July 9, 1918
Private CR McCafferty 47th Engineer Corp. Camp Upton Long Island, NY
Send me my long summer underwear as I will need them here. Weather is cooler than down in Va.
10 AM Camp Upton Long Island July 9-1918 N Y
Dear Honey
Well here we are at Camp Upton and don't know how long we will be here maybe about two weeks and then we go over there. 1PM That is about as long as they keep them here. Last week the 45th Engineer went over and I am transferred to the 47th Engineer. Got in camp at 3 am in the morning went to our barracks but was short of beds so some of the boys slept on the floor not even taking off their clothes. I slept on the floor and did not get up until 8 o'clock had breakfast at 9 o'clock and 10 am took the boys out for a 5 m hike returned in time for dinner. The meal so far have been extra good, they even coaxed you to eat. You can not realize how glad we are to get away from Camp Humphry. Out of the 39 men examine in Colt only 26 were accepted. If you want to come out here you had better hurry for we may be here for 2 weeks or 2 months You can't tell. We are going to get 4 more shots and another very strict over-sea examination and also expect to get a complete new uniform. Over at Camp Humphry we turned in everything but our uniform mess kit slicker (raincoat) banacksbag and two blankets. Some of the boys in other Co. kept their whole outfit and brought them along, they had some load to carry. You can be accommodated very good here as the Y has Hostesses houses all over the camp. We were treated good on the way up here, had sandwiches and coffee at Washington Ice-cream at Phila and rolls and coffee at New York we laid over outside of New York for about 3 hours. I don't know why as we were not allowed to leave the coach in which we were riding.
Did not see any of New York as we were traveling thru the subway and under the Hudson River, had electric engine to haul us thru New York. We stopped at a subway station in New York for about an hour while we had rolls and coffee. We surely did have a good time on the way as people along the roads all ran out to greet us everywhere for they knew were we were going. Some of the boys at the Camp Humphry tried to go along with us but it was too late and the papers were made out. We spent Sunday aft and Monday morning going thru a lot of red-tape. Well I'll quit now as we are going to get our new bed located. With love from Your Soldier Boy Clarence.
Send me my long summer underwear as I will need them here. Weather is cooler than down in Va.
10 AM Camp Upton Long Island July 9-1918 N Y
Dear Honey
Well here we are at Camp Upton and don't know how long we will be here maybe about two weeks and then we go over there. 1PM That is about as long as they keep them here. Last week the 45th Engineer went over and I am transferred to the 47th Engineer. Got in camp at 3 am in the morning went to our barracks but was short of beds so some of the boys slept on the floor not even taking off their clothes. I slept on the floor and did not get up until 8 o'clock had breakfast at 9 o'clock and 10 am took the boys out for a 5 m hike returned in time for dinner. The meal so far have been extra good, they even coaxed you to eat. You can not realize how glad we are to get away from Camp Humphry. Out of the 39 men examine in Colt only 26 were accepted. If you want to come out here you had better hurry for we may be here for 2 weeks or 2 months You can't tell. We are going to get 4 more shots and another very strict over-sea examination and also expect to get a complete new uniform. Over at Camp Humphry we turned in everything but our uniform mess kit slicker (raincoat) banacksbag and two blankets. Some of the boys in other Co. kept their whole outfit and brought them along, they had some load to carry. You can be accommodated very good here as the Y has Hostesses houses all over the camp. We were treated good on the way up here, had sandwiches and coffee at Washington Ice-cream at Phila and rolls and coffee at New York we laid over outside of New York for about 3 hours. I don't know why as we were not allowed to leave the coach in which we were riding.
Did not see any of New York as we were traveling thru the subway and under the Hudson River, had electric engine to haul us thru New York. We stopped at a subway station in New York for about an hour while we had rolls and coffee. We surely did have a good time on the way as people along the roads all ran out to greet us everywhere for they knew were we were going. Some of the boys at the Camp Humphry tried to go along with us but it was too late and the papers were made out. We spent Sunday aft and Monday morning going thru a lot of red-tape. Well I'll quit now as we are going to get our new bed located. With love from Your Soldier Boy Clarence.
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