An American Soldier: Letters of Edwin Austin Abbey, 2D (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The letters are printed, with little or no editing, as they were written from the engineers' shack in the Canadian. Woods, or from overseas in camp, trench, or hospital. There was, of course, no idea in the mind of the writer that they would ever be published. That they are is due to the insistent request of many who have found in them both illumination and inspiration. They tell their own story.

The summer of 1915 was spent in superintend ing the construction of the bridge at Shaw's Creek, which was completed at the end of September. On October 2d, the writer of the letters enlisted in the Second Canadian Pioneer Battalion, in Toronto, going overseas on December 6th, and arriving at the Flanders Front on the 1lth of March, 1916 Early in the morning of April 23d, Easter Day, Lance Corporal E. A. Abbey was wounded, and a week later sent to England, where he remained seven months. On December lst he was returned to France, gazetted Lieutenant, Fourth Canadian Mounted Rifles, and went at once to the front, where he was killed in action at Vimy Ridge, on the morning of Easter Tuesday.

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