Richard Godwin to His Mother

David Ridgway Farnham, 3d, to His Mother

Private Richard Godwin to His Mother

Private Richard Godwin to His Mother (2)

From Private Samuel Pickle to His Brother

Private Richard Godwin to His Mother (3)

Private Godwin's Daily Letter

From Erasmus Corder, Assistant Professor in Harvard University, to His Wife

Private Richard Godwin to His Mother (4)

Telegram from Private Richard Godwin to His Mother at Home

Letters from the Same

Telegram from Mrs. Richard Godwin, Senior, to Her Son at Plattsburg, Dated Thursday, September 14, 1916

Private Godwin's Daily Letter (2)

Mrs. Godwin to Her Son Richard, in a Letter Dated September 14, 1916

Private Godwin's Daily Letter (3)

Extracts From the Letters of Vera Wadsworth To Her Sister Frances

Extract From Private Godwin's Daily Letter, Of the Same Date

Private Godwin's Daily Letter (4)

Private Godwin To His Mother

Private Godwin's Daily Letter (5)

Private Godwin's Daily Letter (6)

The Same to the Same

Private Godwin to His Mother (2)

Letter from Vera Wadsworth to Her Sister Frances

From Private Richard Godwin to His Mother

Extract from the Letter of Miss Mamie Marshall to Her Friend, Miss Rosetta Jones

From Private Godwin

From Vera Wadsworth to Her Sister Frances

From David Ridgway Farnham, 3d, To His Father

From Private Richard Godwin to His Mother (2)

Vera Wadsworth to Her Sister Frances

Private Godwin's First Hike Letter

Private Richard Godwin to His mother (5)

Extract from the Letter of Erasmus Corder, Assistant-Professor

From Private Godwin to His Mother

Private Godwin to His Mother (3)

Private Godwin to His Mother (4)

Private Godwin's Daily Letter (7)

Private Godwin's Letter Home

Private Godwin's Daily Letter (8)

Private Godwin to His Mother (5)

Private Godwin's Daily Letter (9)

From Private Samuel Pickle to His Brother (2)

Private Godwin's Last Letter

Title: At Plattsburg

Author: Allen French

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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IT MAY SURPRISE YOU, BOYS, TO SEE THAT IN MY BOOK THE SQUAD ISN’T AS IT REALLY WAS. SOME OF YOU ARE NOT THERE, AND THE REST ARE ALTERED. BUT WHILE, ON ACCOUNT OF THE STORY THAT I NEEDED AND THE FACTS I WANTED TO DISPLAY, I COULD NOT DRAW YOUR PORTRAITS, I HOPE I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN SHOWING THAT THING IN PLATTSBURG WHICH MEANT MOST TO ME PERSONALLY, THE SPIRIT OF OUR SQUAD

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To describe military scenes is always to rouse the keenest scrutiny from military men. I write this foreword not to deprecate criticism, but to remind the professional reader that, while the scenes I have described are all from experience, the aim in writing them was not for technical exactness, often confusing to the lay reader, but rather for the purpose of giving a general picture of the fun and work at a training camp.

Nowadays we are making history so fast that readers may have to be reminded that last summer occurred the mobilization on the Mexican border of most of the regular army and many regiments of the National Guard, a fact which considerably affected conditions at Plattsburg.

The “Buzzard Song,” which my company used with such satisfaction on the hike, was written by a camp-mate, John A. Straley, who has kindly allowed me to use it, with a few minor changes.

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