Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-26


Ellis, of Yancey, Va, IL brother of
Mrs. j. T.. Jackson, of this town, has
written the following very interesting
| letter from France, appearing in IL
| recent issue of the Richmond News
| Leader:
lie Foyer du Soldat,
lie % dc Febrevier, 'l8.
Dear Father and Mother:
l am very sorry that my letters
have been SO few and far between
lately. l am glad to say that it has
not been my fault. Conditions have
been such that it has been impossi-
BILE for me to write or mail Il letter
| after it was written.
I'll start now where | left off in
my last-writtcn, think, on the 18th
inst. was discharged from Base
Hospital No. Is (McKay-Roosevclt)
on recovering from humps, on the
18th of February, but after getting
my discharge | found that, due to a
shortage of ambulances, they could
not return me to my company. /
knew that the company was about
to move and that if / did not join it.
would be "out of luck" so | told
the hospital authorities that if they
would turn me loose | would provide
my own conveyance! This they agreed
to do, and | started out on foot with
three other men-two from our own
company, the second Virginia, and n
Iennesseean. 1t began to rain short
~ after we left, which made it rath-
or disagreeable, but we did not get
very tired, as we only had to carry
our saddle pockets. 1t was fifteen
mics from the hospital to where the
company was stationed and we got
there about 8 o'clock q o'clock in the
mornlng). We did not leave the hos
pital till late afternoon, so we made
fairly good time. Stopped on the wav
and took supper with 81" Company
OF Alabama.
found on my arrival that the long
expected horses had come The next
day it was the stable sergenat,s deal
and he dealt me "a hand like n foot "
l have n pleasant faced beast of about
my own age, which l took to be more
used to the simple life than to "wars
ana rumors of wars" but when |
mouned him, l found him quite blase,
even outre Mt times. In order to
keep up with the times | have named
him "Hell-Bent." | have Dynamite
Ia vivacious beast) on NV left
mounted by Penny and "Goldurn" on
my right, mounted by Allen Gibbons.
| have not had time to try out NV
morse rs yet, but think him good
one. ne IS probably ten or twelve
years OLD, but is still full of "pep."
ne u.s. OF course, heavy since he has
to carry me and all nv plundcr
which weighs, perhaps, $50 mounds /
have made few uncompIimontarv
remarks about him but he is n cool
morse all the same. knowing that |
would never get Dead on the Ficld |
OF Honor" epit;.ph if | got tossed on
my ear by horse, confined nv Ia
Dors to "Hell-Bent," whose Difficult
ties l soon surmounted. Decatur Bear
mas a very. good horse, but | am
AFRAID that he is too light for him.
! have had occasion recently TO
VISIT one of the most famous cut
siass factories in the world. I even
oiePC one night from s o'clock till a
furnaces. l wish | had mnra;r;o
schooner $ hitched on the rear Of "II
p. TO- carry some of the things which
l might have bought for mother Int
mad no way of carrying them.
mere is moving picture show
l nuor .hls town! Like everything else
w mere 1t IS high! 1t costs 2 cents
TO see an eight or ten reell John
sunny was there last night
Had to stop at this place on the
Pase Yesterday. Time is scarce and
l nave been one of the four "stabIe
,,,oa .s To-Day. When enlisted
was tod that every day in the army
was IKE Sunday on the farm, but I
never spent Sunday on the farm
IKE today. The four of US cleaned
up up around and underneath 100 hors-
Is, swept the stable, fed them three
lines LINES and curried the extras. Be
iieve me, 1t was an all-day job.
hear that Kendall D. and Dick
trump are over, but since do not
Know the number of their unit / have
'io way OF locating them.
IL is remarkable the way the hands
If TO be used in talking over here.
H. iost lhe use of my hands, nv
:, ,eLch speaking ability would be cut
81 to, NIL lo1ay l saw three men
seanaing IN the street holding sweet
separated countries, and had no Ian,
guage in common, vet bv msino, ,hai,.
arms, legs, shoulders, eyebrows. and
ears they carried on very interest
ing conversation. or course. there
are some words that everybody knows I
= Boche" is known the world over.
Doom' even in darkest Africa 6
means gun and to shoot. "Zooom3 i
with am upward and outward pes.
:ure OF the handsl would mean to an
IDIOT bursting shell. '' - an
Father, will be interested in HEARING
nat we have just heard this evening"
,unoiliGialiy) that Alabama has re-, b
ieemed herself. 1 forgot to say that v
we are wearing our tin derbys. Thew
'hiy weigh three pounds each! S