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Date
12-1-1917
Identifier
BultPC_NJetc_091.1
Message Text
Dec. 1 1917
Dear mother + all,
I will write you a few lines once again, for I haven't written home for nearly two weeks. I will tell you of some of the lick we are having. Well they said we would move to a rifle range the 30 of Nov. So we packed up and started and we are here now, and no more rifle range than a elephant next in a pine tree. All we have to do is dig trenches. There is to be five mile of trenches to dig and we are detailed here for 10 days, so they say nobody knows how much longer.
The best description of this place I can give is Noplace, we are about a mile from our old place, but the was we come around the road was about 7 or 8 miles. We are right in the centre of the artillery range, and here is where we would have had to come to have seen Joe that Saturday P.M. We are camped right in the center of the artillery range, and the artillery was firing this P.M.
We stood out in our Battery Street and listened to the Shells whistle in the air, above us, and saw them burst about 3/4 of a mile away on the other hill, and also saw them firing the pieces over the other hiill. I wished you could have seen them, that Sat. P.M. Well we are sleeping on the bare ground again, and have an awful time getting drinking water.
They went to make coffee this morning and they almost did, they had it just about to a boil and saw a small fish come floating to the top and had to make it all over (I guess).
We won't know when Sat or Sun. comes now, (since we are away from civilization again, we have to work all the time.
Postmark Location
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Recipient Name
Mr. + Mrs. Frank McConnell
Recipient Address
522 St. Mary's Str Decatur Ind
Sender Name
Edward F. Yahne
Language
English
Type
Letter