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Camp Wadsworth
May 31st 1918
Dear Aunt Ida:
Your
letter came last night and I was glad to get it. This is a lonesome
place here and news from home is one thing we all look forward to. When
the boy comes down with the mail we all rush out of our tents to see if
we have any mail. I guess I get as many letter as anyone in the Co.
I
received the box of sugar and tobacco and I tell you the tobacco came
in handy. It came the last of the month and all the boys were broke so I
had good many friends and they all seem to have extra large pipes. I
think they keep large ones on purpose so they can get a lot in them.
Yes
I got a box from Ida May and it certianly was a dandy. It contained a
large cake, nut meats, cookies, and maple sugar cakes. The minute it
came all the boy came in and said, what was in the box “Tip” so I had to
show them. You can imagine how long it lasted.
You
sent me a clipping where it said I was made Mess Sergh. Well I was not
and am not going to be. How did you mistake my letter that way. The
Captain told me I was going to be but I had not been made I was going to
school for that purpose. I have been relieved from that duty. There was
a fellow that had been studying for the position for more than a year
and the Capt., decided to let him have it but mind you I was his choice.
But rather than cause any hard feelings among the boys he decided to
let him have it. But he was very much pleased at the way I looked at it
and told me that I would be as well off if not better. Some of the
boys that are now Commissioned officers are afraid that I will rank
them. You bet I will to before I get through with this job. I think
the Captain has as much confidence in me as anyone in the Company. I
had rather you wouldn’t say anything about my future to anyone as you
can never can tell how things turn out. I have perfect confidence in
myself and I surely will make good. It is just as well if people don’t
know what I am or what I am going to be. There has been more talk about
me than any other man in the Regiment and there is not a single offier
in the Regiment that does not know me. It had been due to playing base
ball. I have been very successful at that and I think that it will get
me somewhere.
You
asked me about the insurance, well I took out the full amount but I just
got it in time. It was at Fort Slocum that I took it out and just got
it before they shut them off. I have $6.80 taken out of my pay every
month. I have had just about money enough to last me through the month.
It [?] hard for me to get along but I think that I will be able to save
something each month from now on.
I
am feeling fine. I don’t think that I ever felt any better but the
weather is d---- hot down here and I don’t like the dry baked earth that
sifts into everything. We have to take a bath once or twice a day and
change our cloth’s every day. So you see it takes most of our spare
time washing clothe’s. Yesterday it was 128 in the shade.
They
are sending drafted men in here by the thousands and our Regiment will
probably be filled up with them but the fellows don’t seem to mind as
when we get together we are all the same fighting for the same purpose.
Of course there will be a lot of trouble between the two enlisted and
drafted.
I
was talking with one of the Officers the other day and he said that he
would bet $100.00 that we would be in France before the 1st of
September. Now about coming home. If I go acording to the list that is
made out now I am fourteen [?] that will mean the middle or last of
July. I don’t say that for sure but that is the way it looks now as
soon as I know for sure I will let you know.
Will write you again soon hoping this finds you both in the best of health. I remain
With lots of love,
Ervin
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