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May. Thurs.
My Dear Mother: -
Rec your photograph yesterday O.K. Thank you very much.
We are almost ready to leave. Our mules will be turned in, in a a couple of days. Lt. Peabody says that we are to load our property on the train about Sunday, and as far as we can learn we will probably be sent to Camp Lee, Va. & will embark at Newport News.
We will have to work nights in order to finish our packing.
Feel fine.
Love to All
Howard
In another adventure in "things I never thought I would Google," I learned all about how Americans supplied most of the mules used in the war effort, including in support of British and French troops. I found photos that showed mules being loaded onto railroad freight cars and a video that mentioned there would be 16 horses to a car. The same video showed them being walked individually down the gangplank of ships. As they were marched down the quays, it looked like they were harnessed together five mules wide while one person tended them.
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