Letter 17 - Oct 6, 1918

Letter #17 to Mr. J. J. Thompson
Flagstaff, Ariz
Postmarked Oct 7, 1918


Oct 6, 1918
Camp Dix, NJ
133 Inf Co H

Dear Mother

I got your letter that you wrote when you was in Flagstaff and I will drop you a line to let you know that I am well and still in Camp Dix but don’t know when I will leave here.   Some say that we will go across and say that we won’t so I don’t know what to tell you.  From the way that the papers read now it looks like the war was purt near over.  I think this winter will wind it up. 

We had a news show here in the Y. M. C. A.  last night.  Did you get the pictures that I sent you? 

Well the sick are all about well now.  There was ten or twelve died out of Co H and there is still five or six in the hospital yet.  We haven’t done anything much for the last three weeks but lay around.

Roe Smith has been gone for three weeks.  He was in the bunch that started across when we took this sickness and I don’t know where he is now.  Some say they are still in New York and some say they are across the water.  If they are across we will be pretty apt to follow them.  for our major is with them.    I hope that Albert and Greene get exempted for you need them there and the army ain’t a very nice place to be.

Have you heard anything about my insurance yet?   It was made out to you and you ought to get a receipt of it when they get it fixed up.

Well you can tell Guy that I would like to be with him but I will have to get Kaiser Bill before I come back. 

Well as it is purt near dinner time and we are going to have chicken for our Sunday dinner I will close for this time.  Hoping to hear from you soon.

Your son,
James Thompson

Letter 18 - Oct 10, 1918

Letter #18 To Mrs. J. J. Thompson
Flagstaff, AZ
Postmarked Oct 13, 1918

Oct 10, 1918
133 Inf Co H
Camp Dix, NJ

Dear Mother,

I will drop you a line or two let you know I am leaving here.  My next address will be somewhere in France or some other country across the big pond.  We will leave here some time tonight so if you don’t hear from me any more soon you will know where I have gone.  But you can look for me back some time for I am coming back when the war is over.

I guess we will be a sick bunch in a days ride in the ship for they say that it makes them a lot sea sick.  Well the negros are entertaining us tonight before we leave so I guess I will close and listen to the singing.  

Well this leaves me well and I hope that it finds you all the same.

Your son,
James Thompson

Goodbye till I see you again

Letter 19 - October 6 1918

Letter 19 to Mrs. Maggie Thompson
Sedona, Ariz
Postmarked Oct 7, 1918

Co B 13^th Inf
Camp Dix NJ  10/6/18

Dear Mother

I will write you a few lines to day.  I got your letter you wrote in town a few days ago.  We are still here and I don’t know how much longer we will be here.  There has been six men died out of our Co now and we still have some in the hospital with that same  disease and one with the measles and two with the mumps.

I heard once that big A Cosner was dead and then I heard that he came to life again.  He is in the 133 Inf.  Dick Allen from Cherry Creek is in my Co and I never knew until a few days ago that he was from Ariz.  I got acquainted with him when we first moved to the Co at Cody.  He knows Clara and Albert and was there at home when they were married.  Hilda Enge is teaching at Camp Verde this winter. 

There has been over 700 men died in this camp since the sickness started.  I helped load 19 on the train to send them home to be berried. 

I want to get a money order to put in this letter but will have to wait untill after dark to go to the YMCA to get for we are quarantined. 

I haven’t heard whether Green got the last money order or not but I guess he has. It takes about a month to write a letter there and get an answer. 

Well I don’t know any thing else to write but just so you know I am well in all that is necessary.

Charley

Postcard - October 12 1918

Camp Dix, NJ Oct 12

Dear Mother we will leave here sometime tonight or tomorrow.  Jimmie left yesterday.  Am well and feeling fine.  CST.