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Archiving Wheeling Podcast “From Camp Lee to the Great War” #2 Released

September 29, 2017

From Camp Lee to the Great War Podcast

Podcast #2 will be available through Archiving Wheeling’s SoundCloud page or your favorite podcast app September 29, 2017.

World War I soldiers from Wheeling, West Virginia, Lester Scott and Charles “Dutch” Riggle were drafted in 1917 and trained at Camp Lee, Virginia, where so many Wheeling draftees and volunteers were trained. Lester Scott served as a Wagoner (mule team driver) in the 314th Field Artillery Supply Company, Battery “A,” 80th (Blue Ridge) Division in France. Dutch Riggle was a PFC with the same unit.

Over the next fourteen months, Archiving Wheeling will share their letters home, in chronological order, 100 years to the day they were written. To listen to the podcast, visit http://www.archivingwheeling.org, the Archiving Wheeling SoundCloud page, or subscribe through your favorite podcast app.

Learn more about the “From Camp Lee to the Great War” project at  http://www.archivingwheeling.org/blog/memorial-day-preview-from-camp-lee-to-the-great-war.


Details

Date:
September 29, 2017
Website:
https://soundcloud.com/archiving-wheeling

Organizers

Ohio County Public Library
WALS Foundation
Archiving Wheeling