Hampton B. Ball letter to home - November 13, 1918
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La Bourboule, France [November 13, 1918] Dear Home, - I am now off on leave a long ways from the front. I got here day before yesterday and have been enjoying life ever since. I am in one of the best hotels in town and my bed in just like home so you know that I am spending a good deal of my time sleeping. The town in a summer resort which has been turned into a leave area for the U.S. army. There is another up in the valley only a short ways from here which is just as big and we have the run of both of them. There is mountains on all sides and the highest one in
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France is only a few miles up the valley I sent you a bunch of post cards last night showing past of them so you can see about what it looks like here. Will be here several days yet then I return to the company. Will have a new job when I get back which take most of my time but I do not think it will be long before all of my work in this war will be over then I can get back to school. The news of the finish got here only a short time after our train pulled in I wish you could have been here to have seen the French people. Every body wore a smile and all the bells were ringing. I know there was some celebration in the U.S. when the news came. Jerry is now in the condition that he can never raise his sword again so it looks like there will be peace for a long time. I may have to go back to the border before I get to start home but I hope not. I had many exciting experiences at the front this last time. Shells hit on all sides of me, once burying me in a hole, but I came out with out a scratch. I never did believe Jerry had the stuff to hunt me. I have been thru gas and everything and feeling better than ever have in France no I am not
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worrying about my self. I had a great birthday while up this time. I was busy for a stretch of sixty four hours without a stop which is the longest time I have gone without sleep since I came over. I did not think about it being my birthday tho until I saw a paper a few days later. Up there it was hard to tell what day it was. I am need of nothing so do not worry about me. I have everything I can carry now. I sleep warm and have plenty to eat so can wish for no more. Will close now but will write again in a day or two. As ever Hamp Cpl Hampton B. Ball Co. B. 326 Inf A. E. F.
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| Title | Hampton B. Ball letter to home - November 13, 1918 |
| Creator | Ball, Hampton B. |
| Source | Ball, Hampton B. Letter to home. 13 November 1918. Ball, Hampton B., Papers, 1918-1919. C3935. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
| Description | In this November 13, 1918 letter to his home in Troy Missouri, Hampton B. Ball discussed his furlough and described Armistice Day celebrations. Ball served in the 82nd Division, 326th Infantry Regiment during World War I. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918; Military leaves and furloughs; World War, 1914-1918--Armistices; Celebrations; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 326th; United States. Army. Division, 82nd |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | C3935 |
| Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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| Date Original | November 13, 1918 |
| Language | English |