The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-02-01
Mont Les vignobles. France,

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Well. the. nightmare is all 5nt
finished. No more hikes to a front
whore the white horse waits its RIO
er and to put It mildly, ] was cert lin
ly fed up OH killing other humans,
and Incidentally having some thou
sands of other humans trying to kill
me, which IS what time at '1the
frent" degenerates into after you
have lived on it for a sufficient time
I did.
Not many men in our brigade, the
Marines. went through every drive, as
I did. and came out unscratched. I
suppose SO per cent of them We're
wounded. gassed or taken sick before
it was ali over tnot taxing into ac-
count the dead. Of course) and tunse
that. were had at least the satis!a,c-
ton of getting away from it all for
a considerable time. at least. a light
wound was considered "bon." but for
those OF US who just plugged from
one trent to another, with the lice,
dirt, starvation and danger and l1ik-
ing attendant thereon, and no relief.
It got a little moaotonous at times.
And of fronts, I have seen Bean
coup .(bow-cou}. Lawerance. we
trained for seven weeks in a ouSet
sector Of the old trenches at VeFaun,
March 18th. After s. 10
day dull period we went up to .Chat-
eau Thierry and there. at the Bois de
Belleau,; gave the Bosche the inn
preston IN "a days, that we were All
Jesse james. etc, which, by the
wey, t have found interpreted. OF
course, in Dutch dugouts. After 10
da$s in reserve after that we went
over to SCISSORS mad helped to start
the Dutch in the proper direction on
July 10, 20 and 21. BY that time we
had attained the dignity Of shock
troops. which means that all we had
to do was to chase the Dutch out OF
their trenches and back to where
Gen. Foct decided they should be
and then leave the relieving division
TO keep them there. Sounds good.
don't 1t. Well, from scissors we took
over quiet, sector Of trenches for
10 days at Pont-a-Mousson; which
was easy. Thence after much drill
and rehearsal. to Saint Mihiel on Sep
tenber II, 53. IA, 15, which was
likewise rather a roEup; thence TO
the Champagne sector, east OF
Rheims where we routed the Dutch.
headlong at place the French had
hung up on, and in the succeeding
five days. October e1-6. hit some of the
regular Bots Belleau faghting. We
hung around there. and showed the
3eth division how we did St
This ends my part OF it. 1 said
back awaB that I weat through the
wnois route with our. division, the
:2nd. Ny mistake. I went to the
hospital on October 18th with the
lin ana thereby missed the Sedan
drive on easovember 1-10. which was
rather. easy. as the German resistance
was broken at that time. Some rec
ord, eh2 Not an American division
can tie ft.:inc1udins the a2nd. think.
Yes, we fought good fsht, and the
arnny4of occupation IS laid up for as
IN Germany ,as a reward therefor.
AS for myself. am now a casual;
am hung up ere, in a little town
HeS9S 1UR2, Wdal@S16 0fNC1S w NV so
either back to the End division or
else eastward and thence home, ]
hope Got out os the hospital ali
h*ed up and everything with me is
0. X. The outfit we are With here
eds fne, pie twice e week. etc.
have moved SO much since went
to the hos.cital and so fast that
haven't gotten any mail since your
letters Of about September 20th.
think, Don't suppose. in your healthy
location. that tho flu has gotten you
and /. reckon you got the apple crop
off ell right, and have many many
dollars. did have hopes os being
home By Xmas. but viii be dckled &c
| death to get back now in time to be
paid Off on Washington's birthday.
But as said before it is over and Al
w-e have to do is to get back so. G
Merry Xmas to ell Of you. especiall,
you. dad and mother: the kids VII
have one anyway. or don't know
their daddy.
Carroll.
scst. 6. II. Miller. Hdo. CO. ST,
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