Navigating this blog

Most blogs are designed so that new content appears above older posts, so the freshest information is always on the top.  This blog has been designed differently.  The purpose of this blog is to preserve and share the correspondences of two brothers.  These letters tell a story about what the experienced in two Army Camps during WWI - Camp Cody in Deming, New Mexico and Camp Dix in Wrightstown, New Jersey.  The letters and images have been arranged from first to last, so they can be read like a book.  You have three options for navigating through the text and images:

1)  The most obvious is when you open the first page you may scroll down.  After several posts you will see the words "Older Posts" at the bottom right hand side of the last post.  By clicking that you go on to the next section.

2) On the right side bar there are "hot links" to every letter.  They are grouped by who the letters are from and arranged by date.  By clicking on each individual link it takes you to that specific letter.  When you finish one letter you can click your "back button" to proceed to the next one.

3) Further down the right side bar there is a section called "Labels".   The letters have tags called "labels" which designate whose letters they were and what month they were written.   By clicking on the label for "James Thompson" or for "Charles Thompson"  it will bring up all of that brother's letters in date order.   Or, if you wanted to see only those that were from Camp Dix or from Camp Cody you could click on that label and it will bring up all the letters from both brothers that was written in that location.

However you may choose to peruse these correspondences, I hope you enjoy getting to know a a bit of what army life was like at the closing period of WWI.
If you have any questions or see a correction that should be made you may contact me through the email box on the right.

Lynda Pendley Bennett