The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-11-08
LETTER FROM HUSBAND OF
GRENADA GIRL
NV dear Wife:

My dear Wife:
Nothing exciting happened the
last few days-except | had quite an
adventure last night. | suppose 1t
could be called an adventure it was
not exactly a Sunday School picnic,
at least. Want to hear about it?
Well. yesterday decided l would go
down to the hospital where Davis is
and see how he was getting along. 1t
is about ten miles down there-I say
down there-because the hospital IS
at the foot of the mountain, and we
are on top of it, and it is some little
walk. But wanted to see DAVIS so
! started out all by my lonesome.
Passed thru the battalion and went on
down. Took me about two hours to
get there, and there is quite town
where the hospital is. saw DAVIS
and talked to him for an hour, and
then started home because | wanted
70 oct back before dark but / started
100 late. 1t started raining when ]
oot about half way up the mountain,
and when | got up into the clouds,
the TOP Of the mountain IS above the
clouds-way up) it was so misty l
could not see ten feet ahead OF me-
And it was dark too, and that MADE Ii
all that much worse. So just as
cot up to the battalion the darn
shells started coming over and darn
fast too. | didn't mind them as
much as | did the hard walking up
the mountain. A French ambulance
came along and | stopped it and ask
ed for ride up the hill. They said
"oui. oui" so | started to get IN the
back end. and they ''parlley wood
something real excited, but | was so
1ired that the radiator would have
been good enough for me, so | just
crawled in the back end. We start
ed and | thought | was the only one
in the car in the back end. | hoped
q she'll wouldn't hit the car and filled
nv pipe with real p. A. and started
to LIGHT it. | struck the match and
II went out with Just enough light
for me to see the other side OF the
ear. You know an ambulance has a
place to put strtchers in it, and | saw
there were two on the opposite alde
Of the car and that there was some
BODY in both OF them. | began to
feel kinder uneasy so | struck another
match.
Well talk about feeling funny
did. Because there were two dead
Frenchmen on those two blankets
and one of them had slipped off OF
one of the stretchers, and there he
was with his head turned toward me
and with blood all ovr the blankets.
| wasn't sure that they were dead un-
til reached over and touched one OF
them and then the other, and l sho'
knew it then and then the darn match
went out. Man, felt kinda un-
necessary" in that car right then.
Riding along in car with two dead
Frenchmen, and the shells raising all
kinds of a rumpus around us-who
wouldn't feel that way about 1t?
didn't know whether to get out and
walk or stay there and entertain the
"company'-but just about then the
car stopped and | got out, and found
that they turned off, and as | had to
20 a different way | didn't hate to
leave that car a darn bit, even it was
a long way to headquarters. L start
ed up the road and honestly it was SO
dark you could not see ten feet In
front Of you And the shells were
going -whis-sh-zZzz-oOm bang.
Everytime that would hear one COM
inc. I'd hug the side of the dirt bank,
and hope it wouldn't land where | was
and they were comingabOuteveryhalf
minute too. | passed couple OF
sentries all standing in the doors of
dug-outs, and after l had told them
who | was and where | was going l
went on.
There is place, about mile long,
that | had to go over, that is as dan
gerous as the-well, anyway, 1t ls't
safe to cross after dark. The Ger
mans have a habit of sneaking out on
it, and making patrols; and picking
up lone soldiers that happen to be
coming along. A French Major was
captured by squad of them not SO
long ago. knew it wasn't the safe
st thing in the world to do at that
time of the night, but wanted tc
get back, so | kept on. Shells were
coming over,as fast as ever. one
nice liz one landed about a hundred
yards from me, and / nearly broke
my neck trying to get under cover.
/ fell in a hio she'll hole. and / thought