Hugo C. Schroeder letter to Sister - January 23, 1918
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[postcard] Post Card Miss Ida Schroeder. New Haven Missouri Rout. 3. Box 71
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30,000 Soldiers enjoying Wild West Show at Camp Funston Christmas Day - 1917
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Camp Funston Kansas [January 23- [1918] [ms written in top left margin] From your brother Hugo Schroeder. My Dear Sister Well How are you by this time hope fine and dandy. just like myself. We had a nice day to day I think it will stay that way for a few days I like that mutch better then what we had before it almost to cold what is Brother Louis doing now is hr still at home. Are is he in Beaufort already. I wrote you a letter last week I think that you received it already. and if you can. Why will you let me know if you recived it or not I like to know the last letter you wrote me cousin Otto wrote a letter in with that sure was a nice letter I could read it fine did you heard from Brother henry I diden heard from him for a while
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I will sent a few pictior I like to keep then if I come home then I always can see it what we was doing I am few of then but you can see me on then Hugo Schroeder New Haven Rout 3 Box 71
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Photo By Holt and Holt Manhattan, [Kansas]
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| Title | Hugo C. Schroeder letter to Sister - January 23, 1918 |
| Creator | Schroeder, Hugo C. |
| Source | Schroeder, Hugo C. Letter to Sister. 23 January 23, 1918. Hugo Schroeder Collection. Velma Schroeder Rohan, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Hugo Schroeder, of St. Louis, Missouri served with Company C, 140th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. At the Battle of the Argonne he was wounded in the leg and laid on the battlefield in the rain for about a day. Germans passing through the battlefield began killing any American soldiers still alive. Schroeder, the son of German immigrants could speak German and somehow convinced them to spare his life. He wound up having his right leg amputated, and was a Prisoner of War at the German POW Camp located at Rastatt, Germany. Schroeder also fought at the Battle of St. Mihiel. The letter was written on the back of a postcard that featured 30,000 Soldiers enjoying a Wild West Show at Camp Funston on Christmas Day, 1917. Schroeder included two additional photographs of soldiers at Camp Funston. |
| Contributing Institution | Velma Schroeder Rohan |
| Language | English |