1918 Army YMCA Letter from Georgia Hospital Soldier w/Epidemic & Officer Dying For Sale

Good 1918 Letter from Georgia Hospital Soldier w/Epidemic & Officer Dying

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DESCRIPTION & CONDITION:

Dated October 13, 1918, at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, our correspondent, an Army private, tells his mother that is working in the camp hospital, where “there are quite a few young girls come over from Chattanooga and offered there services, during this epidemic”, and he has been transferred to the officers’ ward where they treat him very well and he makes them lemonade as well as dispensing medicine and making beds. “I know the ins’ and outs’ of the business and I know that they are not getting the treatment here that they get at home, many a poor devil has died here that had he been at home would have lived for years to come. One fellow kicked off today at 12.45 there was nothing left of him but flesh and bones, a pitiful sight indeed”. He goes on to note that he is now in charge of inventorying the property of dead soldiers for transit home, and speaks of many family matters. The back of the 2nd sheet provides a pencilled addenda written the next day with more family and personal notes, as well as the observation- “There is a lot of talk of peace down here, I think it’s all crap”.
2 letter sheets plus the mailing envelope. The letter sheets are 6”x9”, with folds and some light soil and wear.

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Stock #53847

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