The Property of
A GENTLEMAN
PATTON, GEORGE SMITH, Lieutenant General. Autograph letter signed ("George S Patton Jr.") as Lieutenant Colonel and Tank Corps Commander, to his mother "Dear Mama," n.p. [France], 19 October 1917. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, with original envelope, in very good condition.
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PATTON, GEORGE SMITH, Lieutenant General. Autograph letter signed ("George S Patton Jr.") as Lieutenant Colonel and Tank Corps Commander, to his mother "Dear Mama," n.p. [France], 19 October 1917. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, with original envelope, in very good condition.
PATTON, WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF THE MEUSE, WRITES FROM THE HOSPITAL
Less than one month after suffering a severe wound in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Patton pens a cheery, conversational letter to his mother. "You ought to see me now I am a fine yellow color all over like a chinaman and for the last couple of days I have been in the hospital and drink nothing but milk. I am not really sick but am not over ambitious. The Gen....and several others have been to call. I am in a room with Col. [Fox] Conner the one who used to be at [Fort] Riley so we get on fine. Just before I got sick Marshal [Joseph Jacques] Joffre and the two officers who were at the hotel in Washington with us, came and spent several days. The stif[f] legged one whom they used to call the 'Blue Devil' is simply a member of the Corps...all of whom are called blue devils. The picture of the new auto looks fine, it must be very pretty. I should think that the house would look natural with out the flowers at the front of the terrace. I expect it is pretty hard to sell land during the war but that will end by 1919 or 20 so you will be all right. Don't be worried over me for I will be out of the hospital before you get this..."
Patton, in command of the 304th Brigade of the Tank Corps, had been wounded on the first day of the Allied offensive, and was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for "courage, coolness, energy and intellignece in directing the advance...under heavy machine gun and artillery fire..." (DAB).
PATTON, WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF THE MEUSE, WRITES FROM THE HOSPITAL
Less than one month after suffering a severe wound in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Patton pens a cheery, conversational letter to his mother. "You ought to see me now I am a fine yellow color all over like a chinaman and for the last couple of days I have been in the hospital and drink nothing but milk. I am not really sick but am not over ambitious. The Gen....and several others have been to call. I am in a room with Col. [Fox] Conner the one who used to be at [Fort] Riley so we get on fine. Just before I got sick Marshal [Joseph Jacques] Joffre and the two officers who were at the hotel in Washington with us, came and spent several days. The stif[f] legged one whom they used to call the 'Blue Devil' is simply a member of the Corps...all of whom are called blue devils. The picture of the new auto looks fine, it must be very pretty. I should think that the house would look natural with out the flowers at the front of the terrace. I expect it is pretty hard to sell land during the war but that will end by 1919 or 20 so you will be all right. Don't be worried over me for I will be out of the hospital before you get this..."
Patton, in command of the 304th Brigade of the Tank Corps, had been wounded on the first day of the Allied offensive, and was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for "courage, coolness, energy and intellignece in directing the advance...under heavy machine gun and artillery fire..." (DAB).