 1917.
now an ofacsr Of the Marine Corps.
who n In France with the expedition
ary forces OF the United states under
Pershing. Lieut.. J. F. Moriarty. has
been srscsived by Col. o. j. Bond. su-
'psrintsndent OF the Citadel The let
ter has been duly censored. and is
therefore available for publication.
The letter. dated July 4. somewhere
In France. follows:
Somewhere In France. July 4, 1917,
+ American Expsditionary Force.
Fifth Regiment. Fifteenth Company.
First Battalion.
Dear Col. Bond: 3
: "You win perhaps be surprised to
hear from mo 30 soon. but the. wa
hss developed 10 many surprising
things that this may be called q mat
ter % slight importance In compari-
son with others. We. that is Hope.
HarRoro ough. Muldrow and myself.
ere here in France with. the expe-
fitionary force Of marines. We left
--on----and arrived, at---on the
--- The marines were with tho
first convoy. and both Mu!drcw and
myself are in the FIRST Battalion. con.
ssqusntly we had the truly great
honor Of being landed with the first
American troops ON foreign soil for
aggressive warfare The marines
with their usual businesslike way. tied
up ~ the dock at $50 p. m. on a
certain night and in ne morning had
the unloading Of the impedimenta un.
der way. In the afternoon the First
Bsttalion went ashore at perma. /.
nent camp. The Paris edition of the
Nav York Times did not give us crod-
= Tor our work put passed L all ON to
- asuy. Any way. the reason that
!. Ql64 ,,yppnt ~ erints was because tho
(nol l1(p ann returned 20 their
ID o. "a %s 1ssl ssl'5ss 81 % I9sal
oUr camp (tbs marines going ashore
hbsrty). an army ofacsr touched me
ON the shoulder and turning I saw
Holmes I sure was glad to see him.
Later during the week I saw Spann,
Mood and Iegge. and I hear that a.
Amman Cook is to be detailed over
here.
Hope and the >st Of the Citadel
boys are assigned 10 tie infantry
companies while am assigned to
machine gun company.
You will perhaps fnd the thoughts
In this letter very badly expressed. but
am beginning to learn the type
writer and have to think both of
my letter and my lettering on the
typewriter. There Ia a censor on the
soldiers mail and there is n great
deal that I would like to say In this
letter. but II Ia impossible.
We can not put anything into
letter that would convey. the leas;
possible information to the enemy or
the people at home. 1t is useless to
say that the boys are In the best oil
health and are going to make the
best OF their trip whether things turn
out the best or not. Today Is tho
Fourth of July. but things go right
along In war time and the only thing
that one could say was in keeping
with the holiday was the paying o.
Of the men.
I'm case that any Of the men nj
school or at the training camp would
like to write or would like to know
what our address Is you will find 1t at
the end OF this letter.
Good bye.
Yours very truly,
James F.. Moriarty.
The address: Fifth Regiment.