#1 Letters home from the Great War
This column shares parts of the letters written by seven West Virginia veterans who wrote home with their thoughts, including one who was “utterly unimpressed with France,” and another who refuted a fake American newspaper story that claimed his artillery regiment “had been annihilated”—simply not true!
This article originally appeared in the Clarksburg, W.Va., Exponent Telegram, November 11, 2007, and was reprinted in volume 1 of Gerald’s West Virginia Histories book series, Unique People, Unusual Events, and the Occasional Ghost.