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Letters From Sons Describe Wartime Travel and Camp Life
Letters from Glen Patterson and George Wolf recount travel by train from Madison to Camp Grant and Camp Merritt in 1918, detailing barracks, drills, mail procedures, rifles, passes, and mass movements of troops. The notes describe air, climate, and foods, plus a family notice of a birth and local community updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canny Grant
Pennsylvania
Niotoo
Agein
Torning
New York
Hoys Ls Eyaity Fons N. T
Fata Company
Camp Und Jess
Louie
Bure
Buffalo
Glen Patterson
Camp Grant
Camp Merritt
N.J
Madison
Wisconsin
Tam
George Wolf
W. L. Patterson
Our Town
U. S
France
University of Wisconsin
Lew Gruver
Capper & Sons
Harold Bennett
Oelwe
Albert Gehring
W. H. Finke
Volga
Elgin
Weibel "Mn Co
Fred Frieden
Lamar
Missouri
Blein
Mary Bennett
Randulta
Roy Vought
Donald Dean
Camp Pika
Arkansas
Winifred Smith
John Johnson
Bidon
Philadelphia
Nk Port
Eldongaya
Jackie
Jon Shipton
Clermont Boy
Ware