Thomas C. Neibaur Letters
Somewhere in France
Oct 7th 1918
Mrs. J. C. Neibaur
Sugar City
Dear folks,
I received your most welcome letter a few days ago. Was very pleased to hear from you and to
learn that you were all well as these few lines leave me at present.
I am having a very good time over here chasing guns and cooties and I believe the cooties are
the worst for you can hide from the guns but not from the cooties.
I’ll tell you folks this war sure is hard on a man and nobody but a real man could stand it. One
night a man is sleeping in a good warm place and the next night he’s sleeping in a shell hole with nothing
to cover with but a cigarette paper. We have been catching lots of hard work and hard fighting this
summer but now that winter is at hand we are figuring on a little rest before long. Our outfit was in the
St. Mihiel drive also the second battle of the Marne and the big drive at Champagne. Of course I came
out all right but we lost a lot of men and we all had some mighty close calls. But with the help of God a
few of us were saved. I sure am delighted at the success we are having.
It seems as if the Germans cannot stand the awful fire of our artillery and the changes of our
cavalry and infantry. It does not seem as if this awful war can last much longer as the number of
prisoners we are taking is so great that the German army must be getting somewhat weaker while ours
is getting stronger all the time. But still it is going to take lots of men and money.
I got a letter from Marie and one from Verna a few days ago and I sure was pleased to hear from
them. It seems that the crops at home are much greater than ever before and that labor is very hard to
get but I hope they will be able to gather all the crops before winter sets in.
Well dear folks I guess there is no more news to tell you as I will close for this time with love to
all I am
Your loving son
Pvt Thomas Neibaur
Co. M 167 Inf.
American E. F.
France
P.S. I saw Blanche’s husband about two weeks ago. He is well and sends love. Try and send me the Co.
and regiment to which Adrian and Anthony Gardner belong and I will try and look them up.
Tom