Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17
Reached the Front

Mrs. G. A. Powell of Sandusky has
received the following Letter from her
brother, Joseph Glossy, in France. He
has seen many lands, crossed the At
lantic with 5000 troops and 600 nurses
on big English liner, experienced
action at the front lines, witnessed
sights never to be forgotten and could
hardly believe tho rows when the arm
istice was signed. He says:
AuIieres, France, March /.
Dear Folks at Home:
Well. as YOU have been wanting me
to write and tell you some of my eXpe-
riences since | left Camp Grant, | will
try to describe them as best can. |
left Camp Grant at noon Sunday, Aug.
81. with the First Battalion of the 343d
infantry regiment. which was selected
nv Secretary of War Baker to repre-
sent the United States army at the Ca
madam National exhibition at Toron-
to- The battalion was carried by two
trains. Pullman cars, p coaches to
a train. We arrived in Chicago at
the Illinois Central depot and while
We were eating supper our train was
switched over onto the New York Cen
trail lines and we continued our jour
ney eastward through Michigan City.
Ind. The following morning we arrived
in Detroit, where we stopped for
couple of hours while our train was
switched over onto the Canadian Pa
Cffic. after which we continued our
TFH-Ortn - A n m
Monday. On Labor Day our trains
were pulled right out TO the exhibition
grounds and we were welcomed by
t75,OO0 people We sure got some re-
ception. We remained in Toronto till
the following Thursday noon, enter
tanning the people by parading and
by band concerts as our reglmental
band of 65 pieces accompanied us Oh
the trip Our first stop on the way
from Toronto TO New York was at NJ
agara Falls, where we detrained and
went out to the falls, which is the
most wOndrous sight | ever saw. Our
next stop was at Middleton, n. Y,
where we were given a reception and
lunch by the Red Cross. We arrived
H., N. d.,
next morning and took ferry boat
and crossed over to Brooklyn, n. Y,
and then by Long Island train out to
Camp Mills, arriving in camp at noon,
September Z. | soon found out that
the 344th infantry and 311th engineers
were leaving in the morning for
France, so | located my brother Ar
thur in the engineers and few friends
from home who were in the 344th We
remained in Camp Mills seven days
and | got a pass and took in the
sights in New York city. The follow
ing Saturday morning at o'clock we
entrained at Camp Mills and went to
Brooklyn station. got a ferry boat and
went to the docks of the White Star
line and boarded the big English liner
Olympic All morning was spent, in
loading troops on the ships-the en-
tire 343d regiment and the machine
gun outfit of the Seth division;- also
several replacement companies from
Camp Gordon, sGa. In all there were
nurses on board At 4 o'clock we left
the docks and started on our way
across. We were escorted by four sub
marine destroyers and two aeroplanes
for about two hundred miles of the
coast. The sea was very rough all the
way over and nearly everyone was sea
sick. The only ship We saw on the
way over was the German liner Levia-
THAN on her way to the states. About
$50 miles off the coast of England we
were picked up by sight destroyers,