Butler County OhArchives News.....Arthur Gardner is at Ft. Bliss, Tex. July 4, 1918
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Butler County Democrat July 4, 1918
Mrs. Anna Gardner of 401 South Third street has the following letter from her 
nephew Arthur E. Gardner:

Fort Bliss, Texas
June 6, 1918

Dear Aunt:--
I received your most welcome letter today and was awfully glad to hear from 
you and know that you are well. You hadn't written to me for so long, I 
thought you had forgotten that you had a nephew in the army. I am progressing 
nicely in the army. I am a sergeant postal clerk, in this regiment and in 
other words, I am postmaster. I take care of all this regiment's mail, besides 
a thousand or more recruits now in the fifth cavalry recruit camp, so you see 
I have quite a job on my hands. Although this is not hard work, still you have 
to be around all the time , to see that everything goes alright. That's one 
reason I have such a hard time getting a furlough. I know just where everybody 
lives connected with this post and where practically every piece of mail goes, 
that belongs to this regiment. That is why they dislike to relieve me and put 
a new man on the job. I will have this same job when I go over there, which I 
hope will be soon.

I received a letter from Robert the other day; he has a job breaking remounts 
in the rear of the firing line.

I would like very much to come home before going over there, but I don't 
believe it will be possible, but anyway I hope to be able to come back after 
the war, anyway for my little girlie's sake, who is waiting so patiently for 
me and also for mother's sake.

If I see anything of Willie I will let you know.

I have grown quite a lot and broadened out a great deal, since I have been in 
the army and I believe if you were to see me at present, you wouldn't know me. 
I am well and happy, but the weather down here is most uncomfortably hot.

I am willing to forbear all that and the sand storms and so forth they have 
down here, if only our regiment gets to go over there, so we can be in on the 
kaiser's finish, which I firmly believe will be very shortly.

You have to hand it to the marines and the American soldiers over there the 
way they are showing the Kaiser what bullets and cold steel are like. I only 
hope they get enough of us over there this year to end the war and bring a 
happy and victorious peace, for all the world, except Germany and her allies.

I must close now, hoping this finds you in the best of health and that I hear 
from you soon, and often.

Your Loving Nephew,
Arthur E. Gardner.
Hdq. Troop 5th Cav.
Ft. Bliss, Texas.

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