The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-31
4 Letter From An Over Sea
Soldier.

Expedifionary Forces. A. p. O.. I'D
December 18th. 1918.
Dear Mother and All: This is the
first letter | have ever written te
anyone from Germany: | have beer
on German soil ever since O'Clock
Dec. 1st, SO you see we had fun on
the road about one month or more
We hiked fifteen days without stop
ping day to rest. We came down
the Mosefle river from Lexunburg to
CobleOze: We crossed the Rhine river
on the morning of the 18th. we are
now on the east section of the river,
about l5 miles from Cohence. at a
little town by the name of Ransfach
am in a German house, | sleep in
| the dining room with five other boys
out of my company in the medical de-
partment. We have a very good
place but the floors are awful hard
sometimes. These German people
are very good to us. some of them
are | mean. | guess it is because
they have to. We are very good to
them. A woman gave us some tea
cakes this afternoon, her husband
was in the war in 1914 and 1916, he
was crippled in the legs and now he
is an invalid, has been in bed for
three months. We don't have any
trouble at all with the German peo-
pie; We show them what we want
and it comes. They are like the
French people, scarce of food and
clothing. also stock, they have been
killed in the war; you hardly ever
see a horse. They pillow and haul
with milk cows. | have seen them
moving their fields with them. so
you see how scarce stock is in this
country. France has plenty horses
to do their work on the farms; Ger
many is more like our country than
| France.
| sure would like to hear from
you all. the last letter | had was
written Oct. 10, and that seems al
most a year to me. | don't know
when | will ever hear again from
home. but look every day for
a letter. / have been in the best OF
health, except "a cold. The weather
has been very good since the war
ended and the smoke stopped; while
the war was going on it rained most
every day; we had some bad weather
on our way but did not last all the
time.
/ am anxious to hear where Rich
ard moved, | guess he came back
home. You tell papa to see Mr..
House about his land and buy it if
| he can and if he doesn't buy it rent
the best part of it. for | think will
be at home by spring and they can
count on me for a crop this coming
year. | am long way from home
now but | can see the time coming
when | will be coming back to the
dear old U. S. A. to the country |
love and the place | shall ever call
home. sweet home.
Mama, | have seen sights worth
seeing since last left home; | would
not take anything in the world for
it. and | have been making the best
out of army life By any means it
is not like home. sweet home. |
came through no mans land"
where the villages and towns were
shot to dust in the great war" The
woods were shot so badly that all
the trees were dead: the ground was
blown into holes that several men
could hide in and Just few feet be-
tween each one, this was the way it
was for many miles in France. Over
this wide field was white cross
made of wood placed by some moth
er's boys who had died to save their
country. 1t was an awful sight to
see. but thank God it is nearing an
end of the war each day and it won't
be many months until we will be
coming back home.
Give my love to all the people and
tell them that am on the east front
of the Rhine somewhere in Germany.
With love and best wishes to all.
Your son,
BAILY HANEY.
Med. Dept. 1st Div. American FIX.
Force. Germany, A. p. O.. 729.