Ernest McKeighan letter to Family - January 21, 1918
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Camp Doniphan Ft Sill [Oklahoma] [January 21, 1918] My Dear Sweethearts Well! This is my first day as Adjutant and have been busy taking up the duties as such. When I get all set, am going to have lots of time to read and study. Gee! I sure wish you could be with me here now as I think could get permission to be in town most every night after school and probably come out a revelle. Many thanks for the bed slippers, Dearie, they will come in handy. My organization now consists
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[page 2] of one high-grade Mayor, one Adjutant, one Sergeant Major and two drivers, one to operate a moter car and the other a motorcycle side car and both to drive horses at times. I have to look after 8 horses, two for the Major, two for myself and four for the wagon. The Colonel sent me to Lawton today to get a good map of Oklahoma which could not find in the stores, so hunted up the County Highway Engineer and talked him out of the only one he had, which was tacked up on his wall and which he tore
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[page 3] down and gave me. When I reported back with it, the Colonel had the grace to complement me. The Sergeant Major acts as my stenographer, and is at my services at all times though there is not much for us to do while here. When we get on the other side, and probably separated from the other Battalion. I will very probably be busy as a bee, as it will be up to me to look after all the routine of administration. Here it is not much but
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[page 4] look pretty at perades and take guard mount. It is still cold here. It snowed again last night and this AM, but has stopped and warmed up I managed to get a Times in Lawton, today and see they are having a time getting coal. Are you both keeping warm, and comfortable? C.L. kiss mother for me and she you, and keep thinking of your Loving old Daddy Ernest
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I need a postcard picture of the sweetest wife in the world This line represents the space that shows picture in the case C.L. gave me E
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| Title | Ernest McKeighan letter to Family - January 21, 1918 |
| Creator | McKeighan, Ernest |
| Source | McKeighan, Ernest. Letter to Family. 21 January 1918. Ernest E. McKeighan Papers. 2005.14. The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Description | Ernest McKeighan sent this letter to his wife and daughter from Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma. In this letter, McKeighan discussed his duties as adjutant. McKeighan served as part of Company E, 110th Engineers, 35th Division during World War I. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Camp Doniphan (Okla.); United States. Army. Division, 35th |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | 2005.14 |
| Contributing Institution | National World War I Museum and Memorial |
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| Date Original | January 21, 1918 |
| Language | English |