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A1ihSl(JuSiofHteStsptospcePivitoenda01HbidaClNito battery position and unloaded and on getting to the edge of this shelled area and having a new bunch of driv- j, ers I stopped them and cautioned them to stop for nothing while passing through. After looking over harness and horses we started about fifty or seventy-five wards apart. I was riding on the front carriage. We were about half way across when one shell burst near the carriage I was on, then another and then they began to fall like rain. We lost two horses on first outfit and one man wounded, but managed to get out of the shelled area, but when out with one carriage, the question was, how is, and where is, the other outfit? I waited what seemed to me not more than a minute, to be ©ne-half hour and then started back to find them. All the time the shells were raising the deuce back in that hell-hole. I found them, one man was dying and the other two wounded, two horses were dead and the rest bleeding and ready to drop. We put M. the dying lad to one side, cut the harness off the dead horses and dragged the rest out. On the way out another shell burst under the carriage, knocking the bunch of us down again. .When we were out what were left of us were sent back to rear for rest and we sure needed it. This is .Thanksgiving. The war is over and I am practically safe. Have I anything to be thankful for ? I sure have.Today has been a rather dull Thanksgiving day for me. It has been raining all day and is very foggy and gloomy. We, two other students and I, passed the afternoon by visiting the Chateau de Saumur. This is one of the most famous and oldest of the many chateaus of France. The first building or foundations werejj built in the Fifth century, but the chateau as it is now or nearly all of it was built in the Fourteenth century.I don’t think I ever could remember all the many weird stories that were told us by the guide. We were in the cells and torture rooms, where prisoners were tortured by cutting off their arms and legs and when they were through with them there is a hole in one corner which is an opening to an underground chute leading to the river Loire, into which ^ they were thrown. Richard the Lion-heart, was imprisoned here. It was owned by many famous French and others, but mostly by Dukes of Orange.What’s that? Did you ask when Iwas coming home? Well, Mother, dear, it won’t be long until we all comd, perhaps I may come soon among the first, or I may be among the last, but the big idea is that I am going to be as happy as I can till I get there.I have not heard from you for a long time, but it is because that my Battery is not sending my mail to me, for I am sure you have written me.I’ll get them soon. I am your loving son, COLWELL.txtee(tru;ird.a'sa:FSitTwo things make waste: Haste anda Democratic national administration.RItb.wahelt;lie’TMtthlt;tt
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Corydon Republican
Corydon, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 02, 1919
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