Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-04-23
SOLDIERS LETTERS
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Letter From Earl Lang
Company D.
4th Ammunition Train,
4th Division, A. E. F.
Clotten, Germany.
March "a, 1919.


Dear Will and Olive.
Just received two very welcome
letters from You, and although they
were both written some time ago,
they were very gratefully received
by me.
/ can't imagine how the old home
must look with all of the buildings
burned down except the old shop. I
am awfully sorry I am sure.
You said that a man from st.
Johnsbury by the name of Fred
Woods held the mortgage; are you
sure it Wasnot Fred Woods from Lyr-
| donville? know man there by the
same name, who is an engineer on the
Boston & Maine Railroad and l GER
tainly hope it isn't he, for he has
, large family and it would be pretty
hard for him to lose that much and
l believe you said there was no in
surance.
VIII, | think by your letters that
you must be busy most of the time
with all of those hogs to take care of
and ice-cream to make besides, wish
I could be there to help you-eat it,
ma. ha.
We thought that Spring had come
q little while ago, but for the last
few days it has been like winter and
it is showing quite hard now.
| Tuesday of last week this Division
was reviewed by General Pershing
land my company was chosen as one
FDf the two companies to represent the
Ammunition Train and we had to
leave here early Monday morning
and camp out Monday night and then
'go up to the reviewing grounds the
next morning. We had been having
lovely weather for several days be-
i fore that but Monday afternoon it
| began to snow and we had regular
blizzard. The General seemed to be
very we'll pleased with Division and
said that the transportation was sec
ond to meme, SO of course we all felt
pretty good over it 1t sure was very
| cold though while we were waiting
to be reviewed as we were right ON
the top of mountain and the wind
had a great sweep on US.
1t seemed much like old times to sleep
on the ground and ont of doors once
more but as | haven't had to do it
| but that once since the Armistice, !
had gotten out of the habit
little. 1t is great though to roll out
Of your blankets and find the ground
all around you covered with snow.
Monday afternoon after we got the
| trucks all fixed up ready for inspect
ion, we had baseball game, and l
tell you we all enjoyed it, for in this
little town we haven't room to play at
1t was showing to beat The
band, but that did not make
any difference, we finished the game
just the same.
My company played A company
and the score was to 4 in Our favor,
so of course we didn't mind the ba,
weather quite as much as they did.
If you people keep on at the ra.v
you have started, | will not scarU.
know any of your family when ] ge
home. Just think OF il you have wv
| oh bof |
and my chances look mighty good "
stay over here for d couple OF yea.
longer The Third day of neAl
month will make eighteen months il,
Foreign service and it really doesn
seem half that length of time. The
time goes much slower now that the
war is over than it did when there
was something doing because the.4
we had something to think about al.
the time and no time to think
about going home but now that the |
war is over and we have to do |
Squads East and West" all day, it |
is different
l had very NICE letter from Lettle |
Moore few days ago, and she saiu
they were expecting the 26th to ar
rive in Boston on the 9th of April
and that Boston was just turning its
self inside out for them. She said she
would be there to cheer me when
arrived, but l am sorry to say l will
not be there to be cheered for | am
stuck in the Army Of Occupation in
Germany and as the Fourth Division
is one of the seven regular army di-
visions to remain here as long as an
Army of Occupation is needed | think
it will be some time before | will be
able to set my foot an th>
soil of the good old U. S. A. again
By the time get home the people j.
the States will have forgotten that
we ever had war with Germ, y