{"id":6480,"date":"2018-03-17T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2018-05-31T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T13:49:55","slug":"from-camp-lee-to-the-great-war-march-17-1918-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/from-camp-lee-to-the-great-war-march-17-1918-podcast","title":{"rendered":"From Camp Lee to the Great War: March 17, 1918 – Lester Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou were speaking of the 314 Co\u2026.coming to wheeling for the third Liberty Loan. There will be one from each county, Ohio and Brooke\u2026 They just go to talk the people into buying them\u2026\u201d<\/h2>\n
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In his twenty-ninth 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 about a teacher at No. 2 school named Roy Strickland. He then explains the process by which men of the 314th were elected to go to Wheeling to push Liberty Loans<\/a> \u2014 war bonds sold by the US government to finance the war effort. Buying Liberty Loans came to be viewed as one\u2019s patriotic duty.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the same day, the German army raided northeast of Verdun, and the British launched a daylight air-raid on Kaiserslautern in southwest Germany near the\u00a0Palatinate Forest. Unexploded ordinance from both World Wars is still occasionally found in the area.<\/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-ninth letter from Camp Lee, dated 100 years ago today, March 17, 1918.
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March 17, 1918 Letter \u2013 Lester Scott to his sister, Minnie Riggle<\/h2>\n
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March 16, 1918: From Camp Lee to the Great War: The Letters of Lester Scott and Charles Riggle \u2013 From the personal collection of Marjorie Richey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n