Oliver Vie letter to Grace - August 21, 1914
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Harlington Texas [August] 21th 1914 Dear sister your letter received and was pleased to hear from you know i am not at Texas city any more we left there Sunday just 24 hours before the flood there was two of my pals killed there they was men of K. com. 13th infantry. The place i am at now is 425 miles from Galveston [Texas] 21 miles from Brownsville Texas this is were the out laws or raiding there is four soldiers here that heve been shot and B troop 12th Cav. is here say a guy. can
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[page 2] the only company that is here and 20 men of M. company we got out post out along the river and at the ranch house everybody packs a pistol or rifle in this country last night the out post brought in three mexicans and put them in the jail but they were taken out and lynched and the Texas rangers head quarters is in this burg you people up there don
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[page 3]but i feel sorry the way they do these fellows the Military police take them out to work and that is my job they were 13 of them pinched in one day and brought to this camp and they were all caught in Kingsville [Texas]. You know I told you they would be glad when they got back and they will they dont like Texas they all say the hell with the border they swear from morning till night gee but they or sore and then comes a
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storm and blows away all the tents and everything the got we got three up here last week from the 3rd Texas infantry that deserted they were married it is hell down there they say they don
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| Title | Oliver Vie letter to Grace - August 21, 1914 |
| Creator | Vie, Oliver |
| Source | Vie, Oliver. Letter to Grace. 21 August 1914. Oliver Vie Papers, 1913-1919. A2285. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Oliver Vie was born January 28, 1887, in St. Louis, Missouri. After working for several years in a shoe factory, he enlisted in the army in October 1913, Company K, 26th Infantry. He served along the Mexican border before going with the first contingent to France in June 1917. He fought in the battles of Cantigny and Soissons and was wounded in action and died July 20, 1918. In this letter to his sister Grace, Vie, discussed the local outlaws and gunfights. He also mentioned the capture and incarceration of three Mexicans. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Infantry regiment, 26th; Punitive Expedition by the United States Army into Mexico, 1916; Railroads; Bandits; Guard Duty |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2285 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | August 21, 1914 |
| Language | English |