Personal correspondence sent and received by John A. Lanford while serving in World War I.
During the war, Lanford was a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, working as a laboratory officer in several base hospitals and the Central Medical Department Laboratory in France. Most of the letters are written to Lanford's mother, Maria, and sister, Mattie Ormond; in them, he discusses t...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/23029 |
| Summary: | During the war, Lanford was a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, working as a laboratory officer in several base hospitals and the Central Medical Department Laboratory in France. Most of the letters are written to Lanford's mother, Maria, and sister, Mattie Ormond; in them, he discusses training at Camp Greenleaf at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia; his service military hospitals in France; and visits to several French cities while on leave in early 1919. |
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