Some letters of Augustus Peabody Gardner . NERrunning around three sides, and a wooden floorand a wooden platform in front, together withelectric lights, I hardly feel as if it were atent at all. There has been a great deal of pneumoniain camp and nearly everybody has had a weather has been very cold and manyof the soldiers have insufficient drafted men are still coming in, but thereis no prospect, at present, of a division at fullstrength. In the strictest confidence we have our ordersto sail in December (date unknown). Whenwe move I shall, of course, be with the troops
Some letters of Augustus Peabody Gardner . NERrunning around three sides, and a wooden floorand a wooden platform in front, together withelectric lights, I hardly feel as if it were atent at all. There has been a great deal of pneumoniain camp and nearly everybody has had a weather has been very cold and manyof the soldiers have insufficient drafted men are still coming in, but thereis no prospect, at present, of a division at fullstrength. In the strictest confidence we have our ordersto sail in December (date unknown). Whenwe move I shall, of course, be with the troopsevery minute unless we are concentrated atTenafly, New Jersey, or something of thesort. I do not know whether or not we sailfrom New York. It may be necessary for youto come to me to say Good-bye; but I cantell you more about it later. Your letter of November 2d here just do not know whether I am glad to go. Itry not to reckon in the old terms of thought[ 120 ] Augustus Peabody Gardner At Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia, November, 1917. TO HON. JOSEPH P. TUMULTYuntil the war is over. I hope I am ready foranything. To Hon. Joseph P. Tuiviulty [In May, 1917, just before Major Gardner wassworn into the service of the United States, wemet Mr. Tumulty, Secretary to the President,at luncheon. He and Major Gardner had sometalk, and finally Mr. Tumulty said that if at anytime Major Gardner had occasion to express hisviews, otherwise than through military channels, hewished that the Major would write to him. Theunderstanding was that any letter written undersuch circumstances would be brought to the atten-tion of the Administration. After Major Gardners death I found the follow-ing letter, a carbon copy of the original, in hisfiles. I need hardly say that it has never beforebeen made public. — C. G.] December 1, 1917 Dear Mr. Tumulty:Before I left Washington you suggested tome at Mrs. McLeans that I should writeyou if I felt that there was any occasion toexpress my views otherv^se
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