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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918

1918-02-03 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

been very comfortable with a little heat. There was absolutely none. My companions tried to keep warm by wearing their pajamas over their uniforms. I could not bring myself to that; so I spent the night alternately taking physical exercises in the corridor and sleeping huddled in my overcoat. The train went very slowly and made long stops. Toward six a.m. I was outside during a stop, warming up by running foot races with another officer, when along came a French soldier and a nice old lady red cross nurse with steaming pitchers of coffee and tiny American flags. We woke up the train and everybody warmed up on the coffee and put on the flags.
   During the day following we passed through many historic places and a terrain that was one long pretty picture. The green fields and the plowed fields, the stately woods with clusters of mistletoe in their tops, the

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been very comfortable with a little heat. There was absolutely none. My companions tried to keep warm by wearing their pajamas over their uniforms. I could not bring myself to that; so I spent the night alternately taking physical exercises in the corridor and sleeping huddled in my overcoat. The train went very slowly and made long stops. Toward six a.m. I was outside during a stop, warming up by running foot races with another officer, when along came a French soldier and a nice old lady red cross nurse with steaming pitchers of coffee and tiny American flags. We woke up the train and everybody warmed up on the coffee and put on the flags. During the day following we passed through many historic places and a terrain that was one long pretty picture. The green fields and the plowed fields, the stately woods with clusters of mistletoe in their tops, the