John L. Barkley letter to Mother - n.d.
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Company G 356 inft. Camp Funston, [Kansas] Dear Maw and the rest. well I have gotton straightened around in our Barracks and am game as ever there are lots of boys getting sick. have all I want to eat and then sum. There are all Johnson County boys 70 of them, I know them all. old Dump N. is next bed. fine looking in his uniform sure is picking the boys in the other Barrricks. There is 70,000 people in Camp Funston. Almost all of the boys have been called down drilling by the officers but me. well tell all of them to write. Tell Lela to send me some of those
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pictures I want to give some of them away. Answer soon From John
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| Title | John L. Barkley letter to Mother - n.d. |
| Creator | Barkley, John Lewis |
| Source | Barkley, John L. Letter to Mother. n.d. John Lewis Barkley Collection, 1917-1919. 1996.33. The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Description | In this undated letter, John L. Barkley wrote his mother (Leona Barkley) concerning the Johnson County boys that arrived at Camp Funston, Kansas. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 4th; United States. Army. Division, 3rd; Camp Funston (Kan.) |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | 1996.33 |
| Contributing Institution | National World War I Museum and Memorial |
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| Date Original | n.d. |
| Language | English |