{"id":6474,"date":"2018-03-09T18:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2018-03-09T18:41:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:41:52","slug":"from-camp-lee-to-the-great-war-march-9-1918-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/from-camp-lee-to-the-great-war-march-9-1918-podcast","title":{"rendered":"From Camp Lee to the Great War: March 9, 1918 – Lester Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cBoss I am a little mad this evening. Just had a quarrel on politics. A fellow said he had no use for a darn Democrat. It made my blood boil\u2026\u201d<\/h2>\n
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In his twenty-eighth 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 thinks the troops will be \u201cgoing over before long.\u201d They\u2019ll be keeping their mules and adding more mules and more men. Les is upset because he\u2019s had a quarrel on politics.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the same day, the British launched a daylight bombardment of the German manufacturing city of Mainz and\u00a0mystery writer Mickey Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York<\/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 twenty-eighth letter from Camp Lee, dated 100 years ago today, March 9, 1918.
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March 9, 1918 Letter \u2013 Lester Scott to his sister, Minnie Riggle<\/h2>\n
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Letter to Minnie Riggle from Lester Scott, March 9, 1918.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n