East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-10-24
FRoAr corr. IANEBAUGH.

baugh, corporal in Battery ID, 14Sth
Field Artillery. says the Pendleton
boys in the battery all got out of bed
one night and began to yell Let Ter
Buck" He speaks mysteriously about
something big that was going to hap
pen to the Fritzes soon. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY the st. Mihiel attack.
Corporal Linebaugh's letter is as
follows:
Somewhere in France.
Sept. 25. rs.
Dear Mother. Dad ana Sister:
/ must tell you 1 am all right and
feeling all o. X. am expecting some
mail this evening. if it comes in.
hope 1t does. All the boys in the 148th
#. A. are looking fine and feeling good.
We all got out of bed the other .
and began to yell Let 'er Buck, old
Pendleton. Pendletonians you can bet
we viii be with YOU next Ronnd-up.
For there is going to be something
doing: gee 1 wish could tell YOU first
what is going TO happen TO some of
the F'ritizies, not so very far from
here. You will see it in the papers
long before You get this letter. What
the Yanks won't do to the dirty
Fritzes, well its no use for any one
to try to do. The Yanks. believe me.
we are going to do the job up just
about right this time. What kind of
a time did you have Round-U UP. hope
you had a good time. am down in
a dugout just about fifty feet deep.
just big enough for eight of us boys.
You can j'st imagine how pleasant it
is? and then there are rats as big as
cows, and that makes it so much
nicer too, don't YOU know. This is
some place if you don't weaken, but
should worry, my woFry is over with.
Gee, i hope the mail gets in tonight,
maybe L will get a letter from YOU.
hope so anyway. Say the old 148th
f. A. got a big compliment from the'I
French on the last drive we were in
and the two before that. SO guess the
14Sth F. a. is doing her little bit, and
think we are going. to keep right on
doing. Say, thought one of the boys
was falling down the steps in the
dugoIt, but it was just a big rat ran
down the steps, but he got ont of here
right now believe me.
October 2. rs.
just got a bunch of letters, yours
was the most important, mother dear
am so glad you are well. / am O. k
The boys are all, alright. we are NOV,
ing ahead all the time and Fritz is
moving back all the time. Say It won't
WON'T be long till we win be with you
all again. so you can start to fixing
that good old fashioned dinner. III
will try to be there about Xmas time. !
Ha, l1a. How does that sound to you,
we are getting some good reports
now and it makes us all feel much |
more like trying to finish right now; !
we are doing all we can to get through |
with it. and believe me, we are going |
right through the Fritz lines and they |
are beginning to yell about it. 1T /
won't do them any good to yell now. |
The French girls and get along just |
fine, but there are some in the good |
old U. S. 1 can get along with much |
better. 1. have all of France want |
without any of the girls. I'll take /
mine in the states every time. saw l
Carl McGinnis, he isn't in the infant
ry. he is in the 146th F. A. 1 saw him
and all the other boys the other day.
All are alright
Imust close. want to write line
to AIRS. Rees, SO good bye with the
best of wishes to you ALL
CORP. JESSE L. LINEBAUGH. L
- Bat. d. 148th F. A., Am. z. r.