Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-12
THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
MEN.

cNeu SlIlCe We luHueU mere nuNc
had strong desire to write you Il
Camp Sever. Our main excuse for
putting it off for this long is because
we were in quarantine for the first
fourteen DAYS and, rs n result, were
unable to see and learn much Our
quarantine life was miserable, but in
teresting experience. No sooner did
we march into camp than we were
shown four imaginary lines which
we were not to cross. Tents were then
issued and we had to pitch them, dig
drainage around each one and grub
every stump within its limits. This
stump grubbing continued until al
were extracted and the cavities beau
tiful leveled up. After we had sue
cceded in digging all in our limits
we were marched outside where there
once stood IL beautiful forest, and
more stumps did we dig. Occasion
allv firing of exercising us in this
manner, our officers would put us
der to rest us up.
Aside FROM this work our dailv
schedule was reveille at 600 n. M,
assembly 6:15, breakfast at $50; Z
to 7:30 tent policing and mind you
I.
Thompson's lob. We had to pick up
everything in or around our tent
from the tiniest match stick to the
larger things. Whenever you see one
of these Tazewcll boys OH the street
don't be surprised if you see him
sticking match sticks and cigarette
stumps in his pocket. After tent po-
Icing we were put through our reg
ular exercise until dinner call at IL As
and assembly again at 100, recall Mt
| 4:45; supper at $50, tattoo at 900,
and taps at 1890. We were about to
leave out the menu for each meal.
| For breakfast we were served to oat-
! meal, without cream or sugar, good
thick gravy and cold light bread. To
lelp out we were given strong black
coffee, but rarely ever cream and sug-
ar. For dinner we always had beans
potatoes, bread pudding and coffee. If
no bread pudding rice was served in
stead. For supper we got exactly the
same kind of food we were given al
dinner. During these fourteen days
| we were given two shots i'm the arms
to make us immune from typhoid. OF
course, in keeping with what seems
20 be well-establishcd custom, as
soon as our arms began to get good
and sore. we wero given the usual
exercise to cure them.
| Thursday, the 21st, we broke quar-
antine and after n much longed for
holiday, which gave us all chance
% visit town, we struck our tents
about day break Friday, packed all
our goods, except blankets, in our
barracks bags, folded our cots, rolled
our blankets in our One-half shelter
| eth (called dog tent by the soldicr)
placed this roll across our shoulders
and marched two and one-half miles
20 the base hospital, our present To-
cation. Conditions here are very
much better and everybody seems to
be satisfied. We are being served
as good meals as any family in Taze-
well ever sits down to. We might say
we got the kind of service one gets
at first class hotel, for example the
AS long as Uncle Sam
continues to feed us as he is now,
there will be no Tazewcll members
with the desertcrs. Though this let
ter is personal one from all five OF
us, still we do not feel it will be out
of place to give you few side re-
marks about some of us. Many,
us, especially have those st. Clair
theirs more than once. One morn
ing while Horn st. Clair was trying
to lace his shoes, breeches and leg
gings and get it done quickly enough
to answer roll call, he became slight
ly eXaspcratcd and remarked that he
| didn't see why Uncle Sam didn't is
sue corsets to his soldiers, 50 they
could have the pleasure Of lacing up
something else. Fred st. Clair says
he is feeling encouraged since he has
been promoted from stump-pulling to
road building. Henry Haley has re-
marked more than once that he could
sleep on clothes line, because all he
would have to do would be to buckle
his belt around the wire. When he
prepares for bed, he removes his tic
and shoes, and sleeps In tho rest of
his uniform. X. G. Patty can beat
| any Mellins Food record known to
the medical world. He gained nine
teen pounds in two weeks on beans
and potatoes. Uncle Sam is grad
ually losing money on that boy. Will
lie Leece May will be of more service
to TaZewell when he returns from
the war than any of us. He has two
weeks course in scientific sanitation,
and is rapidly becoming expert in
ei"1 iiiS' toay you OuBHI 10 see
jug cleaning out and disinfecting the
(delcted by the censor)
Garland Peery and Thomas Wor-
sham do not tent with us, but during
working. hours we sometimes happen
to be digging in the same ditch or
around the same stump. They are
both feeling fine and seem TO get rs
much pleasure out of serving Uncle
Sam as the rest of us. Seriously, we
all say that enjoy our daily expe
ricnces, are glad we are in the ar
my. Not single one of us will quit
until the Germans are pushed back
the other side of Berlin. Though we
will not have opportunity to Stay any
of the Germans we will have the priv
ilege of bringing back to hcalthful
life the American soldiers. We hope
that We will get to sail to France
by May 18th anyway. Newspaper re-
ports bring news which makes US be-
lieve two or three million more SOL
diers will be needed, soldiers for ev-
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