The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-03
DETAILED ACCOUNT
OF "OUR OWN BOYS"
CHARLIE sIzEMORE WRITES TO "DAD" ON FEATHERS
DAY,-GIVES EXACT MOVEMENT OF "OUR BOYS"
FROM TIME THEY LEFT CAMP BEAUREGUARD
TO DATE OF HIS LETTER "A MOST INTER-
ESTINC COMMUNICATION THAT WILL
INTEREST ALL HERE.

or 20 boys from the Headquarters
Company. We had just plenty of
room few upper Dertns not used.
We had trip that would not take
anything in the world for, unless it is
the trip we are going to have when
we go back. We left Beauregard at
500 A. M. and went the following
route: Monroe, La, Helena, Ark,
crossed the river just south of st.
Louis to East st. Louis, don't know
the exact route through Illinois, for
we went through at night. l walked
up the next morning about 700 and
the only reason that did at that hour
was that l was suddenly very cold.
We were stopped right on the en-
trance Of the Wabash river bridge,
and the breeze was rather 'airish"
coming in the window. We went
through Frankfort Idiana, Cleveland
Ohio, travelled on the shore Of Lake
Erie to Buffalo, N. Y, then we took
through a paradise of scenery. From
Scranton we went to Hoboken, n. J.
where we unloaded; which was at
9:20 A NJ, August 10th. From Ho-
boken, which is right across from n.
Y. City we were loaded on (. ferry
boat, which pulled out as son as we
were all loaded, and car~i i us GOWN
,1e river to Lo .r Island "ity. where
we debarked again long enough to
time, for Camp Mills was just a
GET cn a Long Island train which car
RED Us TO Hampstead, l.. l., where
we unIoaied again. and for our last
couple Of miles from Hampstead.
probably not quite that far. l look
ed a. my watch when my feet hit the
ground at Hampstead, as | intended
20 keep al OF this data, which now of
course | am glad, and it was exactly
l D. M, on August 29th. 1918, ap-
proximately 100 hours from the time
we left Beauregard.
Camp Mills is camp that can
probably hold 100000 men. and is
entirely an evacuation camp. We
were disappointed ith the looks of it,
for we thought when we left Beaure-
gard that We would be through with
tents. But tents only, are what we
found. They lacked also the wooden
floors that we were used to. We
thought that VIC were going to have
a hard time there, for we liked To
have frozen that night. We only had
one blanket and no stoves. Howev-
er. we soon found that Camp Mills
was just about as good camp for its
purpose as any. for just as soon as
they had issued us some additional
equipment. which was in the next
couple of days, we were given "a
hour passes and could 20 anywhere
we wanted to. The weather got
warmer the first thing we knew we
were having the times of our lives.
Owing to the fact that l was work
iny in the Regimental office, did
rot have the chance to go around as
much as some of the other boys, but
| have no kick to make for ! got
10 go around as much as / really
wanted to. | saw just as much around
New York, Long Island and other
places as could for the number OF
times | received passes.
After we received our overseas
equinmeri and all of our papers
had been checked. etc, | looked for
Us 10 get embarkation orders any
day. The other regiments that are
F; in our brigade left just few days
after they reached Camp Mills, so |
was looking for orders just any time.
Finally late in the afternoon on
August 2Sth, we received embarking
| orders. and for us to leave Camp
Mills on August 29 and proceed to
the transport. We broke camp on
August 28, that night, sleeping but
! !; few hours. We marched down to
| Hampstead early the morning of the
| 29th, while it was still dark. boarding
a Long Island train at a. m. The
train carried us back to Hoboken, N.
J.. which is a short distance consider
| ing the time it took for us to arrive
| at the transport, but there is so
| much to do that the time flew by very
/ fast. and when we arrived to be check
| ed on the transport it was 11:30 a.
m. We all lined up in alphabetical
order. in single file, passing by the
TRANSPORT officer who checked us off OF
the list when we went bv him. We
are as good as loaded then. for no
one except members of the crew are
allowed to leave the boat. unless
some Of the soldiers get sick enough
TO he carried to the hospital.
The first thing that thew did was
70 assign us to a bunk. hich was to
he our bed until we unloaded.
think the number of nv bunk was
283. but did not make record OF
it. but tried to save the bunk ticket,
+, which | lost. The transport that we