Letter #3 Addressed to Mrs. Maggie Thompson
Sedona, AZ
Postmarked June 23, 1918
Camp Cody, NM
June 23, 1918
Dear Mother,
I will write you a few lines this morning and give you my new address. We were moved yesterday and we sure are scattered. I haven’t seen Jim since yesterday noon. He went more than a quarter of a mile away but we can’t leave our co. streets for a few days. Jim and Joe Smith are both in 133 but probably won’t be together.
Sedona, AZ
Postmarked June 23, 1918
Camp Cody, NM
June 23, 1918
Dear Mother,
I will write you a few lines this morning and give you my new address. We were moved yesterday and we sure are scattered. I haven’t seen Jim since yesterday noon. He went more than a quarter of a mile away but we can’t leave our co. streets for a few days. Jim and Joe Smith are both in 133 but probably won’t be together.
There was
a whole bunch of our old Co 2 came here
to 134 with me but we are all split up
since we got here. There was one
Flagstaff boy called out in Co. D with me and we were staying together. Thought we might be put in the same tent but
they told us to line up according to our height and he was only about five feet
six inches tall so when they told us to line up he looked up at me and said
good-bye but he is only about five tents away.
Here in A B and D Co. I found about ten of our old Co. There was a ranger Frank_____ from Flagstaff. He was in the tent right at the side of ours
in Co. 2 and yesterday he was called out before the rest and he didn’t know
where any of us was, but I knew where he went so I went over to his street
yesterday evening and when he saw me he was sure tickled. He jumped up and started to shake hands with
me when it had only been about two hours since we were separated.
I have in my tent one other man from Arizona,
two from Texas and one belongs in this state.
They all seem to be good boys and I don’t feel so lonesome. We will stay where we are now for some time I
think and in a few days we can hunt up the rest of Co.2.
It has been raining here every night for 4
or 5z nights now. I guess I will get
some letters soon. I haven’t had any for
some time. They said they would bring
our mail over from the other place it is only about two miles over there but
they won’t let us go. Well I will close
for this time. Have all your letters so
they will return if I don’t get them.
Your son, Charley.
Co. B. 134
US Inf
Camp Cody
NM
Your son, Charley.
Co. B. 134
US Inf
Camp Cody
NM
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