9/21/’17

Dear Mother:
Am still here, but expecting to be sent home before long. They seem terribly slow about
it. Some of the fellows were sent back in about a week after they came.
I am simply loafing around today. I am on detail as room orderly today. I swept the place
this morning, swept and scrubbed the bathhouse, cleaned about twelve commodes, carried six or
eight buckets of water,—outside of that, I haven’t done very much.
There was a large number of new fellows came in yesterday. They have them lined up all
around, giving them their physical examinations and drilling them.
I did not do very much Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I was sort of on the sick list
those days. I do not know whether it was coming from my vaccination or not.
If you want a good picture of me send a dollar and a half <$1\50> to
Babbitt Studios
513 McKean Ave.,
Charleroi, Pa.
and tell them to send you the picture of the first set of fellows who started for Camp Sherman—
the set that left Sept. 7. I never got the ten dollars I wrote for or I would have sent myself. Would
like to have one of the pictures.
I am in need of the money. Register $10 to Chillicothe, Ohio, and I will get it there if I
have not been sent home at that time. If I have, then it will be returned if you place a return
address on your envelope.
They have been keeping us in quarters pretty closely yesterday and today. I guess that is
probably to keep us out of the way until the new recruits are settled.
Very fine day out here in Ohio. Had a little rain yesterday afternoon and evening.
Address anything but the letter of which I spoke to
Co. I.,
2nd Depot Reg’t.,
Camp Sherman, Ohio.
Your son, Guy.
P.S. Don’t send me any money unless I write for it. Guess I can get along without it until I find
out about going home.
Guy.