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    Letters From An American Soldier To His Father, By Curtis Wheeler, Second Lieutenant Of Field, Artillery, U. S. R.
    Letters From An American Soldier To His Father, By Curtis Wheeler, Second Lieutenant Of Field, Artillery, U. S. R.
    Letters From An American Soldier To His Father, By Curtis Wheeler, Second Lieutenant Of Field, Artillery, U. S. R.
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    Lieutenant Wheeler was one of the contingent selected from the first Plattsburg camp to be sent abroad for three months’ study, close up, of modern warfare. Prior to his Plattsburg experience he had spent four months on the Texas border in Battery C of the First Illinois Field Artillery. Before that, while a student at Yale (class of 1911), he had joined a troop of cavalry then in. training in New Haven, maintaining his connection with it for two years while still pursuing his academic course.
    These letters were written with no thought in the mind of the writer of their being published. The personal note is obvious in them and no attempt has been made to edit it out. The editing, in fact, has been of the slightest. About all that has been done is to give initials in place of names where persons are mentioned by name, to give a heading to each letter, and to eliminate here and there a personal reference that would be blind to the reader. Otherwise the letters are just as written-the fresh, spontaneous, unconstrained narrative of personal experiences that link themselves up closely to a million American homes from which boys have gone to prepare themselves for similar experiences.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucknow Books
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781782893448
    Letters From An American Soldier To His Father, By Curtis Wheeler, Second Lieutenant Of Field, Artillery, U. S. R.

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      Letters From An American Soldier To His Father, By Curtis Wheeler, Second Lieutenant Of Field, Artillery, U. S. R. - Second Lieutenant Curtis Wheeler

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      Text originally published in 1918 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2013, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      LETTERS FROM

      AN AMERICAN SOLDIER TO HIS FATHER

      By

      CURTIS WHEELER

      Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery. U.S.R.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 2

      PREFATORY NOTE 3

      MEMORANDUM ON THE LETTERS OF LIEUTENANT CURTIS WHEELER 5

      LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN SOLDIER TO HIS FATHER 6

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 34

      PREFATORY NOTE

      These letters were written with no thought in the mind of the writer of their being published. The personal note is obvious in them and no attempt has been made to edit it out. The editing, in fact, has been of the slightest. About all that has been done is to give initials in place of names where persons are mentioned by name, to give a heading to each letter, and to eliminate here and there a personal reference that would be blind to the reader. Otherwise the letters are just as written—the fresh, spontaneous, unconstrained narrative of personal experiences that link themselves up closely to a million American homes from which boys have gone to prepare themselves for similar experiences.

      Lieutenant Wheeler was one of the contingent selected from the first Plattsburg camp to be sent abroad for three months' study, close up, of modern warfare. Prior to his Plattsburg experience he had spent four months on the Texas border in Battery C of the First Illinois Field Artillery. Before that, while a student at Yale (class of 1911), he had joined a troop of cavalry then in. training in New Haven, maintaining his connection with it for two years while still pursuing his academic course.

      It is hard at times for parents whose boys are called to the service of their country to view the situation through the eyes of the boys themselves. These letters may help them to do so. They are so full of the joy of life, the spirit of high adventure, so blithe and buoyant, that their gaiety becomes infectious, and one is inevitably reminded of Wordsworth's oft-quoted lines:

      "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

      But to be young was very Heaven."

      E. J. W.

      MEMORANDUM ON THE LETTERS OF LIEUTENANT CURTIS WHEELER

      As the officer in charge of the Press Division, A. E. F., which reviews all matter about the A. E. F. intended for publication, I have read the letters, fourteen in all, with the liveliest interest and appreciation. They form a message of spirit and cheer from France which should be of genuine service. Of course, the author will have to comply with the regulations about officers writing for publication which have been issued by the War Department.

      FREDERICK PALMER,

      Chief of Press Division,

      I. S. G. S., A. E. F.

      February 10, 1918.

      LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN SOLDIER TO HIS FATHER

      I don't suppose you'll get this letter for some time but it's rather interesting to be able to write you in medics res this way. The luck of Fuzz and myself still holds. We are at the most interesting table you can imagine and we sit till all hours talking. It includes a Peeress, two very pretty girls, a Colonel, a Captain, a much traveled gentleman on his way to the Lord knows where, and us two humble young men.

      The first lady is charming and her incidental conversation of events and places and personages is enthralling.

      All the other people have had important things to do in the world and are about to do still more, and the result is better than Galsworthy or Carlyle. We have such a good time we stay together quite a lot and I haven't gotten to know many new people as yet. But there are lots of my old friends aboard, and we sit about and speculate and take sun baths and listen to the band, and it is altogether charming.

      I wish I could tell you where we are now, or what is going to happen next. But the first is forbidden and the second I can only guess at even if it too were not forbidden. Suffice it to say that no company from the beginning of the war was ever better taken care of

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