Bennett Champ Clark letter to Champ Clark - January 13, 1918
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San Antonio, Texas [January] 13, 1918 Dear Dad and Mother: I am getting along fine. We have to work like the dickens in the school but I think I am getting along fine and making fine grades in everything but Map Drawing and that I can’t do very well. I know how it ought to be done but I can’t do it myself. Outside of that I am getting along fine. The senior instructor, Col. Edwards complimented me on my examination in the Infantry Drill Regulations, which we took the first two days we were here. We are very comfortable in barracks out at the Fort but most of us come into town to spend
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Saturday night and Sunday, get a hot tub bath, and a change of grub. Your friend Colonel Appeler has been here and delivered three lectures to us. His speeches are wonderful. I wish you could have heard them. When you see him again make him tell you the story of the bugler who ordered the charge of the remnants of the Guard and made twenty or thirty men charge a whole division. When they asked him how he dared do it, he said: “Because they were the Guard and I knew they would obey.” It is one of
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the most dramatic stories I ever heard. It has the story of the drummer boy of Austerliz backed off the map. I was glad the Duffy’s got their amendment over. It must have been a great sight. I was sorry that Speasy did not vote for it but his readiness to do so was in all the papers and did almost as well. I see Woody climbed aboard the bandwagon at the last minute. It has been very cold here the last two or three days and the natives as usual claim that it is unprecedented –
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the coldest in 30 years they say. I saw Martin Campbell Jr. on the street today. He seemed to be very chipper. He is out at Kelly Field. I see where one of my old schoolmates, John Jewell, was murdered out at Camp Funston and another, Kearney Wornall, all hacked up. I guess the fellow who did it must have been crazy. Take good care of yourselves. Get massaged & rubbed and keep in good shape. I am feeling fine and getting along fine but would like to see you all very much. With lots of love, Your devoted son
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Title | Bennett Champ Clark letter to Champ Clark - January 13, 1918 |
Creator | Clark, Bennett Champ |
Source | Clark, Bennett Champ. Letter to Champ Clark. 13 January 1918. Clark, Champ (1850-1921) and Bennett Champ (1890-1954), Papers, 1853-1973. C0666. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
Description | In this January 13, 1918 letter to his father Champ Clark, Bennett Clark discussed Officer training school in San Antonio, Texas. Champ Clark, a long-time resident of Bowling Green, Missouri, was a politician in the Democratic Party. He served as a representative of Missouri from 1893 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1921. From 1911 to 1919 he served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Bennett Clark served as a Colonel during World War I and was Missouri State Senator from 1933 to 1945. |
Subject LCSH | Clark, Champ, 1850-1921; World War, 1914-1918--Political aspects--United States; Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954; Missouri. National Guard; United States. Army--Physical training |
Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
Site Accession Number | C0666 |
Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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Date Original | January 13, 1910 |
Language | English |