-- TWENTY-FIVE (25) letters mostly written by "Bootus" Chapman starting before 20 January 1918 to 29 December 1918.

-- Two have unit letterhead (CO. D 101st Engineers) and thirteen have patriotic US Flags, YMCA, and Salvation Army letterhead on the stationary.

-- Some of the letters have index cards with writing in ink. These index cards appear to date from a later period than the original letters.

-- About two-thirds of the letters are written home to Ma, Pa, and younger brother "Nug". There are a couple of letters to other people.

-- Several of the letters are cut up into pieces by Army censors.

-- The transcriptions that follow are only some of the most interesting excerpts from the full letters.

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Owing to strict censorship, "Bootus" and his brother "Mil" were limited in the details of the war that they could communicate through the mail. Yet the letters in the Chapman corespondence are still extremely revealing concerning their varied wartime experiences in the Yankee Division. The collection also contains uncensored material that Bootus wrote during the war and saved with his letters home.

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