{"id":6433,"date":"2018-01-06T21:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T21:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2018-01-06T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T21:48:30","slug":"from-camp-lee-to-the-great-war-january-6-1918-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/from-camp-lee-to-the-great-war-january-6-1918-podcast","title":{"rendered":"From Camp Lee to the Great War: January 6, 1918 – Lester Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI don\u2019t know what time I will get to Wheeling. The trains have been so late\u2026\u201d<\/h2>\n
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In his seventeenth letter home from Camp Lee, Virginia, to his sister Minnie Riggle, US Army Wagoner (mule team driver) Lester Scott, a World War I soldier from Wheeling, West Virginia, writes that he\u2019s just gotten out of the hospital after his bout with measles. He\u2019s feeling better and is eager to get to Wheeling for a two-day visit. The weather has been \u201cfierce\u201d in Virginia, so he assumes it\u2019s worse in Wheeling, and he\u2019s not sure a \u201cmachine\u201d [automobile] will be able to make it the train station to pick him up.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the same day, France and Germany recognized Finland\u2019s independence (the latter after Bolshevik Russia, with whom the German Empire was negotiating peace, had done so) and the Italian army had some success in Albania.<\/p>\n

Lester Scott was drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, where so many Wheeling soldiers were trained. And, like so many of his Ohio Valley comrades, he served in the 314th Field Artillery Supply Company, Battery \u201cA,\u201d 80th (Blue Ridge) Division in France. This is his seventeenth letter from Camp Lee, dated 100 years ago today, January 6, 1918.<\/p>\n

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January 6, 1918 Letter \u2013 Lester Scott to his sister, Minnie Riggle<\/h2>\n
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Letter to Minnie Riggle from Lester Scott, January 6, 1918.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n