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the Ural Mountains by the Bolsheviks. Czech troops were fighting the Bolsheviks along with disheartened English and French troops and a small Expeditionary Force from the United States. He spent two and a half years in Ekatarinburg with the Czechs. They took him to the small basement room where the Czar and his family were murdered, the first American to see it and he commented that no one could have survived.
During all this time, he collected vital information which he sent to the States but it was never read, this being the period when President Wilson was only a vegetable from his stroke. A comment full of irony — after six months of no mail, his first letter was from the IRS wanting to know why he hadn't paid his taxes. After the Bolshevik Front collapsed, Major Slaughter and the American troops got to Vladivostok leaving there April 1,
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