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Lot 303
PATTON, GEORGE S. Early autograph letter signed to his mother. Santa Blanca, Texas, dated Nov. 1, 1915. Four page autograph...
. Santa Blanca, Texas, dated Nov. 1, 1915. Four page autograph letter in ink signed "George S. Patton Jr." on verso of final sheet, addressed "Dear Mama." 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (25 x 16 cm) Usual folds, one panel on the final leaf (clear of the signature) toned, perhaps from contact with an enclosure; Together with The Howitzer. The Book of the United States Corps Cadets. West Point: N.Y., 1909. Original limp leather. 10 x 8 inches (25 x 20 cm); 256, [4], 70 pp. of ads., with Patton's photograph on p. 76, together with an amusing account of a misadventure. Spine defective.
As a young lieutenant, Patton was part of Pershing's expedition in pursuit of Santa Ana, though he would not see combat until 1916. At this time Pershing's force was largely guarding the border, and Patton writes of duty defending the Sothern Pacific Railroad against attack, as the newly elected President of Mexico, Venustiano Carranza, was using it to move troops and materiel. He writes with some chagrin "It certainly did not increase my love for Wilson to sit on a horse in cold and dark and watch train loads of our enemies go by all sleeping peacefully."
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