Oliver Vie letter to Grace from Kingsville, Texas - n.d.
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Kingsville Texas Dear Sister your letter received and was pleased to hear from you. Well how is things going everything all right i hope so any way we or still having hot weather down here but we or having a good deal of rain too. Well it looks like i will stay in Texas for they have not change that order and it don
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4 to patrol the border the guard men an
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3 looks pretty big but i gues every body would look big to me if i saw them now and Davis looks just like Chubby. Say is Earl Carney still living on Labeaune street with his mother there is a fellow that just came to the company he is from St. Louis [Missouri] so that makes two from Missouri now he looks like Will Moran say by the way do you know what became of Moran Archie was trying to find out for me if you find out
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4 let me know. Say i suppose i never told you did i that i was made private first class it is something new in the infantry it pay
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| Title | Oliver Vie letter to Grace from Kingsville, Texas - n.d. |
| Creator | Vie, Oliver |
| Source | Vie. Oliver. Letter to Grace from Kingsville, Texas. n.d. 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, Vie wrote his sister Grace and expressed frustration with the militia. He also mentioned a promotion to private first class and other family matters. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Infantry regiment, 26th; Punitive Expedition by the United States Army into Mexico, 1916; Military promotions |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2285 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | c.a. 1913-1916 |
| Language | English |