Letter from Harris Heard to Virginia - January 28, 1919
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Ehrenbreitstein Germany [January] 28, 1919 Dear Virginia- I received today your letter of [November] 13th and was glad to hear from you. I am now back with my organization in the Army of Occupation, at Ehrenbreitstein, across from Coblenz [Koblenz] on the Rhine. I am now receiving
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mail again, the first for almost two months. I have not written much the last two months, for I have not been getting any mail. We are situated in fairly good quarters which was formerly a German Remount. We drill and do a few hours work each day. We are only about 200 feet from the Rhine, and oftentimes I sit in the Y.M.C.A. window and watch the boats go up and down the river. I was at a replacement camp at Toul during December and I had some difficulty in locating my organization Some of the boys in the company are going to school at night in Coblenz [Koblenz] across the river.
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We have a good Y.M.C.A. here in Ehrenbreintstein. My mail is just beginning to arrive. Aday or two ago I received 10 letters and today I received twenty. The German Army is rapidly being demobilized, and the German soldiers immediately get into their civilian uniforms. I was up in the fort here at
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Ehrenbreitstein a couple of weeks ago, I never paid much attention to it as anything which pertains to thoughts of the war is of no interest to me. There were huge holes for the big guns. Our big, heavy .16 inch guns could batter it to pieces today. In one of your
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letters, you gave your address as 5289 Cabanne & in another as 5589, so I will place both addresses on this letter. I doubt very much if we will be in the States before next summer or possibly in the fall. The only interesting topic of conversation among the soldiers now is,
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| Title | Letter from Harris Heard to Virginia - January 28, 1919 |
| Creator | Heard, Harris |
| Source | Heard, Harris. Letter to Virginia. 28 January 1919. World War I Collection. A1771. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Letter from Private Harris Heard of the Field Remount Squadron to Virginia of St. Louis, Missouri. Heard explained that he was writing from Ehrenbreitstein, Germany across from Koblenz on the Rhine becaue he was with the Army of Occupation. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Germany; World War, 1914-1918--War work--Y.M.C.A. |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI; Army of Occupation |
| Site Accession Number | A1771 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | January 28, 1919 |
| Language | English |