When Edward Wirt wrote this letter, he had been reassigned to the 18th Machine Gun Battalion of the 6th Division during World War I (1914-1918). The 6th became known as the “Sight Seeing Sixth” because it spent most of the war marching from position to position. Fortunately, it saw little action, losing only 227 men out of the total 20,000. Successful offensives pushed Germany out of much of France from July to November, 1918. On November, 8th, 1918, the warring parties signed an armistice that ended shooting on November 11th, but despite the end of hostilities, much of the U.S. army remained in France awaiting a peace treaty. There are ninety letters from Mr. Wirt to Miss Bartlett in the PVMA collection; some of which are included on this site.
Wirt, Edward Roswell. WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett. January 12, 1919. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l01-017/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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