Camp Wadsworth, S.C.. September 24, 1918

Dear father and mother,

A few lines tonight. I am sitting in my tent with the other boys doing nothing, so will write again and you will get 3 letters in rotation. I wrote yesterday and sent 4 cards in the letter so you ought to get them. I have a large roll picture which I will send rolled or packed later as I want to send some cotton and raw peanuts along.

As it is pretty chilly now we were issued another blanket and quilt today and I now have three heavy blankets and one quilt and one mattress on my bunk, so I am well prepared for winter, also expect to get our overcoats soon.

They are shipping all the ammunition wagons out here for across, also other carts which they need, two train loads, one went and the other they are loading. The Quartermaster’s is quite a place and railroad center here at camp.

I signed my pay roll also for this month so will get it on the first of October. The time I got paid at first I got paid in full when I was in the hospital those one and a half months. They pay good you see and just think what it costs the government to keep such expensive hospitals going. The nurse told me for the treatment I got for as sick as I was cost the government an average of $5.20 per day with medicine and all so you see we get some treatment at this camp.

We sure get some swell meals here for the condition of war, today for dinner we had some fine coffee, roast pork, beef, peas, potatoes, cherry pie, hot biscuits and bred. So you see that’s the average dinner; for supper we get sauce, cake, hamburger, fired potatoes and either lemonade or ice tea. Breakfast hot wheat pancakes or some kind of breakfast food, corn flakes or wheat grits or oatmeal, French toast some times and most of the time fruit like oranges or bananas and we have butter and milk. We have beans every Saturday. You can see Mamma we sure get some real meals at this camp. And if we don’t get sick we are pretty well cared for, as good as one can expect, with the exception of sleeping in a good warm room like I had at home, which I will be glad to get back to someday. I went to the general post office today and had them look up and see if I had any lost mail I did not get. The hospital always sends it back to my company and post office.

This camp is pretty empty now, we have room for 6,000 men when they draft them down here, which will be soon. I see they are going after another Liberty Loan, a larger one than ever before; well, when the Kaiser sees and hears of that loan it sure will make him pretty sick. Well I guess he is about all in now, and will be when the rest of the Americans get over there. When the war first started the Kaiser said America never could get any army over there, but we’re just fooling him a bit.

We go to moving picture show at the K. of C. or Y.M.C.A. nearly every night, they show free for the boys, and every Wednesday the Red Cross ladies of Spartanburg, South Carolina, a city four miles from camp, come to the Y.M.C. to mend up the clothes for us soldiers so if I need some fixed up I take it to them they fix them free while we wait, they are real good to us boys.

Well I hope things will soon be finished up anyhow so as to get ready for a new start and everything will be better with all the people in the world with half as much work to do to do and the worry over with.

Well I guess this all for tonight, hoping you are all well and fine, will close with best love to you.

From your loving son, Private George Prelvitz