Sidney D. Light's WWI Diary, Postcards & Letters, 329th Battery Book Accounts

Made up our packs after breakfast and were ready to move. The 301st F.A. mass came in with their band and occupied our tents. We fell in and marched out of town again to the trains. I saw lots of wounded Huns and Tommies on their way back to England. Here we were introduced to "sidedoor" pullmans, little stuffy boxcars that had previously carried horses and were not very thoroughly cleaned. I was given charge of a car and given 35 men to look after. Drew our travel rations and were given orders to stay in the cars the whole trip, which was to take 3 days. Whitey Larkins stole a dozen of Capt. Moore’s oranges at the sheds and got caught. Pulled out at 4 p.m. and started out on our rickety ride for parts unknown.