The Nevada County picayune., 1918-07-11
LETTER FROM
 WALTER EDW ARDS

Douglas, Ariz
 Well aS 1 have just received the I'icayune and See where d good many of our Nevada County boys are. l thought would tell you litti" abau what we have out al Douglas, and what N" ar" doing.
 will have to say l am in the lest branch of the service tncie Sam has, and he has several we know l am in the cavalry. the easy riding bunch and always something to laugh at. a huekiug horse and d tender rider k funny sight forore. l think the in fautry is jealous of us, because they walk and carry their hiddle and heavy packs on their back, We car " our packs on our saddles. We call the infantry dough boys but since they have their full packs they call them pack mules You knoW every branch of the service has q nickname for the other.
 There are lots of soldiers here. Four regiments of cavalry. First cavalry 17th cavalry. 30Sth cavalry and the 302nd cavalry. Our camp K Harry j. Jones ii Was Ft louE- las iii two years ago. Private Jones being tEe first man Killed on thP border il, actual service against hcN- fco This camp Was named for him he was mIy q private. l understand. ...is ss sood cavalry IoSt. lots ot sced room. eve. ground and nothing in the WaY. fNcrH morning t k :" t-,tty elgt; tu see. Ttc cavalry gong out fer dral and nae Glt :" Trg5wcut charge Nou cannot iu- se.ae tte sa ket tiWake~, tht hoa=eS tcct .sfcyto3y. ,u tn.> hard sroG q l4la reaeve ue these horses csaH -afo la.4 sNtA few Gat~ some Cne eet> ItjgoVn nt or drug ,t v " =ste ss III fnIr HorSc. 1nt~ llaEt ,G N tn t'.c#r rc5t ot his fvogp ~aX tterc'~ lA.ts o, tHu iu tEc totry dTll ttc ooys gre a9l dcHg finc oud are tafu- In.l he. naAus to thcit drll.>.
 YLc u-ud l4> the hest oh-cess La t..e=e eaHp think They afe soed and tiad le all tbe teSS. ard tDe heEs Gu anything fer them. \et man has teen tricd or sent to the guard house vet III the 3O2ud regiment \ @uod record everybody thinks, tdt the 30.nG are all fine hoys Just t435N Wscre they are from. ArkaltsaN. I,et>iara and Mississippi. and all alC Goo. fin" They were homo sick for q while hut we hUrrahed them so hand they have come cut of II. New we are all real soldiers, Now the boys are all armed with rife, yalor and II Colts automatic re- volvcr. anG they look some proud. and are proud too. We have large \ N (. A here with picture show and lots of other amusement am sthe only Nevada county lad lett in the 302nd now. bat am ION acquainted with all the rest.
 Myself Imon Buchanan. Willard Cornelius and Mr lleaton, all from Prescott. Cornelius and were to- scther in K troop, but l have been transferred to the supply troop and Cornelius k at Ft. sam Houston. Texas. going to horse Shoeine school go over every few days and see lmou Buchanan. He k mess Scrgent for the supply troop in the 3OSth cavalry. just little ways from cur camp. | have gained pounds since have been in the army EN- erybody has gained some, more or less. We have all stood our overSea examination We are going to move some where but we do not know when or where, but il will not be very long as 30Sth cavalry K re pairing our stables to take charge of them as soon as we leave here We all have our tag numbers around our necks that passed the eXamina ton, They think they will send us to the