Letter from Harris Heard to Virginia - June 16, 1919
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June 16 1919 Dear Virginia- I wrote to you about one week or ten days ago, and I hope that you have received that letter. All of the boys have difficulty on thinking of something to write about but I will try my [m.s. illegible: 1 wd] best. Conditions look blue for and early return. Demobilization on the Rhine has ceased for a month in spite of newspaper reports in the States, to the effect that we are proceeding
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[page 2] to the ports. Last winter you requested a little rock from Roosevelts grave. Will say that it is guarded somewhere in France I have no idea where it is and could not get a pass to go there in spite of all of the newspaper reports in the States that we can do anything we wish. Am very sorry that I could not do this for you. I have been writing to you, but not as often
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[page 3] as I should. Really, I write to only a couple of people outside of my family. I am afraid that you have not received all of my mail, as I have written about 2 or 3 times a month My folks did not hear from me for three weeks recently & I wrote about four times a week to them We are at a little town named Sinzig Germany Came up here from Coblenz[ Koblenz] or rather Ehrenbreint
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stein May 15th We have several thousand horses on hand, in readiness in case we have to go farther into Germany All of the men
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| Title | Letter from Harris Heard to Virginia - June 16, 1919 |
| Creator | Heard, Harris |
| Source | Heard, Harris. Letter to Virginia. 16 June 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 described his new location in Sinzig Germany. |
| Subject LCSH | War horses; United States. Army--Demobilization |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI; Army of Occupation |
| Site Accession Number | A1771 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | June 16, 1919 |
| Language | English |