Well its all over now any way and I don’t suppose they will send us out again till theys a big blizzard or something and then they will march us to Canada or somewheres for a little work out.
Camp Grant, Dec. 7.
Friend Al: Well Al I got some big news for you. The govt. have changed their plans all around and decided after this to send the best men from the national army to fill up the national guards and that means theys a big bunch of us leaveing soon for Camp Logan down in Texas and the officers say we musent spill nothing about it that is when we are going because if the pro German spys ever found out that our bunch was going down there they would spread the rails and turn switches on us and probably put torpedos on the track or something. So all as I can say is that you won’t hear from me here no more and I can’t tell you what units we will be in because we haven’t got no official notice yet and all as I know is what some of the boys heard that we would be in Col. House’s regt. I thought when I 1st heard the news that it meant we would be starting for France pretty quick and of course I didn’t stop to think that they have closed up navigations for the winter.
Well Al I am glad we are going somewheres for the winter where it isn’t so dam cold and of course I don’t like to be so far away from home but maybe Florrie can get away and come down there and join me for a while and I am going to have a few hours off any way to say good bye to little Al and she and I wish I could see you and Bertha before I go especially you but theys no chance so good bye and good luck to you and I will write when I can.
I just happened to think Al that Camp Logan is in Texas and thats where that little girl lives but you can bet I won’t leave her know where I am because in the 1st place she would probably be just crazy enough to want to see me or something and besides I wrote her a farewell note yesterday and asked her wouldn’t she send me her picture because I thought that would make her feel a little happier to think I wanted her picture even if we don’t keep on writeing letters and I don’t care if she sends it or not any way if she sent it up here I will probably be gone before that time.
Well Al I will be kind of sorry to leave Camp Grant where all and all we have had a pretty good time and I guess Gen. Martin and them will be sorry to see our bunch duck out and they will have a fine bunch left when we go but I am glad we won’t freeze to death this winter and besides that they tell me the national guards is shy of officers and maybe I may not stay a corporal long after I get there but will get something bigger though a corporal can’t be sneezed at.
Camp Logan, Dec. 14.
Friend Al: Well old pal here we are in sunny Texas and its been pretty cold so far but nothing like it was up at Camp Grant and of course it don’t never get as cold here as up there on acct. of this being further south.
Well nothing happened to us on the way down though of course it would of been good night nurse if it had got out what road we come on and when we left and even at that we seen some bad eggs at several different stations that looked like Germans that might of tried to pull something if they had a chance but we watched them like a hawk and they was scared to make a false move.
Well Al what do you think they have made Shorty Lahey a sargent down here only thank god he isn’t in my Co. or I would be up in front of the court’s marshall for murder. But him being a sargent shows they must of been pretty hard up and you can bet they was tickled to death to see our bunch roll in. Well Al if he can get a sargent I will be a gen. in a month. He says to me yesterday he says “Well old sport I wish they had of put you in my Co. and you would do the rest of your drilling with a dish towel.” So I said “Yes I would.”
Well after thinking it over a while I decided I better write to the little girl and tell her where I was at because I asked her in my farewell note for her to send me her picture of herself and if she sent it up to Camp Grant maybe 1 of them rummys might get a hold of it and open it up and then write back to the girl and kid her about it and I figured maybe if I let her know I was down here that maybe she hadn’t sent the picture up there yet. But I didn’t give her no encouragement to write to me here and all I said was that if she ever happened to be in Houston and I happened to be in town on leave maybe we
