Oliver Vie letter to Grace - November 23, 1913
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Sunday [November] 23 1913 Dear sister I would like to get a letter from you so please write and let me know how everything is there. Nothing new happed here that I know of but I saw the order for our thankgiving dinner and say it is some dinner turkey and nuts and some
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[page 2] across the river and the people are asking for more soldiers there and they want the infantry there only the calvery is there now and they think that is not enought. I wish wee were going on guard on the border there. Wee were on a march the other day and had a make believe war well Mexico and the K company was on the outpost guard and the officer put 10 of us in a lady
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[page 3] tell dave that the beer here is got nothing on hydepark wee have bud. Here for 15 cents a pint and the company sell beer for 15 cent a pint or 2 for 25 cents and can pay for it on payday I got a letter from the boys and they tried to kid me about stoping the mexicons brittles but I should worry about that and say is the factory doing any work yet there or is it the same old thing. And say how is chubby and the other kids getting along and how is that whitening and plasting there now for let me know. I think I send you a letter that I wanted to send to Emma I ware on guard the other day downtown and i don
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Mind it at all but sometimes wee run across some tought soldiers when they are drunk but down to the guard house with them as they don
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| Title | Oliver Vie letter to Grace - November 23, 1913 |
| Creator | Vie, Oliver |
| Source | Vie, Oliver. Letter to Grace. 23 November 1913. 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 border issues and the possibility of going to El Paso, Texas. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Infantry regiment, 26th; Punitive Expedition by the United States Army into Mexico, 1916; Railroads; Bandits; Guard Duty; Mexicans |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2285 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | November 23, 1913 |
| Language | English |