The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-03-21
Letter From Germany.
Ochtendsang, Germany,
January 80, 1919.
Mr.. J. q. Hazel. Nettleton. Miss.

always have Just enough dope 10
one letter at a time. and before
was married it always seemed tha
| should write to all, but directly t.
mother. and now when I'm writinl
only one letter | must write to yOu
all. But il seems right that
should write the heading and ad
dress directly to my companion and
you all being close together you all
hear from me by the one letter
But think it is the duty of every
soldier in the A. T.. +. who has a
father to write dad one letter any
way while he is in Europe. So here
| come with yours hoping it to find
you all enjoying good health. More
than glad to tell you that it leaves
me we'll and o. k and have good
warm house and bed to sleep in at
the home of German soldier. And
| m sure you all are proud and hap
py over the closing of hOstilities,
and that |. your loving son. was so
fortunately and well blessed not to
have to sacrifice his all in the great
struggle | am not able to express
my thanks to the Lord for having
spared and keeping me safe all the
while. And truly did experience
being in one of the great battles or
the conflict and now | will try and
tell you little more of my expert
ence since I've been in Europe as
the censorship is not so strict now.
To begin | left the Z. $. A. June 20.
1917, and landed i'm Liverpool,
England. July 1st, about 11:30 at
night, and was only in England a
few days until | started for France
crossing the English channel only
one nights run and landed at
Liohane, France. and a couple of
days car ride from there to an
equalization camp and from there
about four days the same kind of
ride, side-dOor Pullman, and hiking
together to Anglers. France, where |
was assigned to the 10th Eng'rs.
and there after going through some
hard and snappy drills along to-
ward the last of July was put up for
shipment to the 9th Eng RS. After
about five days ride we reached the
9th having come through Paris,
France. on the way and the 9th was
located on the Marne river at
Frossoy. France and after a couple
of weeks drill there, we started
hiking and landed at MOnheirs and |
went into. intensive training and it
most certainly was, and at tire end !
of three days there we begun another
hike and it was long and worri |
some one. too, believe me. and it |
rained most every day and night.
which made it all the worse, and |
take ii from me. the sleep we got |
wasn't very comfortable. We were |
hiking nights altogether and one of
these nights which was cold and |
raining, we were hiking for about
all we were worth and stopping for
,bAr,+ 4 AfnlAol- - ,N.rlt
were sitting and standing on rock
and | don't know if it was north or
south, but anyway on our left about
: or 10 kilOmeters all of sudden
the cannons and guns of every size
and caliber began firing and lights
of every description, were firing
shots into the air and it was one of
the most beautiful sceneries | ever
saw; it was far beyond any fireworks
| ever looked at. This was on the
St. Michel front, but | didn't par
ticipate in any of the fighting there.
but | surely did take part in build
ing some roads, and from there we
began hiking back toward the Yer
dun sector and on reaching the hills
where the Argonne advance had
been made, we stopped on a hill
known as Dead Mans hill, and it
must have been, for it was nothing
but shell hole, but a road had to
go across there regardless. SO there
we pitched our little tents and went
to work and by-and-by as we fol-
lowed up to the advance with our
work, we were ordered up to put up
barbed wire at the front line, just in
front of the Infantry. at night of
course. so the barrage started some
where about or o'clock, and be-
lieve me, Johnny was putting over
some cannon barrage. Now. you