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Doughboys and Camp Greene: Image Gallery: Images

Menu Cover, Thanksgiving Dinner

This is the cover of the printed menu given to patients at Camp Greene to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, 1918. The armistice had been signed just a few days earlier.

Camp Greene Postmarks

Many Camp Greene letters and memos in the records located in the National Archives received these types of stamp.

Letter to Discharged Soldiers

This letter went to "Discharged Soldiers" at Camp Greene and is dated 12/19/1918. It came from the Insurance Section, Camp Personnel Office, explaining the benefits of having Government insurance. From its simplistic nature, it implies that most soldiers were not familiar with private insurance before they entered the military.

Trench and Camp

This masthead from the Trench and Camp shows the detail given to providing a professional looking newspaper for Camp Greene soldiers.

Trench and Camp

Trench and Camp was a weekly newspaper written for the soldiers at Camp Greene by the Y. M. C. A. and printed by The Charlotte Observer.