The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-06
SENT BY BOYS IN SERVICE TO
 FRIENDS AT HOME
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NlLNDS Al HUME | tContfnued from Page Ffve)
 consider you a friend of ours because
 he is. There are so many friends in l Birmingham that we should write to. We
 are forbidden this privilege because our letters are limited. So I am taking this method of writing to them all through your honorable paper.
 Some seem to think because we are in the medical department we are locat- ed behind the lines. to care for the sick and wounded This is a mistake. Every detachment that enters the trenches is accompanied by detail from the medical department. To show this is true, records show that this company had six casualties in one day. The duty of each medical detachment attached to a regiment is to see that all wounded are evacuated to a field Cf base hospital. FALL OVER FRANCE
 ''Our division was relieved few days ago by other troops who, I believe, were selected men. They appeared to be troops of value. Since then we have hiked and
 roamed all over France. finally reaching
 our destination yesterday at the sound
 of the big guns once again. At present we are located in barracks. We don't have alIs the pleasures and comforts of home, but still this is paradise to sol dier being delivered from the cackles of chickens and bellows of the cows--A
 more active front than we left. The boys are in high spirit and seem that they are willing to fight to finish that democracy may be won and return to their loved ones We mix and mingie with the blue devils and to lose-there is no such word. The same as the old
 Fighting Fourth Alabama.
 We have no kick whatever concerning our food and if Uncle Sam can feed us as in the past we would all be pleased Feeding the soldier is the main problem in this war, and long as we are fed regular, there is nothing in the world can stop us from licking the kaiser's force. I can truthfully say that we are well cared for, because our
 commanding officer Maj. John w. Watts, respected and loved by every member of the company, has cautioned our loved and fearless first sergeant Joseph M. Otwell, to see that our wants are sup piled, and if it is in his power we will have chicken and eggs each day.
 PROUD OF LADIES
 We are indeed proud of the good ladies of Alabama who are raising d tobacco fund for the boys over here" We are issued tobacco quite often while serving in the front lines and may God help Chairman Mrs. William P. Screws the wife of our regimental commander,
 whom the entire regiment would follow to Berlin and then on and on.
 "As known fact, it gladdens every
 soldiers heart to receive a letter or Age Herald from Alabama
 Hoping that every citizen of Ala bama is with the boys from Alabama, originally the Fighting Fourth by buy 1 ing Liberty Bonds, Thrift Stamps and helping the Red Cross, I am sincerely your friend, LOUIS NELSON, Medical Department, 167th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force"
 DAVE NORWOOD WRITES Dave Norwood, who used to be en- ployed around at Parker's Drug Store, has developed into a very interesting letter writer Incidentally, he says Bor den Burr is with the 167th. He writes: France, July 8, 1918. Tt is now D. m and still it's about | six hours til. dark. We have about six hours of darkness, so you can see they don't have very long to fight each night l Did you know they do most of their fight 1 ing during the night? Come to think about it, well, it's best, because get l ting around during the night they can't see you unless they shoot a place into i down goes everyone to the ground. And i talk about the ground in those kind oi | times, mud holes are just as good to me l as a palace.
 T remember very well about a seem. | ingly very fine old man, and I was to see him up to the front. We were rid ing two fno horses Nothing unusIai happened, for some little time, then, l without a moments notice, our battery py1f hoe V wild (and say, am not so very brave
 myself. After their first leap the old | man went over into the mud and wet
 weeds. I could not help but laugh, and little farther up we left our horses, because it won't do to ride too near the line. We had hardly gotten started be- fore the Boche cut loose, so the old
 man looked over at me. We both saw the same hole at the very same moment, so head first we dived into that muddy hole. After the Huns were satisfied that they had done enough, we came out, and in all my life I've never seen such "a down-hearted looking fellow. We both
 stood there and laughed.
 GO BY ANKLE EXPRESS Well since I wrote you last we have travelled several hundred miles, some Of the time on freight trains, but most of it we made or the ankle express. Hiking all night W'th neavy pack makes even the preachers want to fight. They all
 ways give us hot coffee for our midnight
 meal At first we thought we were go- ing to a rest camp, so our first night out we dreamed about that famous Amer. ican rest camp, and all those pretty girls and the grand shows that We were to see. and last, all those pretty
 French girls to welcome our boys fresh from the front. Just then someone came ; up to our little coffee pot car. Come out: get on your packs toute suite
 woke up and found about three fellows stretched out across me. I sure had the cramps; my head was as large as one of those famous liquor-heads back home.
 All down the line no light. Get some pep! Let go with. that wagon. you flat
 head! Lead those horses out! Watch your step. there's step-off.'
 "It was only about 20 or 90 minutes till our battalion was on our way; no