LETTER FROM PIKE COUNTY SOLDIER BOYS
Miss Anna Smith
Waverly, Ohio
Dear Miss Smith:
Sitting with a crowd of fellows all trying to get warm around the only stove in the barracks. I decided to write to you, as a representative of the Young People's Society, thanking them for the Christmas box they sent. It surely was a very pleasant surprise. Since I was in the Base Hospital during the holidays I did not get the box until after New Years.
All the boys here seem to be in the best of humor because they had been all very well remembered.
Our camp is located about five miles from Camp Sheridan. We are situated in the camp all or our own. So we are allowed a few privileges that are not allowed at Camp Sherman.
We do no drilling. Our work is entirely different that the other organizations. We take care of all the supplies such as horses, clothes and equipment and issue the same out to the different organizations.
The corrals where the horses are kept consist of one hundred and sixty acres. At present there are only about fifteen hundred head of horses, but there is plenty room for six thousand more.
There are about three hundred soldiers in this detachment about half being transferred from the Ohio guard. The rest are from the South, mostly from Montgomery.
The here are waiting orders to move to France, or some place where they can show their training against the Central Powers. For my part, orders can't come too soon.
Thanking you again for the Christmas box, I will close.
Yours sincerely,
Thos M. Hutt
The Waverly Watchman
Jan 1918
PCG&HS
P O Box 224, Waverly, Ohio 45690
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