These letters were published in the Jan 8 1919 CALDWELL PRESS: Somewhere-In-Belgium Nov. 25, 1918 Dear Mother Will try this evening to write you a few lines. Am still enjoying good health and hope you are all well also. I suppose you had a big Thanksgiving dinner today. I wish I cold have been there to eat with you. We can make up for it next year. I will eat then what I didn't eat this year ha ha. We didn't have as big a dinner this year as we did last year down at Camp Sheridan but we had a pretty good dinner considering we are away up here in Belgium. We had rabbit, or gelgian hare, and mashed potatoes and gravy, no so bad for a soldier in Belgium. I think we will move out of Belgium in a few days. We think we are going to the coast to get ready to start to the States. If it si true you will see me around old Dexter city around the first of the year sometime. since the war is over I am getting anxious to see you all. Many thanks to you all for the cards and thinking of my birthday. Tell dad, aunt Dessie and the rest that sent me cards I thank them ever so much as I won't get time to write to them all but expect to see them all soon. Then I can tell what I have seen in my travels and how the shells sounded, ha ha. I am like a little boy I wouldn't take a million dollars for what I have seen and gone through with but wouldn't give a dime to see it over again. Did dad get his helmet I sent him? I will try and bring you all a souvenir when I come home. The ground is covered with them but the trouble is to carry them as we are allowed to carry nothing but our packs yet but will have our barrack bags in about ten days and then maybe I can get hold of something to bring home in it.  The DAVIS boys are getting along alright. I will tell you where we are at and maybe you can find it on the map. The town we are in now is Wielsbeke, Belgium, it is a small place. I don't think you can find it on the map but the town we were in before we came here and the town we were in during the last drive of the war is Thielt it is a bigger town and we are only 40 miles from Brussell that capitol of Belgium. So you can just about figure out wher we are now. But when you get this letter we will be in LeMans or Breat, France, if not on the water on our way home. Well I guess I had better close before I tell you too much for something might happen and they would take a notion to keep up over here awhile longer then you and I would both be disappointed. So good night and I will eat next Thanksgiving dinner at home, although we have much to be thankful for this year. P.S. - I got my first Journal yesterday, we all enjoyed reading it. Thanks. Dear Mother Will write you another letter this evening to let you know I am still well and getting along alright. Am still in Wielsbeke, Belgium, expecting to move any time. Some of the division over here have started home already, don't know how soon we will start. We are not in the army of occupation to stay over here, so think they will start us home before long. I hope they take us somewhere before the weather gets too cold as we are camping in a big old school house with the windows all shot out, so you see we get plenty of fresh air. We haven't had much cold weather yet only freezes a little at night's. Alva PIERCE and I are sleeping together. when we double up we then have four thin blankets our overcoats and rain coats and a pile of straw so we sleep as warm as if we were at home sleeping in a feather bed ha ha. Anyhow the bombs and shells don't bother our sleep any more, thank God for that. We can write anything we want to now so if you have any questions you want to ask go ahead and I will try and answer them for you. The 8th of this month we will have in six months of oversea service and will get a gold service stripe to wear on our sleeve. I can now tell you where we have been. It would take too much paper to tell you all the places I have been so I will tell you a few of them. Since I have left New York we loaded on the boat in N.Y. harbor and were on the water about two weeks. There were 11 ships in the convoy, 10 loaded with troops, one with Red cross nurses. We also had one battleship with us. We went away out of our way on account of submarines, went away to the north, were far enough north that the nights were only a few hours long. It got dark about 10 o'clock at night and daylight at 2 o'clock in the morning. So you see it was daylight about all of the time. After we got across we pulled south, came along the coast of Ireland and Scotland where there was a fleet of English sub-chasers came out to meet us and had several battles with subs. We landed in Liverpool, England, and went through England by train, camped in several famous cities in England like the old city of Winchester and finally stopped in Southampton loaded on the boat again and crossed the channel on a stormy night and a rough sea, and everybody was sick and it looked more like a pig pen than anything else when we unloaded the next morning in La Haver, France. We then loaded in box cars and rode them about four days and landed in Burmont, unloaded and went by truck to St. Mesie where we camped about two weeks and got our trucks and gas masks and etc. Drove overland about 60 miles to Ramberville where we were in our first air raid. You would of laughed to see the boys go in their shirt tails when the bombs began to drop. We camped there sometime then went to Azerailles on the Baocarat front from there we drove over land four days, through many famous cities (I won't mention here) and finely landed in Reacecourt on teh Argonne Forest where they were getting ready for the big drive which you have read about and the 87th was in the front and the boys started the famous drive. This was the first time we were under shell fire and how the shells did whistle. We went from here to Berncourt in the St. Mihiel sector. From here we started to Belgium over a week's drive in trucks and the most wonderful trip I ever expect to make. We landed on the famous battle field of Ypres, Belgium, which I think I have told you about in another letter. The most wonderful sight I ever expect to see. I couldn't begin to tell you in this letter so I will wait until I get home. I will have many things to tell you then. We went from here to Leicterville. The Germans had moved out a few days before, the boys hot on their trail. We went from here to Thielt and the war ended while we were there. We have moved several times since the war has been over and have camped in lots of towns I have not mentioned. anyhow we are here in Belgium waiting to go home. Will tell you all about it when I get there, so good night. Your son, Chas. F. BARNHART Co. B, 112th Supply Train Amer. E.F. via New York If you would like a photocopy of this letter, please contact me. Joyce Fullen Grove City OH http://www.fullenfamily.com Proud of our National Championship Buckeyes!!!