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Camp Bowie News Sends Hearne Draftees Home for Christmas
Gene Arnoux reports from Camp Bowie Fort Worth that after a long quarantine the army lifts restrictions and 12,000 Hearne and Texas troops will spend Christmas at home. General Greble allows 3,000 men daily from Dec 20 to Dec 24 to ease rail traffic. Epidemic illness drops. most deaths among men from farming towns, not cities. Hearne units note few illnesses. Fred Lampkins remains hospitalized. Dewey Lampkins recovered. John Mayo suspected of travel. visits from Hearne and Calvert occur.
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Camp Bowie
Fort Worth
Greble
Bowie
General Greble
Hearne
Houston
San Antonio
liZe
Fred Lampkins
Dewey Lampkins
John Mayo
Triip
Taylor
George Whatley
Calvert
Lewis C. Whatley
J. T. Simmons
Artillery Camp
Joe Wenck
Robert Suggs
Curtis Biges