TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - MILITARY  WWI    Hill, Walter

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The Butler Herald
Thursday, November 7, 1918
Page Seven


Letters From Our Soldier Boys


Somewhere in France
October 4th, 1918


Mr. C.E. Benns
Butler, Georgia


Dear Friend:


I received a Butler Herald last week and I can't tell you
how much I enjoyed it.  It was just like a letter from home.
I have read it over until I have almost memorized everything
it contained.  I do not know who sent it to me, but you can
tell them to send another one if they life.  A Butler Herald
in France looks to me like a Chicago Ledger would in the
states. I see old Taylor county's honor roll is still
growing and it makes me feel good to see the boys fall in
line, and I feel like every one will make a record for
himself, and perhaps one that will go down in history, lets
hope so for there is nothing too good for old Taylor and
her's.  I have been over here a little over three months and
I like it here fine.  If France was in the good old U.S.A.
it would be grand.  The place where we are now located makes
me think of the Butler level, but they can't grow cotton
here, but grow a lot of wheat, oats, potatoes and have some
of the finest cows, hogs and sheep that I have ever seen.
There are a lot of pretty French girls here, but they can't
speak English and we can't speak French very well so you can
see we are out of luck, but we all will speak French well if
we are here any length of time, for we all have French books
and every chance we have we get some pretty girl to teach
us, as soon as we learn the first lesson it comes quite easy
for us.


There were three thousand American girls, who came over
sometime ago to do Red Cross work, and among them I have met
five that I knew while in the States, one from Atlanta who
is now working in our canteen and I tell you it makes the
boys feel good to have the girls come over here to care for
them, when the boys speak of them, or to them, they speak of
them as our little mothers.  We have very good health over
here and I have been lucky so far not to be wounded or
killed, the French and British soldiers say they never saw
better soldiers than the American soldiers, they say they
are the coolest men they ever saw going over the top, all
you can hear the boys say when they are going over the top
is, on to Berlin, and believe me, we are going there soon.
All of the Huns look small to us when we are behind the old
machine guns.


Well I will say goodbye for now. I hope everything is well
with you and that victory wil come soon, then we boys can be
with you once again and with our loved ones.


Respectfully,
Walter Hill


MG Co. 304th Inf. 1st Prov. M.G. Regt. A.P.O. 773 
American Ex. Forces, France